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For a time, the injected polio vaccine made in the US was contaminated with simian virus 40 from monkey kidney cells, a cancer causing agent in humans. The extent of the contamination with SV 40 and when it was definitively removed remain in dispute. It does not help that the maker of the polio vaccine and the medical establishment systematically lied about the issue, hid essential facts, and failed to investigate it promptly and diligently.

In addition, there is good reason to believe that the AIDS epidemic started due to mass polio vaccination in Africa with an injected vaccine made locally using chimpanzee kidney cells that had the AIDS virus. Again, the extent of the lying, dishonesty, and indifference by the medical establishment on the issue is breath-taking.

Our trust in modern medicine should be tempered with recognition of its errors, pride, conflicts of interest, and dishonesty that crop up again and again. Doctors, medical scientists, and the pharmaceutical industry do essential work but they ought not to be presumed saintly or otherwise immune to human failings.