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Cursory initial Internet searches identify Dr. Nikhil V. Dhurandhar as a prominent researcher associated with studies demonstrating weight gain associated with Ad-36. Two relevant papers: one showing correlation between Ad-36 infection and obesity in humans and one showing causal linkage between Ad-36 infection and weight gain in marmoset monkeys. Whether marmosets are a good human analogue for this purpose is an interesting question I am not qualified to discuss.
The study criticized by ERV in the "certain amount of skepticism" link does not appear to be associated with Dhurandhar. That said, I would like to see reliable studies not associated with Dhurandhar before I ascribe significant probability to the theory.
Going over the literature, I did see Dhurandhar's name a lot. But I also saw a few without it, and their results weren't any different. And some of them have him last in the coauthor list, which suggests that he wasn't closely involved - rather, the researchers called him up for a consultation.