12 Ibid.
13 Paul Offit, “The Cutter Incident – How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis,” (New Haven and London; Yale University Press, 2005), 16.
14 “Specter of Paralysis Stalks Carolina,” The Literary Digest, July 20, 1935.
15 Maurice Brodie, “Attempts to Produce Poliomyelitis in Refractory Lab Animals,” Experimental Biology and Medicine, (March 1, 1935), 832-836, doi: 10.3181/00379727-32-7876.
16 Ibid.
17 Maurice Brodie and William Park, “Active immunization Against Poliomyelitis,” American Journal of Public Health, (February 1936), 119-125.
18 G. Stuart, “The Problem of Mass Vaccination Against Yellow Fever,” World Health Organization – Expert Committee on Yellow Fever, September 14-19, 1953, Kampala, Uganda.
19 Frank Ruscetti, Telephone Interview with Kent Heckenlively, June 14, 2012.
20 Jon Cohen and Martin Enserink, “False Positive,” Science, Vol. 333, (September 23, 2011), 1694-1701.
21 Ibid.
22 Hillary Johnson, “Chasing the Shadow Virus: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and XMRV,” Discover, July 19, 2013, www.discovermagazine.com/health/chasing-the-shadow-virus-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-and-xmrv.
23 Zihao Yuan, Xuejun Fan, et al., “Presence of Complete Viral genome Sequences in Patient-Derived Xenografts,” Nature Communication, May 1, 2021, doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22200.5
24 Hillary Johnson, “Chasing the Shadow Virus: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and XMRV,” Discover, July 19, 2013, www.discovermagazine.com/health/chasing-the-shadow-virus-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-and-xmrv.
25 Delviks-Frankenberry K et al. J. Virol. 2013;87:11525-11537.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid.
28 Paul Offit, “The Cutter Incident – How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis,” (New Haven and London; Yale University Press, 2005), 18.
29 Carl Zimmer, “A Man From Whom Viruses Can’t Hide,” the New York Times, November 22, 2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/science/23prof.html.
30 Ibid.
31 Hillary Johnson, “Chasing the Shadow Virus: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and XMRV,” Discover, July 19, 2013, www.discovermagazine.com/health/chasing-the-shadow-virus-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-and-xmrv.
32 Telephone Interview with Dr. Andrew Wakefield by Kent Heckenlively, February 25, 2016.
33 In vivo 25: 307-314 (2011).
34 Harvey Alter, Judy Mikovits, et al., “A Multicenter Blinded Analysis Indicates No Association Between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Either Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus0Related Virus and Polytropic Murine Leukemia Virus,” MBIO, September 18, 2012, doi: 10.1128/mBio.00266-12, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3448165/.
35 Telephone Interview with Paul Cheney by Kent Heckenlively, July 25, 2013.
36 Ibid.
37 Ibid.
38 “CII’s W. Ian Lipkin Receives NIH Grant to Establish a New Center,” Columbia University, March 10, 2014, www.publichealth.columbia.edu/research/center-infection-and-immunity/ciis-w-ian-lipkin-receives-nih-grant-establish-new-center.
39 Amy Qin and Chris Buckley, “A Top Virologist, at Center of a Pandemic Storm, Speaks Out,” New York Times, June 14, 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/world/asia/china-covid-wuhan-lab-leak.html.
40 Ibid.
41 Ibid.
42 Ibid.
43 Harvey Alter, Judy Mikovits, et al., “A Multicenter Blinded Analysis Indicates No Association Between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Either Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus0Related Virus and Polytropic Murine Leukemia Virus,” MBIO, September 18, 2012, doi: 10.1128/mBio.00266-12, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3448165/.
44 Meredith Wadman, “Lawsuit at Columbia University Roils Prominent Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research Lab,” Science, May 23, 2017, www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/lawsuit-columbia-university-roils-prominent-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-research-lab.
45 Ibid.
46 Ibid.
47 Joe Schoffstall, “Columbia Professor Who Thanked Fauci for Wuhan Lab Messaging has Links to Chinese Communist Party Members,” Fox News, July 1, 2021, www.foxnews.com/politics/columbia-professor-lipkin-fauci-wuhan-lab-china.
48 “About Harold,” Laboratory of Harold Varmus, www.varmuslab.org/about-harold-2, (Accessed December 9, 2020).
49 “Budget,” National Institutes of Health, www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/budget, (Accessed December 9, 2020).
50 “List of NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices,” www.nih.gov/institutes-nih/list-nih-institutes-centers-offices, (Accessed December 9, 2020).
51 “Sloan Kettering CEO Craig Thompson’s $6.7 Million Pay,” Future of Capitalism, October 3, 2018, www.futureofcapitalism.com/2018/10/sloan-kettering-ceo-craig-thompson-67-million-pay.
