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Intentionally-Discredited
Medical Theories Believed By 50%
Nearly Half Of Americans Subscribe To Medical
Conspiracy Theories Purposely Discredited  

By Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz
3-21-14


I am writing as a Harvard School of Public Health-trained behavioral scientist and world-leading “medical conspiracist,” objecting to the JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) article: “Medical Conspiracy Theories and Health Behaviors in the United States” by J. Eric Oliver, PhD, and Thomas Wood, MA, from the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. This propaganda is being heavily publicized by the Chicago-based Tribune Company, owner of the Los Angeles Times, with catastrophic social and economic consequences.  Full paper here: https://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1835348
 

The medical conspiracy theories article, headlined by Melissa Healy for the Times, titled, “Nearly half of Americans subscribe to a medical conspiracy theory,” is outrageously misleading, scientifically erroneous, transparently commercial, and treasonous -- as it aids-and-abets iatrogenic [i.e., doctor caused] mortality and morbidity ongoing in the AIDS genocide, and beyond. (See Healy's full article below) 


Every reasonably intelligent health behaviorist, or even veteran journalist, knows that questions determine answers, and the way questions are phrased determines people's responses. “Political science” and campaign polling is jaded by this well established and widely known fact, albeit constantly abused for public persuasion and population management.

 

As the author of the award-winning book, Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola--Nature, Accident or Intentional?, that explores the CIA—HIV/AIDS conspiracy “theory” most thoroughly among all treatments of this taboo subject, my research corroborates Dr. Alan Cantwell’s conclusions pursuant to the hepatitis B vaccine transmissions of HIV/AIDS killing gay men in New York City.

 

Cantwell’s and my works have been criminally neglected by the scientific establishment, and grossly obfuscated by disinformation agents and campaigns smearing origin of HIV/AIDS theorists who have contributed most to the developing public consensus that HIV/AIDS is a man-made disease associated with a CIA-linked vaccination genocide. Thus, I object to the American Medical Association’s and Tribune Company’s alliance in further disseminating false and misleading information and the fraudulently-obtained data misinterpreted and misrepresented by Oliver and Wood.

 

I especially oppose the fraudulent diagnosis heralded by these agents of yellow presses that “‘most individuals who endorse these 'medical conspiracy theories' are "otherwise normal," but "use a sort of cognitive shortcut to explain complex and confusing events.”

 

The major “cognitive shortcut” in the fraudulent conclusions drawn by Oliver and Wood appears in their polling question: “The CIA deliberately infected large numbers of African Americans with HIV under the guise of a hepatitis inoculation program.” No reasonably informed person would answer “yes” to such a false and misleading question.

 

Alternatively, the more honest related question that received overwhelming agreement was, “The Food and Drug Administration is deliberately preventing the public from getting natural cures for cancer and other diseases because of pressure from drug companies.”

 

As noted by Dr. Cantwell, no legitimate social scientist would have drafted this deceptive CIA/AIDS question, since the targeted population in America was not “African Americans,” but mainly and initially gay men in New York City.

 

Likewise, I claim the University of Chicago political science study is transparently contrived to defraud people, divert from the substantive, evidence-based, facts supporting the man-made origin of HIV/AIDS theory. The U of C study design was purposely flawed to obfuscate this most controversial matter. I make this claim because of what is widely published on the Internet, reflecting widespread public knowledge of the CIA’s links to the AIDS outbreak, published mainly by me according to WikiPedia, a widely known mouthpiece for the CIA’s propaganda.

 

In fact, Wikipedia does not allow me to edit their false, misleading, even libelous biography smearing me, Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, nor alter in any way their propaganda titled, “Discredited HIV/AIDS origins theories.” Here, in Wikipedia, I am disparaged for sourcing Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s and the Nation of Islam’s position on HIV/AIDS being a genocidal weapon for mass depopulation.

 

Nor does Wikipedia even mention me in their “CIA and AIDS” page in which my work is purposely entirely neglected, even though they cite Boyd Ed Graves’s works spun from my publications. Here, the government discredits Boyd Ed Graves, a non-scientist, gay, Black, man who died of AIDS, as sn easy target for discrediting. The U.S. General Accounting Office spun Grave’s diversion into a slam dunk white-washing by the government. In fact, the GAO investigators purposely censored my testimony that they solicited for their so-called “study” of this subject. I am certain the correct information I gave the GAO investigators was given to the CIA that, according to the Washington Post, oversees all HIV/AIDS science for reasons of National Security.

 

If my claims were truly discredited or discreditable, as Wikipedia and the status quo media reports, then they most certainly would have referenced one scientific report, or government report, that refuted my findings, disproving the clear and present links between the earliest hepatitis B  vaccine trials, the Merck Drug Co. that manufactured that vaccine, its President, George W. Merck’s leadership of America’s biological weapons enterprise, and the spread of HIV/AIDS worldwide.

 

What no one wants to mention or disprove is the fact that the initial hepatitis B vaccines were manufactured in contaminated chimpanzees supplied by Merck’s and the U.S. military’s leading biological weapons contractor and National Cancer Institute’s and Fort Detrick's administrator, named below.

