1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,919 [no audio] There was too much of a show, 2 00:00:08,919 --> 00:00:15,720 there was too much Hollywood, there was too much exaggeration, and the impression in 1957 3 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:23,000 that was, no, 1954, that was given was that the problem had been solved, that Paul... 4 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:33,060 [Music] An historic victory over 5 00:00:33,060 --> 00:00:36,920 a dread disease is dramatically unfolded at the University of Michigan. 6 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:45,369 Here, scientists usher in a new medical age with the monumental reports that proved th... 7 00:00:45,369 --> 00:00:48,479 It's a day of triumph for 40-year-old Dr. Jonas E. 8 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:56,280 Salk, developer of the vaccine. He arrives with Basil O'Connor, head of of the Nation... 9 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:02,920 - When Morris Hilleman was a high school student in Miles City, Montana, he hoped h... 10 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:09,430 trainee for the local JC penny store. Instead, he went on to pioneer more... 11 00:01:09,430 --> 00:01:13,959 research and development than anyone in the history of American medicine. 12 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:20,040 Among the discoveries he made at Merck are vaccines for mumps, rubella, and measles. 13 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:24,959 Tell me how you found SV40 in the polio vaccine. 14 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:30,209 Well, that was a murk thing. Yeah, I came to murk. 15 00:01:30,209 --> 00:01:36,140 And I was going to develop vaccines. And we had wild viruses in those days. 16 00:01:36,140 --> 00:01:41,730 Remember the wild monkey kidney viruses and so forth. And I finally, after six months,... 17 00:01:41,909 --> 00:01:45,680 I said that you cannot develop vaccines with these damn monkeys. 18 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:50,609 We're finished. And if I can't do something about it, I'm going to quit. 19 00:01:50,609 --> 00:01:56,599 I'm going to try it. So I went down to see Bill Mann at the zoo in Washington, D. 20 00:01:56,599 --> 00:02:00,209 C. And I told Bill Mann, I said, "Look, here's a... I got a problem. 21 00:02:00,209 --> 00:02:04,250 I don't know what to help with doing." Bill Mann is a real bright guy. 22 00:02:04,250 --> 00:02:11,039 I said, "These lousy monkeys are picking it up while being stored in the airports in... 23 00:02:11,039 --> 00:02:17,830 He said, "You go ahead, get your monkeys out of West 24 00:02:18,009 --> 00:02:25,009 Africa and get the African green, bring them into Madrid, unload them there. 25 00:02:25,039 --> 00:02:30,789 There are no other traffic through there for animals. Fly them into Philadelphia, pick... 26 00:02:30,789 --> 00:02:37,509 Or fly them into New York and pick them up. Right off the airplane." So I brought Afri... 27 00:02:37,509 --> 00:02:44,400 we were importing AIDS verse at the time. And you were going to do the same virus to the... 28 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:51,030 It became a real story. So what he did, he brought in, I mean, we brought 29 00:02:51,030 --> 00:02:57,039 in those monkeys. Now we had those. This was the solution. 30 00:02:57,039 --> 00:03:01,039 Because those monkeys didn't have the wild viruses. But we had all these... 31 00:03:01,039 --> 00:03:04,039 Why didn't the Greens have the wild viruses since they came from Africa? 32 00:03:04,039 --> 00:03:12,039 Yes, they weren't being infected in these group holding things with all the other 40... 33 00:03:12,039 --> 00:03:16,990 But they had the ones they brought from the jungle though. Yeah, they had those, but... 34 00:03:16,990 --> 00:03:23,039 What you do is you have a gang housing, you're going to have an epidemic transmiss... 35 00:03:23,039 --> 00:03:27,659 Oh, is that the problem? Anyway, the Greens came in. 36 00:03:27,659 --> 00:03:34,039 Now we had these, and then we're taking our seed stocks to clean them up. 37 00:03:34,039 --> 00:03:40,819 And God, now I'm discovering new viruses. So I said, "Shit, it does. 38 00:03:41,009 --> 00:03:49,039 Priest." Well, I got an invitation from the Sister Kenny Foundation, which was the... 39 00:03:49,039 --> 00:03:53,280 Oh, right. they had to jump on Saban's bandwagon. 40 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:59,060 They asked me to come down and give a talk at the Sister Kenny Foundation meeting. 