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As you may know, AIDS is a heterogenous collection of over thirty diseases, well known before anyone even thought of acquired immune deficiency. Those diseases have been lumped together for the sole reason of concurrent infection with a weakly defined "retroviral particle" called HIV or Human Immunodeficiency Virus. AIDS is not a disease, it is a new definition given to a number of known illnesses.

There is immune weakness and it is due to a variety of lifestyle factors. The HIV virus, which has never been shown to express any virulent or destructive capacity (contrary to public belief it has never been shown to kill T cells) has little or nothing to do with Aids.

Retroviral particles under the electron microscope

Yet expensive and highly toxic medications are given to those who "test" positive for two types of protein. Most AIDS patients today do not die from immune weakness but from the side effects of the medications, which include cancer, heart failure and liver disease.

How did we ever get it this wrong?

The following article looks at the early studies and the reasoning that led to a public announcement of having located "the probable cause of AIDS" in a virus particle that had neither been properly defined nor been described in any published study. More than 25 years and tens of billions of dollars later, no vaccine has been developed, and we still treat people with immune weakness with drugs that will further weaken them.

"Twenty-five years of AIDS research have demonstrated the following: Gallo's "HTLV-III" has no particular, reproducible size or gene sequence; the proteins that are supposed to belong to it and it alone are found in almost every human disease and condition. The "LAV/HTLV-III/HIV" proteins and gene sequences have to be cobbled together through 'consensus agreement' among different labs because while fishing in beaten-up cell cultures, researchers always find different things to call "HIV."

Finally, "HIV" in any or all of its forms, has never been shown to even remotely affect T-Cells, which is the only meaningful prediction of AIDS theory. But none of this has mattered to AIDS researchers, because AIDS theory is about fear, politics and social control, and has never been about science."

If you care about someone who has been diagnosed with Aids or if you yourself have been told you are infected, or if you are just plain curious, you might want to delve into the history unfolding here. As long as we ignore the details, we will not be able to overcome ... either the illness or the serious consequences, associated with the "cure".

Oh and ... you should know that what you are about to read may make you angry, either at the author or at the people who push an indefensible paradigm, a medical doomsday scenario that is kept alive by billions upon billions of dollars, completely out of proportion with the spending for diseases that really do kill, like heart disease and cancer or even malaria and just plain old intestinal infections from dirty water...

This is guest blogger Cal Crilly again. He's writing from Australia and he has the Aids 'epidemic' figured out in a way that might raise a few eyebrows.

Cal Crilly recently wrote an article on Aids, endogenous retroviruses and methylation which was published just in time for April 23 - Rethinking Aids day. Here is a link.

April 23 - Day for Rethinking Aids

And here comes an article with many links and references to follow up - about the sham tests that pass for a justification to label a person "HIV Positive" or simply POZ, and much more.

What those recommending the treatment don't say (or don't know?) is that most people who are treated for Aids these days die from the 'side effects' of those anti-retroviral drugs (Cancer, heart disease, liver failure) rather than from any of the so-called Aids defining diseases.

OK - here's Cal Crilly again.

It is Rethinking Aids Day - 23 April 2010.

The official story on Aids remains unchangingly disastrous.

We have tests that don't test for a virus (but for some rather unspecific stress proteins).

We have "hit them early and hard" treatment with a highly toxic drug cocktail, no prevention other than condoms and circumcision.

We have "Aids" in Africa where malaria, malnutrition and intestinal infections make the Aids test read positive more often than not.

Our Aids research practically omits nutrition, it omits clean water and it omits drugs (except for "dirty needles") as a possible causative factor.

Cures could be found out but known solutions are not applied, unless they are wildly profitable for the pharmaceutical industry.

Against this background, I would like to propose for your reading the findings of a friend who has a completely different view of the epidemic and what could be done about it with comparatively simple means - nutrients and better foods.

Here is what Cal Crilly's restless mind has worked out over these last few weeks just in time for Rethinking Aids Day 2010 ...

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Benzene is a rather poisonous substance used as an industrial solvent and added to "green" gasoline. Wikipedia says that this use has been limited, but benzene certainly has not been eliminated from the gasoline we pour into our car when we "fill her up". The substance is also a known carcinogen and as a cause of leukemia. As Cal Crilly details in the following article, benzene may also be implicated in what's known as Aids through the mechanism of DNA methylation.

Here is the article, a joint effort by Cal and his friend Fred, a 70 year old HIV positive with a missing Methylation Gene.

Low dose benzene causes global hypomethylation of DNA and epigenetic hypermethylation of some genes.

The presence of matrix metalloproteineases, MMP's, in benzene toxic patients shows that the extracellular matrix (ECM) has been affected, namely collagen.

Recent research shows that Histone Deacetylase, an enzyme which affects the ECM, is associated with methylation and that Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors (HDAC) can be used to reverse de-acetylation, methylation and the formation of MMP's.

Therefore, it follows that the damage done by benzene to the ECM could be partly reversed by HDAC's.

Since benzene causes collagen damage, it follows that this damage could be due to Histone Deacetylase enzyme which is associated with methylation.

But Benzene also initiates global hypomethylation and as well as hypermethylation epigenetic changes.

So Benzene makes retroviruses come out but triggers Histone Deacetylase.

(As in it is one big cause of cancer that we are doing almost nothing about.)

Hypomethylation can result in DNA or RNA changes.

Latent Herpes viruses are activated by immune activation which Benzene as a toxin would also do.

Benzene toxin would also release parasite egg sacs from collagen in immunocompromised people by ECM oxidation/damage which releases MMP's.

If these eggs have a lipid coating it will be removed by the Benzene allowing the egg sacs to break resulting in chronic parasitic infection.

The combination of immune activation and hypomethylation could result in Histones.
Protease Inhibitors used in HIV-1 protocols are Histone Deacetylase inhibitors and MMP inhibitors.

They are called Protease Inhibitors so over time they would stop the release of parasite egg sacs from the ECM stopping the chronic immune affect of Benzene toxicity.

Fred

"Airborne benzene was associated with a significant reduction in LINE-1 (-2.33% for a 10-fold increase in airborne benzene levels; P = 0.009) and AluI (-1.00%; P = 0.027) methylation." Or hypomethylation of LINE-1 retroviral elements.
Changes in DNA Methylation Patterns in Subjects Exposed to Low-Dose Benzene
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/67/3/876

This is an article by Jon Rappoport. It first appeared on Jon's site nomorefakenews.com

JANUARY 20, 2010. Brent Leung, a young Canadian filmmaker, has just released House of Numbers, which explores every basic official fact about AIDS--and finds these facts shot through with doubts and holes.

The accuracy of HIV tests; the competing and unclear definitions of AIDS; whether HIV causes AIDS; overblown case numbers; the safety and efficacy of the medicines; the supposed lethality of HIV; all these issues come up for review.

