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Sunday, December 10, 2006
New Study: Malaria Spreads AIDS
Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati
What will area notables like Dr. Victoria Wulsin and Dr. Henry Heimlich say about this new information? How does it affect our perception of their own involvement in malariotherapy experiments?
Seems like Cincinnati corporate media should be able to connect the dots on this one pretty easily: new scientific data indicates that malaria can increase the spread of AIDS. A world famous Cincinnati doctor, Henry Heimlich, actually advocates for using malaria as a “cure” for AIDS. Seems logical to conclude that Heimlich’s “malariotherapy” spreads AIDS, and that anyone who has advocated for human experimentation with malariotherapy (and anyone currently affiliated with organizations that still advocate it) have the blood of dead AIDS victims on their hands.
Check out this excerpt from CBS News:
Malaria is fueling the spread of AIDS in Africa by boosting the HIV in people’s bodies for weeks at a time, says a study that pins down the deadly interplay between the dual scourges.
It’s a vicious cycle as people weakened by HIV are, in turn, more vulnerable to malaria.
University of Washington researchers who estimated the impact of the overlapping infections concluded that the interaction could be blamed for thousands of HIV infections and almost a million bouts of malaria over two decades in just one part of Kenya.
The research, published in Friday’s edition of the journal Science, highlights the need for a joint attack on both epidemics.
Or check out this selection from Business Day:
Malaria appears to be fuelling the spread of HIV/AIDS in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, according to a study to be published today in the International Journal of Science.
The results suggest diseases that are not sexually transmitted may play a role in the rapid spread of HIV in Africa, and imply that better treatment programmes for these diseases could help prevent more HIV infections.
Scientists have known for some time that malaria raises the viral load of an HIV-positive person tenfold, increasing the risk that the virus will be transmitted to a sexual partner. At the same time, HIV increases the risk of catching malaria, as the HI-virus suppresses the body’s immune system.
Amazingly, as of the publication of this article, The Heimlich Institute web page still features a page advocating malariotherapy for curing AIDS (and here is the Google cache, should the Institute finally decide to take it down). That page is the first hit for a Google search of the term “malariotherapy.”
Though this new data has been available for several days now, The Heimlich Institute (including its current board members) have not seen fit to update their site.
From the HI’s paper pushing for malarial infections:
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10 Dec 2006 at 10:35 am | #
I am not a doctor or research scientist and I will not pretend to be one. The media is filled with contradicting reports on a daily basis as is the medical community. Your article doesn’t hold any more “truth” than either of these parties and only shows your blatant dislike for the Heimlichs.
10 Dec 2006 at 11:50 am | #
Kateca,
Is the medical community filled with “conflicting” reports about malariotherapy? Or, on the contrary, is the medical community rather aligned against the idea of giving malaria to AIDS patients?
If the answer is the latter, then that—coupled with this new data—creates a rather compelling argument (regardless as to how one views Dr. Heimlich).
Strange that no one in Cincinnati corporate media is talking…
10 Dec 2006 at 12:23 pm | #
Go to kateca’s post above and hover your mouse over her name. You’ll see this e-mail address: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Google that e-mail address and you get to this cached page on the FDA’s site - a crazed Catholic anti-abortion e-mail screed: http://tinyurl.com/td6w8
From: Angela Santoleri [acetak@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 2:13 AM
To: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Subject: Preven
TKC!
Dear Sir,
I have read that a petition has been made for you to make Preven available as an over-the-counter drug. Please do not make this drug so readily available. It is morally unconscienable to allow a drug that kills a human being in his very earliest stage of life to be sold over-the-counter (or in any other way).
I am adamantly opposed to infanticide through abortive measures. Making Preven an over-the-counter drug will allow anyone at any time to kill their child without anyone (parents, father of the child, etc.) having to know about it.
Our society has become one where we do not have to take personal responsibility for our actions. This has eroded our character as a nation. Making Preven an over-the-counter drug allows this erosion to continue. Please consider your decision very carefully and do not allow this erosion of our society and its values to worsen.
Yours in Christ,
Mrs. Angela C. Santoleri
10 Dec 2006 at 12:25 pm | #
Secular Humorist…
Interesting find…
10 Dec 2006 at 01:44 pm | #
Hey Ms. Kateca….Tell that line to Marcus while he was in the closet dying….
10 Dec 2006 at 02:11 pm | #
Wicked Witch:
I don’t even know what that means, but this strand has veered radically off-topic.
The bottom line is this: new research—conducted by an expert whose prior work Heimlich may have misquoted—has demonstrated that malarial infections helps spread AIDS.
