Harvard School of Public
Health's Lifestyle-Questionnaire Studies Are Scientific Fraud!
The Harvard School of Public Health boasts that it "Prompted
revolutionary revisions to the U.S. Clean Air Act through the Six
Cities Study, begun in 1974 in response to the U.S. energy crisis. The
study found that air pollution-related cardiopulmonary problems were
occurring at exposure levels below existing standards; the most
dangerous components of air pollution were microscopic bits of solid
matter (particulates) produced by fossil fuel combustion; indoor air
pollution was sometimes significantly riskier than outdoor pollution;
and that passive smoking has significant effects on the respiratory
health of children." This is charlatanism, because the alleged
cardiovascular problems were among persons who already had serious
heart disease, and the supposed effects were concocted by massaging the
data with fast-fourier transform formulas, without regard to the role
of infection as a cause of either chronic or acute cardiovascular
disease. Furthermore, the death rates from
asthma
have steadily risen ever since the anti-smoking charlatans began
imposing smoking bans and inmtimidating suckers out of smoking in their
own homes.
The Harvard School of Public Health boasts that they "Showed that
the large majority of coronary
heart disease and diabetes cases can be prevented by avoidance of
smoking, moderate physical activity, weight control, a diet emphasizing
healthy fats, healthy carbohydrates, and generous intake of fruits and
vegetables, and optional moderate alcohol intake," which they attribute
to "research results from the Nurses’ Health Study I and II, the Health
Professionals Follow-up Health Study, and/or the Physicians’ Health
Study I and II which are conducted by researchers in the Division of
Preventive Medicine and the Channing Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital, together with researchers in the Departments of Epidemiology
and Nutrition at HSPH." This is fraudulent on its face, because the
majority of heart disease patients do not have (and have never had) any
of those pretended risk
factors. And it is scientific fraud, because these claims are based on
extrapolation from studies based on nothing but lifestyle
questionnaires, which are not confirmed by randomized trials such as
the $625 million Women's Health Initiative:
Low-fat dietary pattern and risk of cardiovascular disease: the
Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification
Trial. BV Howard, et al. JAMA 2006 Feb 8;295(6):655-666. Randomized
controlled trial of 48,835 postmenopausal women aged 50 to 79 years,
1993-98. "The diet had no significant effects on incidence of CHD
(hazard ratio [HR], 0.97; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.90-1.06),
stroke (HR, 1.02; 95% CI, 0.90-1.15), or CVD (HR, 0.98; 95% CI,
0.92-1.05). "Over a mean of 8.1 years, a dietary intervention that
reduced total fat intake and increased intakes of vegetables, fruits,
and grains did not significantly reduce the risk of CHD, stroke, or CVD
in postmenopausal women and achieved only modest effects on CVD risk
factors..." After finding no effect, they nonsensically declare that
"more focused diet and lifestyle interventions may be needed to improve
risk factors and reduce CVD risk."
Their lies about smoking are specifically contradicted by the fact
that the decline in death rates since 1970 has been as large among
smokers as among non-smokers: "Nonsudden CHD death decreased by 64%
(95% CI 50% to 74%, Ptrend<0.001), and SCD rates decreased by 49%
(95% CI 28% to 64%, Ptrend<0.001). These trends were seen in men and
women, in subjects with and without a prior history of CHD, and in
smokers and nonsmokers." (Temporal trends in coronary heart disease
mortality and sudden cardiac death from 1950 to 1999: the Framingham
Heart Study. CS Fox, JC Evans, MG Larson, WB Kannel, D Levy.
Circulation 2004 Aug 3;110(5):522-527.) This is despite the different
rates of smoking and quitting between men and women during this
interval.
The Harvard School of Public Health boasts that they "Published a
groundbreaking study highlighting
the hazards of passive smoking, or 'second-hand smoke.' The study
linked this exposure to lung cancer." Presumably they are referring to
the specious trash of Dimitrios Trichopoulos, the author of vintage
1981 anti-smoking hate propaganda based on nothing but
a lifestyle questionnaire: "Born in the Greek city of Volos in
1938, he thrived and excelled as a student, despite civil war and a
ruined economy that made life hard following World War II. Encouraged
by his surgeon-father to pursue medicine, he chose to study psychiatry
and neurology at the University of Athens Medical School. There he met
epidemiologist Brian MacMahon of the Harvard School of Public Health,
who noted his facility with numbers and urged him to seek a master's
degree at HSPH... Eventually he was recruited to the HSPH faculty
full-time, where from 1989 to 1996 he served as the School's
Epidemiology Department chair."