41 00:03:59,060 --> 00:04:06,150 I said it was an international meeting. I said, "God, what am I going to talk about?... 42 00:04:06,150 --> 00:04:12,039 I'm going to talk about the detection of non-detectable viruses as a topic. 43 00:04:12,039 --> 00:04:16,040 So now I've got to have something, you know, that's going to attract attention. 44 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:24,040 So I thought, gee, that damn SB-40, I mean that damn vaculating agent that we have, I... 45 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:32,430 That virus has got to be in vaccines. And it's going to be in Saban's vaccine, so I... 46 00:04:32,430 --> 00:04:37,040 Sure enough it was in there. And... It'll be downed. 47 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:43,040 So now, so I go ahead and... So you just took stocks of Saban's vaccine off the shelf he... 48 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:47,040 It was made at Merkin. You were making it for Sabin at this point. 49 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:53,000 Yeah, it was made before I came. Yeah, but at this point Sabin is still just doing these... 50 00:04:53,089 --> 00:05:00,860 Okay. In Russia and so forth, so I go down, I talked about the detection of non-tech... 51 00:05:00,970 --> 00:05:05,040 I told Albert. But at this point Sabin is still just doing these massive field trials. 52 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:12,040 Okay. In Russia and so forth, so I go down, I talked about the detection of non-tech... 53 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:18,790 Okay. I told Albert, I said, "Listen, Albert, you and I are good friends." But I said, "... 54 00:05:18,790 --> 00:05:23,689 there and you're going to get upset." "But I'm going to talk about a virus that's in... 55 00:05:23,689 --> 00:05:30,389 You're going to get rid of the virus. Don't worry about it. You're going to get rid of... 56 00:05:30,389 --> 00:05:37,040 , Albert was very upset with me. What did he say? 57 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:44,040 Well, he said basically that this is just another obfuscation that is going to upset... 58 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:48,040 I said, "Well, you know, you're absolutely right." But I said, "We have a new era here. 59 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:53,040 We have a new era of a detection." And the important thing is to get rid of these... 60 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,040 Why would he call it an obfuscation if it was a virus that was contaminating the vaccine? 61 00:05:56,040 --> 00:06:04,199 Well, there were 40 different viruses in these vaccines anyway that we were... 62 00:06:04,199 --> 00:06:07,620 But you weren't inactivating the... That's correct. No, that's right. 63 00:06:07,620 --> 00:06:11,470 But yellow fever vaccine had leukemia, virus, and everything. 64 00:06:11,470 --> 00:06:14,629 You know, this is in the days of very crude science. 65 00:06:14,629 --> 00:06:21,180 So anyway, I went down and talked to him. I said, "Well, why are you concerned about i... 66 00:06:21,180 --> 00:06:28,040 what." I said, "I have a feeling in my bones that I just think this virus has some 67 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:34,730 long-term effects. And he said, "What?" I 68 00:06:34,730 --> 00:06:40,300 said, "Cancer." I love it. I love it. 69 00:06:40,300 --> 00:06:46,920 Go ahead. No. I said, "Albert, I probably think I'm nuts 70 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:53,579 , but I just have that feeling." In the meantime, we had taken this virus 71 00:06:53,579 --> 00:07:00,180 and put it into monkey and into hamsters. So we had this meeting and that was sort of t... 72 00:07:00,180 --> 00:07:06,870 of the day and the jokes that were going around was, gee, we would win the Olympics... 73 00:07:06,879 --> 00:07:14,370 Russians would only load it down with tuners. This is where the vaccine was being tested. 74 00:07:14,370 --> 00:07:19,560 This was the same person. So, he really destroyed the meeting. 75 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,680 You know, it was a big in and around show. 76 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:30,680 So, it started with topic. Anyway... Was this the Cancer Society meeting, the New York... 77 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,680 No, no, this was the sister Kenny. Oh, the sister Kenny, right. 78 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:41,680 And Del Beko got up and said that he first saw problems with these kinds of agents. 