52 “National Institutes of Health,” Federal Pay, www.federalpay.org/employees/national-institutes-of-health/top-100/2017, (Accessed December 9, 2009).
53 “W. Ian Lipkin,” The Lancet COVID-19 Commission, www.covid19commission.org/ian-lipkin (Accessed December 13, 2020).
Chapter Four
1 J Clin Invest. 2020;130(5):2347-2363. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI122462.
2 Ibid.
3 Telephone Interview of Michael Lourdes by Kent Heckenlively, December 4, 2020.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid.
12 Ibid.
13 Ian Lipkin, Public Conference Call with the Centers for Disease Control, September 10, 2013. Transcript by ME/CFS Forums.com/wiki/lipkin.
14 Telephone Interview of Michael Lourdes by Kent Heckenlively, December 4, 2020.
15 Ibid.
Chapter Five
1 L. Montagnier & F.K. Sanders, “Replicative Form of Encephalomyocarditis Virus Ribonucleic Acid,” Nature, Vol. 199, pp. 664-667, (August 17, 1963), doi: 10.1038/199664a0, www.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14074552/.
2 Luc Montagnier, “Nobel Prize Biographical,” Nobel Prize Committee, Delivered December 7, 2008, www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2008/montagnier/biographical/.
3 Telephone Interview with Luc Montagnier by Kent Heckenlively, January 17, 2021.
4 Luc Montagnier, “Virus,” (1990, English translation by W. W. Norton, 2000), p.81
5 Telephone Interview with Luc Montagnier by Kent Heckenlively, January 17, 2021.
6 Luc Montagnier, “Virus,” (1990, English translation by W. W. Norton, 2000), p.119.
7 Ibid at p. 121.
8 “French Nobel Prize Winner: COVID-19 made in a Lab,” Connexion France, April 22, 2020, www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Disputed-French-Nobel-winner-Luc-Montagnier-says-Covid-19-was-made-in-a-lab-laboratory.
9 Luc Montagnier, “Nobel Prize Biographical,” Nobel Prize Committee, December 7, 2008, www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2008/montagnier/biographical/.
10 Telephone Interview with Luc Montagnier by Kent Heckenlively, January 17, 2021.
11 Ibid.
12 Ibid.
Chapter Six
1 “Stephanie Seneff, “Curriculum Vitae,” September 22, 2020.
2 Telephone Interview with Stephanie Seneff by Kent Heckenlively, January 11, 2021.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Stephanie Seneff and Laura Orlando, “Glyphosate Substitution for Glycine During Protein Synthesis as a Causal Factor in Mesoamerican Neuropathy,” Journal of Environmental & Analytical Toxicology, Vol. 8, Issue 1: doi:10.4172/2161-0525.1000541.
8 Telephone Interview with Stephanie Seneff by Kent Heckenlively, January 11, 2021.
9 Ibid.
10 Steven A. Kemp, Dami A. Collier, Rawlings P. Datir, et al., “SARS-CoV-2 Evolution During Treatment of Chronic Infection,” Nature, (Case Reports), Vol. 592(7853); p. 277-282: doi: 10.1038/s41586/s41586-021-03291-y.
11 Telephone Interview wit
h Stephanie Seneff by Kent Heckenlively, January 11, 2021.
12 Chien-Te Tseng, Elena Sbrana, Naoko Iwata-Yoshikawa, et al., “Immunization with SARS Coronavirus Vaccines Leads to Pulmonary Immunopathology on Challenge with the SARS Virus,” PLOSOne, April 20, 2012: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035421.
13 Telephone Interview with Stephanie Seneff by Kent Heckenlively, January 11, 2021.
14 Jason B. Wilson, Iraj Khabazian, Margaret Wong, et al., “Behavioral and Neurological Correlates of ALS-Parkinsonism Dementia Complex in Adult Mice Fed Washed Cycad Flour,” NeuroMolecular Medicine, Vol. 1, pp. 207-221, (2002).
15 Michael Petrick, Margaret Wong, Rena Tabata, et. Al., “Aluminum Adjuvant Linked to Gulf War Illness Induces Motor Neuron Death in Mice,” Neuromolecular Medicine, Vol. 9(1), pp. 83-100, (2007), doi: 10.1385/nmm:9:1:83.
16 Telephone Interview with Dr. Christopher Shaw by Kent Heckenlively, January 8, 2021.
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 Housam Eidi, Janice Yoo, Suresh Bairwa, et. al. “Early Postnatal Injections of Whole Vaccines Compared to Placebo Controls: Differential Behavioral Outcomes in Mice,” Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, Vol. 212, (November 2020); doi: 10.1016/jinorgbio.2020.11120.
20 Telephone Interview with Dr. Christopher Shaw by Kent Heckenlively, January 8, 2021.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid.