(Epidemiology's Odysseus. By Peter Wehrwein. Harvard Public Health
Review, Fall 2004.)
The Harvard School of Public
Health has deliberately used its lackies within the National Cancer
Institute to fund defective studies, while ignoring
more than 50 studies which demonstrate that human papillomavirus is
involved in ten times more lung cancers than the anti-smoking
demagogues pretend are caused by secondhand smoke. Because passive
smokers are more likely to have been exposed to HPV, this is their
means to falsely blame passive smoking for lung cancer.
The Harvard School of Public Health boasts that "Gro Harlem
Brundtland, MPH ’65, was Director-General of the World Health
Organization from 1998-2003," and that "Since 1962, six directors of
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been Harvard School
of Public Health graduates." That explains their predeliction for
scientific fraud. Furthermore, it is a graduate of the Harvard School
of Public who is
the grand ringleader of global scientific fraud: Jon Samet has been an
anti-smoking activist since the Fifth World Conference on Smoking and
Health in 1983. He was one of three "consulting scientific editors" and
"prepared draft chapters or portions" of the 1986 Surgeon General
Report, "The Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking," and was also
involved in the 1984, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2004
SG Reports, and was Senior Scientific Editor of the 2006 Surgeon
General Report, "The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to
Tobacco Smoke." He was also a member of the Science Advisory Board of
the so-called "EPA" Report on ETS, the key chapters of which were
actually secretly written by an anti-smoking activist crony of Samet's,
using illegal pass-through contracts to conceal his role. Samet was
Chairman of the IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer)
committee which produced the fraudulent Monograph on Smoking and
Involuntary Smoking in 2003. In 2005, Samet and three anti-smoking
activist cronies formed a majority of the voting board of the ASHRAE
Position Document on ETS. In addition, he committed perjury in 1998 in
the State of Minnesota lawsuit against the cigarette companies, and
testified in the US Department of Justice lawsuit against them as well.
(Milestones in HSPH History. Harvard School of Public Health,
accessed 2/23/08.)
"The Charles Wilder Professorship in the Medical School. Founded in
1909 under the will of Charles Wilder and his sister, Florence E.
Wilder; in 1912 the fund was increased by Charles Wilder. Established
by the President and Fellows in 1920." From 1920 to 1935, Milton Joseph
Rosenau was the Charles Wilder Professor of Preventive Medicine and
Hygiene. (Holders of Endowed Professorships. Historical Register of
Harvard University, 1636-1936. Harvard University, 1937.)
The establishment of a "Department of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene" at Harvard in 1909 was announced in the Graduates' Magazine. The article proclaimed that "Its establishment is another symptom of the strong tendency to draw the physicians of the country into an organized public service. Though all doctors are now engaged in the work of preventive medicine, this work cannot be privately measured and paid for. No doubt so long as death continues to claim mankind there will be a province for the private practitioner. But his field is narrowing to the treatment of the more hopeless forms of disease. If he would live by what has become the chief part of medicine he must either enter the public health service or invade the field just opened by the enlightened business prudence of the life insurance companies. The example of Harvard must be followed by the other medical schools of the country, to supply the demand for specially trained men both in the service of these companies and in the public service." (Harvard's Pioneer School. New York Times, Sep. 13, 1909.)
Dr. Milton J. Rosenau was director of the hygiene laboratory of the
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, when he accepted the
newly-created chair of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine at Harvard. (Dr.
Rosenau Accepts Harvard Chair. New York Times, Jul. 11, 1909.) Rosenau
was a member of the commission created by Adolph Lewisohn, Nathan
Straus, and the U.S. Ambassador to Constantinople Henry Morgenthau to
visit Palestine. Dr.
L.K. Frankel was also a member.
(To Investigate Palestine. New York
Times, June 13, 1914.) Frankel and Rosenau were both from Philadelphia,
and Lulu Rosenau was married to Lee Frankel's brother, Perry Frankel.
Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, Dr. Irving Fisher, Dr. William H. Welch [S&B 1870], and Dr. Haven Emerson were at the hearing of the Advisory Committee of the "Council of National Defense," whose purpose was to shut down the sex trade and impose prohibition on the U.S. military. Members of the Advisory Committee included Bernard M. Baruch. Raymond B. Fosdick headed the Commission on Training Camp Activities. (Barring Sex Diseases from the American Army. New York Times, October 28, 1917.)
(exerpt from) Barring Sex Diseases from the American Army / The Mead Project, by Dr. Lloyd Gordon Ward, Brock U."Until 1910, there were no facilities for the training of public
health workers in the United States. In that year the University of
Michigan awarded the first specific public health degree. The first
school, however, was organized in 1912 by William T. Sedgwick at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1913, Sedgwick joined forces
with Milton J. Rosenau, professor of preventive medicine at the Harvard
Medical School, and George C. Whipple, statistician and sanitary
engineer, also of Harvard, to form a school of public health. In 1918,
the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene was opened with William H. Welch
[S&B
1870] as
its first director." (A History of Public Health. By George Rosen. JHU
Press, 1993.)
Rosenau was a member of the committee, headed by Dr. Lee K. Frankel
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, that was appointed by the
Executive Committee of the American Jewish Relief Commission to visit
Jewish centers in Europe. (Jewish Advisors to Sail. New York Times,
June 17, 1922.)
"The Harvard School of Public Health, established last year as the
result of the endowment received last year from the Rockefeller
Foundation, which will ultimately amount to more than $2,000,000,
will
open Monday for the first time. During the first half year, Roger I.
Lee, Professor of Hygiene, will serve as acting dean of this school in
the absence abroad of Dr. David L. Edsall, Dean of the Medical School.
The faculty of the school will include Drs. Richard P. Strong, Milton
J. Rosenau, Lawrence J. Henderson, George C. Whipple, Cecil K. Drinker
and Professor Edwin B. Wilson." The Harvard Theological School also
opened that year. It was "formed last June by agreement between the
Harvard authorities and the Trustees of Andover Theological Seminary,"
with Rev. Willard L. Sperry as Dean. (Harvard Will Open Two New
Departments. New York Times, Sep. 24, 1922.)
Rosenau and Frankel were among eleven members of the Public Health
and Medical Reference Board of Hadassah. (Doctors to Aid Hadassah. New
York Times, June 22, 1930.)
The President and Fellows of Harvard University during 1909-1912
consisted of
Henry Pickering Walcott (1890-1927); Henry Lee Higginson (1893-1919);
Francis Cabot Lowell (1895-1911); Arthur Tracy Cabot (1896-1912); and
Thomas Nelson Perkins (1905-1924 and 1926-). Clarence
Cook Little, the future head of the American
Society for the Control of Cancer - and later, the Tobacco Industry
Research
Council - was secretary to the Corporation of Harvard University from
1910-12.
The President and Fellows of Harvard in 1920-22 consisted of Henry
Pickering Walcott (1890-1927); Thomas Nelson Perkins (1905-1924 and
1926-); William Lawrence (1913-1931); John Farwell Moors (1918-1931);
and James Byrne (1920-1926). Charles
Francis Adams was the Treasurer (1898-1925). (Chronological Tables:
Treasurers. Historical Register of Harvard University, 1636-1936.
Harvard University, 1937.) Abbott Lawrence Lowell was the President of
Harvard from 1909 to 1933, when he was succeeded by James Bryant Conant.
Henry Pickering Walcott (1838-1932) was a physician and a member and
later chairman of the
Massachusetts Board of Health. "Dr. Henry Pickering Walcott '58, the
new president of the Alumni Association, after graduating from college,
studied medicine at the Medical School and at Bowdoin, as well as in
Vienna and Berlin. He served for 33 years on the Massachusetts State
Board of Health, of which he was chairman from 1886 to 1914. He has
been for many years chairman of the Massachusetts Water and Sewerage
Commission. He has also served as president of the Massachusetts
Medical Society, the American Public Health Association and the
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and as vice-president of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 1887 to 1890 he was a
member of the Board of Overseers of the College, and since then has
been one of the Fellows, being now the senior member of that body. From
1900 to 1901, during one of the temporary absences of President Eliot,
Dr. Walcott was Acting President. He received the honorary degree of
LL. D. from Yale in 1907." And Robert Frederick Herrick '90 was
appointed the Chief Marshal for Commencement. Marshal At Commencement.
