“Why do current AIDS researchers not investigate, and not even consider the role of chemicals in AIDS or study other non-HIV AIDS theories to solve the AIDS dilemma?”
— Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, Director, Institute of Science in Society, London

Aids is caused by a virus, Hiv. Those who “catch” Hiv and don’t get sick have a genetic factor that protects them. Monkeys get sick because they catch the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (Siv), cats get sick from the Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (Fiv), and cows get sick when they catch the Bovine Immunodeficiency Virus (Biv). Polio is caused by a virus. Cancer is caused by viruses and genetic predisposition. “We are closing in on the genetic causes of cancer,” said Bill Clinton in 1998.

Africans are not dying because they are starving and have no clean water to drink, they are victims of deadly viruses — mostly Hiv of course, but also Ebola. Sars is caused by a virus. Leukemia is caused by a virus. Rabies is caused by a virus. Cervical cancer is caused by a virus. Bird Flu, Hoof and Mouth Disease, West Nile Disease are all caused by viruses. Hepatitis is caused by six different viruses, at latest count. “Legionnaire’s Disease” is caused by a bacterium. Mad Cow Disease is caused by an infectious protein, as is Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease. Diabetes and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome are genetically caused diseases. Children also die because of “shaken baby syndrome” — initiated when a parent or babysitter shakes a baby in anger.

Autism is caused by “nerd” genes in the parents. Cerebral Palsy is caused by bad genes and viruses. Meningitis and arthritis are caused by viruses and bacteria. Encephalitis is caused by viruses. Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome (EMS) is caused by tryptophan, a natural amino acid sold in health food stores. And when cancer isn’t caused by viruses and bad genes, it’s caused by Vitamin C!

What do all these well-publicized causations have in common? They all serve as scapegoats to deflect guilt and deter lawsuits that might otherwise be directed at powerful elites in business, the medical establishment and government. Or serve to discredit natural health remedies that are a threat to the pharmaceutical industry because they are used by consumers as alternatives to super-profitable prescription drugs.

What if we had strong evidence that, in fact, Aids is a multifactorial syndrome caused by drugs, malnutrition, toxic Aids medicine and the psychological devastation induced by the Hiv+ diagnosis, and that those who don’t get sick aren’t protected by a genetic factor, but by the common factor of refusing to take toxic Aids drugs? What if polio is actually caused by pesticides, vaccinations and tonsillectomies; diabetes by antibiotics, other medicines and organocholorine chemicals in the environment; leukemia and most cancers by a wide variety of toxic chemicals that governments permit in food; hepatitis by medicine and chemicals in the environment (in addition to alcoholism)?

What if cervical cancer is really caused by medicine as well as toxic chemicals in condoms and sexual lubricants? What if Mad Cow Disease is caused by poisonous chemicals like phosmet mandated by governments to be given to cows, Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease is caused by eye and brain surgery (i.e., by doctors), and Sars is nothing more than atypical pneumonia aggravated by severe air pollution and the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) need to come out with a “scare of the week” to perpetuate its power? What if even influenza is caused by chemicals?

What if we could show convincing evidence that autism, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Attention Deficit Disorder, encephalitis, meningitis, cerebral palsy, allergies — even “Shaken Baby Syndrome” as well as other maladies, are caused by childhood vaccinations mandated by governments and staunchly defended by organized medicine? What if we could show that rabies is caused by the rabies vaccine? That arthritis is caused by vaccinations? That ebola is caused by ingesting acutely poisonous chemicals? What if EMS was caused not by tryptophan, but by the genetically modified bacteria its manufacturer used to produce it?

What if “Legionnaire’s Disease” was just pneumonia caused when some frail old men with weak immune systems got extraordinarily drunk at a convention, a situation that is known to lead to pneumonia? What if the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) deceptively called this a new disease caused by a new bacterium in order to panic the US congress into approving a new mass immunization program that would benefit the CDC and the drug companies? What if we had evidence that “bird flu,” Hoof and Mouth Disease and all the other diseases the WHO regularly menaces us with are not a threat to humans, and are not caused by viruses, rather by animals’ debilitated immunity due to environmental toxins?

In other words, what if we could conclusively demonstrate that George Bush (I and II), Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and other bigwigs cause cancer, the CDC and World Bank cause AIDS, the WHO and giant chemical corporations cause polio, hepatitis, leukemia and bird flu, Margaret Thatcher caused Mad Cow Disease, the American Medical Association and drug corporations cause autism and arthritis, the Chinese government and WHO cause “Sars,” and Reagan and Bush I, who heavily promoted genetic engineering despite lack of evidence for its safety, caused EMS?

What if we could show that Nixon’s advisors devoted the entire $30 billion budget of their “War on Cancer” toward a spurious theory that it was caused by retroviruses because they knew that, in fact, Nixon was the cause of cancer?

What if we could connect the dots and see the huge amounts of money that pass from chemical and pharmaceutical corporations to politicians, government regulators, doctors, scientists and the media, and the pivotal influence this has on disease causations?

What if we could point out the obvious utility to the powerful of blaming a virus for deaths in Africa instead of hunger, unclean water and other factors — factors caused or made worse by centuries of US and European government-supported racist exploitation, corrupt African political leaders installed and propped up by the CIA, and the rapacious policies of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund?

Then we might make some fairly reasonable hypotheses about corruption totally overwhelming and politicizing the science of disease causation. In a world awash with toxins, microbes are causing almost all of the disease. You have to be pretty brainwashed and programmed to believe that. But believe it people do, because programmed they most assuredly are.

Whitewashing Toxins

“The unwritten rule of public health seems to be that infectious disease always trumps toxicology.”
— Serge Lang, Professor of Mathematics, Yale University

In fact, there is strong evidence for all of the aforementioned environmental and iatrogenic (caused by medicine or doctors) disease causations. In most cases much stronger than the theories that attribute these diseases to germs.

When US President Nixon launched his “war on cancer” over 30 years ago, a large body of scientific literature already existed that linked chemicals in the environment to cancer. There were also hypotheses — but little else — linking retroviruses to cancer. One would have expected that most, or at minimum a substantial amount, of the $30 billion spent on the “war” would have gone toward conclusively proving the chemical connection. Instead the entire amount went to the retrovirus theorists. They failed to prove that retroviruses cause cancer, and the “War” is today widely deemed a failure.

In fact, it was a tremendous success. It succeeded in its real purpose — which was not to cure cancer, but to absolve the chemical companies, and the politicians who receive money from them in exchange for favors, and the regulators who profit from the revolving door between government and industry, from any blame, while convincing the public that something was being done about the cancer problem and empowering a “retrovirus establishment” that could be utilized in the future to throw smokescreens over other politically sensitive diseases.

Environmental toxins are slow killers. Assuming you don’t drink a whole bottle of pesticide at once, environmental toxins in food and water tend to kill you over years and decades, not minutes. Slowly progressing diseases like cancer posed a problem for the virologists in the driver’s seat of the medical research establishment, because viruses got their jobs done quickly, so the virologists couldn’t blame slow diseases on viruses like they wanted to, in order to increase their power. So perhaps it was only a matter of time before a scientist named Carlton Gajdusek proposed, in the 1960s, a theory that some viruses — dubbed lentiviruses — caused disease slowly. His theory fascinated the medical establishment despite the fact that he didn’t have much evidence for it. But it was an attractive idea that appealed to the powerful, for all the reasons previously mentioned — so much so that he was awarded the Nobel Prize and the top virology spot at the US National Institutes of Health, one of the world’s largest sponsors of medical research. Gajdusek became the inspiration for the generations of virus-hunting scientists to follow — the ones who today have practically obliterated the toxically caused disease in favor of omnipresent deadly viruses.

The industrial revolution is the foundation of most of the great fortunes possessed by the elite few who control industry. If the toxic products of industry are in fact behind most of today’s serious disease, to disclose and accept that fact would threaten industry’s very existence. If people went back to a simpler, more natural way of life, getting along without cars and highways and lawnmowers and processed, packaged food; instead growing their own vegetables without chemicals, making their own fertilizer and clothes and becoming self-reliant, the money flow to the world’s industrial elite would dry up and so would their slush funds for the politicians and academics who help them make profits.