What's remarkable is that Leung gained access to major AIDS researchers and bureaucrats and put them on camera for interviews: Robert Gallo; Tony Fauci; Robin Weiss; David Baltimore; Luc Montagnier. You'll see a gallery of officialdom on display.

Predictably, House of Numbers has ignited controversy. It questions authority.

April 23, 2008 is the first Rethinking AIDS Day. On this day and every day thereafter we ask that people all over the world begin questioning the HIV-AIDS paradigm – whether this diagnosis of a supposed death certificate disease, using faulty tests, for a virus that cannot be cultured, and then being prescribed expensive toxic drugs that destroy the immune system, makes any sense.

Here is a link to activities, new videos, and places – both virtual and real – where you can learn more about what you have not been told. We encourage you to become an AIDS Rethinker, and join us in commemorating Rethinking AIDS Day!

Commemorate Rethinking AIDS Day - Act Now!

After Earth Day - Rethinking AIDS on 23 April

Alliance for Human Research Protection

December 31, 2007

by Vera Hassner Sharav

An ongoing investigation by the Vera Institute of Justice, has uncovered 59 additional New York City foster care children--between July and September--who may have been used in AIDS drug / vaccine trials in violation of federal regulations. This brings the tentative total number of mostly minority children involved, to 773.

These children were enrolled in the risky experimental trials in violation of federal regulations. They were used as experimental subjects without legal informed consent and without an independent advocate authorized to serve the children's best interest. The Vera Institute investigation is charged with finding out not only how many children were involved in the experiments and to ascertain what happened to those children.

Daily Mail
By DAVID GARDNER
November 21, 2007

Top scientists at the United Nations have finally admitted they have long overblown the scale of the global Aids epidemic.

Flying in the face of its own doomsday forecasts of an ever-expanding Aids nightmare, a UN report published today reveals that the threat has been declining for nearly a decade.

Estimates of the worldwide number of people living with HIV have been slashed from last year's figure of nearly 40million to 33million.

Guardian
September 27, 2007
Chris McGreal, Africa correspondent

Mozambique's Roman Catholic archbishop has accused European condom manufacturers of deliberately infecting their products with HIV "in order to finish quickly the African people".

The archbishop of Maputo, Francisco Chimoio, told the BBC that he had specific information about a plot to kill off Africans. "I know that there are two countries in Europe ... making condoms with the virus, on purpose," he alleged. But he refused to name the countries.

He added: "They want to finish with the African people. This is the programme. They want to colonise until up to now. If we are not careful we will finish in one century's time."

Washington Post Foreign Service
By Craig Timberg
July 23, 2007

NKANGE, Botswana -- Doctors noticed two troubling things about the limp, sunken-eyed children who flooded pediatric wards across Botswana during the rainy season in early 2006: They were dying from diarrhea, a malady that is rarely fatal here. And few of their mothers were breast-feeding, a practice once all but universal.

After the outbreak was over and at least 532 children had died -- 20 times the usual toll for diarrhea -- a team of U.S. investigators solved the terrible riddle.

Alternet
By Paul Armentano
July 13, 2007

When Connecticut's Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed legislation last month that would have allowed citizens with debilitating medical conditions to use medical cannabis under their doctor's supervision, she alleged that there was no proof of pot's therapeutic effectiveness and that legal alternatives are available by prescription. Now, a just-released clinical trial by researchers at Columbia University in New York is making the governor's statements ring hollow.

The Independent
By Sadie Gray
07 June 2007

An HIV drug taken by 550 people in the UK was recalled last night over fears that it may be contaminated with a substance that could cause cancer.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said patients prescribed Viracept "should contact their doctor immediately".

The agency said in a statement that it was recalling the drug, manufactured by Roche, to minimise risk to patients. Production of all batches of Viracept was affected by contamination with a "genotoxic substance" - a substance that can affect the genes and trigger cancer, the agency said.

Rethinking Aids
For Immediate Release
March 7, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO, March 7, 2007--Rethinking AIDS, a global organization of more than 2,300 scientists, medical doctors, journalists, health advocates, and business professionals, asked the BBC today to reject a call for censorship of the 2004 documentary film Guinea Pig Kids. The film, coproduced with NDR, German public television, exposed drug experiments on poor, mostly Latino and African-American New York City children presumed to be HIV positive, conducted at Incarnation Children's Center (ICC) in Manhattan.

February 2007
HIV on Trial in Australia: Court Weighs Evidence for Claims of Isolation, Transmission and Testing

A motion for appeal in a criminal hearing in Adelaide, Australia has become the focus of international attention as fundamental claims by orthodox AIDS researchers — including the infamous Dr Robert Gallo — come under vigorous cross-examination by an attorney demanding scientific evidence that the virus exists. Top AIDS industry spokespersons from around the world have appeared in person or by satellite in Adelaide to defend the HIV hypothesis against charges by a local team of scientific and medical experts known as "The Perth Group" who asserts that two decades of AIDS research have failed to produce a purified isolate of HIV, validation of the accuracy so-called HIV tests, or proof that HIV is transmitted through bodily fluids.

Iran unveils herbal remedy against AIDS

(The original of this story was here, but the link has gone inexplicably dead...)

Health Minister Kamran Baqeri Lankarani has announced that Iran's scientists have produced a herbal medicine that boosts the human's body immunity system against the HIV/AIDS virus.

"The herbal-based medication, called IMOD, serves to control the AIDS virus and increases the body's immunity," Baqeri Lankarani was quoted as saying by the official news agency IRNA.

"It is not a medication to kill the virus, it rather can be used besides other anti-retroviral drugs," Baqeri Lankarani said on state radio.

The drug, made after five years of research, has been tested on 200 patients, IRNA said, adding that it is considered the fifth generation of medications helping control the HIV/AIDS virus.

"This is a substance good for both AIDS patients and those who carry the virus without showing the symptoms," the director of the project, Mohammad Farhadi, told state television.

Farhadi said the medication will now be tested on some 3,000 to 5,000 Iranian patients in the next year to monitor its efficacy.

Health Minister Baqeri Lankarani said that the number of HIV/AIDS cases in Iran stands at around 14,000 while 1,700 people have died of the disease.

Last June, Iranian officials warned about the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS infections in the country due to a surge in intravenous drug usage.

"If no action is taken against the spread of this disease as quickly as possible, the number of those infected will reach 100,000 by the end of the next Iranian year (March 2008)," said Iran's deputy health minister, Moayed Alavian.

Iran is believed to have at least two million regular drug users -- and possibly as many as 3.5 million. Alavian said addiction is growing by around eight percent a year.

Intravenous drug use is believed to be the main cause of HIV/AIDS infection at 62.3 percent, followed by "unknown causes" at 27.9 percent and sexual contact at 7.4 percent.

by Helen Lobato
Melbourne indymedia
February 4, 2007

An appeal case has HIV-AIDS specialists on tender hooks awaiting the outcome which they say could set a dangerous precedent for public health campaigns and the criminal law.

