The Betrayal and Sabotage of Hillary Johnson by the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Community

A brief excerpt about what happened to Hillary Johnson from The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up, a bestseller on Amazon available here.

     In the May 6 issue, Neenyah Ostrom wrote a piece about one of the great moments of betrayal in the history of CFS: “The largest chronic fatigue syndrome patient advocate group in the United States has, for all intents and purposes, declared war on the epidemic’s most prominent author over the subject that seems to draw the line in the sand between those who are willing to tell the whole truth about CFS and those who are not: contagion. In its most recently-published CFIDS Chronicle (Spring 1996), the CFIDS Association of America (in Charlotte, North Carolina) has mounted a merciless attack upon Hillary Johnson’s new book, Osler’s Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic. Instead of celebrating the publication by a major publishing house of an important book describing in the minutest detail the history of the disease that the CFIDS Association has been attempting to publicize for nearly a decade, the organization has marshalled all its experts to attack Johnson because she writes that there is evidence to prove that CFS is contagious. In the spring issue of the CFIDS Chronicle, the Association consulted numerous physicians and researchers—most of whom are either government employees or receive government funding for their ‘AIDS’ or CFS research—and asked if they considered CFS to be contagious. Only one was brave enough to answer in the affirmative. Never mind that the CFIDS Association has distributed tens of thousands of dollars—collected from sick people, their families, and concerned individuals—for research to identify a causative agent of CFS. Much of this money has been spent investigating various viruses; considerable amounts were invested over the past few years to investigate a retrovirus as a possible cause of CFS.”