“There was no coherent long-term strategy. We were trying to get a single coherent long-term approach -a proper strategy- but instead we got a lot of tactics.”
British Lt. General David Richards, commanding NATO troops in 2006 from The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War, Craig Whitlock, 2021
The War against Medical Dissent is the longest American War, giving birth to the century old War on Drugs, first targeting “non-medicinal” opiate and coca compounds before WWI. Neither have celebrated Mission Accomplished. The Defeat of Polio is a lynch pin in that War. Blocks discussion, shuts down conversations, trumps debates. Polioo, polio, Marco Polio. Like the blind man’s bluff pool game of children.
The Cutter Incident is the blade that slices through that Gordian Knot. Even before the Salk Vaccine Celebrations retired drunkenly, an epidemic of polio it caused left a turd in the punchbowl. Epidemiologists traced it to bad batches from Cutter Laboratories of California. Two hundred thousand first and second graders were sickened, with hundreds paralyzed and ten deaths, onset within eleven days of injection.
The U.S. Department of Health took charge of the public reassurance broom. Leonard Scheele, Surgeon General called in the troops. Cutter Lab recalled their lots, all vaccine production paused, stricter safety guidelines were passed, Cutter was cut. Vaccination resumed. A bad actor hiccup, with lawsuits trailing through the courts for decades. Wyeth Labs’ concurrent outbreak was smothered in secrecy by the CDC’s earliest incarnation. The internal investigation that forced Wyeth’s vaccine callback that year was never reported, never released, never admitted. Omerta. One bad apple, maybe, but two botched batches would have sunk public confidence like the Titanic.
None of the involved organizations, government agencies or their employees, even Salk himself accepted accountability for not conducting better oversight and safety trials. Instead the DoH used it for a power grab to lead future vaccination campaigns, handled before then by private foundations and medical associations. Government quality control of laboratories, monitoring national vaccination data and morbidity, purchasing vaccines, planning and executing PR blitzes were initiated in 1955, expanding into the behemoth agencies they are today, fruit of that same vine.
From a “neutral external auditor” of privately funded vaccines, they became major stakeholders, ultimately responsible for the “unavoidable harms” from injecting millions of children, later adults every year. Far from adversarial advocates to protect citizens, they became allies with the manufacturers, eager to ignore, deny, cover up and protect profits they shared in. That first coverup seeded a thousand poison apple trees.
Salk and later Sabin Polio Vaccines were churned out like cheap beer, using a growth medium from rhesus monkey kidneys until 1963. When Bernice Eddy of the National Institute of Health’s testing labs found forty simian viruses in this substrate, with one that caused rampant cancers in hamsters, she was forbidden to present her findings. Bravely, she revealed them to an oncology conference in 1960, refusing to be silenced.
The new oncovirus was later identified by Merck Labs as SV-40. Almost a hundred million American children and adults had been injected like guinea pigs, twice that globally. A vast experiment of sacrifice for the Greater Good, before public health authorities ordered manufacturers to switch to African green monkey kidneys. Bernice Eddy is not in the International Polio Museum.
Fortunately, government funded researchers later showed the virus was harmless in humans, even if “former Food and Drug Administration virologist, Dr. John Martin reported SV40 viral fragments were found in chest, brain and bone tumors erupting decades later. Soft tissue tumors of breast, lung, prostate, lymphoma and melanoma of the skin began climbing rapidly 20 years later in the 1970’s, then increased by 30-70% after 1985.
“Edward Haslam uncovered documents on a covert US Public Health Service program directed to develop a vaccine against these carcinogenic viruses in the early 1960’s. Vaccines are frequently contaminated with genetic material from other species they are grown in, including fellow traveling viruses and retroviruses other than those they’re intended to prevent. Unfortunately, both Salk and Sabin vaccines were later found to be contaminated with viruses from the animal cells they were cultured from.
“Maurice Hilleman, a vaccine researcher for Merck, confirmed that chicken tumor causing viruses had also contaminated the Salk polio vaccine and were injected in tens of millions of people. Ninety million Soviet citizens were given the Sabin oral vaccine, contaminated with monkey oncoviruses, the Cold War version of smallpox blankets.
“The National Cancer Institute experts in those decades of the Long War on Cancer were convinced tumors were caused by viruses. Hundreds of millions were spent trying to find these human oncoviruses, with no success. They hoped to find a common root cause, then devise the silver bullet that would eradicate cancer. UC San Francisco researchers Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus with MIT professor Robert Weinberg theorized that cancer rarely originates from outside viruses in the 1990’s. Their hypothesis is now widely accepted as the oncology orthodox, although they were wed to the viral cause for decades. That marriage has been annulled. The oncology orthodoxy now preaches the new wine of genetic propensity.” *
The War on Cancer perfected the same playbook presidents used for the War on Afghanistan. Slash, Burn and Poison the enemy, draining Blood and Treasure for more of the same. Correlation is not causation, of course. There are far more cancer victims buried out back of the Cancer Cathedral, than preaching the gospel out front. Prevention is the Cure. My free ebook for subscribers lays out the scripture on that.
Turtles All the Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth, anonymous, 2022
*Cancer Cathedral: Prevention is The Cure, Stephen Simac, 2019
Dr. Mary’s Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics, Edward Haslam, 2007
Pt. 3 Poliovirus or Poison Paralysis.
I wonder what 'smallpox blankets' really were.
https://medicine.uq.edu.au/blog/2018/12/history-syringes-and-needles
Here's something you might not have considered.
What happens when polio is cured? I personally know several people who were cured of polio. They don't use the word "cure". Most still suffer damage from the disease, but the disease is gone.
Modern medicine considers polio to be incurable. But at the same time, they have no definition of polio cured - so they cannot prove cured nor not cured.
What happens when polio is cured? Nothing. Polio, with regards to being cured, is like the common cold, influenza, and COVID. Cures and cured are simply ignored. It's nothing new.
Cured is defined medically and scientifically for an infectious disease cured by killing or removing the infectious cause. Cured is not defined for any other disease or treatment. If an alternative medicine cures an infection, it doesn't count and is not counted. Actually, no cures are counted. We have statistics for disease, but none for cured. Why not? If we counted all cures we might be forced to acknowledge that most cures don't come from medicines. We might even notice the obvious - most cases of disease are easily cured.
Think about infections, for example. We, like all animals always have, get dozens of infections in our lifetime. Most are never even diagnosed by a medical professional, much less treated, muchless cured.
And what about polio? How many cases of polio were trivial? How many were only very short term? How many were easily cured? Whether polio was caused by a virus or a poison, it only makes sense that we would have a wide variation in severity and duration. But... What happened to the cases that were easily cured? They were simply ignored.
To your health, Tracy
Author: A New Theory of Cure