Since the notion that government operates in the interests of the people is ridiculous on its face, and the fact that it operates almost exclusively in the interests of the wealthy — throwing just enough crumbs to the masses to prevent them from staging a revolution — is evident to anyone who cares to see reality, the industrial origins of disease must be whitewashed, and scapegoats found. This job falls to the Scientific Establishment, who are almost completely dependent on government and industry for their funding. Government and industry make no secret of what happens to scientists who don’t adhere to their agenda — they are blacklisted, defunded, branded as crazy, and sped into an involuntary retirement. Dr. Peter Duesberg, the eminent US virologist who lost all federal funding and was censored, attacked and academically isolated after he challenged the Hiv theory of Aids, is a good example and hardly the only one. When other scientists see what can happen to someone as distinguished as Duesberg, they quickly get the message — conform or lose your career.

So, the old idea that science is “self-correcting” no longer applies, though it’s still asserted. There can be no self correction in a totalitarian environment that punishes independent thought. And that’s what medical science has evolved into today.

The media’s key role in creating epidemics

Today, theories that germs cause disease are quickly promoted to facts by the media, and theories that toxins cause disease are ignored. A low standard of proof is accepted for viral causations, and for toxins the hurdle is set very high. In fact, it’s hard to remember the last time the CDC said that a new disease was toxin-related.

The mass media love “deadly viruses” for several reasons. First, “evil new germ” stories sell newspapers and entice viewers to watch TV news shows. The more viewers or readers a media outlet has, the more money it can charge advertisers, who are the source of the vast majority of the media’s income. Thus the media have a pronounced tendency toward sensationalism.

Their advertisers also include the very chemical and pharmaceutical corporations that make the toxins that make many people sick. A cardinal rule of media is, don’t upset your advertisers, or they might stop advertising in your newspaper or on your TV network. For these reasons and others, most of the information you receive from most media outlets, except the weather report, sports, crime, horoscope and a few other innocuous categories, is highly filtered to remove information that threatens those with power and money. The carefully promoted image of journalists as the watchdogs of freedom and attackers of the powerful, a myth promoted by Hollywood movies and journalists’ own PR, is largely a fabrication, and in today’s era of monolithic media ownership by enormous corporations, far from being watchdogs, the media routinely censor and spin stories to protect wealthy interest groups.

This is the rule, not the exception. The real goal of the media is to provide a supportive environment for advertising, and that means not only killing or spinning stories that could adversely affect advertisers, but killing or spinning stories that might adversely affect the economic system that makes corporate profits possible. Public relations firms help with this process. They work for the corporations and their job is to write news stories and get them placed in the news media, sometimes with no editing at all, and with a real reporter’s byline. These stories are sheer propaganda, cleverly disguised as news. By carefully selecting facts and sources, and omitting ones that discredit the story (or strategically limiting them so as to give a false impression of getting both sides) they subtly enhance the public image of the corporation. Most people haven’t the foggiest notion that this goes on. But it is, in fact, ubiquitous in the news business. And, oh yes, news is a business, by the way. A very very profitable one. Not a public service enterprise. Sorry to shatter anyone’s illusions here.

One of the many ways that the PR firms and media subtly control your thoughts is simply in the terminology that they employ. For instance, calling doctors and scientists “the scientific (or medical) community” makes your subconscious picture the positive associations with the word “community” — i.e., good-hearted folks working together for everyone’s benefit. They rarely use the far more accurate descriptor “the scientific (or medical) establishment,” which gives you the highly realistic mental image of a group of people working together to maintain their own power and profits. A Google search found that “scientific community” is almost 50 times more common than “scientific establishment.”

Similarly, a cliché that has been relentlessly pounded into our cerebra by the governments and media is “the international community,” which is a way to get everyone to feel good about the globalization process that the elitists are using to create centralized world government and usurp people’s freedom to have a say in the way their countries are run. Yes, those swell folks in “the international community” are just like the nice people in the local hardware store in your community. They’re like the warm-hearted characters in “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood!” They’re not a secretive coterie of fantastically wealthy plutocrats who want even more money than they already have, and want power and control over every creature on earth. Perish the thought!

The PR agencies, working through the media, have very effectively woven into the public consciousness the notion that anybody who disagrees with “the medical community” is a “conspiracy theorist.” Want to present scientifically referenced objections to vaccination, or fluoridation, or the Hiv theory of Aids? You’re a conspiracy theorist! This has been so firmly implanted into people’s subconsciouses that you can’t even debate facts with them anymore. They immediately dismiss what you say as a “conspiracy theory.” It’s like a Pavlovian stimulus that instantly shuts down all debate. A most impressive accomplishment, and the establishments use it to discredit many threatening realms of thought, not just alternative medical opinion.

In 1984, the US government made a mockery of science by presenting the Hiv-causes-Aids theory of Robert Gallo, one of the scientists who failed in the War On Cancer, as if it were almost certainly a fact. They presented this news at a press conference, even though Gallo’s theories hadn’t even been published yet for scrutiny by his peers. To be fair, both Gallo and US Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler called their viral cause, soon to be dubbed “Hiv,” only the “probable” cause of Aids.

But within days, the New York Times and the rest of the media started calling it “the Aids virus,” the word “probable” was dropped and a causation was established without a scientific paper even having been published. No debate was allowed. “The cause of Aids was established by government fiat,” as Dr. Michael Lange of St. Luke’s Hospital in New York would later recall.

After the media cast the cause of Aids in stone, nobody noticed when Gallo’s papers were finally published and it was clear to anyone reading them objectively that they didn’t come close to proving that “Hiv” caused Aids. For one thing, he claimed to have found Hiv in only about 36% of the Aids patients he studied. In a saner world, that would have been considered proof that Hiv couldn’t possibly be the cause. But few people in science objected because the Aids Gravy Train, an enormous money machine powered by government and media misinformation, was rapidly being engineered, and medical researchers quickly realized the value of hitching a ride on it (a really fun ride that has so far provided them with over US $120 billion in funds).

Years later, mainstream Aids scientists finally accepted what dissenting scientists had maintained for years — that Kaposi’s Sarcoma (KS), the hallmark disease of Aids, was not caused by Hiv. But rather than acknowledge the most likely cause, the toxic chemical Amyl Nitrite, also known as “poppers,” which gay men sniffed for aphrodisiac effect, the Aids mainstream decided that KS was caused by another virus, HHV-8! Altogether predictable, and nary a skeptical eyebrow has been raised in the media.

The WHO and CDC, whose insiders were fully aware that there was no proof that Hiv caused Aids, started calling it “Hiv/Aids”, with the “/” providing a typographical causation in lieu of the nonexistent scientific one. It’s silly — do we say, “I can’t come to work today, boss. I have rhinovirus/cold”? The media quickly adopted this self-serving convention which effectively glues the alleged cause to the disease, and popularized it to the point that today even the person on the street refers to “Hiv/Aids” in this stilted manner.

Almost 20 years after propelling the allegedly deadly “Hiv,” into the popular imagination, media performed an encore with the disease dubbed “Sars.” It took no time at all for the media to start screaming about the WHO’s “discovery” of “the deadly Sars virus.” Voluminous evidence to the contrary was simply ignored, and remains today in that Twilight Zone of Inconvenient Evidence that researchers acknowledge at their peril.

Journalist Gudrun Greunke tells us about another case where a disease apparently caused by toxins was whitewashed by the Public Health Establishment and their allies in the Media:

“The case that I am going to describe is not directly related to AIDS, but I believe it is the beginning of a pattern, an example of how they manipulate a disease, as they have with AIDS. The issue concerns the Oil Toxic Syndrome, which surprisingly started at the same time as AIDS, 1982. In a family a boy gets sick and is taken to hospital, then three more members of the family become ill and, in the medical records of the emergency room, it is recorded that they all have pneumonia. A physician starts to investigate. Then come more and more similar cases. The media only finds out about it a week later. The physician explains to the relatives that he needs their help since everything indicates that there is a food poisoning. After half an hour of searching it is found that the common food was salad...Dr. Muro displayed proofs that indicated that the agent responsible for this poisoning was a pesticide from Bayer, but the health authorities in Spain called and gave the case to the CDC. Dr. Muro was fired as Director of Hospital del Rey and officials from the CDC checked his documents and proofs.

“The official view is that the agent responsible for this poisoning was spoiled olive oil. Up to this date, any alternative view has suffered tremendous censorship from the big media and the scientific journals.”

Scientific journals that have abandoned science

Scientific and medical journals that publish theories about new diseases ought to be impartial, but are not, because the pages of these journals are crammed with advertising from pharmaceutical corporations, providing millions of dollars in advertising revenue to the journals annually. These drug companies do not profit if a toxin is the cause of disease, they need the cause to be a germ, so they can make drugs to “fight” it. The scientific journals have to accept that germ premise of disease, and the miraculous alleviative powers of the drugmakers’ drugs, in the papers they publish. Otherwise the drug companies would pull their ads, and the journals would go bankrupt, or, if they didn’t, at least would not be swimming in dough as they are now.