At long last the fact that sex doesn't spread HIV hits the headlines.

At the South Australian Court of Criminal Appeal an appeal case has HIV-AIDS specialists on tender hooks awaiting the outcome which they say could set a dangerous precedent for public health campaigns and the criminal law.

barnesworld.blogs.com
December 01, 2006
By Rebecca V. Culshaw

On Wednesday of this week - a mere two days before World AIDS Day, (today) - quite a few panicked articles were released proclaiming that the scourge was set to become the "third leading cause of death worldwide" within the next 25 years. Here is a typical one: AIDS to be 1 of top 3 causes of death - AIDS - MSNBC.com.

By Beldeu Singh
December 1, 2006

According to the HIV theory of AIDS, the virus is sexually transmitted and that should produce an HIV-AIDS explosion in the heterosexual population within 25 years. But it did not happen.

This point is well put forth by Dr. Robert Root-Bernstein. Female prostitutes often have 200-300 sexual partners per year and are therefore assumed to have much higher rates of exposure to HIV and AIDS than the vast majority of heterosexuals. Many AIDS researchers assumed that female prostitutes would be the vectors (or means of transmission) of HIV and AIDS to the heterosexual community based on the fact that a single HIV-infected intravenous drug user or bisexual man could infect one female prostitute, who in turn could infect dozens or perhaps even hundreds of non-drug using heterosexual men. These men could, in turn, infect their other sexual partners, and an explosion of HIV and AIDS could occur among people without any obvious risk for AIDS. Paradoxically, no heterosexual epidemic has occurred and no evidence of female prostitutes transmitting HIV or AIDS into the heterosexual community exists for any Western nation. Transmission almost always seems to be drug related. In fact, sexual acquisition of HIV and AIDS among female prostitutes themselves is almost unknown in the absence of concomitant intravenous drug use. Cell-free viral particles have never been found directly in semen. In 'American Journal of Epidemiology' (Vol. 146, No.4), Nancy S. Padian et al reported:

by Rebecca V. Culshaw

http://www.lewrockwell.com

Why I Quit HIV

As I write this, in the late winter of 2006, we are more than twenty years into the AIDS era. Like many, a large part of my life has been irreversibly affected by AIDS. My entire adolescence and adult life – as well as the lives of many of my peers – has been overshadowed by the belief in a deadly, sexually transmittable pathogen and the attendant fear of intimacy and lack of trust that belief engenders.

To add to this impact, my chosen career has developed around the HIV model of AIDS. I received my Ph.D. in 2002 for my work constructing mathematical models of HIV infection, a field of study I entered in 1996. Just ten years later, it might seem early for me to be looking back on and seriously reconsidering my chosen field, yet here I am.

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service

HIV Depletes Body of Selenium and Three Amino Acids

(OMNS, April 26, 2006) New clinical reports from Zambia, Uganda and South Africa indicate that AIDS may be stopped by nutritional supplementation. A number of members of the medical profession have observed that high doses of the trace element selenium, and of the amino acids cysteine, tryptophan, and glutamine can together rapidly reverse the symptoms of AIDS, as predicted by Dr. Harold D. Foster's nutritional hypothesis. (1)

Dr. Jonathan Fishbein, a scientist and former department head at the National Institute of Health's AIDS division, who was sacked for exposing sloppy research done in Africa on the AIDS drug Nevirapine, has been reinstated to employment, but the AIDS drug he fingered as dangerous is still in use, and the NIH AIDS division has so far refused to clean up its act and take steps to restrict the drug's use on newborns.

Liam Scheff, the investigative reporter who broke the story on forced drug trials in New York's Incarnation Children's Center has interviewed Dr. Fishbein.

Vera Hassner Sharav of the Alliance for Human Research Protection summarizes and comments the interview:

“Science has become so severely politicized that one has to be skeptical of nearly every research result that is reported.”

An interview in with Dr. Jonathan Fishbein, the former Director of the Office for Policy in Clinical Research Operations, NIH-AIDS Division, whose (official) job was “to create, implement, and enforce research policy in the Division of AIDS,” to ensure studies were being conducted according to ethical research standards.

But when Dr. Fishbein, a 20-year veteran in drug safety research, found gross research irregularities in an NIH-AIDS study testing Nevirapine (HIVNET 012) in Uganda, he was confronted with a hostile AIDS Division whose entrenched management was “guided more by politics than sound science.” He describes “an atmosphere of intimidation” that made it impossible to properly address and correct the institutional flaws that led to scientifically flawed, unethical AIDS studies.

The AIDS drug, Nevirapine, had been around since the early 1990s; it had a bad reputation for toxicity, and by 1998 it had earned the FDA’s black-box label, announcing its known toxic potential, including the ability to cause organ failure and bloody skin loss – both of which had resulted in death in patients taking the drug.

The Nevirapine study in Africa is a case example of bad faith, bad science, misplaced trust in those who have a financial stake in salvaging the drug, and the seductive power of money. The study focused on finding a use for this toxic drug among poor, rural Africans.

Here is what the NIH-AIDS Division administrators tried to hide, and when that failed, they fired Dr. Fishbein.

“In 1998 in Kampala, Uganda, the Nevirapine study to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child was underway. The study put 645 expectant mothers on the drug. The problems started immediately. First, the study was carried on without a control group – everyone received one drug or another – AZT or Nevirapine.

A 20 percent rate of “serious adverse events” was reported in newborns in both the Nevirapine and AZT groups, including blood and tissue infection, pneumonia and severe rash. Eighty percent of mothers exhibited laboratory and clinical abnormalities. Twenty-two babies had grade 3 anemia.” 

Thirty-eight babies died. Sixteen on Nevirapine, twenty-two on AZT.

According to Dr. Fishbein, the major flaw in the Nevirapine study, was the scientists’ failure to report all “serious adverse events” in the trial population.

That fatal “flaw” is pervasive in clinical research because those who control clinical trials have a financial conflict of interest: disclosure of all the risks may undermine marketability of the drug. 

For those who thought The Constant Gardener was fiction, think again. Think about the efforts to cover-up the deaths of those 38 babies ... until Dr. Fishbein blew the whistle.

Dr. Fishbein was successful in his two year battle with NIH. He has been reinstated, though not to his former position in the AIDS Division. Like Dr. David Graham at the FDA, he won’t be assigned to the work he is most suited for because there are too many other cover-ups that the administrators are intent on keeping under the lid.

- end of Vera Hassner Sharav comment -

Here is the article by Liam Scheff:

Silent Holocaust Among Us
January 16, 2006
Buzzflash.com

Greetings again BuzzFlash and Buzzers,

This is to issue a DIRECT and heartfelt sincere THANK YOU to both BuzzFlash for printing one of the letters in the Mailbag, and especially to a Mr. J L Scott, who identifies himself as Director of iCop.

