That slur piece on Mikovits only has one varifiable accusation; that retroviruses are found in vaccines.  Not only are retroviruses ubiquitous, and cause millions of dollars of loss in the development of vaccines, work has been going on to produce culture medium to avoid this problem.

I dont know how flaky Mikovits is.  We cant go on unsubstantiated hit pieces like that one on liebertpub.   In my humble opinion, she seems a little mentally hyper, as if her mind is covering too many things at once.  We have to recognize that everyones cognitive system works differently.  An extreme example is the savant syndrome.  Often geniuses or people in the forefront are reviled by their stick in the mud peers.  Nobody is 100% right

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Endogenous retroviruses as potential hazards for vaccines
Takayuki Miyazawa

 the use of cell culture to produce recombinant proteins is still susceptible to contamination with viruses. These contaminations cost millions of dollars to recover from, Viral contamination in biologic manufacture and implications for emerging therapies
Paul W. Barone

mouse cells or human cell lines used for vaccine production could have been contaminated with a replicating variant of the XMRV precursors encoded by the mouse genome.
Of Mice and Men: On the Origin of XMRV
Antoinette Cornelia van der Kuyl,
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109487/


Retroviruses highly similar to MLLVs (xenotropic murine retrovirus related virus (XMRV) and Human Mouse retrovirus-like RetroViruses (HMRVs)) reported from patients suffering from prostate cancer (PC) and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) raise the possibility that also humans have been infected.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22315600/


Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are integrated as DNA proviruses in the genomes of all mammalian species. Several ERVs are replication-competent and produced as fully infectious viruses from host cell. Thus, live-attenuated vaccines and biological substances have been prepared using the cell lines which may produce ERV. Indeed, we recently reported that several commercial live-attenuated vaccines for pets were contaminated with the infectious feline endogenous retrovirus, RD-114. A new approach to establish a cell line with reduced risk of endogenous retroviruses
Aiko Fukuma

Risks linked to endogenous retroviruses for vaccine production: a general overview
Marie Dewannieux

Isolation of an infectious endogenous retrovirus in a proportion of live attenuated vaccines for pets
Takayuki Miyazawa

Contamination of live attenuated vaccines with an infectious feline endogenous retrovirus (RD-114 virus)

Rokusuke Yoshikawa


On 8/23/2021 5:16 AM, Cyndiann Phillips wrote:
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/AID.2020.0095 <https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/AID.2020.0095> May is the month when we and colleagues in our close-knit family of retrovirus researchers usually descend on the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories on Long Island for a week of camaraderie and intense scientific discussion. It was at this meeting and others that the full scope of Judy Mikovits fraud and malfeasance became clear to the research community, so clear that we came to expect, if not hope that we would never have to hear her name again. Yet here she was popping up all over the right-wing news, reeling off a story of how COVID-19 was the result of animal experimentation in the development of vaccines, and how vaccines themselves were contaminated with mouse retroviruses that were causing untold ills. Naturally this information, and her research in particular, was being suppressed by Big Pharma and the “corrupt mainstream scientists” on their payroll. And the villain of the piece is none other than Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and long-suffering clinical advisor to Trump's COVID-19 Taskforce. The trouble with this conspiracy theory is that not only is it demonstrably untrue, much of it derives from a scientific fraud that Mikovits and coworkers perpetrated in 2009.

If you don't read this entire article to the end you are a fraud too.