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DDP 2024 Annual Meeting

42nd Annual Meeting 
Doctors for Disaster Preparedness

Are We in a Hybrid War on Science and the West?

El Paso, Texas at the Marriott El Paso, July 5-7, 2024.

Meeting Registration: https://aaps.wufoo.com/forms/ddp-meeting-registration-2024/

Hotel Reservations: (Group Rate $139/night, reservation cutoff date 6/15)
https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1705112000850&key=GRP&app=resvlink
Saturday and Sunday (July 6-7) will feature two days full of presentations you won’t want to miss!  (See agenda below.)

Friday evening (July 5) from 7pm to 9pm will be the evening Welcome Reception where you can eat, drink, meet, and network with presenters and attendees.

AGENDA & SPEAKER LINEUP!

Friday, July 5.

Optional Group Outing (details below). Welcome Reception 7-9 pm.       
Saturday, July 6
7:45 am      
Welcome. Jane Orient, M.D., DDP President

8:00 am        
Scientific Challenges of Detection and Attribution of Global Warming.
Willie Soon, Ph.D.
Dr. Soon, an astrophysicist, authored The Maunder Minimum and The Variable Sun-Earth Connection.

 9:00 am        
Using Weather Balloon Data to Test Assumptions of Computer Climate Models.
Michael Connolly, Ph.D.
The son and father Connolly team use radiosonde balloon technology to study atmospheric chemistry and physics.

10:15 am       
How COVID Health Policies Neglected the Disease, the Patient, and the Physician.
Ronan Connolly, Ph.D.
Dr. Connolly is an independent scientist and environmentalist, who works with CERES (Center for Environmental Research & Earth Science).

11:15 am       
The Puppeteers of Perception: How AI Systems Are Designed to Mislead.
Jonathan Cohler
A master clarinetist, Mr. Cohler has an undergraduate degree in physics. Current interests include AI and the JFK assassination.

12:15 pm       
Water and the Engines of Life.
Gerald Pollack., Ph.D.
Dr. Pollack, author of The Fourth Phase of Water, .has received the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award and many other honors.

2:00 pm        
The View from the Border.
Christopher Farrell
Mr. Farrell is director of investigations & research for Judicial Watch. He specializes in unconventional warfare and terrorism.  

3:00 pm        
Defeating the Green Agenda.
Craig Rucker
Mr. Rucker is cofounder and current president of CFACT.

4:00 pm        
To-Do Priorities in World War III.
Shane Connor
Mr. Connor is owner of KI4U, which supplies civil defense equipment. He authored “The Good News about Nuclear Destruction.”

6:30 pm         
Saving the Planet from Radical ‘Environmentalism.’
Patrick Moore
Greenpeace co-founder & author of Confessions of a  Greenpeace Dropout, Moore has been a leader on environmental issues for 40 years.

Sunday, July , 7 2024

 8:00 am        
The Weaponization of Climate Scare and Shame to Topple America.
Larry Bell
Best known for pioneering space architecture, Professor Bell writes regular columns for Newsmax on environmental and political issues.

 9:00 am        
The Hockey Stick and Other Scientific Travesties.
Stephen McIntyre
A former mining exploration director and statistical analyst, Mr. McIntyre is a founder and editor of Climate Audit.

10:15 am       
Climate Policy: When Emotion Meets Reality.
Ross McKitrick, Ph.D.
Dr. McKitrick is a professor of economics at the University of Guelph, and a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute.

11:15 am       
Shifting Sands: Using P-Value Plotting to Test Reproducibility of Research.
Warren Kindziersk, Ph.D.  
Dr. Kindzierski headed Chemical Risk Assessment for the Alberta Department of Health and is adjunct professor at the Univ of Alberta.

12:15 pm       
There Is NO Climate Emergency. John Clauser, Ph.D.
Dr. Clauser received the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for contribution to the foundations of quantum mechanics.

2:00 pm        
AAAS and Science Magazine Promote Anti-Science.
James Enstrom, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Enstrom, an epidemiologist, is a retired research professor at UCLA and founder of the Scientific Integrity Institute.

3:00 pm        
How to Resist and Abolish Child Murder-for-Hire and its Trafficking.
Norbert Rempe
Mr. Rempe, a retired geologist, has engaged in pro-life and abolition activism for more than 40 years.

4:00 pm        
Arthur Robinson, Ph.D.
Art Robinson is founder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, and serves in the Oregon State Senate.

5:00 pm        
Adjourn

Optional Group Tour, Friday July 5:

Tour El Paso’s Iconic Places, Including the World’s Largest Inland Desalination Plant: (Departs Hotel at 8:30am and Returns by 4:30pm) 

Group Tour Details: Adair Margo, founder of the Tom Lea Institute, will take us on a guided walking/bus tour of iconic places across El Paso!

The morning walking tour of downtown El Paso will include the Pass of the North Mural-Tom Lea’s favorite mural, Los Lagartos by Luis Jemenez in San Jacinto Plaza, Mountain Lion recycled trash mural, Fray de Garcia monument, The Southwest – Tom Lea’s last mural, Various Henry Trost architectural gems.

Following the walking tour we will enjoy lunch at a local Mexican restaurant.

The afternoon will include a bus drive tour of additional highlights of El Paso like, the historic neighborhood of Sunset Heights, Bhutanese architecture at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). the geographic location of the binational “Paso del Norte”, Scenic Drive panoramic view of El Paso Juarez and Fort Bliss. We will wrap up the day with a tour of the Kay Baily Hutchison Desalination Plant.

