Subject: media inquiry - 2nd request, please advise From: "Peter M. Heimlich" <pmh@medfraud.

info> Date: 12/12/2011 10:40 AM To: jjpippin@sbcglobal.net, jpippin@pcrm.org On 12/6/11, Peter M. Heimlich wrote: John J. Pippin, MD, FACC Director of Academic Affairs The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine 5100 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Ste.400 Washington DC, 20016 Dear Dr. Pippin, For my blog I'm reporting an item pertaining to a story published today by Bloomberg News, Yales Burned Baboons, Harvards Dead Goat Make Ivy League Lab Abuse List by Patrick Cole. From the article: (Dr. John) Pippin said instead of using animals, universities should conduct human-based research with people who have the diseases being studied. As you may know, I've been an outspoken critic of the Heimlich Institute's "malariotherapy" experiments, arranged and overseen by my father, Henry J. Heimlich MD, reportedly a member of your organization's medical advisory board since 1986. Per the December 2008 correspondence you exchanged with Eric Matteson MD of the Mayo Clinic, you're already up to speed on the key information. Below my signature I've copied additional relevant material from the British Medical Journal, an ABC 20/20 report by Brian Ross, and a Radar Magazine feature article. If you'd like more information, just ask and I'll be happy to share what I have. You may also wish to review the CIRCARE bioethics website which maintains an impressive repository of related information and documents. I have no training in these subjects, therefore my efforts are limited to repeating and reporting the opinions of experts. According to your online biography, you're an expert in "ethical and scientific issues in education and research," so for my item I'd like to get your answer to a quick question. A yes or no answer is fine, but please feel free to elaborate: Do you consider the Heimlich Institute's "malariotherapy" experiments to be ethical? Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to your reply, preferably by this Friday, December 9. If you require more time, please advise and I'll do my best to accommodate your schedule. Sincerely, Peter M. Heimlich Atlanta ph: (208)474-7283 website: Medfraud blog: The Sidebar cc: Patrick Cole, Manuela Hoelterhoff/Bloomberg News Via the March 13, 2010 British Medical Journal: For nearly 30 years, (Edward A Patrick's) career was intimately tied to the equally puzzling career of Henry Heimlich, once dubbed the "most famous physician in the world" for the life saving manoeuvre named after him. The two men worked tirelessly together, promoting the manoeuvre and later working on a cure for AIDS - a "cure" that was denounced by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization. ...Perhaps the most bizarre chapter of the Patrick-Heimlich alliance came when Heimlich became convinced that he could cure cancer, Lyme disease, and AIDS by infecting patients with malaria, known as "malariotherapy." When the US Food and Drug Administration refused to allow the research to be conducted in the United States, the men moved the study to China, Ethiopia, and Gabon. The World Health Organization denounced the study as an example of clearly unscrupulous and opportune research." Via Dr. Heimlich's New 'Maneuver': Cure AIDS With Malaria by Brian Ross, ABC 20/20: In a study commissioned by Dr. Heimlich, eight human subjects have already been injected with a form of malaria in China in the 1990s, and he is now involved with a research project involving

AIDS patients in Ethiopia who are initially left untreated for malaria with available medicines. "It gives off substances that strengthen their immune systems," says Dr. Heimlich. But leading AIDS researchers and medical ethicists say they are appalled. "It is scientifically unsound, and I think it would be ethically questionable," said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health, who has been seeking a cure for AIDS since it was first identified in the 1980s. Dr. Fauci says there is no evidence, even in countries where malaria is prevalent, that the "malariotherapy" has any effect on AIDS. "And it does have the fundamental potential of actually killing you," Dr. Fauci says. "It can cause organ system damage; it can elevate your temperatures to the point that it can do tissue damage to you." At various times, Dr. Heimlich has also proposed that cancer and Lyme disease could be cured with "malariotherapy." As with AIDS, the theories have been dismissed by leading scientists. Via Radar Magazine, November 11, 2005: Mekbib Wondewossen is an Ethiopian immigrant who makes his living renting out cars in the San Francisco area, but in his spare time he works for Dr. Heimlich, doing everything from "recruiting the patients to working with the doctors here and there and everywhere," Wondewossen says. The two countries he names are Ethiopia and the small equatorial nation of Gabon, on Africa's west coast. "The Heimlich Institute is part of the work there - the main people, actually, in the research," Wondewossen says. "They're the ones who consult with us on everything. They tell us what to do." Wondewossen says that the project does not involve syringes full of malaria parasites. "We never induce the malaria," he says. "We go to an epidemic area where there is a lot of malaria, and then we look for patients that have HIV too. We find commercial sex workers or people who play around in that area." Such people are high-risk for HIV, and numerous studies show the virus makes its victims more vulnerable to malaria. A key to containing malaria is speedy treatment. In the most resource-poor areas, clinicians who lack the equipment necessary for diagnosing malaria will engage in presumptive treatment at the first signs of fever. This, says Wondewossen, runs contrary to Heimlich's interests. What physicians in Africa usually do "is terminate the malaria quickly when someone gets sick," he says. "But now we ask them to prolong it, and when we ask them to do that, the difference is very, very big." Untreated malaria is horrible and includes periods of 105-degree fever, excessive sweating followed by chills and uncontrollable shivering, blinding headaches, vomiting, body aches, anemia, and even dementia. Heimlich's malariotherapy literature recommends the patient go two to four weeks without treatment. Delay in treatment, warns the CDC, is a leading cause of death. Wondewossen say that the researchers involved in the study are not doctors. He refuses to name members of the research team, because he says it would get them into trouble with the local authorities. "The government over there is a bad government," he says. "They can make you disappear." Wondewossen won't reveal the source of funding for this malariotherapy research. "There are private funders," he says. But as to their identity?"I can't tell you that, because that's the deal we make with them, you know?" He scoffs at the question of whether his team got approval to conduct this research from a local ethics review board. Bribery on that scale, he says, is much too expensive: "If you want the government to get involved there, you have to give them a few million - and then they don't care what you do."

