First-year medical
students at University of Mississippi
Medical Center often learn through
hands-on lab exercises involving live animals,
in most cases pigs. The pigs are euthanized
when it is over. At least one group of
physicians called it cruel and unnecessary and
wants it to stop. On the web site homepage for
Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine
or PCRM, there is a piglet and a plea
for UMMC to stop pig labs.
...In a
new twist, the son of a famous doctor is
speaking out against PCRM. Peter
Heimlich, son of Dr. Henry Heimlich who
created the Heimlich maneuver, claims his
father allegedly used people for
controversial medical
research. Dr. Heimlich serves on
the board for PCRM which fights for ethical
treatment of animals and humans.
"My
concern is the organization seems to put the
interest of pigs above human beings who are
being subjected to violative medical
research," said Peter Heimlich.
PCRM has been
criticized by others as being
a "PETA front group" and even
promotes a vegan diet on their web site.
"I'd say they're
fools," said Dr. Pippin. '"We don't have any
relationships with any industries. We don't do
this for money. We do it because it's
the right thing to do."
I. PCRM: "We oppose
unethical human experiments" (with exceptions)
II. PCRM promotes the
Heimlich maneuver for drowning rescue
III. "Malariotherapy for
Dummies: A Brief Timeline of the Heimlich
Institute's Horror Show" (Cincinnati Beacon)
Addenda 1. My father calls in
PETA to shut down 1986 University of Florida
Heimlich maneuver experiments; researchers
were subjected to bomb threats and death
threats
Addenda 2. Heimlich
"malariotherapy" theories originated with a
Nazi eugenicist
Addenda 3. December 2008 letter
from PCRM Director of Research Policy Dr. Hope
Ferdowsian protesting the use of primates for
AIDS experiments
Addenda 4. Previous winners of
PCRM's "HJ Heimlich Award for Innovative
Medicine": Chris Toly (2005) & Randal
Charlton (2007)
Addenda 5. PCRM president Neal
Barnard MD won't answer why he lied to a
Georgia blogger about the Heimlich
"malariotherapy" experiments
I. PCRM: "We oppose
unethical human experiments" (with exceptions)
Henry J. Heimlich MD: I have a terrific
responsibility not to come out with something
that will harm people.
Salt Lake City Weekly: (Dr.
Henry) Heimlich has postulated for decades that
malaria-infected blood can arouse the
immuno-defenses of cancer, Lyme disease and
HIV/AIDS sufferers. The Food and Drug
Administration, Centers for Disease Control and
World Health Organization have rejected the
science outright. Ethicists have called the
testing a medical atrocity. Dr. Robert Baratz,
an internal medicine specialist and president of
the National Council Against Health Fraud, has
likened malariotherapy to Nazi-era medicine. He
told the UCLA Bruin in 2003 that it "has no
basis in scientific fact," and is "better
referred to as lunacy."
Cyndi Monahan of
Rockaway NJ, who underwent "malariotherapy": "Within
two days I started to get fevers as high as 106
degrees"...After Monahan's return from Mexico
City, life consisted of hours of fever followed
by chills - and intense pain. "My lower back
felt like a truck slammed into it and I found
that a malaria headache is the most excruciating
pain you can imagine." Her New Jersey doctor
allowed the malaria to persist untreated for
five weeks. During that time she logged 130
"fever hours," when her temperature exceeded 101
degrees. She vomited constantly, lost 40 lb. and
required intravenous fluids to compensate for
dehydration. "We went until my body couldn't
take it anymore," she recalled, "and then I took
the antimalarial drug...I'm going back for
another treatment," she says. "Dr. Heimlich told
me I may have to do it again. He's made all the
arrangements with the doctors in Panama."
Chinese
Medical Journal: Methods:
Therapeutic acute vivax malaria was induced and
terminated after 10 fever episodes in 12
HIV-1-infected subjects...Case 12 was a
full-blown AIDS patient with complicated ulcer
of external genitalia, pneumocystis carinii
pneumonia (PCP, clinical diagnosis) with dyspnea
and needed oxygen inhalation.
