Bad Science
“Over 70 conditions can lead to a [false] positive result in the Elisa test kit. Testing positive in this test could mean flu, malaria, tuberculosis, pregnancy, herpes, after-effects of hepatitis B and even tetanus vaccines. HIV is just one of possible results. It is globally known that the Elisa test is not a conclusive one to find out the HIV status. Yet government agencies use only Elisa to establish HIV positive results.”
Times of India, May 30, 2001
— Radhika D. Srivastava, Journalist, Times of India
“We come here before you today to argue against the widespread use of serologic tests for evidence of HIV infection in so-called low-risk populations. We firmly believe that widespread screening for such infection, as has been proposed for immigrants, marriage license applicants, and, at least in one state, members of the general population, is unwise; it may in fact lead to a social catastrophe.”
Testimony to US Congress. 1987 Oct.
— Dr. Stephen Pauker, MD, New England Medical Center, Boston
“People can find it hard to leave an orthodoxy unless they know what they’re going to. I’m a great believer in looking at people’s track record. The track record of the drug approach to AIDS is absolutely abysmal. The drug approach to cancer is not a great deal better, though they’ve convinced themselves it is. You look at the people who’ve done hard epidemiological work on this and they say that the battle against cancer is a, quote, qualified failure. I don’t know how many billions we’ve given them to do the job. What other group is so unaccountable in public? There is something wrong with a society that abdicates so much power to scientists who are going round in circles. If you look at the track record of these things it is very very bad. Common sense says it’s time to look in other directions.”
Continuum July/Aug 1996
— Lord Baldwin, Joint Chairman of Britain’s Parliamentary Group for Alternative and Complementary Medicine
“The hypothesis of the transmissibility of cancer that endured several decades is of historical interest as it exemplifies how an entire generation of scientists and scholars, misguided by flawed hypotheses, often commit their talents and energy, as well as human and financial resources in the unproductive pursuit of a false lead”
The War on Cancer, An Anatomy of Failure, A Blueprint for the Future
— Guy Faguet, NIH Funded Cancer Researcher for 28 years. Author of 140 peer-reviewed articles, 7 book chapters and 3 books on cancer, including The War on Cancer: An Anatomy of Failure
“AIDS is a myth generated by criminals in the CDC. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people have been killed based upon the myth. There has never been an AIDS epidemic and there is no AIDS epidemic presently. AIDS is not a transmissable disease and cannot be transmitted even by a blood transfusion. The original cases in NY and LA were homosexuals who were destroying their immune systems with recreational drugs.”
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/06/66369_comment.php
— Dr. Daniel H. Duffy, Sr., Geneva, Ohio.
“I believe that HIV is a harmless virus and that AIDS is an advanced depressed state of the immune system, a result of malnutrition (such as seen in Africa) and/or drug consumption, be it prescription or non prescription.”
Comment to Virusmyth (website)
— Anca Pop, PhD, Biochemistry, University of Bucharest, Romania. Biochemist, British Columbia, Canada.
“We challenge the accuracy of media portrayal of AIDS because we believe that racism, medical mystification, and a lack of journalistic skepticism have resulted in a misleading account of the epidemic and of the economic, social and public health problems underlying it.
“The exaggeration is due in part to the way AIDS is reported: AIDS is the only disease reported cumulatively rather than annually, with a single total for cases and deaths rather than separate figures for new cases and deaths each year. Compare cumulative totals (1982-1997) of AIDS cases and deaths for South Africa (12,825) and Uganda (53,306) with new AIDS cases for 1996: South Africa — 729, Uganda — 3,021.
“A second issue is the way estimates of people who test positive for antibodies to HIV cannot be reconciled with numbers of cases. For example, in 1987, WHO estimated that 1 million Ugandans were HIV-positive; ten years later, the cumulative case/death total was 55,000. A third issue is the way the cumulative AIDS figure is then used to dwarf other health problems when annual data reveal a different situation. Compare new cases of AIDS with tuberculosis and measles in 1996: South Africa reported 91,578 new cases of TB, 6,501 cases of measles, and 729 new cases of AIDS; Uganda reported 27,356 new cases of TB, 26,198 cases of measles, and 3,021 new cases of AIDS.”
“Malnutrition, malaria, tuberculosis, and dysentery are rife in Africa; they result in damaged immune systems and are likely to cause increasing numbers of premature deaths.”