 

In fact, my works include dozens of articles appearing on the Internet in top positions on every search of this subject, a mass of online published reports spanning a quarter century, wherein I evidence the science tying CIA and National Security interest-influenced companies to the hepatitis B  vaccine trials in New York City on gay men, not Blacks, not gay men in San Francisco, nor gay men in Denver who the Centers for Disease Control's bogus investigation selected for their hepatitis b vaccine origin-of-AIDS study. (That's like scientific evidence tampering! ) These disinformation agents precisely neglected NYC's gay men injected between 1972 and 1974--a taboo history off limits to AIDS-theorists and “political scientists” who follow their fellow University of Chicago propagandist, Dr. Robert Gallo.

 

Gallo falsely claimed the “discovery” of the first HIVs during the early 1980s, ten years after he served as Project Officer for the National Cancer Institute’s Contract No. 71-2025, titled “Investigations of Viral Carcinogenesis in Primates;” in which this molecular biologist co-mutated numerous AIDS-like and Ebola-like viruses with the Army’s sixth leading biological weapons contractor--Litton Bionetics--that supplied Merck & Co. the African green monkeys that Gallo claimed sourced the pandemic “from Africa.”

 

Gallo diverted from the contaminated chimpanzees also shipped by Litton Bionetics to the Merck Drug Co from which the first hepatitis B  vaccines were prepared for trials in NYC on gay men. Other experimental subjects for this mission included Willowbrook State School mentally retarded children, and sex workers and health professionals in Central Africa and Haiti.

 

Subsequent status quo scientists seeking grants for their sustenance follow Gallo’s lead generating disinformation like a “protection racket” in pseudoscience.

 

Any reasonable person would question, “Who is making the money?” and protecting National Security interests?

 

Can you imagine the liability that would result from this evidence-based intelligence becoming widely accepted beyond the world of “medical conspiracists”?

 

Suffice it to say the Tribute Co. is largely owned by Goldman Sachs, Oaktree Capital Management, and JP Morgan/CHASE--huge special interests with a profound investment in global economic intelligence and "health maintenance."

 

In conclusion, the aforementioned purveyors of propaganda should be more than ashamed of themselves. They should be tried and convicted for high treason and mass murder. 





On Mar 19, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Alan Cantwell <alancantwell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:


BTW -- no credible man-made AIDS researcher (like Robert Strecker MD, Leonard Horowitz, DDS,  or myself, ever suggested that African-Americans were infected with HIV/AIDS via the government-sponsored hepatitis B vaccine experiments (1978-1981). Remember that the AIDS epidemic in the USA started as a so-called primarily "young gay white man's disease" --- NOT as a "black disease." The Times should know better than to distort the early history of AIDS and spread further DISINFORMATION about the possible conspiratorial man-made origin of HIV/AIDS--- and by  NOT mentioning  the obvious  connection between the outbreak of AIDS in  gay men closely following the hepatitis B experiment ins gay men beginning in 1978.  

Anyone can google: man-made AIDS + hepatitis B program  ----- and determine the FACTS (both pro and con) for themselves.

Please forward to interested others....and remember to tell your doctor if you are a "conspiracy adherent" (see the last sentence of the article -- unbelievable!)


ALAN CANTWELL, MD

latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-medical-conspiracies-study-20140319,0,7614817.story

latimes.com

Nearly half of Americans subscribe to a medical conspiracy theory

By Melissa Healy

4:54 PM PDT, March 19, 2014



Is there really a link between vaccine and autism, cellphones and cancer, the HIV virus and the CIA? Almost half of Americans believe the answer is yes for at least one of the many medical conspiracy theories that have circulated in recent years. And the attitudes and behavior of those conspiracists toward standard medical advice reflect that mistrust, says a study out this week.

A pair of University of Chicago social scientists set out to determine the extent of "medical conspiracism" among the U.S. public and conducted a nationally representative online survey. They gauged knowledge of and beliefs about six widely discussed medical conspiracy theories and explored how belief in those theories influenced individuals' behavior when it came to matters of health.

Their results appeared as a letter published online this week in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.

Fully 37% of those surveyed endorsed the belief that the Food and Drug Administration, under pressure from pharmaceutical companies, is suppressing natural cures for cancer and other diseases, and 31% said they "neither agree nor disagree" with that idea, the researchers found.

One in five of those surveyed said they agreed that physicians and the government "still want to vaccinate children even though they know these vaccines cause autism and other psychological disorders." And 36% were on the fence, saying they neither agreed nor disagreed that there may be truth in the much-studied and widely discredited contention that vaccines cause autism.

Similarly, 20% said they believed that cellphones had been found to cause cancer but that the government had bowed to large corporations and would do nothing to address the health hazard. Though 40% disagreed, the remaining 40% withheld judgment on the idea that the government has been silenced about a known link between cellphones and cancer.

Less widely recognized medical conspiracy theories concerned genetically modified foods, HIV and water fluoridation, and they were not without adherents.

