Posted on 04/24/2020 8:38:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dr. Judy Mikovitz was a brilliant young doctor....
Of the Ph.d. variety.
she was jailed for identifying the link between vaccines and chronic diseases.
Not so much. There were the 18 notebooks thatdid not belong to her that she subsequently returned.
In a contemporary article, Science Insider reported that she was arrested as a fugitive from justice, related to a civil suit brought against her.
Controversial CFS Researcher Arrested and Jailedby Jon Cohen on 19 November 2011, 6:46 PM
Science InsiderJudy Mikovits, who has been in the spotlight for the past 2 years after Science published a controversial report by her group that tied a novel mouse retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), is now behind bars.
Sheriffs in Ventura County, California, arrested Mikovits yesterday on felony charges that she is a fugitive from justice. She is being held at the Todd Road Jail in Santa Paula without bail. But ScienceInsider could obtain only sketchy details about the specific charges against her.
The Ventura County sheriff's office told ScienceInsider that it had no available details about the charges and was acting upon a warrant issued by Washoe County in Nevada. A spokesperson for the Washoe County Sheriff's Office told ScienceInsider that it did not issue the warrant, nor did the Reno or Sparks police department. He said it could be from one of several federal agencies in Washoe County.
Lois Hart, one of Mikovits's attorneys, says her client is being held for extradition to Reno, Nevada, in relation to a civil lawsuit against her filed by the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease (WPI). Mikovits worked as the research director at WPI, a nonprofit in Reno, for 2 years until she was fired by its president, Annette Whittemore, on 29 September. On 4 November, WPI filed suit against Mikovits, alleging that she had wrongfully kept her laboratory notebooks and other information about her work for the fledgling institute on her laptop, in flash drives, and in a personal e-mail account. A preliminary injunction in the case is set to be held by Nevada's Second District Judicial Court on 22 November. On that same day, Mikovits has a hearing in Ventura County, California, where she can contest extradition, Hart says.
Annette and her husband Harvey Whittemore, who has worked as a high-profile attorney for the gaming industry and a major real estate developer, started WPI to help find causes and treatments for CFS and other neuroimmune diseases like Gulf War syndrome and fibromyalgia. Their adult daughter has CFS.
Hart strongly denied the charges against her client. "She does not have the notebooks, nor any 'proprietary items' from WPI," Hart wrote ScienceInsider in an e-mail. "She is entitled to a copy of the information she created."
On 7 November, a judge from the Nevada court granted a request for a temporary restraining order against Mikovits to prohibit her from "destroying, altering, disseminating, or using trade secrets and confidential information." The order contended that "immediate and irreparable injury, loss, or damage will result to WPI if it does not get this relief." But the order does not explicitly forbid Mikovits, who lives in Ventura, California, from leaving the state of Nevada.
After Mikovits and her research team's Science study appeared in October 2009, many other groups around the world reported that they could not find the mouse retrovirus, dubbed XMRV, in people who had CFS. Mikovits and colleagues subsequently participated in a multilab study that resulted in a September Science Express paper describing how none of the teams could reliably find XMRV in blinded samples from CFS patients. One lab Mikovits collaborated with in the 2009 Science report simultaneously retracted its contribution after discovering that a contaminant explained its XMRV findings.
UPDATE, 19 November at 7:39 p.m. EST:
Annette Whittemore, president of the Whittemore Peterson Institute, has issued the following statement:
The Whittemore Peterson Institute was required to report the theft of its laboratory materials to law enforcement authorities. These authorities are taking the actions that they deem necessary.
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Lawsuit Filed Against Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Researcher by Former Employerby Jon Cohen on 14 November 2011, 5:46 PM
Science InsiderThe protracted saga of Judy Mikovits, the lead researcher who tied a mouse retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), has taken yet another dizzying turn.
A little more than 1 month after firing Mikovits, the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease (WPI) on 4 November filed suit against its former research director. According to WPI, after Mikovits was terminated on 29 September, she wrongfully removed laboratory notebooks and kept other proprietary information on her laptop and in flash drives and in a personal e-mail account. WPI, a nonprofit organization that's based on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno, also won a temporary restraining order that forbids Mikovits from "destroying, deleting, or altering" any of the related files or data.
Mikovits attorney, Lois Hart, said her client cannot speak to the media about the case, but she strongly denies any wrongdoing. In an e-mail to ScienceInsider, Hart stressed that "Dr. Mikovits' integrity goes to the bone."
Hart rebutted the charges against her client in a 4 November letter to WPI's counsel that appeared on CFS-related Web sites. (Hart said she did not release the letter, but verified its contents to ScienceInsider.) "All of the allegations of theft, misappropriations, withholding of data and various intellectual property, and items, are incorrect, and untruthful," Hart wrote.
The complaint filed by WPI focuses on the laboratory notebooks kept by Mikovits and her assistants, which she stored in a locked desk drawer. WPI had a representative from the company that manufactured the desk open the drawer after her firing and, the complaint states, then discovered that "the Notebooks were missing." The suit, which alleges breach of contract and misappropriation of trade secrets, claims that "Mikovits had the only key to the locked desk drawer in her office."
