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Alliance for Human Research Protection

Alliance for Human Research Protection

Advancing Voluntary, Informed Consent to Medical Intervention
  • About
    • Mission Statement
    • Board of Directors
    • Distinguished Advisory Board
    • Honor Roll–Exemplary Professionals
    • Contact
    • Subscribe to the AHRP Mailing List
    • Donate
    • Videos
  • Medical Ethics
    • “First, do no Harm”
    • Human Rights
    • Informed Consent
    • Nuremberg Code
  • Eugenics / Bioethics
    • Gene Modification
    • Corrupt Public Health
    • Racialized Science
    • Medicalized Racism
  • Corrupted Science
    • Bias/Fraud
    • Propaganda – Censorship
    • Clinical Trials
    • Concealed Data
    • Public-Private Partnerships
    • Pharma Corrupt Influence
    • Publication Bias
  • Medical Atrocities
    • Current Medical Atrocities
    • Japanese Atrocities
    • Nazi Atrocities
    • Operation Paperclip
    • CIA Mind-Control
    • CIA Torture
    • U.S. Radiation Experiments
    • Unethical Experiments
  • Current Controversies
    • Apartheid Policies
    • Coronavirus Fear
    • Covid Pandemic
    • Epidemics
    • Government Overreach
  • Vaccines
    • Vaccine Mandates
    • Vaccine Risks
    • Vaccine Safety

AHRP Distinguished Advisory Board

Elizabeth Mumper
MD, FAAP, IFMCP
Peter Eichacker
MD
Edward F. Fogerty, III
MD
Allan S Cunningham, MD Cunningham
MD
Dianne N. Irving, PhD Irving
Bose Ravenel
MD, FAAP
Alvin H Moss
MD, Professor
Antonietta M. Gatti
Ph.D.
Sidney M. Baker
MD
Cammy R. Benton
MD
Carol Stott
Ph.D., Clinical Psych.
Nancy Banks
MD
Christiane Northrup
MD
Christopher Exley
Ph.D., Professor
David Brownstein
MD, Pediatrician
Garth Nicholson
Ph.D.
Nicole Delépine
MD
Gerárd Delépine
MD
Gayle DeLong
Ph.D.
Hendrieka Fitzpatrick
MD
Howard Morningstar
MD
James Lyons-Weiler
Ph.D.
Kelly Sutton
MD, Internist
Kenneth P. Stoller
MD, FACHM
Manuel F. Casanova
MD, Professor
Paul Thomas
MD, Pediatrician
Philip Incao
MD
Prachi Garodia
MD, Internist
Prashanthi Atluri
MD
Richard Moskowitz
MD
Sandy Reider
MD
Sin Hang Lee
MD FRCP (C)
Stephanie Seneff
Ph.D. MIT
Tiffany Baer
MD, Internist
Christopher Shaw
Ph.D., Professor
Jacob Puliyel
MD, MRCP
Kenneth Saul
MD
James (Jim) Meehan
MD
Melanie Gisler
DO
John Oller
Ph.D.

AHRP Board Member’s Recent Posts, Testimonies, Publications

07. 2020. COVID19: Three Bits of Science That CDC, Fauci and FDA Forgot, and One They Would Like to Forget , James Lyons-Weiler

07. 2020. A Novel Approach to Treating COVID-19 Using Nutritional and Oxidative Therapies , David Brownstein , Science, Public Health Policy & the Law

06. 2020. Gresham's Law and the Covid Pandemic , Jacob Puliyel , Sunday Guardian (India)

06. 2020. WHO trial using potentially fatal hydroxychloroquine dose--according to WHO consultant , Meryl Nass

05. 2020. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Corrupt, coordinated assault managed by WHO on an inexpensive and effective treatment / Nass , Meryl Nass

03. 2020. Coronavirus Pandemic: Is It Time to Wind Down the Rhetoric? , Jacob Puliyel , The Wire

03. 2020. An important proposal that ameliorates our lack of protective equipment and spares both patients and healthcare workers , Meryl Nass , Anthrax Vaccine

02. 2020. Proposed School Exclusion Bad for America’s Kids, Doctors and Educators Say , Jennifer Margulis

02. 2020. Education: An Open Letter on Exemptions , Edward F. Fogerty, III

02. 2020. Protecting Yourself from Covid-19 , Meryl Nass

02. 2020. The Jig Is Up , Richard Moskowitz

06. 2019. Truth in Research Labelling , John Noble, Jr. , Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

04. 2019. Missing, hidden and destroyed adverse event data. Who vaccinates? , Meryl Nass

03. 2019. Whither Cochrane? , Meryl Nass , Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

03. 2019. A sample of vaccine and injectable medication tragedies in the US during my lifetime , Meryl Nass

03. 2019. The Skinny on Pertussis, Vaccines and Enforced Mandates , Meryl Nass

03. 2019. My testimony on vaccine exemptions to the Maine joint Education and Cultural Affairs Committee , Meryl Nass

03. 2019. Indisputable: CDC is not making prudent vaccine recommendations , Meryl Nass

03. 2019. OP-ED: Why Americans don’t trust vaccine makers , Meryl Nass

01. 2019. Measles: Two U.S. Outbreaks are Blamed on Low Vaccination Rates, Another Perspective , Meryl Nass , British Medical Journal

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Bernice Eddy

Bernice EddieBernice Eddy, PhD (1903–1989) a virologist and epidemiologist at NIH, identified SV40, a cancer-causing monkey virus that millions of children were exposed to from contaminated polio vaccines.