ABC 20/20: In a
study commissioned by Dr. Heimlich, eight human
subjects have already been injected with a form
of malaria in China in the 1990s, and he is now
involved with a research project involving AIDS
patients in Ethiopia who are initially left
untreated for malaria with available
medicines...But leading AIDS researchers and
medical ethicists say they are appalled. "It is
scientifically unsound, and I think it would be
ethically questionable," said Dr. Anthony Fauci
of the National Institutes of Health, who has
been seeking a cure for AIDS since it was first
identified in the 1980s. Dr. Fauci says there is
no evidence, even in countries where malaria is
prevalent, that the "malariotherapy" has any
effect on AIDS. "And it does have the
fundamental potential of actually killing you,"
Dr. Fauci says. "It can cause organ system
damage; it can elevate your temperatures to the
point that it can do tissue damage to you."
Radar Magazine: Mekbib
Wondewossen is an Ethiopian immigrant who makes
his living renting out cars in the San Francisco
area, but in his spare time he works for Dr.
Heimlich, doing everything from "recruiting the
patients to working with the doctors here and
there and everywhere," Wondewossen says. The two
countries he names are Ethiopia and the small
equatorial nation of Gabon, on Africa's west
coast. "The Heimlich Institute is part of the
work there - the main people, actually, in the
research," Wondewossen says. "They're the ones
who consult with us on everything. They tell us
what to do."...Wondewossen say that the
researchers involved in the study are not
doctors. He refuses to name members of the
research team, because he says it would get them
into trouble with the local authorities. "The
government over there is a bad government," he
says. "They can make you disappear." Wondewossen
won't reveal the source of funding for this
malariotherapy research. "There are private
funders," he says. But as to their identity" "I
can't tell you that, because that's the deal we
make with them, you know"" He scoffs at the
question of whether his team got approval to
conduct this research from a local ethics review
board. Bribery on that scale, he says, is much
too expensive: "If you want the government to
get involved there, you have to give them a few
million - and then they don't care what you do."
Neal
D. Barnard MD, President & Founder,
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
(PCRM), Washington DC, and self-described "rigorous
opponent of unethical research practices":
"Dr. Henry
Heimlich's vision and incredible creativity are
responsible for medical advances that have saved
tens of thousands of lives. He is the embodiment
of innovation, compassion, and getting the job
done. His work has inspired researchers and
medical students to break convention, think
creatively, and focus on what counts: saving
lives."
(source)
Dr. Heimlich is
certainly one of the leading medical pioneers of
our time....Dr. Heimlich demonstrates that
innovative thinking remains the best tool we
have in research and in healthcare generally,
and I always encourage medical students and
young physicians to follow his example. (source)
Every
couple of years, the Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine (PCRM) presents the "Henry
J. Heimlich Award for Innovative Medicine." A founding
board member of this high-profile Washington DC
nonprofit, my father is arguably the group's most
famous medical name and PCRM frequently uses him
to promote their organization. For numerous
examples, type "Heimlich" into the
search box on PCRM's website.
The
photo above shows my father at a 2007
PCRM fundraising gala,
presenting the Heimlich award with actor Lisa
Edelstein, who plays the part of a physician on
the popular FOX-TV hospital drama, "House" (source). Other PCRM-affiliated celebrities
and politicians include Bill Maher, Marilu
Henner, Moby, Rep. Jim McDermott, Rep. Pete Stark,
Sen. Ron Wyden, and
dozens more.
Back row: Persia
White, Moby, Shanni Rigsbee, Marilu Henner
and her husband Michael Brown, Lisa
Edelstein; Front row, Alec Baldwin, Neal
Barnard MD from "The Art of
Compassion," PCRM fundraising gala, April 14,
2007 (source)
The opening sequence
in this ABC 20/20 segment features actor Alec
Baldwin introducing at the 2007 PCRM "Heimlich
Award" fundraising gala.
From a 2005 PCRM
press release, National
Medical Group Creates Award In Honor of Henry
Heimlich:
"Dr. Henry
Heimlich's vision and incredible creativity are
responsible for medical advances that have saved
tens of thousands of lives," said PCRM president
and founder Neal Barnard, M.D. "He is the
embodiment of innovation, compassion, and
getting the job done. His work has inspired
researchers and medical students to break
convention, think creatively, and focus on what
counts: saving lives."
Neal D. Barnard MD
Here's the problem.
Dr. Barnard's glowing description is contradicted
by the published guidelines of his own
organization. From the organization's statement of
principles, What
is PCRM":
We oppose unethical
human experiments.
Also from Ethics
in Human Research, posted on PCRM's
website:
PCRM advocates
higher ethical standards in conducting human
research and providing access to medical
treatment.
