Wow. Mikovits has been antivax basically since her legitimate scientific career ended in disgrace and criminal activity. But this is still shocking.https://twitter.com/crackedscience/status/1264551806358753281 …
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OTOH, by then she was already starting to say that vaccines were contaminated with XMRV and other endogenous retroviruses, which, she claimed, were causing autism and a host of other medical conditions.
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It doesn't escape me that someone who blames viruses for multiple illnesses has been embraced by some people who deny that viruses cause illness at all.
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Perhaps, but she was already clearly inclined in that direction, as this interview from October 2009 (soon after her XMRV paper was published in Science) clearly shows. She speculated that vaccines activate ERVs in lymphocytes, thus causing autism. https://web.archive.org/web/20091014153804/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/is-autism-associated-with_b_316986.html …
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