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see Doctors for Disaster Preparedness/ AAPS

main heartland 'expert" ~ ACA?

imhofe sen page on glaciergate

...FoxNews: Claims Melting Away - The world's most famous climate change expert is in the midst of a massive controversy, as the leading environmental science institute he heads scrambled to explain data it promulgated for a U.N. report. One of the key elements in the growing scandal is the revelation that IPCC based some of its public proclamations on non-peer reviewed reports."The data, all the data, needs to come to light," says Dr. Jane M. Orient, president of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness and an outspoken skeptic on climate change.

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Dr. Jane Orient Discusses COVID-19 Treatment with Mayor Rudy Giuliani

3,639 viewsMay 5, 2020

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

53K subscribers

On WABC 770AM, May 5, 2020.

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https://www.kpvi.com/news/national_news/covid-19-called-a-model-for-the-climate-change-agenda-in-the-journal-of-american/article_1db40231-8650-52af-96c3-63b718b27964.html

COVID-19 Called a Model for the Climate-Change Agenda in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons

By Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) Sep 20, 2021 Updated Sep 20, 2021 0

By Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)

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TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared, "Climate change is the greatest health challenge of the 21st century, and threatens all aspects of the society in which we live." Now COVID-19 has top billing as the existential health threat, but the proposed response is the same, writes Marc Morano in the fall issue of issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons....

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TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- American medicine faces many challenges, especially the ever-increasing dominance of medical practice by multiple external forces that are usurping the physician's professional prerogatives, writes :{Paul Martin Kempen}:, M.D., Ph.D., in the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.

Dr. Kempen is a practicing anesthesiologist who serves as president of Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS).....

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Related Organizations :{&:(style="font-style:italic"):}: Jane Orient

As reported by John Mashey at DeSmogBlog, DDP President Jane Orient has connections to at least six other nonprofit groups, some dormant, and most with tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status. View attached spreadsheet (.xls)for more details on connections between the groups. [27]

Jane Orient has also had previous dealings with the tobacco industry, having met with Phillip Morris, and with many references to her name in a search of the tobacco archives. [28]

With regards to President Clinton's budget proposal that would fine cigarette companies for underage smokers, Orient is quoted as saying that “Concern about health does not justify using Third Reich measures against corporations engaged in a legal Business.” [29]

Orient's connections include the following organizations:

EIN: 860852791 | AAPS Educational Foundation — Apparently dormant.

EIN: 860884230 | Southwestern Institute of Science LTD — Apparently dormant.

EIN: 860691180 | Physicians for Civil Defense — Still has active website (physiciansforcivildefense.org). At least once DDP sent money there. The two organizations are located in the same office.

EIN: 362991388 | American Health Legal Foundation (AHLF) — Has over $500K in assets (as of 2014) and 2 officers/directors shared with AAPS, plus Orient.

EIN: 362059197| Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS, 501(c)(6))— Has nearly $1M assets (as of 2014), paid Jane Orient $182,600 in 2012 (Form 990), has a few thousand members, website, and entries in Wikipedia, SourceWatch and RationalWiki.

AAPS publishes the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (JPandS), not an indexed, peer-reviewed journal. The Journal published “Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide” in 2007 by Art Robinson, Noah Robinson, and Willie Soon. It has often published Robinsons, as well as other climate-relevant pieces. Besides Jane Orient, it has shared several offices/directors with DDP, as enumerated in attached spreadsheet.

According to WHOIS results for DDP's website, the registrant isJeremy Snavelyof AAPS. DDP also lists the same physical address as AAPS. [3]

EIN: 592414338 | Doctors for Disaster Preparedness INC (DDP)

EIN: 930814898 | The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM), IRS, has about $5M in assets, a website, a SourceWatch entry. Two of its “faculty” are deceased. The Board consists of Art Robinson, his sons Noah and Zachary, Jane Orient, and one more person. OISM is known for the Oregon Petition.

Other Organizations

:{Heartland Institute :(style="font-weight:700"):}:— In addition to being a Heartland ICCC Sponsor, DDP cooperates closely with Heartland during its Annual Meetings, with Fred Singer, Willie Soon, Art Robinson and Jay Lehr speaking in both in 2007 and 2011 as well as many familiar people appearing as 'faculty.' [30]
:{Environmental Issues Council :(style="font-weight:700"):}:— DDP's Jane Orient was listed on the “Scientific Advisory Committee” of the Environmental Issues Council. [31]

Resources

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https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/23/anti-science-associations-rand-paul-jane-orient-art-robinson-willie-soon-and-friends

update 11/30/16 Tom Price, Donald Trump's nominee to run Health and Human Services was(is?) an AAPS Member, discussed in far more detail by Orac in this recommended 11/30/16 post.

Update 12/01/16 A year ago, Zachary Mider wrote What Kind of Man Spends Millions to Elect Ted Cruz? about Robert Mercer, who then strongly backed Donald Trump's campaign, but has funded several of the organizations here and attended meeting(s). It included a graph like that below, but with Mercer at center.

In **“Rand Paul** Is Linked to Doctors' Group That Supports Vaccination Challenges,” the New York Times documented his long involvement (_1990-2010) with the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), but only scratched the surface of the strangeness. AAPS Executive Director Jane Orient and her associates run a tightly-coupled group of 501(c)(3) public charities. They seem to reject much modern science and focus efforts to promote political views, perhaps beyond the 501(c) rules. Enough has been learned since this earlier post to motivate this update and some following posts, especially given the recent prominence of DDP's favorite outside speaker, Willie Soon. Willie Soon's fossil fuel funding, and failures to disclose, are hot in the news right now, see [New York Times, The Guardian, Inside Climate News, and DeSmogBlog.]

Of course, organization membership does not imply acceptance of all positions, but Rand Paul's long-time association raises questions. Which of their views on science does he accept? Which of their policies does he support? Rand Paul is still featured at AAPS About Us, often using “we” regarding its actions.

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Jane Orient (or this or this) is the contact for at least 6 nonprofits some dormant, most tax-exempt 501(c)(3). She signed the Scientific Dissent From Darwinism. She met with Philip Morris and was often mentioned and seemed aligned with Big Tobacco against attempts to reduce teen smoking. She wrote Attack on Coal Will Not Save Lives, and as President of DDP below, supports many attacks against climate science, below. For a quick calibration, watch the in which she introduced the 2013 DDP program.

Andrew Schlafly (Wikipedia, RationalWiki) has long been AAPS General Counsel, so is presumably known to Rand Paul. He has spoken often for DDP, on such topics as, the litigation epidemic, that, and that great thinkers are almost entirely created via home schooling. Regardless of the merits, the relevance of some seems unclear to the stated purposes of DDP. His behavior in the “Lenski Affair” seems similar to those who demand data while lacking the expertise or intent to do something useful with it.

AAPS Educational Foundation, IRS, apparently dormant.

Southwestern Institute of Science LTD IRS, apparently dormant.

Physicians for Civil Defense, IRS, still has active website, cuirrently featuring “The Good News About Nuclear Destruction.” At least once DDP sent money there, easy since they are located in the same office.

American Health Legal Foundation (AHLF), IRS, has $500K in assets and 2 officers/directors shared with AAPS, plus Orient.

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS, 501(c)(6)), IRS, has $800K assets, paid Jane Orient $182,600 in 2012 (Form 990), has a few thousand members, website, and entries in Wikipedia, SourceWatch and RationalWiki, which has a good list of AAPS positions.

AAPS publishes the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (JPandS), not an indexed, peer-reviewed journal, discussed in 2007, or in 2009. JPandS published “Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide” in 2007 by Art Robinson, Noah Robinson, and Willie Soon. It has often published Robinsons, as well as other climate-relevant pieces. Besides Jane Orient, it has shared several offices/directors with DDP, as enumerated in attached spreadsheet.

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness INC (DDP), IRS, has a website, a SourceWatch entry, has about $90K in assets and seems a joint effort between Jane Orient and Art Robinson. Howard Hayden is a director (SourceWatch entry.) Robert J. Cihak is a Director for both DDP and AAPS, SourceWatch, writes for NewsMax and is a Board Member and Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute. DDP runs annual conferences, as described in Fakery 2 pp.178-179, advertised by OISM, or in the 2014 meeting, many of whose speakers would be familiar to DeSmogBlog readers, often via involvement with the Heartland Institute. Disaster-preparedness seems a worthy topic, but it is unclear why anti-renewable-energy and climate anti-science fill half the slots in recent years.

Weird Anti-Science PDF p.4 gives another related social network graph, and p.19 describes an annual award by DDP to honor Petr Beckman (SourceWatch), who devoted his later life to proving Einstein's relativity wrong. Honorees have included Jane Orient, Robert Jastrow, Sallie Balliunas, Art Robinson, Fred Singer. Sherwood Idso, Willie Soon, and Marc Morano.

The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM), IRS, has about $5M in assets, a website (currently asking for urine samples), a SourceWatch entry. Two of its “faculty” are deceased. The Board consists of Art Robinson, his sons Noah and Zachary, Jane Orient, and one more person. OISM is famed for the Oregon Petition,an activity that seems far outside its 501(c)(3) charter and whose funding is still unknown, but might well be connected with the George Marshall Institute.

Art Robinson (Wikipedia, RationalWiki, SourceWatch) has run for US Representative several times, endorsed by Rand Paul's father Ron Paul. Rachel Maddow's 2010 may offer some insight into his views. She followed with a covering his 3rd run, and requests for urine samples from Oregonians.

George Gilder (Wikipedia, SourceWatch) cofounded the Discovery Institute (Wikipedia, RationalWiki), which hosts the video**“The Global Warming Myth - Dr Noah Robinson**- Telecosm 2007.” In the first few minutes, Gilder explained that “Arthur Robinson was the man who first alerted me to the possible flaws in the case for human-caused global warming” and then introduced chemist/veternarian Noah to speak. In Fantasy Fears, Steve Forbes relied on George's med student daughter Mary Ellen Tiffany Gilder, with a paper at OISM.