Mr. Scott, you are so right about the experiments on children happening right here in this, our very own country. I became interested in this myself when I witnessed firsthand a series of abuses on poor people by the agency known as Child Protective Services and eventually went on to become a research assistant for the President of American Family Rights Association, Cheri Campbell. For
anyone who is interested in this topic you can find what I and the other research assistants discovered at http://www.ReliableAnswers.com. Look up ChildAbuse-Aids Experiment and read firsthand the articles written by Liam Scheff on the Administration of Children's Services in New York unlawfully seizing children from poor black and hispanic families that were supposedly HIV positive. They were placed in a hell hole full of horrors and subjected to twice or more times the amount for adults of highly toxic aids drugs. Many children died, but the attendants were told if the children had diarrhea, fell down, got sick or started vomiting, it wasn't the meds, it was their illness.

HIV children benefit from zinc supplements: study

LONDON (Reuters) - Zinc supplements could be a simple and safe way to reduce illnesses such as diarrhea in children infected with HIV, researchers said on Friday.

Zinc is an essential mineral for development and a healthy immune system but there has been concern about the safety of supplements for HIV patients because the virus that causes AIDS also needs it to function and replicate.

But scientists from the United States and South Africa, who studied the effect of the supplements in 96 children, said they are safe for children with HIV, which weakens the immune system and make sufferers more vulnerable to infections and illnesses.

"Zinc supplementation could be a simple and cost-effective intervention to reduce morbidity and mortality in children with HIV infection," said Dr William Moss, of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

In a study reported in The Lancet medical journal, Moss and doctors from Grey's Hospital in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa said the supplements did not produce any adverse effects in the children.

Youngsters who took the supplements for 6 months had less diarrhea than children who had been given a placebo, or dummy pill.

Although the World Health Organization (WHO) has improved access to antiretroviral drugs in poor countries, Moss said the treatments are not available for many children.

"Consequently more than half of these children die before the age of 3 years, most commonly of respiratory tract infections and diarrheadisease," he said.

An estimated 40.3 million people, including about 2.3 million children under 15 years old, are living with HIV, according to the latest figures released by UNAIDS.

The UN agency leading the global battle against HIV/AIDS said about 570,000 children died from AIDS in 2005.

Moss and his colleagues said there are few interventions to reduce AIDS deaths in children.

"Programs to enhance zinc intake in deficient populations with a high prevalence of HIV infection can be implemented without concern for adverse effects on virus replication," Moss added.

The New York Times
October 18, 2005
By Eric Lichtblau

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 - A Swiss biotechnology company agreed on Monday to pay more than $700 million to settle federal charges that it illegally marketed an AIDS drug by concocting a dubious medical test for those with the disease and offering doctors an all-expenses-paid trip to France to prescribe the drug.

The agreement between the Justice Department and the company, Serono, is the third-largest settlement recovered by the federal government in a health care fraud case, officials said.

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said the company "put its desire to sell more drugs above the interest of patients."

A Bibliographic History of the Health Freedom Movement

by Martin J Walker

(thanks to Louise of Zeus Information Service who forwarded this excellent essay)

Growing rapidly over the last twenty five years, the Health Freedom Movement (HFM) is essentially a movement struggling to give individuals freedom of choice in treatments and practitioners the right to practise other than allopathic therapies. At the moment both these areas are constrained by monopoly interests which deny choice by using the criteria of professionalism and profit for dispensing health care. Dominating this system and its denial of choice are the pharmaceutical companies, some of which have incomes as big as small nation states and all of which compete ruthlessly for control of the citizen's body.

Orphans first, then kids whose parents wouldn't comply with the medication schedule ordered by the "New York Drug Adherence Program". Those were the guinea pigs for a forced regimen of drugging with experimental and often deadly "Aids drugs". From Thalidomide to AZT, the children were experimented on with every drug imaginable, and if they were unable or unwilling to swallow the medicines, or if they vomited too frequently, they were surgically implanted with feeding tubes directly into the stomach.

The scandal broke a year ago (see here and here), and the experiments were justified as "in the best interest of the children. This is hard to swallow, especially if considering the brutal insistence on compliance, regardless of the obvious "side effects". Now former staff of the Incarnation Childrens' Center run by Catholic nuns and some of the kids have come forward with their views of what happened.

Liam Scheff reports in the New York Press:

by John W. Whitehead
4/18/2005
http://www.rutherford.org/articles_db/commentary.asp?record_id=335

Inevitably, when we hear about humans being experimented on, our minds turn to the Auschwitz concentration camp and the infamous Nazi Angel of Death, Josef Mengele. Seen as immoral and scientifically dubious, Mengele's work included placing human beings in pressure chambers, freezing them to death, testing drugs on them and castrating them. He also injected children with lethal germs, removed their organs and limbs and performed sex change operations on them. His primary interest was twins. The Nuremberg Code, created as a reaction to the horrors of Mengele's work, provided directives for human experimentation to protect the experimental subject from even remote possibilities of injury, disability, or death. Above all else, the Code stressed that it is necessary to obtain voluntary, informed consent from the patient.

Despite the existence of this code and subsequent medical ethics codes, Mengele's legacy lives on. This time, the culprit is none other than the United States government through its involvement in numerous questionable and immoral human research programs. Lest you think that the scientific community and government agencies would not carry out immoral experiments on humans, particularly children, think again. For example, the federal Environmental Protection Agency's forays into human experimentation recently came to light after the Washington Post reported that the EPA had approved a two-year study in which families who use pesticides in Duval County, Fla., would be paid to continue using them and to monitor their children's exposure. Each family would be paid $970 in order that scientists might discover how children's bodies absorb hazardous chemicals. Although scientists may not know the full effects of these poisonous chemicals, they do know that children are at greater risk than adults. Yet rather than advising parents to keep children away from pesticides, the government is paying them to poison their children. Thankfully, after U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (CA) and Bill Nelson (FL) threatened to block the full-time confirmation of Stephen Johnson, the EPA's acting administrator, if the experiment were not cancelled, Johnson ended the Florida pesticide program on April 8, 2005.

Published on : 4/24/2005 12:32:00 PM
India News Category : American News

A big scandal is brought out in New York City, but if proven true has vital implications on two fronts. The city's Administration for Children's Services has hired an outside research firm to investigate allegations that the city inappropriately put foster children into medical trials for AIDS drugs in the 1980's and 1990's and that foster parents who objected to the trials lost custody of the children.

The two-pronged allegations entail powder-keg charges that the city tested AIDS drugs on foster children and that if a foster parent objected the children was then placed elsewhere. Most of the children in the trials were African-American or Hispanic. Vera Institute of Justice articulated that it would form a panel of national health care experts to review the findings of the investigation. The agency's commissioner, John B. Mattingly, articulated that he thought that children's services had acted appropriately but that he has asked for the outside investigation to allay concerns raised by some reporters and by a minority advocacy group.

