Bryan Ellison
[back] AIDS critics Viral fear racket
See: Duesberg, Peter H. , Ph.D. Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)
Bryan Ellison is a biologist and world affairs analyst.
THE VACCINE MAFIA OR THE VACCINE CIA? How the vaccine propaganda is manipulated by Bryan J. Ellison
[1996] 'The SMON Fiasco' by Bryan Ellison and Peter Duesberg
[1994] INTERVIEW BRYAN ELLISON Rethinking AIDS March/April 1994
'Is The AIDS Virus a Science Fiction?' (1990)
'AIDS;
Words from the Front' (1993)
'Does
HIV Lurk in Your Lymph Nodes?'
(1993)
'With
Therapies Like This, Who Needs Disease?' (1996)
Ellison is the co-author of 'Inventing the AIDS Virus' (1996)
Quotes
The very first person to describe AIDS cases—Michael Gottlieb in Los Angeles
describing five homosexual men with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia—himself was
already suggesting that it was caused by a herpes type virus, Cytomegalovirus.
After that Epstein-Barr virus was blamed, HTLV-1, and finally you have HIV. That
was the result of the virus hunters being in a dominant position in the
establishment. That's the reason that AIDS wasn't blamed on a bacterium or on an
environmental cause or a toxicological cause. The virus hunters controlled
biomedical research and the biomedical research establishment, and had done so
since the war on polio, and had done so because the NIH was an overfed
bureaucratic agency that had in fact created by far the largest scientific
research establishment in the history of the world—more technicians wearing lab
coats, grinding out more data on a daily basis. It only gets worse every year.
Bryan Ellison
Interview
Blaming non-infectious diseases on infectious microbes has occurred many times before. ......For fifteen years the syndrome was mismanaged by the Japanese science establishment, where virtually all research efforts were controlled by virus hunters. Ignoring strong evidence to the contrary, researchers continued to assume the syndrome was contagious and searched for one virus after another. Year after year the epidemic grew, despite public health measures to prevent the spread of an infectious agent. And in the end, medical doctors were forced to admit that their treatment had actually caused SMON in the first place. [1996] 'The SMON Fiasco' by Bryan Ellison and Peter Duesberg
"The
Centers for Disease Control has had three major programs through which it can
make diseases appear infectious and make everyone step in line to agree. One is
that in the early 1950s they formed a special unit, an elite, semi-secret unit,
that is now almost fully secret, called the Epidemic Intelligence Service, or
EIS. New graduates of medical schools, or biological graduate schools, or
perhaps dental schools, or a few other things, public health departments, are
recruited upon graduation to take a several-week course, and then dispatched on
two-year active assignment, paid by the CDC, in various local and state health
departments to become the eyes and ears of the CDC—an invisible intelligence
network that watches for the tiniest clusters of disease, and, when the CDC
deems appropriate, turns them into national emergencies. We saw this kind of
cynical manipulation in the 1957 Asian flu epidemic. We saw it in the 1960s with
clusters of leukemia, which they tried to make appear infectious. We saw that
with the swine flu epidemic that never materialized, in 1976, and with the
Legionnaire's epidemic that same year. And we've seen it more recently with Lyme
disease, with Hantavirus pneumonia, and just one thing after another.
Even after those two years, every
member of the EIS becomes part of a permanent reserve officer corps for the CDC
that could be called up in case of national emergency or time of war, to serve
as officers of their respective ranks, with actual emergency powers. Today many
of these people, by sitting in foundations, major companies, the new media,
Surgeon General's office, and other key positions politically, act as silent
advocates for the CDC, echoing the CDC's viewpoint whenever it needs support. So
of course that's a very influential network, and I might add that as of about
one year ago, because of too many outside requests for the membership directory
of the EIS, the CDC has recently suppressed the availability of this directory.
They no longer want people knowing what the membership is."-----[1994]
INTERVIEW BRYAN ELLISON Rethinking AIDS March/April 1994
"The
other program that the CDC has is called a partnership program. Basically
they give grants to private organizations—even creating private organizations in
some cases—supposedly to spread education, meaning the CDC party line. But in
effect by spreading around this money the CDC creates and buys influence with
organizations that do not appear to be connected to the CDC, at least
officially. So for example, the CDC has thrown this money around to medical
groups such as the American Red Cross, to hemophilia organizations, to gay
rights and AIDS activist groups
......There
are enormous lists, and I'm only just beginning to uncover many of the
organizations that are funded under this partnership program with what they call
community-based organizations. See, the idea is—the CDC puts it in slightly
different language. They say, well, these organizations can reach their
constituencies more effectively than we can. That's code language, of course,
for saying that it's more believable when it seems to come from private
organizations without a conflict of interest
......I haven't yet been able to
prove ACT-UP. I can document the connection with several AIDS activist groups. I
don't want to name more until I can prove them.........On
the AIDS activist, gay rights side of the AIDS debate, as it has been publicly
constituted, they have funded the National Association for People with AIDS. It
is a militantly pro-gay rights organization, but coordinates a good deal of the
AIDS activist movement
...........