We hope to see you in July!

DDP 2023 – Speaker Lineup

Below is the current agenda and speaker lineup for this summer’s 41st DDP Annual Meeting in Tucson, AZ July 7-9. (Also available as printable PDF.)

Friday, July 7

An optional group outing will be held Friday afternoon to the Asarco Copper Mine just south of Tucson. A morning group event may be added to the tour day with lunch as a group enroute to the mine.

7-9pm: Welcome Reception

Saturday, July 8

7:45 AM: Welcome – Jane Orient, M.D., DDP President

8:00 AM
Global Crisis of the 17th Century: Earth-Sun Connection
Willie Soon, Ph.D.
Dr. Soon, an astrophysicist, authored The Maunder Minimum and The Variable Sun-Earth Connection.

9:00 AM
Global Energy Transition: Observations and Trends
Joseph Leimkuhler
Mr. Leimkuhler is chief operating officer of Beacon Offshore Energy.

10:15 AM
Net Zero: Will the U.S. Be a Second-Rate Country or a Successful Innovator?
Terry L. Gannon, Ph.D.
Dr. Gannon founded two semiconductor companies. His background enables him to examine climate science comprehensively.

11:15 AM
Policies Destroying Agriculture, Habitats, and Nutrition
Paul Driessen, J.D.
Mr. Driessen, author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, is policy advisor to the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow.

12:15 PM
WW III: Survival of the Remnant
Steve Jones
Steve Jones is the nation’s foremost civil defense activist and special projects director for Physicians for Civil Defense.

2:00 PM
DEI: Death of Excellence and Merit in STEM and Medical Education
Linda Sweeney
Former executive director of the Corporate Directors Forum, Ms Sweeney founded Alumni and Donors Unite to compel change.

3:00 PM
In a Dark Forest: Exposing Biden’s 30×30 Land Grab Agenda.
Craig Rucker
Mr. Rucker is cofounder and current president of CFACT.

4:00 PM
The Corruption of Science by the American Cancer Society
James Enstrom, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Enstrom, an epidemiologist, is a retired research professor at UCLA and founder of the Scientific Integrity Institute.

6:30 PM Banquet
The Case for Nukes: How to Create a Free, Open, Magnificent Future
Robert Zubrin, Ph.D.
Astronautical and nuclear engineer Zubrin founded Pioneer Energy and authored Merchants of Despair, The Case for Mars, and more.

Sunday, July 9

8:00 AM
How to Debunk Climate Change Alarmism
James Taylor, J.D.
Mr. Taylor is president of The Heartland Institute and director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy.

9:00 AM
Efforts to Create a New National Pandemic Response Are Inadequate
Steven Hatfill, M.D.
Dr. Hatfill is  a Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Analysis and has done research involving Ebola, Marburg, and orthopox virus.

10:15 AM
The ‘Great Reset’ Battle Rages On
Marc Morano
Mr. Morano is the publisher of ClimateDepot.com and author of The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown..

11:15 AM
Let Them Eat Bugs: Issues Related to Forecasted Food Shortages
Debbie Bacigalupi
Debbie Bacigalupi is a  California  cattle rancher and expert on the effects of environmental policy on rural America.

12:15 PM
A Jeffersonian View of the Civil War
Donald W. Miller, M.D.
Dr. Miller practiced and taught heart surgery for 40 years and has authored 3 books and numerous articles, many for lewrockwell.com

2:00 PM
Ozone, the Organic Sanitizer: Applications in Medicine and Industry
John McClain
In 1994, McClain Ozone pioneered the use of ozone in the California wine industry. It kills most pathogens quickly and safely.

3:00 PM
Photobiomodulation: How Red-Light Therapy Is Helping Veterans
Hon. Scot Faulkner
Author of Naked Emperors: The Failure of the Republican Revolution, Mr. Faulkner is Vice President of the PBM Foundation.

4:00 PM
Arthur Robinson, Ph.D.

5:00 PM Adjourn

Meeting registration:https://aaps.wufoo.com/forms/q1li2ixt1vs5vi7/

Hotel room reservation (group rate $96/night, cutoff date June 6): 
https://www.hilton.com/en/book/reservation/deeplink/?ctyhocn=TUSBTDT&groupCode=CDTD4D&arrivaldate=2023-07-06&departuredate=2023-07-10&cid=OM,WW,HILTONLINK,EN,DirectLink&fromId=HILTONLINKDIRECT

Registration Open! DDP 2023 Annual Meeting

The 41st Annual Meeting of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness will be in
Tucson, AZ at the Doubletree Tucson – Reid Park, July 7-9, 2023.

Saturday and Sunday (July 8-9) will be two days full of presentations from an all-star lineup of speakers!  Stay tuned for an announcement of this year’s agenda. We promise it will be a meeting you will NOT want to miss.

The welcome reception will be Friday evening (July 7) from 7pm to 9pm.

An optional group outing will be held on Friday afternoon to the ASARCO copper mine just south of Tucson. We are looking at options for a Friday morning activity as well.

In addition to in-person registration, a virtual attendance option is also available. Both in-person and virtual attendees will have access to the meeting video archive for 1-month following the event.

Meeting registration:https://aaps.wufoo.com/forms/q1li2ixt1vs5vi7/

Hotel room reservation (group rate $96/night, cutoff date June 6): 
https://www.hilton.com/en/book/reservation/deeplink/?ctyhocn=TUSBTDT&groupCode=CDTD4D&arrivaldate=2023-07-06&departuredate=2023-07-10&cid=OM,WW,HILTONLINK,EN,DirectLink&fromId=HILTONLINKDIRECT

DDP 2021 – Speaker Lineup and Registration

The 39th annual meeting of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness will be in
Tucson, AZ at the Doubletree Tucson – Reid Park, July 31 and August 1, 2021.

Register for the meeting HERE 

Make your hotel reservation HERE

Friday, July 30, 2021
9am to 3pm – Optional Tour to Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter (The tour is currently full, write ddp@ddponline.org for tour waiting list.)

7pm to 9pm – Welcome Reception. The meeting will officially kick off with the Friday evening welcome reception where you can eat, drink, meet, and network with speakers and attendees.

Saturday, Jul 31, 2021                                                                                                                                                                          
7:45 am        
Welcome.  Jane Orient, M.D., DDP President

8:00 am        
Sunspots: Hindcasting and Forecasting the Solar Cycle. Willie Soon, Ph.D.
Dr. Soon, an astrophysicist, authored The Maunder Minimum and The Variable Sun-Earth Connection.

9:00 am         
Bloom Energy: the Theranos of Thermodynamics. David R. Legates, Ph.D.
Dr. Legates is professor of geography and spatial sciences at the University of Delaware and a former Delaware State Climatologist.

10:15 am       
Cancer Risk Assessment: Rewriting Its History. Edward Calabrese, Ph.D.
For more than 20 years, Dr. Calabrese’s research has focused on the dose response to drugs and pollutants in the low-dose range.

11:15 am       
Oil, Gas, and Renewables: 2022 and Beyond. Joseph Leimkuhler
Mr. Leimkuhler is chief operating officer of Beacon Offshore Energy.

12:15 pm       
Lunch: Healing Arizona Veterans. Carol Henricks, M.D., Rosie Torres, Will Wisner, Micaela Bensko
Traumatic brain injury and toxic exposures are crippling veterans and contributing to 22 suicides per day.

 2:00 pm        
The Biden/AOC Green New Deal Scam. Paul Driessen, J.D.
Mr. Driessen is the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, and policy advisor to the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow

3:00 pm         
The Magic Trick of Climate Science. Howard Hayden, Ph.D.
Dr. Hayden is professor emeritus of physics, University of Connecticut, and publishes The Energy Advocate.

 4:00 pm        
The Price of Panic and the Tyranny of Experts. Jay W. Richards, Ph.D.
 Dr. Richards, a research professor at the Busch School of Business, Catholic University of America, is a  bestselling author.
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 6:30 pm        
Banquet: Global Reset: the Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism. Patrick Wood
Author of Technocracy Rising and other books, Mr. Wood studies trends that  are transforming global politics, economics, and education.

Sunday, Aug 1, 2021

 8:00 am        
Civil Defense for 21st Century America, Stephen Jones
.Ex-nuclear arms technician, USN,  civil defense activist since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

 9:00 am        
The Single Point Failure of the National Pandemic Plan. Steven Hatfill, M.D.
Dr. Hatfill is an adjunct assistant professor at George Washington Univ and has done research involving Ebola, Marburg, and orthopox virus.
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10:15 am       
Practical Aspects of Sheltering in Place in Prolonged Emergency.Hermann Børg, M.D.
Dr. Borg is a neuro endocrinologist, founder of ARCRO (Clinical Research Organization), and a researcher at the University of North Carolina.

11:15 am       
DOA: Event 301 and the Decade of Action. Debbie Bacigalupi
Debbie Bacigalupi is a  California  cattle rancher and expert on the effects of environmental policy on rural America.

12:15 pm       
Lunch. Is There Life Off Earth? Alan Korwin
An expert on gun laws, Mr. Korwin is working on his 15th book, Why Science May Be Wrong, with a chapter on the Sagan Assumption.

 2:00 pm        
The Corruption of STEM Education: Harvey Mudd College. James Enstrom, Ph.D., M.P.H
Dr. Enstrom, an epidemiologist, is a retired research professor at UCLA and founder of the Scientific Integrity Institute.

3:00 pm        
Issues at Our Southern Border. Zach Taylor
Mr. Taylor is chairman, National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers

4:00 pm        
Bringing Science into the Oregon State Legislature. Arthur Robinson, Ph.D.
Art Robinson is founder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, and an Oregon state senator.

5:00 pm         Adjourn.

DDP 2019 – Agenda

The 37th Annual Meeting of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness will be in
Tucson, Arizona at the Doubletree Reid Park Hotel, July 19-21, 2019.

CLICK HERE to REGISTER TODAY

Make Your Room Reservation HERE Our group room rate is $89/night. Room reservation deadline is June 19.
Saturday and Sunday (July 20 & 21) will be two days full of presentations you won’t want to miss, from an all-star lineup of speakers!  Here is a preview of this year’s all-star faculty and topics:

Saturday, July 20, 2019

8:00 am: Willie Soon, Ph.D.
Dirty Tricks and Secrets of Greenpeace: All Green Cash and Not Peaceful. 
Dr. Soon, an astrophysicist, authored The Maunder Minimum and The Variable Sun-Earth Connection.

9:00 am: Ronan Conolly, Ph.D., Michael Connolly, Ph.D.          
Balloons in the Air: Understanding Weather & Climate. 
The son and father Connolly team use radiosonde balloon technology to study atmospheric chemistry and physics.

10:15 am: Debbie Bacigalupi
The UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. 
Debbie Bacigalupi is a  California  cattle rancher and expert on the effects of environmental policy on rural America.

