Unreported or
under-reported news stories
"These so-called
medical experts. Screw 'em."
Why does a
Houston-area company (NASCO) teach lifeguards to
perform abdominal thrusts (the Heimlich
maneuver) on drowning victims, a useless,
thoroughly- discredited treatment associated
with dozens of deaths and serious injuries?
"Some
Moral
Outrage." The Heimlich Institute's illicit
experiments on US, Chinese, and African AIDS
patients
Why did US Surgeon
General C. Everett Koop manipulate national first
aid guidelines as a "buddy favor" for my father?
From Maneuvering Over
Heimlich by Lenore Skenazy,
Creators Syndicate columnist, 2/21/07
Back
blows are "death blows," Dr. Heimlich declared
long and loud as he lobbied for his maneuver's
acceptance 30 years ago. In 1985, Surgeon General
C. Everett Koop endorsed this view, dubbing
backslaps "hazardous." After that, only the
Heimlich Maneuver was considered kosher.
What most people don't realize, Dr. Heimlich's
son, Peter Heimlich, said, is that "Koop was an
old friend of my father's, and he did it as a
buddy favor."
The Smear Artist:
Jason Zengerle's Heimlich article. Why did the New
Yorker kill Jason Zengerle's bogus
article about my father and me? Why did The
New Republic publish it two years later?
Was Zengerle's AIDS researher wife involved
with the Heimlich "malariotherapy"
experiments?