In 1954, while the NIH was testing the first commercial polio vaccines, Eddy’s job was to test the vaccines from five different companies. She and her staff worked around the clock testing each of the vaccines on 18 monkeys: “This was a product that had never been made before and they were going to use it right away in children.” She discovered that the inactivated vaccine manufactured by Cutter Laboratories contained residual live poliovirus; as a result the monkeys were getting paralyzed. Dr. Eddy reported her findings accompanied by pictures of the paralyzed monkeys to William Workman, head of the Laboratory of Biologics Control. Her effort to avert the spread of the polio virus to healthy children failed because her finding was not well received. NIH director, William Sebrell was notified of her findings, but he chose to ignore them and her findings were never given to the vaccine licensing advisory committee. The Cutter vaccine was licensed along with the others; as a result, 40,000 children were sickened with “abortive polio”; 56 children developed paralytic polio; and five children died in what is known as “the Cutter Incident.”

Instead of promoting her and putting her in charge of the polio vaccine program, they took her off polio altogether and put her back on flu viruses. But Dr. Eddy began to take an interest in cancer. Understandably resentful about being punished as a whistle-blower, Dr. Eddy and Dr. Sarah Stewart who was working at the National Cancer Institute collaborated and found that a virus Dr. Steward had been working on caused cancer in every animal. They called the virus SE polyoma (using their initials). Women scientists were a rarity and they were rebuffed by the male honchos who denigrated their work which did not follow the prescribed modus operandi — they were convinced that cancer was caused by virus.

In 1959, despite having been removed from polio research in 1955, Dr. Eddy began to conduct polio vaccine safety studies. In 1960, Dr. Eddy discovered that an extract of monkey kidney cells used to propagate the polio vaccine caused tumors in newborn hamsters. She surmised that the monkeys carried a cancer-causing virus. Her supervisors nonplussed; they tried to keep her discovery quiet but Dr. Eddy presented her data at a cancer conference in New York. The cancer-causing virus was isolated by other scientists and dubbed SV40 — the 40th simian virus discovered. She followed up and identified SV40 as the virus present in these cells and in the Salk polio vaccine that had caused tumors in hamsters.

NIH officials regarded her discovery as a threat to a pivotal public health policy; namely, mass vaccination. They tried to muzzle her, but in 1960 she presented her findings to the NY Cancer Society; whereupon NIH blocked her from publishing her findings. Meanwhile, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, Merck’s Chief vaccine expert, published similar results at the same time, leading Merck to voluntarily withdraw its killed-virus polio vaccine.

In 1962, Dr. Eddy finally published her findings in the journal of the American Societies for Experimental Biology reporting that the polio vaccine contained SV40, a cancer causing virus. In 1961 federal health officials ordered vaccine manufacturers to screen for the virus and eliminate it from the vaccine. But they kept the discovery of SV40 cancer risk under wraps and never recalled existing contaminated vaccine stocks. For two more years millions of additional children were needlessly exposed — bringing the total to 98 million Americans from 1955 to 1963. Eventually, Bernice Eddy lost her labs. In successive measures she was denied permission to attend scholarly conferences, her papers were held up, and finally she was removed from vaccine research altogether.

Dr. Eddy’s treatment became a scandal within the scientific community and was discussed in Senate hearings. Medical historian, Prof. Edward Shorter interviewed both Dr. Bernice Eddy and Dr. Maurice Hilleman. Here are his observations about the trials and tribulations of Dr. Eddy and Dr. Stewart:

“It may be that these women were treated as they were not because of overt discrimination but because they evidenced a somewhat different scientific style than did many of their male colleagues. Stewart’s intuitive sense that cancer was caused by viruses is a case in point, and her attempts to prove something that she felt in her heart to be true met with great skepticism. (Dr. Joseph Smadel was Dr. Eddy’s chief was Associate Director of NIH) Why had Smadel gone after Bernice Eddy?

Maurice Hilleman: “well, because she never had definitive experiments. When you bet up an experiment, you set up the controls to go with it. You can’t have public health being upset by experiments that may not be meaningful and that are not definitively run. They tore the hell out of her for that.” In Eddy’s defense, she was aware at the time that all the campus lab animals she might have taken as controls were contaminated with the virus. But what Hilleman and other men were saying, in essence, was that these women lacked rigor, lacked system, that they were too intuitive. “And yet she was right,” added Hilleman.

By contrast, when Hilleman told Smadel the same thing that Bernice Eddy had told him, Smadel listened. Eddy and Stewart had soft scientific styles; Smadel and Hilleman had hard styles, and hard personalities to go with them. Whether Eddy and Stewart had the right style or not, their polyoma virus and SV 40 went on to form the basis of the revolution in biotechnology, which is the story of the scientific present and future. (Edward Shorter, The Health Century, 1987; 195–99 excerpt; Michael Horwin. Simian Virus 40: A Cancer Causing Monkey Virus from FDA-Approved Vaccines, Albany Law J of Sci & Tech, 2003; excerpted at SV40 Cancer Foundation.)

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