From Neal
Barnard Advocates for Ethical Medicine,
Research by Rosanne Skirble, Voice of
America News, March 2, 2009:
If humans were
being abused in research or if animals were
being used when alternatives could be used
instead, (we) deal with those.
How can an
organization claim to promote ethical human
subjects research, meanwhile be closely affiliated
with a notorious medical scoffllaw who for 25
years has been overseeing and funding experiments
in which American and Third World patients
suffering from AIDS, cancer, and Lyme Disease have
been deliberately infected with malaria in
so-called research which a World Health
Organization report called "atrocities":
The recent
guidelines for regulation of human
experimentation must be seen in the backdrop of
atrocities committed by doctors upon vulnerable
subjects within recent memory. The highly
controversial trials of induction of malaria in
HIV patients (Heimlich et al 1997) and the
trovafloxacin trial in Nigeria (Boseley 2001,
Stephens 2000 & 2001) are two recent
examples. Few also recognize that Radovan
Kradzik, who stands accused of master minding
the worst possible mass genocide in Europe in
the post second world war era, is also a
psychiatrist by training. Thus the regulation of
human subjects research would require more than
an appeal to basic human good and abject faith
in the beneficence of the medical profession.
Concerns within the international sponsors of
research on standards of ethical review and
conduct of research Since many of the HIV trials
in question involved US funding agencies, these
recent controversies led to a major review of
the regulatory process for ethical review and
guidelines for the conduct of biomedical
research in developing countries by the US. (source)
Meanwhile, Dr.
Barnard writes high-minded articles like Human
Experiments:
Redrawing Ethical Boundaries and Human
Experimentation: An Introduction to the
Ethical Issues which decry unsupervised
experiments by ambitious, unethical medical
professionals who ignore laws designed to protect
vulnerable human subjects, like the Nazi doctors:
When psychiatrist
Robert Jay Lifton studied the experimenters
responsible for the most hideous Nazi crimes, he
found that, while some were clearly sadists,
most were ordinary people in circumstances that
permitted the full unfolding of human curiosity,
propelling human aggression into the machinery
of death.
-----
Ethical issues in human research generally arise
in relation to population groups that are
vulnerable to abuse. For example, much of the
ethically dubious research conducted in poor
countries would not occur were the level of
medical care not so limited....As we address the
ethical issues of human experimentation, we
often find ourselves traversing complex ethical
terrain.
When it comes to my
father, the ethical terrain isn't complex. Dr.
Barnard and PCRM simply turn a blind eye to his
notorious
history of human subjects abuse and hand out
an award named after him. In exchange, they
get whatever status and fundraising benefits
result from their relationship with this famous
"mad scientist," which was what my father was
called in this
1994 front page Los Angeles Times article
which caught him duping an earlier generation of
presumably well-meaning, but uninformed Hollywood
celebrities.
Here's another
glaring example. In this
article he wrote about maintaining high
standards to protect the rights of vulnerable
human subjects, Dr. Barnard cites the following
New England Journal of Medicine article by Drs.
Peter Lurie and Sidney Wolfe, who direct Public
Citizen's Health Research Group:
Lurie P, Wolfe SM.
Unethical trials of interventions to reduce
perinatal transmission of the human
immunnodeficiency virus in developing countries.
N Engl J Med 1997:337:12:853.
Ironically, the
Lurie-Wolfe NEJM article cited by Dr. Barnard
highlights the Heimlich "malariotherapy"
experiments as a prime example of abusive
research:
Dr. Lurie included
Dr. Heimlich's malariotherapy studies in a
September 1997 New England Journal of Medicine
article about "exploitive" medical procedures in
developing countries..."It is charlatanism of
the highest order," Dr. Lurie says of
malariotherapy. (Cincinnati
Enquirer, February 16, 2003)
Although the footage
didn't make it into the 20/20 story, in his
interview, Brian Ross repeatedly asked Dr. Barnard
if he considered my father's "malariotherapy"
experiments on AIDS patients to be ethical. Dr.
Barnard repeatedly dodged the question. It would
be interesting to know Barnard's on the record
answer to that question.
It would also be
interesting to know if the other medical
professionals on PCRM's
corporate board agree with Dr. Barnard's
assessment that "Dr. Heimlich is certainly one of
the leading medical pioneers of our time" (source)
and if they support the Heimlich Institute's
"malariotherapy" experiments and the use of
Heimlich maneuver on drowning victims.
