Slide eight showed a quote from what Frank told me John Coffin said to him in November 2010, when XMRV was still allowed to be a viable theory. Coffin said, “Science started this, and Science is going to end this!”
In other words, the journal Science was going to be our judge, jury, and executioner.
The study on the blood supply was rushed into print without my approval on September 22, 2011. Remember, this was supposed to be a study about designing a test to detect the virus in the blood supply. Not whether the virus was in the blood supply. That had already been confirmed by various studies.
A week later on September 30, 2011, Jon Cohen wrote the hit piece for Science, with the title “The Waning Conflict over XMRV and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.” Here’s the opening of the article:
OTTAWA, CANADA - Less than a day after a new study dealt what many consider a lethal blow to the controversial theory that a newly detected virus, XMRV, is linked to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), proponents and skeptics of the theory squared off in a meeting here.
In one corner was Judy Mikovits, research director of the Whittemore-Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Diseases (WPI) in Reno, Nevada, and the main champion of the idea that XMRV and its relatives play a role in CFS. Her opponent, an erstwhile supporter, was heavyweight retrovirologist John Coffin of Tufts University Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences in Boston.9
Funny how my main opponent in this debate, John Coffin, was the same guy I’d named in my email, who forty years earlier had told people not to worry about how animal viruses in tissue cultures used for vaccine production might infect people, and the blood supply as well.
How did Jon Cohen know that on September 29, 2011, I’d been fired from my job at the Whittemore-Peterson Institute? Were my former employers, Annette and Harvey Whittemore, and former colleague Vince Lombardi promised to be forgiven of their crimes, which included misappropriation of federal funds and Medicare fraud (although Harvey was sentenced to two years in federal prison for campaign bribery charges involving US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid10), if they put me into legal jeopardy?
How did Cohen of Science Insider know I’d be fired a day before the article came out, and thus, unable to respond with those all-important genetic sequences of the XMRV virus which were in the desk drawer Harvey Whittemore named in his affidavit in his original lawsuit against me? Funny how the lawsuit was refiled with a new affidavit, now of a crime from my student Max, who caught them in the middle of stealing my work in the early morning hours of September 30, 2011, thus spoiling their perfect crime?
It got worse.
On November 18, 2011, I was arrested in my own home in California for being a “fugitive from justice.” How can you be a fugitive in your own home? Here’s how Science reported it:
Sheriffs in Ventura County, California arrested Mikovits on felony charges that she is a fugitive from justice. She is being held at the Todd Road Jail in Santa Paula without bail. But ScienceInsider could obtain only sketchy details about the specific charges against her. The Ventura County Sheriff’s office told ScienceInsider that it had no available details about the charges and was acting upon a warrant issued by Washoe County in Nevada. A spokesperson for the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office told ScienceInsider that it did not issue the warrant, nor did the Reno or Sparks police department. He said it could be from one of several federal agencies in Washoe County.11
Let’s go over a couple of the claims in the article, which don’t seem to make any sense. They say the truth is often found in the anomalies.
First, Ventura County officials said the warrant was issued by Washoe County.
Second, no warrant was issued by the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, or the Reno or Sparks police department.
Third, the only other possibility is “it could be from one of several federal agencies in Washoe County.” Remember those federal agencies who were “scared to death if XMRV worked out?” I believe XMRV in the blood supply is going to be a repeat of the disaster of HIV in the blood supply.
I’d really like to know how all of this happened. To this day, nobody has given me an explanation of what happened. In an investigation for a documentary about my life, the producers said the best their investigators could come up with was that a “verbal arrest warrant” was issued for my arrest. No lawyer I’ve ever consulted has been able to give me any details about this so-called “verbal arrest warrant.”
Perhaps the answer can be found in a later article from Science on February 8, 2012, with the title “Embattled Institute Retains Major Grant to Study Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.”
WPI [Whittemore Peterson Institute], based in Nevada, could have lost the grant from the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) because in September it fired Judy Mikovits, the principal investigator on the award. WPI subsequently filed a lawsuit against Mikovits for allegedly misappropriating property, and she also became subject to a related criminal case that led to her arrest and brief jailing. Mikovits has maintained her innocence and both cases are in court.
Harvey Whittemore and his wife, Annette, who founded WPI, are defendants in a lawsuit filed against them by his former business partners who allege that the couple inappropriately used funds from a holding company he co-owned to support their institute.12
I’m trying to remember, who runs NIAID, and has since 1984?
Oh, that’s right, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
I was the principal investigator on that grant, which means I should have been able to take that money with me to my next institution to do the work. But Tony Fauci gave it to Harvey and Annette Whittemore, who’d just been sued by their former business partners for forty-four million dollars and who had misappropriated that money.13
This slide is packed with defamatory statements and lies after this “beleaguered institute” was repaid for silencing me with millions in grant money. Jon Cohen’s partner in crime, Martin Enserink, also wrote defamatory articles about me for Science Insider, saying I had a “less than flattering reputation.” The next slide added discussion of fraudulent publications by Coffin, Knox, and Peterson earlier that year, which we successfully defended to the journal editors, arguing that ONLY the Silverman PCR should be retracted from the paper.
