"We never got any LAV."
"Oh, on second thought, we had LAV, but we couldn't get it to grow."
"We had 48 isolates of HTLV-3B, long before we heard of LAV, or got any samples."
"And when we handled LAV, it was never in the same lab as our HTLV-3B."
"Oh, HTLV-3B might be similar to LAV, but that's because the patient was in France!"
"The contamination happened at Pasteur's lab, not ours! So Pasteur must have contaminated their LAV with the stuff we send them."
"What we send Pasteur, and when? I think it might have been that we send them our HTLV-3B long after we received LAV, actually."
"Our 48 isolates? That might have been 48 frozen blood samples, not isolates – isn't that the same?"
"Oh, come to think of it, LAV might have contaminated our HTLV-3B pool. But it doesn't make a difference, we discovered HTLV-3B first. And HTLV-3B is something different than LAV."
Any similarities to how Ruscetti/Mikovits played their XMRV saga ("The contamination happened at Silverman's lab, not ours!") are purely coincidental.
(By the way, this was my 500th published post…)
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