Two former editors-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Marcia Angell and Jerome Kassirer, recently published exposés that warn that big drug company bucks paid to academic researchers is biasing medical research. This is true, but it’s also true that big drug company bucks paid to medical journals for glossy four-color drug advertisements biases the people who run the journals. The pro-drug bias is in this way compounded. Drug firms have decisive influence over the whole system from research to publication.

Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, recently confessed to a House of Commons health committee that medical journals and the drug companies have a relationship that is “somewhere between symbiotic and parasitic.” He said that drug companies and their hirelings often try to get papers touting their drugs published by dangling inducements before journal executives — such as promising to buy a lot of reprints of the article for marketing purposes. This can earn the journal a great deal of money — as much as $1 million for a single article. Journals also derive big income from publishing supplements designed to meet a drug company’s marketing needs. The major journals make tens of millions of dollars a year from advertising. Now, nobody is requiring drug companies to buy ads in medical journals, they do it of their own free will. And they can choose not to do it of their own free will, too, if a journal shows too much editorial independence in evaluating papers submitted by researchers on the drug company payroll.

Imagine if a journal started publishing papers from dissident scientists asserting that all this viral disease causation stuff is a self-serving fantasy concocted by a diseased medical-scientific-industrial establishment. The editor probably would not be gunned down as he entered a restaurant, but he would very likely be axed by his publisher, and find it rather impossible to find similar employment elsewhere.

Enormous evidence of toxic causations routinely ignored

It was very apparent, in the early 1980s, that the gay men who were getting sick from what would be called “Aids” were overdosing on antibiotics, corticosteroids, other medicines and many different recreational drugs, including heroin, cocaine and poppers. This was due to the heavy sexual partying life led by a certain segment of gay men at that time. They took recreational drugs as aphrodisiacs and swallowed medical drugs in the belief that these would prevent them from catching STDs. All of these drugs, when overused, are toxic and known destroyers of the immune system. But if public health officials had acknowledged this, that would have been an indictment of their friends at the drug companies. And of their comrades at the FDA, who often rubber-stamp whatever approvals the drug companies want. And of the doctors who overprescribe these medicines. Anyway, why acknowledge it when the viral alternative is so much better for all concerned?

If cows are exposed to dangerous pesticides that damage their immune systems, how much better for the chemical industry and the politicians they give money to if this can be laid at the doorstep of a new “Bovine Immunodeficiency Virus” or a “prion” such as that which, the media inform us without the slightest hesitancy or doubt, causes “Mad Cow Disease.”

If cats get sick because of the appalling amount of toxins in commercial cat food, and from harmful vaccinations, how much more pleasant it is for the makers of those toxins and vaccines if the blame can be put on a new “Feline Immunodeficiency Virus.”

And of course, the monkeys have Siv, said to be the ancestor of Hiv, though it only seems to produce illness in caged monkeys, not in wild ones. Of course, no scientist who wants to boost his career is going to take note of the depressing and stressful conditions of lab monkeys’ captivity in tiny cages — even though stress and depression are well proven to depress immunity.

Can it be any more than a matter of time before we will have “immunodeficiency viruses” for every species of animal that gets sick due to the increasingly unhealthy conditions caused by industry and world leaders?

Is an autism virus waiting in the wings to make its debut, in case the gene theory of autism fails to assuage increasingly skeptical parents?

Are politically savvy virologists now cooking up a theory that viruses cause malnutrition?

Or will the scientists get creative and assign some of these diseases to bacteria and molds instead of viruses? To keep the masses from catching on?

Fattening the Wallets of the Scientists

Angell writes that “research is biased in favor of the drugs and drug makers. The pharmaceutical industry spends a great deal to influence people in academic medicine and professional societies. It does a super job of making sure [that] nearly every important person they can find in academic medicine [who] is involved in any way with drugs is hired as a consultant, as a speaker, is placed on an advisory board — and is paid generous amounts of money.”

On top of that, the studies themselves are now mostly financed by industry. So imagine yourself in the scientists’ shoes. You know that if your study doesn’t find favorably for the drug, you probably won’t be getting any more very profitable studies to conduct. Or consulting fees. Or speaking fees. Or paid seats on “medical advisory boards.” You “play ball” because not to do so is to jeopardize your career and its accompanying opulent lifestyle.

How much money can these researchers make? Just by recruiting patients into studies, many doctors and scientists make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year above and beyond their regular salaries. Even as much as a million dollars a year, according to some critics. Medical scientists love to portray themselves as self-sacrificing humanitarians, but the money they collect doesn’t exactly put them in the same tax bracket as, say, Gandhi, does it? Since caviar and Château Mouton Rothschild Pauillac 1986 are habit-forming, the temptation to make one’s studies come to the “right” conclusions is very strong.

Does that mean that figures are fudged, “serious adverse events” are underreported or redefined so as to minimize them, and logical discrepancies so obvious that a child would notice them are ignored? Yes, yes and yes. Recently it was revealed that Dr. Edmund Tramont, head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Aids division, deliberately concealed evidence of severe drug toxicity in a US government sponsored trial of the Aids drug Nevirapine, now being urged upon millions of pregnant African women. Such revelations are ignored or minimized by the media. In South Africa, a leading newspaper that endorsed the use of Nevirapine refused to even run the story. Other media that did run it filtered it tremendously and focused on a single death that occurred in the US, rather than on the thousands of severe reactions and more than a dozen deaths experienced by African women during the Nevirapine trials. Predictably, Tramont has been defended by leading scientific journals Nature and Science, which profit mightily from drug company advertising. But, in fact, Tramont’s deceit is far from an anomaly, it is closer to being the norm for behavior in a politicized medical and regulatory establishment saturated with corruption.

Independent reviews have found that 90% of drug company-financed studies report favorably on a drug, and only 50% of studies financed by governments find favorably. One can only speculate about what percentage of studies would find favorable results if neither drug companies nor a politicized and dictatorial federal health bureaucracy in cahoots with the drug companies were to fund the studies. 10 percent favorable? Two percent? Who knows?

Drug corporations don’t make money fighting toxins, only germs. Government regulators know that, and they know from observing their colleagues that there’s a senior vice presidency with signing bonus waiting for them at the pharmaceutical or chemical corporation if they “do their job well” while at the regulatory agency. So only germs can be allowed to cause disease. Certainly not medicines. And certainly not chemicals.

Scientists who work for government health agencies know they have absolutely nothing to lose by skewing their science to favor the goals of chemical and drug corporations. They not only ensure themselves a lucrative future career path in private industry by doing this, but they also know that they can’t be sued. If class action lawsuits are brought in the future because of deaths and disabilities caused by corrupt government approvals of dangerous drugs and chemicals, it’s the government (i.e., the taxpayers) who will have to pay compensation, not the scientists who managed the approvals. They will be safely ensconced in sinecures at multinational corporations, making a cool million or more a year.

Recent exposés have revealed that NIH scientists, supposedly working to protect the public, are not only paid salaries higher than presidential cabinet secretaries (over US $175,000 a year) but are also permitted to have generous consulting contracts with many of the very companies they are supposed to be regulating, often doubling or tripling their incomes. They not only benefit from the government-industry “revolving door,” they also profit from “a swivel chair, where they sit at one desk and do both jobs,” as Congressman James Greenwood put it. Not surprisingly, many of these well-fed scientists do everything they can to promote the interests of their benefactors in industry. Which means they exaggerate the threat posed by germs, and then support the pharmaceutical solution to the alleged threat.

This is ironic because there have always been scientists who disputed the germ theory of disease. Many scientists feel that germs are the effect of disease, not the cause, and that the cause is weakened immunity in the host, usually due to toxins in the environment, malnutrition and/or physical or emotional stress. Even the father of the germ theory, Louis Pasteur, renounced the theory on his deathbed and, agreeing with his rival Antoine Bechamp, said that “the germ is nothing; the soil [i.e., the internal environment of the host] is everything” before he expired.

Pasteur’s deathbed confession was ignored by the medical establishment, because without the germ theory, there could be no pharmaceutical industry, and if toxins were recognized as the cause of disease, chemical corporations would face rigorous regulation and class action lawsuits, which would interfere with their profits.

