This website is intended to bring attention to these public health risks & to related information: 

I. "Malariotherapy"

For decades, the Heimlich Institute has been conducting abusive human experiments on US & Third World patients suffering with AIDS, cancer, and Lyme Disease, by deliberately infecting them with malaria. Experts have compared this "research" to the Nazi concentration camp experiments and the Tuskegee syphilis experiments.

For more details, visit my page, "Some Moral Outrage": The Heimlich Institute's illicit experiments on AIDS patients.

Visit the CIRCARE biotheics website for an exhaustive compilation of documents and information.

Questions: Why has Deaconess Associations of Cincinnati, a health services mega-corporation, funded and sponsored these experiments? Why has Cincinnati media failed to report Deaconess's financial relationship and responsibility for overseeing the experiments? Why has the media failed to ask questions of the members of the Heimlich Institute's corporate board?

II. The Heimlich maneuver for drowning rescue

From the June 3, 2011 Washington Post:

The Heimlich maneuver became famous as a way for people to dislodge a foreign object from a choking person's airway. But it's been utterly discredited as a way of rescuing a person who is drowning, and can actually do serious harm to someone who has just been pulled from the water, numerous experts say.

...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.

...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.

So where did the idea that the Heimlich maneuver should be performed on drowning victims originate? Facts indicate that in 1974 my father, who knew nothing about the physiology of drowning, simply dreamed it up. My research uncovered that from 1974-2003 my father and a physician from Potomac MD used cronies to fabricate a string of cases in which drowning victims were allegedly rescued by the use of the maneuver. To encourage the public to perform the procedure, the cases were planted in the media and then my father published them in medical journals.

In short, "America's most famous doctor" (The New Republic, 2007) came up with a baseless medical procedure and over the course of three decades fabricated a string of phony case reports to promote it. The legacy of this madness is dozens of dead and seriously-injured and ongoing confusion in the field.

The responsibility belongs not only to my father, but to his cronies who faked case reports and to those individuals who helped circulate his "poison ideas" for financial gain.

-- Peter M. Heimlich, March 24, 2010

 

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