The NIH/ICC Investigation
April 28th, 2008 — Liam
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 | The Nurse’s Story – 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. PDF – pt.1 | pt.2
Download as PDFs (zip files): ICC Stories | HIV Testing and AIDS Drugs | Media Coverage and Cover-Up
Related Items:
On HIV Tests and Testing:
Liam Scheff on the ICC Investigation (subtitles in Spanish)
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NIH Study and ICC Photo Gallery (click to enlarge)
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Independent follow-up investigation/reporting:
- New York Post 1 | 2 | 3
- FoxNews
- UK Guardian
- Associated Press
- Alliance for Human Research Protection – 1 | 2
- Guinea Pig Kids Documentary ACFTV/BBC/NDR Fernsehen (2004)
- Film Transcript
- “Guinea Pig Kids” producer interview on Democracy Now
- Red Flags Weekly (2005)
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, WTF?!
- 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
- 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:
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)
- Celia Farber advising caution | Jeanne Bergman on the offensive
NY Orphans in Government Drug Trials – NY Press (Spring, 2005)
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



