So let’s step back and have a look at this. Pharmaceutical corporations give “research grants” and/or “consulting fees” and/or “advisory board memberships” to practically everybody involved in medical research. They fund whole university departments. They give “campaign contributions” to all politicians who can affect their interests. They engender an understanding with federal regulators that, if they do their job well, when they leave government, the drug company will offer them a prestigious job with expense account, fancy corner office and busty secretary. They buy off the health bureaucracy from top to bottom, so that the regulating agencies become de facto extensions of the drug company. Agency bosses can then be counted on to reward the scientists who are team players, and punish those with independent minds and consciences who believe in protecting the public, not the corporations.

Since it is politicians and regulators who permit chemical companies to saturate food, water, the environment and our bodies with disease-causing chemicals, indeed, often even require this poisoning by law (laws lobbied for by the corporations involved) in such cases as water fluoridation and aerial mosquito spraying, and require children to be vaccinated, disease causations have to be found that keep the politicians out of prison. Hence cervical cancer is caused by a virus, Kaposi’s sarcoma is caused by a virus, leukemia is caused by a virus, and on and on, ad infinitum. As Janine Roberts pointed out, “viruses can’t be sued.”

Neither can prions or bacteria.

Neither can genes.

Neither can the sun, which some think is a scapegoat for chemical causes of skin cancer.

Now scientists are even saying that it is your genes (not tobacco companies) that determine whether you will become addicted to nicotine.

Will a new study soon find that the ancients were right, it’s the moon that makes people go crazy, and not antidepressants and other mood manipulating drugs made by pharmaceutical companies? That would certainly be convenient.

Drug and Chemical Corporations — Best Buddies

Yet the waters of deception run still deeper. Many of the major chemical corporations that the politicians allow to dump the carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, endocrine-disrupting chemicals into our food, water and air have pharmaceutical divisions that make the medicines to “fight” the “viruses” and “bacteria” and “prions” that everybody knows are the real causes of serious disease. One part of the corporation makes money causing the diseases, and the other part makes money “fighting” them. And at every step of the way, the politicians make the laws and loopholes that let them get away with it.

Firms involved in both chemicals and pharmaceuticals include the biggest names in the business: American Home Products, Aventis, BASF, Merck, Dow, Dupont, Bayer, Novartis, Syngenta, Astra-Zeneca, American Cyanimid, CIBA-Geigy and many others. These firms merge and change their names so often it becomes difficult to keep track of them.

One of the most notorious chemical polluters, Monsanto, has had several pharmaceutical subsidiaries, including Searle and Solutia. Then a few years ago Monsanto was bought (and eventually spun off) by Pharmacia and Upjohn, a leading drug corporation that was itself recently bought by Pfizer.

During all these years of corporate mutation, Monsanto took the synergistic chemical-drug business plan one step further. After polluting much of the world’s water with toxic chemicals, they were reported to be getting into the drinking water business, seeing it as a huge profit maker as water got ever more polluted. Their dream may have been that people should drink “Monsanto Springs” water to wash down their lunch of Monsanto genetically modified food doused with Monsanto herbicide. And then perhaps take Searle or Solutia pharmaceuticals to “treat” the cancer that they might get from the herbicides (sorry, the viruses). Maybe they calculated that the profits from selling pure water would more than offset any losses caused by people failing to develop cancer due to drinking clean bottled water instead of the Monsanto-chemicalized water in their wells or municipal water systems. Or perhaps they figured that the herbicides in the food itself would suffice to cause the cancer, and they didn’t need the polluted water. It’s unclear what became of Monsanto’s fantasy, but it’s illustrative of the way the industry apparently thinks.

Uncle Sam and his counterparts in other governments do all they can to help the enterprise along. US legislators have even passed laws making it impossible for parents with children damaged by vaccines to sue the drug firms that made them. Instead, parents have to appeal to the government for damages. In effect, the drug firms make the profits, and the taxpayers assume all risk. That’s then promoted as free market capitalism, when it is really welfare for the rich investors who run the corporations and bribe the legislators.

If we didn’t have germ causations, a lot of very rich, eminent “public servants” would be in jail, with their vast fortunes seized to help compensate their victims. Obviously, that’s not politically realistic.

With polio, there was never any real proof that it was caused by a virus. There was plenty of evidence that widespread household use of DDT and other pesticides in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, encouraged by the government and of course by the chemical companies, caused paralysis. And that vaccinations caused paralysis. Researchers Jim West, Janine Roberts and others have richly documented how the Salk polio vaccine actually caused increased cases of polio, and how US health authorities conspired to cover this up by changing the definition of what polio was. They reclassified most polio cases as “non-poliomyelitis acute flaccid paralysis,” viral or aseptic meningitis, Guillian-Barré syndrome and other diseases, and then proclaimed the vaccine a miraculous success of modern medicine, due to the fact that there were fewer “polio” cases (but many more meningitis, G-B and acute flaccid paralysis cases) than before. A blatant scam, whose perpetrators have gotten away with it due to the popular media’s unwillingness to cover the issue. Roberts told me that, after her polio exposé was published last year in The Ecologist, many journalists wrote to her expressing praise. Some wanted to run mainstream press reports about the story, but they were nixed by their editors. Think about this for a moment — a story about government deceit and deception that paralyzed hundreds of thousands of children (and continues to do so), and nobody will print it except small non-commercial publications like The Ecologist. Surprising if you thought the media were independent watchdogs, but not surprising at all if you’ve figured out that they are a sophisticated propaganda operation that unfailingly protects powerful interests from facts that might harm them.

In more modern times, the CDC plays the same shell game with Aids, constantly changing the definition of what Aids is in order to create the illusion that it is increasing and that women get it too, not just men. For example, bedeviled by the fact that Aids remained a disease that was overwhelmingly restricted to males, in violation of their prediction that it would become equally distributed between the sexes, in 1993 the CDC added cervical cancer to the official list of Aids diseases. It’s hard to see any justification for this other than the political need to feminize the disease in order to salvage CDC’s credibility. Also, confronted in 1992 with evidence of thousands of cases of Hiv-negative Aids, CDC quickly deterred the threat this represented to the sacred Hiv theory by reclassifying these cases as a new disease — dubbed Idiopathic CD4 Lymphocytopenia (ICL).

The corporations’ “NGO” and “Charity” subsidiaries

The World Health Organization presents itself to the world as a dedicated, compassionate “global health watchdog.” Go to their website and you’ll see all the usual heartstring-tugging pictures of poor African and Asian children who they are struggling to “help.” You won’t see any alternative views about their role in getting dubious polio vaccines, deadly Aids drugs and toxic pesticides into the bodies of vulnerable third world people.

Are hard-nosed reporters peppering WHO leaders with questions about the facts brought out in the various exposés of polio and Aids? Are they asking them why they recommend spraying Africa with dangerous pesticides when this might cause paralysis and cancer? Are they interrogating them about why they continue to urge Nevirapine on pregnant third world mothers despite evidence of its severe toxicity? Are they demanding to know, bluntly, whether the WHO is preventing disease or causing it? Dream on!

Far from raising a skeptical eyebrow to pronouncements made by public health careerists, the news media treat every new scare story WHO puts out as if it were a fact, not an assertion made by a financially and politically corrupted agency.

What people don’t realize (because the media don’t tell you) is that pharmaceutical and chemical corporations now fund WHO, UNICEF, other UN agencies and thousands of “health” charities both major and minor. These “NGOs” then become part of the pharma companies’ PR operations. They haul out the photos of sick and diseased black children, post them in their ads and on their websites, and suck at people’s consciences. The virus must be stopped, they shout. We need the life-giving drugs, the vaccines! Not knowing the way they are manipulated by images every day, few compassionate people can resist these appeals. Their opinions are molded for them by pharmaceutical industry money.

With the media’s funding coming from the same sources, both industries relentlessly promote the infectious disease model and pharmaceutical solutions to problems that have political, nutritional and toxic causes.

It hardly seems a coincidence that a WHO subsidiary, Codex-Alimentarius, is at the forefront of new campaigns in the European Union and elsewhere to restrict people’s freedom to use high dose vitamins and other natural health supplements by making them illegal or available only by doctor’s prescription. This is something that has been the pharmaceutical industry’s wet dream for decades, because they see non-patentable vitamins and herbs as low-cost competition for their expensive drugs.

Millions of people who have used these supplements for years, successfully maintaining their own health naturally without paying the medical establishment, are in danger of losing that freedom. And health watchdog WHO is leading this effort to restrict people’s choices and destroy their health.