Questions

The people who run AAPS and its intertangled organizations have many positions on science, medicine and politics, of which a good summary can be found at RationalWiki. Perhaps someone will check such lists, enumerate the positions and ask Rand Paul which he supports and which he rejects.

Update 08/22/15:

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False leprosy claim

The Spring 2005 edition of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons contained an article^[4] by Madeleine Cosman, headlined "Illegal Aliens and American Medicine," claiming, "Suddenly, in the past three years America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy," citing a 2003 article in the New York Times as a reference. Among news outlets repeating this claim were WorldNetDaily^[5] and CNN anchor Lou Dobbs.In fact, the 7,000 number in the Times article was an apparent reference to all then-current cases of leprosy in the U.S.; according to the National Hansen's Disease Program of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, there have been just 431 reported cases of Hansen's disease (leprosy) over the "past three years."^[6]

Political contributions

Donations to political candidates by the AAPS' political action committee in 2000 and 2004 skewed rightward, with donations given to candidates registered as Republican, Libertarian or with the Constitution Party.^[7][8]

Positions on health issues

Mother Jones, discussing AAPS's journal (called the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons), writes,

The publication's archives present a kind of alternate-universe scientific world, in which abortion causes breast cancer and vaccines cause autism, but HIV does not cause AIDS. Cutting carbon emissions represents a grave threat to global health (because environmental regulation would make people poorer and, consequently, sicker) ... The organization opposes some of the most accepted practices in health care, including mandatory vaccine regulations. Peer review, a long-standing hospital practice that helps doctors learn from and prevent errors, is viewed as the source of great injustice by AAPS, which fights attempts to micromanage doctors with such bureaucratic nuisances as medical evidence about what works and what doesn't. Computers, too, are an ominous threat. The organization has resisted the use of electronic medical records—which, naturally, represents an attempt by the government to acquire masses of private information about American citizens. (AAPS' executive director claims to keep all her patient notes in longhand.)^[9]

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness

The website for the group Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP) is registered to Jeremy Snavely of AAPS. ^[10] DDP and AAPS also share the same mailing address, in Tucson, Arizona. ^[11] ^[12]

DDP is skeptical of climate change, as the title of their web page on the subject suggests: "Ozone hole, Global warming, and other Environmental Scares." ^[13]

Contact information

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

1601 N. Tucson Blvd. Suite 9

Tucson, AZ 85716-3450

Phone: (800) 635-1196

Website: http://www.aapsonline.org

Sourcewatch resources

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
Robert J. Cihak
Nathaniel E. Adamson, Jr.
Paul Leithart - Former President
Tom Price - member [1]
Paul Driessen [2]
Russell Blaylockis a member of the editorial board of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, official publication of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
Shira Miller

External links

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Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP) "promotes homeland defense and prudent preparedness for disasters of all kinds, including war or terrorism," according to its website. Topics addressed by DDP include "global warming, ozone 'depletion,' radiation hazards and radiation hormesis." ^[1]

DDP is skeptical of climate change, as the title of their web page on the subject suggests: "Ozone hole, Global warming, and other Environmental Scares." ^[2]Doctors For Disaster Preparedness was a co-sponsor to the Third International Conference on Climate Change , which in turn was sponsored by the Heartland Institute.

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

The registrant for DDP's website is listed as Jeremy Snavely of AAPS, with an email address ending in "aapsonline.org." ^[3] That is the website for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which lists the same address as DDP. ^[4] DDP's Facebook page lists an lists

DDP President Dr. Jane Orient is also the Executive Director of AAPS.

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https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jane_Orient

Managing editor, Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, www.jpands.org

Member: Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), Arizona Medical Association, Pima County Medical Society, American Association of Orthopedic Medicine, American College of Legal Medicine, Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, International Dose-Response Society

Dr. Orient is President of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness and of Physicians for Civil Defense. [1]

"Dr. Orient is the author of Your Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism about National Health Care, published by Crown"

Faculty member (2015), Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
Policy advisor, Heartland Institute
Speaker at the Health and Human Rights Summit (2020) ^[1]
Physicians for Informed Consent ^[2]

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nOVEMBER 20, 2020

COVID-19: Danish Mask Study Published: What Next?

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Now that we have a randomized controlled trial (RCT) about masks, will it change what you do?

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Health Care

Government & Politics

MAY 7, 2020

Covid-19: What Will Happen If We Re-Open for Business?

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The idea of “flattening the curve” was to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. It was a delaying tactic, with no prospect of ending the disease.

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Health Care

APRIL 29, 2020

COVID-19: Where’s the Evidence on COVID-19 Treatment?

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The American Medical Association and many other professional organizations demand “peer-reviewed science” before they will recommend or even accept the re-purposing of a long-established anti-malaria drug to treat or prevent COVID-19.

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Health Care

APRIL 14, 2020

COVID-19: The Government Practice of Medicine

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

I hope you are doing well--for access to medical help is increasingly threatened.

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Health Care

Regulation

APRIL 6, 2020

Potential Cheap Treatment for COVID-19?

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The word has leaked out on a potential cheap treatment for COVID-19, the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine.

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Health Care

MARCH 17, 2020

Don’ts and Dos on Coronavirus

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

How do you plan on surviving the Coronavirus? We have the ultimate list to help you make it through this pandemic!

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Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2019 [greta pix]

https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/politics-and-the-climate-emergency?source=policybot

Politics and the ‘Climate Emergency’

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Democratic Presidential candidates are in a bidding war over how many trillions they would spend to “fight climate change.” Would it be enough, soon enough, to save the planet?

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Democratic Presidential candidates are in a bidding war over how many trillions they would spend to “fight climate change.” Would it be enough, soon enough, to save the planet?

Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, Greta Thunberg, lamented at the COP25 climate summit in Madrid that despite all her climate strikes and traveling by sailboat, world emissions of carbon dioxide continue to climb.

Her widely quoted statement that if world leaders did not take needed action, “We will put them up against the wall,” is, she said, a mistranslation from the Swedish. She meant to say, “hold them accountable,” and would never, ever favor violence. It is not clear exactly what action she would suggest, but the Extinction Rebellion (XR) is not waiting for it.

The XR movement (XR), which began last year in Britain, claims to have chapters in 50 countries and to have held protests in 60 cities in Turkey, Canada, South Africa, Mexico, and elsewhere. Protests often feature demonstrators wearing white masks and red costumes, and copious amounts of fake blood. XR has disrupted traffic in Berlin, London, Paris, and Amsterdam, and staged a “die-in” on Wall Street.

Some scientists are getting recognition in the prestigious British journal Nature for “putting another body on the street.” But passion for the cause is not the only motive. XR agitators are paid up to £400 per week to “shut down” Britain.https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/10/13/extinction-rebellion-members-paid-400-per-week-to-shut-down-britain/

The largest and most important backers of climate activism are from the financial industry. Institutions representing$118 trillion of assets seem to have a plan: “the financialization of the entire world economy using fear of an end of world scenario to reach arbitrary aims such as ‘net-zero greenhouse gas emissions’.”

https://www.globalresearch.ca/climate-money-trail/5690209

Entities that would be endangered by drastic curbs in the use of hydrocarbon fuels include the once mighty German auto industry, modern living standards, private property—and, according to Greta, “everything.”

She writes: “The climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all.”

People affected by unaffordable energy, job loss, and traffic disruptions might decide to hold some people accountable also.

For further information, see Civil Defense Perspectives, November 2019 https://www.physiciansforcivildefense.org/2019/12/19/extinction-rebellion/

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global street theater this year has featured the Extinction Rebellion movement (XR), which began last year in Britain and claims to have chapters in 50 countries and to have held protests in 60 cities in Turkey, Canada, South Africa, Mexico, and elsewhere. Its flag displays a stylized hourglass in a circle. Protests often feature demonstrators wearing white masks and red costumes, and copious amounts of fake blood.

XR is aligned with the school strike movement reportedly inspired by Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg.

Thunberg, after attending a global climate change summit in Madrid, lamented that millions of students “striking” had “achieved nothing.” Greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise. “The current world leaders are betraying us and we will not let that happen anymore,” Thunberg said in a brief speech to a crowd of 15,000 protesters (https://tinyurl.com/rmj39jj).

So, a group of 300 scientists say that XR is right to resort to mass civil disobedience to force governments to make policy changes. “The urgency of the crisis is now so great that many scientists feel, as humans, that we now have a moral duty to take radical action,” said Emily Grossman, a molecular biologist (https://tinyurl.com/uxd5axs). XR has disrupted traffic in Berlin, London, Paris, and Amsterdam, and staged a “die-in” on Wall Street (:{https://tinyurl.com/wuxgnls}:).

The New Yorkercalls the success of XR “something to behold.” In London, activists glued themselves to buildings, climbed on trains, chained themselves to corporate headquarters, blocked key bridges and intersections. Police resources were tied up in arresting thousands. The triumphant outcome: Parliament declared a climate and environment emergency, becoming the first national legislature to do so, and agreed to convene a citizens’ assembly to discuss the climate crisis (https://tinyurl.com/tnpcgyc).

Scientists, including an ecologist and three Ph.D. candidates, are gaining international recognition for putting “another body on the street” (Nature 9/26/19). International environmental lawyer Farhana Yamin, who got arrested and handcuffed, explained “Why I broke the law for climate change” in a 3-page article in one of the world’s most prestigious science journals. She was triggered by professional bereavement and despair over Brexit and Trump’s withdrawal from Paris (Nature 9/19/19).

