The Early Years of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up
The Early Years of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up

Author: Charles Ortleb

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-02-15

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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The book contains the first six chapters of The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up: How a Little Newspaper Solved the Biggest Scientific and Political Mystery of Our Time.If you want to know the truth about the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic, you need to discover the brilliant investigative work Neenyah Ostrom did for a decade. Starting in 1988, Ostrom reported on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for a newspaper called New York Native. What her reporting uncovered about the true nature of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic will shock you.In The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up, Charles Ortleb recounts his newspaper's struggle to get the media and the mainstream medical establishment to pay attention to Ostrom's pioneering investigative reporting on the science and politics of the devastating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic.By the time you finish Ortleb's stunning memoir, you will understand why the Centers for Disease Control has been unwilling to tell the public the truth about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The CDC does not want the public to know that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a transmissible illness linked to a virus called HHV-6 that affects every system in the body. They have covered up the illness for so many decades that the neglected virus is totally out of control. Now it is causing a long list of other illnesses and many cancers.Nobody in the world covered the emergence of HHV-6 and its link to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome more than Neenyah Ostrom. Ostrom's decade of reporting on HHV-6 was recently vindicated by this statement from scientists at the University of Wurzburg: "While HHV-6 was long believed to have no negative impact on human health, scientists today increasingly suspect the virus of causing various diseases such as multiple sclerosis or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Recent studies even suggest that HHV-6 might play a role in the pathogenesis of several diseases of the central nervous system such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression or Alzheimer's."The big question about Neenyah Ostrom and New York Native is this: How many lives would have been saved if the scientific establishment and the mainstream media had paid more attention to Neenyah Ostrom's reporting on HHV-6 and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in New York Native?One day, if there is any justice in the world, the CDC and the medical establishment will apologize for not paying attention to Neenyah Ostrom's groundbreaking work on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome that Charles Ortleb published in New York Native. That would be a fitting end to one of journalism's greatest David and Goliath stories.

The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up
The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up

Author: Charles Ortleb

Publisher:

Published: 2018-10-19

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9781513642178

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The definitive history of the intertwined Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and AIDS epidemics by the first publisher to devote a newspaper to their coverage.

The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-Up Volumes One and Two
The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-Up Volumes One and Two

Author: Charles Ortleb

Publisher:

Published: 2021-10-10

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 9780998370958

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This volume contains the first two books about the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic by the first publisher to devote a newspaper to the coverage of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and its relationship to the AIDS epidemic.The first book is the detailed history of Charles Ortleb's newspaper, New York Native, the only publication to tirelessly raise questions about everything the Centers for Disease Control was doing and not doing about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.The second book contains a critical analysis of the forces and personalities that contributed to a cover-up of an epidemic that now threatens everyone's health.

The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up
The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up

Author: Charles Ortleb

Publisher:

Published: 2018-08-29

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781726379298

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The second volume of The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up puts Charles Ortleb in the same league as historians like William L. Shirer and political thinkers like Hannah Arendt. Inspired by Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism," Ortleb weaves together a tapestry of the forces and personalities that played a major role in hiding the truth about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and AIDS from the public. He challenges most of the conventional wisdom about the science and politics of the two epidemics. Anyone who wants to know why the Centers for Disease Control cannot tell the truth about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome needs to know what the Centers for Disease Control is hiding about AIDS and why. Ortleb's second volume is uncompromising as it inexorably lays out the details of a narrative that will disturb anyone who is concerned about public health and the integrity of science and medicine.

New York Native
New York Native

Author: Charles Ortleb

Publisher:

Published: 2020-02

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13:

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From 1980-1997, a little newspaper in New York found itself at the center of one of the darkest chapters in the history of science and medicine. In Rolling Stone, David Black said New York Native deserved a Pulitzer Prize for its pioneering reporting on the AIDS epidemic. The number of important stories New York Native broke about AIDS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and AIDS fraud should have guaranteed several Pulitzer Prizes. Even Randy Shilts acknowledged the New York Native's unique coverage of AIDS in And the Band Played On. But the uncompromising nature of New York Native's investigative reporting ultimately made it a thorn in the establishment's side. The moral of the New York Native story is that no important and independent journalism goes unpunished. Books by Larry Kramer, David France, and others have disparaged and distorted the history and legacy of New York Native. It's time to correct the record.New York Native contains two previously published books by Charles Ortleb, the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of New York Native. The first book, The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up, is a detailed history of New York Native's coverage of AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The second book, The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up Volume Two, is Mr. Ortleb's continuation of New York Native's eye-opening reporting and critical thinking about the connection between AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.In 1989, Katie Leishman wrote in Rolling Stone, "It is undeniable that many major stories were Ortleb's months and sometimes years before mainstream journalism took them up." The two books In New York Native are dramatic evidence that Mr. Ortleb has not lost his touch or relevance and is still a leading intellectual and journalistic figure in one of the most consequential events of our time.

