"Dr. Mary's Monkey"

[Peter Lemkin]

I also like Ed he's a good guy but he lost a lot of cred when he teamed up with JVB IMO. Her book he edited is awful.

Seamus,

Ed Haslam's first two editions of his work were self-published during the 1990s. These made no mention of Judyth Vary Baker at all. His initial investigations into the death of Dr. Mary Sherman were important. In addition, his examination of the relationship between the polio vaccines of Dr. Salk and Dr. Sabin, which were contaminated by a highly carcinogenic monkey virus, Simian Virus 40, because the vaccines required growing the polio virus in cultures of monkey kidney tissues, thus resulting in soft tissue cancer growths in animals and humans, and that became a major breakthrough in understanding the role of viruses in cancer research. This role was acknowledged some decades later by the National Insitutes of Health. At the time that the polio vaccines were being made, in the 1950s, viral causes of cancer tumor growth was not generally accepted in the United States, despite the fact that such had been studied and proven by Dr. Peyton Rous at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City in the early 1900s. In the following years, work on many types of cancers did not seem to prove that every cancer was caused by a viral agent. At a 1955 International Cancer Conference held in Chile, Russian researches presented their work on viral causes of cancer and were booed by American scientists and medical specialists in attendance.

One of the sad "benefits" of the Cold War was ignorance. However, in current biological thinking it has been proposed that millions of years in the past during the earliest years of human evolution, humans were infected by an oncogenic (oncogenic = cancer-causing) virus which incorporated itself into our DNA, so that every time a new DNA molecule was duplicated, as in human reproduction, the attached oncogenic viral DNA also was duplicated, In other words, we all carry this genetic material with us. Whether this oncogenic virus can be activated, depends on exposure or lack of exposure to chemical and physical activators, whatever these might be. For example, benzene the chemical, is carcinogenic to humans, and exposure to this substance should be very limited in industrial work. Ultraviolet radiation from the sun may cause skin cancers through this mechanism.

Dr. Peyton Rous was awarded the Nobel Prize for his viral causation of cancer growth discovery in 1966, which he well deserved.

Ed believed JVB. He may have found a way to get his own book published in hardcover form after someone told him that he needed a "witness" and she provided that(?) I still do not understand why he felt he required a "witness", as his original work stood well on its own feet.

Adele

Yes, interesting, that there are some cancers only caused by a virus and some others that seem [in part/mostly/entirely ?] are triggered by viral DNA incorporated into ours. Other factors in the immune system are at play, but too complex and not relevant to the thread enough to go into.

While this is interesting on the evolutionary level, and for medical cures of cancer, it also can be [and apparently has been] used for the creation [sometimes by error; sometimes by DESIGN] of oncoweapons! [An Oncoweapon would be a cancer-causing weapon]