Fear of the Invisible

by Janine Roberts

This book takes its readers on a journey into the very heart of the hunt for viruses - to the key experiments originally performed to prove that these invisibly small particles are the cause of diseases previously blamed on toxins or bacteria and into the latest research. It sheds light on the extraordinary assumptions that underlay much of this research - and on the vaccines that developed from this. The author, an investigative journalist who has researched and produced investigative films for the BBC, American and Australian television, was asked by parents with children severely ill after vaccination, to discover if the medical authorities were hiding anything from them. She agreed, but had no idea how long this search would take. She expected at best to uncover a small degree of contamination. On the ensuing decade-long journey of discovery, she learnt it is not just the added mercury that we have to worry about. She discovered that the top government scientists admit to colleagues that vaccines are contaminated with viruses from chickens, humans and monkeys, with RNA and DNA fragments, with 'cellular degradation products', and possibly 'oncogenes and prions.' They report alarmingly that it is impossible to commercially purify vaccines. They express great concerns, but the public is not told despite the possible consequences for long-term public health. A recent US court decision has linked autism with vaccine contamination. The author cites her sources by name - and gives references and Internet links where they are available. I She reveals evidence that the World Health Organisation has discovered the MMR vaccine is contaminated with chicken leukosis virus, but has decided not to tell the public of this, and to continue to make the vaccine with eggs from contaminated chickens. She reports US biowarfare researchers tried to create new agents to destroy our immune systems - and worked on a bacterium to make it a hospital superbug. Did they manage to create HIV? A senior professor told her that the vaccine program was so contaminated that HIV might well have spread though it without any need for military intervention. She set out to find the evidence to resolve this, and to learn how HIV apparently spread so far and fast. She needed to know more about this virus so went to the foundation research widely held today to have found HIV and proved it caused AIDS. She was then rocked to discover that this same research was investigated for scientific fraud for a five year period by powerful US scientific institutions and by Congress, . Why is this not widely known? She found their reports and discovered they found major errors in this research, some so serious that these made it impossible to repeat these experiments and thus to verify them! She reveals the evidence unearthed - reproducing key documents so the reader can assess them for themselves. This is explosive material. In the final part of this book the author reports recent research that is revolutionising biology and offering much hope for the future. These new developments shed new light on the relationships between our cells and viruses. They are not necessarily enemies. Readers may find these new developments radically change the ideas they have held about viruses since childhood. This book has over 500 references and includes several documents unearthed under Freedom of Information legislation. `It has a scientific glossary and is fully indexed..

Genres: Health, Science

310 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2008

Reviews

[Lana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow - I don't even know what to think about medical science now. What Roberts uncovered in her investigation of the scientific literature is absolutely incredible. I knew things were bad (with how and what is incentivized) in medical research, but what she uncovered, just completely rocks everything that I thought about medicine.

[Alison C · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has been a revelation for me. The author has described the bigger picture in which the information we've been given by the media / education system over recent decades (presented as absolute truth) sits. The book allows us to see pieces of information from a different perspective and even though there are still plenty more questions to be answered, I have ended up with a fundamentally different understanding. Janine does not try to claim that X is completely wrong and Y is completely right. She shows the importance of being open minded to where the evidence points, to the importance of nuance, to the importance of protecting the scientific spaces where proper debate can take place without fear or personal repercussions. The book shows the distorting and ultimately anti-science effect that the big sources of research money play in modern day science. The book was written 13 years ago but it has such a relevance and poignancy for what has happened in the world since the covid 19 pandemic broke out - particularly in terms of the power of the medical and political establishment to control the public understanding of the situation we find ourselves in. One small example from the book I want to mention is the position that Thabo Mbeki, president of South Africa between 1999 an 2008, took on AIDS theory. After studying the science himself with an open mind, he was an outspoken critic of the HIV theory of AIDS and was committed to bringing together scientists from different schools of thought to get a better understanding of the subject. However, I remember at the time the power of the media narrative which left me with the strong impression that his position was hugely harmful to the people of South Africa and that he was abusing his position, that he was 'anti-science'. I can see now that he was in fact a leader of courage, willing to stand up against overwhelming forces precisely because he cared about the people. Read the book and see what you think. The book is very detailed and it took me quite a while to read but I found it un-put-downable. That in itself is quite a feat: to be able to write on a technical subject in such a digestible way. I am full of admiration for Janine Roberts in writing this book. I am inspired by Janine's dedication to this subject which clearly required a huge amount of research over years. I was sad to find that she is no longer with us but I will now seek out her other books. And I will be discussing what I learnt through reading this book with my colleagues, friends and family for many years to come, I am quite sure. And I do of course highly recommend this book to others.

[Eric · Rating 1 out of 5]

An antivaccine screed by a "journalist" who thinks viruses are our friends, not to worry.

If you identify with germ theory denialism and wacked-out conspiracy theories, this is the book for you.