June 17, 1997

David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.
Director
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Atlanta, GA 30333

Dear Dr. Satcher,

Thank you for your letter of May 22, 1997 in which you articulate your honest reluctance to discuss my iatrogenic theory of HIV/AIDS's origin in which the CDC is implicated. It was, after all, predictable that you would withdraw your invitation to me to visit the CDC to discuss these "issues of mutual concern."

To complete our exchange, however, I feel compelled to respond to your statements: 1) that the "CDC believes that scientific evidence is the foundation for sound public health policies," and 2) "the allegations contained within" my "letter do not appear to be based on credible, evidence-based information."

Your first point is obviously false and misleading. If the CDC truly demanded rigorous scientific proof to support its public health policies than you would demand a moratorium on virtually all vaccinations which, to date, lack definitive scientific analyses showing positive risk/benefit ratios. In fact, you don't really know whether vaccines are harming or killing more people than they are helping or saving. Likewise, how much scientific evidence did you and your collaborative agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), demand when mutual consent was given to blood and pharmaceutical industrialists to sustain the use of HIV contaminated clotting factor VIII and blood supplies to the public between 1983 and 1986 despite the fact that your officials knew thousands would die as a result? Furthermore, in 1984, when the hepatitis B vaccine link to the AIDS epidemic was first advanced and investigated by your agency in collaboration with Merck, Sharp & Dohme, when you knew homosexual men in New York City were the principle and earliest test subjects for this experimental and suspected vaccine, was it sound science to omit the New York City cohort altogether only to focus on gay men in Denver and San Francisco who had not been vaccinated with the earliest most implicated vaccine lots? No wonder your "expert" CDC authors remained "Anonymous" on this Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report. I too would feel ashamed to affix my name to such bogus "science."

Regarding point number two, of course you would not be able to see any "credible evidence-based information" in my letter or book. If you did you might also see yourself and your agency are now fully exposed.

Rumor has it that President Clinton is considering you for the Surgeon General post. Putting on the "Emperors new clothes" apparently suits you fine_a black man who can watch his own people die without seeing anything.

Sincerely yours,

Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
President