Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science

by Kent Heckenlively

During my time in jail, the people who engineered my arrest and harassment, the powerful Whittemore family of Nevada, had David running all over the place trying to release the hold on my bail. Despite a thorough police search of my residence, the notebooks in question suddenly appeared at my house on Monday evening, placed in a bag from my residence in Reno when I was fired in late September of 2011. Now I think I fully appreciate the desperation of my former employers, the Whittemores. Fire me on the 29th. Immediately lock down my lab and two offices. I had shown Harvey Whittemore what I believed to be the accurate sequences of XMRV in late August of 2011. Frank had that information, as well. Preventing me from accessing my notebooks, as has been done since I was fired, keeps me from having the information I need to defend myself. There are only two possibilities. The first possibility is I’m lying, and the police were incompetent when they searched my house during my arrest. The second is I’m telling the truth. Here are some facts I want you to consider. Charges were never brought against me in any court nor was any trial ever held. I’m not like one of those mobsters who say they’ve never been convicted, but they’ve sat through several trials where government lawyers did their best to convict the defendant. In fact, no prosecutor ever looked at the facts of the case at all. David was called by Harvey Whittemore and told if I did not find the notebooks I would remain in ...