Osler's Web
Osler's Web

Author: Hillary Johnson

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780140263473

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Tenth year anniversary edition with an update by the author "A relentless, meticulous, and highly persuasive expos by a journalist who spent nine years investigating the medical research establishment's failure to take seriously chronic fatigue syndrome... In a chronology that runs from 1984 to 1994, Johnson crams in fact after telling fact, building up a dismaying picture of a rigid and haughty biomedical research establishment unwilling or unable to respond to the challenge of a multifaceted disease for which a causative agent has yet to be found... A compelling, well-documented account..."Kirkus Reviews

Beyond Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Beyond Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2015-03-16

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0309316928

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Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are serious, debilitating conditions that affect millions of people in the United States and around the world. ME/CFS can cause significant impairment and disability. Despite substantial efforts by researchers to better understand ME/CFS, there is no known cause or effective treatment. Diagnosing the disease remains a challenge, and patients often struggle with their illness for years before an identification is made. Some health care providers have been skeptical about the serious physiological - rather than psychological - nature of the illness. Once diagnosed, patients often complain of receiving hostility from their health care provider as well as being subjected to treatment strategies that exacerbate their symptoms. Beyond Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome proposes new diagnostic clinical criteria for ME/CFS and a new term for the illness - systemic exertion intolerance disease(SEID). According to this report, the term myalgic encephalomyelitis does not accurately describe this illness, and the term chronic fatigue syndrome can result in trivialization and stigmatization for patients afflicted with this illness. Beyond Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome stresses that SEID is a medical - not a psychiatric or psychological - illness. This report lists the major symptoms of SEID and recommends a diagnostic process.One of the report's most important conclusions is that a thorough history, physical examination, and targeted work-up are necessary and often sufficient for diagnosis. The new criteria will allow a large percentage of undiagnosed patients to receive an accurate diagnosis and appropriate care. Beyond Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome will be a valuable resource to promote the prompt diagnosis of patients with this complex, multisystem, and often devastating disorder; enhance public understanding; and provide a firm foundation for future improvements in diagnosis and treatment.

Truth to Power
Truth to Power

Author: Charles Ortleb

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781492370772

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This book was republished in 2018 with the title "The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up." Charles Ortleb's Truth to Power takes you inside the New York Native, one of the most unique and consequential newspapers of the twentieth century. Shortly after starting his small gay New York City newspaper in late 1980, one of the biggest scientific and political stories of our time fell into his lap in the form of the AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic. What he did with that story has secured his newspaper's place in history. Under his guidance, a succession of intrepid journalists did some of their greatest work uncovering the crucial facts about the labyrinthine epidemic. Ortleb made the decision to follow the facts wherever they led. His team of uncompromising investigative reporters inevitably stepped on the toes of the most powerful people in the medical and political establishment. Perhaps not surprisingly, the latter fought back by seeking to discredit the New York Native and even, in time, close its doors. But Ortleb stood his ground for as long as possible and as a result the world now can have a clear understanding of the relationship of AIDS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and HHV-6, the transmissible virus that now threatens everyone on this planet. Anyone who has wondered why the medical establishment will not tell the truth about the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic will find the disturbing answer in Truth to Power. What makes Ortleb so unusual is that not only did he have the natural instincts of a journalist, editor and publisher, but he was also a poet, a fiction writer and a budding political philosopher. Truth to Power is not just a compelling work of journalism and history, but also a major contribution to the intellectual life of our time. "A rollicking, fascinating and important memoir."-Hillary Johnson, author of Osler's Web, Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic "Because of the extraordinary reporting of the New York Native, the city's gay community had been exposed to far more information about AIDS than San Francisco in 1981 and 1982."-Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic "The gay press-with the exception of the New York Native, which deserves a Pulitzer Prize for its comprehensive coverage [of AIDS]-hasn't been much better than the straight press." -David Black, Rolling Stone, April 25, 1985

New York Native
New York Native

Author: Charles Ortleb

Publisher:

Published: 2020-04-25

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13:

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This is the first chapter of The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up, Charles Ortleb's riveting history of the HHV-6, AIDS, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemics. Ortleb was the publisher and editor-in-chief of New York Native, the amazing newspaper that broke the biggest medical stories of the 20th century. Nobody in the world has done more than Ortleb to sound the alarm about all the diseases linked to HHV-6. The first chapter of The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up takes the reader into the offices of New York Native, a small newspaper in Manhattan with a mostly gay readership. The paper had barely begun its existence when the medical and scientific story of the century fell into its lap. Charles Ortleb describes what it was like the night the first story of what turned out to be AIDS broke in The New York Times. In a dark time of terror and confusion, he decided to make the New York Native the paper of record and conscience for the epidemic. And it did it at a time when many of his readers didn't want to hear anything about it. The reporting his paper did was so thorough that, in Rolling Stone, David Black said New York Native deserved a Pulitzer Prize. In this first chapter we learn about all the different causation theories that scientists came up with, including the compelling notion that AIDS had originated in sick pigs. As time went on, Ortleb's paper began to catch the Centers for Disease Control in a number of lies and as a result, the paper's reporting became more critical and investigative. Nobody expected a newspaper like New York Native to behave like Woodward and Bernstein. Ortleb's determination to get to the bottom of the story put him on a collision course with the medical and political establishment. "A rollicking, fascinating and important memoir." --Hillary Johnson, author of Osler's Web, Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic