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This 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 (the 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 (author of Mary, Fer­rie and the Mon­key Virus: The Story of An Under­ground Med­ical Lab­o­ra­tory, Wordsworth Press, copy­right 1995) ana­lyzes the con­t­a­m­i­na­tion of the polio vac­cine with SV-40, a cancer-causing mon­key virus and dis­cusses the pos­si­bil­ity that this con­t­a­m­i­na­tion led to a soft-tissue can­cer epi­demic cur­rently sweep­ing the United States. In addi­tion, Haslam presents the pos­si­bil­ity that AIDS may have resulted (acci­den­tally or delib­er­ately) from this con­t­a­m­i­na­tion and research into pos­si­ble ways of neu­tral­iz­ing the SV-40. Haslam con­nects this research to the milieu involved in Pres­i­dent Kennedy’s assas­si­na­tion and the mur­der of Dr. Mary Sher­man, a pio­neer in Amer­i­can can­cer research. The con­clud­ing sec­tion of the pro­gram fea­tures Dr. Garth Nicol­son, who (along with his wife Dr. Nancy Nicol­son) has done research into a genetically-altered micro-organism, which appears to be caus­ing some of the ill­ness known as “Gulf War Syn­drome”. This organ­ism (called a mycoplasma), fea­tures the addi­tion of a gene from HIV, ren­der­ing it much more path­o­genic. The broad­cast also cov­ers the fright­en­ing fact that ongo­ing U.S. vac­cine pro­duc­tion and admin­is­tra­tion is shrouded in secrecy by the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion. In addi­tion, many vac­cines cur­rently being admin­is­tered are heav­ily con­t­a­m­i­nated with viruses and viral par­ti­cles, which may very well be caus­ing a vari­ety of dis­eases. Mr. Emory con­sid­ers this pro­gram to be one of the most impor­tant he has pro­duced in his almost two decades on the air. (Recorded on 10/20/96)