79 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:45,329 Why didn't this get out in the press? Well, I guess it did. 80 00:07:45,329 --> 00:07:50,680 I don't remember. We had no press release and obviously we don't go off. 81 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:57,310 This is a scientific affair within the scientific community. We know it was in ou... 82 00:07:57,310 --> 00:08:03,639 That virus, you see, it's one in ten thousand particles is not inactivated by a Femandohyd. 83 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:08,680 It was good science at the time because that was what you did. You didn't worry about... 84 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:11,680 So you discovered it wasn't being inactivated in the salt-baking area. 85 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:18,279 So then, the next thing you know is three or four weeks after that, I found that 86 00:08:18,620 --> 00:08:25,279 there were tumors popping out of these hamsters. Polio vaccinations 87 00:08:25,279 --> 00:08:31,910 cause polio and cancer. There's a myth that polio vaccine has 88 00:08:31,910 --> 00:08:38,639 virtually eliminated the wild polio virus in large portions of the world. 89 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:46,240 You see, polio vaccine is the largest cause of polio in the world. 90 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:53,159 The wild virus is being replaced by the vaccine-derived polio virus, which is... 91 00:08:53,210 --> 00:08:58,580 more dangerous than the virus it's supposed to be protecting against. 92 00:08:58,580 --> 00:09:05,669 In essence, this much heralded vaccine strategy has replaced one infectious 93 00:09:05,669 --> 00:09:13,639 disease with another, even worse strain. What kind of success is that? 94 00:09:13,639 --> 00:09:20,679 What about people like you and me who received vaccinations decades ago? 95 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:27,600 In 2002, the journal Lancet published compelling evidence that virus 96 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:34,960 contaminated polio vaccine is responsible to up to half of the 55,000 97 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:42,759 non-Hodgkins lymphoma cases that are occurring each year. 98 00:09:42,759 --> 00:09:50,570 In addition, polio vaccine appears to be causing an outbreak of brain, bone, and lu... 99 00:09:50,570 --> 00:09:59,230 Evidence on how deadly polio vaccine can be began to surface in In 1994, when Dr. 100 00:09:59,230 --> 00:10:06,159 Michelle Carbone, a Loyola University researcher, found the virus SV40 101 00:10:06,159 --> 00:10:12,899 , which had never been for, never before been detected in humans in half of the human 102 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:21,070 lung-cancer tumors. And SV40 has been found in a variety of human cancers. 103 00:10:21,070 --> 00:10:27,720 Where did this virus come from. It came from the monkey tissue that was 104 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:34,850 used to make the polio vaccine. Repeated studies show that polio vaccine 105 00:10:34,850 --> 00:10:42,250 was contaminated with SV40. This virus has been detected in children 106 00:10:42,250 --> 00:10:49,559 who are too young to have received this contaminated vaccine that was administered... 107 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:58,980 When people would tell me that vaccines weren't good, I said, "Well, what about... 108 00:10:58,980 --> 00:11:05,080 I don't know why I came into it." I had some friends say, "Just go do the research." It... 109 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:11,639 I mean, I had friends arguing with me and I said, "Well, what about..." And they said,... 110 00:11:11,639 --> 00:11:15,129 they had convinced themselves, but I needed very, very, very specific evidence. 111 00:11:15,129 --> 00:11:21,899 You know, what was happening? The interesting thing about polio was that it's not real,... 112 00:11:21,899 --> 00:11:28,720 or it's like any other large disease category. They have so many, there's so ma... 113 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:35,389 Like if my leg tingled a little right now, or let's say that I had a bad cramp and I was... 114 00:11:35,470 --> 00:11:38,720 for a few days, that would be polio. And it went away. 115 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:45,720 Let's say that I felt nauseous after going to the swimming pool in the summer of 1948, t... 116 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:50,190 Let's say that I was, God forbid, that a small child becomes paralyzed. 