Reader’s Comments on Project Day Lily (
http://www.projectdaylily.com )
Being a health professional for 40 years, I have always held scientific research
and discovery in respect. However, since personally experiencing the ravages of
a chronic Mycoplasma infection, receiving help and guidance from the Nicolsons
over the past 10 years and in turn helping others, I now have a slightly
different perspective. The Nicolsons are great storytellers of intrigue and
menace in the scientific research world. Breaking the mold of traditional
suspense novels, Project Day Lily is based on fact--many facts of which I can
attest. The book is simultaneously intelligent and believable. It is intricately
layered with remarkable research and detail from the opening pages to the
conclusion. It is a fascinating, absorbing, eye-opening page-turner. Project Day
Lily has alerted me of the danger that public policy could easily become the
captive of the scientific technologically elite. I suspect that it may be
happening more than any of us would want to know. And God help those of us who
are unsuspecting victims!
Sharon Briggs, M.S.N., R.N.
Mycoplasma Support
http://www.mycoplasmasupport.org
Shasta CFIDS
http://www.shasta.com/cybermom
In "Project Day Lily" the Nicolsons tell their personal saga that is intertwined
with major events and forces in recent American history. This linear narrative
testifies about the strength of authors' perceptions and convictions. It is also
a story of transformation of a couple of scientists into advocates for causes
that they believe in so deeply.
Stanimir Vuk-Pavlovic, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology
Mayo Clinic Graduate School
This is a saga of two researchers in pursuit of the truth who were pulled into
the black hole of treacherous global affairs and politics and their excruciating
struggles for survival. How many more Galileos and Darwins will have to suffer?
Their chronicle keeps a reader in suspense from the beginning to the end. I
cannot wait for a film version of it.
Tae H. Ji, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Kentucky
I received the very first draft and read it with increasing amazement as I was
going along. I knew Garth Nicolson from his days at the Salk Institute and knew
he was (is) of sound mind. The implications, medical and political, of what is
revealed in "Project Day Lily" are major. If you are interested in Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, or the problems of our Veterans with Gulf War
Syndrome, you will want to read this book, think, and wonder.
Roger Guillemin, M.D., Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Nobel Laureate in
Medicine
The Salk Institute
Project Day Lily shatters the composed façade of academic science, exposing
societal turbulence as malevolent and violent as any time in the Cold War or
since. The pages seem to turn themselves. This story illustrates a time of
crisis and tragedy for individuals and country so thoroughly frightening
despondency and despair seem the only refuge. Yet the evil is overshadowed by
the transcendent courage and steadfast determination of the main characters to
push forward. Their commitment to family and integrity is inspiring and makes
the battle worth fighting.
John Casey, President and Co-Founder
Nutritional Therapeutics, Inc.
This book is very compelling - pointing out the corruption of the
university--governmental complex coupled with Mafia money. Every conscientious
physician and scientist needs to know that following the "green" is essential to
know in order to develop information that is reliable to help their research and
in helping their patients.
William J. Rea, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.E.M.
Environmental Health Center - Dallas
wjr@ehcd.com
A great read, complex and convoluted but compulsive. Science and politics are
intricately intertwined in this chonologue. The world of scientific research is
shown in its reality: academic altruism and isolation of the scientists on the
one hand and the political gamesmanship, enterprise and exploitiveness that is
often used to achieve the funding to allow the work to continue on the other.
Tim Roberts, Ph.D., Acting Pro Vice-Chancellor, Assistant Dean
International, Assistant Dean Postgraduate Coursework, Faculty of Science and
Information Technology
University of Newcastle (Australia)
During the first Gulf Conflict, Operation Desert Storm, nearly every level of
government, the military, and the American people assumed that Iraq had
completely failed to deploy or initiate the use of biological weapons. Leading
up to the war, I directed the military component of a joint biological detection
project with scientist from Stanford Research Institute. At the conclusion of
the combat, even after being presented with evidence that suggested biological
agents had indeed found their way to the battlefield, I dismissed the reports of
Gulf War Illness. That is, until soldiers in my command and their families
developed illnesses that could only be attributed to their service in the Gulf
or their association with people and material that had been returned from Iraq.
In my search for the truth, I met Dr. Garth Nicolson. He was a lone, and much
maligned, voice in the quest for a cure. Project Day Lily is a riveting and
profound essay on what really happened. It’s time the public knew.
Gerald Schumacher, Colonel, U.S. Army Special Forces (ret)