The Magic Effect, continued...
Judy Balaban was the daughter of longtime Paramount Pictures president Barney Balaban. She didn’t know much about LSD when she started taking it, in the late 50s, but, she laughingly says, “I figured if it was good enough for Cary Grant, it was good enough for me!”
Before the United States introduced the world to the highest standard of living ever known, most Americans were too busy or desperate to indulge in recreational drugs. Many who did often suffered from addiction, homelessness, isolation, hunger, depravity and death.
Although drug dealers are generally viewed with contempt, that hasn’t stopped the drug industry from illegally marketing promises that injure and kill thousands of people
every year. Despite the
$8 billion in fines paid since 2004 to settle thousands of civil and criminal fines, the drug industry generates billions more at the expense of our health.
Regardless of these dark practices, millions of Americans continue to pursue happiness in one pill or another. Many go “all in,” betting their physical and mental health in the hope that the newest drug will deliver the happiness that usually comes with a nutritious diet, moderate exercise, hard work, moral values, discipline and meaningful spiritual connections.
Although Cary Grant knew as much about LSD as Magic Johnson knows about AZT, the drug industry uses charismatic men to push unreasonable promises. Inexplicably, our refusal to buy dangerous drugs from street vendors softens when actors or basketball players push them. Who wouldn’t buy Boniva from the Flying Nun?
To understand how and why
deadly and
highly addictive AIDS drugs are marketed, one needs only to look no further than Magic Johnson and his relationship with companies like
GlaxoSmithKline and
Abbott Labs.
Background

Spanish flu epidemic, 1919
During the 20th century, infectious disease peaked at ~900 deaths per 100,000 during the flu outbreak of 1918-1919. From 1920-1955, infectious disease plummeted from ~500 to about 10 per 100,000. Despite the estimates and models that promoted the “AIDS pandemic” from 1985-2000, actual infectious disease mortality hardly budged.
Since 1955, infectious disease has remained
statistically irrelevant. With nothing to justify their diplomas, scientists sought new threats (real or make-believe) that might guarantee their continued employment. Their wish was answered in 1971, when President Richard Nixon
declared war on cancer. But after a decade of
waste and corruption, Congress began to considered pulling the money plug, leaving many researchers nervous about job security.
As Congress weighed their options,
CDC epidemiologist Dr. Wayne Shandera reported that five homosexual men in their 20s and 30s were stricken by a pneumonia that “ordinarily struck cancer and transplant patients.” Said Shandera, “The best we can say is that somehow the pneumonia appears to be related to
gay life style.” This was incorrect because, despite gay stereotypes, only a small fraction of the gay community was actually involved in
behavior that promotes
drug addiction, anal sex,
rectal injury, feces, untreated infections,
parasites,
syphilis and gonorrhea.
The report stated that five patients also suffered from infections due to
a virus “that causes mononucleosis-type symptoms” and is “shown to be capable of suppressing the body’s immune defense system in a manner similar to anti-cancer drugs.”
During the
next five years, AIDS became a mostly political disease. In 1986, then-White House advisor Dinesh D’Souza reported that of the 200,000 people who applied for marriage licenses and were tested for AIDS in Illinois,
none tested positive for HIV. That same year, the
AIDS & Public Policy Journal (APPJ) reported that AIDS only afflicted 76 out of every million US residents (.0076%), leading researchers to accept that, without “
subjective estimates,” they could not justify government funding.
These low numbers were further corroborated by
Armstrong (et al), who tracked the “pandemic” downward from a peak of 15 per 100K in 1996 to less than 10 per 100,000 by 1999.
Despite thirty years of hysteria, AIDS was never more than a political pandemic:
Researchers & Junkies
Although
tweakers and junkies are known mostly as a public nuisance that generates
50-75% of all property crime, AIDS researchers decided in 1988 that
drug addicts should have “a voice in the formulation of public policy concerning the (AIDS) epidemic” and that political efforts would be more successful “if (researchers) tap the energy and social ties of (
drug addicts).”
After four years of failure, researchers modified their plan to enlist
homosexual addicts. As a result, gay addicts like
Peter Staley suddenly became “AIDS experts,” while the
FDA allowed drug dealers like
Joe Miller to
push deadly drugs to gay men. (After decades of pushing cancer-causing poppers at
gay dance parties, Miller
killed himself after federal agents raided his company last August.)
This explains how and why drug companies fund gay activist organizations like
Act Up,
Treatment Action Group (TAG), and
Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), magazines like
POZ and websites like
The Body,
Avert and
AIDSMeds (another Staley creation). Although the courts routinely accept (judicial notice) that drug addicts are pathological liars, drug companies found them to be useful propagandists. Homosexual activists wanted a voice, scientists wanted research funding and drug companies wanted a marketing force that could dispatch 1000 belligerent transvestites to the doorstep of any journalist or politician who dared to question the arrangement.
By January 1987,
MD Magazine reported that many physicians still “did not believe the conclusions (about HIV and AIDS) reached by the Surgeon General” (Koop) at the time.
Some comments from doctors:
“The United States Public Health Service is more interested in promoting gay rights than safeguarding the health of the public,”
“Control of the disease has been totally incompetent…”
“I am thoroughly outraged at the attitude of the America Medical Association and most medical bodies to AIDS and their groveling to the left wing political ideologues that control the media and this country. It is a true dereliction of duty and ideals.”
“What we need is responsible health care and education, not a hysterical reaction from the health care community too.” (MD Magazine)
As White House Counsel James Warner
struggled with the conflicting data, one prominent activist
advocated the contamination of the US blood supply:
“If (AIDS) research money is not forthcoming at a certain level by a certain date, all gay males should give blood… to get national attention. If that includes blood terrorism, so be it.”
As the
CDC,
NIH and
HHS stonewalled repeated efforts by the White House to verify the numbers, researchers fueled public hysteria with false claims that AIDS also threatened heterosexuals (
video). Under the pretext of “AIDS awareness,” drug companies sponsored gay
circuit parties that manufactured “a subculture characterized by (drugs) and unsafe sex, often with multiple sex partners” – encouraging behavior that sickened thousands.
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