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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsa LOT of anti-vax activity all over Facebook now. That damn Plandemic seems to be the peak
And wtf happened to RFK, Jr??
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the single leading source of anti-vax ads on Facebook
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/robert-f-kennedy-jr-is-the-single-leading-source-of-anti-vax-ads-on-facebook/
This whole Plandemic thing has stirred a (murder) hornets nest
All based on this discredited scientist claims that Fauci has patents and will make money off covid vaccines and big pharma is bad (yea we know but for other reasons)
About this Judy Mikovits...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/scientist-vaccine-jailed/
Who Is Judy Mikovits?
https://vaxopedia.org/2018/12/08/who-is-judy-mikovits/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Mikovits
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In December 2011 the editors of Science retracted the paper in its entirety.[18][19]
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Mikovits was fired in September 2011 over concerns about her integrity.[5]
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Mikovits has spoken at a number of anti-vaccination events.[28][29][3][4] She has claimed that retroviruses have contaminated 30% of vaccines.[2]
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Mikovits has garnered criticism from scientists for stating that XMRV is a communicable infection which is "clearly circulating through the population, as is our fear and your fear". Virologist Vincent Racaniello said that Mikovits's assertion "is just inciting fear."[16][30] Mikovits showed slides at a conference linking XMRV to Parkinson's disease, autism and multiple sclerosis. However, there is no published evidence that XMRV is associated with these diseases.[31][32][33][34]
Mikovits has gained attention on social media for promoting her ideas about the 201920 coronavirus pandemic. She does not believe that a vaccine is needed to prevent COVID-19, and claims that the coronavirus was "caused by a bad strain of flu vaccine that was circulating between 2013 and 2015". She also claimed masks will activate the virus and reinfect a mask-wearer over and over.[3] One of her videos about the coronavirus pandemic was fact-checked by the website Maldita.es [es], which rated some of her claims as either false or not based in evidence.[35]
Oh. And shes also pimping a book out now
This all also has been going hand-in-hand with references to the CIA Mockingbird program... from 1950! 1950! Height of the Cold War
Plandemic is produced by Mikki Willis of Elevate out of Ojai. His last films have been about marijuana and psychedelic substances. He says he makes transformative films and was inspired by having been in the twin towers before the 9/11 attacks
Heres a LONG and good summary of the bs in this Plandemic fraud
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/05/06/judy-mikovits-pandemic/
PS. Googling for Plandemic or Mikovits finds tin foil hat sites galore. Many thinking the CIA owns ALL media and well never know the real truth (whatever these knuckle-draggers think that is)
PPS. Knowing how much russian troll farms were spreading misinformation over the last few years, I wouldnt be surprised if many of the FB groups and posts and websites are created by or amplified by these troll/bot farms
Initech
(100,108 posts)msongs
(67,462 posts)they turn up on the pages of my friends who are mostly jesus oriented lol
Cary
(11,746 posts)Upthevibe
(8,083 posts)I'm so glad that you posted this information. The conspiracy theorists have gone absolutely batshit CRAZY!
I have a friend who's an anit-vaxer and has some beliefs that are so out there it's just unbelievable.
I have a lot more I'd like to say but it's late so I'll have to come back to this thread.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)More info I just came across.
Judy Mikovits
1) Is not and has never been a leading HIV/AIDS scientist. She has three first-author papers related to HIV/AIDS. The one with the most citations was published in 1998 has 167 citations. I have a paper from 2009 with 1000 citations, and--as much as I hate to admit it--I'm not doing anything close to as impactful as curing HIV/AIDS. If you did *anything* related to HIV/AIDS that was revolutionary or even really important 22 years ago, you'd be looking at a paper with 10's of thousands of citations.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C32&q=+judy+mikovits&oq=mikovit&fbclid=IwAR2ifGSZ3mdWZqK4uojJv1V2C6hQJv3m22zcpNIA2aOCak3ztpCiGD4LiuY
2) Her most "influential" work was in a Science paper on retroviruses and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Other labs tried to reproduce the results and were completely unable to do so. She admitted to having worked with contaminated samples, but then she was also caught having manipulated data published in that paper on multiple occasions in presentations. The Science paper was fully retracted, has never been reproduced, and was shown by further experiments to be completely false. When it became clear that she manipulated data in the publication and other instances, she was fired. She stole her lab notebooks and data to cover up her fraud, and a warrant was issued for her arrest. All scientists sign contracts with their employer stating that raw data and notebooks are the property of the institutions for just these reasons. It's exactly what should have happened in this case.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/chi-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-paper-10032011-story.html
3) She has no idea what she's talking about half the time. Here's a video of her talking about SARS-CoV-2, in which she blames "5G" and "6G". Watch around 2:50 where she says that ferritin in the blood "can happen through 5G and 60 [6G?] gigahertz literally releasing the iron from the hemoglobin." She clearly thinks that the "G" in "5G" means gigahertz, which it doesn't. It means "generation" (5G = 5th generation). She's just making things up, and not even intelligently enough to make it sound believable. Also, the energy of photons at the frequencies used in 5G are many orders of magnitude smaller than the binding energy of iron in hemoglobin. Also, most places with SARS-CoV-2 do not have 5G. It's barely been rolled out. It's all pure nonsense, which she says with absolute conviction, indicating just how big of a moron she is.
So let's all please stop acting as though Judy Mikovits has anything impactful to say about anything, let alone SARS-CoV-2. She doesn't.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,219 posts)I'm not making that up.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)It gets better
On his FB page, Mikki Willis talks a LOT about Epoch Times (a news site pushing conspiracy theory often wrapped in pseudo-religious crap)
About Epoch Times:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-epoch-times/
My guess? #mikkiwillis is snake-oil salesman using #MAGA gullibility to make money
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,219 posts)...but includes death of reputation as well.