I’m going to share information which supports my thesis that Dr. Judy Mikovits is telling the truth. First, I want to stress some key points. There are key questions I’m sure all of us have asked: “Why are we being brainwashed to believe we’re not sick? Why is there so little research into this disease? Why has the British Government kept it’s findings about ME/CFS under lock and key until the year 2070?
I encourage everyone to ask these questions and keep asking them until we get answers. There’s a saying that if you keep an open mind you’ll find great things. In that spirit, I’m encouraging you to consider what answers to those questions could look like.
Next, I'm going to discuss odd statements from Simon Wessely. Before I do, I want to address anyone who thinks the Lipkin study couldn’t be skewed, when we just endured the PACE trial, which itself was a
skewed study.
Now, back to the topic, I was looking at odd behavior from government health agencies about ME/CFS, and viewing this in light of what Dr. Judy Mikovits is suggesting.
For the sake of U.K.government officials and Simon Wessely, I hope Dr. Judy Mikovits is right, because then they have a tangible, if unjustifiable, reason for all their abuse of CFS patients. Why abuse us!? Does the UK government just need to rough up sick people for yucks? Being a bureaucrat can’t be that boring!
This line of reasoning led me to do more research from a different angle. First, you readers may need some background information.
This press release from
the Whittemore Peterson Institute indicates that Gulf War Syndrome was also slated to be tested for XMRV.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110903133833/http://wpinstitute.org/xmrv/index.html
Another important fact is that CFS/ME is similar to Gulf War Syndrome (GWS):
http://www.bu.edu/today/2013/closing-in-on-a-medical-mystery/
ME/CFS is very similar to Gulf War Syndrome in terms of symptoms. I heard one report years ago which said civilians in Iraq after the Gulf War had an epidemic of CFS. Some people say that Gulf War Syndrome actually is ME/CFS, just under a different name. I don't know. There are similarities between ME and Gulf War Syndrome:
Here’s a quote from another article which shows the similarity between GWS and ME/CFS. It is from this website,
Phoenix Rising:
..A look at the other recommended CDMRP studies suggests that research interests in the disorders overlap significantly. Two of the “Consortium Development Projects’, each of which should recieve substantial funding in the future, are on topics (Brain-Immune Functioning/ Autonomic Nervous System Functioning, Central Neural Processing and Sleep) that would have fit perfectly in the ME/CFS State of the Knowledge Workshop last March Link to article:
http://phoenixrising.me/archives/5615/
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Gulf War Veterans
Gulf War Veterans who develop Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) do not have to prove a connection between their illnesses and service to be eligible to receive VA disability compensation. CFS must have emerged during active duty in the Southwest Asia theater of military operations or by December 31, 2016, and be at least 10 percent disabling.
Link:
https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/gulfwar/chronic-fatigue-syndrome.asp
Now I'm done with the background information and onto my discoveries. I used a different approach to test what Judy Mikovits is saying. I learned some very fascinating things! Initially, all I did was “google” Simon Wessely and vaccines. I read about his antics with the Gulf War Syndrome patients. Fun, fun, fun!
Gulf War Syndrome (GWS), was denied as real by our favorite ME/CFS denier, Simon Wessely.
I browsed some articles and I found Simon Wessely doing his usual spin on things but this time with vaccines and their link to GWS. He was a participant in a study which found a link between three vaccines being given at once to soldiers and the onset of GWS.
That study found proof that multiple vaccinations led to the onset of GWS. Yet, when the results proved a strong correlation between the receipt of multiple vaccines and GWS. Simon Wessely says in the conclusion of the study that vaccines didn’t cause GWS, that instead it was just stress. Wessely then glibly announces that the administration of multiple vaccines in veterans is perfectly safe. See the study here:
Study: “Role of vaccinations as risk factors for ill health in veterans of the Gulf war: cross sectional study” Matthew Hotopf, senior lecturer, Anthony David, codirector, Lisa Hull, research worker, Khalida Ismail, lecturer, Catherine Unwin, study coordinator, and Simon Wessely, codirector
Results
The response rate for the original survey was 70.4% (n=3284). Of these, 28% (923) had vaccine records. Receipt of multiple vaccines before deployment was associated with only one of the six health outcomes (post-traumatic stress reaction). By contrast five of the six outcomes (all but post-traumatic stress reaction) were associated with multiple vaccines received during deployment. The strongest association was for the multisymptom illness (odds ratio 5.0; 95% confidence interval 2.5 to 9.8).