In some European countries, people are already being restricted to 200 mg Vitamin C tablets, when there is evidence that only much higher potencies can prevent and ameliorate disease. This action by the WHO is also a part of politicized disease causation. By denying people the right to take vitamins and other natural health supplements, WHO will bring about lowered immunity that will result in more disease. And deliver people right into the waiting arms of their funders at the pharmaceutical firms.

Looked at another way, while chemical farming pushed by the big chemical cartels (who also give money to WHO) is causing depleted soil that reduces and degrades the nutrients in our food, WHO is working to make sure that we can’t get those nutrients back by taking dietary supplements.

WHO/Codex claim they are considering these limits because there are “studies” that show that vitamins and other health supplements in high doses are potentially harmful. There may be some germ of truth to that, as anything taken in ridiculously excessive amounts can be harmful. But there’s little evidence that the megadoses of supplements that health conscious people commonly consume do any harm, and in any event the matter can be dealt with by simple labelling, not by making high doses illegal. Interestingly, there are many studies that show that commonly consumed doses of over the counter drugs ranging from antihistamines to pain relievers are potentially very harmful and even fatal. As well as commonly consumed doses of pesticide residues on produce. As well as commonly consumed amounts of milkshakes, peanuts, Big Macs, chewing gum, booze and Coca Cola. But we don’t hear WHO talk about restricting those. Just who do WHO think they’re kidding?

An innumerably greater number of studies have found tremendous benefit from vitamins. In fact, hardly anyone has ever died from taking megadoses of vitamins, but well over 100,000 people in the US alone die every year from the side effects of properly used prescription medicine. Yet prescription medicine is being encouraged everywhere by the health authorities. WHO and World Bank and CDC and practically the entire medical establishment have made it very clear — Africans need toxic Aids drugs, not clean, unpolluted water, food and vitamins.

One must marvel at the coincidence that, just as the WHO’s Codex is in the middle of this effort to restrict the sale of vitamins, suddenly new studies are published, and shouted by the media, that find that high dose Vitamin C and E can cause cancer! Written by scientists who would probably “find” that sniffing organically grown flowers causes brain tumors if the orders came from their benefactors on Wall Street.

What’s the reality that they don’t tell you? That studies have shown that vitamins alone, without toxic Aids drugs, reduce mother to child transmission of the “deadly Aids virus” as much as the drugs do, and by themselves are capable of stopping Aids. Not surprising, because Vitamin C and E and other antioxidants work by countering oxidative stress, which some feel is the real source of diseases that are labelled “Aids.” Oxidative stress is a direct result of taking drugs, not having enough or good quality food to eat, and ingesting toxins.

In his new book, Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases & Toxins: Curing the Incurable, Dr. Thomas Levy notes that in 1949, at the height of the polio epidemic, researcher Frederick Klenner reported that he had completely cured 60 children of their polio simply by giving them massive doses of Vitamin C for three days. His findings, although published in a medical journal, were almost completely ignored by a medical establishment that knew then, and knows now, that vitamins cannot be patented.

Similar neglect greeted people like double Nobel prize winner Dr. Linus Pauling and Dr. Matthias Rath when they insisted that Vitamin C could cure many of today’s worst diseases. They were not only ignored, but ridiculed.

Do governments and the WHO strive to make vitamins that can counter oxidative stress, polio, heart disease, Aids and many other diseases cheap and widely available? Of course not. They are doing the opposite, trying to make them expensive and illegal. Just as the drug companies want.

Who is responsible for the hunger, malnutrition and lack of clean drinking water that makes Africans get diarrhea and other symptoms which are today reclassified as “Aids”? One can easily make a case that the World Bank’s and IMF’s privatization programs bear much of the responsibility. The World Bank/IMF routine goes like this: they lend the poor country money (much of which somehow finds its way into the president’s Swiss bank account), and, as a condition of the loan, demand that the recipient country privatize basic commodities like water, food and cooking gas so that well-connected financiers can profit from them. This leads inevitably to higher prices charged to people who cannot afford to pay. So people go hungry, drink contaminated water because they can’t afford fresh, and not surprisingly get sick. Meanwhile, the president fulfills his part of the bargain and announces that “Hiv” is what is making his people sick, and calls upon “the international community” to send relief in the form of toxic Aids drugs (paid for by the world’s taxpayers with profits diverted to the drug companies).

The World Bank is now additionally demanding, as a condition of these “loans,” that recipient governments adopt uncritically the establishment’s infectious Aids model, and divert money from food and water to toxic pharmaceutical drugs and condoms. While the World Bank/IMF’s advertising campaign tells people that the organization fights poverty, their former chief economist, Joseph Stiglitz, says that they deliberately create poverty by sucking out third world countries’ assets for the benefit of elite multinational banks and corporations. Stiglitz refers to the World Bank/IMF’s “privatization” campaigns as “briberization.”

Is UNICEF any better? After all, they show lots of poor black children on their website, and use cute children’s drawings and even write their logo in crayon in many of their ads. They must be the most wonderful, caring folks, fighting to help children regardless of race or color! Except that UNICEF, too, are now receiving “donations” from virtually every drug and chemical corporation and, predictably, are throwing their prestige behind the call for widespread testing with unvalidated, wildly unreliable, suicide-inducing Hiv tests (made by drug companies) and toxic, bone marrow eating, muscle-wasting, liver-destroying (i.e., “life-saving”) Aids drugs for children and mothers. And, of course, they call this “defending the rights of children.”

What they are doing is perhaps more accurately summarized on their corporate relations website: “UNICEF has a dedicated media relations officer who works with our corporate partners to maximise the PR benefits of their partnership with UNICEF. UNICEF’s Corporate Partnerships team has extensive experience of working with some of the world’s biggest brands,” they note, sounding more like an advertising agency than an advocacy organization for children.

Politicized Disease Causation benefits Eastern Elites, Too

The Chinese government seems awfully malleable these days. They have embraced the WHO’s “Sars virus” theory with open arms. Could this have anything to do with the fact that the cities where Sars prevailed are among the most polluted in the world, that air pollution is a major factor in respiratory diseases like pneumonia (Sars), and that severe air pollution is an indictment of the Chinese government?

Anyone who has been to China knows that Chinese people spit a lot. To be more precise, they perform an action (I don’t know the exact word for this) to draw the phlegm up from their throats with a loud noise, then spit it out. This is seen everywhere, and is an indication that there are severe respiratory problems in China that necessitate this spitting, most likely caused by heavy air pollution. Furthermore, the action of drawing the phlegm up from the throat may irritate the throat and make it more susceptible to infection. But this kind of multifactorial analysis is not allowed in politicized medicine.

Unfathomable evil results from politicized disease causation, and not just to humans. Some Chinese scientist had a half-baked theory that Civet cats were responsible for spreading “the Sars virus” so the Chinese government slaughtered thousands of them — many by drowning. The politically motivated theory that Mad Cow Disease was infectious enabled governments to order the slaughter of millions of healthy cows, sheep and deer all over the world. This tended to put small farmers out of business and opened the door — coincidence? — for multinational farming corporations to take over.

There are now reports that, in Thailand, hunters are massacring songbirds in huge numbers because the WHO has terrified them about “bird flu.”

And Aids? With the Chinese government’s determination to control the country’s rapid population growth by limiting families to one child apiece, it’s hardly surprising that they would accept and embrace a “Hiv/Aids” theory that makes people scared to have sex, or at the very least, causes them to wear condoms.

Fighting the “deadly viruses” with deadly chemicals

People defined as having “Aids” today are urged to take the “life-saving” Aids drugs, but few people are told that these are really chemotherapy drugs, the same class of drugs used to “fight” cancer. Chemotherapy is highly controversial and extremely toxic — to healthy cells as well as cancerous ones. Some scientists insist that chemotherapy drugs actually kill people faster than the cancer would if it were left alone or treated nutritionally. But cancer patients get a break — they are given chemotherapy for a brief period only. The treatment brings them to the brink of death, and then it is stopped. The theory is that this will kill the cancer and the patient will recover.

Chemotherapy in Aids patients is implemented differently. They are told that they must take it every day, for the rest of their lives. In the early years of Aids, doctors gave patients 1,500 mg doses of AZT, the most poisonous of all Aids medicines, and predictably, they died quickly — of “Aids,” naturally, not AZT. Now the medical establishment realize that they have to provide lower doses of the drugs, so that people can survive longer with them, so that the doctors can claim that the drugs are life-extending. But make no mistake — these drugs are chemotherapy. They are deadly chemicals, given in low doses so as not to kill immediately. If, by killing a patient slowly, the drugs mimic the presumed effect of a “slow virus,” thus vindicating the Hiv theory of Aids and protecting the medical establishment from exposure, that’s a nice ancillary benefit.