11:15 am: Patrick Wood
Technocracy: the Road to a “Scientific” Dictatorship. 
The author of Technocracy Rising and other books, Mr. Wood studies trends that  are transforming global politics, economics, and education.

12:15 pm: Jay Lehr, Ph.D.
Meeting the Energy and Water Needs of the Future. 
Dr. Lehr is a leading authority on groundwater hydrology and an internationally known consultant in many fields.

2:00 pm: Paul Driessen, J.D.         
How courtroom fraud is destroying companies, industries, technologies and honest science.
Mr. Driessen is senior fellow with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power Black Death.

3:00 pm: Robert Phalen, Ph.D.; James Enstrom, Ph.D.
The PM2.5 (Air Pollution) Controversy. 
Dr.  Phalen authored Introduction to Air Pollution Science. Dr. Enstrom is president of the Scientific Integrity Institute.

4:00 pm: Norbert Rempe
Induced Abortion: the Modern Anthropogenic Plague. 
Mr. Rempe worked 23 years at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, NM. He is a DDP director.
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6:30 pm: Patrick Moore, Ph.D. 
Twelve Invisible Fake Catastrophes and Threats of Doom. 
Dr. Moore, Greenpeace co-founder, author of Confessions of a  Greenpeace Dropout, has been a leader on environmental issues for 40 years.

Sunday, July 21, 2019

8:00 am: Steven Hatfill, M.D        
Mad Cow Disease: Forgotten, but Not Gone. Is Prion Disease a Threat in the U.S.? . Dr. Hatfill is an adjunct assistant professor at George Washington Univ and has done research involving Ebola, Marburg, and orthopox virus.

9:00 am: The Irreproducibility Crisis in Science. David Randall, Ph.D. Dr. Randall is director of research for the National Association of Scholars. He writes about trends in higher education.

10:15 am: Carol Henricks, M.D. Healing Arizona Veterans        
A Cry from the Burn Pits:Toxic Injury in Veterans.
Dr. Henricks, a neurologist, is  a pioneer in using hyperbaric oxygenation and other modalities to heal seriously injured veterans.

11:15 am:  Jay W. Richards, Ph.D.     
 The Human Advantage: Work in the Age of Smart Machines. 
Dr. Richards, a research professor at the Busch School of Business, Catholic University of America, is a  bestselling author.

12:15 pm: Donald W. Miller, M.D.
Lunch. If Not Oswald, Who Killed President Kennedy and Why? 
Dr. Miller practiced and taught heart surgery for 40 years and has authored 3 books and numerous articles, many for lewrockwell.com.

2:00 pm: George Gilder.
Life after Google: the Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy.
Mr. Gilder, author of 19 books, is a  founding fellow of the Discovery Institute, where he began his study of information theory.

3:00 pm: Charles Heller
Things to Know About Self-Defense
Mr. Heller is co-founder of Arizona Citizens Defense League. He has been a certified concealed weapons instructor for 26 years.

4:00 pm: Arthur Robinson, Ph.D.      
Truth in Education. 
Art Robinson is founder and research professor of chemistry at Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, and editor of Access to Energy.

OPTIONAL TOURS:

SOLD OUT: On the morning of Friday, July 19, we will be visiting theworld-renowned Pima Air & Space Museum.  It is one of the largest non-government funded aviation museums in the world with over 100,000 square feet of indoor display space and a collection of 350 aircraft, including the first Boeing 777 and three hangers devoted to WWII aircraft.

The visit will include a tour of the word famous “Boneyard” aka the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) Facility on the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, featuring 4,000+ aircraft from the U.S. Air Force, Navy-Marine Corps, Army, Coast Guard, and several federal agencies including NASA in varying degrees of storage. A security check is require for the Boneyard portion of the tour and no one under age 16 is permitted.

SOLD OUT: Friday afternoon, we have the opportunity to also visit the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab at the University of Arizona, which designs, fabricates, and tests the largest honeycomb optics in the world. Its mirrors are currently in the LBT, MMT, and Magellen telescopes among others. Currently, they are working on the mirrors for the LSST and GMT.
Friday evening, from 7pm to 9pm, will be the evening welcome reception where you can eat, drink, meet, and network with speakers and attendees.
There will be no group tour on Monday, July 22, but there are several places you may find interesting to visit on your own while you are in Tucson, such as the Titan Missile Museum, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Kitt Peak Observatory, or Colossal Cave, just to name a few. 

We hope to see you in Tucson in July.

DDP 2018 Annual Meeting – Registration Open!

Registration Open!

The 36th annual meeting of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness will be in
Las Vegas, Nevada at the South Point Hotel and Casino, August 24-27, 2018.

Click Here to Register for the Meeting and Group Activities
&
Click Here for Online Hotel Room Reservations.
hotel room reservations also available by calling: (702) 797-8901 – mention Group Code DOC0823(Our group hotel rate is $60/night on Thursday and Sunday nights, and $90 on Friday and Saturday nights. Note that all Las Vegas Hotels now charge a resort fee. We have negotiated a $14/night “resort fee” instead of the South Point’s usual fee of $20/night. The fee includes guest-room WiFi, the airport shuttle, and other amenities.)

Here’s a preview of the exciting activities we are planning:

Friday, August 24, we are offering exclusive opportunity for meeting attendees to participate in a 1-day defensive pistol training class at the world-renown Front Sight Training Institute.

The retail one-day Front Sight rate with gun, belt and holster rental, ammo, ear protection, training, transportation, and lunch is $710, however DDP participants will get all of this for $199.00 per person.

