Posted on 11/23/2001 1:41:24 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK
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New York, October 1992
Koprowski was furious.
The article in Rolling Stone had drawn widespread attention, particularly after a major wire service picked up the story and sent it around the world.
As far as Koprowski was concerned, the article threatened to destroy his life's work. He fired off a letter to Science magazine, vehemently dismissing the theory as "the wildest of lay speculation." Then he sued Curtis and Rolling Stone for defamation.
Meanwhile, the Wistar Institute assembled a panel of experts to investigate the central allegations in the Rolling Stone theory.
Six months later, in October 1992, the panel held a press conference in New York to deliver an eight-page report on their findings.
The six experts concluded that the chance that any SIV survived the vaccine tissue culture process "cannot be discounted" but any concentration of SIV particles would have been "extremely low."
Furthermore, the panel noted, oral transmission of SIV/HIV is "extremely rare," and the genetic age of HIV suggested that the virus had existed in humans many years before the vaccination campaign in the late 1950s.
But "the most telling evidence," the six-member panel concluded, "was the case of the Manchester sailor."
The sailor was a British printer named David Carr, who had served in the Royal Navy in the 1950s. In 1958 he was stricken with a mysterious illness and died a year later, suffering from a number of characteristic AIDS symptoms.
His puzzled doctors preserved 50 tissue samples in small paraffin blocks. When some of the specimens were examined in 1990, cells stored in the wax tested positive for HIV, making Carr the earliest known case of AIDS, apparently contracting the disease at least several years before the 1959 Leopoldville case.
The Wistar experts noted that Carr had completed his naval service and returned to England by early 1957 before the Wistar vaccination campaign had begun. "Therefore," the panel said, "it can be said with almost complete certainty that the large polio vaccine trial begun late in 1957 in Congo was not the origin of AIDS."
The report seemed to exonerate Koprowski. But the panel recommended that monkey tissue no longer be used in the manufacture of vaccines because of the risk of contamination from "other monkey viruses which have not yet been discovered."
It also suggested that independent tests be run on a remaining sample of the Wistar vaccine stock that may have been used in Africa to see whether it contained any SIV.
Later, Rolling Stone settled Koproski's lawsuit by publishing a clarification saying it never intended to suggest there was "scientific proof" the vaccine caused AIDS.
Was the US Navy in the immediate vicinity of TWA 800? Did the government initially deny the Navy was in the vicinity?
I suspect that designing a biological agent that would target people of recent African descent and the rest of us remains far beyond our capabilities now, let alone20+ years ago.
Big difference between slapping a gene into a genome higgly piggly, and designing a virus to target bung boys and africans.
I'm no expert on AIDS, but I do not remember reading that minorities have an exclusive copyright to it.Besides, after 30+ years the decimation of stated victims should be blatantly obvious and well on its way to completion--or maybe not,since the govt. has been in charge.
Anyone want to join me in mfg.heavy duty aluminum helmets? Tinfoil just won't do the job for this.
vaudine
No, he said "bombing", which is a little less clear since it was not a bombing.
Which, I thought was pretty telling.
"Fact: In Congressional testimony and in statements repeatedly made in the media, the NTSB leadership characterized the only example of a fuel tank fire involving a Jet-A fueled airliner, a Philippines Air 737 in 1990, as a center fuel tank explosion. Video and still photography, taken after the fire was out, show the center wing tank did not explode."
"...The undercarriage, wheels and center wing box (tank), were structurally sound enough to carry the load of engines and fuel weight in the wings with the aircraft under tractor tow. The gross fire damage to the cabin appears more indicative of a cabin fire, exacerbated by ignition of emergency oxygen canisters, interior plastics, etc. The Philippine crash investigators could not prove a source of ignition for that fire. Had the Center Wing Tank actually exploded in the manner the NTSB leadership suggests the aircraft would have dropped on the ramp and the tons of fuel in the wing would have immediately been involved."
Um, excuse me... what the f**k does a gallon of AIDS look like anyway?
You forgot yer tin hat alert.
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