To “fight Hiv” and other germs, people today are urged by public health authorities to put microbicides, antiseptics, antibiotics, chemicalized spermicides and lubricants into their bodies — many of them known carcinogens and immune system disruptors. Meanwhile, natural substances like saliva and Vitamin C have been shown to inhibit the “Hiv” virus, but the WHO and CDC do not encourage people to apply saliva via oral sex prior to intercourse (which would make chemical lubricants unnecessary), or to take Vitamin C if Hiv positive. Why not? It’s not because the drug companies that are so financially interconnected with these agencies don’t have patents on saliva and Vitamin C, is it?

The WHO and UNICEF and the innumerable other NGOs that have arisen and gotten rich and fat from Aids say they are very concerned about the poor prostitutes who are catching Hiv from their clients! So they distribute free condoms to the girls, and free advice to make sure they are terrified by every encounter. But do they give any thought to the hazards of condoms? Condoms are not just made of friendly latex from a natural rubber tree. The industrial processing of latex involves many chemicals classed as carcinogens or probable carcinogens. German scientists recently reported that “one of the most carcinogenic substances,” N-Nitrosamine, was found in huge quantities in 29 out of 32 brands of condoms they studied. Worse, the condoms are coated before packaging with spermicides and lubricants that contain many more dangerous chemicals.

In Asian brothels, women turn multiple tricks a day, each time with a fresh condom. So they are getting doses of many carcinogenic chemicals in their mouths and vaginas, as often as ten or more times a day. And this is being promoted as “safe sex.” Will these condom overdoses predispose these women to cervical, oral or other cancers? Has anybody at WHO even asked this question? (Oops, I forgot, cervical cancer is caused by a virus!) If the prostitutes get lubricated condoms in their anuses, this could be even more dangerous. Some researchers think that the toxic chemicals in sexual lubricants are a factor in gay Aids, as the anus is a much easier pathway into the bloodstream than other orifices.

But enough of sex, let’s talk about food. Why are chemical corporations permitted to make their pesticides and herbicides tasteless, so a person cannot tell if what he is eating is contaminated? Governments order providers of natural gas used in cooking to give their gas a scent, so people can tell if there’s a leak. But then, a gas leak will kill a person in minutes. Chemicals take years or decades to kill you. The disease produced by eating pesticide-contaminated food will likely be so distant in time to the event producing it, no lawyer will be able to prove a connection. So there’s your answer — governments and the corporations that control them fail to provide this basic human right of letting people taste if their food is contaminated, because they can get away with it. And with most food these days contaminated, letting people taste the chemicals might incite a popular revolt against chemical farming. Which would be bad for business.

Similarly, the US government is pushing hard for international laws that make it illegal to label foods as genetically modified. So the world’s number one fighter for “democracy” and “human rights” is making sure that people don’t have the basic human right of knowing what they are eating.

Why isn’t the WHO, our “health watchdog,” trying to change this unhealthy state of affairs, in the interests of the world’s people? See previous paragraphs for the answer.

The difficulty of undoing False Disease Causations

Once a disease cause has been “established” by a consensus bought and paid for by corporate money, it becomes nearly impossible to dislodge even after the original proponents of the theory die or are discredited. Thus Pasteur’s germ theory, the foundation for the entire pharmaceutical industry, remains even after Pasteur renounced it on his deathbed, and even after it was discovered decades later that Pasteur had faked his laboratory records and committed many counts of scientific misconduct. And medical institutes retain him as their honored namesake. (As the Salk Institute does Salk.) And Gallo’s theory, that Hiv causes Aids, remains even after Gallo was found to have committed scientific misconduct and fraud in his original Aids experiments.

This is not only because entire multi-billion dollar industries have been founded on medical frauds, but because something infinitely more valuable — the reputations and credibility of the entire governmental, medical, scientific, business, NGO and media establishments — would be lost if the frauds were exposed. Imagine what would happen to the entire medical and public health professions, and the media which virtually always anoint their theories as facts despite lack of evidence, if the public found out the questionable bases of so many of the diseases that they are menaced with and mistreated for. “Hiv/Aids” alone, if it were exposed as the medical-scientific-media-government fabrication that it is, would cause an unprecedented uproar as people realized that their friends and relatives had committed suicide or died from the Aids drugs or gotten divorced or seen their careers shattered or practiced celibacy needlessly. The demands for reparations would be deafening. People would no longer trust their doctors, their governments, the media, industry — and with that loss of trust, the entire social fabric based on deference to authority and expertise could unravel, opening up the real possibility of social revolution — the nightmare of powerful and rich elites everywhere.

So after the germ is found to deflect the true toxic causes of a disease, and it is “established” as the cause by a politically motivated medical establishment, a second layer of political protection kicks in — the need to protect the reputations, credibility and financial assets of the medical and scientific establishments, the government regulators who approved the causation, the media that reported the theory as if it were a fact, the NGOs that raised funds based on it, and of course the politicians who oversee the whole system. With several dense layers of political protection, it then becomes impossible for even the application of overwhelming logic to dethrone the politicized disease cause. You can see a similar phenomenon within the dental industry. They can’t admit that mercury fillings are harmful. To do so would sully their reputations too much. So rather than eliminate them, they keep installing them in people’s mouths, while at least making alternatives available to the few people who know about mercury’s toxicity.

The medical establishment does correct small mistakes, but the really big ones, the “whoppers” — like Hiv-Aids and vaccination — can never be corrected, because confessing that they screwed up on such a spectacular scale would exact too great a toll on the credibility of the industry. And the longer these frauds go on, the more the establishment’s credibility becomes intertwined with them, the more millions of people who die or are seriously harmed — the more resistant the establishments become to undoing them, because this would mean facing the consequences not only of their errors, but of their failure, time and again, to correct them.

So, with medical/scientific/media/government reputations and Swiss bank accounts/trust funds/Aspen chalets, etc. thus protected, the disease causation is then further entrenched by the awarding of prizes — Nobel, Lasker and others for the scientists, Pulitzer for the media hounds, etc. This puts the official stamp of approval on a scientist’s theory and the media’s misreporting of it. It becomes a fact, even if it’s never met objective standards of proof. The Nobel given to Carlton Gajdusek for his theory of “slow viruses” essentially ended all arguments as to whether there really are such creatures. To the general public and to scientists alike, the reasoning goes, “He won the Nobel Prize for it, so it must be true.”

Giving prestigious prizes to scientists makes it very difficult if not impossible for science to change its mind about an issue. To do so would show that the prize recipient, and the prize judges — supposedly the finest scientific minds in the world — were fools. And that science doesn’t know what it’s doing. This would be bad PR for science, and could lead to public demands to cut their funding. Which is out of the question. After all, scientists can’t be expected to Think Deeply if they have to clean their own toilets and take the bus to work instead of their Lexuses, can they?

So the theory awarded the Prize must be protected, no matter how much evidence is arrayed against it.

Then you have the big egos of scientists. That “doctor” title can and often does puff up a researcher’s opinion of himself to a plateau somewhere between Einstein and Zeus. Egomania is not conducive to objective scientific research. And it’s a malady that many if not most members of the medical/scientific establishment suffer from. These guys believe that they are great scientists who deserve to go down in history. Just because they memorized the dogmas of their professors and were awarded PhDs or MDs, they think that they are Deep Thinkers — philosophers, even — and their every idea that they have on the toilet or wherever, is the stuff of genius. This makes it difficult for them to welcome being exposed as nitwits. So they resist and deny, make ad hominem attacks on and impugn the motives of anyone who attempts to expose them. Rather than rebut with scientific arguments. In this behavior, the Medical Industrial Establishment act with impressive unity. But egotism is not limited to them. Powerful people in government and media also tend to have high opinions of themselves.

Far from just worrying about losing their incomes to job loss, their savings to lawsuits, and even their freedom (if they were to go to jail, as they should), the scientific and other germ-mongering establishments’ enormous egos demand that they not “lose face.” If the cost of protecting their reputations is the deaths or disabilities of a few billion people, so be it.

Using Viruses to Facilitate Multinational Business Goals

If you’re a corrupt politician who takes bribes from multinational corporations (and what politician doesn’t?), it suits your purposes to create panics about Foot and Mouth Disease or Bird Flu, or West Nile virus or whatever. This allows you to take steps to curb the “public health emergency” — such as forcing family farmers to kill all their cows and chickens, which conveniently drives them into bankruptcy — so that the multinational farming corporations that slip you lucre can move in and take complete control of the industry.