Newsday
April 25, 2005
BY GLENN THRUSH

Two City Council members are calling on the city Department of Investigation to probe a series of clinical trials that gave potentially toxic experimental AIDS drugs to 465 HIV-positive foster kids. Councilmen Bill Perkins (D-Harlem) and Charles Barron (D-East New York) made the request yesterday following the Bloomberg administration's stunning revelation Friday that the number of kids involved in trials was far greater than the 75 to 80 previously reported.

Administration for Children's Services chief John Mattingly has hired the nonprofit Vera Institute for Justice to look into whether the drugs were administered properly.

"We need a truly independent investigation - so why is DOI not investigating this?" Perkins said during a City Hall news conference. "Why is Mattingly allowed to set up his own investigation? Why is he being allowed to circumvent DOI?"

Dr. Harald Foster, a professor of geography with an interest in the influence of nutrient availability on disease, proposes to prevent suffering and death from Aids by a simple expedient: supply the nutrients that Aids patients are deficient in.

Andrew Saul of www.doctoryourself.com has interviewed Foster and published the interview in his excellent newsletter.

Here the introduction by Abram Hoffer, M.D, Ph.D.:

"What can one say about a scientist as accomplished, as brilliant, as knowledgeable as Harry Foster? I am delighted I have known him for so may years as a friend and colleague. His scientific writing is superb. He has a remarkable ability to examine all the data and to draw from that data conclusions that are going to be of the greatest value to mankind. I know of no one who has a better grasp of the relation between the soil that nourishes us and the diseases we get when that soil is not nourishing enough, and/or contains toxic elements. His three "What Really Causes" books (on Schizophrenia, AIDS and Alzheimer's Disease) are superb and ought to be required text books for medical students due to their insights and for the therapeutic potential that arises from them."

"I am especially excited bout his AIDS book which proves that while HIV plays an important role in the causation of AIDS, it is only one factor, and perhaps least important, since it only attacks in the absence of the essential components of glutathione peroxidase, especially selenium, the key variable. Much as the addition of niacinamide in 1942 to white flour by the US government eradicated pellagra from the South East United States, so will the addition of selenium to our staple foods lead to the eradication of AIDS. The virus may still spread and attack, but in the presence of ample amounts of selenium and three amino acids in the body it will do little harm. His work must be taken very seriously and followed up."

(Editor's note: I'd like to add my comment on to Dr. Hoffer's. Years from now, when your great-grandson perches on your knee, when the final history of AIDS has been written, I think it will show that the turning point in AIDS research was nutrition; that the pioneering figure was Harold Foster; and that the key was his book, What Really Causes AIDS.)

Now on to the interview...

BBC News
Published: 2005/02/21 21:09:16 GMT
by Dan Isaacs

One of the world's largest manufacturers of HIV/Aids drugs has launched an initiative to combat the smuggling of cheaper pills - supplied to poorer African countries - back into Europe for resale at far higher price.

The company, GlaxoSmithKline, is to alter the packaging and change the colour of the pills, currently provided to developing nations under a humanitarian agreement.

It is estimated that drugs companies are losing hundreds of millions of dollars each year as a result of the diversion of their products in this way.

This is a very sensitive area for the big drugs companies.

Prevention Efforts Hurt, Activists Say

By Darryl Fears
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 25, 2005; Page A02

More than 20 years after the AIDS epidemic arrived in the United States, a significant proportion of African Americans embrace the theory that government scientists created the disease to control or wipe out their communities, according to a study released today by Rand Corp. and Oregon State University.

That belief markedly hurts efforts to prevent the spread of the disease among black Americans, the study's authors and activists said. African Americans represent 13 percent of the U.S. population, according to Census Bureau figures, yet they account for 50 percent of new HIV infections in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nearly half of the 500 African Americans surveyed said that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is man-made. The study, which was supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, appears in the Feb. 1 edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.

More than one-quarter said they believed that AIDS was produced in a government laboratory, and 12 percent believed it was created and spread by the CIA.

LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc Tuesday defended trials of AIDS/HIV drugs in children in care homes, saying clinical studies involving children were legal and not unusual.

A BBC television documentary entitled "Guinea Pig Kids," being shown later in the day, revives criticism of company-sponsored studies at the Incarnation Children's Center, a New York care home that specializes in treating HIV.
British newspapers have previously highlighted how deprived HIV-positive children were enrolled in drug tests.

HIV positive children and their loved ones have few rights if they choose to battle with social work authorities in New York City.

Jacklyn Hoerger's job was to treat children with HIV at a New York children's home. But nobody had told her that the drugs she was administering were experimental and highly toxic.

"We were told that if they were vomiting, if they lost their ability to walk, if they were having diarrhoea, if they were dying, then all of this was because of their HIV infection."

Haunted By AIDS Misdiagnosis
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, 2004
Source: Cbs News

Malone, who is gay and has lost friends to AIDS, said he is relieved but angry at his doctor.

(AP) A California man who once tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS has learned the diagnosis made eight years ago was mistaken and he was never infected.

Jim Malone spent years battling depression and losing weight, expecting to die at any time. He attended support group meetings and accepted free meals from an AIDS charity.

Man's HIV Diagnosis Turns Out Be Wrong
California Man's HIV Diagnosis Turns Out to Be Wrong Eight Years Later

The Associated Press, by ABC NEWS

SAN FRANCISCO Aug. 29, 2004 — A California man who once tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS has learned the diagnosis made eight years ago was mistaken and he never had the disease.

Jim Malone spent years battling depression and losing weight, expecting to die at any time. He attended support group meetings and accepted free meals from an AIDS charity.

All voices not heard at Aids conference
July 23, 2004
Source: The Nation

The 15th International Aids Conference in Bangkok had the noble theme, “Access For All”. According to the conference promoters: “We will ensure that all voices, all experiences and all concerns are represented.”

Unfortunately the truth falls short of the hype. All voices were not represented, and access for was not granted.

Let’s take the issue of HIV testing. In the US, most of Europe and Australia, a person is not considered HIV infected until a minimum of two criteria have been satisfied - testing positive first to a screening test, which is usually an ELISA test, and then to a confirmatory test, which is almost always the Western Blot.

In the US, in fact, if the ELISA is positive, it is usually repeated, then if positive again the Western Blot is run.

And if that’s positive, the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that the entire set of tests be run again, on a new blood sample, to reduce the chances that the tests could be reacting to one of the over 70 common conditions that are documented to cause false positives.

Selenium Conquers AIDS?
ISIS Press Release 20/07/04
Source: The Institute of Science in Society

Sam Burcher reports on a nutritional hypothesis with possible implications for prevention and treatment of the global pandemic

A fully referenced version of this article is posted on ISIS members’ website. Details here.

During the last decade, research has indicated an important geographical link between regions of selenium deficient soils and peak incidences of HIV/AIDS infection. AIDS disease appears to involve a slow and progressive decline in levels of the trace element selenium (Se) in the blood along with CD4 cells, which are both independent predictors of mortality.