Since Silverman knew he had committed fraud in the original paper (not revealing that his VP-62 molecular clone of XMRV was in fact created from three different patient samples, rather than a true isolate), stating, “I requested a full retraction of our findings this summer after discovering that the blood samples were contaminated, implying they were contaminated in our laboratory. I was in favor of a retraction of the entire paper, and I agree with the decision.” Frank Ruscetti has emails from Silverman and his apology at the meeting in Leuven, Belgium, June 6–9, 2011, where he told Frank, “Joy [Jaydip Das Gupta] is really sorry about what happened.” Was Silverman sorry that his laboratory had deliberately contaminated the samples with VP-62? Of course, Silverman’s emails to this effect will be happily provided in the event of any litigation.
Science then tried to land the final blow to end my career in December of that year when they retracted our original 2009 paper in an article entitled “In a Rare Move, Science, Without Authors’ Consent Retracts Paper that Tied Mouse Virus to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.”14 Of course, it didn’t hurt that I’d just gotten out of jail. Science could show that mug shot and send a clear warning to anyone who dared to go against Fauci and the misogynistic gatekeepers of science again.
But we weren’t supposed to worry that Science had forced a retraction of our paper. We had the Ian Lipkin multi-center study to determine the ultimate truth of our findings. As reported by the New York Times on November 22, 2010:
Dr. Lipkin is now preparing to dive into a new controversy. In October of 2009, a team of scientists claimed to find a virus known as XMRV in people with chronic fatigue syndrome …
In September, Dr. Fauci asked Dr. Lipkin to organize a large-scale investigation. Earl
ier this month, Dr. Lipkin brought together scientists from three labs that have gotten contradictory results to being working together on a new search for the link.
“There isn’t anybody better than Ian Lipkin,” said Dr. Fauci. “If he can’t find it, it probably doesn’t exist.”15
When we published our first book in 2014 and mentioned Fauci’s name as the dishonest architect behind the XMRV investigation of Ian Lipkin, few people had heard the name.
The situation is much different in 2021 as he is probably the most divisive figure in America today.
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Let’s talk about that Lipkin study and three of their conditions which were excluded.
The Lipkin study disqualified anybody with a “medical or psychiatric condition that might be associated with fatigue,” “abnormal serum characteristics,” or “abnormal thyroid functions.”16
I remind people the condition they were investigating is called chronic fatigue syndrome, but they were excluding anybody with a “medical or psychiatric condition that might be associated with fatigue.” How is this science? Well, as we know from the presentation title, this was never about science. It was about making XMRV go away.
And if you understand the mindset of these people, you realize they will say the truth quietly, preparing themselves for that moment when the wind shifts. The cohort I was most excited about in the Lipkin study was that of Stanford scientist, Jose Montoya, whose patients actually had the immunological signature of disease as in the original study.
But of course, the study was stopped by Anthony Fauci before that cohort could be tested.
However, about a year later Ian Lipkin reported the results of the Montoya cohort in a public conference call with the CDC on September 10, 2013.
We found retroviruses in 85 percent of the sample pools. Again, it is very difficult to know whether or not this is clinically significant or not. And given the previous experience with retroviruses in chronic fatigue, I am going to be very clear in telling you, although I am reporting them in Professor Montoya’s samples, neither he, nor we, have concluded that there is a relationship to disease.17
Do you understand how corrupt these efforts are? The Lipkin study supposedly demolishes the XMRV retrovirus theory and then a year later quietly confirms the retrovirus theory.
A study by an Italian lab of the MMRV (Priorix Tetra) vaccine also showed that there were retroviruses in commercial vaccines.
It was possible to confirm the presence of contaminating viruses in the following:
• Human endogenous retrovirus K – 32 sequences
• Equine infectious anemia virus – 2 sequences
• Avian leucosis virus – 2 sequences
• HERV – H/env62 – 4 sequences
These viruses are known to be adventitious vaccine contaminants and are known to be potentially dangerous, which is why manufacturers are required to verify that they are completely absent from the vaccine.18
How can we call it science when we don’t use the latest technology to test what’s in our vaccines?
And as I’ve shown with data since the early 1990s, the so-called “defective viruses” where you might only have a partial sequence can still cause disease. When we use animal tissue or aborted human fetal tissue to create vaccines, biologics, or xenograft procedures (animal tissue being placed in human beings), there is a danger of transmission of these viruses. The next slide discussed the study from Gary Owens’ laboratory at the University of Virginia. The paper concluded: “ENV proteins from both viruses impact tumor pathogenesis.”19 That is, changes in microvasculature similar to vascular pathologies seen in ME/CFS and vaccine injuries. These microvasculature aberrations are caused solely by XMRV ENV (envelope) protein.
