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Yep. She has quite a history. Surprise too, lol, there was money involved. Just as with the Frontline Doctors
Agree. Exposing America’s Frontline Doctors and Their Financial Empire Built on Hydroxychloroquine
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For Better Science
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Smut Clyde takes on Dr Judy Mikovits and guides you through her career, from fake Science to antivax and cancer quackery, and over to COVID-19 conspiracies, in 5 acts plus Coda.
by smut.clyde
June 24, 2020
Multi links
The following post by Smut Clyde .. https://forbetterscience.com/tag/smut-clyde/ .. will guide through the circus show of Judy Mikovits, which is basically a sequence of research fraud, antivax quackery and pimping for phony biotech start-ups, which now culminated in her brain-melting “documentary”, Plandemic. Did you know that COVID-19 is actually a global conspiracy of Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci to attack you with a lab-engineered coronavirus, which is not deadly at all but can be cured with chloroquine, all of which serves the sinister purpose of poisoning you with vaccines?
No really, it all makes perfect sense. Do you even doubt that “Dr. Judy Mikovits is a modern-day Rosalind Franklin“? Or that she is the real discoverer of HIV who then went on to invent the virus which she claimed, then denied, then again claimed causes the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME)? Dr Mikovits even knows how to cure cancer with TCM and how vaccines cause autism, and now she solved COVID-19. Smut Clyde will now show you how we got there.
Image source: The Star
The Plague of St Judy
By Smut Clyde
Back in May, all the cool science bloggers were error-checking the ‘Plandemic‘ movie — or at least the brief teaser / trailer that had been dropped on social media — and its featured talking head, Dr Judy Mikovits. Science, Skeptical Raptor, Liz Ditz, Orac at Science Based Medicine and Respectful Insolence all had whacks at the piñata; Retraction Watch provided a retrospective survey of Mikovits’ previous ventures into their territory. An intense response to these posts spilled over from FaceBorg, with stanning fanboys infesting the comment threads (most of the comments being variations on a small repertoire), while the last two blogs were brought down for a time by DDOS attacks.
Entr’acte
Plandemic and ‘Plague of Corruption‘ (the associated book by Mikovits and Kent Heckenlively) are examples of the recurring ForBetterScience theme of COVID-portunism .. https://forbetterscience.com/tag/covid-19/ , or SARS-ploitation if you prefer. So here I am a month later, preaching to the converted from the lofty pulpit of FBS, “six feet above criticism”. There will be fewer PubPeer threads than usual, and fewer illustrations. It is probably too late to attract all the troll-army attention, so here I provide the points they previously harped upon:
* Mikovits’ fabulation on claims X, Y and Z is irrelevant to her veracity on less easily checked claims.
* She co-wrote a long book, which means she must be generally telling the truth because no-one can lie at length.
* The cross-blog consensus and presentation of overwhelming evidence that Mikovits makes stuff up or misremembers her past is a coordinated response, and the Global Elites would only be determined to discredit her if she threatened their narrative, therefore she must be telling the truth and we can ignore that evidence.
* The truth has been suppressed by YouTube. Censorship! Deplatforming!
Yet that earlier bloggerly coverage of the Plandemic advertising campaign was not complete (Orac, for instance, is noted for his brevity and elliptical style), and I have a few novel observations that further question Mikovits’ credibility. Mainly I am annoyed by its shoddy, plagiarised graphic design. Or “plagueiarised”, to stay in keeping with all these portmanteau neologisms. We shall start with Act III, just because.
Act III: The Whittemore phase
Mikovits’ first 15 minutes of fame was a decade ago when she was ushered into prominence by her discovery of a new plague, rivalling the discovery of AIDS: a newly-encountered retrovirus, XMRV, was widespread in the US population, and the likely cause of ME/CFS (also the cause of prostate cancer and autism and doubtless other health concerns). There was a paper in Science to make it official:
Vincent C. Lombardi, Francis W. Ruscetti, Jaydip Das Gupta, Max A. Pfost, Kathryn S. Hagen, Daniel L. Peterson, Sandra K. Ruscetti, Rachel K. Bagni, Cari Petrow-Sadowski, Bert Gold, Michael Dean, Robert H. Silverman,Judy A. Mikovits Detection of an Infectious Retrovirus, XMRV, in Blood Cells of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Science (2009) DOI: 10.1126/science.1179052 .. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/326/5952/585.abstract
The ensuing drama of Lombardi et al 2009 was chronicled by science blogger and retrovirus enthusiast ERV, in a series of hostile and occasionally sweary posts .. https://web.archive.org/web/20180923235109/http://scienceblogs.com/erv/tag/xmrv/ , which some of us followed closely, cheering from the peanut gallery. The illustrations in those posts have been lost during platform migration, but that’s why we have the Wayback Machine.
