The episode features interviews with researchers discussing the controversial origins of AIDS and other diseases potentially linked to laboratory creation.
Introduction: Thirty years ago, Mr. Emory brought together researchers whose work set the pace for inquiries into the origins of AIDS as well as Gulf War Syndrome. That landmark broadcast brings together four individuals with expertise bearing on the possibility that AIDS and other diseases may have been created in laboratories, rather than by nature. Dr. Horowitz (author of Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola—Nature, Accident or Intentional, hardcover, Tetrahedron, copyright 1996) traces the probable origins of AIDS and Ebola to: a 10 million-dollar Pentagon project aimed at creating diseases to destroy the human immune system; Richard Nixon's "war on cancer;" Litton Bionetics; the National Cancer Institute's Special Virus Cancer Research Program; the Merck, Sharp and Dohme company and the creation, testing and marketing of vaccines. Dr. Cantwell (the author of numerous books including AIDS and The Doctors of Death, Aries Rising Press, copyright 1989) has developed information that dovetails with Dr. Horowitz's research and focuses on cancer research and the testing of the experimental hepatitis B vaccine (produced by Merck, Sharp and Dohme) on gays in New York City. Ed Haslam…
Guests: Ed Haslam, Dr. Alan Cantwell, Dr. Len Horowitz, Dr. Garth Nicolson
Organizations: Merck, Sharp and Dohme, National Cancer Institute, Litton Bionetics
Books & works: Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola—Nature, Accident or Intentional, AIDS and The Doctors of Death, Mary, Ferrie and the Monkey Virus: The Story of An Underground Medical Laboratory
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