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Dr Mary's Monkey forces the reader to reconsider vaccines. Oct 26, 2009
Dr Mary's Monkey forces the reader to reconsider how vaccines are viewed. Ed Haslam should be congratulated on sticking with a difficult story, in order, to find some answers to Dr Mary Sherman's murder. The mystery had the author in its grip intermittently for years! It's an easy read done in a casually honest style by a perceptive and intelligent author. Haslam suspected there was an amazing story if it could be unraveled but I bet the reality exceeded expectations! The story reveals an entangled web of disparate interests from a tainted polio vaccine to a hush, hush underground lab meant to produce a cancer-causing bioweapon to eliminate Fidel Castro. The layers of intrigue and duplicity could possibly be produced only in New Orleans and at that time, 1964. The story represents a worst case scenario where criminals, political extremists and medical professionals all cross paths and work together. It's enough to make you shudder. It's just a great read and a unique story! You're not going find the cause of death a linear particle accelerator in any other story!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Extremely highly recommended Oct 12, 2009
This book gives a very different view of recent American history.
In the 1950s, Jonas Salk developed a vaccine against polio, then ravaging America. It involved inoculating children with dead polio viruses, so their bodies would build up immunity. Just before the mass inoculation was to begin, a technician injected the vaccine into some monkeys. The supposedly dead viruses were not exactly dead, so thousands of children contracted polio. The safer Sabin vaccine was quickly developed, and rushed into production.
The bigger problem for the Salk vaccine was that it was impregnated with cancer-causing monkey viruses (imagine the panic if that became known). Consider today's epidemic of soft tissue cancers. A secret program was rushed into existence to look for some sort of vaccine. Such a program involved lots of mice (thousands), and someone to do the day-to-day observing of the mice, someone like David Ferrie (later to be well-known in JFK assassination circles). A defrocked priest and former airline pilot, he was a long-time CIA asset. Also needed in such a project was a cancer expert to do the actual mutating of the viruses.
Mary Sherman was a world-renowned cancer researcher with a list of qualifications as long as your arm. It is unknown why she would get involved with a right-wing fanatic like David Ferrie. In 1964, her burned and naked body was found in her apartment. The press tried very hard to make it look like a lesbian burglar sex killing, even though there was no sign of forced entry. The bizarre thing is that her entire right arm and the right-hand part of her torso were gone, like they had been disintegrated. The small fire that was set on her bed, to cover up the crime, was nowhere near hot enough to do it.
Mutating viruses required huge amounts of power, on the order of several million volts. A linear particle accelerator was powerful enough, but they require very heavy-duty wiring. The author found evidence of such wiring at the US Public Health Service Hospital in New Orleans. The author theorizes that, one day, Sherman touched the wrong button, or there was sabotage, causing all that energy to ravage her body. It was quickly decided to bring her back to her apartment, stab her in the exact right place in her heart (she may have still been alive at that moment), and cover up her death. This whole arrangement also required a courier to travel from Sherman to Ferrie and back again. His name was Lee Harvey Oswald. He was killed after the JFK death to silence him; having him on a witness stand would have publicized things that powerful people did not want publicized.
This is a wonderful piece of writing. It is a huge eye-opener, and will make the reader look at cancer in a whole new way. It is extremely highly recommended.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Superb investigative reporting Oct 01, 2009
As a producer for two national talk show hosts, I can honestly say this is one of the finest and most thought provoking books I've read. Ed Haslam's book is a major dot connector. Think about it. We already know thanks to A & E's Investigative Reports that Oswald did NOT kill Kennedy, but that's not the big jist of this book. What needs to be understood is that the polio virus vaccine all the baby boomers received via shots and sugar cubes in the 50s and 60s was contaminated with SV-40 Simian Monkey Virus...the results...an epidemic of soft tissue cancer. And SV-40 shows up in autopsies of cancer victims. However, even more horrific is that the SV-40 contamination does not end with those of us that received the polio vaccine. It is passed to our children and grandchilren even though they have not received the vaccine. Who is responsible? Ed Haslam's fabulous research was given to us in this book in 1995, and five years later, in the February, 2000 issue of Atlantic Monthly, it is finally discussed by the "regular" media. Stop and think about this...Plutonium experiments from 1936 through the cold war on unsuspecting Americans,radiation experiments on military men, the Tuskegee, Alabama syphillis experiments, the depleted uranium issues from Desert Storm, and countless others...this book exposes another form of deception and coverup. If this book doesn't make you think and do even more research, then you're in denial and have your head in the sand. There are countless other books that should be on the suggested reading list after reading Ed's fabulous work, but Amazon hasn't listed them. Please read Pulitzer Prize winner, Eileen Welsome's book, THE PLUTONIUM FILES, then read Martin A. Lee's THE BEAST REAWAKENS, and if you can find a used copy, get Borkin's THE CRIME AND PUNISHMENT OF I.G. FARBEN.
Ed's book is superb and written in a style that is easily assimilated. Buy it, buy two, give one to a friend, loan your copy, but get it out...and connect the dots!
I wrote this review regarding Ed Haslam's first book titled Mary, Ferrie and the Monkey Virus. This latest book has even more information and is undoubtedly one that needs to be read and kept on your bookshelves to show and loan to others. Christmas is coming again, so buy this book for gifts, especially before people get the latest Swine flu vaccine!
Thanks again Ed for a great book.
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An Excellent Read Sep 30, 2009
I bought this book under the recommendation of a former classmate. We were young adults living in New Orleans when all of this went down. I also knew Ed Haslam's sister as we went to school together. This book really makes sense to me because I can picture the places Ed describes and remember well that point of time here in New Orleans. Ed comes from a highly educated well respected family, too. Additionally, I read a few familiar names in that book, and it surprised me to see them in there. They were friends of my parents! Ed did his investigations well. Kudos to him, and I hope this book is as fascinating for others as it was for me.
Kathleen
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Must Read for Locals Aug 21, 2009
If you live in New Orleans or know the politics of the city, it is a must read. There are many truths in this book that you will recognize as a local. Some of the stated or implied conclusions, however, will probably make you uncomfortable because if they are accurate it means we are all more susceptable to the agendas of those in power than we care to admit.
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