Hart's rebuttal letter to WPI's counsel contends that Mikovits was not in her office when she received the phone call that told her she was terminated and that she never returned to the institute. "A number of individuals have keys to the office and lab, including the administrative staff, lab staff and custodial," Hart wrote. "Your client's concern as to the location of those notebooks, and intellectual property, should be directed elsewhere."
Mikovits worked for WPI since its inception in 2007. Established by Annette and Harvey Whittemore, whose daughter has CFS, the institute also studies fibromyalgia, post Lyme disease, and Gulf War illness. The data Mikovits "absconded with," alleged WPI in court documents, could harm the institute's future efforts. "Without these materials, WPI's ability to continue its important research on finding a cure for these terrible diseases impacting over 4 million Americans each year is severely hampered," the complaint states. It contends that a Proprietary Information and Invention Agreement that Mikovits signed states that WPI owned the notebooks that she and others in the lab created.
Robert Charrow, an attorney at Greenberg Traurig in Washington, D.C., who specializes in cases involving scientific research, says academia and industry have different standards about researchers retaining their own notebooks and data. Although Charrow stresses that he is not familiar with the specifics of this case, he says industry typically forbids researchers from taking data with them. "In academic institutions, researchers are requested or required to give a copy of their material or their data to the institution, and they can retain a copy for themselves," says Charrow. "That's how it's usually done and that's why there aren't more pissing matches."
Mikovits and her co-workers made international headlines following Science's online publication on 8 October 2009 of an article in which they reported that they had found a recently discovered mouse retrovirus dubbed XMRV in the blood of 67% of the CFS patients they examined. Several subsequent studies, including one that WPI participated in, could not replicate the finding. A separate study, also published in Science, provided evidence that XMRV was accidentally created in a laboratory experiment with mice and questioned whether it even infected humans. Science's Editor-in-Chief Bruce Alberts issued an Editorial Expression of Concern about the paper's veracity on 31 May. Science later published a partial retraction to the Mikovits's group original paper after one of the labs that contributed to it said a contaminant marred its results.
Nevada's Second Judicial District Court will hear a preliminary injunction against Mikovits on 22 November.
Dear God,
PLEASE remove people like this from their positions and put in people of honesty and integrity. If You can find any.
Amen.
“Instead of refuting the one idiot kennedy with a REAL expert, you’ve doubled down on support of the other idiot kennedy faction.
I have to wonder why.
Are they fiends of yours?”
Is Bobby a friend of yours? I have to wonder why you are defending him.
“Are you seriously supporting Fauci? You know, PEPFAR Fauci? Bill Gates vaccine Fauci? Jeez. Trump has these crooks out there for exposure of their evil plans and deeds. Sorry you seem to have missed all that.”
Sad that you do not support Trump.
Are you even aware of these people, their history, organizations and their plans?
Her book:https://www.amazon.com/Plague-Scientist%C2%92s-Intrepid-Retroviruses-Syndrome/dp/1510713948/
Give away? He doesn’t give away control of how that money is used. He spends it through ‘charity’ to save a bit on taxes, but he’s spending it on his wishes, not general charity. Like his Planned Parenthood father, he spends it on population reduction efforts.
I have a feeling they will soon part ways. Trump just waiting for things to stabilize.
Because calling him an ‘idiot kennedy’ sure sounds like defending him on your planet?
LOL.
You’re the one using kennedy idiots as data points.
“She’s not exactly a rocket scientist. None of them are.”
But there’s Caroline. She’s really smart. [s]
“Dr. Fauci had absolutely no authority, nor any mechanism, by which he could have this woman jailed.”
Actually, he could have a “mechanism” — a powerful mechanism named Comey. It was Comey who pulled the plug on the FBI investigation of Fauci.
When he steps to the podium, I press MUTE. Sadly, I can listen to Schiff before I can listen to Fauci.
“Because calling him an ‘idiot kennedy’ sure sounds like defending him on your planet?
LOL.”
LOL! You are the one demanding that I provide experts to prove Bobby is an idiot!
“his predictions have been consistently wrong.”
He was correct in his prediction that the models were over-predicting!
Really??? Says who? The drug companies that pushed these vaccines without performing double blind studies and their government shill mouthpiece the CDC?
Please site the peer reviewed studies performed that compare the difference in death rates between those vaccinated and those not vaccinated.
I guarantee you will not find one but what you will find is the drug companies claiming “we have studied our product and found it to not only be lifesaving but miraculously there are absolutely no side effects ever! Go out and shoot up your babies and your grandparents today!
You DID provide ‘experts’ in your initial rebuttal.
You provided kennedy ‘experts’.
This is on you buddy.
You’re under the impression that at least one branch of the kennedy family isn’t comprised of idiots.
LOL.
Lol a prediction occurs BEFORE an event. Fauci walked back the prediction after they were proven incorrect.
“maybe POTUS is allowing the presstitutes and dems to lionize Fauci before he pulls the rug out from under him and Gates.”
In the WH briefing yesterday, I saw and heard Trump answering a feud-mongering fake reporter’s question about Fraudci’s statement of “a lot more testing required”.
Trump’s firm and repeated answer: I DON’T agree with him (Fauci)!!!
I haven’t heard this type of openly objecting to the scientists before.
You’re right. Something is changing very soon.
Fauci probably shot Seth Rich himself.
I wouldn’t put it past him.
Deep State errand boy.
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