24 Telephone Interview with Dr. Frank Shallenberger by Kent Heckenlively, October 30, 2020.
25 Ibid.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid.
29 Stephen Levine and Parris Kidd, “Antioxidant Adaptation,” Biocurrents Publishing, (January 1, 1986).
30 Telephone Interview with Dr. Frank Shallenberger by Kent Heckenlively, October 30, 2020.
31 Ibid.
32 Frank Shallenberger, “The Ozone Miracle: How You Can Harness the Power of Oxygen to Keep You and Your Family Healthy,” Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, p. 11, March 27, 2017.
33 M.T. Carpendale & J.K. Freeberg, “Ozone Inactivates HIV at Non-Cytotoxic Concentrations,” Journal of Antiviral Resistance, October 1991, vol. 16(3):281-92, doi: 10.1016/0166-3542(91)90007-e.
34 Telephone Interview with Dr. Frank Shallenberger by Kent Heckenlively, October 30, 2020.
35 Ibid.
36 Frank Shallenberger, “Selective Compartmental Dominance: An Explanation for a noninfectious, Multifactorial Etiology for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), and a Rationale for Ozone Therapy and Other Immune Modulating Therapies,” Medical Hypotheses, (1998) Vol. 50, p. 67-80.
37 M. Clerici & G.M. Shearer, “A TH1 to TH@ Switch is a Critical Step in the Etiology of HIV Infection,” Immunology Today, March 14, 1993 vol. 3: 107-111, doi: 10.1016/0167-5699(93)90208-3.
38 Telephone Interview with Dr. Frank Shallenberger by Kent Heckenlively, October 30, 2020.
39 Ibid.
40 Ibid.
41 Ibid.
42 Ibid.
43 Ibid.
Epilogue
1 Judy Mikovits, “The Exotic Biology of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Viruses (XMRVs),” Plague the Book website, November 2013, www.plaguethebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/The-Exotic-Biology-of-XMRV.pdf.
2 Anatoly Urisman, Ross J. Molinaro, et al., “Identification of a Novel Gammaretrovirus in Prostate Tumors of Patients Homozygous for R462Q RNASEL Variant,” PLOS Pathogen, March 31, 2006, doi: 101371/journal.ppat0020025, www.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16609730/.
3 Yu-Ann Zhang, Anirban Maitra, et al., “Frequent Detection of Infectious Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus (XMLV) in Human Cultures Established from Mouse Xenografts,” Journal of Cancer Biology and Therapeutics, October 11, 2011, vol. 12(7), p. 617-628, doi: 10.4161/cbt.12.715955, www.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21750403/.
4 Meera Murgai, James Thomas, et al., “Xenotropic MLV Envelope Proteins Induce Tumor Cells to Secrete Factors that Promote the Formation of Immature Blood Cells,” Journal of Retrovirology, doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-10-34 October 1, 2013, www.retrovirology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1742-4690-10-34.
5 Judy Mikovits, “The Exotic Biology of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Viruses (XMRVs),” Plague the Book website, November 2013, www.plaguethebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/The-Exotic-Biology-of-XMRV.pdf.
6 Krista Delvkis-Frankenberry, Tobias Paprotka, et al., “Generation of Multiple Replication-Competent Retroviruses through Recombination between PreXMRV-1 and PreXMRV-2,” Journal of Virology, Vol. 87(21), p. 11525-11537, November 2013, doi: 10.1128/JVI.01787-13, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3807343/
7 Judy Mikovits, “The Exotic Biology of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Viruses (XMRVs),” Plague the Book website, November 2013, www.plaguethebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/The-Exotic-Biology-of-XMRV.pdf.
8 Ibid.
9 Esther Nolte-‘t Hoen, Tom Cremer, et al., “Extracellular Vesicles and Viruses: Are They Close Relatives?” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences – Perspective, Vol. 113, No. 33, p. 9155-9161, August 16, 2016, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1605146113, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4995926/.
10 Ibid at 9155.
11 Stuart Neil and Edward Campbell, “Fake Science: XMRV: COVID-19, and the Toxic legacy of Dr. Judy Mikovits,” AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, Vol. 36, No. 7, p. 45-549, May 22, 2020, doi: 10.1089/AID.2020.0095. www.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32414291/.
12 Declan Butler, “Engineered Bat Virus Stirs Debate Over Risky Research,” Nature, November 12, 2015, doi: 10.1038/Nature.2015.18787.
13 Ibid.
14 Brendan Morrow, “Former CDC Director Surprises CNN’s Sanjay Gupta by Revealing He Believes COVID-19 Originated in a Wuhan Lab,” CNN, March 26, 2021, www.news.yahoo.com/former-cdc-director-surprises-cnns-151700805.html.
15 “Buzz Photos, Freedom Watch and Larry Klayman vs. The People’s Republic of China, the People’s Liberation Army, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, March 17, 2020, www.freedomwatchusa.org/pdf/200317-CoronavirusFILEDComplaint177113137478.pdf.