The Crimson, Jan. 21, 1915.) He was a member of the executive committee
of the American Public Health Association (Health Association.
Galveston Daily News, Nov. 16, 1883) and president (The Health
Congress. Milwaukee Sentinel, Dec. 12, 1885.)
Thomas Nelson Perkins,
Harvard 1891, was the grandson of James Handasyd Perkins (1810-1849),
who was a Cincinnati
crony of Skull & Bones founder Alphonso Taft.
He was the son-in-law of Charles Francis Adams (1835-1915). Meanwhile,
his brother was involved in buying large amounts of American Tobacco
Company stock.
Bishop William Lawrence (1850-1941) was the son of Amos Adams
Lawrence (1814–1886) and grandson of Amos Lawrence, the founder of
Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. (Amos Adams Lawrence (1814–1886).
Online Encyclopedia, Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 305 of
the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.)
Right Rev. William Lawrence was
the Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts from 1893 to 1925. He was known
as "the banker Bishop" because his fund raising drives "invariably
developed with Midas-like magic." J. Pierpont Morgan was associated
with the Church Pension Fund from its beginning in 1918, and served as
its Treasurer. Bishop Lawrence was a cousin
of Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell. His daughter, Ruth, married Lansing P. Reed, Skull &
Bones 1904. (Miss Ruth Lawrence Weds. New
York Times, Jun. 4, 1911; Dr. Lawrence Dies; Bishop Emeritus. New York
Times, Nov. 7, 1941.) Reed was a director of I.T. & T, which made
"numerous payments" to Heinrich Himmler in the late 1930s. Bishop
Lawrence, Maj. Henry Lee Higginson, and
Prof. Eugen Kuehnemann, visiting professor from the University of
Breslau, Germany, were special guests of the Harvard Cosmopolitan Club
when it honored the German and Japanese ambassadors, Count von
Bernstorff and Baron Takahira, by making them honorary members, "an
honor which Pres. Elliot alone holds at present." Canon H. Hensley
Henson of Westminster Abbey was also a guest, and E.F. Haenfstaengl
'09 [Ernst F. Hanfstaengl, aka "Putzi", who later became Adolph
Hitler's publicist], was a member of the
undergraduate committee of the club. (Pres. Elliot Receives Honors From
Mikado. Boston Daily Globe, May 12, 1909, p. 1.) While Bishop Emeritus,
he was involved in an
effort to slip a new common prayer book onto the Church of England.
(Sees Prayer Book A Political Puzzle. New York Times, Jun. 20, 1928.)
Another of the Bishop's daughters married Morton Lazell Fearey, Skull
& Bones 1898. Her two brothers, William Appleton Lawrence and
Frederic Lawrence of Boston, also became Bishops. (Mrs. Morton L.
Fearey. New York Times, Apr. 26, 1962.)
The Overseers of Harvard University in 1920-22 included Robert
Frederick Herrick (1915-1921); William Sydney Thayer (1915-1921); John
Pierpont Morgan (1916-1922); Francis Lee Higginson (1916-1922); Leonard
Wood (1917-1923); Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(1917-1923); Jerome Davis
Greene (1917-1923); Thomas
William Lamont (1919-1925); Ellery Sedgwick (1919-1925).
(Overseers. Historical Register of Harvard University, 1636-1936.
Harvard University, 1937.)