Friday evening from 7pm to 9pm will be the evening welcome reception where you can eat, drink, meet and network with speakers and attendees.

Saturday and Sunday (Aug 25 & 26) will be two days full of informative talks.

Stay tuned for a full speaker lineup, but here is a preview of this year’s all-star faculty and topics:

  • Gerald Pollack, PhD: “The Fourth Phase of Water” in biology, weather, energy, and more
  • Willie Soon, PhD: “The Blue Sun: Solar Anomalies in the 1450s and 1460s
  • Jerry Cuttler, DSc: “Treating Neurologic Disease with Low-Dose Radiation
  • Joe Bastardi: “Forward into the Past: Using Past knowns in the Weather to Predict Future Unknowns”
  • Gordon Claycomb: “The Saturn V Apollo Rocket: Synergism and Serendipity”
  • Steve Goreham, MS, MBA: “Agricultural Miracles and Misconceptions”
  • Paul Driessen, JD: “Three Visions of Sustainability”
  • Christopher Farrell: Judicial Watch, Director of Research and Investigation.
  • Donald Miller, MD: “The Day U.S. Military Superiority Ended”
  • Steven Hatfill, MD: “The Latent Period in Radiation-Induced Leukemia”
  • Joe Leimkuhler: “Update on Offshore Oil and Gas”
  • Andrew Wakefield, MD: “The Sixth Extinction: vaccine immunity, escape mutants, and virgin soil populations”
  • Arthur Robinson, PhD: “Vaccine Adjuvants”
  • Ken Haapala:  “How Russian propaganda plays to American fears created by group-think.”
  • Fred Singer, PhD: “How the Greenhouse Gas CO2 also cools the planet”
  • Toshiharu Kano: The last Hiroshoma survivor urges preparedness

Our group tour will be Monday, August 27 to the Nevada National Security Site, formerly known as the Nevada Test Site. The Nevada National Security Site is a United States Department of Energy reservation located in southeastern Nye County, Nevada, about 65 miles northwest of the city of Las Vegas. Also, formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds, the site was established on 11 January 1951 for the testing of nuclear devices, covering approximately 1,360 square miles of desert and mountainous terrain. The tour is now restricted to U.S. Citizens only. The tour will depart at approximately 7:30 a.m. and return at 4 p.m.

We hope to see you in Las Vegas in August.Questions?
Email Jeremy Snavely at jersnav@gmail.com or call/text him at 520-270-0761.

DDP 34th Annual Meeting – July 2016

July 8-11, 2016
Embassy Suites Omaha Old Market
555 South 10th Street
Omaha, Nebraska

THE OLD MARKET is Omaha’s most historic, most entertaining neighborhood. The cobblestone streets are home to a diverse mix of shopping, galleries, restaurants, taverns and people-watching.

Group rate $119/night.
Room reservation
DEADLINE is June 6
CALL (402)346-9000 and mention DDP to get the group rate. or make your room reservation online HERE.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR MEETING
Can’t attend? Help send a student with a tax-deductible contribution to DDP.

cosponsored by:
Access to Energy
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
Physicians for Civil Defense

AGENDA SUMMARY (full speaker lineup coming soon…)
Friday, July 8, 2016
8:00am to 1:00pm Optional Group Tour of the Strategic Air and Space Museum

The Strategic Air & Space Museum, located between Lincoln and Omaha near Interstate 80, utilizes over 300,000 square feet of exhibit, education, and event space to educate, inspire, and entertain its guests who come from Nebraska, across the country, and around the world.  The museum first opened in 1959 with the mission to commemorate the aircraft of the Strategic Air Command (SAC).  The museum became well-known by giving the public the opportunity to visit an impressive array of aircraft that helped SAC preserve the peace during the Cold War.

Friday, July 8, 2016
7:00pm to 9:00 pm. Welcome Reception

Saturday, July 9, 2016
GENERAL SESSION DAY 1

7:45 am          Welcome.  Jane Orient, M.D., DDP President

8:00 am         Beethoven’s Ice Cream, Tolstoy’s Fire, Happer’s Picosecond Pedestal—and Climate. Willie Soon, Ph.D.
Dr. Soon, an astrophysicist, authored The Maunder Minimum and The Variable Sun-Earth Connection.

 9:00 am         Freedom of Information Act and Academic Freedom in Climate Science. David Legates, Ph.D.
Dr. Legates is professor of geography at the University of Delaware and a former Delaware State Climatologist.

10:15 am        Rationality in Radiation Protection Standards. Mohan Doss, Ph.D., MCCPM
Dr. Doss, a medical physicist at Fox Chase Cancer Center, is one of the founding members of Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information.

11:15 am        The Status of Radiation Monitoring in the U.S. Arthur Levy
Former asst fire chief, journalist, & producer, Mr. Levy of Apogee Communications Group is deploying fallout monitoring stations nationwide.

12:15 pm        Lunch: Police, Fire, and Civilian Emergency Medical Preparedness. Geoffrey L. Shapiro
Mr. Shapiro directs EMS and Operational Medicine Training at George Washington Univ. Emergency Health Services Program.

 2:00 pm         An Update on Emerging Diseases. Steven Hatfill, M.D.
Dr Hatfill is an adjunct assistant professor at George Washington Univ and has done research involving Ebola, Marburg, and orthopox virus.

 3:00 pm        Paris COP-21 (S. Fred Singer, Ph.D.); Legal Actions of EPA, CPP, and SCOTUS (Ken Haapala)  
Dr. Singer founded and Mr. Haapala is now president of the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP).

