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Scientists He Respects Think 'It's a Pretty Solid Case' Persuasive Argument: 'U.S. Government Gave it to Us' |
"You have got to read a new book called The River by Edward Hooper (Little Brown) which is a stick of dynamite. Thesis is that AIDS came from bum polio vaccine made and administered in 50's in Africa by Dr. Hilary Koprowski first of Lederle and then of Wistar Institute in Philly (who is still alive) and he is responsible for potential death of a billion people. "The book is pretty convincing. Scientists I know and respect think it is a pretty solid case. "If this is so then a lot of things must be thought about seriously. One is rush to vaccinate everyone today with anything. Another is the blame that has constantly been leveled on gays and drug users, whom this book clearly proves were not among the first infected by a long shot. "And then there is this argument that can now be most persuasively made: if the US government gave us AIDS, now they fucking better give us a cure! We desperately need something to put AIDS back on the front page. This could be it."
Dr. Cantwell writes: "By 1987 a few scientists like Matilde Krim publicly theorized that a biological accident could have initiated the AIDS epidemic in gay men. In a published conversation with Larry Kramer (Interview Magazine, February 1987), Krim speculated that AIDS could have originated from virus-contaminated batches of "gamma globulin" which were inoculated into gay men for the purpose of protecting them from hepatitus virus inflection. "Krim is a well-known AIDS expert and cancer virologist associated with Sloan-Kettering Hospital in Manhattan. She is also co-chairperson of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFar). "In the interview, Krim tries to dispel the notion that gay men were the cause of AIDS in America. She explains that, 'We probably gave it to gay men to start with, by inoculating them with infected gamma globulin, which is probably what happened.' Krim postulates that gamma globulin in the early 1970's was made from 'pooled' human blood brought in from Africa and the Caribbean." On May 11, 1987 in a front page London Times article, penned by the newspaper's science editor, Pearce Wright, man-made rumors were further inflamed. Editor Wright provided his readers with the following information:
1. The World Health Organization, attempting during the 1970's to eradicate smallpox, used a vaccine that was responsible for triggering AIDS in a mass vaccination campaign on two continents.
2. The World Health Organization's lethal tardiness in assessing the dimensions of the AIDS threat to planetary health--a tardiness for which then W.H.O. chief Halfdan Mahler offered apologies--may have been caused by a dispute inside the World Health Organization itself, following discovery of the organization's own possible culpability, unwitting though it was--or one hopes it was. The small-pox vaccine theory offered a likely explanation for the world-wide distribution of the virus. Editor Wright wrote that "many experts have been reluctant to support the (small-pox-vaccine) theory publicly because they believe it would be interpreted unfairly as criticism of the World Health Organization." Dr. Robert Gallo, who stridently--and some believe falsely--claimed discovery of the HIV-virus in the USA, was quoted as saying that "the link between the World Health Organization (vaccination) program and the (AIDS) epidemic in Africa is an interesting and important hypothesis. I cannot say that it actually happened, but I have been saying for some years that the use of live vaccines such as that used for smallpox can activate a dormant infection such as HIV." Gallo insisted that "no blame can be attached to the World Health Organization," but that if the vaccine theory is correct, "it is a tragic situation and a warning we can not ignore." Gallo, however, ignored the controversy thereafter, having been caught up in career-shattering controversies of his own. For whatever reasons, as stated, mainstream U.S. networks and newspapers have purposefully ignored the vaccine theories, in spite of what The Times editor said, namely that: "Some experts fear that in obliterating one disease (smallpox), another disease (AIDS) was transformed from a minor epidemic illness of the Third World into the current pandemic." The Times' science editor also quoted an anonymous World Health Organization adviser who stated--unequivocally--"I now believe the smallpox vaccine theory is the explanation to the explosion of AIDS." |