Just 12% of respondents said they agreed with a widely discussed theory that genetically modified foods have been widely disseminated by Monsanto Inc. as part of a secret program called Agenda 21, launched by the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation to shrink the world's population. While 42% disagreed, 46% stayed on the fence.

Just over half of Americans rejected outright a widely circulated theory alleging that the CIA deliberately infected African Americans with the HIV virus under the guise of a hepatitis inoculation program. But 12% agreed, and 37% said they neither agreed nor disagreed.

The authors of the letter, J. Eric Oliver and Thomas Weed, said the conspiracy believers spanned the political spectrum and tended to espouse conspiracy theories outside of medicine as well. But they found that the more conspiracy theories a person endorsed, the more likely he or she was to take vitamins and herbal supplements and buy mostly organic food, and the less likely he or she was to get an annual physical, wear sunscreen, visit a dentist or get a flu shot. 

Given that medical conspiracy theories are so widely known and embraced, said Oliver and Weed, it would be unwise to dismiss all those who believe them as a "delusional fringe of paranoid cranks." Instead, they suggested, "we can recognize that most individuals who endorse these narratives are otherwise normal" but use a sort of cognitive shortcut to explain complex and confusing events. Physicians can also glean a bit more about their patients -- and their readiness to accept medical counsel -- when they know that a conspiracy adherent has come for the occasional doctor visit.

 Copyright © 2014, Los Angeles Times
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Here is yet another polling study -- that appeared in 2005 --- from the Washington Post --- regarding views of black people and man-made AIDS.


Study: Many Blacks Cite AIDS Conspiracy
Prevention Efforts Hurt, Activists Say

By Darryl Fears
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 25, 2005; Page A02

More than 20 years after the AIDS epidemic arrived in the United States, a significant proportion of African Americans embrace the theory that government scientists created the disease to control or wipe out their communities, according to a study released today by Rand Corp. and Oregon State University.

That belief markedly hurts efforts to prevent the spread of the disease among black Americans, the study's authors and activists said. African Americans represent 13 percent of the U.S. population, according to Census Bureau figures, yet they account for 50 percent of new HIV infections in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nearly half of the 500 African Americans surveyed said that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is man-made. The study, which was supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, appears in the Feb. 1 edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.

More than one-quarter said they believed that AIDS was produced in a government laboratory, and 12 percent believed it was created and spread by the CIA.

A slight majority said they believe that a cure for AIDS is being withheld from the poor. Forty-four percent said people who take the new medicines for HIV are government guinea pigs, and 15 percent said AIDS is a form of genocide against black people.

At the same time, 75 percent said they believe medical and public health agencies are working to stop the spread of AIDS in black communities. But the responses, which varied only slightly by age, gender, education and income level, alarmed the researchers.

"As a researcher knowing that these beliefs were out there, I wasn't as surprised as people I share the study with," said Laura Bogart, a behavioral scientist for the Rand Corp., who co-authored the study with Sheryl Thorburn, associate professor in the College of Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State.

"But the findings are striking, and a wake-up call to the prevention community," Bogart said. "The prevention community has not addressed conspiracy beliefs in the context of prevention. I think that a lot of people involved in prevention may not be from the community where they are trying to prevent HIV."

The findings were also no surprise to Na'im Akbar, a professor of psychology at Florida State University who specializes in African American behavior.

"This is not a bunch of crazy people running around saying they're out to get us," Akbar said. The belief "comes from the reality of 300 years of slavery and 100 years of post-slavery exploitation."

Akbar cited the Tuskegee experiment conducted by the federal government between 1932 and 1972. In it, scientists told black men they were being treated for syphilis but actually withheld treatment so they could study the course of the disease.

Today, he said, African Americans are more likely to live in communities near pollution sources, such as freeways and oil refineries, and far from health care centers. "There are a lot of indicators that our lives are not valued," Akbar said.

Phill Wilson, executive director of the Black AIDS Institute in Los Angeles, said past discrimination is no longer an excuse for embracing conspiracies that allow HIV to fester.

"It's a huge barrier to HIV prevention in black communities," Wilson said. "There's an issue around conspiracy theory and urban myths. Thus we have an epidemic raging out of control, and African Americans are being disproportionately impacted in every single sense."

Black women made up 73 percent of new HIV cases among women in 2003, and black men represented 40 percent of new cases, according to the most recent federal figures available. Among gay men, blacks represented 30 percent of new infections, and adolescents ages 18 to 24 accounted for nearly 80 percent of new HIV cases.

"The whole notion of conspiracy theories and misinformation . . . removes personal responsibility," Wilson said. "If there is this boogeyman, people say, 'Why should I use condoms? Why should I use clean needles?' And if I'm an organization, 'Why should I bother with educating my folks?' The syphilis study was real, but it happened 40 years ago, and holding on to it is killing us."

Alan Cantwell
alancantwell@sbcglobal.net
author of,

QUEER BLOOD: THE AIDS Genocide Plot
available thru Amazon.com

 

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