117 00:11:50,190 --> 00:11:53,639 Let's hope that doesn't happen. But it does. It did. 118 00:11:53,639 --> 00:11:59,179 After what? After going to the swimming pool? After running behind the fogging truck? 119 00:11:59,179 --> 00:12:16,110 Well, what was the fogging truck? Before 120 00:12:16,110 --> 00:12:24,720 discovered DDT and special sprayers, sections of the city are blanketed with the... 121 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:32,000 Every suspected spot is sprayed. Even the streams are disinfected 122 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:39,200 , and in the parks and public places, children are forbidden 123 00:12:40,059 --> 00:12:47,610 to gather. Tons of DDT are used in this 124 00:12:47,610 --> 00:12:53,059 fight against the Dread disease whose principal target is the young. 125 00:12:53,059 --> 00:12:59,600 Again, war has contributed one of its discoveries to save life. 126 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:06,559 From 1945 to 1955, annual pesticide use on farms went from 125 million pounds 127 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:16,639 to over 600 million. government agencies began treating even the suburbs with DD 128 00:13:16,639 --> 00:13:22,230 T. Dr. Paige Nicholson, water pollution expert, public health service. 129 00:13:22,230 --> 00:13:27,029 Do you know how long the pesticides persist in the water once they get into it? 130 00:13:27,029 --> 00:13:34,700 Not entirely. Do you know the extent to which our groundwater may be contaminated right ... 131 00:13:34,700 --> 00:13:41,899 We don't know that either, nor do we know if concentration may be occurring in... 132 00:13:41,899 --> 00:13:48,509 They decided that the paralysis that they had seen some significant cases of in 133 00:13:48,809 --> 00:13:53,899 the early 19th century were caused by a germ or something spread by flies. 134 00:13:53,899 --> 00:14:02,139 [Music] Today's target for this B-25 is Rockford, Illinois. 135 00:14:02,139 --> 00:14:08,769 A peacetime mission to spread 500 gallons of DDT, The Army's miracle insecticide over t... 136 00:14:08,769 --> 00:14:15,700 icken with an infantile paralysis epidemic. By spraying the city, authorities will tes... 137 00:14:15,700 --> 00:14:25,340 of the dread germ. 138 00:14:25,340 --> 00:14:29,539 Air Force pictures show the method devised by the Army's branch of preventive medicine. 139 00:14:29,539 --> 00:14:36,090 Flying at an average altitude of 150 feet, the plane sprays a strip more than 150 yar... 140 00:14:36,090 --> 00:14:42,779 at the rate of 215 gallons a minute. 141 00:14:42,779 --> 00:14:50,379 A bomber turns to the ways of peace, becomes an instrument 142 00:14:50,379 --> 00:14:54,179 of science, and may become the means of saving countless lives. 143 00:14:59,179 --> 00:15:06,029 They decided to spray for those flies so they sprayed something which you might remember... 144 00:15:06,029 --> 00:15:12,730 is a potent neurotoxin which kills insects, but of course has no effect on children ri... 145 00:15:12,730 --> 00:15:19,620 DDT and I Have a it's in my poster book, which is for sale Their advertisements from 146 00:15:19,620 --> 00:15:26,340 the 50s It begins with the war-born development of DDT this diabolical weapon ... 147 00:15:26,340 --> 00:15:32,860 saved millions of humans but killed billions of insects. Man with this newly discovered... 148 00:15:32,860 --> 00:15:38,289 the upper hand in our age-old struggle. The really heavy blow fell only a few months ago. 149 00:15:38,289 --> 00:15:45,039 It came from laboratories where top scientists from famous universities and fr... 150 00:15:45,039 --> 00:15:50,100 organizations collaborated to develop something new and different. They succeeded. 151 00:15:50,100 --> 00:15:56,100 They perfected pest-droid. The most effective weapon man has ever wielded against insects. 152 00:15:56,100 --> 00:16:03,100 In both its forms, powder and liquid, pest-droid means doomsday to us insects. 153 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:07,169 For this new insect destroyer contains a lot of DDT, not just a little. 154 00:16:07,169 --> 00:16:13,710 Its DDT content is even higher than government specifications. But the really... 