Name links
lead to Quackwatch
entries
Board of
Directors
Neal
D. Barnard, M.D., President
Mark Sklar, M.D., Secretary
Russell Bunai, M.D., Director
Advisory Board
T.
Colin Campbell, Ph.D. Cornell University
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D. The Cleveland
Clinic
Suzanne Havala Hobbs, Dr.PH., M.S., R.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Henry
J. Heimlich, M.D., Sc.D. The Heimlich
Institute
Lawrence
Kushi, Sc.D. Division of Research, Kaiser
Permanente
Virginia Messina, M.P.H., R.D. Nutrition
Matters, Inc.
John
McDougall, M.D. McDougall Program, St.
Helena Hospital
Milton Mills, M.D. Gilead Medical Group
Myriam Parham, R.D., L.D., C.D.E. East Pasco
Medical Center
William Roberts, M.D. Baylor Cardiovascular
Institute
Andrew
Weil, M.D. University of Arizona
It would also be
interesting to know if Dr. Barnard and his
colleagues are concerned about my father's close
relationships with this
string of doctors who lost their licenses and
went to prison for excessive prescribing of
narcotics, one of whom was Marilyn Monroe's
after-hours physician.
Finally, from one of
Dr. Barnard's ethics
articles:
As governmental
bodies review evidence of past abuses, the
airing of buried secrets may improve vigilance
against future abuses.
The Heimlich
Institute's "malariotherapy" experiments have
already investigated by the US Centers for Disease
Control & Prevention and the US Food &
Drug Administration (source).
According
to
my
father
in
this
2007
video,
blood
from
the
Africa
"malariotherapy"
experiments
has
been
analyzed in US & German labs and further
large-number experiments are under consideration.
Transporting HIV+ blood samples obtained in
experments that violate international human
subject protection laws may be of interest to
oversight authorities. What are the names of these
labs"
Per this
2008 video by Justin Jeffre published by his
blog, the Cincinnati Beacon, my father says he is
making plans to start "malariotherapy" experiments
in a new country. He's not kidding. Contact me for
names and other information.
Justin
Jeffre: I was wondering if you can
tell me what the current status of
immunotherapy (malariotherapy) is"
Dr. Henry Heimlich: Uh, we just had an
extensive meeting. And it's starting in a new
country...we're using it. Yeah.
The sad truth is that
my father lost his way some time ago. Instead of
exploiting him for the purposes of boosting their
organization, PCRM could promote higher standards
of ethical research by publicly demanding that
oversight agencies investigate the Heimlich
Institute's parent corporation, Deaconess
Associations of Cincinnati, which has legal
responsibility and has funded the "malariotherapy"
experiments. (Click
here for details.)
For
exhaustive documentation of the Heimlich
"malariotherapy" atrocity experiments, visit
the CIRCARE bioethics website.
II. PCRM promotes the
Heimlich maneuver for drowning rescue
The
list of experts who reject the Heimlich maneuver
(for drowning rescue) is lengthy: The American Red
Cross; the United States Lifesaving Association; the
American Heart Association; the Institute of
Medicine; the International Life Saving Federation
and many experienced doctors and academics have
strongly inveighed against doing “abdominal thrusts”
for drowning victims.
...In
Tampa, which has one of the highest drowning rates
in the country, Dr. James Orlowski said he has
documented nearly 40 cases where rescuers performing
the Heimlich maneuver have caused complications for
the victim. Orlowski is chief of pediatrics and
pediatric intensive care at University Community
Hospital in Tampa.
“You’ve
got one man and a few small supporters,” Orlowski
said, ”that continue to push this in the face of
overwhelming evidence to the contrary.”
Nevertheless, PCRM
have been promoting the treatment since at least
1991 and recklessly continues to recommend it in
the face of overwhelming opposition. And whenever
my father needs a credentialed yes man to back up
his dangerous claims in the media, Dr. Barnard
seems to be ever at the ready.
From Use of the
Heimlich maneuver may not always be wise
by Paul Stevenson, Deseret News, August 27, 1994
"The
Heimlich maneuver has already saved so many
lives," said Dr. Neal Barnard, president of PCRM.
"It should be part of standard procedure in
treating drowning victims."
