And there’s the part that I can’t wrap my head around. I can understand some maniacal, evil son of a bitch doing something like that, but why would any decent, right minded person do it ?
How could a righteous, decent person not know that they are dancing with satan ? And, potentially condemning the masses of society to pain, suffering and in many cases, probable death. What ? Do people think it looks good on a resume or something?
By the time you've got someone smart enough to get a PhD in a field like virology, an astonishingly large number are sociopathic, narcissistic, and a whole 'nother basket of disorders.
I'm not looking to dispute the video in general, nor do I wish to discredit the claims of Dr Judy Mikovits by attacking her character. But the following appears to be true:
- She was arrested with reason for stealing materials and equipment when fired from a lab. She was not convicted and so she is not guilty of a crime, but assuming that this is the arrest that she mentions in the video (and I didn't hear her mention any specific dates), she is being willfully deceitful.
- She has a history of professional disagreement with Dr Fauci. It's a small field and so this is to be expected, particularly amongst the type of people I mentioned above (brilliant sociopathic narcissists). But there is probably an ax that needs grinding.
- She has a history of being professionally discredited in her field; I believe both in HIV research (the source of her disagreement with Fauci) and with research into chronic fatigue syndrome (she made a claim about the involvement of a particular virus, which was supposedly later disproven). Virology is a complex field and I'm sure that researchers make honest mistakes. What isn't clear is whether she made one of those honest mistakes, or if she got sloppy and/or hungry for attention.
- She claims to have "[taught] Ebola to infect human cells" while working in a lab in 1999. The discovery of Ebola goes back to the mid-1970s, I believe. This discrepancy is not clarified in the video.
The basic claims of the video may very well be true - viruses may not simply "jump" from animals to humans (which makes suspicious any number of diseases from SAR to Ebola to AIDS); the virus may have been created in a lab; Fauci may have interests that do not aligned with those of the public; vaccines made from animal tissue may be harmful; billionaires may find a way to make billions more from this crisis. All those "mays" can be replaced with was/will/are as proper grammar would dictate if backed up with strong evidence.But I don't think this video makes the strongest possible cause, because it relies on the testimony of a single witness, makes use of misleading narration (the one starting at 11:28 is intended to sound like an mainstream news broadcast voiceover), and it never presents an opposing viewpoint which is then careful deconstructed.
In short, it appears to be aimed at those who are already infected with a far more dangerous disease - confirmation bias. Those are not the people who need to be convinced that this whole thing is a massive conspiracy, because they are already convinced. The skeptics and the public at large require persuasion, and that's much more difficult work. Hopefully someone else comes along with a stronger effort.