“Claims that AIDS threatens millions of Africans make it politically acceptable to subsidize the enormously profitable multi-national pharmaceutical industry, to use the continent as a laboratory for vaccine trials…and to distribute toxic drugs such as protease inhibitors that produce grotesque side effects, severe metabolic disturbances, kidney and liver failure, diabetes, and life-threatening changes in blood chemistry. AIDS activists are insisting that pharmaceutical companies provide these drugs at discount prices even though the manufacturers admit that they do not yet know whether taking the drugs will extend life or reduce chances of getting other illnesses associated with HIV.”
Health, Drugs, and AIDS, Background Paper: Deconstructing the Health/AIDS/Drugs Debates
— Dr. Meredith Turshen, PhD, Professor of Urban Studies and Community Health, Rutgers University, New Jersey;
“Not long ago, in our own country, people were killed, tortured, imprisoned and prohibited from being quoted in private and in public because the established authority believed that their views were dangerous and discredited.
“We are now being asked to do precisely the same thing that the racist apartheid tyranny we opposed did, because, it is said, there exists a scientific view that is supported by the majority, against which dissent is prohibited.
“The scientists we are supposed to put into scientific quarantine include Nobel Prize Winners, Members of Academies of Science and Emeritus Professors of various disciplines of medicine!
“Scientists, in the name of science, are demanding that we should cooperate with them to freeze scientific discourse on HIV-AIDS at the specific point this discourse had reached in the West in 1984.
“People who otherwise would fight very hard to defend the critically important rights of freedom of thought and speech occupy, with regard to the HIV-AIDS issue, the frontline in the campaign of intellectual intimidation and terrorism which argues that the only freedom we have is to agree with what they decree to be established scientific truths.
Letter to World Leaders, April 3, 2000
— Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa. MEcon (University of Sussex, 1966), Honorary Doctorate, Rand Afrikaans University (1999), Honorary Doctorate of Laws, Glasgow Caledonian University (2000).
“Medical science as practised today is more accurately defined as a religion than a science because much of its foundations are built upon belief and faith…The selling of beliefs as proof amounts to nothing more than a religion masquerading itself as science.”
“During the middle ages doctors of the day deeply believed that midwives were witches. The result; thousands of midwives were executed. In the 1700 to 1800’s doctors then believed that as much as four-fifths of a person’s ‘bad’ blood should be drained out of the body for a simple sore throat. The result; thousands of people (among them President George Washington) bled to death during medical bloodletting sessions. For centuries the medical profession stubbornly believed that scurvy had absolutely nothing to do with diet. The result; literally millions of preventable deaths due to scurvy…The seemingly endless litany of medical crimes and arrogance is written in blood across the pages of history and yet they still expect us all to keep on believing…Do you still have faith in the church of modern medicine?”
hippocrates.com.au
— Dr. James P. Hilton, PhD, author, Burden of Proof: Surviving Cancer, AIDS and Most Other Illnesses
“I strongly believe that if indeed there is AIDS, the scourge is not as serious as people are proclaiming it. I personally think that since 1980 or thereabout when this scare crow started there should have been drastic reduction in the population of undergraduates in our universities because sexual intercourse is going on in an unprotected manner every minute in our society. If anybody emaciates and dies in Africa, I will say hunger and malnutrition are responsible and not AIDS. I can defend this position anytime.”
— Dr. ‘Ayo Adeboye, Physician, Nigeria.
“I look for the day when HIV/AIDS will be eradicated, not via toxic drugs but by informed science committed to authentic healing and not merely waging war on a mythical/overrated virus.”
Comment to Virusmyth
— Victor Pond, Project Director, MOCHA Coalition (Men Of Color Committed to Healthier Alternatives), Chicago Department of Public Health, Chicago, Illinois
“The “hiv/aids” labeling system is being used by more than 70 countries to DENY people basic human rights. The USA is at the forefront of many of these violations. People are being denied the right to political asylum, the right to freely move from country to country, people are being tested against their will. People are being denied a choice of treatments; only toxic antiretroviral therapies are free. No government, no doctors in (England), no charity, no organisations, no National Health Service is helping people have any natural alternatives to combination therapy. Patients (and me) are being denied a FREE and FAIR CHOICE.”
“‘hiv’ test kits are not used fairly or objectively; high risk group information is standardly used and this DOES affect interpretations of results; without high risk group information they would not be able to use any ‘hiv’ test kit because the results would be all over the place, unreproducable, discordant and impossible to ‘interpret,’ that’s the real reasons they NEED all this information when using these test kits…we have to stop this madness.”