PCRM press release,
November 30, 2000 (my emphasis):
Washington, D.C.-
The Heimlich Maneuver isn't just for choking
victims, but will save a drowning victim's life
as well, says the Heimlich Institute. Many
Americans may remember the tragic incidents of
two babies, Jahzion Sebastian, 13 months, of
Dayton, Kentucky, and Dezmen Dean, 9 months, of
Clermont County, Ohio, who coincidentally fell
in buckets of water in their homes on the same
day in August 1998. Unfortunately, both mothers
performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, as
recommended by 911 operators who were following
American Heart Association guidelines. Both
children died. If the mothers had used the
Heimlich Maneuver to clear water from the
lungs, statistics show the children would
probably have survived....
Here's Dr. Barnard's
response to Deadly
Medicine, a Philadelphia Weekly expose
about the dangers of the Heimlich maneuver on
drowning victims and the dubious evidence my father
has used to promote the treatment:
Letters, September 22,
2004
I am not surprised
to see that my good friend and colleague Henry
J. Heimlich, M.D., is involved in medical
controversy. Every scientific pioneer has to
weather plenty of adversity in bringing
innovations forward, and Dr. Heimlich is
certainly one of the leading medical pioneers of
our time.
But I would like to
encourage those involved in these controversies
to take seriously the medical conditions we are
facing. Dr. Heimlich had to push for 11 years to
win endorsement of the Heimlich maneuver for
choking victims. The rest, of course, is
lifesaving history, with more than 60,000 people
in the United States alone saved from choking to
death.
Dr. Heimlich is
right to point out the value of using the
Heimlich maneuver to clear water from the lungs
in near-drowning cases. Rather than waste minute
after agonizing minute in mouth-to-mouth
resuscitation when the lungs are filled with
water, the maneuver clears the water out.
Mouth-to-mouth can then begin, but often victims
begin breathing on their own without it.
Dr. Heimlich
demonstrates that innovative thinking remains
the best tool we have in research and in
healthcare generally, and I always encourage
medical students and young physicians to follow
his example.
Neal D. Barnard,
M.D.
President, Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine
Washington, D.C.
Here's Dr.
Barnard's letter to the editor of Cleveland
Scene in response to a cover story expose
about dubious drowning rescue case reports
published by my father and his protege, Dr.
Edward A. Patrick:
I was surprised to
see the recent attack on my good friend Henry
Heimlich ["Heimlich's
Maneuver," August 11], a man whose work
has saved thousands upon thousands of lives.
Dr. Heimlich has
sought the most direct and effective solutions
to health problems. The elegantly simple
Heimlich maneuver swept aside the more
complicated and largely ineffective first-aid
techniques that had gone before it. And using
the maneuver to clear water from the lungs in
near-drowning cases is sensible, quick, and
life-saving.
Needless to say,
all medical pioneers have to swim against the
current at many points, and Dr. Heimlich has had
the courage to do so. He pushed for 11 years to
win endorsement of the Heimlich maneuver for
choking victims, and because of his insistence,
more than 60,000 people in the United States
alone have been saved from choking to death.
At 84, Dr. Heimlich
is still active in research and the practice of
responsible medicine. He shows that innovative
thinking remains our best tool in
revolutionizing health care. I salute Dr.
Heimlich and encourage young physicians to
follow his example.
Dr. Neal Barnard
President, Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine
Washington, D.C.
In the June 8, 2007
ABC 20/20 report by Brian Ross, emergency medicine
expert Dr. Peter Rosen (who chaired the 1993
Institute of Medicine committee that found no
merit to my father's claims) warned the dangers of
the Heimlich maneuver for drowning. In contrast,
Dr. Barnard recommended the treatment: "If I
were pulled out of a swimming pool, and I were
pulseless and not breathing, I would be very
appreciative if somebody would take a couple of
seconds and do a Heimlich to get the water out
of my lungs." But, as Brian Ross explains
in the segment, drowning victims have little if
any water in their lungs:
This presents another
problem for Dr. Barnard, a psychiatrist
by training on the faculty of George
Washington University who writes pop books
promoting veganism. Recall that in 2004 he
sent letters to the editors in response to
critical articles about the Heimlich maneuver for
drowning rescue in the Philadelphia Weekly and the Cleveland
Scene newspapers. Click the links and you'll
see that both articles clearly explain that
drowning victims have little or no water in the
lungs. Therefore, when he was interviewed by
Brian Ross three years later, Dr. Barnard provided
medical information that he knew to be false.
To summarize, since
1991, Dr. Barnard and his organization have
recommended a useless, potentially deadly medical
treatment as a courtesy to my father so he will
lend his famous name to boost their public
relations and fundraising opportunities. What if
more kids are brain-damaged or die as a result? In
what universe does this depraved trade-off qualify
as "responsible medicine"?
