Weird Wulsin Story - Injecting Aids Patients With Malaria
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
Then I came across this article
By the same tortured logic Heimlich wants to convince the world of the therapeutic power of malaria. His hopes for using the illness to cure cancer and Lyme disease had already been scuttled in the early 1990s, after the Mexican authorities shut down a clinical trial in Mexico City, according to Heimlich
It sounds like he was trying to perform genocide.
I suspect that there was an underlying reason of doing this that had nothing to do with medicine but rather to try to kill AIDS patients in order to try to wipe out AIDS.
Instead of putting them in gas chambers as the Nazies did to Jews, this pseudotherapy was created to achieve the same result.
And I thought Schmidt was the only batshit crazy I was able to vote for in my district. Glad to know I can still vote for lunatic without crossing-over.
97X . . . BAM
Wulsin is an AID's researcher. She analyzed data for the Heimlich Institute. She blasted the experiments, and she was fired for it.
Get the tin foil hats off, guys.
AnnDriscoll Says:
March 23rd, 2006 at 12:38 am
Pounder,
Let’s not blow this out of proportion. Dr. Wulsin is an AIDS researcher. She analyzed data for the Heimlich Institute, which is considered a preeminent institute (rightfully or wrongfully) and she then delivered a highly critical report of malariotherapy experiments. She was subsequently fired for telling the truth. Read the
Radar article She gave the interview so it’s clear she has nothing to hide.
-Ann Driscoll
Instead her report proposes significant upgrades in safeguards, oversight, and accountability before moving forward. Wulsin even suggests changing the name “malariotherapy” to “immunotherapy,” suggesting that the very treatment itself was tainted.
I don't see where she denounced the procedure. I see where she told them to put up safeguards, but suggested they could still move forward with it. The "significant upgrades" she proposed were the equivalent of Paul Hackett's "I think we should look into this."
Plus, she advised them to change the name of it, which is basically a PR move.
Wulsin's not a bad candidate, but OH-2 may want to explore its options. Jim Parker, maybe?
Wulsin had been lured to the Heimlich Institute with the understanding that she’d be groomed to take over its presidency from Heimlich himself. After a few months, however, she began to suspect that this honor had a string attached: She had to produce a document supporting further malariotherapy trials. Instead her report proposes significant upgrades in safeguards, oversight, and accountability before moving forward. Wulsin even suggests changing the name “malariotherapy” to “immunotherapy,” suggesting that the very treatment itself was tainted.
In December 2004, the day after issuing a draft of her report (which has been obtained by Radar), Wulsin was fired.
I included that portion in my original post because it does add some important context. However it does not address the issue of was she for or against the general idea of injecting aids patients with Malaria. She is quoted as thinking this idea might have some merit even though CDC was saying it was dangerous and nonsense.
I would certainly like to know more - I think there are some serious unanswered questions here.
A Cincinnati blog, The Beacon, has been reporting this and related stories for over a year, publishing important information which the major media outlets in the Queen City have failed to report.
Great blog, Buckeye. Keep up the good work!
PETER HEIMLICH
PETER HEIMLICH
to an interview with the author of the December 2005 article.
http://198.234.121.108/cincinnatiedition/112005_Heimlich.mp3
Victoria Wells Wulsin has been associated with the Heimlich scandals in town, though the recent article in Cincinnati Magazine does depict Wulsin as bothered by the behavior of the Heimlich Institute, particularly the human experiments in China and Africa (where Dr. Heimlich supported injecting malaria into AIDS patients, despite his lack of solid research for such dangerous and life-threatening behavior).
Here's a link, too, to an organization Wulsin founded. She helps others.
http://www.soteni.org/index.htm
This is copied directly from our campaign mailbox and the message was in response to an email from Russell Hughlock at buckeyesenateblogs.com. It was sent at 8:53 AM this morning.
Dear Russell,
Thank you for your interest in my background, and I appreciate your
writing to find out.
In 2004 I researched malariotherapy, which is giving [usually by
injection] someone Plasmodium falciparum or Plasmodium vivax, the most
common pathogens causing malaria, for the sake of immunologic responses
that benefit the patient. The long-term goal was to see if a component of
the pathogen could be used in some form or formulation as a vaccine or
treatment for HIV/AIDS.
I began by a review of the literature regarding the epidemiology of
malaria and HIV co-infection.
Although millions of people suffer from both diseases every year, the
scientific evidence for a salutary effect between the two diseases was
close to nonexistent. Furthermore, malaria is a serious, painful,
infectious, and life-threatening illness. For many reasons (outlined in
my summary document to the Heimlich Institute, who had hired me), actually
giving anyone malaria willfully is unethical.
I recommended that the Heimlich Institute discontinue its investigation of
malariotherapy. The epidemiologic evidence did not indicate a likely
factor that would warrant further immunologic (e.g., in vitro analyses)
study. My consultancy for the Institute was terminated the following day
by Dr. Heimlich.
Since that time, I have returned to my passion in public health:
preventing disease. SOTENI International, the non-profit corporation a
group of us founded in 2003, is dedicated to preventing and mitigating the
effects of HIV/AIDS among the world’s most vulnerable populations. We
have begun by establishing four community-led programs in Kenya to enable
and empower the ~ 8,000 orphans and vulnerable children [almost all of
whom are HIV-negative] to remain AIDS-free.
I am running for Congress in large part because our government does not
adequately protect our public health. I hope you will support me in
bringing about the change needed to put into action what epidemiologists
have been advocating for decades.
Sincerely,
Vic 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?
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
I am glad that Vic Wulsin responded. That's the real story. Remember to take a look at
http://www.soteni.org/index.htm
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.
Whoever wrote this
http://blog.oh02.com/
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
Stop being ridiculous, Muffet.
The Dean of Cincinnati
Publisher, The Cincinnati Beacon
So who are you going to elect?
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
By the way, Muffet -- why should I investigate Hartman?
The Dean of Cincinnati
Publisher, The Cincinnati Beacon