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University Scientists - The Willing Pawns century is amply demonstrated by world-famous medical historian Dru H in bribing doct and author, Hans Ruesch, in his devastating exposé: Naked edie rind og pe to mma SOting Sone a Empress or The Great Medical Fraud * (1992). The book is an 7 i" absolute must to read. Naked Empress exposes massive corruption "Young physicians are offered research grants by drug : - : ; 7 companies. Medical schools are given large sums of money _‘2""d fraud in medicine, science, industries, governments, media, and for clinical trials and basic pharmaceutical research. Drug Yor Organisations. The importance of this book cannot be.over- companies regularly host lavish dinner and cocktail parties . P . for groups of physicians. They provide funding for the estab- In Naked Empress, Ruesch cited another important exposé titled lishment of hospital buildings, medical school buildings, The Drug Story * (1949), by American investigative reporter, and ‘independent research institutes. Morris A. Bealle. According to Bealle: "America's largest and The pharmaceutical industry has | ant may: moved to ponte Th hy ee pie, then develop an enormous amount of influence within medical ry became interested in the drug trade after making breath-taking teaching institutions. This move was greatly facilitated by ‘ 7 several factors. The first was the economic recession, profits from palming off bottled petroleum called Nujol as a sup- posed cure for cancer and later constipation. which caused a marked constriction in federal funding for In 1939 the Drug Trust was research rogrammes. 1 Academic scientists lacked > . . — js ak ym 7 . F . " , joen rhe a meth In 1939 the ‘Drug Trust! was formed by world history - the Rockefeller Empire and the German chemical tremendous interest that aca- an alliance of the world's two greatest company, 1G. Farbenindusirie demic scientists held in coe . bisechesingy, the sect cartels - the Rockefeller Empire and the {16- Farben), "Drug profits from market, an € possibility of é . . = * becoming eillanates German chemical company, 1.G. Farben. upwards into gigantic propor- overnight. The third is the tions and by 1948 it became a fact thet academic phyal- | iia profits from that time onwards —_{}) piivon-dollar-a-year indus. cians tend to lack real clini- ‘ 5 . b cal experience. In the uni curved upwards into gigantic spldh Reheat meeraney pu i ician i part) . iL e fact that dur- cepet inecoteric disease, Proportions and by 1948 it became a ing ihe Second World War i end-stage disease, and ani- alli : H built and operated a massive ony eee pita. 608 ost 10 billion dollar a year industry. Gotmical plant at Avesbens ease. He or she pte or using ; ions _ labour. no experience with the day- . proximately 300,000 concen- to-day needs of the chronically yy or the patient with tration-camp workers passed through I.G. Farben's facilities at very early symptoms of serious illness. As the academic Auschwitz and at least 25,000 of them were worked to death.” hysician does not depend upon the goodwill of the patient Also, others were brutally killed in 1.G. Farben's drug testing pro- for his or her livelihood, the patient's well-being becomes of grams.” Twelve of I.G. Farben's top executives were sentenced to minor consideration to him or her. All these factors make terms of imprisonment for slavery and mistreatment offences at the the academic Ce a very pom [ose of treatment effi- Nuremberg war crime trials.” ply cacy and a wi ling pawn of hea th in ustrialists. . . Hoechst and Bayer, the largest and third largest companies in Pharmaceutical companies, by enlisting the aid of influ- world pharmaceutical sales respectively, are descended from I.G, ential academic physicians, have gained control of the Farben. In September 1955, Hoechst appointed Friedrich Jaehne, a practice of medicine in the United States. They now set convicted war criminal from the Nuremberg trials, as chairman of the standards of practice by hiring investigators to perform its supervisory board. Also, a year later, Bayer appointed Fitz ter studies which establish the efficacy of their products or Meer, another convicted war criminal, as chairman of its board." impugn that of their competitors. On the Rockefellers’ moves towards ‘influencing’ medical col- Practising physicians are intimidated into using treatment leges and public agencies in the United States, Bealle writes: regimes which they know do not work. One glaring exam- "The last annual report of the Rockefeller Foundation ple is cancer chemotherapy. itemizes the gifts it has made to colleges and public agen- Your family doctor is no longer free to choose the treat- cies in the past 44 years [from 1948], and they total some- ment modality he or she feels is best for you, but must fol- what over half a billion dollars. These colleges, of course, low the dictates established by physicians whose motives teach their students all the drug lore the Rockefeller phar- and alliances are such that their decisions may not be in maceutical houses want taught. Otherwise there would be your best interests." [Emphasis added.]}* no more gifts, just as there are no gifts to any of the 30 odd Dr Alan Lewis is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Immunology drugless colleges in the United States." and Dermatology at the University of California. He is a Fellow of The Rockefellers did not restrict their ‘educational’ activities to the American College of Emergency Physicians, the College of the US alone. In 1927 they formed the International Education American Pathologists, and the American Society of Clinical | Board which ‘donated’ millions of dollars to foreign universities and Pathologists. Dr Lewis is also a recipient of fellowships and _ Politicos, with all the usual strings attached.* awards from Harvard Medical School and other medical institu- As these huge amounts of money were being ‘donated’ to drug- tions, and was director of various research laboratories. propagandising colleges, the Rockefeller interests were expanding Ivan Illich echoes Lewis’ last comment: "The medical establish- worldwide. It was large enough 40 years ago for Bealle to state: ment has become a major threat to health. The disabling impact of "tt has long been demonstrated that the Rockefeller inter- professional control over medicine has reached the proportions of ests have created, built up and developed the most far an epidemic."* reaching industrial empire ever conceived in the mind of man. Standard Oil is of course the foundation industry The Drug Story upon which all of the other industries have been built. How the pharmaceutical industry took control of the hospitals, The keystone of this mammoth industrial empire is the universities, research and other institutions in the early part of this Chase National Bank with 27 branches in New York City The Drug Story How the pharmaceutical industry took control of the hospitals, universities, research and other institutions in the early part of this Vol 2, No 13 - 1993 28¢NEXUS