Yamin, the author of laws and agreements, also wrote an article in Time magazine, urging a “socially just transition for everyone on Earth” in response to an “emergency that threatens the very conditions of all life on Earth” and might cause humanity to “become extinct as a species” (https://tinyurl.com/sxkq2wa).

Who’s behind XR, and What Is the Goal?

XR agitators are paid up to £400 per week to “shut down” Britain. According to documents revealed to The Mail on Sunday, XR has paid activists more than £70,000 during a four-month span and more than £200,000 since the founding of the group—without paying taxes. The list of financial backers is not made fully public, but some high-profile elite donors include George Soros, the granddaughter of oil magnate John Paul Getty, and the rock band Radiohead (https://tinyurl.com/y6x8wk5u).

An article in Nature estimates that total climate-related financing amounted to $530 billion in 2017—not nearly enough and likely misdirected, it says. “A massive transformation is needed to unlock the trillions required to help the world shift to a low-carbon future.” Instead of a wind or solar project here and there, financiers need to “start thinking about the carbon impact of every dollar spent.” And since investors tend to focus on profits, policymakers need to “incentivize this shift by financially discouraging the wrong kind of projects” (Nature 9/19/19).

The largest and most important backers of climate activism are from the financial industry. Prince Charles, the Bank of England, and City of London finance promote “green financial instruments,” led by Green Bonds, to redirect pension plans and mutual funds towards “green” projects.

In December 2015, the Bank for International Settlements’ Financial Stability Board (FSB), chaired then by outgoing Bank of England head Mark Carney, created the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), to advise “investors, lenders and insurance about climate related risks.” Chaired by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, TCFD includes key people from JP MorganChase; BlackRock, one of the world’s biggest asset managers; Barclays Bank; HSBC, the London-Hong Kong bank repeatedly fined for laundering drug and other black funds; Swiss Re, the world’s second largest reinsurance; China’s ICBC bank; Tata Steel; ENI oil; Dow Chemical; mining giant BHP Billington; and David Blood of Al Gore’s Generation Investment.

Goldman Sachs has just unveiled the first global index of top-ranking environmental stocks, called CDP Environment EW and CDP Eurozone EW, which aims to lure funds from state pension systems. Top-rated companies include Alphabet (which owns Google), Microsoft, ING Group, Diageo, Philips, Danone and, conveniently, Goldman Sachs.

Greta Thunberg and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez are among the young climate activists backed by “a well-oiled financial machine…promoting them for gain.”

Institutions representing $118 trillion of assets seem to have a plan: “the financialization of the entire world economy using fear of an end of world scenario to reach arbitrary aims such as “net-zero greenhouse gas emissions” (https://tinyurl.com/yytfas6c).

What Is Destined for Extinction?

XR claims to worry about the extinction of humanity—but cares not so much about human beings. The 11,000 “scientists” who warn of a “climate emergency” say that the world needs fewer people. Their “suite of graphical vital signs of climate change” shows that per-capita meat consumption has increased by 11% in 10 years, world GDP by 80% in 10 years, and passenger air travel by 64% in 10 years—all signs of increasing prosperity (https://tinyurl.com/szmngbx). Their view of social justice is achieved not by growth to lift people out of poverty, but by economic suicide for the developed world: “Away with cars, industry, meat and plastic, etc.” And with freedom, democracy, and liberal thought, writes P. Gosselin (https://tinyurl.com/y37fyrhv).

Peter Hitchens warns: “One day it will be impossible to criticize the fanatics of [XR]” (https://tinyurl.com/rf7bxyp).

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Targets of XR

Germany’s once powerful auto industry, the backbone of the country’s economy, is already under “massive pressure.” German online NTV reports how workers at a number of automotive suppliers have not been getting their wages. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 100-billion euro climate plan, which postpones the “economic death leap,” is far to “timid” to satisfy the Fridays for Future movement (Gosselin, op. cit.).

Modern living standards: Thanks to carbon-based fuels, we have a lifestyle the equivalent of owning more than 200 slaves, and we can be 200 times as productive, writes Ken Irwin. No cheap energy = poverty and early death (tinyurl.com/t92lesf).

“Heteronormativity”: One of XR’s founders, Stuart Basden, says the climate won’t be fixed, but the “rebellion” is not about climate but about tearing down the entire system of Western capitalism and its “delusions”—including “the idea that heterosexuality is the default biological breeding setting for humankind” (https://tinyurl.com/qo7s86j). Extinction to follow?

Private property ownership: “Land … cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market,” says UN Agenda 21. “Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes” (https://tinyurl.com/y38wb7w8).

“Everything”: Greta Thunberg said that her goal in her “climate resistance movement” is “to change everything.” In an op-ed published in Project Syndicate, she writes: “The climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all” (https://tinyurl.com/wbbzcld).

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‘Renewables’ Cannot Replace Hydrocarbons

XR rebels seem to believe that wind, solar, and batteries could rapidly replace hydrocarbons if only government had the political will to shut down coal mining, oil drilling, and hydrocarbon-fueled generating stations—and transfer enough cash to “green” industry. It’s an exercise in magical thinking, explains Mark P. Mills (https://tinyurl.com/y2dg3285).

These favored alternatives now provide about 2% of the world’s energy and 3% of America’s. The claim that we’re on the cusp of a tech-driven energy revolution like that experienced in computing, is a centerpiece of the Green New Deal. But there are profound differences between energy and information.

Spending $1 million on wind or solar will, over 30 years of operation, produce about 50 million kilowatt-hours (kWh)—while $1 million spent on a shale rig produces enough natural gas over 30 years to generate more 300 million kWh.

No ten-fold gains in efficiency are left. For silicon photovoltaic (PV) cells, the Shockley-Queisser Limit is a maximum conversion of 34% of photons into electrons; we’ve already reached 26%. For a wind turbine, the Betz Limit is a maximum capture of 60% of kinetic energy in moving air; commercial turbines today exceed 40%. The annual output of Tesla’s Gigafactory, the world’s largest battery factory, could store three minutes’ worth of annual U.S. electricity demand.

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Engineering Reality

Energy generation technologies can differ by factors of hundreds or thousands on key measures, such as the efficiency of materials use, the land area needed, and the whole-life costs of ownership. Consider the efficiency with which energy generation systems use high-value advanced materials:

A Siemens gas turbine weighs 312 tonnes and delivers 600 MW: 1,920 W/kg of firm power over a 40-year design life.

A Finnish pressurized water (nuclear) reactor (PWR) weighs 500 tonnes and produces 860 MW of power: 1,700 W/kg of firm supply over 40 years. When combined with a steam turbine, the figure is 1,000 W/kg.

A 1.8-MW wind turbine weighs 164 tonnes: 10 W/kg for the nameplate capacity, but at a typical load factor of 30%, 3 W/kg of firm power over a 20-year life.

Solar panels for roof-top installation weigh about 16 kg/m2, and with about 40 W/m2 of firm power provided over a year, that translates to about 2.5 W/kg.

The ratio of land area needed to produce equivalent electricity from solar vs. a small modular nuclear reactor is 1,000:1.

Productivity or energy return on investment (EROI) is critical. As Michael Kelly explains, the cheetah needs to get more energy from eating a rabbit than he expended in chasing it, and much more energy if he is supporting a family. For solar and wind, the EROI is at best 5:1. The minimum EROI needed to support various aspects of human welfare is estimated to be 5:1 to grow food, 7:1 to raise a family, 9:1 to provide education, 12:1 to provide medical care, and 14:1 to support amenities such as the arts (https://tinyurl.com/vmtwc5j).

Without a better EROI than available with the means that XR demands, extinction of culture or of humanity would occur.

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Climate Change from Wind and Solar

IPCC models focus on the effect of adding one molecule of CO2 to every 10,000 in the atmosphere. But what about the effects of clearing vast swaths of land and then carpeting it with wind turbines and solar panels? In the journal Joule, Lee Miller and David Keith estimate the effect of generating all U.S. electricity with wind turbines covering one-third of the continental U.S.

“Wind turbines…alter the atmospheric flow…. Those effects redistribute heat and moisture in the atmosphere, which impacts climate.” More than ten studies have observed local warming caused by U.S. wind farms, and the observations are roughly consistent with the model’s predictions. Authors conclude that large-scale wind power generation would warm the continental U.S. by 0.24 °C. It would take about a century to offset that effect with the purported effect of reductions in greenhouse gas concentrations. Over 10 years, wind has more climate impact than coal or gas (https://tinyurl.com/ya7bdlr2). Solar has climatic effects too—in deserts, a 2 °C local cooling and a 20% decrease in precipitation (https://tinyurl.com/o6w2sys).

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“We have a climate crusade….This is not science, this is religion. Crusades have a bad way of ending. Typically many, many people are hurt, no good is done, a few cynical opportunists profit and most people pay the price, and the same thing will happen with the climate crusade if we permit it to go forward, and I pray that we can stop it before it does too much damage.”

Will Happer, COP25 conference, Madrid 2019

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https://www.breitbartunmasked.com/2014/08/04/fear-mongering-quackjob-dr-jane-orient-claims-ebola-already-crossing-our-southern-borders/

Fear-Mongering Quackjob Dr. Jane Orient Claims Ebola Is Already Crossing Our Southern Borders 1

B HYPATIA LIVINGSTON ON AUGUST 4, 2014 IDIOCRACY, IMMIGRATION

While appearing on an internet “talk show,” Dr. Jane Orient, best known for her quacky platform as Executive Director of the fear-mongering Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), claimed that Border Patrol informants told her that “as many 100,000 West Africans are in Central America” — and they have been taught to speak Spanish and are coming across our Southern border,” according to a writer on the conspiracy-filledWorldNetDaily website who interviewed her on his radio show.

Dr. Orient further complained that “Ebola screening practices” had not been implemented at the border with immigrants that were being detained. (Of course, if they’ve learned Spanish along their journey, they can totally blend in with the influx of minor children, right?)

