Thread by @LauraChopp5

Hi friends, I’m sure some of you have seen the video circulating about SARS-CoV2 being “planned.” There are a ton of false claims in the video, some of which I’ve outlined & fact checked below. Normally I try to stay out of this stuff, but she’s endangering lives with that video.

Claim 1: Judy Mikovits worked for Dr. Anthony Fauci
Fact check: She was a research fellow with Francis "Frank" Ruscetti & Dr. David Derse at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Anthony Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease (NIAID).

While NCI and NIAID are both institutes within the NIH (National Institutes of Health), she was certainly NOT an employee of Tony Fauci.

Claim 2: She was jailed

Fact check: She was jailed for 5 days on felony charges that she stole property from her institute (WPI). (chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-mi…)

Also really loving the dramatic SWAT footage and saying she was “drug from her house”…yeah…she turned herself in (mynews4.com/news/local/jud…).

Claim 3: Animal and human fetal tissue use unleashed devastating plagues on humanity
Fact check: The paper in question allegedly found DNA from a virus (XMRV) xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus) in their samples from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and control samples

Attempts to replicate the finding were unsuccessful. Robert Silverman, a co-author on the study, later found contamination with the viral DNA in the samples.

Mikovits and others went on to find no association between the virus and CFS (mbio.asm.org/content/3/5/e0…).

Science issued a full retraction of the study:
“Science is fully retracting the Report “Detection of an infectious retrovirus, XMRV, in blood cells of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome”(science.sciencemag.org/content/334/60…)

She has also made claims that XMRV has associations with Parkinson’s Disease, ASD , and multiple sclerosis; however, there is no research supporting these claims.
Literally no idea how this relates to animal & human fetal tissue, but hey, let’s use buzz words!

Claim 4: “The minions of big pharma waged war on Mikovits” Fact check: The institute she worked for (Whittemore Peterson Institute, or WPI) filed charges against her alleging she removed lab notebooks and proprietary information from WPI.

Claim 5: “She was arrested and put under a gag order because her ‘discovery’ went against the agreed upon narrative”
Fact check: For questions about her arrest, see Claim 2 and 7 (arrested for stealing lab notebooks—which is in fact, illegal).

For the gag order—what was her “discovery” that went against the narrative? If she’s referring to her retracted 2009 Science paper, SHE HERSELF confirmed that her paper was incorrect—there is no association between XMRV and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Claim 6: “Heads of HHS (Health and Human Services) colluded and destroyed her reputation.”
Fact check: What does HHS have to do with her paper retraction and taking her lab notebooks from WPI?

She’s just throwing in every government agency she can to fire people up against “the institution.” Let’s throw in the Department of Agriculture, the DNR, heck, let’s blame the DMV!

Claim 7: “She has no constitutional rights or freedoms”
Fact check: Last I checked, HHS couldn’t take away someone’s constitutional rights. I know you can lose some rights if you’re a prisoner (i.e. the right to bear arms, etc.), but yeah… this claim is super unclear to me.

Claim 8: “Dr. Anthony Fauci directed a ‘cover-up’”
Fact check: Cover-up of what, exactly? There is ZERO evidence that he took part in any cover-up. Her paper was retracted, and she was accused of taking WPI property from her lab.

What did Tony Fauci have to do with any of this? She was at WPI at the time—not NIAID. She’s never even worked at NIAID…

Claim 9: “Dr. Fauci is only saying propaganda during coronavirus briefings”
Fact check: Dr. Fauci is giving the best advice possible given available data. Give me one example of him saying propaganda. Go ahead, I’ll wait…

He is telling us to wash our hands, wear face masks, and avoid large gatherings. These are all things you should do when we have a highly infectious respiratory virus on the loose, one for which we have no vaccine.

Claim 10: “Tony Fauci tried to silence her work and fire her for ‘insubordination’”
Fact check: A paper “In press” has already been accepted for publication. So…how on earth would Tony Fauci hold up publication of it?

The date of publication after acceptance is up to the journal editors, not other scientists. That’s just not how publication works. Also, has Dr. Ruscetti (her former advisor) made a statement on this?

Even if they were beaten to submission to publication by Gallo (it’s called getting scooped), there would still be a paper from her and Ruscetti, maybe in a “lower impact” journal than they were hoping for—but there’s not. It just doesn’t make logical sense.