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Subject: media inquiry - 2nd request, pls advise From: "Peter M. Heimlich" <pmh@medfraud.info> Date: 12/19/2011 9:37 AM To: psullivan@pcrm.org, jeannem@pcrm.org On 12/14/11, Peter M. Heimlich wrote: Patrick Sullivan, Jeanne McVey Media Relations Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine 5100 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Ste. 400 Washington DC, 20016 Dear Mr. Sullivan and Ms. McVey: For my blog I'm reporting an item about this question I sent to Dr. John J. Pippin a week ago: Do you consider the Heimlich Institute's "malariotherapy" experiments to be ethical? I haven't received a response, so yesterday I re-sent my e-mail to him. Here's a copy of my correspondence: http://db.tt/YUIjUezz 1) Would you please check with Dr. Pippin about this? If he intends to answer my question, please let me know by Monday, December 19. If you require more time, just drop me a line by that date and I'll be happy to accommodate your schedule. 2) Approximately when is your organization next presenting the Henry J. Heimlich Award for Innovative Medicine? Thanks for your attention and happy holidays. Sincerely, Peter M. Heimlich Atlanta ph: (208)474-7283 website: Medfraud blog: The Sidebar cc: Patrick Cole, Manuela Hoelterhoff/Bloomberg News

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Subject: Re: media inquiry - FINAL REQUEST, PLS ADVISE From: "Peter M. Heimlich" <pmh@medfraud.info> Date: 1/18/2012 8:43 AM To: mmurray@pcrmfoundation.org Margaret Murray Major Gifts Officer Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) 5100 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Ste.400 Washington DC, 20016 Dear Ms. Murray: I haven't received a reply to my previous inquiries (copied below my signature) and I'm going to print next week. I'd welcome a reply, but if I don't hear from you by the end of the day tomorrow, my understanding will be that you and your organization don't intend to respond to my questions. Thanks for your continued attention and I hope to hear back from you or one of your colleagues. Sincerely, Peter M. Heimlich Atlanta ph: (208)474-7283 website: Medfraud blog: The Sidebar On 1/11/12 and 1/14/12, Peter M. Heimlich wrote: Margaret Murray Major Gifts Officer Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) 5100 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Ste.400 Washington DC, 20016 Dear Ms. Murray, For my blog I'm reporting an item about a December 6, 2011 Bloomberg News article about your organization. According to reporter Patrick Cole, you were responsible for bringing the story to his attention. Here's the part of his story that caught my eye: (PCRM director of academic affairs Dr. John) Pippin said instead of using animals, universities should conduct human-based research with people who have the diseases being studied. As you know, my father, Henry J. Heimlich MD, is a longtime member of your organization's medical advisory board. The following comes from an April 8, 2010 LA Weekly article by Paul Teetor: In both its mission statement and its IRS filings, the Washington, D.C.based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) says it is "strongly opposed to unethical human research." But the group is throwing a private Hollywood Art of Compassion bash Sunday night to hand out a major award named after Dr. Henry Heimlich, who has been condemned by mainstream medical organizations around the world for his 20-year program of trying to cure cancer and AIDS by injecting people with malaria-infected blood. Since he's your organization's expert on ethical research, I wanted to get Dr. Pippin's opinion about this. In my emails to him, I included published reports from the British Medical Journal, ABC 20/20, and Radar magazine about the Heimlich "malariotherapy" experiments. I also attached copies of correspondence from December 2009 between Dr. Pippin and Eric Matteson MD of the Mayo Clinic, who expressed his concerns to Dr. Pippin about the experiments and your organization's relationship with my father. I asked Dr. Pippin but one question: Do you consider the Heimlich Institute's "malariotherapy" experiments to be ethical? I sent him multiple e-mails, but didn't receive a reply, so I followed-up with Jeanne McVey and Patrick Sullivan, two of your organization's media representatives. I didn't receive a reply from them either. (Please click here for copies of my e-mails.) Since you initiated the Bloomberg article, I wanted to offer you the opportunity to comment. As it happens, this claim from your LinkedIn page goes straight to the heart of the matter (emphasis added):

I work with donors and supporters of PCRM, an organization working to ensure that animals and people don't suffer in the name of research and medical practice. We promote preventive medicine, particularly good nutrition, and higher standards in medical research. I'd welcome an answer from you (or any other PCRM representative) to the same question I asked Dr. Pippin and your associates: Does PCRM consider the Heimlich Institute's "malariotherapy" experiments to be ethical? Also, can you tell me when PCRM's next Heimlich Award is scheduled to be presented? Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to your reply, preferably by this Friday, January 13. If you require more time, please advise and I'll do my best to accommodate your schedule. Sincerely, Peter M. Heimlich Atlanta ph: (208)474-7283 website: Medfraud blog: The Sidebar cc: Patrick Cole, Manuela Hoelterhoff/Bloomberg News Paul Teetor

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