While Dr. Orient is technically a medical doctor, her various theories on the science of medicine have been found to be full of fear-mongering, Obama-hating and other assorted quackery. As Rational Wiki explains, “The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons is a small group of “conservative” quacks, cranks and fundamentalist zealots which likes to rail against such timeless evils as abortion, vaccination and the idea of universal health care coverage.”

She also told theWorldnetDaily writer that terrorists could somehow infect African immigrants purposefully and use them as an agent for biological terror, leading the writer to conclude that “The drug trade in West Africa is tied to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda and now probably ISIS. This is an ominous discovery because it now opens the possibility that Ebola could be purposely sent to the United States with West African drug couriers. An organization, such as Hamas, could arrange to have a number of West Africans to become exposed to the virus and then fast track them across the southern border under the guise of trafficking in drugs.”

African immigrants account for only roughly 3.3% of total immigration to the United States since 1965, according to Wikipedia. Reports of the drug trade out of Africa have been touted by Fox News in recent years, but the traffickers are fairly sophisticated and travel by plane through Ghana, usually directly to Cairo and Dubai, Amsterdam, London and Frankfurt and New York City, avoiding the trafficking areas frequented by violent and dangerous Mexican drug cartels.

Because of the perilous journey and the United States’ fairly liberal immigration policy for West Africans (making it easier to enter the United State legally) only about 3 to 5,000 immigrants travel from African countries through Central and Latin American countries fleeing their homes. Many of these immigrants land in Central American countries and seek asylum, while a small portion makes their painstaking way to US borders. The journey is among the most treacherous migrations they can choose as a pathway to citizenship, often taking in excess of 30 days to arrive in Central or Latina American destinations alone, with several more weeks of travel and the possibility of drowning or dying of dehydration along the final leg of the trip.

The incubation period for Ebola2-20 days, with most patients becoming severely ill very quickly, unable to sit up in bed or walk on their own. Ebola cannot be caught through air, skin to skin contact (unless a person is sweating profusely) or from sharing food or sleeping space. According to the World Health Organization, “People can be exposed to Ebola virus from direct physical contact with body fluids like blood, saliva, stool, urine, sweat etc. of an infected person and soiled linen used by a patient. It can be spread through contact with objects, such as needles, that have been contaminated with infected secretions.”

Dr. Orient is not the first quack to raise concerns about Ebola being transmitted via children who have yet to, or have already crossed our border. Last week, Rep. Phil Gingrey made similar claims, stressing that border agents are also very “fearful” of an eminent Ebola outbreak risk. (These claims were debunked thoroughly, earning a Politifact “Pants on Fire” rating the same day they came out.)

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Would You Rather Save $10.46 or $500 on Healthcare?

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats have been promising universal healthcare, which will supposedly save more than the $30 trillion to $40 trillion it will cost. Or if the cost is Warren’s $52 trillion, we’ll import more (rich?) taxpayers....

MAY 31, 2019

Commentary: Panic Over Measles Leads to More Government Intrusion

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

In general, it is not a good idea to panic about anything. The panic itself often causes more harm than the original threat.

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APRIL 5, 2019

White Paper: After the Affordable Care Act: Freedom for All vs. Medicare for All

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

This paper is about alternatives to the Affordable Care Act.

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Government Spending

APRIL 4, 2019

Who Is Your Doctor?

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

If the government is the ultimate authority on your “health care,” remember that its tools for checking whether a child has a life-threatening disease such as meningitis include battering rams and assault rifles.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

SOTU 2019 and American Medicine

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

While President Trump called for unity and cooperation in his 2019 State of the Union address, the views of the audience showed a sharp and bitter divide, especially on issues affecting the health and medical care of Americans.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

So What If ACA Is Unconstitutional?

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Stocks of hospital and Medicaid-contracted managed-care companies plunged on the announcement of Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Epidemics, Fear and Denial: How Every American Is Threatened

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

This is the one hundredth anniversary of the great influenza pandemic of 1918. In his book The Great Influenza, John M. Barry described it as the deadliest plague in history.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to the 2018 Midterm Elections

By James Taylor, Peter Ferrara, H. Sterling Burnett, Bette Grande, Neal Schuerer, David L. Applegate, Arthur Viterito, Robert Bradley, Lance Izumi, Robert Maranto, Stephen B. Presser, Jameson Campaigne, Clifford Thies, Michael Warder, Mary Byrne , Jane M. Orient, M.D., Jonathan D. Haubert, Jarrett Skorup, Scott Cleland, Alieta Eck, M.D., William L. Anderson, Ann Bridges, Gerard Gianoli, M.D., Michael J. Koriwchak , Devon Herrick, Bartlett Cleland, Greg R. Lawson, Peter Wood , Joe Cobb, Allen Mendenhall, Christopher Garbacz

“Liberal San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer had a very tough night last night.” - James Taylor

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

Can Democrats Save Entitlements And Healthcare?

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Both parties and all candidates have deep flaws, and problems have no sound-bite solutions. But at this point in history, there is a civil war over foundational principles. The agenda of a candidate’s party counts.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The De-sciencing of American Medicine and What It Means to You

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

With all the talk about “evidence-based medicine,” you might think that doctors were becoming much more focused on rigorous science.

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MAY 8, 2018

Does Your Medical Licensure Board Protect You?

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

A bill that would give doctors the right to defend themselves if brought before the state licensure board, the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners (LSBME), was heard in the Louisiana state House of Representatives on May 2.

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MAY 1, 2018

Mandates: the Other Side of the ‘Right to Healthcare’

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

A “right to healthcare” is a seductive idea that many Americans accept without thinking. But we need to take a closer look at what this means.

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JANUARY 31, 2018

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to President Trump’s State of the Union Address

By Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D., Jay Lehr, Peter Ferrara, Frederick D. Palmer, H. Sterling Burnett, Lennie Jarratt, Bette Grande, Tom Harris, James H. Rust, David S. D’Amato, Kenneth Haapala, David Guldenschuh, Corey DeAngelis , Wayne Allyn Root, J.T. Edwards, E. Calvin Beisner, Jane M. Orient, M.D., David L. Applegate, Howard L. Simons, William Briggs, Timothy Ball, Michelle Smith, Gerard Gianoli, M.D., Ronald D. Rotunda (1945 - 2018), Randal O’Toole, James Wanliss , Yuri Maltsev, Stephen B. Presser, Michael Schaus, Jim Waters, Russ McCullough, Christopher Garbacz

“The Heartland Institute has been advising many in the administration on climate and energy policy, so we were certainly encouraged and excited the president promoted his pro-energy, pro-America vision in his State of the Union Address.” - Tim Huelskamp

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JANUARY 12, 2018

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Kentucky Medicaid Work Requirement

By Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D., Matthew Glans, Charlie Katebi, Jane M. Orient, M.D., Dave Racer

"The Trump administration should be highly commended for this action." - Tim Huelskamp

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JANUARY 11, 2018

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Policy Allowing States to Impose Work Requirements for Medicaid

By Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D., Peter Ferrara, John Nothdurft, Matthew Glans, Jane M. Orient, M.D., Dave Racer

“Work requirements for the able-bodied, as Trump’s change provides, is a highly desirable reform that will help to minimize unnecessary dependency and remove burdens placed on taxpayers” - Peter Ferrara

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DECEMBER 21, 2017

Setting National Health Priorities: Trump and Climate Change

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The Trump Administration has announced the removal of climate change from the list of national security threats.

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Environment

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to President Trump’s Health Care Executive Order

By Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D., Peter Ferrara, S.T. Karnick, Heartland Staff, Jane M. Orient, M.D., John Dale Dunn, Roger Beauchamp , Hal Scherz, Michael J. Koriwchak , Chad Savage, Devon Herrick, Scott Ehrlich, Dave Racer, Kathleen Brown , Twila Brase

"Attention Congress, this is what leadership looks like." - Tim Huelskamp

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

The Opioid Disaster—Who Benefits?

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The opioid crisis in America is real, it is lethal, and it may be killing the nice family that lives next door to you.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

John McCain and the Partisan Farce on “Healthcare Reform”

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Senator John McCain of Arizona sequentially played the role of superhero, villainous traitor (to Republicans), and savior (to ObamaCare) as the McConnell “skinny repeal” lost by one vote—his.

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JULY 28, 2017

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Failure of ‘Skinny Repeal’ of Obamacare

By Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D., Peter Ferrara, Justin Haskins, Edward Hudgins , Wayne Allyn Root, John Hunt, M.D., Jane M. Orient, M.D., Scott Ehrlich, Brian R. Forrest, M.D., Lee S. Gross, M.D., Alexandra York, Jonathan Lockwood, Dave Racer, Michael Warder, Devon Herrick, Alieta Eck, M.D.

‘America doesn’t have to wait for Congress to get its act together. Some of the most onerous parts of Obamacare were foisted upon us by executive dictate from the Obama administration, and we can reverse the damage in the same manner.’ – Tim Huelskamp

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Government & Politics

JULY 25, 2017

Let’s Change to “Repeal and Restore” ObamaCare

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Congress should take a vote on simply repealing ObamaCare. Republicans should be forced to go on the record to show how they keep—or renege on—their campaign promises.

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JULY 18, 2017

It’s Not about Health Care—It’s about Control

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

As Congress struggles to do something about the ObamaCare disaster, Senators may be getting calls pleading, “Don’t take my healthcare away!”