From the Owens/Coffin lab publication in 2013:
Although it is highly unlikely that either XMRV, VP62 or B4Rv themselves infect humans and are pathogenic, the results suggest that xenograft approaches commonly used in these studies of human cancer promote the evolution of novel retroviruses with pathogenic properties. Similar retroviruses may have evolved to infect humans.20
I spent some more time on the slides explaining xenotransplantation and the abundant concerns scientists have had about this risk of transmission. But vaccines and injected biologics are xenotransplantation and have the same risk of these animal viruses being transferred to humans.
Is this the same John Coffin who in the 1990s exposed the risk of xenotransplantation, but now in 2021 says that the exact same problem, this time brought to us through vaccines, is suddenly not a problem because our wonderful immune systems can magically handle it?
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In the final series of slides, I made the following suggestions for how we can fix these problems.
First, repeal the 1986 National Vaccine Injury Compensation Act, which gave complete financial immunity to the makers of vaccines for harm or death to children.
Second, enact an immediate moratorium on ALL vaccines until the entire schedule is tested for safety.
Third, end all vaccine mandates and restore liability to pharmaceutical companies for injury or death caused by vaccines.
Fourth, investigate and convict all criminals at the CDC, the FDA, and the NIH for their crimes against humanity.
Fifth, eliminate the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
Sixth, use the patent royalties paid to the NIH, CDC, and the FDA to compensate all the victims of this thirty-five-year plague of corruption.
This was my mindset in October 2019 about the problems in our health-care system.
I thought I was fighting for groups forgotten by mainstream medicine, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) sufferers, autism families, and cancer patients.
As the COVID-19 darkness spread around the globe in 2020, I realized I was terribly mistaken.
In reality, I was fighting against something far more sinister.
CHAPTER ONE
Running My Own Lab without Sleeping with the Boss or Being a Lesbian
My dear readers should know that throughout my life I’ve often been underestimated.
But I have always tried to outthink and outwork my enemies. Maybe it’s in the blood. After all, my mother’s heritage was Native American (Cherokee), and my father’s, Austro-Hungarian. If I took one of those popular genetics tests it might show I was related to Attila the Hun, the fifth century Germanic king whose mounted horsemen raided from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. The Roman Empire trembled under his wrath and nicknamed him Flagellum Dei, which translates as the “scourge of God.”
Kent Heckenlively claims descent (according to family stories) from Martin Luther, the sixteenth century religious figure who led the first successful intellectual revolt against the thousand-year domination of the Catholic Church. Luther’s provocative questions laid bare the hypocrisy of the church and its leaders, with many claiming he made possible both the Reformation and the Enlightenment. Luther was a great man, but by most accounts, a good one as well. He enjoyed sparkling conversations, loved jokes, and exhibited a respect for women that seems almost modern and not from the Middle Ages. Because of his advanced degrees, his wife, Katharina Von Bora, a former nun, always referred to him as “Herr Doktor.” He returned the compliment by often referring to her as the “Boss of Zulsdorf,” after the farm they lived on, or the “morning star of Wittenberg,” because of her habit of rising at around 4 a.m. to begin her chores. Kent shares all these traits, from Luther’s fierceness, to his compassion, to his easy laughter.
My first day running the world-renowned Lab of Anti-Viral Drug Mechanisms at the National Cancer Institute was January 4, 1999. I include here the letter sent out by Dr. Joseph Kates, director of the Research Support Programs, announcing my promotion, and giving a brief review of my history.
I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Judy Mikovits to the position of Acting Head of the Laboratory of Anti-Viral Drug Mechanisms, Developmental Therapeutics Program, effective Janua
ry 4, 1999. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Mikovits has been a scientist associated with the Intramural Research Support Program in the Laboratory of Leukocyte Biology since 1993. Prior to that, she was a post-doctoral fellow and research associate in that Program. Her research focused on mechanisms of immunopathogenesis of the human retroviruses HTLV-1 and HIV-1.
Dr. Mikovits is an accomplished virologist with a number of important publications in the retroviral field. She has been interested in the interaction of HIV with the immune system and the effect of interleukins and cytokines on viral replication.
As you may know, the Laboratory of Anti-Viral Drug Mechanisms was previously headed by Dr. William Rice, who left SAIC [Science Applications International Corporation, one of the private labs set up to take advantage of government contracts] to pursue antiviral drug development in the private sector. This laboratory has developed an international reputation determining mechanisms of action of antiviral drugs, particularly in the area of HIV, and working in close collaboration with other laboratories at Frederick. We are confident that Dr. Mikovits will continue this tradition of excellence as she rebuilds this Program.1
That’s the public relations, sanitized version of my career as a woman in science up until that time. Everything he said was true, but it doesn’t really tell the whole story.
Let me give you the more complete version.
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Frank has already described at length the prejudice against women that he observed in the 1970s and early 1980s, both in academia and government research.
But it will probably be surprising to the average reader how many of these barriers for entry of women existed in 1987 when I began my doctoral studies at George Washington University.
When I went to graduate school, it was common that technicians in the lab would get their employer to pay for their tuition. As you went to school, you were expected to continue working in that lab. If you were a man, you could spend part of your time in the lab working on research which went toward your doctoral thesis. Between commuting and working a full-time job that meant you could expect to be busy for sixteen hours a day.
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