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- From: jad@ckuxb.att.com (John A Dinardo)
- Subject: Part III, Doctors Secretly Inject Cancer Cells Into Patients
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:58:54 GMT
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- I made the following transcript from a tape recording
- of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio station
- WBAI-FM (99.5)
- 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl.
- New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707
-
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- (continuation)
- GARY NULL:
- Now the experiment described in the letter that I just read to you,
- I'll discuss in more detail because I think it provides a good
- example of the manner in which human experimentation is practiced
- within the Medical Establishment. It is not uncommon. In fact,
- recently, I corresponded, both in-person and over the phone with a
- man who is a member of the Seventh Day Adventists and who was a
- member of what were called "the White Coat Experiments". Now these
- were ongoing experiments over a number of years. These people were
- volunteering for Army experiments. And they participated in the
- Dunway Experiments and also in the Fort Dietricks Experiments where
- they were given all kinds of vaccines. Now why haven't we learned
- about this? And why did they have all these members of the Seventh
- Day Adventists? It was interesting. I said: "How did this happen?"
- He said: "Well, we knew what we were doing, and we were patriotic.
- And they knew we were patriotic. They knew we would volunteer and
- not talk about it." There was no follow-up. And he was talking
- about some of the problems that their members had, and the health
- consequences of some of these experiments. More on that on another
- program when he and others who participated will be giving their views.
-
- Now you have to contrast the experiments done in the Medical
- Establishment with the covert military tests which are shielded
- from public scrutiny by the top secret classifications. Medical
- practices and experiments of a dubious ethical nature are often
- surrounded by a shroud of scientific and medical mumbo-jumbo which
- does an equally effective job of keeping the gist of these
- experiments out of the public domain. The results of these
- experiments are not kept secret per se. They are written up and
- sent to professional journals for publication, since prestige and
- recognition within the Medical Establishment is, at least in part,
- dependent on how frequently a given researcher has published. But
- the articles either frequently appear in obscure scientific journals
- or, if in the major publications, are worded so strategically as to
- draw attention away from the more distasteful aspects of the study.
-
- One of the best examples of this is in terms of medical practices
- and psychiatrists' marketing of lobotomies to the American Public
- as a viable and effective treatment for mental disorders. Now once
- people began to understand just exactly what psycho-surgery was,
- they began to question its use. But for a good fifteen years, until
- this unveiling took place, the Medical Community, by glorifying the
- operation with scientific jargon, had us believing that lobotomy
- was a valid medical procedure. Now I'll give you a case that
- illustrates how scientific rhetoric is utilized by the Medical
- Establishment to detour attention away from aspects of their
- experimentation that might draw public criticism. And this case is
- NOT an isolated event, and it should not be viewed as such. It is,
- in fact, typical of the ongoing abuses taking place within aspects
- of the Medical and Scientific Communities whenever ethical
- considerations give way to political and economic considerations.
-
- During the 1950s, a series of unprecedented experiments were taking
- place. I would say that militarily, and in the world of espionage,
- in the world of corporate manipulation -- the 1950s had to have been
- our dark era. I mean, it was a really bad decade that people have
- somehow overlooked. The public was kept focused on simplistic [TV
- unrealism] such as Ozzie & Harriet, and the schmaltzy technicolor
- films. They didn't see what was going on behind the scenes. And, as
- a result, hundreds of Americans were being injected with live cancer
- cells, most of them without their knowledge or consent. At the
- forefront of the experiments was a man at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
- He was the author of the letter which I just read. In addition to
- his full-time staff membership at the prestigious Sloan-Kettering
- Hospital -- which, to date, is still revered as one of the nation's
- leading cancer research institutions ..... and again, I'm sure there
- are many good people there doing the best they can. But I just want
- to show you that this man was in a policy-making position in the
- Scientific Establishment there. He was also associated with James
- Ewing Hospital in New York City, and he was an associate professor
- at Cornell University Medical School. I have an affidavit, by the
- way, to that effect. I've done my research on this very methodically.
- He was a prolific writer, and between the years 1943 and 1976 he
- published almost two hundred articles, many of them appearing in
- well respected journals like Science & Cancer. In short, this man,
- from the criteria of mainstream medicine, was as prominent and
- respectable in research and as a physician as you can get. In fact,
- he was so well regarded by his peers that his reseach on the
- homotransplantation of cancer cells was endorsed, not only by
- Sloan-Kettering Institute, but also by such key Government agencies
- as the National Cancer Institute and the United States Public
- Health Service. I also have that in documentation from court
- affidavits. A quote from the annals of the New York Academy of
- Science:
-
- "Induced Immunity to Cancer Cell Homographs in Man",
- Volume 73, Page 635 to 652. At page 635:
-
- "N. Levin and Arthur Gee, et al."
- [JD: above name might, instead, be Arthur, G.]
-
- "Rejection of Cancer Homeoplants by Patients With Debilitating
- Non-Neoplastic Diseases", the annals of the New York Academy
- of Science, Pages 410 to 423. at [quoting from] page 410.
-
- Now, this physician began his work on, quote: "the relationship
- between immunological responses and cancer, back in 1954. Over a
- period of many years, three hundred patients with cancer and three
- hundred healthy people from different areas were used. The tests
- involved injecting a tissue-culture cancer cell transplant into the
- test subjects, in their thighs, and monitoring the patients to see
- how they rejected it. Even at this early stage in this man's
- research, gaps in his reasoning, and oversights of ethical
- considerations were becoming apparent. From an article written by
- him on the results of these experiments, he seems to feel that he
- was making substantial progress in the areas of cancer immunology.
- The article starts by explaining the basic principles of immunlogy.
- Quote:
-
- "The term `induced immunity' is used to designate a heightened
- capacity of an individual for a reaction against a foreign
- material that follows, and is the result of prior exposure to
- that specific material. The term is used in contra-indication
- to natural immunity or natural resistance, which may be defined
- as the sum of those defense mechanisms that are available to an
- individual upon first exposure to a foreign material."
-
- But even if this man was on the way to proving that an immunity to
- cancer could be induced by a vaccine or by other means, how could
- he or his colleagues justify using human beings as guinea pigs ??
- (to be continued)
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-
- If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention,
- please assist in its dissemination by reposting it to other
- networks, and by posting hardcopies in public places,
- both on and off campus.
-
- John DiNardo
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