This is a story for anybody interested in the peril and promise of science at the very highest levels in our country.

Mikovits would face the scientific prejudices against CFS, wander into the minefield that is autism, and through it all struggle to maintain her faith in God and the profession to which she had dedicated her life. Books by Kent Heckenlively (Author of Plague of Corruption) Books by Kent Heckenlively Kent Heckenlively Average rating 4. He neatly encapsulates the book's major points and chronicles well-known cases in the suppression of scientists whose discoveries threatened both the status quo and 'powerful economic paradigms. Mikovits, a twenty-year veteran of the National Cancer Institute, this was the midpoint of a five-year journey that would start with the founding of the Whittemore-Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease at the University of Nevada, Reno, and end with her as a witness for the federal government against her former employer, Harvey Whittemore, for illegal campaign contributions to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Plague of Corruption is worth reading for Robert F. Judy Mikovits finished her presentation the room was silent for a moment, then one of the scientists said, “Oh my God!” The resulting investigation would be like no other in science.įor Dr. On July 22, 2009, a special meeting was held with twenty-four leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health to discuss early findings that a newly discovered retrovirus was linked to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), prostate cancer, lymphoma, and eventually neurodevelopmental disorders in children.

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