The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-Up

How a Little Newspaper Solved the Biggest Scientific and Political Mystery of Our Time

De: Charles Ortleb

Narrado por: Larry Wayne

If you saw Afflicted, the documentary series on Netflix, and now think chronic fatigue syndrome is a fake disease that only affects "drama queens", you are sadly mistaken. As you will learn in Charles Ortleb's historically important audiobook, chronic fatigue syndrome is a potentially fatal illness that is contagious and linked to a deadly virus now suspected to be the cause of many immunological illnesses. The fact that doctors and nurses often come down with chronic fatigue syndrome should have made it clear long ago that chronic fatigue syndrome is contagious.

The fact that sexual partners of chronic fatigue syndrome patients contract the illness should also have made it clear it is contagious, as well as the fact that entire families and friends have come down with it. And, as this audiobook makes clear, the fact that the pets of people sick with chronic fatigue syndrome also get the illness should have made it painfully obvious that the world is dealing with a unique and terrifying pathogen.

This is an audiobook based on the investigative reporting of New York Native, a brilliant and uncompromising little newspaper that pioneered the coverage of both AIDS and chronic fatigue syndrome. Back in the '80s, Rolling Stone said Charles Ortleb's newspaper deserved a Pulitzer Prize, and Randy Shilts gave the newspaper high praise in his best seller And the Band Played On.

This is a must-hear audiobook for anyone who wants to know the disturbing history of the chronic fatigue syndrome epidemic. Why have the CDC and NIH pretended that the communicable disease fraudulently called "chronic fatigue syndrome" is a mystery for over three decades? By the end of this audiobook of inconvenient truths, the answer is crystal clear.

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CFS...sort of.

As someone who lost everything to CFS 11 years ago and has seen medical doctors be unable to do anything, I know I should give this book 5 stars all around. However, I just can't. I applaud the author's willingness to question dogma and those touted as experts (whether they are or not.) I appreciate that he understands that CFS is a genuine disease, not something that "drama queens" engage in. It makes sense to me that people afflicted with HIV or AIDS can also be afflicted with CFS.

However, the author makes claims that I severely question. He claims that HIV, AIDS, and CFS are linked. However, there are distinct symptoms associated with AIDS and HIV that aren't associated with CFS. This book isn't nearly as much about CFS as it is about HIV/AIDS. Honestly, this book needed a different title to underscore the fact that CFS is more of a background theme.

It's possible to read or listen to something and not be entirely convinced. This book could have, and should have been shorter. The author needed to make stronger points linking CFS and HIV/AIDS together to make his point. He claims that CFS is "contagious." I haven't come to that conclusion from my own lived experience or reading about it elsewhere.

However, this book was published when it was published, so it doesn't have the luxury of the data available today. Anyone interested in HIV, AIDS, gay advocacy, the intersection of healthcare, science, morality, and politics with a little bit of CFS in the background could learn from this book.

Another medical coverup

Having gone through the recent “Covid pandemic” and seeing how information was declared miss information it is so discouraging to see that we have been “here” before. Can we not learn from past mistakes? It’s shocking to see the coverups and lies that the public was fed on almost a daily basis. I remember the famous saying that “doing the same thing and expecting different results is insanity“. So very discouraging, but this book was extremely well done, thoroughly researched, and documented, and so very sad. I remember another saying that was “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me“

Highly recommend!

Fascinating and eye-opening. I was spellbound. A powerful expose of the politics of science, and relevant to anyone concerned about their health. As a former and earlier sufferer of CFS (aka CFIDS or ME) I am one of the few lucky ones to have escaped its highly debilitating grip, and while it's been more than three decades since, I will never forget the horror of that disease. I learned then how useless the medical profession can be (and still is) and how arrogant and self righteous in its ignorance. Through this book (as well as another, "Plague") I now more fully understand how outright corrupt the scientific community is at its highest levels and how devastating that corruption is on the lives of everyone in this country. Kudos to Charles Ortleb, his colleagues, and his brave little paper "The Native" in their pursuit of truth about this disease and its clear connection to the concurrent AIDS epidemic. A must read for anyone who has or knows someone with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (or whatever current name is trending.) You may learn more than you think you want to know, but to those who suffer, all that really matters is a cure and only the truth can lead to that. Find out with this excellent and well written, well documented book.

wow

did you know asf virus affects all life forms from insects to ppl? it can be acute causing aids or milder causing fatigue syndrome or the slowest causing illness ie aging. i think this might be the virus killing us all. dr. sinclair postulated that aging is a desease and now i think this might be the cause!!!!

Quite informative

The information was presented in a convincing manor. It could be true, but the view is a bit myopic and not enough biology is included to support the theory.

Too much information, look elsewhere

The author has certainly done their research. So much so that it’s a real challenge to get to and take away any essential points. “The more you talk, the less I hear” type thing. In dealing with various public health officials at the official agencies, primarily the CDC, well of course he’s encountered charlatans, psychopaths, and inept ignorant bad actors in the upper echelons of power. While it’s useful to confirm things like this as we move through this pandemic, an entire very long chapter dedicated to angry vendetta ranting about 1 well-paid decision making poser doesn’t help the listener understand more about MECFS. I get it. The guy is a crook. The agency isn’t about better medicine. Let’s move on, The writing is full of detail, but again, for this listener it’s too much. One finds themselves trying to skip through sections of numbered but not titled hour long chapters to get to a meaningful takeaway. It’s impossible. I’m sorry I bought this book. The narrative wanders. But I’m not going to wrestle with Amazon for a refund. At the same time I wonder - isn’t there a department at Audible who looks at these products before offering them for sale? What happened to editing? I had no way of knowing that chapters weren’t titled (a format which I think is 100% top priority necessary especially for an research oriented audiobook). All that said, if you’re able to get to it, the must be some great information in this book, I think. Sure, there must be…right? I’ll be quite angry if there isn’t. This book Should be 6 hours long instead of 18 hours long. And I’ll be buying another book on the same subject because practically speaking, this one useless due to it’s needle in a haystack build.