155 00:16:13,710 --> 00:16:22,100 insect killer isn't simply that it contains DDT. It's the way that it makes sure that... 156 00:16:22,100 --> 00:16:29,100 For example, take this liquid form, Pestroid DDT synthetic resin coating, ideal for... 157 00:16:29,100 --> 00:16:34,100 It's brushed on easily and quickly and dries in half an hour. 158 00:16:34,100 --> 00:16:39,059 It forms a clear, long-lasting, protected coating, scarcely noticeable on most... 159 00:16:39,100 --> 00:16:45,850 Other preparations, sprays for instance, not only irritate the nasal passages and fog u... 160 00:16:46,039 --> 00:16:49,059 , but quickly lose their effectiveness as the fog is dissipated. 161 00:16:49,100 --> 00:16:54,100 As a result, spraying must be repeated time after time. 162 00:16:54,100 --> 00:17:00,100 But not so with this. Pestroy goes right where it should go to kill insects. 163 00:17:00,100 --> 00:17:06,099 And once applied, it keeps right on killing them, week after week, month after month. 164 00:17:06,099 --> 00:17:12,630 Here's why. It's compounded with a new type of synthetic resin which binds DDT to any... 165 00:17:12,630 --> 00:17:19,660 cling, keeps it from brushing off or blowing away. After application, DDT particles for... 166 00:17:19,660 --> 00:17:26,059 of the coating right where the insects walk, creating a long-lasting booby trap for... 167 00:17:30,099 --> 00:17:37,099 These crystals stay put. They are densely matted, not spindly and loosely knit, not... 168 00:17:37,099 --> 00:17:45,099 Pestroy liquid coating can be applied wherever insects are found, around doorway... 169 00:17:45,099 --> 00:17:52,220 On screens where it not only kills insects, but also tends 170 00:17:52,279 --> 00:18:00,930 to keep the screen wire from rusting. In lockers 171 00:18:00,930 --> 00:18:11,950 where bugs always go in search of food or clothing. [Music 172 00:18:12,069 --> 00:18:19,430 ] On fruit and vegetable stands, [Music] in cup 173 00:18:19,430 --> 00:18:23,099 boards, the happy hunting grounds for all types of insects. 174 00:18:23,099 --> 00:18:33,500 [Music] On 175 00:18:33,500 --> 00:18:43,940 tables and benches at picnic grounds, in and around basement 176 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:50,910 drains, garbage and refuse receptacles of all kinds. 177 00:18:51,099 --> 00:18:56,940 Cabins and galleys of boats, anywhere and everywhere, bugs like to go. 178 00:18:56,940 --> 00:19:04,009 The same deadly effectiveness of the liquid form is found in the pestroid powder, another 179 00:19:04,009 --> 00:19:09,980 constant threat to insect lights, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 180 00:19:09,980 --> 00:19:21,819 This particular preparation is recommended for horizontal surfaces. [ 181 00:19:21,819 --> 00:19:30,099 Music] It is so easy to apply because of a new efficient dispenser package. 182 00:19:30,099 --> 00:19:35,099 All people have to do is to press the patented top like this. 183 00:19:35,099 --> 00:19:42,509 It's a handful of concentrated depth. [Music] This 184 00:19:42,509 --> 00:19:49,059 powder is truly activated. [Music] It contains stabilized pyrith 185 00:19:49,059 --> 00:19:55,759 ra, an ingredient which literally stampedes insects from their hiding places to bring... 186 00:19:55,779 --> 00:20:02,339 with DDT, indoors or outdoors. Stairs them up, drives them out of cracks and crevices... 187 00:20:02,339 --> 00:20:06,099 that hitherto have been home sweet home for insects. 188 00:20:06,099 --> 00:20:11,099 Yes, it gets in where DDT can really do a thorough job. 189 00:20:11,099 --> 00:20:15,099 And it's perfect for ridding fighter of those unwelcome house guests. 190 00:20:15,099 --> 00:20:22,000 This new activated DDT powder also comes in a large pump type dispenser that 191 00:20:22,049 --> 00:20:28,809 's sure death for insects over large areas outdoors. It's made to order for 192 00:20:28,809 --> 00:20:35,099 around wood piles, barbecues, patios, house foundations and so forth. 193 00:20:40,099 --> 00:20:45,099 Anywhere and everywhere people want to make outdoor life around home more comfortable. 194 00:20:45,099 --> 00:20:53,099 It's also good for use on swamps and pools of stagnant water. 195 00:20:53,099 --> 00:21:03,059 Camp sites and wherever else bugs like to breed and gather. 196 00:21:07,099 --> 00:21:11,109 You know trims wallpaper with DDT keeps your child safe. 197 00:21:11,109 --> 00:21:16,099 DDT is good for me, you know, spray it on cows, spray it in your milk, spray it on y... 198 00:21:16,099 --> 00:21:22,660 Pesticides weren't always thought to be harmful. To the contrary, in 1947, Time 199 00:21:23,049 --> 00:21:29,099 magazine carried an advertisement claiming DDT was good for people, homes and farms. 