Comment to Virusmyth
— James Whitehead, hiv positive 13 to 16 years, since 1987; writer and researcher for Continuum Magazine and Meditel Productions.
“AIDS stands as the epitome of pseudo-science devoid of morality, research without conscience, and a public policy driven by ego, dollar signs and genocidal neglect.”
Comment to Virusmyth
— Dr. Ted Hill, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Sandpoint, Idaho
“Anyone who isn’t skeptical of the pharmaceutical industry’s motives regarding the treatment of AIDS needs to take a long look at the harrowing stories and suppressed science poignantly pieced together in [the documentary] ‘The Other Side of AIDS.’”
— Susan Gerhard, Editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian
“With the ‘discovery’ of HIV as the putative, universally infectious retrovirus and the conversion of this hypothesis into a dogma by the consensus, all dissent began to be suppressed by anonymous censorship, which became absolute, amazingly pervasive, and apparently immune from disclosure of conflicts of interests. On many occasions, I have been asked by the BBC and other networks to talk about AIDS only to find, at the last minute, that my appearance was canceled.”
“Colleagues and I attempting to publish have met an unholy alliance intent on rejecting any papers that offer serious criticisms of the orthodoxy. The mainstream journals and media — whenever they are presented with reasonable doubts about Aids — close ranks like regimented clams … There are, naturally, vested interests involved; many bodies and individuals receive high rewards for their work within orthodox AIDS science. Underlying much of this, the pharmaceutical companies have their own obvious agenda.”
Index on Censorship, UK, Issue 3, 1999
“The first casualty of the ‘war on AIDS’ was the integrity of science. The exact moment of the crime can be pinpointed: it was the April, 1984 press conference where the then [US] Health Secretary Margaret Heckler declared that government scientist Robert C. Gallo had discovered the viral cause of AIDS. Heckler hailed the discovery as ‘yet another miracle for American medicine and science’ and a ‘victory over a dreaded disease.’ If smoke and mirror tricks are miracles, then miracle it was...Neither Gallo nor the [Pasteur] Institute proved that the virus was pathogenic. Indeed, they did not even isolate it, as the Pasteur Institute later admitted. But the spin-doctors at the National Institutes of Health had organized leading journals to endorse Secretary Heckler’s ‘miracle’ with the seal of Science. From that moment, all AIDS research and policy were based on a speculation converted to dogma by bureaucratic power.
“This initial public execution of scientific integrity unleashed a propaganda machine that expands Heckler’s initial obvious whopper (‘victory over a dreaded disease’) into a never-ending sickness saga that extorts money and grinds millions into the muck of bad medicine.
“Scientific integrity was murdered by a brutal health fascism. The next victim was the gold standard of clinical evaluation, the double blind trial. With a perversity that spin doctors must admire, the methodology was abandoned in the name of ethics! In reality, the double blind trial had to be murdered because it placed the treatment and causality dogmas of AIDS science at grave risk of falsification. The next victim was the integrity of independent clinical judgment. Any doctor who bucked the official line placed himself at risk of retaliation. And now, in the Tyson and Emerson cases, we see that the fundamental right of informed consent and right to refuse treatment were also murdered.”
“Be informed. Withdraw your consent from the most malignant fraud ever perpetrated in the name of medicine. Be aware that the primary truth in the ‘AIDS war’ is that powerful agencies have declared war on YOU and your loved ones, regardless of your HIV status. Be aware that ‘AIDS science’ is 90% mindless repetition and 10% deeply inconsistent findings of no clinical value.”
Coming to Grips with Health Fascism, Virusmyth.net, April 1999
— Dr. Hiram Caton, PhD, Ethicist, Head of the School of Applied Ethics at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
“When AIDS patients’ bodies finally break down from the effects of these anti-viral drugs, they say, ‘Now the virus has become resistant, and the drugs have lost their effectiveness.’ What really is happening is the toxicity of the drugs builds up to a point where the patient cannot stand it anymore. And, of course, they say it was the virus — rather than the entirely inevitable and predictable toxicity of these damned drugs.”
Reappraising AIDS Feb./March 1998
“Many Americans use amphetamines, diet drugs, cocaine and designer party drugs. When you do this for years, you start getting sick. You go to the doctor, who says the first thing you need is an HIV test. You test positive because HIV tests cross-react with antibodies produced by drug use. The doctor puts you on AZT, a DNA chain terminator, which, in high doses, will finish you off in six months. I’m not talking about a one-time use of a party drug. We’re designed to consume a lot of junk, but we’re not designed to tolerate a gram of cocaine, nitrite inhalants or heroin per day, and we’re even less capable of handling AZT.”
