OH-02: Dr. Heimlich Confirms Dr. Wulsin Did Not Participate in Experiments
Submitted by Jeff on Fri, 06/13/2008 - 4:02pm.
Although additional proof that the lurid claim by Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Loveland) that challenger Dr. Victoria Wulsin (D-Indian Hill) displayed "contempt for the culture of life" by "participat[ing] in grotesque medical experiments" is a flat-out lie is hardly needed, Politics Extra has provided it by contacting Dr. Henry Heimlich, founder and former president of the Heimlich Institute that is actually responsible for the experiments in question:
Bob Kraft, a spokesman for Dr. Henry Heimlich, founder and former president of the Heimlich Institute, confirmed that Wulsin worked for the Institute, but he said she was hired as a consultant only for a few months and was never a full-time employee. Heimlich is now retired.Asked if Wulsin conducted any experiments or participated in the experiments that the Institute was involved in, Kraft said: "No, she did not. She conducted a literature review of malariotherapy."
So there you have it.
Dr. Hankenstein - a reliable alibi witness?
Let's see if I've got this straight, Jeff. The Heimlich experiments are so despicable that Dr. Wulsin has repeatedly had to distance herself from them. But now you consider Dr. Hankenstein and his press agent to be reliable sources.
Isn't this like Squeaky Fromm using Charlie Manson as an alibi witness?
Wulsin doesn't need an alibi witness
There is nobody out there saying that Wulsin actually participated in the experiments, except Schmidt in this letter. Even Dr. Baratz, the doctor in Massachusetts who filed the now-defunct complaint with the State Board of Medicine, later backed off and said in a press release that she didn't participate in the experiments, as opposed to reviewing literature about them.
Schmidt made that statement in her letter knowing that it was false, period. She is now taking the absurd position that reviewing literature amounts to "participation," but that isn't the meaning of the word as conveyed by her letter. It's like the smear campaign against John McCain in South Carolina in 2004. McCain has an adopted daughter from Bangladesh, but that didn't make it any less of lie when his opponents engaged in a whispering campaign about his "Black child," conveying the false impression that he fathered a mixed-race illegitimate child.
The point of Heimlich's statement is not that he is so inherently believable, it is just to show in yet one more way that there is no factual support out there for the smear campaign against Wulsin.