 4:00 pm         The Analysis of Historical Climate Data. Tony Heller
Mr. Heller brings 40 years of engineering experience in government agencies and the private sector to the analysis and verification of data.

 6:30 pm         Reception, Banquet. The War Against Freedom. Robert Zubrin, Ph.D.
Dr. Zubrin, president of Pioneer Energy and the Mars Society, has authored 8 books, including Merchants of Despair and Energy Victory.

Sunday, July 10, 2016
GENERAL SESSION DAY 2 – Sunday includes lunch and another full day of speakers.

8:00 am          No Certain Doom: On Physical Accuracy in Projected Global Air Temperatures. Patrick Frank, Ph.D.
Dr. Frank, a chemist at the Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SLAC) at Stanford University, has authored 68 peer-reviewed publications.

 9:00 am         Offshore Drilling: Current Status and Role in National Energy Security. Joe Leimkuhler
Mr. Leimkuhler is VP of drilling for LLOG Exploration. He has 30 years experience in deepwater drilling with Shell and LLOG.

10:15 am        Combating Heart Disease: Statins, Supplements, Stem Cells, Hyperbaric O2? Donald W. Miller, M.D.
Dr. Miller practiced and taught heart surgery for 40 years and has authored 3 books and numerous articles, many for lewrockwell.com.

11:15 am        A Geologic History of Climate: Why Correlated with CO2—or Not. Howard Hayden, Ph.D.
Dr. Hayden is professor emeritus of physics, University of Connecticut, and publishes The Energy Advocate.

12:15 pm        Lunch. Living near Ground Zero (Lee Hieb, M.D.); Nuclear and Other Govt-Made Disasters (Yuri Maltsev)
Dr. Hieb, an an orthopaedic surgeon, grew up 25 mi from Omaha. Yuri Maltsev was part of the Academy of Science Task Force on Chernobyl.

 2:00 pm         Expedient Expedient Civil Defense: the Nuclear War Survival Skills Plan. Stephen Jones. Mr. Jones has distributed essential basic knowledge and expedient radiation detectors to thousands of 1st responders nationwide.

 3:00 pm         A Nuclear Power Supply for a Deep-Space Probe. Matthew Robinson, Ph.D.
Dr. Robinson developed an inherently safe nuclear reactor that works only under weightless conditions.

 4:00 pm         Prospects for America. Arthur Robinson, Ph.D.
Art Robinson is founder and research professor of chemistry at Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, and editor of Access to Energy.

 5:00 pm         Adjourn.

Monday, July 11, 2016 – Optional Tour- Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care Unit.
Space is limited to 15 people.  Please register today to save your spot.
The United States Centers for Disease Control commissioned the Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care Unit in 2005. It is a joint project involving Nebraska Medicine, Nebraska Health and Human Services, and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. It was designed to provide the first line of treatment for people affected by bio terrorism or extremely infectious naturally occurring diseases. It’s the largest facility of its kind in the U.S. The unit is equipped to safely care for anyone exposed to a highly contagious and dangerous disease.

Registration Fees:  $250 for the entire seminar includes a welcome reception, a banquet, and two luncheons ($200 for each additional family member).  Strategic Air and Space Museum Tour: $50/person. Nebraska Bio-Containment Facility Tour: $25/person.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR MEETING

Can’t attend? Help send a student with a tax-deductible contribution to DDP.

DDP 33rd Annual Meeting

Myths, Superstitions, and Real Threats Confronting America
July 31 – August 2, 2015
Doubletree by Hilton Ontario Airport
222 N. Vineyard Ave · Ontario, California

For hotel reservations, CALL (866) 445-4454 and mention DDP to get the group rate or book online HERE Hotel group room rate $99/night. Hotel cut-off extended to 7/6.

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cosponsored by:
Access to Energy
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
Physicians for Civil Defense

Friday, July 31, 2015

Due to JPL security protocols, TOUR SIGN-UP CUT-OFF DATE IS July 10.  

8 am-12:30 pm (optional) Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA (Tour limited to 50 people)
Tour attendees must be over 18 years old with photo ID. Non-US Citizens must present passport or resident visa.

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Before NASA was formed, JPL was sponsored by the US Army to develop rocket technology and the Corporal and Sergeant missile systems. After 1958, JPL turned its attention from the rockets themselves to the scientific payloads they would carry. JPL is now dedicated to the robotic exploration of space.

7-9:30 pm Welcome Reception

Saturday, August 1, 2015

7:45 am
Welcome.  Jane Orient, M.D., DDP President

8:00 am        
How Clean is “Clean”? A Common-Sense Proposal – Willie Soon, Ph.D.
Dr. Soon, an astrophysicist, authored The Maunder Minimum and The Variable Sun-Earth Connection.

9:00 am        
Hormesis: Its Scientific Foundations and Biochemical Regulatory Applications. Edward Calabrese, Ph.D.
For 20 years, Dr. Calabrese’s research has focused on the dose response to drugs and pollutants in the low-dose range.

10:15 am       
The History of the Linear No-Threshold Theory – Edward Calabrese, Ph.D.
The Linear-No Threshold theory, which dominates radiation regulatory policy, is based on fraud and misrepresentation.

11:15 am        
The Real Risks of Small Particulates (PM2.5s) – William Matthew (Matt) Briggs, Ph.D.
Dr. Briggs is a professor and consultant in statistics with an interest in philosophy of science and epistemology.

12:15 pm
Lunch: Replacing the EPA – Jay Lehr, Ph.D.
Dr. Lehr is Science Director at the Heartland Institute. He has authored more than 700 articles and coauthored and edited 35 books.