We’ve all seen the scary headlines about South East Asia and its “deadly” Bird Flu epidemic. Millions of ducks and chickens have died, the WHO says (although almost all of them died as a result of being “culled” by governments at the behest of the WHO). And several dozen people have died, with bird flu-like symptoms! (Which happen to be similar or identical to the symptoms of regular human flu.) Fortunately, the WHO is riding to the rescue. They are meeting with the drug companies who fund them, and calling upon them to produce a vaccine! And they want to give people who slaughter chickens anti-flu medicines.

What the WHO and media don’t tell you is that the “epicenter” of bird flu happens to be one of the most polluted regions in the world. Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand and Vietnam, are saturated with chemicals pushed on them by the chemical companies and the WHO and the powerful western governments who function as the chemical industry’s protectors. Vietnam’s countryside and water are still contaminated by all the defoliants and other chemicals the US military dumped on them during the Vietnam war. Thailand so overuses pesticides and herbicides that the level of chemical contamination in Thai lakes and rivers is as much as 30 times higher than what is permitted by the very permissive government. Chemical residues in foods are way over the top, and virtually all the groundwater is contaminated. Once almost unknown, cancer is now the leading cause of death in Thailand.

Just as chemicals in the environment can harm the immune systems of mammals, they can do the same to birds. Is there really a deadly, virus-induced “bird flu” ravaging Southeast Asia, or are there just a lot of birds (and people) with damaged immune systems due to the enormous chemical pollution there? Birds (and people) who have lost much of their ability to defend against otherwise harmless microbes?

What is clear is that epidemics are used as excuses to institute policies desired by multinational corporations. Their most cherished goal is globalization, which means allowing unaccountable corporate tyrannies to dictate to governments, taking away people’s right to have a say in the way their countries are governed. Bird Flu and Mad Cow Disease, Aids and Sars and Ebola, have all been used as excuses to hurry the globalization process along.

In Thailand, the Bangkok Post recently quoted Deputy Prime Minister Chaturon Chaisaeng to the effect that, due to Bird Flu, open-field duck farming would have to end, and be replaced by factory farming. So small farmers who raise their ducks humanely in open fields must give way to multinational corporations that raise animals in “factory farms,” where they live their lives in tiny cages crowded with other birds, can’t fly (indeed can barely move), never get to see the sun, are fed hormones and antibiotics to make them get fat fast, and produce large profits on minimal expenses.

“Mr. Chaturon said researchers called for a complete switch to closed-system farming of ducks before the onset of winter,” the Post reported.

Amazing how animal epidemics, and researchers’ recommendations, coincide with the wishes and desires of multinational corporations.

Keeping people terrified serves Power

In addition to keeping powerful people out of well-deserved prison cells, serving up an endless rogue’s gallery of infectious microbes to a gullible public serves to keep the public in a state of fear, and wealthy elites have known for centuries that scaring people helps you to control them. Even better — make people afraid not just of germs, but of one another, so they can’t unite and figure out who their real oppressors are.

The person might look healthy, but he could still have the deadly Aids virus. Don’t be fooled. Everybody is a potential carrier. Don’t get close to people. Don’t enter into any ecstatic sexual union with anyone, whereby you might gain transcendental insights into the oneness of humanity, and the unfairness of a system that gives wealth only to the few. If you must have sex at all, use a condom. Then your genitals will be numb, you’ll be separate beings, you won’t enter into real togetherness with another soul, you won’t pass through the portal of higher consciousness that real sex transports you to, that ethereal realm that reveals the falseness of what your rulers tell you, and that gives you a taste of the real meaning of life. Yes, always use a condom and keep your emotions safely within our control.

The public health mantra of today was predicted by Orwell, who wrote in 1984, “the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party’s control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible...to prevent men and women from forming loyalties which it might not be able to control... [The Party’s] real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act...sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war-fever and leader-worship.” Thus today’s establishment make Herculean efforts, cloaked as “public health,” to take the pleasure out of sex, if they can’t ban sex entirely. And no tool does that better than the condom.

Deadly germs may not spread like wildfire but gossip does, and that, too, plays into the hands of those who would profit by keeping human beings atomized. Lek over there doesn’t look well, does she? She looks sad, she’s losing weight...Didn’t I see her go to the Hiv testing center the other day? I’ll bet she has Aids. I’m going to tell everybody to stay away from her. All of this is a marvelous distraction from real issues, such as why are Lek and everyone else in the village so poor? The psychic trauma and stigmatization that accompany most Hiv+ diagnoses in the third world result in overwhelming stress, depression, ostracism, loss of employment, a sense of futility, a loss of hope and with it, appetite (assuming you have anything to eat at all after losing your job). These factors make Aids a self-fulfilling prophecy, as they start the immune system on a decline without any help from “Hiv.” Stress and depression alone have been scientifically documented to devastate immunity.

When authorities tell you, “you can’t have uncovered sex,” they’re really saying, “you can’t have freedom.” “Oh, but it’s for your own protection! There’s a killer virus out there!” Our rulers need everybody to be running around like scared little mice, so that they can feel like kings and justify the kings’ ransoms in bribes and extorted taxpayer money that flow to their Cayman Islands bank accounts. Their power plays need to be dressed up in scientific jargon and do-gooder sloganeering to make them seem credible, but ultimately that’s all they are, power plays.

Most of you have probably heard the well-known epidemiological fact that prostitutes have more cervical cancer than nuns do. Polish scientist Petr Skrabanek delved into the scientific archives a few decades ago to try to find the evidence for this centuries-old “fact,” and he found that there wasn’t any. It was simply adopted because it provided a seemingly scientific basis for religious and societal discouragement of sex. Ironically, today, due to the Hiv/Aids propaganda they are bombarded with, prostitutes insist on their clients using condoms, and getting these latex bags laden with carcinogenic chemicals in their vaginas may very well lead to epidemics of cervical cancer among prostitutes.

The CDC says that women with Hiv are more likely to get cervical cancer than women without Hiv, but have they bothered to consider the fact that “women with Hiv” are going to use carcinogenic condoms with much higher frequency than will women without Hiv? One thing the medical industry does seem extremely competent at is turning their own cries of doom into self-fulfilling prophecies through psychic terrorism and toxic chemical “prophylaxis.”

There is even speculation that doctors of centuries past treated syphillis patients with the deadly poisons arsenic and mercury, more to punish them for fornicating than to make them better. The fact that arsenic and mercury didn’t make them better, and in fact was likely the true cause of the brain and organ damage known as “tertiary syphilis,” lends this some credibility. So we had doctors and scientists working hand-in-hand with popes and potentates to reinforce societal and religious values that send a message to the common people: “you can’t have freedom,” a message that is the very basis of hierarchical power structures.

One might ask, do the Powerful, themselves, practice the monogamy and sexual restraint that they preach to others? It hardly seems likely. Many US presidents are known to have had extramarital affairs, and one can fairly assume that a high percentage of those whose adultery-status remains unknown also indulged. Bill Clinton, worldwide advocate of Hiv-Aids prevention, took his own oral sexual pleasure from Monica uncompromised by any latex protectant seal. Many high priests of the Catholic church were recently exposed for getting perverse sexual pleasures covertly from little children. Now there are new allegations, from whistleblowers at the NIH, that the same male NIH officials who solemnly warn the public against catching Hiv spend their days emailing pictures of naked women to one another, hugging their female subordinates inappropriately and pressuring them for sex.

None of this should surprise. Why don’t you tail your scripture-spouting Congressman or MP some Saturday afternoon and see whose apartment he is heading to with Mae West’s proverbial “gun in his pocket.” Henry Kissinger, in a rare moment of candor, put it well: “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”

US president Lyndon Johnson once confided to an interviewer his view of what it meant to have power over someone. “I want him to kiss my ass in Macy’s window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses,” he said. “I want his pecker in my pocket.”

Alas, with the success of their fraudulent Hiv-Aids campaign, the power-lusting leaders of the “public health” establishment have all got our peckers in their pockets.

Control and manipulation are the name of the game. It is control of people that enables the powerful to maintain an unjust world that puts themselves atop a mountain of wealth, and keeps the masses down below fighting one another for crusts of bread. And manipulation — of science as well as other endeavors — is the way control is best implemented. In 1920, H.L. Mencken wrote, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence, clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” Whether it’s Bin Laden or Saddam or Hiv or Sars or Ebola, rulers today prove that Mencken’s observation still applies.