200 00:21:29,099 --> 00:21:34,099 It took 20 years before scientists realized how dangerous it was. 201 00:21:34,099 --> 00:21:39,170 Well, this is a paralysis inducing chemical compound. So polio rates went boom. 202 00:21:39,170 --> 00:21:43,029 Insects were believed to spread polio outdoors and in the home. 203 00:21:43,079 --> 00:21:47,650 In response to this belief, fearful parents put DDT all through the house. 204 00:21:47,650 --> 00:21:54,339 They put it on drawers, they sprinkled on a window sills, lunch boxes, directly on... 205 00:21:54,500 --> 00:22:00,099 clothes, bedding and mattresses, and painted it on the walls of children's rooms. 206 00:22:02,099 --> 00:22:05,269 You could even buy DDT-impedinated wallpaper if you wanted to. 207 00:22:05,269 --> 00:22:09,099 It's no wonder the well-to-do had such a high problem with polio, is it? 208 00:22:09,099 --> 00:22:17,619 But you could say, "What happened before that? Why was there any paralysis in the... 209 00:22:17,619 --> 00:22:24,269 A doctor called Ralph Scoby presented this to Congress in the early 50s, I want to say,... 210 00:22:24,269 --> 00:22:31,369 to chase a bug that they wanted to blame for this. And he said, "Well, actually, genius... 211 00:22:31,369 --> 00:22:38,369 on the fields and the fruit that children were eating, and it was called, Paris Gree... 212 00:22:38,369 --> 00:22:42,220 It was lead and arsenic. Lead and arsenic, lead and arsenic. 213 00:22:42,220 --> 00:22:49,710 Let's see, it kills people, kills people." Okay, so maybe if you give this to small... 214 00:22:49,710 --> 00:22:56,450 Well, that happened. And then he was looking through the--and Jeanine Roberts wrote a... 215 00:22:56,450 --> 00:23:04,099 magazine, I can't remember at the present. But--and Jim--no, it's going to escape me. 216 00:23:04,099 --> 00:23:10,950 But there--Jim West did great research, Jim West, in measuring the amount of DDT... 217 00:23:10,950 --> 00:23:14,099 of polio cases, DDT and polio. DDT, polio. 218 00:23:15,099 --> 00:23:18,299 DDT, Holia. Huh, what a coincidence. 219 00:23:18,299 --> 00:23:25,519 So let's look at the mainstream's proof. They decided that a stomach bug was responsible. 220 00:23:25,519 --> 00:23:30,220 The stomach bug passes through the feces. It comes out. 221 00:23:30,220 --> 00:23:34,950 Nobody has any idea how it could possibly get into the nervous system or cause any kind ... 222 00:23:34,950 --> 00:23:39,079 San Mermonni were still working on it. They don't care. 223 00:23:39,079 --> 00:23:44,440 People believe it. But they got rid of DDT and they put out a vaccine. 224 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:48,230 After the vaccine there was a spike in polio cases because the vaccine caused paralysis. 225 00:23:48,230 --> 00:23:55,160 It caused injury. So they said, "Whoops, it was a bad batch." And then they did someth... 226 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:59,950 They decided that the polio that had been polio wasn't polio anymore. 227 00:23:59,950 --> 00:24:04,410 In other words, if I had had that cramped for three days I had had polio. 228 00:24:04,410 --> 00:24:07,430 But now I had to have that cramped for 60 days. 229 00:24:07,430 --> 00:24:14,599 I had to have a cramped for two months. And the majority of polio cases in the... 230 00:24:14,599 --> 00:24:18,710 The CDC today says that the polio stomach bug causes paralysis. 231 00:24:18,710 --> 00:24:25,599 I mean I'd like the audience to guess, you know, what's the percentage of time that... 232 00:24:25,599 --> 00:24:29,869 Depending on your definition of polio, right? Is it 50%? 233 00:24:29,869 --> 00:24:33,759 Is it 70? Their answer is 0.1 to 0. 234 00:24:33,759 --> 00:24:40,640 5% of the time. So with polio then becomes the virus that causes polio except for 99. 235 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:45,509 9% of the time. And that's them. Do you believe them? 236 00:24:45,509 --> 00:24:49,150 I don't. You spray lead and arsenic, you give it to kids. 237 00:24:49,170 --> 00:24:52,960 They call it the summer plague. You know, what do you do in the summer? 238 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:57,599 You go to the pool, you eat the fruit, you eat sugar, you lower your immune system. 239 00:24:57,599 --> 00:25:05,700 There's great evidence for this. DDT toxicity can give anterior horn and the spinal cord... 240 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:12,369 It can cause respiratory failure just like polio. It causes spasm and flaccid paralys... 241 00:25:12,369 --> 00:25:19,059 Aside from that, DDT enhances the release and intracellular multiplication of polioviruses. 242 00:25:19,059 --> 00:25:24,859 This is a description of DDT poisoning. Tell me if you think this sounds very different... 