Years ago, The Enquirer actually broke the malariotherapy story when Robert Anglen reported about the Chinese experiments.
Then, something happened and we haven’t had a critical look at anything related to Dr. Heimlich since.
But now is the time. The Red Cross has changed its guidelines. New research further indicates that other ideas, like malariotherapy, can be dangerous and life-threatening.
These are Cincinnati stories, and it does not make sense that Cincinnati stays silent while the rest of the world reports the news.
10 Dec 2006 at 02:15 pm | #
BTW, if anyone wants to take on “kateca,” they should focus on her first comment. She wrote:
It is similar to arguments I’ve heard before: namely, that I have on “blinders” that make me go crazy when something involves Phil or Henry Heimlich.
But consider this—such commenters are so blinded by their allegiance to evangelical Republicanism, they cannot tell when a candidate (like Phil) is involved in non-Christian, unethical, behavior (fixating, instead, on how Phil oppose gay marriage, or something).
That’s too bad, because it really looks like the medical realities here are unethical according to any religious book I can fathom.
10 Dec 2006 at 03:29 pm | #
...your blatant dislike for the Heimlichs.
Guess that reporters all over the country who have been busting Dr. Heimlich’s medical frauds must also “dislike” the Heimlichs, huh? Like the recent two-part ABC-TV Chicago expose?
Cincinnati media is blacking out these stories and the Dean has been reporting them. But what’s kateca’s reaction to being kept in the dark by local editors and news producers who are scared to go after Dr. Hankenstein and Sonny Phil, vice prez of the Heimlich Institute? Instead of getting mad at the local chickenshit media, she attacks the Dean for a “blatant dislike” of the Heimlichs.
Putting aside that know-nothing point of view, here’s a question for kateca or others to try on:
What’s to like about the Heimlichs?
10 Dec 2006 at 07:20 pm | #
Kateca is using the right wingnut tactic of “if you say it often enough it will become true” which is used by Phil and Daddy Heimlich so effectively they even have the local news media hoodwinked. She also has succumbed to the belief that all ideas are equally valid. The local news media take that stand even in scientific issues. Mostly, I suspect, because it is easy. They just get to be stenographers and don’t have to do any digging. Witness the Enquirer’s drowning article and the follow up that just mentioned controversy. Thank heavens for folk like the Chicago TV folks.
10 Dec 2006 at 07:30 pm | #
This from PFAW:
The Boston Globe reports that the Senate is considering upping the US contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria to $700 million next year – and the Right is not pleased.
According to the Global Fund’s most recent fact sheet, more than 500,000 people around the world who are infected with HIV/AIDS are receiving Antiretroviral therapy, while millions more are receiving help fighting Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The Global Fund is raising and spending billions to fight these diseases, but some on the right are now demanding that the Bush administration cut off US support because religious organizations that believe abstinence is the only way to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS aren’t getting enough money.
I wonder if Henry thought his malariotherapy would be a nice gravy train.
10 Dec 2006 at 07:50 pm | #
Dean, Wulsin was working for Heimlich for many months. Would you please write her a public letter to her and ask she hasn’t reported the Heimlich Institute and Deaconess to the authorities for illegal human subjects research? Thanks.
10 Dec 2006 at 11:59 pm | #
Good grief, thank god I only use the Enquirer to wrap up dishes or clean windows. This paper is awful, and this is the only city I have lived in where I didn’t subscribe to the paper. Thankfully I can still read the Detroit Free Press online.
Everytime I read more about this “therapy” it makes me terribly sad for the people who were used as subjects.
11 Dec 2006 at 09:02 am | #
What is there to LIKE about the Heimlich’s?
There son Peter- who had the guts to stand up to the family to begin to expose all of this innocent killing, The WLS story and the rest of the world catching on. Mark Twain’s theory here or media blindness? Media Stupidity.
It takes love to be able to correct a wrong- not hate. The media has twisted that one all the way around for the sake of Yellow Journalism.