2:00 pm        
NIPCC vs. IPCC; Natl Climate Assessment: Peeling the Speculative Onion – S. Fred Singer, Ph.D.; Ken Haapala
Dr. Singer founded and Mr. Haapala is now president of the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP).

3:00 pm        
The Myth of Species Extinction – Willis Eschenbach
Mr. Eschenbach, an independent climate researcher, was the first person to file a FOIA request for data from the Univ East Angliia CRU.

4:00 pm
Radiation Protection Superstitions Threaten Geologic Isolation of Radioactive Waste – Norbert Rempe
Mr. Rempe worked 23 years at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, NM. He holds an M.S. in geology.

6:30 pm
Reception and Banquet. How the UN’s Agenda 21 Influences Every Aspect of Society – Ileana Johnson Paugh
Born in Romania, Dr. Johnson is a columnist for Canada Free Press and author of Echoes of Communism and Liberty on Life Support.

Sunday, August 2, 2015

8:00 am        
The War on Science – Paul Driessen
Mr. Driessen is the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, and policy advisor to the Committee for the Constructive Tomorrow.

9:00 am         
Surviving the Coming Medical Meltdown – Lee D. Hieb, M.D.
Dr. Hieb is an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in spine surgery and a past president of the Assn of American Physicians and Surgeons.

10:15 am       
Fallacies in Modern Medicine: HIV/AIDS – Donald W. Miller, M.D.
Dr. Miller practiced and taught heart surgery for 40 years and has authored three books and numerous articles, many for lewrockwell.com.

11:15 am        
Climate Change and the Energy Economy – Steve Goreham
Mr. Goreham is executive director of the Climate Science Coalition of America and author of The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism.

12:15 pm
Lunch: Bitcoin, Gold, and the International Currency Trading Scam – George Gilder
Author of Knowledge and Power, The Israel Test, and Wealth and Poverty, Gilder will explain the information theory of money.

2:00 pm        
The Enigma of Malaria Treatment – Mellie T. Gilder, M.D.
Dr. Gilder is a Family Medicine Doctor who has worked for years along the Thai-Myanmar border conducting malaria research through a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellowship.

3:00 pm        
The Growing Threat of Emerging Infectious Diseases – Steven Hatfill, M.D.
An expert in combat casualty care, Dr. Hatfill has done research on Ebola, HIV, Lyme disease, and served in numerous combat theaters.

4:00 pm
Metabolic Profiling and the Future of Medicine – Arthur Robinson, Ph.D. and Noah Robinson, Ph.D.
Art and Noah Robinson, professors of chemistry at the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, have also authored articles on climate change.

5:00 pm         Adjourn

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) will supply a certificate of participation for up to 15 hours of CME credit for Monday’s course and 15 hours for the meeting. This is not accredited as AMA/ACCME “Category 1,” but is accepted in some states for at least part of the CME requirement for license renewal.

Registration Fee:  $250 for the entire seminar includes a welcome reception, a banquet, and two luncheons ($200 for each additional family member).Jet Propulsion Lab tour is $50 each.

View of palm trees and the San Gabriel mountains in Los Angeles.
View of palm trees and the San Gabriel mountains in Los Angeles.

DIRECTIONS & TRANSPORTATION

Complimentary Self-Parking
Driving Directions to Hotel
I-10 EAST OR WEST BOUND: Take the Vineyard Avenue exit. The hotel is on the south side of I-10 (one block south of the freeway) at the corner of Vineyard and Convention Center Way. The hotel is located approximately 35 miles East of I-5.
FROM HWY 60 EAST: Connect to I-10 East using Hwy 57 North. Take I-10 East to the Vineyard Avenue exit. The hotel is on the south side of I-10 (one block from the freeway).
FROM HWY 60 WEST: Connect to I-10 West using I-15 North.Take I-10 West to the Vineyard Avenue exit. The hotel is on the south side of I-10 (one block south of the freeway).
FROM I-15 NORTH OR SOUTH BOUND: Take the I-10 exit off of I-15. Take I-10 West to the Vineyard Avenue exit. The hotel is on the south side of I-10 (one block south of the freeway).
FROM HWY 57 NORTH OR SOUTH: Exit on to I-10 east bound. Take the Vineyard Avenue exit. The hotel is on the south side of I-10 (one block south of the freeway).

Directions to Hotel from Airports
From Ontario International Airport (ONT)
Distance from Hotel: 1.5 miles
Hotel Courtesy Bus:
Taxi: $10

From Los Angeles Internation Airport (LAX)
Distance from Hotel: 50 miles
Bus Service $30
Limousine $150
Super Shuttle $55
Rental Car $45
Taxi $110

From Burbank Airport (BUR)
Distance from hotel: 40 miles
Super Shuttle $45
Rental Car $45
Taxi $85

 

DDP 32nd Annual Meeting

Register TODAY!

DDP 32nd Annual Meeting

An American “Reset” on Science and Defense?
July 25-28, 2014
Crowne Plaze Knoxville
401 W. Summit Hill Drive · Knoxville, Tennessee

Group rate $99/night

CALL (865) 522-2600 and mention DDP to get the group rate.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR MEETING

cosponsored by:
Access to Energy
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
Physicians for Civil Defense

Friday, July 25, 2014

9 am-4 pm. (optional) Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN

ORNL is a leader in materials research, global security threats, supercomputing, and neutron science. (Includes Lunch.)

