Mikovits Held Without Bail; Allegedly Stole Lab Notebooks From Institute
The Nature News Blog and Retraction Watch provide the ongoing, head-torquing narrative of Judy Mikovits, the dubious or embattled (depending on your viewpoint) XMRV-CFS researcher who was fired in September from the Whittemore Peterson Institute in Reno, Nevada. The latest news: Mikovits was arrested last Friday in California (as a fugitive from Nevada, from what I can tell) for allegedly stealing property—eg, laboratory notebooks—from the Institute.
And while the jig certainly appears to be up for Mikovits regarding the validity of her past scientific claims about XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome or a future career in legitimate science, to hold her without bail (especially while, elsewhere, an alleged serial pedophile is allowed out on $100,000 and no monitoring) seems terribly draconian and patently unfair.
And while the jig certainly appears to be up for Mikovits regarding the validity of her past scientific claims about XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome or a future career in legitimate science, to hold her without bail (especially while, elsewhere, an alleged serial pedophile is allowed out on $100,000 and no monitoring) seems terribly draconian and patently unfair.