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JULY 18, 2017

Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Plan to Repeal Obamacare Now, Replace Later

By Peter Ferrara, Justin Haskins, Michael Hamilton, Jane M. Orient, M.D., Alieta Eck, M.D., Scott Ehrlich, John McAdams, Devon Herrick, John Hunt, M.D., Chad Savage, Dave Racer, Brian R. Forrest, M.D., Kevin W. Glass, Roger Stark, M.D., Gerard Gianoli, M.D., Twila Brase

‘Repealing Obamacare and starting from scratch will likely result in a far more free-market replacement bill than the one recently considered by the Senate.’ – Peter Ferrara

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JULY 13, 2017

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Comment on New Senate Republican Health Reform Bill

By Peter Ferrara, Justin Haskins, Michael Hamilton, Dave Racer, Jane M. Orient, M.D., Devon Herrick, Chad Savage, Scott Ehrlich, Brian R. Forrest, M.D., Roger Beauchamp

‘The Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) is hardly perfect or even a repeal of Obamacare. However, given the political realities facing the nation and the dire state of the health care market, the BCRA would be a positive step.’ – Justin Haskins

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JULY 3, 2017

Let July 4 Be ACA Independence Day

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The Senate has finally unveiled its heretofore secret plan for pretending to repeal the (Un)Affordable Care Act (ACA, UCA, or ObamaCare): the Better Care Reconciliation Act.

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JUNE 27, 2017

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to CBO Score of Senate Republicans’ Health Care Bill

By Peter Ferrara, Michael Hamilton, Jane M. Orient, M.D., Dave Racer, Devon Herrick, Brian R. Forrest, M.D., Sally C. Pipes, Roger Stark, M.D., John Hunt, M.D., Michael A. Ciampi, M.D., Roger Beauchamp , Gerard Gianoli, M.D.

"Instead of coercion to buy insurance the uninsured do not want to buy, or wasting more trillions on Medicaid, policy should be focused on lowering premiums and expanding choice" - Peter Ferrara

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JUNE 23, 2017

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Senate GOP Health Care Reform Bill

By Michael Hamilton, Jane M. Orient, M.D., Dave Racer, Devon Herrick, Chad Savage, Gerard Gianoli, M.D., Michael J. Koriwchak , Roger Stark, M.D., Elizabeth B. Stelle, Dr. Phil Eskew , Sally C. Pipes

“Congressional Republicans are exhibiting willful ignorance of the lessons Obamacare should have taught them. Subsidizing health insurers is not a sound basis for a health care system, in theory or in fact.” - Michael Hamilton

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JUNE 6, 2017

The Paris Climate Agreement, Not “Climate Change,” Is the Threat; Trump’s Pull-out Is Good for the Poor and for Our Health

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

A consortium of medical societies is echoing former President Obama’s dire warning that climate change is the biggest threat facing the world and public health.

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MAY 30, 2017

In the “New Normal” Society, We All Could Be First Responders

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

We are very fortunate to live in a society with 9-1-1 responders, but they may not be able to get to victims in a crowded arena, or the police may have to block their entry because of ongoing mayhem. Somebody’s life may depend on you.

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MAY 17, 2017

Universal Coverage Means Less Care

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The reported success of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or ObamaCare) is based on enrollment numbers. Millions more have “coverage.”

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APRIL 18, 2017

The Horror of Chemical Weapons

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Chemical weapons seem to be in a class by themselves: the ultimately gruesome way to die. Their use crosses the final Red Line to a heinous crime against humanity, and is a violation of international law.

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Government & Politics

MARCH 21, 2017

ObamaCare Repeal vs. Reality

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Coverage is not the same thing as care.

MARCH 7, 2017

Trump Needs to Drain the “Healthcare” Swamp

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Trump needs to see through the subterfuge, and drain the third-party (“insurance”) swamp before it drains the life out of American medicine—into activities that patients would probably find to be of zero value.

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MARCH 1, 2017

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to President Trump’s Address to Congress

By Jim Lakely, Robert Genetski, Bette Grande, S.T. Karnick, David L. Applegate, H. Sterling Burnett, Jesse Hathaway, Michael Hamilton, Jane M. Orient, M.D., Bruno Behrend, Lennie Jarratt, Isaac Orr, Tom Harris, John McAdams, Terry Stoops, Joe Cobb, Christopher Garbacz, James H. Rust, John Dale Dunn, Clifford Thies, Sandra Stotsky, Kenneth Haapala

"President Trump’s speech should help him gain public support for his programs. Inviting Democrats to put petty politics aside and work with him for the good of the country was a reasonable request." - Robert Genetski

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Travel Ban Is Revealing—but Does Not Threaten American Medicine

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

A 90-day ban on travel from seven countries has sparked tremendous outpourings of “worry” or outright opposition by some 33 medical organizations.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Trump Proposal to Speed FDA Drug Approvals

By Michael Hamilton, Justin Haskins, Jane M. Orient, M.D., John Dale Dunn

“The Trump administration’s commitment to cutting the existing costly and sometimes deadly red tape is a vital and most welcome first step toward reducing skyrocketing pharmaceutical prices” - Justin Haskins

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JANUARY 19, 2017

What If Sick People Lose Their ObamaCare?

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

As Republicans contemplate repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA or “ObamaCare”)—seriously, not just as a political gesture—alarms are sounding about millions of individuals losing coverage.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Why Republicans Should Let ObamaCare Self Destruct

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The Trump Administration and the Republican Congress is faced with a crisis in the Affordable Care Act.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Case for Being Uninsured

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Republicans say they are going to “replace” ObamaCare, but they will come up with something very similar and at least as bad if they start with the same misguided objective: “universal coverage.”

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Quality and Value in Health Care Explained

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The congressional echo chamber, on both sides of the aisle, constantly talks about the great reform fad: “payment for value” and “quality” care.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to the 2016 Election

By Peter Ferrara, Michael Hamilton, Jesse Hathaway, Dr. Donald J. Devine, Lennie Jarratt, H. Sterling Burnett, Tim Benson, Robert Zubrin, Isaac Orr, Robert G. Holland, Heather Kays, Paul Driessen, Dan Miller, Larry Kaufmann, Donn Dears, Charles Battig, Brendon Swedlow, Jane M. Orient, M.D., Neal Schuerer, Bradley A. Smith, Twila Brase, Joe Cobb, Matt A. Mayer, Thomas A. Firey, Bernard (Bud) Weinstein, James H. Rust, Linda Gorman, Devon Herrick, Jason Bedrick, Nick Dranias, Lawrence H. White, Howard Segermark, James E. Enstrom, Mischa Popoff, Clifford Thies, Peter R. Cook, Charles N. Steele, Gerard Gianoli, M.D., Brian R. Forrest, M.D., Cedric Keith, Michael Schaus, Benita M. Dodd, Roger Stark, M.D., Kathy Hoekstra, Sandra Stotsky

In the November 8 election, Donald Trump won the presidency and Republicans retained control of the House and Senate. In state races, Republicans expanded their majorities in state legislatures and gubernatorial mansions.

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JULY 19, 2016

Making American Medicine Great Again

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The Republicans are at it again: trying to tweak a bad idea, make it “bipartisan,” and set a flawed system more firmly in concrete. What we really need is a Republican reform – one that can restore the republic, along with medicine.

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JUNE 7, 2016

Medicare-Age Patient to Mr. Trump: Let’s Make a Deal

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Mr. Trump has been castigated for saying that if the government goes bankrupt, he’d get creditors to accept less. That is standard operating procedure for businesses.

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MAY 13, 2016

Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Latest Obamacare Court Ruling

By Jane M. Orient, M.D., David L. Applegate, Michael Hamilton

Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Latest Obamacare Court RulingU.S. District Court Judge Rosemary M. Collyer on Thursday ruled the Obama administration violated the U.S.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Zika: Crisis or Sentinel Event?

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Zika is, like Ebola, a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Now the U.S.

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obamacare-broken

MARCH 15, 2016

Big Healthcare’s Latest Attack on Patient Freedom

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Anything with “Big” in it means Big Money, whether it’s Big Pharma, Big Oil, or whatever. The Big industry will have skyscrapers, plush executive suites, and a battalion of managers with million-dollar compensation packages.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The Zika Virus Disease Outbreak: What Should We Do?

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The latest public health panic is over a disease most Americans (even doctors) have never heard of. Zika virus disease (ZVD) is carried by the same mosquito, Aedes aegypti, as other Third World diseases, including dengue and chikungunya.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Sanders: What Will His Socialist Plan Do to YOUR Medical Care?

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

There is one thing that supporters and detractors of Bernie Sanders might agree on: he seems to be honest about his convictions. He is an avowed socialist, instead of pretending to believe in a role for private insurance.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

Heartland Institute Experts React to Obama’s Last State of the Union Address

By Peter Ferrara, Lennie Jarratt, Gary MacDougal, Isaac Orr, David L. Applegate, Bette Grande, Jane M. Orient, M.D., Christopher Garbacz, James H. Rust, Kenneth Haapala, Marc Morano, Jeff Stier, Mischa Popoff, Clifford Thies

President Barack Obama on Tuesday night delivered his final State of the Union Address, touching on climate change, energy policy, education, health care, the economy, and his legacy after nearly two terms in the White House.

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DECEMBER 27, 2015

Who Has Constitutional Rights? Trump Raises the Question

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Donald Trump’s suggestion to exclude Muslims from the U.S. has been called unconstitutional as well as offensive to many.Elected officials swear an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

Heartland Institute Experts Comment on the Omnibus Spending and Tax Bill

By Joseph Bast, Jesse Hathaway, Steve Stanek, Matthew Glans, Lennie Jarratt, Tim Benson, Clifford Thies, Isaac Orr, James H. Rust, H. Sterling Burnett, Bette Grande, Kenneth Haapala, Jane M. Orient, M.D., Paul Driessen

The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate came to an agreement late last night over a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill and a separate $622 billion tax bill. The House approved the tax package Thursday afternoon.