They simultaneously fund Americans for a Sound AIDS Policy, which has advised
the religious right, and was the primary advising group to William Dannemeyer,
Congressman. So the CDC was financing both groups at the same time, and the fact
is that while the two sides debated on red-herring issues, so to speak, they
agreed on one thing, and that is that we needed stronger public health measures,
and that the CDC were good guys. This is an example of the sort of thing they
fund. The funds could range anywhere from, I gather, a few thousand or a few
tens of thousands of dollars, all the way up to millions of dollars, as in the
case of the Red Cross. It depends on what level of money is required to buy off
a group. Some of these groups were created entirely by CDC funding
........For
example, Americans for a Sound AIDS Policy. So the CDC, with its EIS officers,
and with its partnership program, has created circles of influence far beyond
its own immediate existence, where much of its influence is not recognized as
coming from the CDC. Thus we have what appears to be a groundswell of support
for any CDC position, which is in reality orchestrated by the Public Health
Service and particularly by the CDC.
To illustrate how they use this in AIDS, quite simply
the EIS network was heavily involved in identifying the first AIDS cases, which
were not even a cluster. The first five AIDS cases did not know each other. They
had no connection to each other. They hadn't even been connected sexually
through anonymous sexual encounters or anything that we know of. But they found
all five and defined it as a cluster arbitrarily. From there they went on to
redefine diseases that existed in hemophiliacs, in intravenous drug users, in
Haitians, in Africans, wherever they could go, for the purpose of making the
AIDS epidemic appear to be infectious. The dominant view among those few
scientists looking at AIDS from the very beginning was that it must be caused by
drugs, particularly by poppers, which were wildly popular in the homosexual
community. This was the view they were fighting, and they had to make AIDS look
infectious. They did it through these kinds of cluster studies, by redefining
diseases in other groups. The EIS was instrumental in that, and the partnership
program, since 1984, when it began for the AIDS project, has been instrumental
in creating what appears to be a spontaneous support for the public health
activist viewpoint of AIDS, and for blaming it on a virus, from all sectors.
I must also say that this why the virus hunters paid
attention to AIDS—because the CDC brought it to their attention and made it look
infectious, and meanwhile the virus hunters, who dominated the NIH and the
universities funded by the NIH, jumped on it and picked their own favorite
virus, a retrovirus, on which to blame AIDS.
It is this Public Health
Service, which spends many billions of our taxpayer dollars, that has in one
sense or another created this HIV hypothesis, and which defends it to the last
drop of blood. I think the only way we're going to ever deal with this and
really to break the hold of the HIV hypothesis, and prevent future calamities
like this, which will be inevitable, is to start cutting back the Public Health
Service radically, perhaps abolishing some agencies."---------[1994]
INTERVIEW BRYAN ELLISON Rethinking AIDS March/April 1994
"THE FLU JAB SCAM The flu, being truly an infectious disease, often proved itself
most valuable to the CDC. Although the winter following the end of World War I was the
last time a flu epidemic caused widespread death, the CDC has pushed annual flu
vaccinations up to the present day. At times, the agency has even rung the alarm over an
impending flu crisis, hoping to use memories of the 1918 epidemic to gain emergency powers
and impose mass vaccinations. By using such tactics in 1957 over the Asian flu, the CDC
managed to wrangle extra money out of Congress to expand the EIS and crash-produce a
vaccine. But the flu season was already winding down by the time the vaccine was ready,
and the flu itself turned out to have been as mild as in any other year.
By 1976, CDC director David Sencer wanted to try again, though on
a grander scale. After one soldier in Pennsylvania died of a flu-related pneumonia in
January, Sencer predicted that a pig-borne human virus nicknamed the "swine
flu," would soon devastate the United States.
Panicked with visions of impending doom, Congress moved to
authorize the CDC's immunization plan for every man, woman, and child in the country.
Unexpectedly, the legislation suddenly stalled when the insurance companies underwriting
the vaccine discovered that it had seriously toxic side effects.
THE "LEGIONAIRES DISEASE" SCAM
Sencer had to do something fast. He immediately set up a
"War Room" in Auditorium A at the CDC headquarters, and put the EIS network on
full alert to search for any disease outbreak that might resemble the flu. Within weeks,
the War Room received word of a pneumonia cluster among men just returning home from the
Philadelphia convention of the American Legion. Several Philadelphia-based EIS officers
and alumni had detected the outbreak, and acted as a fifth column that not only helped
arrange an invitation for the CDC to come in, but also took their orders from the arriving
team of CDC and EIS Officers. Even the New York Times staff writer sent to cover the
story, Lawrence Altman, was himself an EIS alumnus.
The CDC team allowed media rumors to circulate that this
Legionnaires' disease was the beginning of the swine flu. Within days, Congress decided to
pass the vaccine bill. Only later did the CDC admit that the legionnaires had not been
infected by the flu virus, too late to stop the immunization program. Some 50 million
Americans received the vaccine, leading to more than a thousand cases of nerve damage and
paralysis, dozens of deaths, and lawsuits awarding almost $100 million in damages. In the
ultimate irony, no swine flu epidemic ever materialized; the only destruction left behind
by the phantom swine flu resulted from the CDC's vaccine.
The agency later blamed Legionnaires' disease on a common soil
bacterium, one that clearly fails Koch's postulates for causing the disease and is
therefore actually harmless. The legionnaires' deaths are not so hard to understand, since
the pneumonias struck elderly men, many of whom had undergone kidney transplant
operations, and who had become particularly drunk during the Bicentennial celebration -
the classic risks for pneumonia. Thus Legionnaires' disease" is not an infectious
condition, but merely a new name for old pneumonias."---Bryan
J. Ellison
SMON
[1996] 'The SMON
Fiasco' by Bryan Ellison and Peter Duesberg