The Cincinnati Beacon
Heimlich Maneuver Week, Part I: Episcopal Church Leaders Arranged African AIDS Experiments
Friday, April 06, 2007
Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati
 Photo of the Rt. Rev. Herbert Thompson Jr. courtesy of here.
The Heimlich Institute at Deaconess invites visitors to “Get Involved with National Heimlich Maneuver Week, April 16-22, 2006.” That might be tougher to celebrate this year since the Red Cross replaced the maneuver with backslaps as the first response to choking and ABC-TV reported that the Heimlich Institute is shuttered.
From the ABC-TV report:
The I-Team visited the impressive-sounding Heimlich Institute, which exists to promote Heimlich and his maneuver, on the accounting floor of a Cincinnati office. We found the office, with no one in it, the phone answered by a machine. The hospital that houses Heimlich’s so-called Institute did not answer the I-Team’s numerous requests for information about its relationship with Dr. Heimlich.
This week’s Enquirer obituary for John Gall, longtime Heimlich Institute president, includes the fact that he and Heimlich worked together on Heimlich’s sicko human experiments on African AIDS patients. But here’s the part that caught our eye:
In his later years, Mr. Gall and Heimlich turned their attention to the AIDS epidemic. “We had a meeting with (Episcopal) Archbishop Herbert Thompson, who helped us to make contact with parishes in Africa to spread our AIDS program,” Heimlich said.
Wait a minute. Reverend Thompson and the Episcopal Church were helping to arrange Heimlich’s warped experiments? More from the Spring 1999 issue of “Caring World”, the Heimlich Institute’s newsletter:
Dr. Heimlich had earlier met with Rt. Rev. Herbert Thompson, Jr., Episcopal Bishop of Southern Ohio, to discuss the African AIDS epidemic. Bishop Thompson wrote to Episcopal archbishops in eleven African countries to urge “Dr. Heimlich is especially interested in bringing his work to the attention of leaders in the nations of Africa, which have felt the scourge of AIDS the most,” Rev. Thompson wrote. “Dr. Heimlich sees malariotherapy as an inexpensive and effective way to deal with this deadly disease that has had such a catastrophic effect on African peoples.”
Beacon readers are familiar with the Heimlich Institute’s history of deliberately infecting Third World patients with malaria. So are leading bioethicists and a World Health Organization report which cited Heimlich’s “malariotherapy” experiments in China as a modern medical atrocity. The CIRCARE bioethics website provides an astounding compendium of Heimlich’s horrorshow. As for what he’s been up to in Africa, this from Tom Francis’s November 2005 Radar Magazine article:
Mekbib Wondewossen is an Ethiopian immigrant who makes his living renting out cars in the San Francisco area, but in his spare time he works for Dr. Heimlich, doing everything from “recruiting the patients to working with the doctors here and there and everywhere,” Wondewossen says. The two countries he names are Ethiopia and the small equatorial nation of Gabon, on Africa’s west coast. “The Heimlich Institute is part of the work there—the main people, actually, in the research,” Wondewossen says. “They’re the ones who consult with us on everything. They tell us what to do....We go to an epidemic area where there is a lot of malaria, and then we look for patients that have HIV too. We find commercial sex workers or people who play around in that area.”
You can read more about Reverend Thompson in his memoir, ”What’s a Black Man Doing in the Episcopal Church?” Another question might be “What’s a Black Archbishop doing arranging ’Constant Gardener‘ experiments?”
Rev. Thompson died last year, but maybe his successor, the Rt. Rev. Kenneth L. Price Jr, could answer that question. So could Joseph J. Dehner, longtime Heimlich Institute lawyer. Dehner is also Chancellor of the local Episcopal diocese.
Until recently, Mr. Dehner was also a longtime board member of the Heimlich Institute and a “malariotherapy” booster. In a November 7, 1994 Cincinnati Post article, Heimlich Using Malaria to Treat AIDS Patients, Dehner compares Heimlich to Galileo. (In the same article, internationally-recognized AIDS expert Dr. Anthony Fauci denounced Heimlich’s research as “quite dangerous and scientifically unsound.")
Dehner’s enthusiasm appears undiminished. He nominated Heimlich for the 2005 Cincinnati Business Courier’s Health Care Hero Lifetime Achievement award.
Given his decades of cheerleading for Dr. Heimlich, Dehner should have no problem explaining what his church is doing arranging experiments on African prostitutes.
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