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OCTOBER 30, 2015

Danger: Interstate Compact Could “Fundamentally Transform” Medicine

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

While Americans are preoccupied with the political theater of the Presidential race, special interest groups toil to pass legislation that could radically transform your medical care.

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JUNE 22, 2015

Will Republicans Keep the Court from Blowing Obama’s Cover?

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The Big Lie of ObamaCare is in the title: the Affordable Care Act. Administration officials invoke “affordable” over and over again.The U.S. Supreme Court could well blow the Democrats’ cover in King v.

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MAY 6, 2015

An American Response to Loss of ObamaCare Subsidies

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court could, in King v. Burwell, uninsure 8 million Americans by finding that subsidies are illegal outside State Exchanges.Some Republicans are saying “Let it burn.” For Democrats, it’s “ObamaCare or nothing.

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MARCH 24, 2015

Heartland Institute Experts Comment on ‘Doc Fix’ Bill for Medicare

By Sean Parnell, Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Leaders in the House of Representatives on Tuesday introduced legislation to repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate formula for Medicare payments to doctors and replace it with a different formula.

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MARCH 17, 2015

Heartland Institute Experts React to House GOP Budget Proposal

By Peter Ferrara, Jesse Hathaway, Jane M. Orient, M.D., Sean Parnell

Rep. Tom Price, chairman of the House Budget Committee, unveiled a 2016 budget today that would, among many things, repeal the Affordable Care Act, block-grant Medicaid to the states, partially privatize Medicare, and cut $5.

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MARCH 9, 2015

What Will Happen If Supreme Court Cuts ObamaCare Subsidies?

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The Obama Administration was apparently shocked when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of King v. Burwell, which challenges insurance subsidies flowing through federal Exchanges.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Congress’ Omnibus Spending Bill

By David L. Applegate, Jesse Hathaway, Peter Ferrara, F.H. Buckley, Jane M. Orient, M.D., Kenneth Haapala, John Dale Dunn, H. Sterling Burnett, Ronald D. Rotunda (1945 - 2018), Alan Caruba (1938-2015)

The House and Senate this week are expected to pass a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government through September 2015.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2014

GOP Can no Longer Blame Harry Reid for Obamacare

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The time for Republican self congratulation is over, and the work needs to begin. It appears that the majority of the voting population recognizes that our country is in dire condition. Time is running out to fix it.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Heartland Institute Reacts to Resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder

By Richard Vedder, Ronald D. Rotunda (1945 - 2018), Jane M. Orient, M.D., Jesse Hathaway

Eric Holder, who has served as U.S. Attorney General for the entire Obama presidency, publicly announced today he is stepping down. The following statements from experts at The Heartland Institute – a free-market think tank – may be used for attribution.

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JULY 21, 2014

Will Medicare Become Like the VA?

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Most veterans get most of their medical care from private doctors through Medicare or private insurance. Just think what those secret waiting lists would be like if they didn’t!

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MAY 21, 2014

Healthcare Fixed, on to Climate Change

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Now that 8 million or more have signed up on health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the President is deploying his phone and his pen to solve another urgent problem: climate change.

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MARCH 19, 2014

Perils in the Air: A Frequent Flyer Physician Reflects on Flight MH 370

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The bizarre disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 might sound like an episode from the Twilight Zone, when an aircraft vanishes into a different dimension and emerges in an earlier time.

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MARCH 11, 2014

Heartland Institute Experts React to Obama Administration’s Reversal on Medicare Part D Restrictions

By Benjamin Domenech, Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The Obama administration this week announced it would scrap much of a proposed plan to limit the types of antidepressants and other drugs seniors can get through Medicare Part D.

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MARCH 11, 2014

Heartland Institute Experts React to Obama Administration’s Reversal on Medicare Part D Restrictions

By Benjamin Domenech, Jane M. Orient, M.D.

The Obama administration this week announced it would scrap much of a proposed plan to limit the types of antidepressants and other drugs seniors can get through Medicare Part D.

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JANUARY 29, 2014

Heartland Institute Experts React to President Obama’s State of the Union Address

By Joseph Bast, Robert Genetski, Ronald D. Rotunda (1945 - 2018), Benjamin Domenech, Joy Pullmann, Robert G. Holland, Steve Stanek, Craig Idso, John Coleman (1934-2018), Marc Morano, Kenneth Haapala, Marita Noon, Jonathan Steitz, Kurtis B. Reeg, Tibor R. Machan, Jane M. Orient, M.D., Alan Caruba (1938-2015), Richard Ebeling, Eugene Kontorovich, Jack A. Chambless, Barry P. Keating

The following statements reacting to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night from staff, fellows, and policy advisors at The Heartland Institute – a free-market think tank – may be used for attribution.

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JANUARY 28, 2014

Heartland Institute Reaction to Obama’s State of the Union Address

By Jim Lakely, Ronald D. Rotunda (1945 - 2018), Benjamin Domenech, Joy Pullmann, Steve Stanek, Craig Idso, Marc Morano, John Coleman (1934-2018), Tibor R. Machan, Jane M. Orient, M.D., Joseph Bast, Alan Caruba (1938-2015), Robert Genetski, Jack A. Chambless, Barry P. Keating, Eugene Kontorovich, Richard Ebeling, Kurtis B. Reeg, Jonathan Steitz, Marita Noon, Kenneth Haapala, Robert G. Holland

Below you can read the reaction of staff, fellows, and policy advisors at The Heartland Institute to President Obama's State of the Union Address. The comments may be used for attribution.

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

Heartland Institute Experts React to Latest Delay in Obamacare Mandates

By Benjamin Domenech, Sean Parnell, David L. Applegate, Jane M. Orient, M.D., Tibor R. Machan, Howard Maccabee

The Obama administration announced it is lifting the mandate to buy insurance - as well as the penalty for not buying insurance - from those who had their individual coverage plans canceled this year.

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

No, ObamaCare Is Not a Conservative Idea

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Even as ObamaCare is trying to self destruct, its advocates suggest a détente in which “Republicans recognize the conservative nature of the law,” in the words of Austin Frakt in Bloomberg News.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Heartland Institute Experts React to President Obama’s Announcement about the Affordable Care Act

By Eugene Kontorovich, Sean Parnell, David L. Applegate, Jane M. Orient, M.D., Benjamin Domenech, Tibor R. Machan

President Barack Obama today announced a “fix” for his beleaguered health care law, allowing state health commissioners to allow the sale of insurance plans that don’t adhere to the mandates in the Affordable Care Act.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Heartland Institute Experts React to House Hearing on Obamacare with Kathleen Sebelius

ByBenjamin Domenech, David L. Applegate, Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified today before the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the failure of the Healthcare.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

Washington Has It Backward on Defunding ObamaCare

By Jane M. Orient, M.D.

Defunding ObamaCare does not really require an active decision by the U.S. House of Representatives. It is the default option—as in what happens if you don’t do something.Constitutionally, the people’s House holds the government’s purse strings.

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https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/06/10/willie-soon-and-friends-early-days

willie Soon is gathering with his Heartland Institute friends this week in Washington, DC for their latest Denial-a-Palooza stunt designed to mimic a science conference.

As anyone who followed the story of Willie Soon's failures to disclose conflicts of interest knows, nobody came to his defense more rabidly than the Heartland Institute. Heartland President Joe Bast, Communications Director Jim Lakely and others used familiar tobacco industry tactics of intimidation of journalists and misdirection to try to limit the fallout.

They even bought AdWords, “In Defense of Willie Soon - The Merchants of Smear Attack Heroic Scientist.”

So it's no wonder that Soon is now feted as a hero among the denialist crowd.

But people might wonder: where did Soon come from before climate anti-science? What are his credentials? And who were some of his early allies?

A brief history follows:

Willie Soon has talked on,,, the and other topics. However, he has mostly pushed “Warming: Not CO2, It's The Sun!” akin to saying “Cancer: not cigarettes, just natural,” but funded via fossil fuel energy interests, not tobacco. He has been wrong again and again.

But how did Soon become a cog in the machinery of climate anti-science? An old video and older papers help reconstruct the history, back to his years with advisor Joseph Kunc at University of Southern California(USC) and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). These also shed light on the long history of climate anti-science in the Wall Street Journal.

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP) is run by Jane Orient of Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)and Art Robinson of Oregon Instute of Science and Medicine (OISM), well-interconnected. DDP invited Willie Soon to speak every year 2000-2014. His talks seemed Gish Gallops, but obviously well-received by the non-expert audiences. In 2000, DDP Vice-President Art Robinson took 2 minutes to introduce Soon in The Sun Also Warms: The Sun-Climate Link, saying:

00:37 “A couple years ago, during the Kyoto meeting, George Gilder suggested to Max Boot at the Wall Street Journal that we could write an editorial that might be good on global warming, and I got this phone call from Max Boot asking for it and of course I said it would be on your desk tomorrow morning. So we had to work all night, but that's an even greater motivation, because if we made a mistake there it would be extremely embarrassing. So I called Sallie Baliunas, and she made sure we didn't make any mistakes.1

When we decided later to do that petition project of scientists on global warming, I asked Sallie again, and she said 'Well, if you're going to write a review article and send it to tens of thousands of scientists, you need to know my colleague Willie Soon. He'll keep you out of trouble.' And so, for the month we were working on that, we had the advantage of Willie Soon, who kept us completely out of trouble, and made sure we knew where all the data was, and got it right, and when we made mistakes, he fixed them.* And of course, when that paper ultimately appeared in the scientific literature,2 Willie Soon was the principal author. Three years now, he's been a voice on the phone that I can depend on for being absolutely perfect in everything and telling us where all the literature was. He also does a lot of original research on the Sun and the temperature of the planet. It's very fine to have him today as a to tell us about it.”