Smoking gun: After Abbie Smith as ERV (2011 ..
https://web.archive.org/web/20170103122229/http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2011/09/30/xmrv-and-chronic-fatigue-syndr-29/ )
Very briefly: Enthusiastic attempts by Mikovits’ peers to replicate her findings met with results that were at first mixed, then becoming consistently negative as people realised that they didn’t have to force them to be positive. It emerged that her most persuasive diagram had been used previously with different labels, and when seen in that broader context it was not honest. Far from being a rampant contagion XMRV was a laboratory artifact: an in-vitro contaminant of reagents, incapable of infecting living animals, human or otherwise. The other dispositive piece of evidence, a comparison of 12 blood samples in which six from ME/CFS donors were rife with XMRV, was the product of contamination in Mikovits’ laboratory. I am inclined to believe that the samples had been spiked, though a more charitable interpretation is possible in which the six ME/CFS samples were stored in a different place in the laboratory freezer from the six controls, closer to the contaminating container of XMRV.
Darkened, “the far-right blob looks like a rubber ducky”
Anyway, Lombardi et al (2009) was first partially and then fully retracted in 2011, and a definitive, cross-lab trial took place, often called the Blood Working Group. I prefer the title “the Lipkin study”, as it was instigated and coordinated by prominent virologist Ian Lipkin, who believed that Mikovits’ work had been conducted in good faith and deserved a fair judgement (and $1.3 million of NIH funding), so he put his reputation on the line persuading other, more skeptical researchers to include her in the comprehensive attempt at replication. The outcome was resoundingly negative, with no XMRV as far as the eye could see. Mikovits signed cross-lab collaborations in 2011 and 2012 and accepted the ‘laboratory contaminant’ explanation at a joint press conference. In more detail,
--
“In the summer of 2011, Mikovits and her young lab assistant, Max Pfost, began poring through their notebooks, trying to find where such a contaminant might have entered their process.
In July, she says, she found it?an entry from March 2009 indicating that a culture of the XMRV virus had been placed into the same incubator with the rest of the lab?s blood samples. Mikovits says she was out of town the day this occurred.“
--
All this comes from the central, keystone phase of Mikovits’ career arc, the third act of five. One might call it the Whittemore Phase, when she was in charge of the Whittemore-Peterson Institute .. http://nvcbr.org/ — recruited to lead this project by its main donors, Annette & Harvey Whittemore. So there is already enough here to explain what makes the whole saga so fascinating to science-watchers… a previously-respectable researcher going over to the Dark Side, believing so strongly in her project that she cut corners, ignored mundane explanations, enhanced the evidence and maybe even invented some of that evidence in her confidence that Reality would eventually come around to fit the theory.
Strong feelings were involved, with some energetic members of the ME/CFS support-group community accepting and canonising Mikovits, and brooking no criticism. In imitation of their saviour, they did not restrict themselves tightly to facts when they flooded comment threads at ERV and virology.ws .. https://forbetterscience.com/2020/06/24/judy-mikovits-plandemic-covid-portunism/www.virology.ws%20mikovits . Sums of money were also at stake: Mikovits had patented a blood test for this putative debilitating virus (marketed by the commercial arm of the WPI, RedLabs, which became VIP/dx .. https://laikaspoetnik.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/three-studies-now-refute-the-presence-of-xmrv-in-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-cfs/ ) and surrogates in the ME/CFS community promoted it there. The Whittemores were already well-supplied with money and influence, as shown by their ability to strong-arm the Nevada legislature to pay for the premises of their vanity project within the campus of Nevada University at Reno. A later manifestation of their influential status can be seen in Harvey Whittemore’s prison sentence for concealed political donations .. https://web.archive.org/web/20150625015953/http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/01/26/us/ap-us-developer-contributions-harry-reid.html , but I digress.