7-9:30 pm. Welcome Reception

Saturday, July 26, 2014

7:45 am
Welcome.  Jane Orient, M.D., DDP President

8:00 am        
False Rejection of Sun-Climate Connection by IPCC’s “Gangster Science.” Willie Soon, Ph.D.
Dr. Soon, an astrophysicist, authored The Maunder Minimum and The Variable Sun-Earth Connection.

9:00 am        
Hormesis: Its Scientific Foundations and Biochemical Regulatory Applications. Edward Calabrese, Ph.D.
For 20 years, Dr. Calabrese’s research has focused on the dose response to drugs and pollutants in the low-dose range.

10:15 am       
LNT Theory: How the NAS Misled the World on Cancer Risk Assessment. Edward Calabrese, Ph.D.
The Linear-No Threshold theory, which dominates radiation regulatory policy, is based on fraud and misrepresentation.

11:15 am        
The Denizens of the Climate Zoo. Willis Eschenbach.
Mr. Eschenbach, an independent climate researcher, was the first person to file a FOIA request for data from the Univ East Angliia CRU.

12:15 pm
Lunch: Some Unclassified Lockheed “Skunk Works” Activities/Events. Gordon Claycomb.
An aeropace engineer, Mr. Claycomb worked at the Skunk Works for 20 years on the F-35A Lightning II stealth fighter and other projects.

2:00 pm        
NIPCC Wipes out IPCC: the End of Climate Scares. S. Fred Singer, Ph.D.
Dr. Singer, a pioneer in rocket and satellite technology, founded NIPCC (Non-governmental IPCC), which opposes the UN IPCC.

3:00 pm        
“Sustainability”: a Path to the Hunger Games? Charles Battig, M.D.
Dr. Battig is an anesthesiologist and biomedical engineer, who worked in support of the Apollo Moon Mission at North American Aviation.

4:00 pm
Energy Security. Kenneth Haapala.
Mr. Haapala is executive VP of SEPP (the Science and Environmental Policy Project), which has challenged the Endangerment Finding.

6:30 pm
Reception and Banquet. Appreciating Freedom: Surviving China’s Cultural Holocaust. Ming Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Wang performs innovative 3D laser eye surgery and developed the amniotic membrane contact lens. He holds a Ph.D. in laser physics.

Sunday, July 27, 2014

8:00 am        
Consensus Physics for More than a Century: Don’t Contradict Einstein. Howard Hayden, Ph.D.
Dr. Hayden is professor emeritus of physics, University of Connecticut, and publishes The Energy Advocate.

9:00 am         
The Politics of Energy and the Economic Impact. Marita Noon.
Ms. Noon, author of 20 books, is the executive director of Energy Makes America Great and the Citizens’ Alliance for Responsible Energy.

10:15 am       
The Technology of the Apollo Flights and the Study of Climate Change. Jim Peacock.
Mr. Peacock is webmaster and member of The Right Climate Stuff (TRCS) research team of retired NASA Apollo Program veterans.

11:15 am        
Civil Defense and Emergency Management in Madison County, Alabama. Jared Cassidy.
Mr. Cassidy is emergency plans coordinator for Huntsville-Madison County Emergency Management Agency.

12:15 pm
Lunch: The Eurasianist Threat: Alexander Dugin and the Russian Spring. Robert Zubrin, Ph.D. 
Aerospace engineer Zubrin authored The Case for Mars, First Landing, How to Live on Mars, Energy Victory, and Entering Space.

2:00 pm        
Working toward Fulfillment of the Rad Resistant Cities Initiative Task 5. Philip Smith.
Mr. Smith developed the NukAlert ER, the basis for a rooftop system of continuous radiation monitoring.

3:00 pm        
A Template for Civil Defense. Stephen Jones.
Jones is special projects director for Physicians for Civil Defense.  He has ridden more than 3000 miles by bicycle to inform first responders.

4:00 pm
Energy and the Prognosis for America. Arthur Robinson, Ph.D.
Dr. Robinson is founder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine and editor of Access to Energy.

5:00 pm         Adjourn

Monday, July 28

9 am-3 pm. (optional) Mass Casualty Care Course by Steven Hatfill, M.D.   (course is $100/person. Includes Lunch.)

SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS

Monday, July 28, 2014  9 am-3 pm. Course by Steven Hatfill, M.D., on mass casualty care includes hemorrhage control, rapid airway management, emergency management of penetrating chest injury, shock, and hypothermia. Any of us could be a first responder and save lives using these techniques. No previous medical training required.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Professional Tour ($50/person) on Friday, July 25. 9am to noon. Oak Ridge is the site where expedient civil defense was developed.  It is a leader in materials research, global security threats, supercomputing, and neutron science.

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) will supply a certificate of participation for up to 5 hours of CME credit for Monday’s course and 15 hours for the meeting. This is not accredited as AMA/ACCME “Category 1,” but is accepted in some states for at least part of the CME requirement for license renewal.

Registration Fee:  $250 for the entire seminar includes a welcome reception, a banquet, and two luncheons ($200 for each additional family member). The mass casualty course led by Steven Hatfill, M.D., (3 hours of lecture and 2 hours practice), on Monday is $100 per person. (You need not be a physician to attend.) Oak Ridge Lab tour is $50 each.

TRANSPORTATION

The Crowne Plaza Knoxville is 15 miles from the McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS).
The 20-minute taxi ride will cost $30.

Driving directions from the airport: Take 129 North to 1-40 East Take exit 388A-James White Parkway. Take Summit Hill Dr exit off of parkway. Turn right at stoplight. Go through 3 stoplights. Hotel will be on the right.