12 Dec 2006 at 04:41 pm | #
I’m sorry, Dean, for using a pseudonym. I didn’t feel my opinion would be treated in a fair, even-handed manner by you. You have proven me wrong and I have a lot of respect for you personally for that. All the best, Angela
13 Dec 2006 at 03:43 am | #
Secular Humorist:
For someone that claims to be a humorist, and, I would assume, someone who values free speech, you are awfully quick to resort to mean spirtied name calling (“a crazed Catholic anti-abortion e-mail screed”). The lady wrote to a government agency to express her opinion. But such activity is apparently dangerous. If you disagree with her viewpoint, write a rebuttal. But instead, you chose to resort to name calling and you don’t provide any response to her points other than the name calling. If you disagree, fine, but remember this is the site where, allegedly, divergent views collide. If you have a divergent view, defend it without the vitriol. That goes for all the conveniently anonymous respondents, and Wicked Witch as well. Of course, Ms. Witch was busy confusing the Marcus Feisel tragedy with the issues at hand. But if I had to guess, I would say that Ms. Witch espouses some vague notion that equating abortion on demand with the failure of the Foster Child system in Southwest Ohio.
But I digress… And before anyone gets their panties in a wad, full disclosure: kateca is my wife. And I used to write for this site, when I thought I had something worthwhile to say. But congratulations to Secular Humorist on being able to do such hard hitting investigative work. I’ll save you the effort: My name is Dominic Santoleri (google that, it shows you where I work, so you can send nastygrams there too), and I wrote to the FDA also. And I’ve written to Wal-Mart about free trade coffee, and to Hasbro (it’s about the “Happy Holidays” thing, something you’d probably not support), and to a couple Cincinati City council members, etc, etc, etc. Point is, my family puts its money where it’s mouth is, and isn’t afraid of a few chatroom flames.
On to Heimlich: I know the Heimlich maneuver saved my life not 2 months ago. Silly me for benefitting from his rogue science. I also know that Phil handled The Dean’s hounding the wrong way; the personal attacks came off as smarmy and underhanded. If The Dean were hounding me, I probably would have had to pencil his silly ass in for an interview. At any rate, Heimlich is out of office. As such, I am inclined to be suspiscious of the continuous attacks on the science, given the ferocious way our beloved (that’s not a joke) Dean went after Phil. But I promise I will re-read the article at least two more times, so I can fully appreciate its nuances.
13 Dec 2006 at 08:48 am | #
Substitute,
That you have been saved by the Maneuver is not the point. Many have been saved. Others have been injured. And research shows it is not the best response—that other strategies may do a better job at saving people.
Furthermore, Dr. Heimlich’s campaign to use the Maneuver for near-drowning has been discredited and shown as life-threatening—but he still pushes that idea.
Now, his idea for malariotherapy—which had been condemned by medical experts in the first place—has been shown to help spread AIDS.
Significant evidence and documentation shows that his medical theories are dangerous and put lives at risk.
The Maneuver forces an artificial cough, which can dislodge something in the throat. Fine. No dispute there. And the Red Cross still recommends abdominal thrusts if back blows don’t work. But don’t confuse the several strands here.
1. The Red Cross has changed its protocol, but for some reason it is not news in Cincinnati.
2. The Maneuver for near-drowning, asthma, etc. has been discredited, but Heimlich still advances it in those cases.
3. Malariotherapy has been discredited, and new evidence shows malaria can actually spread AIDS.
That last one was the point of this strand.
Coincident to these medical stories, Dr. Heimlich’s son Phil was a nasty politician who needed to be voted out of office. Those reasons were largely unrelated to the medical stories, though Phil, last time I checked, was Vice President of the Heimlich Institute Board.
13 Dec 2006 at 08:33 pm | #
As VP, Phil’s implicated in the Heimlich Institute’s illegal human subjects experiments. He also has access to the financial and medical records for these illegal experiments which are currently being done on impoverished Africans.
Hey Sub, since you and wifey are such caring people and since wifey thinks Heimlich’s not doing anything wrong, I’m sure you care about the suffering of those people as much as you care about fetuses and want to know what you’re defending. So when you get done pinch-hitting for wifey here on the Beacon, why don’t you contact Phil and Henry and ask them to produce those medical and financial records?
Oops, that would require you challenging some locally famous names and making them account for themselves. I suspect Sub will find any number of excuses why he doesn’t want to, yadda yadda.
14 Dec 2006 at 01:29 am | #
I’m sorry, my backwards religious beliefs don’t allow me to respond in detail to anonymous posters. Merry Christmas.
14 Dec 2006 at 08:29 am | #
OK, Sub, but your “backwards religious beliefs” should allow you to respond to me, above.
Anything?
14 Dec 2006 at 11:18 am | #
Excuse us- but I believe that your family post were orignially Anonymous- Thus refusing to post an answer makes you a hypocrit. So according to the old testiment- you can’t have it both ways- so either answer the questions as posed- or- climb back under your rock.