Below I will revisit this Act III, for it is punctuated by a great deal more drama, and in the right hands it can be drawn out to novel-length in itself. Any amount of further detail can be found on the sites I listed at the beginning. Some other sources:
Much more - https://forbetterscience.com/2020/06/24/judy-mikovits-plandemic-covid-portunism/
Agree. Exposing America’s Frontline Doctors and Their Financial Empire Built on Hydroxychloroquine
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170161589
For Better Science
By Leonid Schneider, on research integrity, biomedical ethics and academic publishing
Smut Clyde takes on Dr Judy Mikovits and guides you through her career, from fake Science to antivax and cancer quackery, and over to COVID-19 conspiracies, in 5 acts plus Coda.
by smut.clyde
June 24, 2020
Multi links
The following post by Smut Clyde .. https://forbetterscience.com/tag/smut-clyde/ .. will guide through the circus show of Judy Mikovits, which is basically a sequence of research fraud, antivax quackery and pimping for phony biotech start-ups, which now culminated in her brain-melting “documentary”, Plandemic. Did you know that COVID-19 is actually a global conspiracy of Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci to attack you with a lab-engineered coronavirus, which is not deadly at all but can be cured with chloroquine, all of which serves the sinister purpose of poisoning you with vaccines?
No really, it all makes perfect sense. Do you even doubt that “Dr. Judy Mikovits is a modern-day Rosalind Franklin“? Or that she is the real discoverer of HIV who then went on to invent the virus which she claimed, then denied, then again claimed causes the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME)? Dr Mikovits even knows how to cure cancer with TCM and how vaccines cause autism, and now she solved COVID-19. Smut Clyde will now show you how we got there.
Image source: The Star
The Plague of St Judy
By Smut Clyde
Back in May, all the cool science bloggers were error-checking the ‘Plandemic‘ movie — or at least the brief teaser / trailer that had been dropped on social media — and its featured talking head, Dr Judy Mikovits. Science, Skeptical Raptor, Liz Ditz, Orac at Science Based Medicine and Respectful Insolence all had whacks at the piñata; Retraction Watch provided a retrospective survey of Mikovits’ previous ventures into their territory. An intense response to these posts spilled over from FaceBorg, with stanning fanboys infesting the comment threads (most of the comments being variations on a small repertoire), while the last two blogs were brought down for a time by DDOS attacks.
Entr’acte
Plandemic and ‘Plague of Corruption‘ (the associated book by Mikovits and Kent Heckenlively) are examples of the recurring ForBetterScience theme of COVID-portunism .. https://forbetterscience.com/tag/covid-19/ , or SARS-ploitation if you prefer. So here I am a month later, preaching to the converted from the lofty pulpit of FBS, “six feet above criticism”. There will be fewer PubPeer threads than usual, and fewer illustrations. It is probably too late to attract all the troll-army attention, so here I provide the points they previously harped upon:
* Mikovits’ fabulation on claims X, Y and Z is irrelevant to her veracity on less easily checked claims.
* She co-wrote a long book, which means she must be generally telling the truth because no-one can lie at length.
* The cross-blog consensus and presentation of overwhelming evidence that Mikovits makes stuff up or misremembers her past is a coordinated response, and the Global Elites would only be determined to discredit her if she threatened their narrative, therefore she must be telling the truth and we can ignore that evidence.
* The truth has been suppressed by YouTube. Censorship! Deplatforming!
Yet that earlier bloggerly coverage of the Plandemic advertising campaign was not complete (Orac, for instance, is noted for his brevity and elliptical style), and I have a few novel observations that further question Mikovits’ credibility. Mainly I am annoyed by its shoddy, plagiarised graphic design. Or “plagueiarised”, to stay in keeping with all these portmanteau neologisms. We shall start with Act III, just because.
Act III: The Whittemore phase
Mikovits’ first 15 minutes of fame was a decade ago when she was ushered into prominence by her discovery of a new plague, rivalling the discovery of AIDS: a newly-encountered retrovirus, XMRV, was widespread in the US population, and the likely cause of ME/CFS (also the cause of prostate cancer and autism and doubtless other health concerns). There was a paper in Science to make it official:
Vincent C. Lombardi, Francis W. Ruscetti, Jaydip Das Gupta, Max A. Pfost, Kathryn S. Hagen, Daniel L. Peterson, Sandra K. Ruscetti, Rachel K. Bagni, Cari Petrow-Sadowski, Bert Gold, Michael Dean, Robert H. Silverman,Judy A. Mikovits Detection of an Infectious Retrovirus, XMRV, in Blood Cells of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Science (2009) DOI: 10.1126/science.1179052 .. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/326/5952/585.abstract
The ensuing drama of Lombardi et al 2009 was chronicled by science blogger and retrovirus enthusiast ERV, in a series of hostile and occasionally sweary posts .. https://web.archive.org/web/20180923235109/http://scienceblogs.com/erv/tag/xmrv/ , which some of us followed closely, cheering from the peanut gallery. The illustrations in those posts have been lost during platform migration, but that’s why we have the Wayback Machine.
