Trust the Science?

Scientists often suffer from a lack of morals, empathy or conscience

Letters from Vienna #52

We’re frequently told to „trust the science” and, by implication: the “scientist” but there’s never actually a good reason to do so. Many scientists, especially the more ruthless, unscrupulous and corrupt variety, suffer from a keen lack of morals, empathy or conscience. A notable example of this particularly abhorrent and despicable species was the Japanese Surgeon General Shiro Ishii (1892-1959).

“Ishii, working with his Changchun counterpart” reported Sheldon H. Harris, “caused a cholera outbreak in the Manchukuon capital. He descended upon the city in 1940 and informed local authorities that cholera was moving in on their community and that the general population must be inoculated. What he did not tell them was that the “vaccine” he intended to use was a solution containing cholera germs. Innocent people were lined up and given an injection, and a cholera epidemic spread through metropolitan Changchun shortly after.”

“In July 1942, Ishii led a BW (biowarfare) expedition to Nanking, where he linked forces with local BW death-factory personnel. Jointly they distributed typhoid and paratyphoid germs from metal flasks and glass bottles, dumping the bacteria into wells, marshes, and houses of ordinary citizens…Epidemics broke out in the region shortly afterwards, much to the delight of the researchers.”

“The Nanking trip yielded other benefits as well. During his visit to the city, Ishii provided special treats for Chinese prisoners of war held in two nearby camps. In addition, he prepared an unusual delicacy for local youngsters – chocolates filled with anthrax. As a special holiday favor, 3,000 POWs were given dumplings that had been injected with either typhoid or paratyphoid. The prisoners were then released and sent home, where they acted as unwitting agents for spreading disease. The children gorged themselves on chocolates, with the unavoidable side effects. Sweet cakes infused with typhoid and paratyphoid bacteria were another Ishii confectionary delight that he used in the Nanking expedition. Japanese soldiers were given 300 to 400 of the sweet cakes and ordered to leave them near fences and by trees. The idea was to create an impression that the soldiers forgot to take the food with them in the midst of the hasty retreat. It was expected that the local population, always short of food, would be delighted with the opportunity to feast on Japanese provisions. Inevitably, an outbreak of disease occurred shortly after the sweet cakes were ingested. Researchers concluded that “paratyphoid had proved to be the most effective” of the pathogens tested.”

“In other field tests, Unit 731 saboteurs released into densely populated areas rats that were carrying plague-infested fleas. Researchers anticipated that the plague rats would breed with the local rat population, resulting in outbreaks of massive plague epidemics. Unit 731 men found also that germs implanted into expressly modified fountain pens and walking sticks were an effective method for disseminating BW. The germ-encrusted devices were dropped along dirt paths and paved roads, where either the curious or the needy would take them home. An epidemic would develop (plague generally), Japanese soldiers would rush to the affected area, order all villagers to evacuate, and then proceed to torch the villages in order to prevent outsiders from discovering what had really taken place. These sabotage techniques were so successful that Sir Joseph Needham, the great British scientist stationed in China at the time, noted: “In the beginning, I felt great doubt about its credibility but I believe now that the information collected by the Chinese Military Medical Bureau clearly indicated that the Japanese forces have been scattering and are continuing to scatter plague-infested fleas in several areas.”[1]

American scientists who, much to their annoyance, were then prohibited (how times have changed!) from experimenting on human beings were delighted with the information Ishii provided them with and, as a direct result, he wasn’t prosecuted for his innumerable and abominable crimes against humanity.

A few years later Sir Joseph Needham had yet another occasion to witness more “brilliant” handiwork by oh, so “clever” scientists, this time in Korea.

“In February 1952 the North Koreans and Chinese claimed that captured American air force officers had confessed to dropping “germ bombs” on North Korea. The Chinese supported their claims by publishing photographs of what they identified as “American biological bombs.” The United States described the allegations as nonsense; the pilots had, they said, been brainwashed. The Chinese returned to the offensive by setting up an International Scientific Commission including scientists from the Soviet Union, Italy, France, Sweden, Brazil, and the United Kingdom. The British representative was Dr. Joseph Needham, an expert in Oriental medicine who later became Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.”

“The international scientists who investigated the Korean allegations produced a weighty 700-page report in October 1952, which concluded that “the peoples of Korea and China did actually serve as targets of bacteriological weapons.” It listed the various techniques used, which ranged from fountain pens filled with infected ink, to anthrax-laden feathers, and fleas, lice, and mosquitoes carrying plague and yellow fever…”[2]

In April 2021 Jeffrey Kaye wrote: “in 2010, the CIA declassified hundreds of communications intelligence, or COMINT, daily reports from the Korean War. U.S. historians have mostly ignored this release. Over the past few years, I have undertaken an examination of these documents and found more than two dozen that were pertinent to the biological warfare charges. As I demonstrated in a September 2020 essay on the topic at Medium.com, these documents vividly portray the reactions and responses of North Korean and Chinese military units responding to biological weapons attack.”