Scheff
“This is my battle with John Maddox [editor of Nature] and with people who are actually fabricating the data [Ascher, et al in Nature, March 11, 1993]. They claim to have such a [Aids] group that had not used any drugs. When I analysed the data, it turned out that there was not a single person in their paper that was drug-free. I submitted a critique to Maddox, but his response was, I could no longer respond. I was censored.”
Spin, Sep 1993
“If the papers that Duesberg cites are not misrepresented — and it is difficult to see how hundreds of papers could be misrepresented without the AIDS establishment coming down mercilessly on his misrepresentations — then his points are indeed compelling. For example: Why is the amount of HIV present in most AIDS patients so small that PCR amplification is required to demonstrate its presence? Why is AIDS in the US and Europe not random as it is in other viral epidemics? Why would HIV take 10 – 15 years from infection to AIDS? Why is the mortality of HIV-antibody positives treated with anti-HIV drugs higher than the untreated group? These and other troubling questions are answered with impeccable logic and references. Of course, the literature could have been abused to make a point, and I’m impressed that the full text of most of the papers cited in Duesberg’s 1992 review are now available though a hyperlink (http://www.rethinkaids.info/body.cfm?id=58). Anyone interested can make judgment.
One could only hope for a detailed point-by-point response from the establishment, but very little of substance has been forthcoming. Mainly, what have come from the AIDS establishment are ex-cathedra responses such as "the evidence is overwhelming." The book reminds us that although over $100 billion has been spent on AIDS research, not a single AIDS patient has been cured — a colossal failure with tragic consequences. It explains in too-clear terms the reasons why AIDS research focuses so single-mindedly on this lone hypothesis to the exclusion of all others: egos, prestige, and money. Mainstream virologists have assumed the power of the purse, and their self-interests (sometimes financial), propel them to suppress challenges. This is not an unusual story: challenges to mainstream views are consistently suppressed by mainstream scientists who have a stake in maintaining the status quo. It's not just Semmelweis and Galileo, but is happening broadly in today's scientific arena. Only now are the granting agencies beginning to face up to this serious problem.”
Review of Oncogenes, Aneuploidy, and AIDS: A Scientific Life and Times of Peter Duesberg by Harvey Bialy http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1136852361.shtml
— Gerald H. Pollack, PhD. Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle. Author: Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life and Muscles and Molecules: Uncovering the Principles of Biological Motion
“The marketing of HIV as a killer virus causing AIDS without the need for any other factors has so distorted research and treatment that it may have caused thousands of people to suffer and die.”
Sunday Times (London) 17 May 1992
“Gallo was certainly committing open and blatant scientific fraud. But the point is not to focus on Gallo. It’s us — all of us in the scientific community, we let him get away with it…nobody would say a word against Gallo. It had a lot to do with patriotism — the idea that this great discovery was made by an American.”
“The AIDS Medical Foundation was sending out this press release saying that nobody is safe, everybody is going to get it — and all that. When I heard this, I totally freaked out. It was all just nonsense. I called them up and said, ‘Do you know what’s going to happen as a result of what you are doing? You’re going to freak out heterosexual men, you’re going to destroy relationships, marriages…you’re going to promote violence against gay men…All of which has come true.”
“I couldn’t fight Terry [AmFAR’s then public relations director] He was very determined…He knew that this heterosexual AIDS thing was a hoax, but he said have to do it to raise money. And certainly, you could argue that unless those heterosexual male politicians in Washington thought that sex could kill, they weren’t going to release any money…The money was raised to protect heterosexual men from a disease they’re not going to get anyway. So what have these hundreds of millions of research dollars given us? Nothing. AIDS education? All I see is terror and confusion. And AZT, which is a disaster.”
Spin June 1992
“Of course it’s wrong [Dr. David Ho’s math for his proposed ‘eradication’ of HIV]. Everybody knows that. It’s such way-out bullshit. The notion of ‘eradication’ is just total science fiction. Every retrovirologist knows this. The RNA of retroviruses turns into DNA and becomes part of us. It’s part of our being. You can’t ever get rid of it.”
