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Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan, remind us that, | micropictographs and even the data have been even in 1992, millions in China already had antibodies to manipulated. Lanka was the first to isolate a maritime H5N1, meaning that they had contracted it andthat their virus. Through personal communication, he has assured immune system had little trouble fending it off. this author that his repeated investigative letters to the And as Dutch science historian Ton van Helvoort aptly National Institutes of Health (NIH) regarding supportive pointed out, by the 1950s the word "virus" had become material for the "influenza virus" have gone unaddressed so mouldable a concept that one could speak of virus and unanswered.” workers without the existence of any consensus whatsoever of what viruses were.” Extremely supportive | Challenging the Medical Orthodoxy of this mouldability among virologists was biophysicis Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer are not new to Max Delbriick’s subtitle for "Viruses 1950", a conference writing incisive warnings regarding public health. held at the California Institute of Technology: Among their writings listed on Medline is a British Medical "Proceedings of a conference on the similarities and —_ Journal treatment entitled "Doctor takes 'march of shame’ dissimilarities between viruses attacking animals, to atone for drug company payments".” That influenza plants, and bacteria, respectively".”' Indeed, inthe 1930s = vaccination and oral antiviral studies have been and 1940s, the concept of "filterable virus" was subjected consistently pushed and paid for by pharmaceutical to such criticism that its very foundations were companies themselves is no secret. But once in a while, threatened. Statements like those coming from pioneer — unsponsored papers such as Brownlee and Lenzer's 2009 virologist André Lwoff in 1957, such as "viruses should article in The Atlantic clear the misinformation:” be considered as_ viruses "Whether this season's swine because viruses are viruses", lu turns out to be deadly or were unacceptable.” . . mild, most experts agree that Also under the gun was Lanka, after reviewing it's only a matter of time before Thomas M. Rivers, "the father of we're hit by a truly devastating modern virology", who said that the data, came to the lu pandemic—one that might viruses could be differentiated conclusion that studies, ill more people worldwide than invsibity uncer the ordinary | Micropictographs and DS combined. In the US, the through the finest filters because SIGO HS GECALING shatmaccutical vaccines. and of this small size, and their been manipulated. antiviral drugs to limit the inability to propagate spread of flu and prevent people hemselves in the absence of tom dying from it. Yet now susceptible cells.’ But English some flu experts are bacteriologist Frederick Twort, working in 1915 on challenging the medical orthodoxy and arguing that for ohne's bacillus, presently itself suspected of being a hose most in need of protection, flu shots and antiviral uberculosis-like mycobacterium, had to add specia drugs may provide little to none. So where does that actors before this bacterium would grow on a lifeless eave us if a bad pandemic strikes?..." medium.” Henry Sweany's 1933 study showed tha The authors added: “But what if everything we think we certain virus-like forms of tuberculosis met Rivers's now about fighting influenza is wrong? What if flu criteria as well.” Rivers, who would become head of the vaccines do not protect people from dying—particularly Rockefeller Institute, was wrong. In fact, in 1951, Emmy he elderly, who account for 90 percent of deaths from lieneberger-Nobel showed just the opposite: tha seasonal flu? And what if the expensive antiviral drugs some bacteria could pass through filters that some of the hat the government has stockpiled over the past few arger viruses could not.* Wade and Manalang, as noted __ years also have little, if any power to reduce the number in part one, proved this with mycobacterial forms o of people who die or are hospitalized? Pfeiffer's.” “The US government—with the support of leaders in To say that the history of the theoretical underpinning he public-health and medical communities—has put its of virology has been a tortuous one is probably an aith in the power of vaccines and antiviral drugs to limit understatement, and, incredibly, many virologists even he spread and lethality of swine flu. Other plans to o this day persist in using the flawed reasoning that that contain the pandemic seem anemic by comparison. Yet which passes through a microfilter is a virus. Certainly, | some top flu researchers are deeply skeptical of both flu one exception to these is world-renowned virologist and vaccines and antivirals. molecular biologist Stefan Lanka, who, to this day, “Like the engineers who warned for years about the questions the very existence of HINI andits allied forms — levees of New Orleans, these experts caution that our as a swine flu virus altogether. Lanka, after reviewing the | defenses may be flawed, and quite possibly useless data, came to the conclusion that studies, against a truly lethal flu. And that unless we are willing micropictographs and even the data have been manipulated. Lanka was the first to isolate a maritime virus. Through personal communication, he has assured this author that his repeated investigative letters to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) regarding supportive material for the "influenza virus" have gone unaddressed and unanswered.” as Lanka, after reviewing the data, came to the conclusion that studies, micropictographs and even the data have to came NEXUS ¢ 57 been manipulated. DECEMBER 2011 - JANUARY 2012 www.nexusmagazine.com