AIDS infection in Africa has reached pandemic proportions with over a quarter of the population said to be suffering from the disease in some areas, although there is debate over how the WHO has extrapolated their statistics (see "African Aids epidemic?" SiS 22). Figures from Harvard in the United States put infection rates as follows: Zimbabwe 25.84%, Botswana 25.10%, Zambia 19.07%, South Africa 12.91%, Côte D’Ivoire 10.06%, Tanzania 9.42%, Ethiopia 9.31%, and Congo 4.31%.

BANGKOK AIDS CONFERENCE NOT LIVING UP TO ITS BILLING.

By Marcel Girodian
Source: AltHeal.org

The XV International Aids Conference in Bangkok has the noble theme, "Access For All." According to the conference promoters, "we will ensure that all voices, all experiences and all concerns are represented." Unfortunately the truth falls short of the hype. All voices are not being represented, and access for all is not being granted, with regard to some very fundamental and critical issues.

Let's take the issue of HIV testing. In the US, most of Europe and Australia, a person is not considered HIV infected until a minimum of two criteria have been satisfied--testing positive first to a screening test, which is usually an ELISA test, and then to a confirmatory test, which is almost always the Western Blot. In the US, in fact, if the ELISA is positive, it is usually repeated, then if positive again the Western Blot is run. And if that's positive, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that the entire set of tests be run again, on a new blood sample, to reduce the chances that the tests could be reacting to one of the over 70 common conditions that are documented to cause false positives.

Human tests for HIV weapon
By Paula Beauchamp
July 12, 2004
Source: The Australian News

A MELBOURNE scientist's discovery that lemon juice kills the AIDS virus in the lab will be tested on humans in Thailand.

The Thai Government will fund the trial, which will involve at least 400 Thai men and women.

University of Melbourne's Professor Roger Short made the discovery after he realised acids killed the virus.

When he put lemon juice in a test tube with HIV-positive sperm, the sperm were permanently immobilised within 30 seconds.

BANGKOK - 15th International AIDS Conference: "Testing is the missing link," said Trevor Neilson, executive director of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, representing 150 companies around the world, according to a recent article on Reuters, calling for routine HIV testing on a large scale.

There is only one problem: The HIV virus has never been scientifically isolated - incredible but true - and therefore available tests can not be validated against a virus. So there is no "gold standard" that would confirm that the tests actually show viral infection. The tests indeed react to over 60 common conditions including vaccinations, the common cold and a host of other everyday health problems.

Test manufacturers are well aware of this and are warning that their tests, which were originally developed to ensure the safety of the blood supply, are not an accurate diagnostic procedure to determine an AIDS diagnosis. Nevertheless, tests are widely used to inform people of their "death sentence", encouraging them to take retroviral drugs and implying that they probably will succumb to the disease. Manufacturers of the tests have recently been sued in the US and in France.

The aim of testing is clearly to deliver expensive and highly toxic retroviral drugs to more people. Yet, people survive AIDS without retrovirals, as shown by the example of David Patient, who is helping AIDS victims in Eritrea, and by "Alive and Well" Christine Maggiore, both long term drug-free survivers.

AIDS is a (virally induced) nutritional deficiency, not a classical viral disease, according to Canadian researcher Harold Foster, who in his free e-book "What Really Causes AIDS" identifies the nutrients that AIDS sufferers are short of and affirms that if these nutrients are supplied, sufferers will not develop AIDS symptoms and those already showing symptoms will return to a normal life in a short time.

Virus or no virus, nutrients have something to do with AIDS. This is obvious from a recent Harvard research in Tanzania, which confirmed that a simple multivitamin supplement significantly slowed the development of AIDS symptoms.

Yet, the Global Business Coalition, together with WHO, UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and AIDS activists are calling for routine non-voluntary testing with a view to selling ever more toxic retrovirals to the world's poor, causing AIDS symptoms and making the AIDS war a self-fulfilling prophecy. Can we talk about Business with disease?

Vitamins found to slow AIDS
Researchers say effects of vitamins B, C and E are especially important in Africa, where people are often malnourished and can't get AIDS drugs

By ANNE McILROY
SCIENCE REPORTER
Thursday, July 1, 2004 - Page A15
Source: The Globe and Mail

Multivitamin supplements can delay the need for anti-retroviral drugs in people with HIV-AIDS, new research has found.

In an eight-year experiment involving 1,078 Kenyan women, scientists found that vitamins significantly slowed the progression of the infectious disease. They say their findings could be especially important in Africa, where the World Health Organization plans to treat three million people with drug cocktails that have saved the lives of thousands of patients in Western countries.

Multivitamin found to slow pace of HIV
Study examined Tanzanian women

By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff  | July 1, 2004
Source: Boston.com

A simple multivitamin taken once a day dramatically slowed the progression of HIV in pregnant women in Tanzania, Harvard researchers report today, a finding that could herald a low-cost option for reducing disease and prolonging life in countries where more expensive treatments remain out of reach.

The study from the Harvard School of Public Health offers the most robust evidence ever that nutritional supplements can help keep the AIDS virus in check and delay debilitating symptoms.

It is also an illustration of how, in the quest to find novel treatments, scientists sometimes overlook off-the-shelf products that come with few side effects and modest price tags.

Sud African Defies AIDS Through Diet, Will to Live
Tue Jun 29, 8:13 AM ET
By Jonah Fisher
Source: Yahoo News

ASMARA, Eritrea (Reuters) -  David Patient is no ordinary man. Diagnosed HIV-positive 21 years ago, the tanned South African has the confidence of a man who knows that every day he defies medical odds just by being alive.

He doesn't take anti-retroviral drugs and attributes his longevity to a tough dietary regime and an unbending will to live.

Now at age 43 he's taking his message around Africa in the hope of encouraging other HIV-positive people to do the same and offering ways for those who are not infected to stay that way.

"I'm not saying let's stop condoms, let's stop awareness," he said during a break in a course he was running for the United Nations in Eritrea.

Hospital on Long Island May Have Exposed 177 to Viruses
By PATRICK HEALY
Published: June 16, 2004
Source: New York Times

Nearly 180 patients of North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset were informed last week that they might have been exposed to H.I.V. or the hepatitis virus because instruments used for routine endoscopies might not have been properly disinfected.

Eighty-six of the patients have returned to the hospital, on Long Island, for precautionary blood tests, and none have tested positive for hepatitis or H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, a hospital spokesman said yesterday. The New York State Department of Health is investigating the lapse, a spokesman said, but has not taken action against the hospital.

US stance on condoms slammed
May 30 2004
By Caroline Hooper-Box
Source: Sunday Tribune

American President George Bush's administration has been accused of using "pseudoscience" to dispute the efficacy of condoms in preventing the spread of Aids.