02:05 Soon: “I'm very happy and very honored to be here. I really first wanted to thank Fred Singer for giving such a fine and excellent introduction …”

Wall Street Journal (WSJ)OpEds, Ideology Trumps Science

The WSJ published the OpEd Science Has Spoken: Global Warming Is a Myth on December 4, 1997, saying “Arthur Robinson and Zachary Robinson are chemists at the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine.” Arthur is a biochemist, Zachary got his PhD in veterinary medicine. Chemist Noah Robinson starred for George Gilder in 2007'sThe Global Warming Myth (watch first few minutes).

On June 12, 1996, the WSJ had published Frederick Seitz's attack on Ben Santer, but the responsible editor is unknown.

The connections go further back. Joseph Kunc was Soon's Phd Advisor at the University of Southern California, and they coauthored 10+ papers 1988-1992. Around 1991-1992, Kunc was temporarily affiliated with “Harvard University and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,” and Soon was at CfA, as seen in this paper. By 1993 Soon was :{publishing with }::{Sallie Baliunas}:, who had been publishing with George Marshall Institute Founder and famed astrophysicist Robert Jastrow from 1990 onward. This 1990 exchange of letters in Science is an early hint of discussions to come.

Meanwhile, Kunc signed**the Oregon Petition** (likely by 2000), the Heartland Institute-organized 2008 Manhattan Declaration and the 2009 Petition to the American Physical Society to weaken its climate statement. Coincidentally, in 2011 he got involved with Edward Wegman via Donald Rapp, see p.15 of Strange Inquiries at George Mason University …and even stranger comments. Soon also gave a 2007 talk at USC, perhaps at Kunc's invitation:

“The Secondary Role of CO2 and CH4 Forcing in Climate Change.” The Astronautics and Space Technology Division and Physics Department lecture by Dr. Willie Soon of Harvard Univeristy(sic)

November 26, 2007” Note the incorrect Harvard affiliation. CfA is not Harvard.

A 2009 paper by Soon illustrated his good connections, p.161:

“I also thank all colleagues whose works are cited here, and especially those who have allowed access to their hard-earned data series: Nicola Scafetta, Karin Boessenkool, Igor Yashayaev, Igor Polyakov, Mihai Dima, Lars Smedsrud, Jeff Knight, Rob Allan, Daniel Hodson, David Holland, Mads Ribergaard, Frank Kauker, and John Fasullo. I thank Scott Armstrong, Gene Avrett, Sallie Baliunas, Dan Botkin, Bob Carter, Shaun Cheok, Susan Crockford, Bob Ferguson, Dave Fettig, Kesten Green, Joe Kunc, Keith Lockitch, Christopher Monckton, Lubos Motl, Jane Orient, Eric Posmentier, Art Robinson, Mitch Taylor, Bin Wang, and the late Robert Jastrow for their encouragement, and Gene Avrett and Steve Cranmer3 for their editorial help. I further thank Than, Lien and Julia Pham, Chiew-See Chua, as well as Benjamin and Franklin Soon for motivation. This new synthesis was based on a presentation at the 33rd International Geological Congress held in Oslo, Norway, August 6–14, 2008, as well as by another presentation at the International Symposium on Climate and Weather of the Sun–Earth System held at Jakarta, Indonesia, November 24-26, 2008. The views expressed herein are solely those of the author and are independent of sources providing support.”

From quite early onward, Willie Soon was well-positioned to become a cog in the machinery of climate anti-science.

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https://www.newsweek.com/who-dr-jane-m-orient-doctor-opposed-mandatory-vaccinations-testify-before-senate-committee-1552734

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Who is Dr Jane M. Orient? Doctor Opposed to Mandatory Vaccinations to Testify Before Senate Committee

BY SAMANTHA LOCK ON 12/7/20

01:31COVID-19 Update: A Breakdown Of Coronavirus Vaccines In Late Stage Trials

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Dr Jane M. Orient is executive director of the politically conservative Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

The 74-year-old Arizona native has been vocal in her criticism over coronavirus vaccines, instead opting to promote "medical freedom" and the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as an alternative treatment.

Dr. Orient has so far opposed the idea to vaccinate all Americans against the coronavirus, going so far as to call mandatory vaccination "a serious intrusion into individual liberty, autonomy and parental decisions."

"People are sick and dying now, and this will not stop the instant a vaccine is approved and deployed," Orient told Newsweek.

The Columbia University-educated physician has been branded a "conspiracy theorist" and an "anti-vaxxer" by some of her critics—labels of which she denies.

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Dr. Jane M. Orient is the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

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More recently, her recent appointment as lead witness at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on early at-home treatment for COVID-19 on Tuesday has elicited criticism from Democrats and others in the medical field.

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, of which Dr. Orient heads, strongly opposes federal interference in medical decisions, including mandated vaccines.

The group, founded in 1943 to "protect private medicine", represents just thousands of the nearly one millions physicians practicing across the US.

Government-imposed vaccination would be a "serious intrusion into individual liberty, autonomy, and parental decisions about child-rearing," the AAPS believes, according to a Senate statement on federal vaccine mandates.

"AAPS believes that liberty rights are unalienable," the statement continues. "Patients and parents have the right to refuse vaccination, although potentially contagious persons can be restricted in their movements as needed to protect others against a clear and present danger. Unvaccinated persons with no exposure to a disease and no evidence of a disease are not a clear or present danger."

In the same statement, Dr. Orient noted that the risk to public health threat is the underlying rationale for government policy on mandatory vaccines. "But how much of a threat is required to justify forcing people to accept government-imposed risks?" she asked.

"It seems to me reckless to be pushing people to take risks when you don't know what the risks are," Dr. Orient more recently told the New York Times, adding: "People's rights should be respected. Where is 'my body, my choice' when it comes to this?"

The doctor noted that both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine use a new scientific method and should be treated with more caution.

"If governmental authorities, imbued with a sense of infallibility, impose their will on everyone, the consequences of a bad choice affect millions," the doctor wrote in an article published in March of last year.

"Trading freedom—and free speech—for supposed security ultimately leads to a loss of both. And if government can dictate what you must inject into your own children, what limits can be placed on its power?"

"Deploying vaccine policeand shutting down debate will erode trust in health authorities and physicians, although more people may get their shots," an article published in May reads. "But such heavy-handed measures will not defeat the enemy—measles and worse diseases." [IT DID DEFEAT THEM IDIOT?!]

Many Republican leaders agree.

"Americans should have the freedom to take the COVID vaccine," Representative Jeff Duncan of South CarolinaDuncan tweeted on Saturday. "Americans should also have the freedom to decline the vaccine."

More Americans Could Die of COVID Today than Were Killed at Pearl Harbor

There Are 101,190 People Currently Hospitalized with COVID-19 Nationwide

55 Percent of NYC Firefighters Say They Won't Take COVID Vaccine: Study

COVID-19 Vaccines are Russia and China Ploys, Wyoming Health Official Says

Fauci's Timeline for When He Thinks America Will Beat COVID

However, Dr. Orient's selection as a lead witness is seen as controversial by many, including federal health officials currently promoting a vaccine as a way to save lives and end a pandemic that has killed more than 281,000 Americans.

It has also prompted harsh criticism from New York Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer.

"At such a crucial time, giving a platform to conspiracy theorists to spread myths and falsehoods about COVID vaccines is downright dangerous and one of the last things Senate Republicans should be doing right now," Schumer said in a statement on Sunday.

An FDA advisory committee is set to meet on Thursday to review data on the safety and efficacy of Pfizer's vaccine candidate. Rollout could begin soon if the agency grants the vaccine emergency authorization.

Dr. Orient will be testifying during Tuesday's hearing on behalf of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons about the need for early out-patient treatment of COVID.

"Refusing to offer treatment until a patient is severely ill and hospitalized has already caused as many as 100,000 needless deaths," she told Newsweek.

The physician reiterated that a patient's freedom to choose or decline medical treatment has not been abolished by this virus.

"Patients have the right to be fully informed about the vaccine, including the facts that are unknown, such as its potential long-term effects on cancer, birth defects, and impairment of fertility," she said. "At present, it is not even known whether the vaccination prevents contagion as opposed to preventing or mitigating symptoms."

Her testimony will also include a call for government guidelines informing doctors about hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for Covid-19 patients, the New York Times reports.

Newsweek has contacted The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons for comment.

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On Capitol Hill, the Senate Homeland Security Committee chair, Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson, has invited members of a fringe medical association to testify on the coronavirus pandemic. The lead witness, Dr. Jane M. Orient, has expressed anti-vaccine views and has pushed the use of hydroxychloroquine — an antimalarial drug once promoted by President Trump, which can cause heart rhythm problems and showed no benefit in treating COVID-19. Another witness testifying today, Dr. Ramin Oskoui, has falsely claimed that masks and social distancing don’t work at combating the spread of coronavirus.

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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons is a small group of physicians who, under a false authoritative name, advocate for far-right conservative values in the practice of medicine. While purporting to have high regard for the Hippocratic Oath, "the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship, and the "practice of private medicine",^[1] it appears to treat these concepts as terms of art. Despite also calling itself "non-partisan", its main focus appears to be opposing abortion, vaccination, universal health care coverage and Obamacare in particular, and birth control.

These concerns evidence a particular contempt for women's health and wellness. The AAPS specifically opposes vaccination for HPV,^[2] a known cancer-causing virus for which a vaccine administered to young women is extremely effective. The group also makes the objectively false claim that there is a meaningful correlation between abortion and breast cancer.^[3]

Its website offers this ridiculous claim:

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a non-partisan professional association of physicians in all types of practices and specialties across the country. Since 1943, AAPS has been dedicated to the highest ethical standards of the Oath of Hippocrates and to preserving the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship and the practice of private medicine. Our motto, "omnia pro aegroto" means "all for the patient."^[4]

The AAPS is listed as a quack organization by Quackwatch^[5]. The organization has made the questionable decision of engaging homeschool instructor and Conservapedia founder Andrew Schlafly as its general counsel to represent its interests in a variety of matters, including filing amici briefs in appellate litigation and even representing member physicians in disciplinary proceedings.