“Yes, [Dr. David Ho] is a fraud, if a fraud means mediocre interpretations of the dynamics of T-cell changes in response to therapy. But, then, who is the fraud? Anybody is capable of having stupid ideas, but what’s unusual is getting them onto the front page of the New York Times and Time. The real villains are the journalists, in my opinion. We have traditionally depended on the press to protect us from nonsense like this — not anymore.”
Gear, March 2000
“I’m totally ashamed of the profession. We have all these potent drugs but we don’t know how to use them. If we were a sane society, we would find out. This is not evidence-based medicine. This is just a disgusting manipulation of people’s fears and desperation, all for the sake of selling drugs.”
Spin, April, 1997
“We live in a media age that loves sound bites and simple quotes. HIV is simple, whereas the multifactorial model [of AIDS] is very complex. People don’t want to take the time to understand.”
Spin, April 1991
— Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, MD, New York Physician, founder of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR)
“It is possible to suggest not only that the AIDS ‘epidemic’ is vastly overstated and overrated, but also that resources spent fighting it might better be employed on more basic, and more general, infrastructure and health needs...When medical realities collide with scaremongering and false realities, the latter too often triumph.”
“Even today, the cause for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS or HIV/AIDS) remains controversial...The virus does not seem to directly damage many cells but is thought to impede immune system function.”
“Some scientists find that other physiological insults, such as overwhelming and repeated infections from contaminated IV needles used by drug abusers and from homosexual sexual activity, overwhelm and weaken the immune system, and cause most AIDS cases.”
“On top of these controversies, the criteria for diagnosing AIDS have changed three or four times. And each time the criteria change, the number of people qualifying for the diagnosis increases.”
“In the past, a person might have HIV antibodies and tuberculosis; nowadays, this counts as HIV/AIDS, as do dozens of other combinations of signs and symptoms. These changing criteria result in higher numbers of people being diagnosed with AIDS with each change in the criteria, creating an epidemic of diagnostic ‘grade inflation.’”
“In Africa, poverty, distance and isolation make accurate, continent-wide diagnosis and statistics impossible. As a result, most health and population statistics are estimates or guesses, often driven by political and cultural agendas and always driven by the need to generate more outside funding from wealthier regions of the world. Thus, the severity of just about everything gets ‘oversold.’ This is especially true for AIDS...”
“AIDS information is also difficult to assess because the definition of AIDS is different in Africa. Indeed, blood test results don’t even figure in the official diagnostic criteria. ”It’s all done on ‘points’ defined at the ‘AIDS in Africa’ meeting in Bangui in October 1985...the meeting participants concluded that AIDS in Africa could be diagnosed without a blood test by scoring 12 points out of a possible total of 50, based on symptoms and signs alone. ”People having the first three (10 percent weight lost, protracted asthenia [weakness] and repeated attacks of fever for more than a month) have already racked up a score of 11. A cough scores two more points, and ‘the diagnosis of AIDS is established.’”
“Many other non-specific signs are worth points, such as diarrhea, lung disease, signs consistent with herpes virus infections, generalized lymph node enlargement and ‘neurological signs.’ In other words, many Africans diagnosed with AIDS would not carry the diagnosis in the developed world. And many people have these qualifying symptoms from the many other diseases prevalent in poor regions.”
“But if it is impossible to determine the extent of the epidemic, it should be easy to tell whether AIDS has, as predicted, ‘decimated’ sub-Saharan Africa. Clearly, this has not happened. Sub-Saharan Africa’s population is estimated to have increased by 73 percent over the last two decades, to 752 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau’s 2005 World Population Data Sheet at http://www.prb.org/pdf05/05WorldDataSheet_Eng.pdf)...”
“In another analysis, South Africa’s population continues to grow at a rate most consistent with ‘no AIDS’ projections. In other words, predictions based on the hypothesis that AIDS kills have not come true.”
“But even if these population estimates are way off, one implication is clear. Committing resources to fight a non-existent epidemic makes no sense, except to those making a living off the funds generated by the scares. Resources fighting phantom epidemics can’t be used to improve basic sanitation and nutrition, the foundations of health.”
“In sum, it is quite possible that fighting AIDS as the scaremongers desire would kill and sicken more people than AIDS treatment would save.”
Jewish World Review, Nov. 18, 2005
— Michael Arnold Glueck, MD, Harvard University, Medical Writer.
