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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Replying to @dfreedman7
This is not news to those of us who’ve followed the antivaccine movement a long time. She was on the antivax circuit in 2009, even BEFORE her legitimate scientific career came to an end.
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Replying to @gorskon
Interesting. I thought she was pushed into the antivax world bc of her failed career (like so many quacks). Will need to dig up some of the old SBM posts
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Replying to @dfreedman7
My guess is that her descent into XMRV pseudoscience was a manifestation of her becoming a conspiracy theorist and that her antivax views were yet another manifestation of that process occurring around the same time.
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Replying to @gorskon @dfreedman7
Another possibility is that, before it al came crashing down, Mikovits was invited to speak about XMRV at antivax conferences like Autism One and imbibed antivax ideology there.
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Replying to @gorskon @dfreedman7
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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Here she was, in a since-deleted article by antivax freelance “journalist” David Kirby (he was big in the antivaccine movement in 2009), speculating that vaccines “activate” endogenous retroviruses in lymphocytes, thus “triggering” regressive autism. https://web.archive.org/web/20091014153804/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/is-autism-associated-with_b_316986.html …
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