Francis W. Ruscetti, PhD has had a lifelong love affair
with scientific discovery and participated in several seminal
discoveries. In 1975, while a fellow at University of Pittsburgh,
he discovered Interleukin-5. In 1978 at National Cancer Institute
(NCI), Dr. Ruscetti's team discovered interleukin 2 (T-Cell Growth
factor), for which they won a team award from the Society for
Immunotherapy of Cancer. In 1980, the team he directed at the NCI
isolated the first known disease-causing human retrovirus, HTLV-1,
opening the field of human retrovirology, which would rise to
critical importance during the HIV-AIDS epidemic. During the 1980s,
his team identified IL-15, an additional immune response regulator.
In hematology, his team demonstrated that human cord blood cells
proliferate continuously in vitro and TGF Beta functions as a
bidirectional regulator of the hematopoietic stem cell. These
discoveries have all been the basis for the development of useful
therapeutics.
In 2013, the IL-2 manuscript was recognized by the American
Association of Immunologists as the second most important paper
published in their Journal in the past hundred years. Similarly,
the HTLV-1 manuscript was cited as one of the thirty most important
papers in the hundred years of the publication in Proceedings of
the National Academy of Science. Dr. Ruscetti received the
"Distinguished Service Award" from the National Institutes of
Health. In order to develop new antiviral drugs, Ruscetti and Dr.
Mikovits work on understanding the contribution of inflammatory
pathways in disease, specifically how retroviruses dysregulate DNA
methylation. In 2009, theyidentified a new family of retroviruses,
the XMRVs from patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).
After thirty-nine years at the National Cancer Institute, Dr.
Ruscetti retired in 2013, with more than 325 publications. Since
his retirement, he has been consulting with patients and their
families, continuing his lifelong effort to understand the process
of chronic disease development and develop therapeutic treatment
strategies.
Dr. Judy A. Mikovitsspent twenty years at the National
Cancer Institute, working with Dr. Francis W. Ruscetti, one of the
founding fathers of human retrovirology, and has coauthored more
than forty scientific papers. She co-founded and directed the first
neuroimmune disease institute using a systems biology approach in
2006. Dr. Mikovits lives in Southern California with her husband,
David.
Kent Heckenlively, JD, is an attorney, science teacher, and
New York Times bestselling author. During college Heckenlively
worked for US Senator Pete Wilson, and in law school he was a
writer and an editor of the school's law review and spent his
summers working for the US Attorney's Office in San Francisco. Kent
and his wife Linda live in Northern California with their two
children, Jacqueline and Ben.
“A science book discusses the deplorable state of the field in the
United States, the result of bias, greed, and governmental
dysfunction. Ruscetti was skeptical of authority in all its forms
from an early age and turned to a career in science, hoping that
intellectual irreverence would find a home there. But he
encountered a professional world dominated by naked careerism,
blind dogma, propaganda, and bottomless vindictiveness. The author
enjoyed a brilliantly accomplished career as a virologist, working
for decades at the National Cancer Institute, and was part of the
team that identified the first pathogenic human retrovirus, HTLV-1.
While studying AIDS in the 1980s, he worked closely with Anthony
Fauci—Ruscetti found him to be as mendacious as he was ambitious.
The author claims that Fauci’s neglect and even repression of
important research likely slowed down the fight against the deadly
disease. Ruscetti convincingly blames governmental malfeasance for
establishing a system that permits bureaucrats like Fauci and
Robert Gallo—one of the author’s supervisors—to prosper: ‘People
like Gallo and Fauci thrive because of a system put in place by
President Richard Nixon, in which a few leading government
scientists were given unprecedented control over funding decisions,
while at the same time creating a subservient class of researchers
who must vie for their approval.’ Mikovits tells a similar story,
if more personally harrowing—she claims that she was persecuted for
her work demonstrating the contamination of blood and vaccine
supplies . . . Mikovits’ remembrance is a powerful one and confirms
Ruscetti’s account of the scientific community as one plagued by
incompetence and venality. Especially during a time in which the
authority of that community is a matter of dispute, the two
scientists’ book—written with Heckenlively—is an important
contribution to a gathering debate. An engrossing exposé of
scientific practice in America.”
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
“The final book of the plandemic trilogy is one of the most
entertaining, thanks to Judy’s mentor Frank Ruscetti’s deep
personal insights on Anthony Fauci. Many other experts are
interviewed that bring new light to the unnecessary COVID pandemic.
The book reads like a fast-paced thriller and offers a view into
the halls of scientific inquiry to which few people are ever
privy.”
—DR. MERCOLA, founder of Mercola.com, the most-visited natural
health site on the internet for the past twenty years
“Mikovits pulls back the curtain on the twisted world of corrupt,
criminal ‘science’ that parades as authoritative fact. If you
thought the institution of science was run by honorable, ethical
people trying to help humanity, your worldview is about to be
shattered by the horrifying truth revealed in Ending Plague.”
—MIKE ADAMS, the Health Ranger, founder of NaturalNews.com
“Most of us have long taken for granted the ability to trust our
medical science establishment—until 2020, the year that shattered
that confidence. The public health authorities suddenly seemed
opaque; their motives suspect. Ending Plague explains what has gone
wrong and what must be done to right the ship of medical
science.”
—DENNIS PRAGER, radio host of The Dennis Prager Show and writer
“With the renowned trifecta of Dr. Frank Ruscetti, Dr. Judy
Mikovits, and legal expert/author Kent Heckenlively, Ending Plague
is one of the most important books to study for anyone who cares
about health and freedom.”
—MIKKI WILLIS, investigative filmmaker, Plandemic, and author of
Plandemic: The Incredible True Story about the Most Banned
Documentary in History
“Kent Heckenlively’s brilliant style, combined with the scientific
backbone provided by Drs. Frank Ruscetti and Judy Mikovits, has
created a ‘mustread’ second bestseller in Ending Plague. It exposes
dirty tricks by Big Pharma and scientific research failures, where
no stone is unturned while offering a path of hope for science to
regain its lost posture as a beacon of truth for humanity.”
—MAX SWAFFORD, author, editor, educator
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