— Robert J. Cihak, MD, Harvard University, Past President, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and a Discovery Institute Senior Fellow
“Despite the fact we’re told HIV is forever here are drug addicts who gave up drugs, started to live a more healthy lifestyle and their antibody tests reverted to negative. And their T4s returned to normal. And most telling of all, they were alive twenty years later to tell the tale. The tragedy is that these HIV tests were introduced in the total absence of proof of their specificity. This is the trouble with this so-called AIDS science. Another mystery—what is considered HIV positive depends on where and by whom the test is done. So if you’re positive in New York City [or Thailand or Africa] just get on a plane and come to Australia. You might no longer be positive.”
“I’d say don’t have a test. Don’t spread HIV testing.”
Continuum, Winter 1997
— Dr. Valendar Turner, MD, Royal Perth Hospital, University of Western Australia
“I am suspect about everything involved in this AIDS epidemic, because if HIV causes anything, it certainly causes fund-raisers. It sells stocks. It supports dances. It sells condoms. And it keeps the AIDS establishment going.”
Penthouse Dec. 1995
— Dr. Frank Buianouckas, PhD, Professor of Mathematics, City University of New York
“The cause of AIDS is multifactorial. HIV is neither necessary nor sufficient.”
Sunday Times (London) 3 April 1994
— Dr. Lawrence Bradford, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology, Benedictine College, Kansas
“A kind of collective insanity over HIV and AIDS has gripped leaders of the scientific and medical profession. They have stopped behaving as scientists, and instead are working as propagandists, trying desperately to keep alive a failed theory.”
Sunday Times (London), May 1, 1994
“Recently there’s been more and more work published by the mainstream acknowledging this fact that the whole idea of the virus killing of the T cells hasn’t been acknowledged by experimental work.”
“There are a good number of scientists who argue that these treatments are the cause of AIDS because there is no known mechanism by which this purported virus could be doing the damage that’s attributed to it. A steady diet of chemotherapy is a perfectly rational description of why some AIDS patients suffer from terrible muscle wasting and debilitating diseases.”
Aids, a Second Opinion
“1) HIV particles have never been demonstrated by electron microscopy in the blood stream of AIDS patients allegedly presenting with high ‘viral load.’
“2) Alleged HIV isolations have been reported, based on the identification of molecular ‘markers.’ These markers are of physical, biological or genetic nature. Their HIV specificity could never be rigorously demonstrated because such demonstration would have necessitated HIV purification that has never been achieved.
“3) Serological tests for so-called ‘HIV seropositivity,’ being based on the same non specific markers, also lack specificity and do not demonstrate any HIV infectious process.
“4) Public credulity is abused by the constant publication of HIV images that all derive from electron microscopy of laboratory cell cultures, and never derive directly from AIDS patients.”
“In view of these major uncertainties concerning HIV isolation directly from AIDS patients, priorities should be drastically revised. Suspending all HIV sero-testing, and suspending administration of anti-retroviral toxic medications should make budgets available to combat malnutrition, extend drinking water distribution, and improve hygiene and sanitation for the African people.”
December 8, 2003, address to European Parliament Conference on AIDS in Africa, Brussels
“The role played by international pharma companies is more than dubious. In fact, it’s close to pharmaceutical genocide. Improving the control of tropical infectious diseases is a complex endeavour. Instead, AIDS is a single culprit with great profitability.”
May 2002, Times of India
— Dr. Etienne de Harven, MD, Emeritus Professor of Pathology, University of Toronto (1981-1993). Professor of Cell Biology, Cornell Graduate School of Medical Science (1968-1981). Associate Professor (1964-1968). Assistant Professor, Pathology. Université Libre de Bruxells (1956-1962). Belgian Air Force Medical Corps (1953-1956). Author of over 100 peer-reviewed medical papers on virology, cancer, immunology and electron microscopy.
“Time and again those of us who are ‘AIDS dissidents’ have been dismayed and disgusted by the falsehoods, distortions, and omissions in AIDS coverage…I maintain further that the salient characteristics of war coverage are also those of AIDS coverage, namely: censorship (self-imposed, official, and in-between), hysteria, the use of black propaganda, the fabrication of ‘atrocity stories,’ and garden variety incompetence.”
New York Native 12 August 1991
“Ryan White died on 8 April 1990. The causes of his death and the nature of his illness were the targets of censorship…Ryan did not die of ‘AIDS’ but rather of hemophilia aggravated by Factor VIII concentrate and AZT poisoning. Craig Schoonmaker, founder of Homosexuals Intransigent, told me he had heard over the radio and on television that Ryan White had been admitted to the hospital with uncontrolled internal bleeding. We followed the print media closely for several days, but could not find a single mention of bleeding. Then Ryan died, and not a single reference to bleeding could be found in the Associated Press, New York Times, or Washington Post obituaries. However, the Times story contained this curious passage: ‘Ryan, a hemophiliac who contracted the virus through a blood transfusion, died of complications of AIDS in Riley Hospital for Children, said Dr. Martin Kleiman, the youth’s physician. He would not elaborate.’