And while the United States has pledged $15-billion (about R100-billion) to fight Aids in Africa, it has insisted that a third of the money be used for sexual abstinence and monogamy programmes.

The moves have been criticised as being the result of the US administration bowing to pressure from right-wing religious movements. A group of more than 60 top US scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, accused the Bush administration of manipulating and distorting science for political purposes. (Scientists Say Administration Distorts Facts, New York Times, Ndr)

Study: Mouth Bacteria May Defend Against AIDS Virus
Tue May 25, 2004 03:45 PM ET
Soure: Reuters.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bacteria in the mouth can latch onto the AIDS virus and prevent it from infecting cells -- which could help protect infants from catching the deadly virus from their mothers, researchers reported on Tuesday.

Two strains of Lactobacillus bacteria can hook onto HIV and stop it from getting into cells. The bacteria also cause immune cells to clump, which could be used to stop HIV-infected cells from infecting other cells, the researchers told a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in New Orleans.

Parents want truth about aids baby
By Judy Ogutu
Source: East African Standard

An Aids-free couple is demanding to know how their baby could have died of an HIV-related illness.

Since the death of Baby Ann Mumbi a year ago, anguished parents Charles Ndung’u Nderitu, 33, and Eunice Wangui, 24, have been searching for answers.

And yesterday, they were allowed by a Nairobi court to exhume the body for a DNA test — which will establish whether in fact that was their baby at all — before they start to find out how she was infected.

The Business, 16/17 May 2004, pp 1 and 4,

HIV diagnosis: a ludicrous case of circular reasoning

The concluding part of our investigation into a global healthcare scandal

Is the way we test for HIV more harmful than the disease itself?

by Neville Hodgkinson

FROM the start HIV tests had severe limitations. But these were disregarded, and their widespread use rapidly led to the idea that hundreds of thousands of Americans and millions of Africans are infected. Now a group of scientists based in Perth, western Australia, has claimed that no HIV test kit is capable of showing a person to be infected. Legal challenges are being mounted in the United States and France by people diagnosed as HIV-positive and told they would die from Aids. They remain healthy.

As long ago as 1986, Dr Thomas Zuck, a scientist with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned that the first test kits, using a technology called Elisa, were intended to screen blood donations – not to screen people at risk from Aids. He admitted that use had spread beyond the original intention but told a World Health Organisation meeting that it was “simply not practical” to stop it.

The Business 9/10 May 2004 (p1, turning to p6)

Why an HIV test may not provide proof positive at all

The critical flaws in the methods we use to detect the killer virus

By Neville Hodgkinson

Legal challenges to the validity of the HIV test, whose introduction 20 years ago led to the belief that millions of people are infected with a virus that will eventually cause them to die of Aids, are being mounted in the United States and France. In both cases, plaintiffs are citing the work of a group of scientists based in Perth, Western Australia, which has published evidence that contrary to widespread medical belief, none of the HIV test kits is capable of showing a person to be infected.

In Kansas, Calypte Biomedical Corporation (CBC) and Roche Diagnostics, two test kit manufacturers, are being sued for damages under that state’s Consumer Protection Act. In court papers filed on April 12, Kim Bannon says that 12 years ago, during routine medical testing, she was diagnosed “indisputably” HIV-infected at Kansas University School of Medicine. She was told that she would develop Aids within five to seven years and die soon afterwards.

World at 'critical moment' in fight against HIV/AIDS - UN health agency
Source: UN News Center

11 May 2004 – With more money, more political will and more attention being paid to HIV/AIDS than ever before, the world has reached a crucial moment in the history of the pandemic and now has an unprecedented opportunity to alter its course, according to a new report released today by the United Nations lead health agency.

Essential Measures To Stop The AIDS Epidemic
Source: British Medical Journal - 5 February 2004

Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati,
Toxicologist and Pathologist
Toxi-Health International, 150 Bloom Dr., Dixon, California 95620, USA

The AIDS establishment and the pharmaceutical companies have spent the last twenty-three years and billions of dollars searching for cures for AIDS but they have made zero progress. On the contrary, their recommendations for treatments given to AIDS patients and HIV-positive individuals have led to the poisoning of millions of people around the world with toxic chemicals (AZT, protease inhibitors, and other toxic antiretroviral drugs, and corticosteroids).

Libya to execute Bulgarian medics
Source: BBC News
6 May, 2004

Libya has sentenced six Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor to death by firing squad for deliberately infecting some 400 children with HIV.

Prosecutors demanded the death penalty, claiming the accused gave patients HIV in a bid to find an Aids cure.

The medics, who worked at a children's hospital in the city of Benghazi, were arrested five years ago.

7 health workers who ‘deliberately infected’ 426 kids with HIV virus are sentenced to death in Libya
06 May 2004   
Source: MedicalNewsToday

Seven people, including six Bulgarian medics and one Palestinian doctor were sentenced to death by a Libyan court for ‘deliberately infecting hundreds of kids with the HIV virus’. The men will be executed by firing squad.

SMOKE AND MIRRORS
The great Illusionist numbers called AIDS STATISTICS

By PROFESSOR JENS JERNDAL
M.D.(MA), D.Sc.h.c., M.Sc.,B.A..,
F.W.A.I.M.

Statistics are supposedly the rock solid foundation of modern science, a science exclusively concerned with objectively determined quantities, measurements and numbers. Unfortunately, it is easy to produce erroneous or biased statistical results unintentionally by just overlooking certain complicated and specific rules for sampling or weighing the data.

But the most fascinating thing about statistics is that a clever statistician can work magic with the numbers and quite intentionally create the illusion of proving or disproving almost anything.

AIDS Test Unscientific: Test Kit Makers Sued in Kansas
by Josef Hasslberger
April 27, 2004
Source: Health Supreme

The test kits used to determine "HIV positive" status in patients are deeply flawed - they were developed on the basis of faulty scientific methodology and assumptions and are without value in determining whether a person suffers from "HIV Aids", alleges Kim Marie Bannon in a civil suit filed under the Consumer Protection Act of the State of Kansas, US.

The legal action against the makers of Aids test kits CALYPTE BIOMEDICAL CORPORATION and ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS CORPORATION was filed on 12 April 2004 in the Sedgwick County District Court by Dennis Webb of Wichita Kansas.

Appeals court lets man sue state over false HIV test result in 1991
By Diana Penner (source: Indystar.com)
diana.penner@indystar.com
April 22, 2004
 
A Brownsburg man who erroneously believed he was HIV-positive because of an incorrect test report from the Indiana Department of Health has won a legal round.

Vaccine link to Aids 'dismissed'
Scientists have rejected claims that a contaminated vaccine triggered the HIV pandemic in humans.
21 April, 2004
Source: BBC News

According to one theory, HIV jumped to humans after polio vaccine became infected with a similar virus found in chimpanzees in the Congo.

