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The Wallach Revolution

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The Cystic Fibrosis Discovery Suppressed by Yerkes Primate Center

Wallach deeply resented the fact that his superiors would sacrifice the chance to capitalize on one of the greatest discoveries in medicine in the 20^th century, one that could lead to the treatment and cure of an awful disease afflicting man and animals. They had done so for parochial interests, protecting their own skins, but they were the “official” voice. Against their formidable reputations, Wallach stood little real chance of convincing the world of the contrary proposition, at least not at that time.

After Wallach left Yerkes, Director Bourne and Dr. McClure moved to complete suppression of Wallach’s discovery. They effectively rescinded the press release by discrediting Wallach’s evidence, identifying Wallach as a fraud. That action caused Wallach to be black listed in the veterinary academic community. Although next hired that same year to be the Director of the Laboratory Animal Research Colony at St. Louis University, as soon as word arrived at the medical school of the Yerkes’ firing, Wallach was terminated (even before his first day of work). St. Louis University had received word from officials at NIH dissuading them from making the hire after those same officials had been given a copy of St. Louis University’s employment announcement. Because of the University’s need to guard its federal funding, the hiring of Wallach against NIH wishes could place grants in jeopardy.

With four children to care for and nowhere else to turn, Wallach was grateful when his father offered him a job loading trucks with scrap metal. It was physically demanding work, but Wallach could do it and welcomed the chance to earn money to feed his family. Moreover, his father was quite willing to allow Wallach to set his own time schedule provided the work was done. That enabled Wallach to continue appearing on the lecture circuit and at media interviews. Wallach thought that by doing so he would not only persuade the academic world of the gravity and worth of his discoveries but also secure professional employment, but that was not to be. The institutional blacklisting of Wallach proved too pervasive and powerful.

The Cystic Fibrosis Discovery Suppressed by Yerkes Primate Center

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