The Heimlichs in this town have killed innocent people,defrauded us and the rest of the world with selfish self promotion of the maneuver, and got the local media “afraid” to tell the citizens of Cincinnati about the dangers of drowning.—-Phil has enough dirt under his fingernails w/ the Drake deal- that when that comes clean-I hope that there is a full legal invistigation and the guilty people are put away.
So either you stand as a Christian- and stop this senseless killing innocent people as Jesus would have done- or go back and write THE BOOK- the way to fit your lifesytle. Imunotherapy is killing people for profit-and we all know it. So stop being so dumb and watch and read the articles that were all well written and thought out and researched before they hit print. It’s in the black and white- Get a Grip- or go to confession for spewing your religious right on us.
14 Dec 2006 at 11:56 am | #
Anon 6:33: I suspect Sub will find any number of excuses why he doesn’t want to
Sub: my backwards religious beliefs don’t allow me to respond in detail to anonymous posters.
Sub had no problem before in responding in detail to my anonymous post. But when the heat’s on, he changes the rules, gets huffy, and goes bye-bye.
Sub = BS artist. QED.
Goodnight, Gracie….
15 Dec 2006 at 04:27 am | #
Dean:
Reread my post. I said I’d re-read your article a couple times, and think about it a little, and I will. But I won’t come out and apologize for anything, if that’s what you’re looking for. Even if I were to come out and say, “you know what, the Heimlich science sounds iffy on it’s own, and streaight up doesn’t hold up to the new studies that have been released”, EVEN IF I were to say that, you’re going to have to make room for divergent viewpoints (ie, people having positive views of the Heimlichs) on this site. I remember one of the original goals of the site was to keep dialogue going back and forth, and how we didn’t see any of that in this community… this is why; divergent views get shouted down. Is that what you had in mind?
I’ll concede that, by the same token, our postings might not have been altogether that inviting either. But, again, I feel that kateca was unnecessarily attacked for something that was totally off topic. Now would be a good time for YOU, DEAN, to comment on that.
And to the other posters, I never huffed off. Sorry if you thought you could intimidate me. The problem with blogs, both liberal leaning and conservative leaning, is the lack of real acceptance of diversity. So people were able to snoop around and figure out who we are, big deal. You act like we were accomplices to murder, when really all we did was have the audacity to have a different set of beliefs than that of the status quo of this board, and go on record with them.
I guess the point I’m trying to make is that it doesn’t matter if I personally accept the Dean’s articles as the infallible veracity of all things Heimlich. The point is, things might have been presented in a way, given the history between the Dean and the Heimlichs, that caused me/us/whoever to question whether or not the Dean’s resurgent interest in Heimlich “science” or medicine or whatever, had crossed over from investigative reporting to muckraking. When he got called on it, the board locked step and started to flame us. Is that the way to allow for divergent views?
And finally, for the record, I am not saying that my beliefs are the only set of beliefs there ought to be. That’s for everyone to come to terms with on their own. I try to do the right thing, and I’m not always right, and I think a lot of people can do a lot better than me as a role model. I don’t want anyone thinking I’m forcing my opinons to be someone else’s opinions. But I will make my opinions heard, just like my wife did in that FDA posting. Which is what I expect everyone to be able to do. But I don’t like seeing my wife attacked. That’s not living under a rock, that’s not being a right wing nut, that’s not being hypocritical, a BS artist, or anything else.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
15 Dec 2006 at 12:53 pm | #
Sub: ...given the history between the Dean and the Heimlichs, that caused me/us/whoever to question whether or not the Dean�s resurgent interest in Heimlich �science� or medicine or whatever, had crossed over from investigative reporting to muckraking. When he got called on it, the board locked step and started to flame us. Is that the way to allow for divergent views?
Henry Heimlich’s dangerous quackery has been excoriated in medical journals and newspapers across the country for two decades. He’s gotten a pass in Cincinnati because local media is lazy, incompetent, scared to tag a local hero, or because Phil Heimlich squelched negative articles while he was in power. The Dean has done a great job in keeping local readers informed when other media refused to do so. He’s also responsible for goosing other media into reporting the Heimlich stories, both Henry’s quackery and Phil’s skullduggery (Three Centurions, etc.).
The board flamed you because we’ve been following the story, we’re up to speed, and you and wifey are not. Why should we respect “divergent views” which are uninformed and blithely parade useless conclusions?
Congratualtions to you and wifey for being able to connect to the internet and having the capacity for typing words, but educated opinions are worth more than dumb opinions. Either know what you’re talking about before you open your mouth or take your lumps.