Anatomy of an Epidemic [Hardcover]

Max Morgan-Witts (Author), Gordon Thomas (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 366 pages
• Publisher: Book Sales; 1st edition (August 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385143710
• ISBN-13: 978-0385143714
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,739,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gordon Thomas is a political and investigative journalist and the author of 53 books, published in more than 30 countries and in dozens of languages. The total sales of his works exceed 45 million copies.

Thomas' most recent bestseller is Gideon's Spies: Mossad's Secret Warriors. Published in 16 languages and 40 countries Gideon's Spies is known throughout the world as the leading resource on Israeli intelligence. An updated edition will be published in 2012 by St. Martin's Press. Gideon's Spies was made into a major documentary for Channel Four in Britain, which Thomas wrote and narrated, called The Spy Machine. The Observer called The Spy Machine a "clear" picture of Israeli intelligence operations, and The Times called it "impressive," and "chilling."

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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Inventing the Legionnaires' Bacterium, November 13, 2001

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Don Benjamin (Crows Nest, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anatomy of an Epidemic (Hardcover)

Gordon Thomas has written several books that question current orthodoxy simply by investigating a subject. My first experience with his style was with his book Issels the Biography of a Doctor. This book showed that the cancer establishment in most countries doesn't want effective treatments for cancer and is prepared to use any method to suppress them.

This more recent book explores the investigation of the cause of Legionnaires' disease by the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta immediately following the Legionnaires' disease outbreak at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia in 1976.

It gives a blow by blow decription of the people involved and, more importantly, the political factors that led to the CDC looking for a virus or bacterium as the cause, rather than any other likely factor such as food contamination or any other toxic substance.
The main conclusion I drew from the book, not necessarily shared by the author, came from the last few pages where the scientists finally found some signs of a microorganism which they named legionella. It was not found in large enough amounts to cause disease, nor was it found in the relevant tissues of all the victims who died (such as the saliva or mucus). This shows that it could not have been the main factor in the deaths of the Legionnaires. Since that time legionella has wrongly been singled out as the only cause of the disease. It thus adds to the long string of false assumptions made by the medical profession that lead to the situation where only 15% of medical interventions are based on solid evidence. The HIV as the cause of AIDS is a similarly wrongly accused innocent victim as described in Peter Duesberg's excellent book "Inventing the AIDS Virus"

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Inventing the Legionnaires' Bacterium, November 12, 2001

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Don Benjamin (Crows Nest, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anatomy of an Epidemic (Hardcover)

Gordon Thomas has written several books that question current orthodoxy simply by investigating a subject. My first experience with his style was with his book Issels the Biography of a Doctor. This book showed that the cancer establishment in most countries doesn't want effective treatments for cancer and is prepared to use any method to suppress them.

This more recent book explores the investigation of the cause of Legionnaires' disease by the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta immediately following the Legionnaires' disease outbreak at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia in 1976.

It gives a blow by blow decription of the people involved and, more importantly, the political factors that led to the CDC looking for a virus or bacterium as the cause, rather than any other likely factor such as food contamination or any other toxic substance.
The main conclusion I drew from the book, not necessarily shared by the author, came from the last few pages where the scientists finally found some signs of a microorganism which they named legionella. It was not found in large enough amounts to cause disease, nor was it found in the relevant tissues of all the victims who died (such as the saliva or mucus). This shows that it could not have been the main factor in the deaths of the Legionnaires. Since that time legionella has wrongly been singled out as the only cause of the disease. It thus adds to the long string of false assumptions made by the medical profession that lead to the situation where only 15% of medical interventions are based on solid evidence. The HIV as the cause of AIDS is a similarly wrongly accused innocent victim as described in Peter Duesberg's excellent book "Inventing the AIDS Virus"

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Inventing the Legionnaires' Bacterium, November 12, 2001

By 

Don Benjamin (Crows Nest, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anatomy of an Epidemic (Hardcover)

Gordon Thomas has written several books that question current orthodoxy simply by investigating a subject. My first experience with his style was with his book Issels the Biography of a Doctor. This book showed that the cancer establishment in most countries doesn't want effective treatments for cancer and is prepared to use any method to suppress them.

This more recent book explores the investigation of the cause of Legionnaires' disease by the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta immediately following the Legionnaires' disease outbreak at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia in 1976.

It gives a blow by blow decription of the people involved and, more importantly, the political factors that led to the CDC looking for a virus or bacterium as the cause, rather than any other likely factor such as food contamination or any other toxic substance.
The main conclusion I drew from the book, not necessarily shared by the author, came from the last few pages where the scientists finally found some signs of a microorganism which they named legionella. It was not found in large enough amounts to cause disease, nor was it found in the relevant tissues of all the victims who died (such as the saliva or mucus). This shows that it could not have been the main factor in the deaths of the Legionnaires. Since that time legionella has wrongly been singled out as the only cause of the disease. It thus adds to the long string of false assumptions made by the medical profession that lead to the situation where only 15% of medical interventions are based on solid evidence. The HIV as the cause of AIDS is a similarly wrongly accused innocent victim as described in Peter Duesberg's excellent book "Inventing the AIDS Virus"