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Plague: One Scientist's Intrepid Search for the Truth about Human Retroviruses and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Autism, and Other Diseases

Plague: One Scientist's Intrepid Search for the Truth about Human Retroviruses and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Autism, and Other Diseases

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R. Christopher
4.0 out of 5 starsIntriguing story but poor editing
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 1, 2018
A very important subject is plagued (no pun intended) by very poor editing. As others reviewers have pointed out, a more chronological progression of this story would have made wading through the frequent scientific word jargon more bearable. The bottom line here is that Judy Mikovits, after careful thorough research and testing made an amazing discovery: That a retrovirus created by the mixing of human and animal (mouse) tissue might be a contributing factor in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and other new maladies that have arisen or become more frequent in the past century, specifically starting from an incident that occurred in a Los Angeles Hospital in 1934 to today.

Unfortunately in her own naive unsuspecting way, as she let the world know what she had found she made two mistakes. You might say that greed was at the heart of both - not from Mikovits, but from her employers and from the rest of the scientific community, some of whom initially supported her, but later strangely turned against her, by using obviously faulty criteria in tests trying to duplicate her results.

Mistake 1 was telling her employers that the test they had developed to sell that would detect the presence of this retrovirus in humans was faulty. Mistake 2 was that in discussing her research at various conferences around the world she used two words in the same paragraph that could effect billions of dollars in profit from pharmaceutical companies: autism and vaccines. Even though she didn't state there was a definite connection, just to suggest there might be cause for further research in the area is enough to ruffle some very powerful feathers. In fact, since I have used these same two words in the same sentence just to describe what happened in this book, I would not all be surprised to see this review deleted by Amazon.

It's really a shame this book wasn't more readable. I finished it, but it was a chore. Its a revealing story about scientific research, both how it gets done and how it gets undone. It needs to be more widely understood.
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Hamoncan
1.0 out of 5 starsSounded interesting, but...
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 24, 2020
Sounded interesting, almost bought it, but then did some research. She appears to have been legitimately discredited and apparently was using manipulated data, etc, in several instances. I don't doubt there is corruption out there, but this only helps to discredit legit critics. Being smart and having degrees doesn't mean you still can't be a kook.
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Kim
5.0 out of 5 stars Very interstate!!!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 10, 2022
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I learned a lot I did t know but is easy to believe from this book. She explains things enough you get the jist.
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Lana Lorenzen
4.0 out of 5 stars Critical Issue in These Times!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 1, 2022
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The information in the book is an essential read (along with other Mikovits books) for the general public. Unfortunately the author made the material much more difficult to read than was necessary. The chapters and passages in the book move back and forth in time. That simply breaks up the story into a difficult-to-follow read. The chapters should have followed a linear format, by year. The following suggestions would have made the book much more enjoyable: At the front, have a dictionary of words and terms so the reader understands the terminology; have an outline, by date, of the events in the life of Mikovits; summarize the work that she did in more simple terms. It also would have been helpful to have the footnotes follow at the end of each chapter. Footnotes in the back of a book are a pain.
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raojenkins
1.0 out of 5 stars Why is Amazon boosting the spread of covid19 disinformation by a known conspiracy theorist?
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 2, 2022
look up "Fact-checking Judy Mikovits, the controversial virologist attacking Anthony Fauci in a viral conspiracy video"
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Susan
5.0 out of 5 stars The dysfunction and corruption of the medical industrial complex
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 16, 2022
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I wanted an unvarnished look into Retro viruses and how they affect Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Autism, and other diseases
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Peter
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 18, 2022
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This is a great book.
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bobberjoe
5.0 out of 5 stars NEED TO KNOW. Understanding Corruption.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 20, 2022
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This book is a must read to understand what is really going on with the Current Viruses, How the long term employment of a few top people who run the government Scientific Community has lead to their Corruption and need for Increasingly More Power. The Devastation to people around the world in their search.
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Penelope Kahler Swan
5.0 out of 5 stars Every Smart Caring Parent Needs To Read This.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 10, 2021
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We must protect our children.
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K. Ellenberger
4.0 out of 5 stars Technical
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 1, 2021
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Really need to be medically educated
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shoe
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent information
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 26, 2021
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the fakes are the people who wrote those reviews and are NOT lab rats! You want to know the truth that science is bought and sold like everything else read the truth! There are cures for everything- THEY won't tell you!
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ken earwood
5.0 out of 5 stars She’s a top scientist .
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 17, 2021
For those using Snopes as a fact source, it’s been proven two or three years ago that it’s on the DNC payroll and therefore compromised. Judy is one of the top scientists out there telling the truth for once.
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