“What this indicates is that censors intervened to prevent the print media and Ryan’s doctor from mentioning bleeding. Bryan Ellison…contacted the Hemophilia Foundation of Indiana. The people there knew Ryan White very well, and confirmed that hemophilia itself was his major health problem and the cause of his death.”
“I have talked to a number of people, and have heard of many more, who looked healthy, felt healthy, and were leading active and productive lives—and were told by their doctors that they ought to be sick on the basis of their T-cell counts or their HIV status. It is appalling that those who ought to be healers are instead programming healthy people to get sick. A malign form of voodoo is being practiced in this country by the priests of Modern Medicine.”
“The HIV-antibody tests are not only highly inaccurate, but biased as well. A man in California went to a clinic, identified himself as gay, and took the HlV-antibody test; results: positive. Then he went to another clinic, identified himself as a heterosexual, and took the same test; results: negative.”
“The AIDS epidemic is an epidemic of lies, through which hundreds of thousands of people have died and are dying unnecessarily, billions of dollars have gone down the drain, the Public Health Service has disgraced itself, and Science has plunged into whoredom.”
“The AIDS War,” 1993
— John Lauritsen, Journalist, Harvard-educated survey research analyst. Author of the books The AIDS War; Propaganda, Profiteering and Genocide From the Medical-Industrial Complex and Poison by Prescription; The AZT Story
“Before Ryan White there was me. Same doctors, same hospital… [They told me to] take AZT... I said no to the doctors and I am alive. I have been black-balled by the press which made a hero out of White.”
“Some people have said that the virus does exist but it’s a harmless one. You’ll test positive for it, but it won’t cause any harm. I’m inclined to believe that. Because I’m not sick. It hasn’t hurt me, and it hasn’t hurt my [HIV+] brothers, and it hasn’t hurt my [HIV+] uncles. And it hasn’t hurt their kids, and it hasn’t hurt their wives.”
“And by the way, I smoke and drink... It’s not like I’m a health nut, or I take any extraordinary measures to protect my health.”
Valley Advocate, August 6, 1998
— Robert Bryant, Hemophiliac (from a family of hemophiliacs), Indiana. HIV+ for 20 years
“These are truly dark times for science. The take home message from the recent Barcelona AIDS conference is that incompetent AIDS scientists and even more incompetent medical reporters are wasting lives and money while creating sanctions against medical breakthroughs by refusing to listen to anyone who questions their conclusion that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS.”
“[Anthony] Fauci is one of the US Government’s major architects of the myth that HIV has been proven to be the cause of AIDS and that stopping HIV will save lives…a myth that has become so entrenched in medicine’s conventional wisdom that to question it is tantamount [to] treason.”
“There are not sufficient enough data to understand the properties of HIV because the scientific literature is nothing more than opinions, poorly conducted studies and reviews of poorly conducted studies.”
“In a letter to the [U.S.] Department of Health and Human Services last year, I suggested that their position that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS is substantially based on scientists studying complex mixtures of biological fluids with unknown numbers of regulatory genes and concluding that one big structural gene, HIV, is causing the syndrome. This is medical incompetence at its worst.”
Red Flags Weekly debate, July 22, 2002
“U.S. government funded AIDS research has become a jobs program for scientists who lack the courage and resources to challenge conventional scientific wisdom.”
“For a Federal employee to sign such a document [The Durban Declaration]…is an abuse of power. It is using your government position — in Fauci’s case, a high government position — to, in effect, bully anyone who disagrees with you. I consider this to be a violation of scientific ethics. The scientific method is based, at least partially, on debate. To call for the end to a debate is unscientific; to do so with the power of the US government behind you is unethical.”
“By throwing the weight of the US government behind the Durban Declaration, those who signed have established an international policy that salaries, funding, prestige, scholarly communication, promotion, awards and prizes will not be granted to individuals who challenge the official position that HIV alone causes AIDS. This creates government sanctions against anyone who wants to freely investigate the actual relationship (if any) between HIV and AIDS. This is unethical.”
“I seriously doubt that Fauci or any Health and Human Services employee or government grant recipient would like to debate me on HIV/AIDS online, but I would welcome such a debate.”
