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By the way, Muffet -- why

The Dean — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:17:56 -0700

By the way, Muffet -- why should I investigate Hartman?�� Sounds like you have a good start...��

The Dean of Cincinnati

Publisher, The Cincinnati Beacon

If you would like me to

The Dean — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:17:17 -0700

If you would like me to ignore facts, Muffet, then please tell me what it is about.��

The Dean of Cincinnati

Publisher, The Cincinnati Beacon

Muffet

staff — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:01:19 -0700

Sometimes it is just about reporting the facts.

She is good.

Muffet — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:14:16 -0700

So who are you going to elect?�� Just tell me that.�� Is it your job to just poke holes in things, or are you actually going to do something for some good?�� Nobody's actually asking you to put on blinders.�� That would look silly with your hat.

Try "invetigating" how Greg Hartmann is probably using info from his current job as county clerk to get names for his campaign.�� Now, there's somebody who is not good.�� There is somebody who has bought his way into jobs.�� There is somebody who has not done any good for others.��

Stop being ridiculous,

The Dean — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:57:04 -0700

Stop being ridiculous, Muffet.�� Why should I ignore Wulsin's potentially unethical behavior (and her subsequent lies) just because the other option is also bad?

Here's the reality:�� both candidates are no good.�� I do not subscribed to the "lesser of two evils" argument, and I will not put on blinders.��

The Dean of Cincinnati

Publisher, The Cincinnati Beacon

So.

Muffet — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:43:11 -0700

I guess you love Schmidt.�� Good G-d.�� Drop this bullshit.

I was wondering

staff — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:22:41 -0700

if that was actually the intent to be honest.

I have a copy of what seems

The Dean — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:05:32 -0700

I have a copy of what seems to be the report she submitted to The Heimlich Institute. In it, she says that, due to the bad press given to malariotherapy, that the name should be changed to immunotherapy and more experiments should be conducted.

Here is an excerpt:

>> Programmatic Next Steps
>>
>> 1. Write a strategic plan for the Heimlich Institute.
>> 2. Rename malariotherapy "Immunotherapy" ["IT"].
>> 3. Verify and elaborate on East Africa Phase II trial.
>> 4. Explore further collaborating with Michele Ashby, the Denver
>> Gold Group,
>> and/or the CEOs, medical directors, &/or others of appropriate
>> mining companies.
>> 5. Complete and publish review of Immunotherapy.
��

The Dean of Cincinnati

Publisher, The Cincinnati Beacon

David

Ohio2nd — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:57:51 -0700

if you don't like this story getting any play, the last thing you'd want to do is kick it to the top of the Live discussions bar by commenting on it.

hmm

staff — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:02:15 -0700

the post includes the section about her being fired. Not sure how you can claim it's misleading at all.

Wulsin is a Hero

david_steuber — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:59:05 -0700

Whoever wrote this��posting is��deliberately misrepresenting the contents of the article they link to.�� The article says quite clearly that:

Epidemiologist Victoria Wulsin, hired by the Heimlch Institute to analyze data on AIDS patients with malaria, cautioned against further unsupervised experiments in Africa and was fired when she presented her findings.

Vic Wulsin��obviously stood up to a��very well-renowned and powerful individual,��and then put her foot down when she saw something unethical occurring.�� She was even willing to lose her job for it.

If you ask me that is exactly the kind of individual we need to have in Congress.

I'm glad she responded, too, but...

jenny-diver — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:17:30 -0700

I also look forward to her answers on the additional questions listed by Peter Heimlich.

Muffet, thanks for posting that radio interview with the Cincinnati Magazine reporter in which she said she considered it a very important story to bring out.

Can we put this to rest?

Muffet — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:24:49 -0700

I am glad that Vic Wulsin responded. That's the real story. Remember to take a look at

http://www.soteni.org/index.htm

Take a listen

Muffet — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:10:32 -0700

Listen to this, too.

Submitted by Muffet on Thu, 03/23/2006 - 7:05pm.

It's a family ripped apart. Here's a link to an interview with the person who did the Cincinnati Magazine article.

http://198.234.121.108/cincinnatiedition/112005_Heimlich.mp3

Additional questions?

Peter Heimlich — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:16:11 -0700

Mr. Hughlock and/or others, you may wish to direct the following additional questions to Dr. Wulsin.

1. How did she come to be hired by the Heimlich Institute?

2. "Malariotherapy" has been thoroughly discredited by leading immunologists and bioethicists since at least 1994. Illicit human experiments conducted by the Heimlich Institute since 1990 in Mexico, China, and Africa have been compared to the Tuskegee syphilis and Nazi concentration camp experiments. In a widely reported scandal in Spring 2003, UCLA researchers were caught doing backdoor human experiments in association with the Heimlich Institute, infecting AIDS patients in China with malaria. (NY Times, LA Times, Reuters, two front page Cincinnati Enquirer articles, etc.)

Was Dr. Wulsin unaware of all this before taking the job?

3. The UCLA scandal erupted in 2003 because the China "malariotherapy" human experiments were not supervised by an institutional review board (IRB). International law requires IRB oversight to protect human subjects from abusive research.

Why did Dr. Wulsin work on the Heimlich Institute's Africa "malariotherapy" project and evaluate patient data, knowing there was no IRB in place? Why did she quit this illicit project only when Dr. Heimlich asked her to leave and not before? Given that her letter includes the admission that the project violates human subject research protection guidelines - "giving anyone malaria willfully is unethical" - to which oversight agencies has she reported the violations?

4. Between which dates was she employed and how many hours per month did she work? How much was she paid?

5. Was she paid by the Heimlich Institute (which is wholly owned by Deaconess Associations) or by Dr. Heimlich personally?

6. When was she first contacted by a reporter looking into the story?

7. What contact has Dr. Wulsin had with Michelle Ashby, formerly of the Denver Gold Group?

8. Will Dr. Wulsin provide a copy of her report to you?

Weird Wulsin Story - Injecting Aids Patients With Malaria

staff — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:55:59 -0700

This is about as weird as anything gets. Victoria Wulsin is running for congress in the 2nd district in the Democratic primary. So far so good.

She used to work at the Heimlich institute - from here it gets weird. Henry J. Heimlich was the guy who apparently invented the "maneuver" - or maybe not. He is also the father of Phil Heimlich who was Petro's running mate.

Well first go read this, put together by his other son, Peter

In March 2002, I began researching the career of my father, Henry J. Heimlich MD, the Cincinnati physician known for the Heimlich maneuver. To my astonishment, the information I compiled from hundreds - and eventually thousands - of original source documents revealed a dark and troubling history of fraud that was a far cry from his public image. Since then my original research has been the basis of articles in numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Reuters, and many others. (Two of these articles have won press awards.) In November 2005, my wife Karen and I were profiled in a two-part article in Radar Magazine.

Strange huh ? It's gets stranger. He details all kinds of fraud and quackery - when we get to this

My research also turned up information about perhaps the most bizarre quackery in which my father has been engaged for 25 years: "malariotherapy." My father - who has no background in immunology - has claimed that AIDS, cancer, and Lyme Disease can be cured by injecting patients with malaria. Deaconess and others have funded illicit human experiments on indigent AIDS victims in China and are currently doing so in several African countries. Leading bioethicists, including Peter Lurie MD of Public Citizen, have condemned these experiments as medical atrocities. According to a recent article, the "research director" for the Africa project is a car rental agent in the San Francisco area.

Ok, that's just nuts. Injecting aids victims with Malaria !

More in the extended and how Wulsin is involved