By Kent Heckenlively

I want you to look to the left of this article and you will see a link to a YouTube video which reads, "CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHORS OF PLAGUE."  Click on it now and watch all two minutes and fifty-three seconds of it.

Really.  Do it now.  I'll just check my e-mail while you're doing that.  (Imagine sound of me whistling and a computer keyboard tapping.)

Finished?  Good.  Let's talk.

I know that many of us are having very difficult lives and can't imagine that anybody else can fully understand our suffering.  You're wrong.  There are others who suffer.  Patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) live very difficult lives as do the few brave scientists like Dr. Judy Mikovits who have struggled to solve the mysteries of that condition, as well as autism.

And you know what they've gotten for it?  The patients have been called crazy, and Dr. Mikovits has endured character assassination, unlawful incarceration, financial ruin, and professional exile for fighting for the truth.  We are all victims of the same oppressor.

But I'm not writing this just to tell you how terrible things are in today's world.  You know that.  What I'm giving all of us is a way to fight.  The book, "PLAGUE - One Scientist's Intrepid Search for the Truth about Human Retroviruses, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS, Autism and Other Diseases" is nothing less than a guided missile of truth streaking towards the very heart of an arrogant CDC and NIH and the scientific journals controlled by them.  It's also a helluva read which will attract people outside of our advocacy communities.

Did you hear what I said?  It will attract people OUTSIDE OF OUR COMMUNITIES!  It is a behind the scenes story of out-of-control agencies and journals who believe their misdeeds will never be revealed.  In writing it I often felt like I was some secret agent going behind the Iron Curtain of the scientific community to talk to leading researchers who would tell me what was really going on.