Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dre… - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Similarly, a comprehensive 1977 study by McKinlay and McKinlay, formerly required reading in almost all American medical schools, found that all medical interventions, including vaccines, surgeries, and antibiotics, contributed only about 1 percent of the decline and at most 3.5 percent.17 Both CDC and the McKinlays attributed the disappearance of infectious disease mortalities not to doctors and health officials, but to improved nutrition and sanitation — the latter credited to strict regulation of food preparation, electric refrigerators, sewage treatment, and chlorinated water. The McKinlays joined Harvard’s iconic infectious disease pioneer, Edward Kass, in warning that a self-serving medical cartel would one day try to claim credit for these public health improvements as a pretense for imposing unwarranted medical interventions (e.g., vaccines) on the American public. As the McKinlays and Kass18 had predicted, vaccinologists successfully hijacked the astonishing success story — the dramatic 74 percent decline in infectious disease mortalities of the first half of the twentieth century — and deployed it to claim for themselves, and particularly for vaccines, a revered and sanctified — and scientifically undeserving — prestige beyond criticism, questioning, or debate.

With 401 reporters certified to cover the case, only one, Leslie Stahl, bothered to look beneath the flimsy veneer at the myriad facts undermining the prosecutor’s frail parable.

Dr. Fauci “wanted the HIVNET site reopened for President Bush’s visit,” Dr. Fishbein told me. “That visit was such an embarrassment to all of us who knew the truth, but everyone fell into line.” The US AIDS media even began to refer to Museveni suddenly as a “benevolent dictator.” Farber remarks, “That Presidential junket was so transparently phony — a shameless exercise in colonial public relations and lies.