Conclusion
“Among veterans of the Gulf war there is a specific relation between multiple vaccinations given during deployment and later ill health. Multiple vaccinations in themselves do not seem to be harmful but combined with the “stress” of deployment they may be associated with adverse health outcomes. These results imply that every effort should be made to maintain routine vaccines during peacetime.” link:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC27378/
How can Wessely attribute stress alone as the cause when a study shows that receiving multiple vaccines was a prerequisite for becoming ill with GWS? I think back to what Judy Mikovits saying that stress and hormones are triggers for the XMRV virus. So even if Wessely isn't doing his usual gaslighting, stress does worsen all viral infections. Maybe there you have your answer for how CFS worsens when people are stressed.
Let me reiterate that Dr. Judy Mikovits does not believe all vaccines are evil. Her only warnings about vaccines is overusing them, giving them at times the immune system is compromised, and and giving them to infants less than 3 months old. Mikovits says she's noticed a relationship between disease and how vaccines are administered. Giving multiple vaccines at once she criticizes as dangerous.
Isn’t it strange we find this practice being used during the Gulf War? Even stranger, that Simon Wessely is called into the fray to spin the findings of the study.
There's more evidence than just Simon Wessely twisting study results. The journal, Nature recently has published an article about the relationship to vaccines and the onset of GWS:
The science journal Nature confirms there was a link between vaccines and GWS:
“Admission on Gulf War vaccines spurs debate on medical records,”
https://www.nature.com/articles/36158
“Pressure in the United Kingdom for an overhaul of military medical research was reinforced last week by an admission from the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) that it had failed to heed warnings at the start of the Gulf War about the possible side-effects of a vaccine combination administered to British troops.
A report presented to the House of Commons by John Reid, the armed forces minister, confirms that a pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine was given to troops as an adjuvant for an anthrax vaccine, so that the latter took effect after seven instead of 32 weeks. Use of the pertussis vaccine in this way was highly experimental, relying on preliminary results from MOD-sponsored research at the Centre for Applied Microbiology Research (CAMR) at Porton Down, but was done to get troops out to the Gulf quickly.
But the report reveals that the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC) had warned the MOD, in a fax dated 21 December 1990, that in animal studies this combination caused “severe loss of condition and weight”. Although the MOD recorded receipt of the fax, no-one there could recall “or admitted to recalling the fax”, said Reid.
The revelations have also lent weight to suspicion that vaccinations might account for some of the purported symptoms of Gulf War syndrome. A recent paper, by Graham Rook and A. Zumla from University College London, suggests that multiple vaccinations may cause a large change in the immune response that could result in similar symptoms to those observed in Gulf War veterans (see The Lancet 349, 1831; 1997).
Circumstantial evidence pointing to vaccines as a cause for the syndrome also comes from the fact that no symptoms have been reported in French forces, who were not given the vaccines used by British and US troops.
If this difference is confirmed, it would be a “crucial epidemiological point”, says Simon Wessely, a researcher at King's College in London who is leading a study on Gulf War syndrome. But he adds: “I'm only prepared to accept this when there is evidence that the French have looked for [symptoms]; they haven't systematically looked yet.”.
Veterans need to be treated as a special group for research purposes, with particular health needs, he says. “Regardless of whether Gulf War syndrome exists or not, many veterans are bitter and disillusioned at the feeling there has been official disregard for their health.”
People have been saying that it was the vaccines given to soldiers in the Gulf War, both in Britain and the U.S. which made them sick. If it was depleted uranium at fault with GWS, it would be more logical to conclude that the symptoms should match for radiation sickness and not a CFS-like medical condition. I’ve watched some documentaries on Chernobyl and none of the residents there became ill with a CFS-like disease.
For further study, I’ll share more articles about Wessely and GWS:
“Assigned to investigate Gulf War Syndrome, Wessely came to believe that the same maladaptive processes working in ME/CFS are at play in Gulf War Syndrome.”
‘Instead Wessely favours psychological explanations for what he views to be a 'Gulf War health effect' which he believes to be caused by stress, specifically troops' anxiety about chemical weapons and vaccines, as well as misinformation about Gulf War Syndrome.[40] (Wikipedia)’ Link to quote:
https://www.healthrising.org/forums...-cbt-icon-calls-for-big-rituximab-trial.2727/
An article from The Independent:
”He (Simon Wessely)...though more cautious than his wife, he is more media-savvy… at the couple’s 25th wedding anniversary last year, their sons caused laughter when they summed up their parents’ relationship in a single word: “competitive.”
His competitiveness has got him into trouble in the past. His findings on chronic fatigue and Gulf War syndrome proved controversial because activists in both groups claimed that their symptoms had a biological cause – a virus in the case of chronic fatigue and vaccines, depleted uranium or smoke from oil fires in the case of Gulf War syndrome. Wessely argued that whatever the cause – which could not be determined in either condition – it was the treatment that mattered. Even if a virus was the original trigger of a patient’s fatigue, the challenge was how to tackle it.
link:
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...hose-with-depression-there-would-9924174.html