243 00:25:24,859 --> 00:25:31,390 Acute gastroenteritis with nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea, usually... 244 00:25:31,390 --> 00:25:35,269 tenesmus, runny nose, cough, and persistent sore throat. 245 00:25:35,269 --> 00:25:38,910 Followed by persistent or recurrent feeling of constriction or lump in the throat. 246 00:25:38,910 --> 00:25:45,559 Now when people presented the hospital with constriction or lump in the throat or any... 247 00:25:45,559 --> 00:25:51,720 Occasionally, the sensation of constriction extends substernely to the back and may be... 248 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:57,859 Arm pain was a symptom of polio. Pain in the joints, generalized muscle weakness, which... 249 00:25:57,859 --> 00:26:04,769 Apprehension and exhausting fatigue are usual. The latter are often so severe in t... 250 00:26:04,769 --> 00:26:12,859 by some patients as paralysis. How could doctors possibly have distinguished a case... 251 00:26:12,859 --> 00:26:20,859 They didn't. It would have been called polio and it would have been treated as such,... 252 00:26:20,859 --> 00:26:27,619 In 1951, Albert Sabin noticed that the American military and the Philippines had... 253 00:26:27,619 --> 00:26:31,059 rates of polio, approximately one in 79 recruits. 254 00:26:31,059 --> 00:26:34,099 Yet he was utterly mystified as to why that would be. 255 00:26:34,099 --> 00:26:39,849 And he was even more mystified by the Filipino people considered polio the white... 256 00:26:39,849 --> 00:26:46,559 He also noted similar coincidences in China and Japan. This slide is a World War II Ar... 257 00:26:46,559 --> 00:26:52,880 from the collection of the National Museum of Health and Medicine at Walter Reed Army... 258 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,289 And this tells you how to de-lawson incoming recruit with DDT. 259 00:26:56,289 --> 00:27:02,789 What you do is you loosen all their clothes up and you get the DDT sprayer and you go... 260 00:27:02,789 --> 00:27:09,910 , up the pants, you sit them down, you fumigate their head thoroughly, you flip... 261 00:27:09,910 --> 00:27:16,930 Polio is an odd illness too. It's a little like autism in that it wasn't around 262 00:27:16,930 --> 00:27:24,579 before the late 1800s. Yes? Yeah, it is weird. 263 00:27:24,579 --> 00:27:31,410 And you know, this is not in dispute because polio you're not going to mistake a cripp, 264 00:27:31,410 --> 00:27:36,849 a paralyzed child for not a paralyzed child. They just weren't around. 265 00:27:36,849 --> 00:27:43,099 And so again, something happened. Now what the medical world says happened? 266 00:27:43,140 --> 00:27:48,400 It's called the hygiene hypothesis that people heard of that. 267 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:54,980 I'll try not to make fun of it. But it is, the idea is that around 1900, 268 00:27:54,980 --> 00:28:02,089 as we were becoming more industrialized and more inventions came along, that hygiene 269 00:28:02,089 --> 00:28:08,799 and sanitation improved to the point that kids no longer got polio in the first year 270 00:28:08,799 --> 00:28:15,390 or two of life, or the first year. They were no longer exposed to 271 00:28:15,390 --> 00:28:22,019 it through feces and because they had flush toilets. So they didn't get it then. 272 00:28:22,019 --> 00:28:28,779 And if they had gotten it then, their mother's antibodies and maternal and nursi... 273 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:35,539 have protected them. But since they got it now at three or four or five or six or ten 274 00:28:35,539 --> 00:28:42,039 , they didn't have that protection and therefore polio was a much more severe... 275 00:28:42,039 --> 00:28:46,819 just think is the most bizarre thing I've ever heard. Because you don't hear that ab... 276 00:28:46,819 --> 00:28:49,859 I mean, it's like, well, let's see, what can we say to make sense of polio? 277 00:28:49,859 --> 00:28:54,859 Because, you know, but why not cholera? Why not anything else? 278 00:28:54,859 --> 00:29:02,250 So, what happened, there has been a counter argument about 279 00:29:02,250 --> 00:29:08,900 polio for a long time. Even back as early as the early 1900s, some 280 00:29:08,900 --> 00:29:14,319 people made the observation that it seemed to be associated with a fungicide. 281 00:29:14,319 --> 00:29:22,779 Here we go. With fungicides again. This fungicide happened to be lead arsenate, wh... 282 00:29:22,779 --> 00:29:29,380 You take a little lead, put a little arsenic in it, put it in a can, put some water in ... 