As to him threatening her job, Tony Fauci was not and has never been her boss, and had no authority to fire her. He is the head of NIAID, not NCI.

Claim 11: “Tony Fauci withheld her work so he could file for a patent”
Fact check: While it is true that Tony Fauci and the government have a patent for an HIV therapy (IL-2), this is by law. (patent# 6,190,656) Side note--his patent wouldn’t affect SARS-CoV2 patients.

“As a government employee, he was required by law to put his name on the patent for the development of IL-2, and was also required by law to receive part of the payment the government received for use of the patent.” (bmj.com/content/330/74…)

How withholding her work would have benefited him is seriously unclear to me.
Fun fact: he donated the patent money to charity. So there’s that.

Claim 12: “The entire continent of Africa lost a generation due to Tony Fauci delaying her publication”
Fact check: First, 25% of the population of Africa did not die from HIV/AIDS in 1983, 84, and/or 85.

Second, how would the publication of her “confirmatory study” have altered the outcome? There is nothing in any of those “competing” studies that would have miraculously stopped the spread of the virus.

What was in her study that would have saved these people? She doesn’t say what was in this study.

Claim 13: “A SARS-Cov2 vaccine would kill millions, as they already have with their vaccines.”
Fact check: Okay, this is a whole anti-vaccination can of worms here, but a few salient points below:

Adverse reactions to vaccines, while extremely rare, do happen. Here’s a reference to get you started if you’re interested. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Deaths following vaccination are essentially UNHEARD OF. It’s possible to have a severe allergic reaction to a vaccine, much like someone with a peanut allergy. That’s why they have you sit there for 15 minutes after a vaccine to make sure you don’t go into anaphylactic shock.

I want to note, if you’ve experienced redness, fever, swelling, and pain following vaccination—that’s completely NORMAL. A vaccine is designed to trigger your immune system—hence the symptoms some people experience following vaccination.

If you’re still wondering about that one “study” that was retracted, scientists tried over and over to repeat that one. They couldn’t—because the guy made up the data. Here’s a major study of 95,000 kids (jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…)

Claim 14: “This virus was manipulated in a lab”
Fact check: Many groups have been investigating the origins of this virus—one cited here: (nature.com/articles/s4159…). No evidence of manipulation found.

Claim 15: “3.7 million dollars went from NIH to Wuhan lab in China”
Fact check: EcoHealth Alliance in New York held an NIH grant worth 3.7 million, for which they obtained permission to send $76,000 annually to their collaborators in China, who were studying Coronaviruses.

Here’s a link to the grant, and an article describing the collaboration. projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_d… npr.org/sections/goats…

Claim 16: “The Wuhan lab was already studying Coronavirus in the past, and Fauci hasn’t disclosed his association with them.”
Fact check: The Wuhan lab studied this FAMILY of viruses, alongside the NIAID funded EcoHealth Alliance.

They did not study the specific one we have circulating the globe now (SARS-CoV2). Coronavirus is a generic name for the family of viruses that includes SARS-CoV2--which was previously UNKNOWN.

So yes, the Wuhan lab studied that family of viruses, but not the one causing the pandemic. Also, Tony Fauci wasn’t secretly working with them—he’s in charge of the agency that gave the grant to EcoHealth Alliance, which had permission to collaborate with the lab in Wuhan.

Note: Tony Fauci does not decide who gets NIAID money and who doesn’t. A grant is scored by a panel of expert scientists (not just NIH people), and then the top scoring grants get funded. It’s not like Tony Fauci picks his favorites.

Claim 17: “In 1999, I was working…to teach Ebola how to infect human cells without killing them. Ebola couldn’t infect human cells until we took it in the laboratories and doctored it.”
Fact check: There is ZERO evidence for this.

For starters, the first Ebola outbreak was in 1976, near the Ebola river (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…) She claims she worked on this in 1999—to “teach Ebola how to infect human cells”.

This feels like a good place to stop. Hopefully this is enough to convince you that she isn't a credible source. She's trying to make money off of this crisis by peddling her ridiculous claims in this video and her book. Her motives are clear: money and fame. Feel free to RT.

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