As of 2016, their president, Melinda Woofter, has stated:

We have witnessed an accelerated transformation of our profession away from individualized patient care toward politicized and collectivized “evidence-based medicine.”Without a doubt, this one-size-fits-all approach does not work and never can.^[6]

So, there you have it. Bring in the leeches and bloodletters, I guess.

Crowded office[

Its physical address, 1601 N Tucson Blvd #9, Tucson AZ 85716, a suite in a medical center, is shared with a lot of other equally weird organizations including Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, the American Health Legal Foundation,^[7] the AAPS Educational Foundation (contact: Dr Jane Orient), Physicians for Civil Defense (contact: Dr Jane Orient),^[8] the Southwestern Institute of Science (contact: Dr Jane Orient),^[9] and the Southern Arizona Association for Play Therapy.^[10]

Activities[

Many of these activities appear to violate their "Patient's Bill of Rights", which, among other things, states:

(the right) to refuse third-party interference in their medical care, and to be confident that their actions in seeking or declining medical care will not result in third-party-imposed penalties for patients or physicians

AAPS files lawsuit against FDA to overturn approval of "Plan B" morning after pill for over the counter use by women over 18.^[11]
Fight against "Sham Peer Review": The AAPS recognizes "sham peer review" as an abusive use of such entities as hospital by-laws and disciplinary committees to exclude physicians for other-than legitimate or the explicitly-stated reasons.^[12]
Defense of a physician convicted of improper narcotic prescribing while operating a clinic to treat patients with chronic pain.^[13]
Fighting mandatory vaccination.^[14]
Fighting against mandated mental health parity,^[15] which is advocated by the National Alliance on Mental Illness, American Medical Association,^[16] the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.^[17]
Promoting contracting between physicians and patients without government or insurance company involvement.
Fighting socialized and single-payer healthcare.^[18]
Fighting to "debunk" Shaken baby syndrome, and to link it to vaccines rather than abuse.^[19]
Advocating for so-called "freedom of conscience" to allow pharmacists to refuse to fill lawful prescriptions.^[20] This would appear to interfere with a patient's right "to refuse third party interference in their health care".
Fighting abortion, not simply through moral objection, but also by attempting to link abortion to unrelated health problems,^[21] including breast cancer.^[22]
Advocating against the sale of organs for transplant.^[23]
Advocating against organ donation in cases where brain death is unclear.^[24]
Advocating against withdrawal of care, as in the Terri Schiavo case,^[25] including misrepresenting the results of autopsy in the case.^[26]

Publications[

The AAPS publishes the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (JPANDS), until 2003 called the Medical Sentinel. The journal is not considered a valid, peer-reviewed journal for inclusion in major scientific databases, and has been listed by Quackwatch as "Fundamentally Flawed"^[27]. An article in the "journal"^[28] was used in 2008 to justify a petition against proposed solutions to the problem of global warming.^[29]

Members[

Russell Blaylock, M.D., member of the editorial staff. Publishes the Blaylock Wellness Report. Flagged by Quackwatch,^[30] among others.^[31]
John Cooksey, M.D., former Republican congressman from Louisiana. Ran for the Senate in 2002 but lost in the GOP primary after controversy resulting from him comparing Middle Eastern turbans to "diapers fastened by fan belts."^[32]
David McKalip, M.D., circulated a Photoshopped picture of Barack Obama as a supposed "witch-doctor" (actually Papua New Guinean in traditional dress) with a bone through his nose, on a Tea Party mailing list.
Joseph**Mercola**, D.O., Runs Mercola.com. Flagged by Quackwatch.^[33]
Ron Paul, M.D., former Republican congressman from Texas and erstwhile Republican Presidential candidate.
Rand Paul, M.D., son of Ron Paul and current Republican senator from Kentucky.
Paul Broun, M.D.,^[34] Republican congressman from Georgia. He is a passionate critic of Obamacare. He is also an admitted Young Earth Creationist and, despite being a physician, doesn't believe in embryology.^[35]
Jane Orient, M.D., executive director, science fiction writer,^[36] signatory to A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism, and contact for many organisations operating out of the same office.
Tom Price, Donald Trump's first Secretary of Health and Human Services,^[37] now ex Secretary of Health and Human Services.^[38] Confirmed by a 52-47 vote in the Senate in an overnight session.^[39] At a CNN town hall in March 2017, he suggested vaccination policy should be left up to the states.^[40] He served for 231 days, when he resigned in the wake of a scandal involving the use of about $1 million in agency operating funds to charter private jets to fly to Philadelphia,^[41] and for utilizing US military aircraft to travel to Asia and Europe.^[42] Presumably so he wouldn’t catch whatever the commoners in coach class were likely contagious with.

Conflicts[

According to their literature:

AAPS members believe this patient-physician relationship must be protected from all forms of third-party intervention.

The organization, a third party to the Schiavo case, interfered in the relationship between the patient's advocate and physicians, even helping to bring the power of the federal government to bear on a single medical case.
AAPS advocates for so-called "freedom of conscience" where patients are denied legal drugs, treatments, and information based on the morals of the provider rather than the patient.
AAPS views patient advance directives designed for dignity at the end-of-life as a financial plot to kill patients in order to save money.^[43]

Quackery[

The society's "journal" JPANDS has published an article on the supposed link between breast cancer and abortion.^[44] It has been roundly debunked.^[45][46][47] Near the end of the 2008 Presidential Election the "journal" published a claim that Barack Obama uses neuro-linguistic programming to exercise mind control over people at his rallies.^[48]

On their website, former AAPS president Dr. Lawrence Huntoon describes peer review boards which review complaints against doctors as "an insidious and spreading evil which threatens to destroy not only the integrity of the medical profession but quality care for all patients."^[49]

Stepping into the fray[

In the midst of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, they released a survey purporting to show that a large number of medical professionals harbor grave concerns about Hillary Clinton's health; specifically, that her health is in such a poor state that it "could be disqualifying for the position of President of the U.S."^[50] Of course, who these medical professionals are is nowhere to be found.

What's that? Did I hear you say they could be the doctors in the AAPS?!1?!?!11!?! That's patently absurd. Don't be ridiculous. Are you high?

External links[

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2005/medicine.html
http://www.jpands.org/jpands1201.htm
http://www.aapsonline.org/
Thorough evisceration of the AAPS by Kathleen Seidel on her neurodiversity.com blog *doffs cap*

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http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2014/03/949-donald-w-miller.html

among the unifying features of cranks, be they creationists, altmed promoters, global warming denialists or other pseudoscientists, is a shared hatred for the peer review system. After all, the peer review system is an important – not infallible, but very effective – mechanism for distinguishing claims that are actually justified by evidence from claims that are the result of psychological bias, motivated reasoning and an imagination unfettered by accountability or reason.

Donald W. Miller, jr. is a surgeon at the University of Washington who once published research in respectable venues before he gave up evidence in favor of the personal experience and biases that are the basis of all altmed, and aligned himself with the HIV denialists and the antivaxx crowd.

He is most famous for his article – widely cited on denialist websites – “The Government Grant System: Inhibitor of Truth and Innovation?”, which, needless to say, did not appear in any peer reviewed, respectable journal. The article presents Miller’s conspiracy theory regarding the peer review grant system – since Miller actually knows the system to an extent, and knows some terminology, it may on first glance look convincing to outsiders. It is not convincing, however, and Miller gives up the game with assertions such as “the human-caused global warming paradigm is most likely false”, citing none other than Soon & Baliunas, before attempting to show that the grant and system is rotten because it hasn’t contributed to the establishment of the idea Miller favors, namely HIV denialism. And since Miller cannot possibly be wrong, there has to be a conspiracy against his view; the same conspiracy that has caused his ally Peter Duesberg to lose any shred of credibility.

In his “Censorship and Show Trials on Vaccines and AIDS,” he adds Andy Wakefield.According to Miller “Peter Duesberg and Andrew Wakefield are two tenacious, brave men. They struggle against the medical-government-pharmaceutical complex’s efforts to disenfranchise them, and they have to endure a withering barrage of ad hominem attacks […] One hopes that in the not too distant future both of these truths will pass through Schopenhauer’s third stage and become accepted as self-evident.” Of course the fact that all of science points in the other direction doesn’t budge him – it simply gives him the Galileo Gambit,

Miller’s recent publication record consists to a large extent of HIV “dissident” tracts published at the LewRockwell.com (not a source of trustworthy information), global warming denialism, anti-fluoridation rants, and antivaccination ramblings. His article “On Evidence, Medical and Legal” (with U.K. lawyer Clifford Miller) was published in the pseudojournal JPandS. In the article, Miller & Miller argued for the superiority of legal standards of proof over evidence-based standards of evidence, causation, efficacy and practice generally accepted in medicine and science, implying that a single case study should be sufficient to prove causation of harm – and, by extension, legal liability – in cases involving many thousands of claimants with widely varying circumstances and documentation. That is, since rigorous methodology and careful investigation (where biases are accounted for) tend to come to conclusions opposite Miller’s, careful investigation and rigorous methodology have to go.

He also provides dietary advice, which is discussed here. No wonder Miller doesn’t like peer review.

Diagnosis: It is hard to imagine taking denialism and bias much farther than Miller – if science, evidence and accountability show that you are wrong, then science, evidence and accountability have to go. Of course, there are many people like Miller out there, but Miller is noteworthy for being rather explicit about his methodological commitments.

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coal paper pulled? not on wayback

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but https://web.archive.org/web/20200324201127/https://aapsonline.org/the-soylent-green-new-deal-is-three-years-away/

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