283 00:29:29,380 --> 00:29:33,940 and spray it on everything. You know, spray it on apples. 284 00:29:33,940 --> 00:29:40,829 They invented it in Massachusetts to fight the gypsy which was a all of a sudden had... 285 00:29:40,829 --> 00:29:47,349 attacking apple trees. What's interesting is in 1894 there was a 18 286 00:29:47,349 --> 00:29:54,609 93 there was a medical journal article that said in Boston it said is polio more... 287 00:29:54,609 --> 00:30:01,119 this year and it was and from that point you know it started to spread these epidemics 288 00:30:01,119 --> 00:30:07,869 and as I said it almost some people said, you know, this looks like, you know, we spray 289 00:30:07,869 --> 00:30:14,529 these trees in this, you know, and crops in May and June, and then people get polio in 290 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:22,970 May and June, and, you know, it's not polio, it's this toxic thing that is causing this... 291 00:30:23,099 --> 00:30:27,859 I mean arsenic and lead are known to cause paralysis. 292 00:30:27,940 --> 00:30:34,619 So that was, you know, a counter-theory that was considered heresy, right, by the 293 00:30:35,049 --> 00:30:41,000 medical community, because polio, there's clearly is a polio virus, etc., etc. 294 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:47,589 And then, and then when it got worse at the start of World War, at the end of World War 295 00:30:47,589 --> 00:30:52,000 II, DDT, right, kind of replaced lead arsenate. 296 00:30:52,099 --> 00:30:58,680 so that would be a logical thing. So there was these two competing theories really, one 297 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:05,220 of them completely trashed and ignored. One thing about polio that people forget is, a... 298 00:31:05,220 --> 00:31:11,779 didn't, was nowhere ever, is it, you know, it attacked a lot of people in different plac... 299 00:31:11,819 --> 00:31:20,000 ways in the country, on farms, you know, in big cities too, but it just made no sense ... 300 00:31:20,099 --> 00:31:26,740 And I found some maps that I think are interesting. This is, essentially this 301 00:31:26,740 --> 00:31:30,980 is the whole era of polio, big epidemics, 21 to 55. 302 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,930 And look at that glob in the middle. Oh look, I can do that. 303 00:31:34,930 --> 00:31:38,700 I don't know what I said. I can do that glob in the middle. 304 00:31:38,700 --> 00:31:43,630 What is that? You know, that is not the population center of the country. 305 00:31:43,630 --> 00:31:48,000 It's just interesting, right? I mean, whatever it means. 306 00:31:49,099 --> 00:31:56,009 And then here's another one. So, you know, this shows the eastern half of the country 307 00:31:56,009 --> 00:31:59,809 , you know, more affected than the west, which makes sense. 308 00:31:59,940 --> 00:32:03,660 There's nobody. There's nobody in the great basin there anyway. 309 00:32:03,660 --> 00:32:07,000 But look at the north, the northern part of the country. 310 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,200 You can almost kind of see some of that same center blob. 311 00:32:10,430 --> 00:32:15,000 And then look at that, how it goes up into Canada. That's really interesting. 312 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:21,640 That is really interesting. And let me just show you one 313 00:32:21,750 --> 00:32:29,119 other defined area. I'm going to go to Australia here and show you how-- this 314 00:32:29,119 --> 00:32:34,349 is polio. It's the same kind of chart. 315 00:32:34,460 --> 00:32:41,940 The areas that are the darkest are the most intense. Here's just another 316 00:32:43,130 --> 00:32:49,960 map of Australia. So anyway, so then as I've said that 317 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:55,240 the idea was it was lead arsenate which I fully believe. 318 00:32:55,240 --> 00:33:01,960 I mean, you know, you got to be kidding me that people were getting, you know, infant... 319 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:09,650 doses of lead arsenate in their food. But I've started to wonder about 320 00:33:09,700 --> 00:33:16,380 DDT and one reason is this. Here is the wheat 321 00:33:16,839 --> 00:33:24,099 growing area of Canada. How about that, huh? 322 00:33:24,099 --> 00:33:33,759 Look at that. And this is the wheat growing area of Canada. 323 00:33:34,859 --> 00:33:41,759 And this is the green growing area of Australia. And there's the polio area of... 324 00:34:04,859 --> 00:34:11,760 an unconditional warfare scenario. This is Information Warfare.