Acknowledgments
From Frank:
Scientists like to pretend, especially when awards are doled out, that they did it all on their own. At least in my case, nothing could be further from the truth. From the very beginning I was a moon borrowing light from many suns. In the service, Chuck Coltman and Dorothy Grisham. In graduate school, Lew and Linda Jacobson. All the wonderful students, Carol Henry, Sue Leschine, Kathy Christ, and Roger Weppelman. In the medical school, Dane and Sally Boggs, Beverley Torok, Joan Turner, and Bernie Fisher. At NCI, Andrea Woods, Linda and Steve Hunt, Ray Kiefer, Corrado Tarella, Frederick, Joost Oppenheim, Dan Longo, Craig Reynolds, Howard Young, Linda and Dave Wolff, Nancy Colburn, Cho-Chi Li, Cari Sadowski, Dan Bertolette, and Kathy Jones. Cheers again to all the wonderful people I mentioned in the text. Special praise to my modern dream chasers, Steve Bartelmez, Pat Iverson, and Charlie Garcia. To Dr. J without whom this book was impossible.
And, as always, I have to thank my wife, Sandra Kay, who, the more I listen to her the more I draw inspiration from her humanity, wisdom, and compassion, and to my son who is taking after his mother in all the right ways.
From Judy:
I would like to thank my family for their unwavering support throughout this very difficult decade. My parents Gloria Furr-Fornshill and John L Mikovits Jr. and my siblings John, Julie, and Karen and their families fought for me with every resource they had and more importantly never blamed me for the humiliation and dishonor this plague of corruption brought to our family name and our proud Cherokee and Austrian/Hungarian heritage. My mom raised us alone from the age of ten and taught us above all else integrity and honesty. To mom the most egregious offense was to be silent about any wrong. To witness a wrong and do nothing generated explosive anger and guaranteed fierce punishment. As she lay dying earlier this year, I could get a laugh by reminding her the worst of punishments were usually precipitated by the st
atement “God gave you a mouth, USE IT” and in later years her beloved husband Ken would say to any who would listen “Judy’s mouth gets Judy’s body in trouble”; to which mom would beam with pride. I likely would not have survived without my dear husband David. There simply is no kinder human being. Few men would willingly lose everything to keep their wife out of jail. Whenever I get discouraged he texts me two songs: Marilyn McBride’s “Anyway” and Train’s “Calling all Angels.”
I would also like to thank my church families at Community Presbyterian Church in Ventura, CA and North Coast Church in Carlsbad, CA and my friends at Pierpont Bay Yacht Club. In particular, the Stephens Ministry Program at CPC and North Coast Pastor Larry Osborne’s book Thriving in Babylon. Without the love and teaching of these dear friends who never left my side during the darkest of times, I might never have endured. They were often the only light in this very dark decade.
Special thanks to Lois Hart and Robyn E (My Cherokee Twin) and Travis Middleton who worked tirelessly without payment for now almost a decade trying to bring me justice in the legal system in Nevada detailing the crimes and obstruction of justice, which allowed the government to perpetrate these crimes against humanity.
I grieve the loss of colleagues and the many new friends who suffer from these devastating diseases and the deaths of their loved ones from ME/CFS, autism, and cancer. I know that no words can bring back the lost decades and loved ones but hope that this book can end the stigma and help heal their families from wounds too deep to imagine. Each and every one are my heroes and heroines. I cannot name them for fear they will face additional retribution.
From Kent:
I’d first like to thank my wonderful partner in life, Linda, and our two children Jacqueline and Ben, for their constant love and support. I’d like to thank my mother, Josephine, and my father, Jack, for teaching me to tell the truth regardless of the consequences and showing how to love through even difficult times. I’d like to thank the best brother in the world, Jay, and his wonderful wife, Andrea, and their three children, Anna, John, and Laura, for always being on my side.
I’d like to thank some of the wonderful teachers in my life, my seventh- grade science teacher, Paul Rago, my eighth-grade English teacher, Elizabeth White, my high school science teacher, Ed Balsdon, my religion teacher Brother Richard Orona, and in college, English professors Clinton Bond, Robert Haas, Carol Lashoff, and in the political science department, David Alvarez, who nominated me to be the school’s Rhodes Scholar candidate. I’d also like to thank my college rowing coach, Giancarlo Trevisan, the mad Italian, who showed me what it means to have crazy passion for an often-overlooked sport. In law school, I’d like to thank Bernie Segal, the criminal defense attorney who taught me to always have hope that justice will eventually prevail. I’d like to thank my writing teachers, James Frey, who looked at me one time and said, “Yeah, I think you’ll be a writer,” as well as Donna Levin, and James Dalessandro, who always said to find the story first, then write the hell out of it.
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