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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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John W. Thompson

John Thompson-thumbJohn W. Thompson, MD “must be counted among the saints of his century and of medicine, a person who could confront horrors that others ignored and devote his life to rectifying them.” (Paul Weindling. John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust, 2010)

Dr. Thompson was a deeply religious psychiatrist who came to Germany in April 1945 as an officer in a British-Canadian Air Force group (RAF 84) preparing for the occupation of Germany. Its mission was to search for German radar, jet engine technology, and results of scientific research. Thompson was to assess German oxygen masks and Luftwaffe procedures for offsetting decompression sickness. However, his mission and the mission of his life changed when he arrived in Germany and was exposed to the horrors of the recently liberated concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, a camp with 53,000 prisoners when it was liberated in April 1945.

In the weeks before surrendering the camp, the Germans destroyed the water supply system, creating a nightmare of sanitation, worsening the starvation of the prisoners. Days before liberation, Anne Frank died there. Because of starvation and disease, mainly typhus, over 13,000 prisoners died in the weeks after liberation. A broadcast of the British Broadcasting Corporation by a reporter accompanying the British troops who liberated the camp included the following description:

Here over an acre of ground lay dead and dying people. You could not see which was which. . . . The living lay with their heads against the corpses and around them moved the awful, ghostly procession of emaciated, aimless people, with nothing to do and with no hope of life, unable to move out of your way, unable to look at the terrible sights around them. . . . Babies had been born here, tiny wizened things that could not live. . . . A mother, driven mad, screamed at a British sentry to give her milk for her child, and thrust the tiny mite into his arms, then ran off, crying terribly. He opened the bundle and found the baby had been dead for days. . . . This day at Belsen was the most horrible of my life. (Dimbleby R: Liberation of Belsen, BBC News, April 15, 1945)

As described by Weindling,

Dr. Thompson initially devoted himself to the care of survivors. He found the giving of care both personally annihilating and spiritually illuminating. . . . Belsen reshaped Thompson’s sensibility. His encounter with survivors deeply scarred and changed him. He had not lost his faith in science, but he saw that science and medicine required alternative moral and philosophical rationales. Mechanistic physiology was Thompson’s ‘God that failed’. . . . To transcend the suffering of the Holocaust he turned to a philosophy of communion with the whole person. Spiritually transformed by the suffering he witnessed, he resolved to assist at the spiritual rebirth of the postwar world” (pp. 98, 106).

Dr. Thompson was assigned to a British intelligence group as a senior officer in September 1945, the FIAT (Field Information Agency Technical), whose goal was to secure military, scientific, and technical intelligence. The British and American occupation forces rounded up German scientists and asked them to describe in great detail all of the research they had conducted during the war and to assist in assembling the scientific publications and research documents. The purpose was to gather the fruits of anticipated very advanced secret scientific weapons and technology. It quickly became apparent that underlying the research was a previously unrecognized category of human abuse, which Dr. Thompson eventually termed “medical war crimes”.

Dr. Thompson conducted extensive interviews with doctors and scientists at German universities and hospitals; and he obtained copious research documents whose content led him to conclude that ninely percent of the German medical profession at the highest level were involved one way or another in the sacrifice of humans as experimental subjects. He embarked on a campaign to deal with these cataclysmic crimes , but first he had to overcome staunch opposition from the British Foreign Office and U.S. intelligence officials.

John thompsonThe Nazi Doctors Trial at Nuremburg (1946–1947) was largely the result of the persistent effort of Dr. Thompson and Col. David Marcus, the American Chief of the War Crimes Branch in the U.S. military whom Thompson convinced to prepare a medical war crimes trial.

After the war, Dr. Thompson went back to psychiatry as Assistant Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. He devoted inordinate time to communicating with “so called incommunicable ‘chronic catatonics’ or other ‘hopeless backward cases.’” He would sit on the floor for hours with patients in nonverbal communication. He considered the city of New York a vast asylum, declaring, “The Bowery is the open ward and Bellevue the closed.” He became an adherent of R.D. Laing’s therapeutic approach to schizophrenia, and institutional care of these patients as necessarily oppressive. Dr. Thompson remained convinced the rest of his life that spiritual and dynamic therapy was what persons with schizophrenia needed, and he had no confidence in psychopharmacology and in so-called scientific approaches in psychiatry.

His biographer, Prof. Paul Weindling describes how the pain of Bergen-Belsen, the war, and the Holocaust worsened as Thompson grew older, and he tired of life. In 1965, at age 59, he went snorkeling with a young protégé, Edward Hubbard. Thompson swam ahead so fast that his diving partner could not keep up with him. He was found dead in the water; it is not clear if he took his own life. Looking back upon his life, he must be counted among the saints of his century and of medicine, a person who could confront horrors that others ignored and devote his life to rectifying them. (Prof. Paul Weinding. John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust, 2010)

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