Judy Mikovits

This is an important book, though I admit I did not understand much of it.

I owe my small comprehension of the book mostly to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Foreword.

Judy Mikovits, one of the most skilled scientists of her generation, collaborated with Dr. Frank Ruscetti in studying retroviruses and changing “the paradigm of HIV-AIDS treatment, turning the disease from a death sentence into a manageable condition”.

Mikovits always placed her scientific integrity ahead of personal ambition. When she discovered UpJohn’s formula for Bovine Growth Hormone could cause precancerous changes in human cell cultures, she refused direct orders to hide her discoveries. She discovered that the “ubiquitous” presence of the hormone in milk could lead to breast cancer in women who drank it. Her “war on BGH” eventually led to Upjohn abandoning the product.

Mikovits and Ruscetti discovered a strong association between a previously unknown retrovirus and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The retrovirus was also linked to certain blood cancers.

Mikovits found evidence for the retrovirus in approx. 67% of women afflicted with ME/CFS: When Mikovits and Ruscetti published their findings in the journal “Science” in 2009, describing the first-ever isolation of the retrovirus XMRV and its association to ME/CFS, their revelations “triggered angry reactions from jealous cancer power centers, stubbornly resistant to science that attributed cancer and neuroimmune diseases to viruses”.

Many of the female patients afflicted with XMRV had children with autism. Mikovits found that 14 of 17 children she tested had the virus. This was very troubling to the medical establishment.

Research also found widespread XMRV contamination in the blood supply and blood products. From 3 to 8 percent of the American population now carry the virus.

Mouse tissue used in vaccine production was the likely “vector” for human contamination.

Co-author Kent Heckenlively had already published research showing that the first recorded outbreak of ME/CVS was among 198 doctors and nurses at the Los Angeles County Hospital in 1934-1935 after their ingestion with an experimental polio vaccine grown in mouse tissue.

Mikovits’ evidence “threatened financial catastrophe for the world’s pharmaceutical companies, because of their negligent use of animal cell cultures to produce vaccines and other pharmaceutical products”.

An entire branch of medicine called “biologics” which depends on animal tissue and products put billions of dollars of revenues at risk.

Judy was under surveillance – menacing-looking men followed her in pickup trucks. In one incident, thugs surrounded her home, forcing her to flee in a boat. The police arrested Judy without a warrant and held her in jail for five days without bail. Her house was searched by police from top to bottom; her papers were strewed everywhere.

No charges have ever been filed against her but a campaign of vilification was launched against her by the pharmaceutical cartel.

All this is just a fraction of what Judy has been through.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. states “This account by Judy Mikovits and Kent Heckenlively is vitally important both to the health of our children and the vitality of our democracy.”

I too found the book vitally important. It exposes the vast corruption in science. It is a depressing book.

Judy states that she wrote the book in order that science be guided back to its founding principles.

But I have to say that I stopped reading the book before I finished it; there was no point in continuing as I simply could not comprehend it. I think perhaps you might have to be a scientist to do so. But certain factors are clear, corruption in the field is rife and vaccines are deadly dangerous.… (más)