Ultimately, all the relentless Deadly Germ scaremongering is really about “softening up” the public so they will not object when their governments divert billions of dollars of taxpayer money to the drug and medical industries for “humanitarian relief” or for “lifesaving medical research.” It’s the same endless scam that you see played out between the governments and the chemical industry, the military contractors, and other rich and powerful industries. They’ve honed it to perfection over the decades. The name of the game is to Create Constant Crises, and use them as excuses to divert the taxpayers’ money to the rich, powerful and well-connected.

“Look, Saddam has weapons of mass destruction! We have to destroy him before he destroys us!” (Billions to the military contractors) “Oh, a deadly new flu variety! The CDC needs to stockpile vaccines!” (Billions to the drug companies) “Oh no, Aids is on the increase again! We need to buy Aids drugs so we can send them to the poor black children!” (More billions) “Look, West Nile virus has been found in mosquitoes! We need to order aerial spraying to wipe it out before it mutates!” (Billions to the chemical companies) “Gasp! The threat of terrorism! We need to give stupendous contracts to Halliburton and other Bush-Cheney connected enterprises with money that might otherwise have gone to improve mass transit and strengthen Social Security!” Etc., etc.

It’s the oldest con in the book. Scare the people and steal their wallets. Then tell them the government’s broke, and the masses must learn to live with smaller social security checks and reduced government services. This never-ending elitist game of “scare ‘em and fleece ‘em” probably accounts for the vast majority of all government spending when you sit down and analyze it.

Little has changed since the Dark Ages

The history of medicine is full of examples of Medical Science’s stubborn bias toward infectious causes of disease. Scurvy, Pellagra, Beri-Beri, Rickets and other diseases that we now know were caused by vitamin deficiencies, were all originally thought by the experts to be caused by germs. These were very serious, common diseases in their day, costing tremendous loss of life. In every case, eventually some sensible person demonstrated that the disease was actually caused by a nutritional deficiency. And in every case, the doctors resisted the explanation, insisting that the cause must be a germ. This went on for decades, while hundreds of thousands of people died. In the case of Pellagra, the Medical Establishment resisted the evidence for over 180 years before finally admitting that the cause wasn’t a germ.

Back then, pharmaceutical companies didn’t hand out goodies to doctors and researchers to the extent that they do today. So this old bias of medical science has now been magnified many times over.

For all their impressively modern “scientific” trappings, it’s not hard to conclude that today’s germ theories of disease are really just an updating of old superstitions about disease being caused by evil spirits. And like the beliefs of olde, these theories are used for the same purposes of propping up Power. Demands that people submit to imprecise, never-validated tests like Hiv tests, in search of a virus that many scientists say doesn’t cause Aids and in fact has never even been rigorously proven to exist, are the modern equivalent of witch hunts.

The real “deadly viruses” remain the same ones we have always been plagued with: the viruses of greed, vanity, ambition and injustice.

Is “HIV/AIDS” the great threat to the world’s health? Or is it “CDC/WHO” and “CNN/BBC”? “IMF/WTO” and “CBS/NYT”? And their many related organizations of mass deception and pretend-humanitarianism that conceal the rapacious agendas of the world’s richest and most ruthless puppetmasters.

Politicized disease causation props up a global system of oppression of the masses and unaccountability of the powerful. It leads to tyranny, despair and disease.

Scientists, with government support, are now tinkering with life itself, by inventing genetically modified (GM) plants and animals. If eating GM food eventually results in serious new illnesses, it is entirely predictable, indeed inevitable, that the scientific establishment will blame the maladies on a new virus or other communicable entity, to protect themselves from blame and legal consequences.

In the US, the manipulated “conservatism” of the last decades has led the government to pass legislation called “personal responsibility acts,” mostly to prevent people who borrow too much on their credit cards from declaring bankruptcy to avoid repaying the bank. How lovely. Personal responsibility is indeed something we should all strive for in our behavior.

But do government officials and the medical establishment get to shoulder their own personal responsibility? With federal laws having liberated drug companies from any liability for vaccination damages, and with Bush, beneficiary of immense “campaign contributions” from Big Pharma and doctors’ organizations, now pushing for new award limits to medical malpractice suits, it seems the answer is no. When it comes to acknowledging their own personal responsibility for crimes far more serious than not paying your credit card bill — crimes that have left hundreds of millions of people dead, billions more with their lives in shambles, being slowly poisoned to death, and the very environment that sustains us in jeopardy — government officials and the privileged elites who they protect run from responsibility faster than some small time con man, who just got the minister’s daughter pregnant, can hop a freight train and head for the border.

Inescapable Conclusions

Microbial and genetic disease causations predominate in science not because they are the real causes of disease, but because of a variety of economic and political factors. The primary factors are: 1) the enormous power wielded by the pharmaceutical and chemical industries; 2) the willingness of government, the medical and scientific establishments, the media and the NGO sector to prostitute themselves to these industries; 3) the need to keep the population frightened and bewildered in order to strengthen the government-corporate alliance’s power, deny people true freedom, justify interference in people’s private lives and provide a rationale for transferring the public’s financial assets to corporations; 4) The fact that professionals involved in all these endeavors have attained wealth, power and status; and 5) the fact that they don’t want to lose their wealth, power and status.

The establishment’s need to protect their wealth and reputations overwhelms any attempt to honestly determine the real causes of a disease.

The idea that antibodies, always previously regarded as providing protection from disease, should have been redefined in the case of Aids as an indication of impending death, was not just a ridiculous notion to prop up Robert Gallo’s preposterous theory, it was part of a long-running campaign to destroy people’s belief in natural immunity. Why should people have immunity for free when they can pay the vaccine and drug makers for it? It’s all of a piece with related notions: that non-patentable vitamins and herbs that boost natural immunity should be illegal; that farmers should not have the right to save vegetable seeds in order to plant them the following year, but should have to pay Monsanto every year for the privilege of growing food and eating. The globalizing chemico-biotechnology corporations and their well-fed supporters in government are offended by the idea that the means of life and health should be free or inexpensive, and want to patent and put a pricetag on everything. Nature, and anything natural, beneficial and free, must be either destroyed or “privatized.”

Soon they may use their already staggering power to force people to take medicine, force even adults to get vaccinated and ingest fluoride, force everyone to undergo Hiv and Hepatitis C testing, and whatever else they can think of. Outlaw organic farming? Make it illegal to grow medicinal herbs? Even make it illegal to grow your own food at all? Once this may have seemed far-fetched, but it doesn’t anymore. The medical/pharmaceutical/government establishment have become rich and insensitive psychopaths, and are quite content to watch the world turn into a living Hell from the back seats of their stretch Mercedeses.

In today’s astonishingly corrupt medical research establishment, political considerations are more than just a factor in the science of disease causation. They are its master. The political need comes first, and the science follows. Today’s scientists have learned how to design a study to make sure that it comes to the desired conclusion. Many of the hundreds of thousands of germ-mongering and medicine-praising journal papers with their fancy language, charts, graphs and other trappings of expertise that so impress the naive are really political tracts, as surely as if they had been written by Lenin or Karl Rove.

While Public Health agencies spend billions of dollars to tell people that “everybody’s at risk” for supposedly contagious diseases, they spend very little to warn people about much more serious problems caused by the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Like overuse of antibiotics, which destroys people’s immune systems and threatens to render these medicines useless on those rare occasions when they are really needed -- in critical life or death situations. Think now -- when was the last time you saw a public service ad or TV commercial warning people that “everybody’s at risk” to have their vital intestinal flora destroyed by antibiotics? Urging you to “just say no” to GMO contamination of the food supply? Or compelling you to “get tested” for pesticide residues in your fatty tissues?

Sadly, our public health and medical science establishment’s primary raison d’etre seems to be to deny the tremendous disease caused by chemical corporations and to blame it on germs and genes. They are also in the business of whitewashing iatrogenic disease caused by medicines, exaggerating the effectiveness of medicines and overlooking their deadly side effects. Finally, they are in the business of mounting an enormous, unprecedented assault on natural health care and natural, non-patentable remedies that interfere with corporate profits. And they are rapidly and ruthlessly stealing people’s freedom to deal with their own health as they see fit.

But not to worry, they are just looking out for your welfare!

© 2005 Marcel Girodian

Marcel Girodian is a writer on Aids and medical corruption.
He is the pseudonymous alter ego of another writer who writes on less
controversial topics.
e-mail:  marcel7(at)gmail(dot)com