Smoking gun: After Abbie Smith as ERV (2011 ..
https://web.archive.org/web/20170103122229/http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2011/09/30/xmrv-and-chronic-fatigue-syndr-29/ )
Very briefly: Enthusiastic attempts by Mikovits’ peers to replicate her findings met with results that were at first mixed, then becoming consistently negative as people realised that they didn’t have to force them to be positive. It emerged that her most persuasive diagram had been used previously with different labels, and when seen in that broader context it was not honest. Far from being a rampant contagion XMRV was a laboratory artifact: an in-vitro contaminant of reagents, incapable of infecting living animals, human or otherwise. The other dispositive piece of evidence, a comparison of 12 blood samples in which six from ME/CFS donors were rife with XMRV, was the product of contamination in Mikovits’ laboratory. I am inclined to believe that the samples had been spiked, though a more charitable interpretation is possible in which the six ME/CFS samples were stored in a different place in the laboratory freezer from the six controls, closer to the contaminating container of XMRV.
Darkened, “the far-right blob looks like a rubber ducky”
Anyway, Lombardi et al (2009) was first partially and then fully retracted in 2011, and a definitive, cross-lab trial took place, often called the Blood Working Group. I prefer the title “the Lipkin study”, as it was instigated and coordinated by prominent virologist Ian Lipkin, who believed that Mikovits’ work had been conducted in good faith and deserved a fair judgement (and $1.3 million of NIH funding), so he put his reputation on the line persuading other, more skeptical researchers to include her in the comprehensive attempt at replication. The outcome was resoundingly negative, with no XMRV as far as the eye could see. Mikovits signed cross-lab collaborations in 2011 and 2012 and accepted the ‘laboratory contaminant’ explanation at a joint press conference. In more detail,
--
“In the summer of 2011, Mikovits and her young lab assistant, Max Pfost, began poring through their notebooks, trying to find where such a contaminant might have entered their process.
In July, she says, she found it?an entry from March 2009 indicating that a culture of the XMRV virus had been placed into the same incubator with the rest of the lab?s blood samples. Mikovits says she was out of town the day this occurred.“
--
All this comes from the central, keystone phase of Mikovits’ career arc, the third act of five. One might call it the Whittemore Phase, when she was in charge of the Whittemore-Peterson Institute .. http://nvcbr.org/ — recruited to lead this project by its main donors, Annette & Harvey Whittemore. So there is already enough here to explain what makes the whole saga so fascinating to science-watchers… a previously-respectable researcher going over to the Dark Side, believing so strongly in her project that she cut corners, ignored mundane explanations, enhanced the evidence and maybe even invented some of that evidence in her confidence that Reality would eventually come around to fit the theory.
Strong feelings were involved, with some energetic members of the ME/CFS support-group community accepting and canonising Mikovits, and brooking no criticism. In imitation of their saviour, they did not restrict themselves tightly to facts when they flooded comment threads at ERV and virology.ws .. https://forbetterscience.com/2020/06/24/judy-mikovits-plandemic-covid-portunism/www.virology.ws%20mikovits . Sums of money were also at stake: Mikovits had patented a blood test for this putative debilitating virus (marketed by the commercial arm of the WPI, RedLabs, which became VIP/dx .. https://laikaspoetnik.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/three-studies-now-refute-the-presence-of-xmrv-in-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-cfs/ ) and surrogates in the ME/CFS community promoted it there. The Whittemores were already well-supplied with money and influence, as shown by their ability to strong-arm the Nevada legislature to pay for the premises of their vanity project within the campus of Nevada University at Reno. A later manifestation of their influential status can be seen in Harvey Whittemore’s prison sentence for concealed political donations .. https://web.archive.org/web/20150625015953/http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/01/26/us/ap-us-developer-contributions-harry-reid.html , but I digress.
Below I will revisit this Act III, for it is punctuated by a great deal more drama, and in the right hands it can be drawn out to novel-length in itself. Any amount of further detail can be found on the sites I listed at the beginning. Some other sources:
Much more - https://forbetterscience.com/2020/06/24/judy-mikovits-plandemic-covid-portunism/
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