Also see: The
Physicians Committee's 'Heimlich Problem.'
Addenda 1. My
father called in PETA to shut down 1986
University of Florida Heimlich maneuver
experiments; researchers were subjected to bomb
threats and death threats
From PCRM's Good
Medicine, Summer 2005:
Dr. Heimlich's work
with PCRM began in the late 1980s when he spoke
out against the cruel dog-drowning experiments
some had proposed for testing the Heimlich
maneuver.
From Heimlich's
Maneuver by Thomas Francis, Cleveland
Scene, August 27, 2004:
Once every six
years, the American Heart Association convenes
leading researchers to consider how advances in
science can serve the many health concerns under
its purview. By 1985, Heimlich had enough
influence to land a seat on the association's
Special Situations Committee. The stakes were
high. If Heimlich succeeded in convincing the
panel that his maneuver worked for drownings,
lifeguards the world around would adopt his
technique at beaches and pools....What he lacked
in scientific evidence, Heimlich made up for in
hubris. Transcripts from the meetings show
Heimlich battling with University of Florida
researcher Dr. Jerome Modell, one of the world's
foremost authorities on drowning. Modell was
backed by thorough, objective research...(Upon)
leaving the conference, Modell was determined to
resolve the debate objectively. He and a
colleague, Dr. Richard Melker, received funding
to study the maneuver on dogs.
"Dr. Heimlich
called me and volunteered to help me," recalls
Modell. But that collegial attitude didn't last.
Before Modell's study began, Heimlich held a
press conference. He held a cocker spaniel for
television cameras, dunking its head into an
aquarium to demonstrate the cruelty of Modell's
study. Heimlich condemned the drowning of dogs
to prove what was, to him, self-evident: that
the Heimlich maneuver worked.
He also notified
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and
sent a letter to the University of Florida
newspaper. The effect was a campus seething with
protesters, the most avid of whom called in bomb
threats to Modell's lab and death threats to his
home. It remains a chilling memory for the
doctor. "I don't want to get into the details of
that," he says. "I don't want to start another
war." Modell dropped the study.
In a match between
the two schools of science, Heimlich brought an
extra weapon - - politics, the emotional kind.
"The reason that we were willing to do it in the
first place was to pacify Dr. Heimlich," says
Modell. "And then he prevented it from
happening."
After the AHA
conference, Dr. Jerome Modell planned to conduct
an experiment on animals to decide once and for
all if the Heimlich maneuver worked on drowning
victims. But Henry Heimlich incited protests
from animal-rights activists - which is ironic
given that he had conducted experiments on dogs
just a decade earlier - according to
Modell, a professor emeritus at the University
of Florida's Department of Anesthesiology, who
scrapped the project after receiving multiple
death threats.
From Fighting
For Air: Drowning and the Heimlich Maneuver
by Todd Spivak, Houston Press, October 11,
2007
Modell says he
hired a sheriff's deputy to stay at his family's
farm 24 hours a day for a week as protection.
"They threatened to cut the tails out of our
horses and kill them," he says (while
acknowledging this was a somewhat strange
position for animal-rights activists to take).
From Heimlich
Glad Dog Tests Are Cancelled by Tony
Pugh, Cincinnati Enquirer, March 17, 1986:
"The University of
Florida and the American Heart Association were
rendered a service by the animal rights people,"
Heimlich said....In a letter to university
officials, Heimlich wrote, "Scientists engaged
in research are beholden to prevent unneceasary
loss of life, both human and animal To do
otherwise is to jeopardise our right and
privilege to conduct research."
Addenda 2.
Heimlich "malariotherapy" theory originated with
Nazi eugenicist
...Dr.
Heimlich's
theory to use malaria to cure AIDS, he said,
simply builds on the work of (Julius
Wagner-Jauregg) who won the Nobel Prize in 1927
for using malaria to treat syphilis. "There are some Nobel
prizes they would like to take back, and I
believe that's one of them," said Dr. Fauci. (ABC 20/20)
Julius
Wagner-Jauregg MD
The discovery that
Julius Wagner-Jauregg was a member of the Nazi
party and backed Hitler's ideas about racial
purity has shocked Austrians, who have named
schools, roads and hospitals after the respected
former physician and psychiatrist. (Austrians
stunned by Nobel prize-winner's Nazi
ideology, Scotland on Sunday,
January 24, 2004)