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When Walter Nelson-Rees died in January 2009 at age _ papilloma virus 18 and more than 50 years of continuing eighty, Hooper wrote a moving obituary entitled "The culture, the various strains of Henrietta's cells Death of an American Hero" (available at reproduce and spread on their own. Growing like weeds www.aidsorigins.com). Hooper recalls: "Walter in many labs, they now appear more like amoeba-type delivered an understated and yet powerful speech cells than cells derived from a human. Amoebae are entitled ‘Responsibility for Truth in Research’, which — one-celled protozoa. There are several varieties found pointed out that further cases of lab cross- in humans that are not considered to be disease contamination were still occurring, and went on to state producers. that in his opinion there was no logical reason why Twenty years ago, in The Cancer Microbe, | wrote about chimp cells could not have been used to make the Wilhelm Reich, MD, the unfairly maligned and Congo vaccine, ‘given the availability of these normal persecuted cancer researcher who was sentenced to a non-human cells and the prevailing custom in the 1950s Federal penitentiary in February 1957...and was found of using cells about which little or nothing was known dead in his cell on 3 November that year. He firmly except that they could optimally support the growth of a believed that cancer is intimately associated with given virus’.” bacteria, which he called "T-bacilli". In cancer tumours The idea of man-made AIDS and contaminated artificially produced in animals, Reich observed the vaccines is so explosive that it is routinely dismissed by animal's cancer cells transforming into monster cells the major media as “conspiracy theory". But the theory hat greatly resemble tiny protozoa and amoebae. almost destroyed Barack Reich, in his time, was widely Obama's bid for the White perceived as a menace anda House me aunsclecion | Due to their ability to fino torever im ou he Leonard Horowitz states: “On replicate indefinitely... that Henrietta’s cancer cells April 27, 2008, Barack Obama's immortal HeLa cells are have taken on a life of their own, much like the amoebae that he studied extensively. former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, . during questions and answers now considered by some at the National Press Club in a6 The lab creation of new forms connection with the general geneticists to bea of life has not escaped the controversy over his opinions, contemporary creation attention of the military, always was asked by a moderator, ‘In on the lookout for potential your sermon, you said the agents useful for biological government lied about warfare development. The inventing the HIV virus as a Defense Advanced Research means of genocide against people of color. Solask you: Projects Agency (DARPA) is an arm of the US Do you honestly believe your statement and those Department of Defense. On 5 February 2010, Katie words?’ Wright responded, 'Have you read Horowitz's © Drummond of Wired.com reported: "The Pentagon's book, Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola ... whoever wrote mad science arm may have come up with its most that question?... I read different things. AsI saidto my _ radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of a new species. members, if you haven't read things, then you can't... of evolution to the military's advantage by creating based on this Tuskegee experiment and based on what _ ‘synthetic organisms’ that can live forever... has happened to Africans in this country, | believe our "The plan would assemble the latest bio-tech government is capable of doing anything." knowledge to come up with living, breathing creatures For more discussion, view my article "Rev. Wright is _ that are genetically engineered to ‘produce the intended right about man-made AIDS". biological effect’. Darpa wants the organisms to be fortified with molecules that bolster cell resistance to The creation of a new species death, so that the lab-monsters can ‘ultimately be Due to their ability to replicate indefinitely (provided programmed to live indefinitely'.” thar nen Fad nea nel Ae th Annan ent Af 2 ne Due to their ability to replicate indefinitely... immortal HeLa cells are now considered by some geneticists to be a The creation of a new species Due to their ability to replicate indefinitely (provided they are fed properly) and the development of a non- human number of chromosomes, immortal HeLa cells are now considered by some geneticists to be a contemporary creation of a new species. (A human cell has 46 chromosomes; a HeLa cell has a chromosomal number of 82.) The proposed name is Helacyton gartleri, in honour of geneticist Stanley Gartler, PhD, who, along with Nelson-Rees, called attention to the worldwide contamination of tissue cell cultures with HeLa. Transformed by the cervical cancer-causing human Henrietta Lacks: "The Godmother of Virology" At the end of January 2010, reviews began to appear of a new book entitled The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot. The author spent 10 years researching the billion-dollar industry surrounding HeLa cells and extensively interviewed surviving family members. Lacks's family did not learn of Henrietta’s "immortality" until more than 20 years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and APRIL - MAY 2010 NEXUS ¢ 29 contemporary creation of anew species. www.nexusmagazine.com