However, a team of international scientists has now carried out genetic tests on chimps in this part of Africa.

Writing in Nature, they said there was no evidence to suggest HIV came from these animals.

Price of AIDS Drug Intensifies Debate on Legal Imports

By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: April 14, 2004
Original: The New York Times

The recent decision by Abbott Laboratories to quintuple the price of its crucial AIDS drug Norvir will be at the center of a federal hearing today in which AIDS groups and consumer advocates plan to argue that the government should begin allowing the import of cheaper drugs.

[ AIDS: Scientific or Viral Catastrophe? - part 1 ]

Disillusionment Over Antiviral Drug Treatments

To escape embarrassment over the failed predictions, AIDS experts have argued that anti-viral drug treatments are responsible for the decline in AIDS. This is hard to reconcile with the fact that the decline started well before the more recent drug treatments were introduced; or with the unsatisfactory record of these treatments.

AZT, the early "gold standard" of treatment, is now widely understood to have killed more patients than it helped (that is putting it kindly - there has been minimal evidence of help, beyond a broad, temporary, anti-microbial effect). The longest and most thorough trial of the drug, the Anglo-French Concorde trial, found 25% more deaths among those treated early than in those for whom treatment was deferred. The difference would almost certainly have been larger if the deferred treatment group had been a genuine control and had been kept AZT-free. The drug made no difference in terms of progression to AIDS or Aids-related illnesses. In a separate analysis of data from the first year there was a slight advantage to being in the immediate-treatment group; this lost statistical significance by 18 months.[76] Despite intense efforts by the drug’s manufacturers to minimise the significance of these results, AZT is now known to have caused much harm, and possibly many thousands of deaths.

Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 87-120, 2003

AIDS: Scientific or Viral Catastrophe?

by Neville Hodgkinson
Original Source: AltHeal.org
 

Abstract - Despite more than $100 billion spent on AIDS by US taxpayers alone, scientists have not been able to ascertain how HIV causes the AIDS syndrome. Predictions about the course of the epidemic have proved inaccurate. While millions are said to be infected and dying in Africa, AIDS deaths have fallen in Europe and the USA and now total fewer than 250 a year in the UK, which has a population of nearly 60 million. Claims that cocktails of antiviral drugs are responsible for a decline in Western AIDS are unsupported by clear evidence. On the contrary, the US Government has reversed a policy of "hit hard, hit early" in HIV-positive people, citing "unexpected toxicities" from the drugs. The HIV theory of AIDS causation has fulfilled certain social and public health needs, but the scientific community has not acknowledged or addressed serious flaws in AIDS theory and medical practice, in particular a failure to validate "HIV" diagnostic tests against isolation of virus. Genetic and chemical signals produced by disordered immune cells may have been misinterpreted as evidence of the presence of a lethal virus. There is vast over-diagnosis of AIDS and "HIV disease" in Africa and other countries where malnutrition and grossly impoverished living circumstances, with associated infections, are the real killers. The harmful consequences of these mistakes and omissions are increasing now that the World Health Organisation and UNAIDS, convinced of an African pandemic, are urging finance ministers of African countries to devote more domestic funds to HIV/AIDS activities. On the other hand, if debt relief and other emergency aid for which UNAIDS is also campaigning are used appropriately, enormous relief of human suffering will be possible. A reasoned response from the scientific community to the full range of evidence challenging the HIV theory is overdue.

Keywords: HIV---AIDS---HIV test---poverty---Africa---virus isolation

The House That AIDS Built

Liam Scheff

This article deals with pharmaceutical abuse in a children’s home in NYC. This is a most controversial story – however, it’s entirely based in fact and good reporting. I hope you’ll find it as compelling and shocking as I did investigating it.

This article needs a home in a printed publication. If you run or are associated with a brave, honest journal which reaches a reasonably wide audience and has an active, solid web-base, please contact me at liamscheff@yahoo.com

This piece was investigated and written in summer / winter 2003 and published in January 2004.

AIDS tots used as ’guinea pigs’

March 3rd, 2004 (New York Post)
By DOUGLAS MONTERO
Source: Survivereausida.net

February 29, 2004 -- The state Health Department has launched a probe into potentially dangerous drug research conducted on HIV-infected infants and children at a Manhattan foster-care agency, The Post has learned.

Some 50 foster kids were used as "guinea pigs" in 13 experiments with high doses of AIDS medications at Manhattan’s Incarnation Children’s Center, sources said.

Most of the ICC experiments were funded by federal grants and in some cases, pharmaceutical companies. They used city foster children, who were sent to the Catholic Archdiocese-run facility by the Administration for Children’s Services.

UK firm tried HIV drug on orphans
GlaxoSmithKline embroiled in scandal in which babies and children were allegedly used as 'laboratory animals'

Antony Barnett in New York
Sunday April 4, 2004
The Observer
Original Source: Guardian Unlimited

Orphans and babies as young as three months old have been used as guinea pigs in potentially dangerous medical experiments sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, an Observer investigation has revealed.

British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline is embroiled in the scandal. The firm sponsored experiments on the children from Incarnation Children's Centre, a New York care home that specialises in treating HIV sufferers and is run by Catholic charities.

The children had either been infected with HIV or born to HIV-positive mothers. Their parents were dead, untraceable or deemed unfit to look after them.

The South African Health Minister says that the use of African traditional medicines may eventually replace anti-retrovirals in the treatment of HIV and Aids.

Aids drugs have long been accused of being worse than the disease, their highly toxic shotgun approach kills cells pretty much indiscriminately. The host often dies before the disease.

A less damaging approach to healing, strengthening the natural defences of those affected, would certainly be welcome.

While speculations and estimates on the spread of AIDS abound in the absence of confirmed statistics - at least for African Aids - a Thai temple has beed dedicated to the disease in an attempt to shock people out of their complacency.

There is a new ambitious plan to bring AIDS medication to millions in Africa, hailed by the World Health Organization and by UN Secretary Kofi Annan who thinks many political leaders still simply do not care enough to fight the disease. Business leaders, we are told by the World Economic Forum, don't do enough to prepare for the fallout from the disease. UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot, commenting the WEF report's results highlighted "the urgent need for businesses in other parts of the world, particularly in Asia, to take action now."

Not everyone agrees with the official hullaballoo on AIDS. Some say AIDS statistics are hopelessly overestimated, others point to the inherent unreliability of the standard tests used to ascertain the status of "HIV positive". Still others believe that toxic drugs routinely prescribed to those found reacting to the test, rather than a non-existent virus, are what kills today's victims of the syndrome.

As we see so many remainders of the mainstream view on AIDS, I would like to propose a dissident view, an article on this AIDS day by Dr. Leo Rebello, India. His advice is not to follow the official hypocrisy:

Do NOT join in the "scientific cacophony" to support the massive free AIDS Drugs racket in the name of scientific advancement and human rights of the AIDS patients. Thereby, you would be doing more harm than good.