“What follows are some samples from the entire batch of reports. The grammar and syntax can seem off at times, as the U.S. military and CIA lacked experienced linguists during this period.”

“Relying on information from the codebreakers at the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor of today’s National Security Agency, a top-secret March 6 CIA report read, “An unidentified Chinese Communist unit on 26 February reported that ‘yesterday it was discovered that in our bivouac area there was a real flood of bacteria and germs from a plane by the enemy. Please supply us immediately with an issue of DDT that we may combat this menace, stop the spread of this plague, and eliminate all bacteria.’””

“Another CIA report stated that on 3 March a “North Korean coastal security unit in eastern Korea reported… that UN bacteriological warfare agents in the surrounding area had prevented the movement of transportation since 21 February. Later in the day the unit reported to Pyongyang that ‘Pupyong (just southwest of Hamhung)… is the contaminated area. According to the correct news, no one can pass through it. If you do not act quickly, the 12th and 13th guard stations will have fallen into starvation conditions.’” [Parenthesis in original]”

“Then we have the following from a 6 March report: “Two coastal security stations in northeastern Korea reported on 11 March that ‘the bacteria bomb classified as mosquito, fly, and flea were dispersed,’ and ‘an enemy plane dropped ants, fleas, mosquitos, flies and crickets.’” The emphasis on insects reminds us that the Communists alleged at the time that the U.S. was working secretly with the former scientists of Japan’s Unit 731, who experimented extensively with the use of insect vectors in germ warfare. During this period and for years afterward, the U.S. falsely denied that Japan’s scientists had committed war crimes and attacked China with biological weapons during World War II.”[3]

On December 19th, 1952 Colonel Frank H. Schwable pointed out: “I do not say the following in defense of anyone, myself included, I merely report as an absolutely direct observation that every officer when first informed that the United States is using bacteriological warfare in Korea is both shocked and ashamed….”

“Tactically, this type of weapon is totally unwarranted — it is not even a Marine Corps weapon — morally it is damnation itself; administratively and logistically as planned for use, it is hopeless; and from the point of view of self-respect and loyalty, it is shameful.”[4]

Despite the shameful nature of this form of warfare bioweapon labs have now turned up in the Ukraine. A recent report stated: “Leaked documents give new information about the Pentagon program in biolaboratories in Ukraine. According to internal documents, Pentagon contractors were given full access to all Ukrainian biolaboratories which handled dangerous pathogens, while independent experts were denied even a visit. The new revelations challenge the U.S. government statement that the Pentagon just funded biolaboratories in Ukraine but had nothing to do with them.”

“Last week U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland confirmed that “Ukraine has biological research facilities” and the U.S. is worried that “those research materials” may fall into Russian hands.”

“German and Ukrainian scientists conducted biological research on especially dangerous pathogens in birds (2019-2020). The project was implemented by the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine (Kharkov) and the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (Greifswald, Germany). According to the project’s description, the main goal of this project was to carry out sequencing of orthomyxoviruses (causative agents of avian flu) genomes, as well as to discover new viruses in birds.”

“According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, DTRA funded a similar project in Ukraine—UP-4—in 2020. The project’s goal was to research the potential of especially dangerous pathogens to be transmitted via migratory birds, including the highly pathogenic H5N1 flu, whose lethality for humans can reach 50%, as well as Newcastle disease. The use of migratory birds for possible delivery of pathogens was a major research program between the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. Department of Defense in the past.”[5]

Whether or not COVID-19 is a biological weapon or the “vaccines” currently being deployed are biological weapons or not, the history of biological warfare, however disagreeable and unpalatable, if not positively distressing, is still of relevance today, especially given the enormities of the sums expended on it.

The chief irony of the story dating from 1952 is, of course, that the US had long been experimenting, as part of the MK Ultra program, with “brainwashing”. It wasn’t the American pilots who’d been brainwashed but rather the Great American Public. And today it isn’t just Americans who are being brainwashed but rather the entire world.

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[1] pp.99-100 Factories of Death, Sheldon H. Harris

[2] p.165 A Higher Form of Killing, Robert Harris & Jeremy Paxman

[3] https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/09/new-revelations-on-germ-warfare-its-time-for-a-reckoning-with-our-history-from-the-korean-war/

[4] https://jeff-kaye.medium.com/secret-history-u-s-2ac4c7219bd

[5] https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/22/u-s-lied-about-funding-dangerous-pathogen-research-in-secret-ukrainian-biolabs-newly-leaked-documents-reveal/?fbclid=IwAR2SkzDgDHpKjnth08rvpXgoR8_kL8cqMYq9hMX2Nr4TMG68XFHrkOEGCUc