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In 2004, I broke open the NIH clinical trial scandal - government researchers using New York City orphans in clinical trials with combinations of highly toxic, speculative drugs. Read the story below.

• Inside Incarnation NY Press July/Aug 2005 - Interviews with children and childcare workers from the orphanage. Radio Interview with a childcare worker from ICC.
• The House That AIDS Built Altheal.org January 2004 -The original expose.
• The ICC Investigation Continues Altheal.org May 2004
• The ICC Audio Interviews and Thalidomide Document February 2007 -interview with the medical director of the orphanage, and drugging with Thalidomide on orphans at ICC.
• Still on Trial NY Press, April 2005
• Noble Doctors Crux Magazine,November 2004 | Reductionism On Trial An Aids Debate, Summer 2006
• Knowing is Beautiful and Sex Crimes- Parts one and two of “The Hidden Face of HIV” GNN 2005 - a review and analysis of what is known as “HIV Testing”, in two parts.

Related Items:

• The ICC Website and Clinical Trials | Download as Zip File - ICC NIH Clinical Trials
• Exclusive: The Good Man At The NIH
• The NIH Scandal and the Future of AIDS Research
• Stepping Over Bodies on the Way to Market – The Truth About Nevirapine
• Journalism Ethics 101 - My Conversations with New York Times Reporter Janny Scott
• All the News that Fits…Two Years Later
• Another Attack on Authentic Investigative Journalism (fromthewilderness.com)
• My Interview for Nature Medicine | Notes on a ‘Scandal’

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NIH Study and ICC Photo Gallery (click to enlarge)

drugs-v2	drugs 1	asymptomatic	azt benefit-limited	azt intolerance
azt pregnancy	bone marrow toxicity	drugs 1	exam 1	genentech vaccine
generally healthy	gtube	gtube 2	icc baby	healthy volunteers
icc hearse	hiv negative	icc columbia presb.	icc 1	icc 2
lmd plus stvd	lipodystrophy	measle vaccine	meds 1	Up to 3 months
Inside Incarnation	NYPress Orphans	30 to 50 percent	Pfizer Glaxo	Self med
3 days old

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Independent follow-up investigation/reporting:

• New York Post 1 | 2 | 3
• FoxNews
• UK Guardian
• Associated Press
• Guinea Pig Kids Documentary ACFTV/BBC/NDR Fernsehen (2004)
• Film Transcript
• “Guinea Pig Kids” producer interview on Democracy Now
• Red Flags Weekly (2005)

On HIV Tests and Testing:

• Hiv Test Section

On Africa:

• Kamala’s Soweto – Aids and Safe Drinking Water
• Uganda – Swamp and Flooding – Aids and Safe Drinking Water
• ANC Today – Nevirapine Drugs African Guinea Pigs
• Corporate Sponsored Viramune (Nevirapine) Donation Programme
• Nevirapine and Stevens Johnson Syndrome – the Lancet February 1998
• Nevirapine and the Risk of Stevens Johnson syndrome or Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis

On Drugs:

• Gastric Tube for AIDS Drug Adherence in Children
• Over a quarter of HIV Positive Children on Aids Drugs have Lipodystrophy – European Study
• Nevirapine – FDA Alerts, 1999
• Foster Care Children Used In Drug Trials – Violation of Legal Code AHRP 2004
• Mitochondrial Damage and DNA Depletion in Cord Blood in Infants Exposed in Utero to AZT
• New Aids Drugs as Bad as the Disease – Journal of Aids, December 2003
• Vaccine Blues – The Aids Crusade Moves On - September 2007

Related Material from the GNN Weblog:

• Four Papers on Aids that Make You Say, WFT?!
• NY Times: For Science’s Gatekeepers, a Credibility Gap?
• Bush to Nation: Half of all AIDS cases occur among African Americans
• Dr Jonathan Fishbein NIH Whistleblower on Nevirapine Reinstated with Honors
• More New York Times Bullshit on the AIDS/ICC Scandal
• Anti-AZT Activist’s Child Dies
• New York Times to the Rescue!
• Welcomes Critical Thinking – Austin Chronicle
• What You Can’t do to Children, and Why
• Do We Have a Right to Dissent?
• Vaccine Trials – Get the Cure, Get the Disease

Patricia Nell Warren comments on the NIH Orphans-in-drug-trials scandal in her column in Arts and Understanding Magazine:

• Asking the Questions May 2004; What does it mean when a story about possible clinical trial abuses hits the wire, but most news media ignore it?
• Banana Ethics
  June 2005; Why does corruption in AIDS research continue to go unpunished?
• What Were They Thinking? August 2005; Inspired by lax oversight in the world of medicine, a new watchdog fights for ethical standards.

Bird Flu Investigation:

• Science Crossfire Salvo Magazine, Summer 2006
• The Bird Flu Breakdown - Part 1: Two Children in Vietnam Independent, Summer 2006
• German Virologist: “There’s No Such Thing As Bird Flu”
• The Avian Menace
• Tamiflu - It Kills Rats, Does it Stop the Flu?
• Bird Flu - Reality or Manipulation?

Debate is the Heart and Soul of a Civil Society.

• HPV Debate “The Vaccine (that doesn’t stop) the virus (that doesn’t cause cancer) ” Gardisil Vaccinations for adolescent girls – Cui Bono? GNN, December 2006
• AIDS Drugs - Drugs with severe and deadly side-effects, used in New York City orphans and throughout Africa. A necessary evil, or just bad medicine?
• The cost of HIV drugs in Africa – who benefits? Nevirapine Debate GNN, December 2006
• An AIDS Debate: Email Correspondence between Liam Scheff and a Mainstream AIDS History Researcher at Duke University (June 2006)

NY Orphans in Government Drug Trials - NY Press (Spring, 2005)

• Celia Farber advising caution | Jeanne Bergman on the offensive

What Does AIDS Have To Do With Sex?

• At Seed Magazine’s blog,> Aetiology.com – Part one | Part two - Spring 2006
• At the Guerrilla News Network (see comments to articles) on Africa and Russia Summer 2006
• The British Medical Journal debates Sex and AIDS - 2003-2004