The Biden administration censored two of my books on vaccines

When I recently post by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, which read: “In response to a subpoena from @Judiciary GOP, @Amazon has disclosed the 43 book titles it censored due to pressure from the Biden White House.” I clicked on the link out of curiosity.

Imagine my surprise when I found two of my books on the list: Plague: A scientist’s fearless quest for the truth about human retroviruses, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), autism, and other diseases, as well as Vaccinated: How science lost its soul in autism. Even more surprising was that they had performed twice pest — for the original 2014 hardcover edition and the 2017 paperback edition.

You need to Really hate this book.

Jordan tweeted: “Whether you love or hate the books on this list, no bookstore should censor books because of the power of the government.”

One of the crazy things about their censorship of this thick, 417-page book is that it takes the position that many chronic diseases are the result of immune deficiency due to long-term, low-level viral infection with a recently discovered retrovirus called XMRV. The book was not an anti-virus book and was actually co-authored with a government scientist, Dr. Judy Mikovits, who has been known for her work in virology for 20 years. The book was richly referenced with hundreds of footnotes.

Viruses that jump to humans

But what probably most aroused the ire of the Biden administration was our claim that XMRV, a mouse virus that had recently jumped to the human population, most likely made that jump because biological mouse tissue was used in the production of many human vaccines.

We suspected that the widespread use of animal tissue to produce human vaccines was promoting a process called zoonosis, in which animal viruses adapted to and infected humans, leading to the most devastating epidemics in human history.

Perhaps it was because of our deep understanding of a plague, Covid-19, that the Biden administration feared the questions Dr. Mikovits and I asked from the beginning of the Covid crisis. We questioned the government’s implausible story of a bat virus rapidly adapting to humans, an event highly unlikely in nature.

Vaccine linked to autism?

The second of my books on the list, Vaccinated: How science lost its soul in autismran to 376 pages with hundreds of footnotes and was based on whistleblower documents I obtained from the office of Republican Representative William Posey of Florida. The whistleblower was a vaccine researcher at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Dr. William Thompson, and he claimed that the CDC’s own study showed that prior administration of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine correlated with an increased risk of autism, particularly among black boys. If true, the number of black men harmed by the MMR vaccine far exceeds the horrific victims of the Tuskegee Experiment. This experiment ran from 1932 to 1972 and was conducted by the CDC to avoid treating black men with syphilis and to study the course of the disease.

The most dramatic claim in Thompson’s report is that CDC scientists manipulated the numbers to cover up the catastrophic harm done to black boys. The study originally included about 210 black boys, but about 90 of them were excluded because they did not have a Georgia birth certificate, a change in the original study design. This allowed scientists to claim that while there was an increase in autism among black boys due to earlier administration of the MMR vaccine, it did not reach the level of clinical significance.

It’s no coincidence that nearly all of the books on Biden’s censorship list are about vaccines, and their authors have plenty of experience researching decades of medical malpractice. Many of us were among the first to publicly voice our skepticism about the Covid madness.

Books seek the truth

After finding out that my book was part of Biden’s ban, I was deeply disturbed for several hours.

It brought back memories of events from my childhood, when the FBI spied on and infiltrated antiwar and civil rights groups, pushing them toward radicalism and violence, or when Nixon had an enemies list of journalists.

For me, books are sacred, the purest essence of the author’s thoughts, and I believe they give us the foundation on which to make our best arguments when we seek the truth. I consider books to be the prelude to public debate, and so trying to censor a book is nothing short of a declaration of tyranny.

When you see injustice in one place, it opens your eyes to injustice in other places. I believe that real critique of power happens outside of politics, and that’s why I do my best to ensure equal opportunities.

A book I co-wrote that is not on the list is in many ways a critique of the Trump administration’s response to Covid. Presidential Takedown: How Anthony Fauci, the CDC, NIH and WHO conspired to bring down President Trump. This book was co-authored with Dr. Paul Alexander, President Donald Trump’s chief pandemic adviser from May 2020 to September 2020, when he clashed with Anthony Fauci over the latter’s argument that students should have been back in school in fall 2020. Although Trump’s instincts were correct — and he probably sought out opposing views more than any president in recent memory — in the end, his response to Covid differed little from a likely Democratic response. It was clear that Trump did not like the lockdowns, but he approved of them, and that is a lasting stain on his reputation.

My book, which is an exposé about the CIA, will be published in September: Twilight of the Shadow Government: How Transparency Will Kill the Deep StateCo-authored with Kevin Shipp, a 17-year CIA whistleblower, it details how the agency misled both political parties for decades.

The Biden administration’s censorship list is, to me, the first documented evidence that my own government views me as an enemy. But it probably won’t be the last. Whether that makes me a threat to democracy or one of its fiercest defenders, I’ll leave it to history to judge.

Kent Heckenlively, JD, is a lawyer, science teacher, and New York Times bestselling author whose books have sold more than half a million copies and been translated into several languages.