Robert Frederick Herrick, Lawyer, Boston; partner of Fish, Richardson, Herrick & Neave; later Herrick, Smith, Donald & Farley. Robert Frederick Herrick graduated from Harvard in 1890, and Boston University Law School. He was a graduate member of the committee on athletics and coached the Harvard crews, and was chairman of the Graduate Rowing Committee since 1908. He was "a director of some forty of the largest industrial and financial corporations of New England, and but two or three financiers are connected with a larger number of institutions." He was a director of the Walter Baker & Company [with which his wife's cousin James H. Perkins was connected early in his career]; also of General Motors. (History of Worcester and Its People, Vol. 4. By Charles Nutt. Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1919.) In 1917, he was a director of the American International Corporation [which was a brainchild of James H. Perkins], and the New York Life Insurance Company; and a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation. (Chapter VIII, 120 Broadway, New York City. Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, by Antony Sutton.) In 1919, he was president of the Reed-Prentice Company; and at some time was chief legal advisor for United Shoe Machinery Co ["The Shoe Trust," connected with First National Bank of Boston and Lee Higginson & Co.] (Gordon McKay (1821-1903. Prof. Victor Jones Homepage, Harvard University); and a director of City Trust Company, Boston. (The Tech. MIT, 1904?.) In 1929, he was a member of the Advisory Committee of Yale's Institute of Human Relations. His first wife was Alice Taft, who died. In 1922 he married Margaret Forbes Perkins Rice, a sister of Robert Forbes Perkins, and a daughter of Charles Elliott Perkins of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. (Robert F. Perkins, Retired Broker, 72. New York Times, Feb. 21, 1938; R.F. Herrick Dies; Boston Lawyer, 76. New York Times, Oct. 15, 1942.)
History of Worcester and Its People / Welcome to Worcester County, MassachusettsIn 1931, Herrick presented a memorial to fellow attorney Frederick P. Fish, a crony of over 25 years. Fish had been an attorney for Thomson-Houston and General Electric, and was president of AT&T from 1901 to 1907.
Memorial to Fish / Fish & Richardson PCWilliam Sidney Thayer, M.D., was a co-founder of the American Heart
Association in 1925.
In 1922, the Office of Cancer
Investigations of the US Public Health Service at Harvard University
(which was subsequently merged into the National Cancer Institute), was
established at Harvard by Assistant Surgeon General Joseph
W. Schereschewsky. Schereschewsky
had been director general of the 50th Session of the International
Congress of Hygiene and Demography, which was held at the Red Cross
Hall in Washington, DC, of which William H. Taft, Skull & Bones
1878, was the honorary president. (Health Exhibit Opens. Washington
Post, Sep. 17, 1912.) Schereschewsky
was the son of Rt. Rev. Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, who was the
Protestant Episcopal Bishop of China from 1875 to 1888. He was
"instrumental in persuading the Surgeon General of the Public Health
Service that cancer was a public health problem," and the Office of
Cancer Investigations was established in the department of Dr. Milton
J. Rosenau,
Professor of Preventative Medicine. When Rosenau retired in 1930, Howard B. Andervont became the
first professional staff member of Schereschewsky's Office of Cancer
Investigations. (Howard B. Andervont: An Appreciation. By Michael
Shimkin. J Natl Cancer Inst 1968 Jun;40(6):XIII-XXV.) The Surgeon
General
in 1922 was Hugh S. Cumming,
later a member of the advisory committee of the Yale Institute of Human
Relations. Edwin B. Wilson was
another member of this Harvard group, who became an original members of
the
Scientific Advisory Board of the Tobacco Industry Research Council from
1954 to
1964, when Andervont replaced him.
Andervont in addition was Chief of the Laboratory of Biology at the
National Cancer Institute from 1947-60, and Scientific Editor of the
Journal of the National Cancer Institute from 1961-67.
Original members of the National Advisory Cancer Council of the
National Cancer Institute, appointed by Surgeon General Thomas Parran
in 1937: James Ewing, Director of
Memorial Hospital; Dr. Francis C.
Wood, Director of the Crocker Institute of Cancer Research at Columbia
University; Harvard University President James B. Conant; Dr. Arthur H.
Compton of the University of Chicago; C.C.
Little, Managing Director of
the American Society for the Control of Cancer;
and Dr. Ludvig Hektoen
of Chicago. In 1938, Dr. James B. Murphy of the Rockefeller Institute
and Dr. Mont R. Reid replaced Ewing and Wood. (Named to Cancer Council.
New York Times, Dec. 11, 1938, p. 30.) Ewing, Hektoen, Little, Murphy,
Parran, and Wood were all affiliated with the ASCC.
When Conant was U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, his special
legal advisor from 1954-55 was Charles Dewey
Hilles Jr., Skull & Bones 1924. Hilles was an officer of the
American Cancer Society and its
predecessor, the ASCC, from 1939 to 1959, and an officer of I.T.&T.
from 1941 to 1969. (New Yorker Sworn In As Conant Legal Aide. New York
Times, Apr. 21, 1954.)
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