Leaks
are turning into floods. We are hearing about brutal clinical studies
on puppies and other animals, and now a study involving orphans in New
York.
These
studies were funded, in whole or part, by the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a federal agency headed up by Anthony
Fauci since 1984.
In
2014, investigative reporter, Liam Scheff, wrote an article at
omsj[dot]org, looking back on the orphan scandal. Ten years earlier, he
had broken the story, and was then subjected to multiple attacks in the
press.
Here is Liam’s 2014 article. As you read it, remember where the funding for the orphan drug trial came from:
“In
2004, I broke open the NIH Clinical Trial Scandal, the
internationally-covered story of hundreds of New York City orphans used
by government agencies and pharmaceutical companies in deadly AIDS drug
trials.”
“In
reporting this issue, I entered the orphanage where children were being
used as guinea pigs, and over a period of several years, took
interviews with mothers, children and childcare workers at the
Incarnation Children’s Center. I also interviewed the medical director,
and investigated the FDA documentation and published medical literature
on the tests and drugs used, drugs which were often force-fed through
nasal and gastric tubes to the children. I reported several deaths in
children, and although the mainstream denied that any deaths were due to
drug toxicity, they admit that over 200 children died.”
“In
2005, the city of New York hired the VERA Institute to form a final
report on the drug trials. VERA was given no access to medical records
for any of the children used in trials. Their report was published in
2008. They reported that twenty-five children died during the drug
studies, that an additional fifty-five children died following the
studies (in foster care), and, according to Tim Ross, Director of the
Child Welfare program at VERA (as of 2009), 29% of the remaining 417
children who were used in drug studies had died (out of a total 532
children that are admitted to have been used).”
“The WIKIPEDIA writers cover up all details, as is expected.”
[Wikipedia:] “’No payment or compensation has been paid to any of the children used in the trials, or to their families’.”
“The
New York Times, which was instrumental in covering up the story, hired
Janny Scott and Leslie Kaufman to write a hit piece on me in 2005. They
declared the following about using orphans in drug trials:”
“’It
was seen as one of the great successes of AIDS treatment. In the late
1980’s and early 1990’s, hundreds of children in New York City were
dying of AIDS. The only approved drugs were for adults, and many of the
patients were foster children. So doctors obtained permission to include
foster children in what they regarded as promising drug trials’.”
“Later in the article, Scott admits that the ‘permissions’ for many of these children are ‘missing,’ (or were never there).”
“She continued:”
“’[T]here is little evidence that the trials were anything but a medical success’.“
“In
2009, she responded to my persistent queries about their investigation
method. They had taken at least 40 documents from me and buried them;
what else had they buried? Her answers to me were clarifying:”
“’No,
we did not review patients’ medical files…I would be surprised if that
would not have been a breach of patient confidentiality if someone had
shown them to us…An unexpected side effect would have been a side effect
not previously seen in response to those drugs, presumably. Advanced
testing methods were the methods available at the time for diagnosing
HIV infection…I do not recall interviewing Dr. Painter [the doctor in
charge of the orphanage and orphans] but I may simply not remember. As
you know, the Times moved to a new office a year ago. It was not
possible to move all of our files. In my case, I threw away files that
were more than 12 months old. As you know, the story you are asking
about was done in 2005…I do not recall which studies we looked at. There
were a lot of them — some more easily accessible than others, as you
know…As for mentioning side-effects and FDA warnings, there are
side-effects and FDA warnings on many if not most drugs. The
side-effects of early AIDS drugs have been written about
extensively…And, as I have said before, we were not presuming to judge
whether or not experimental AIDS drugs should have been tried on
children — a question that I suspect few journalists would be qualified
to answer; we were attempting to put a public controversy in context…If
you have further objections to the way the story was handled, I suggest
you contact Joe Sexton, the editor of the metropolitan news section of
the paper and the editor on that story’.”
“In
2009, the Times admitted that many children had died – but the VERA
Institute, hired to ‘investigate’ the trials, was also forbidden from
looking at medical records. Their ‘investigator’ also refused to take
data from me on the trials – lists of the trials themselves, the drugs
used, and their recorded ‘black box’ warnings. In a follow-up interview
with Vera Myles of WBAI, the head of the VERA Institute admitted that
many more children had died.”
“The Wikipedia is not able to talk about AIDS drugs, which kill people. But, of course, take them if you really want to.”
“Happy Anniversary.”
---end of Liam Scheff article---
FAUCI.
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(The link to this article posted on my blog is here.)
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