Your racist Facebook uncle may have sent you a link to a trailer for "Plandemic," a conspiracy movie that stars a disgraced virologist called Judy Mikovits who makes a string of claims about her credentials and the coronavirus.
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.@ScienceMagazine evaluated those claims.
Unsurprisingly, the majority of claims that Mikovits makes about her credentials and the science of coronavirus are provably false.
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Unsurprisingly, the majority of claims that Mikovits makes about her credentials and the science of coronavirus are provably false.
sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/f…
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Some highlights: "Dr Judy Mikovits has been called one of the most accomplished scientists of her generation"
"Mikovits authored 40 papers and wasn’t widely known...before she published the 2009 Science paper.... The paper was later proven erroneous and retracted."
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"Mikovits authored 40 papers and wasn’t widely known...before she published the 2009 Science paper.... The paper was later proven erroneous and retracted."
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"Her 1991 doctoral thesis revolutionized the treatment of HIV/AIDS"
"Mikovits’s Ph.D. thesis, “Negative Regulation of HIV Expression in Monocytes,” had no discernible impact on the treatment of HIV/AIDS."
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"Mikovits’s Ph.D. thesis, “Negative Regulation of HIV Expression in Monocytes,” had no discernible impact on the treatment of HIV/AIDS."
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"[Her] blockbuster article in Science... sent shock waves through the scientific community... revealed the use of animal/human fetal tissues was unleashing plagues of chronic diseases."
"The paper ... only claimed to show a link between one condition and a mouse retrovirus"
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"The paper ... only claimed to show a link between one condition and a mouse retrovirus"
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"It started really when I was 25 years old, and I was part of the team that isolated HIV from the saliva and blood of the patients from France where [virologist Luc] Montagnier had originally isolated the virus..."
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"At the time of HIV’s discovery, Mikovits was a lab technician in Francis Ruscetti’s lab at NCI and had yet to receive her Ph.D. There is no evidence that she was part of the team that first isolated the virus."
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"There is no vaccine currently on the schedule for any RNA virus that works.
"Many vaccines that work against RNA viruses are on the market, including for influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, rabies, yellow fever, and Ebola."
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"Many vaccines that work against RNA viruses are on the market, including for influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, rabies, yellow fever, and Ebola."
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"I’m not antivaccine."
"In the PowerPoint presentation she sent to Science, she calls for an immediate moratorium' on all vaccines"
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"In the PowerPoint presentation she sent to Science, she calls for an immediate moratorium' on all vaccines"
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"[Italians are] sick with inflammatory disorders. They got... an untested new form of influenza vaccine that had 4 different strains of influenza, including the highly pathogenic H1N1. That vaccine was grown in a cell line, a dog cell line. Dogs have lots of coronaviruses."
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"There is no evidence that links any influenza vaccine, or a dog coronavirus, to Italy’s COVID-19 epidemic."
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"Wearing the mask literally activates your own virus. You’re getting sick from your own reactivated coronavirus expressions, and if it happens to be SARS-CoV-2, then you’ve got a big problem."
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"It’s not clear what Mikovits means by “coronavirus expressions.” There is no evidence that wearing a mask can activate viruses and make people sick."
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