Controversial chronic fatigue researcher Judy Mikovits is in police custody in the US and facing allegations relating to a civil lawsuit filed by her former employer.
The Whittemore Peterson Institute (WPI) in Reno, Nevada, has accused Mikovits of appropriating lab notebooks, a laptop and other electronic data following her sacking on 29 September. On 7 November, it won a restraining order requiring Mikovits to return the alleged material and forbidding her destroying, deleting or altering it.
Mikovits was arrested on 18 November as a "fugitive from justice", and denied bail.
The arrest is another twist in a saga that began in 2009 when Mikovits's team claimed to have found a link between a mouse leukaemia virus and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Several teams failed to repeat the results and some authors on the original paper retracted their contribution blaming contamination.
Mikovits's lawyer said she does not have any items from WPI. As New Scientist went to press a hearing was set for 22 November to extend the restraining order.
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