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Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) – Wikipedia, 06/10/2009 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons
“In 1966, the New York Times described AAPS as an «ultra-right-wing … political-economic rather than a medical group,» and noted that some of its leaders were members of the John Birch Society … The executive director is Jane Orient, a member of the non-profit Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. AAPS publishes the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. The organization, its members, and the journal have all been the subjects of much criticism from mainstream medical sources.”

Leo Hickman – Climate sceptics and fringe political groups are an unhealthy cocktail – The Guardian, 04/06/2010 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/jun/04/climate-sceptics-fringe-political-groups
“The DDP [Doctors for Disaster Preparedness] website lists its president as Jane Orient, MD. Orient, whose private practice specialises in «internal medicine», has also at times variously been the executive director and president of a group sharing the very same address in Tucson, Arizona, called the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). Further proof that these two groups are closely connected is provided on the DDP’s Facebook page which lists an administrator called Adrienne Snavely who also describes herself as «office staff» at the AAPS. (She also lists herself as an employed storm spotter for the National Weather Service. Nice work, if you can get it.).”

Right Wing Watch – Far Right Leaders Vow to ‘Take Back America’ from ‘Evil’ Obama and Democrats Starting with Congress in 2010 – People For the American Way, 27/07/2010 – http://site.pfaw.org/pdf/rww-in-focus-leaders-vow.pdf
“Lawrence Huntoon, representing the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (which bills itself as a conservative alternative to the AMA), argued that any governmental “interference” in the practice of health care is unconstitutional, and that the Obama administration is really only interested in power. “Just like the fraud and deception of socialism itself,” he said, proposals for reform have more to do with government gaining control over the lives of individuals than of health care.”

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway (2010) – Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming – Bloomsbury New York – Professor of History Science Studies Program University of California; National Aeronautics and Space Administration – ISBN-13 : 978-1408824832 – 368 Págs. – http://climatecontroversies.ulb.ac.be/wp-content/uploads/slides/oreskes.pdf
«According to his 1997 annual report, [Steven Milloy] began working with J. Gordon Edwards, an entomologist at San Jose State University, to help him publish an account of the DDT controversy [ref]. Edward’s account finally appeared in 2004 in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, published by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. This is a Libertarian political group that shares a board member with the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine.» (p. 233)

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway (2010) – Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming – Bloomsbury New York – Professor of History Science Studies Program University of California; National Aeronautics and Space Administration – ISBN-13 : 978-1408824832 – 368 Págs. – http://climatecontroversies.ulb.ac.be/wp-content/uploads/slides/oreskes.pdf
«The journal, previously known as the ‘Medical Sentinel’, is the outlet of the Journal of Physycians and Surgeons, which among other things filed a suit on behalf of Rush Limbaugh when his medical records were sized as part of his prosecution on drug charges [ref]. The Sentinel published articles questioning the link between HIV and AIDS, including a commentary by Michael Fumento, the journalist we met in chapter 5 who was defending pesticides while accepting money from the Monsanto chemical corporation [ref]. The journal also published the work of J. Gordon Edwards, whom we met in chapter 7 when he was working with Steve Milloy to spread the erroneous claim that banning DDT cost millions of lives. (Neither the Web of Science nor Medline/PubMed lists the journal among its peer-reviewed sources.)» (p. 245)

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness – Sourcewatch,  04/06/2011 – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Doctors_for_Disaster_Preparedness
“The registrant for DDP’s [Doctors for Disaster Preparedness] website is listed as Jeremy Snavely of AAPS, with an email address ending in «aapsonline.org.» That is the website for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which lists the same address as DDP. DDP’s Facebook page lists DDP President Dr. Jane Orient is also the Executive Director of AAPS.”

John Mashey – Anti-Science Associations: Rand Paul, Jane Orient, Art Robinson, Willie Soon And Friends, Plus HHS Nominee Tom Price & Funder Robert Mercer – Desmogblog, 23/02/2015 – https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/23/anti-science-associations-rand-paul-jane-orient-art-robinson-willie-soon-and-friends
“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 [Doctors for Disaster Preparedness] 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.”

John Mashey – Anti-Science Associations: Rand Paul, Jane Orient, Art Robinson, Willie Soon And Friends, Plus HHS Nominee Tom Price & Funder Robert Mercer – Desmogblog, 23/02/2015 – https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/23/anti-science-associations-rand-paul-jane-orient-art-robinson-willie-soon-and-friends
“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. he 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 16-minute video in which she introduced the 2013 DDP [Doctors for Disaster Preparedness] program.”

John Mashey – Anti-Science Associations: Rand Paul, Jane Orient, Art Robinson, Willie Soon And Friends, Plus HHS Nominee Tom Price & Funder Robert Mercer – Desmogblog, 23/02/2015 – 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.”

John Mashey – Anti-Science Associations: Rand Paul, Jane Orient, Art Robinson, Willie Soon And Friends, Plus HHS Nominee Tom Price & Funder Robert Mercer – Desmogblog, 23/02/2015 – https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/23/anti-science-associations-rand-paul-jane-orient-art-robinson-willie-soon-and-friends
“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 global warming in courts, the litigation epidemic, that litigation and junk science helped bring down the World Trade Center, 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 … 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.”

Shawn Otto (2016) – The War on Science: Who’s Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It – Milkweed – ISBN-13: 978-1571313539 – 514 Págs.
“’I’m not anti-vaccine at all, but particularly, most of them ought to be voluntary,’ senator Rand Paul (R-KY), a medical doctor, said on Laura Ingraham’s radio show the same day. Paul has long been a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a Tucson, Arizona, organization that advocates conservative and free-market solutions in health care and other political issues, expresses doubt about the connection between HIV and AIDS, and opposes mandatory vaccinations.” (p. 145)

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), 14/03/2017 – http://www.aapsonline.org/
“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.”

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness – Sourcewatch, 04/06/2020 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors_for_Disaster_Preparedness
“The group is closely affiliated with the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, a politically conservative nonprofit association advocating numerous discredited hypotheses including AIDS denialism. It is run by Arizona physician Jane Orient. According to Bloomberg News, the group was «founded to promote civil defense during the Cold War», and has been «transformed over the years into a forum» on «fringe-science topics» such as global warming denial. DDP was described by The Guardian as a «fringe political group» and as a «truly bizarre lobby group». It promotes the denialist view that man-made global warming is not real or not an important concern … Doctors for Disaster Preparedness share the same address with AAPS.[1][2][4] DDP President Jane Orient is also the Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS).[5][6] DDP Vice-President Arthur B. Robinson is also the President of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) … Computer scientist and hedge fund manager Robert Mercer has been a donor to DDP.”