Red Flags Weekly debate, April 1, 2002
— Dr. Howard Urnovitz, PhD, Microbiologist and Immunologist, Science Director, Chronic Illness Research Foundation, co-founder and CEO, Chronix Biomedical. Dr. Urnovitz’s team developed the only FDA-licensed urine-based diagnostic test for antibodies to HIV.
“These are truly dark times for science. The take home message from the recent Barcelona AIDS conference is that incompetent AIDS scientists and even more incompetent medical reporters are wasting lives and money while creating sanctions against medical breakthroughs by refusing to listen to anyone who questions their conclusion that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS.”
“[Anthony] Fauci is one of the US Government’s major architects of the myth that HIV has been proven to be the cause of AIDS and that stopping HIV will save lives…a myth that has become so entrenched in medicine’s conventional wisdom that to question it is tantamount [to] treason.”
“There are not sufficient enough data to understand the properties of HIV because the scientific literature is nothing more than opinions, poorly conducted studies and reviews of poorly conducted studies.”
“In a letter to the [U.S.] Department of Health and Human Services last year, I suggested that their position that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS is substantially based on scientists studying complex mixtures of biological fluids with unknown numbers of regulatory genes and concluding that one big structural gene, HIV, is causing the syndrome. This is medical incompetence at its worst.”
Red Flags Weekly debate, July 22, 2002
“U.S. government funded AIDS research has become a jobs program for scientists who lack the courage and resources to challenge conventional scientific wisdom.”
“For a Federal employee to sign such a document [The Durban Declaration]…is an abuse of power. It is using your government position — in Fauci’s case, a high government position — to, in effect, bully anyone who disagrees with you. I consider this to be a violation of scientific ethics. The scientific method is based, at least partially, on debate. To call for the end to a debate is unscientific; to do so with the power of the US government behind you is unethical.”
“By throwing the weight of the US government behind the Durban Declaration, those who signed have established an international policy that salaries, funding, prestige, scholarly communication, promotion, awards and prizes will not be granted to individuals who challenge the official position that HIV alone causes AIDS. This creates government sanctions against anyone who wants to freely investigate the actual relationship (if any) between HIV and AIDS. This is unethical.”
“I seriously doubt that Fauci or any Health and Human Services employee or government grant recipient would like to debate me on HIV/AIDS online, but I would welcome such a debate.”
Red Flags Weekly debate, April 1, 2002
— Dr. Howard Urnovitz, PhD, Microbiologist and Immunologist, Science Director, Chronic Illness Research Foundation, co-founder and CEO, Chronix Biomedical. Dr. Urnovitz’s team developed the only FDA-licensed urine-based diagnostic test for antibodies to HIV.
“I believe many of my colleagues neither question individuals at the governmental level, nor those from large centers of research, nor those from the pharmaceutical companies. We write exactly in the way that we are told, even knowing that this or that is not true. There is a lack of common sense in understanding subjects and problems. For example, in Luc Montagnier’s book, he explains that there are people who develop AIDS who are HIV-negative, who die from AIDS. However, journalists do not care about this contradiction. A similar thing happens with discrepancies between Gallo and Montagnier regarding the origin of AIDS, discrepancies which are published, but nobody says a word. Similarly with information from the CDC; they replied to me that viral load is improper for diagnosing HIV infection, yet nobody calls them on this, most journalists do not question it, they just report that viral load diagnoses HIV infection.”
“In the future, we journalists should not compromise ourselves in seeking truth and should not let those who feel that they are the keepers of truth manipulate us in the way that they are doing now. We must no longer believe in an AIDS virus that supposedly has magic powers, that mutates, that every time they use a new antiretroviral the virus uses its magic powers to resist.”
Alternative AIDS Conference, Barcelona, 2000
— Hector Lozada, Reporter for the newspaper El Bravo, Matamoros, Mexico
“I drew my own blood and put it into two ampules. One of them I sent under my own name to get tested for HIV antibodies, the other I sent under the name of one of my HIV positive patients for viral load testing to the same lab.[The results:] My blood was negative under my own name, but the blood that was sent in under my patient’s name had a viral load of 1800.”
from a censored series of newspaper articles that journalists Michael Leitner and Jan-Philipp Hein wrote for a prominent German newspaper in 2000
— Dr. Juliane Sacher, MD, Frankfurt, Germany
“[Dr. Jariwalla] carried out experiments on [HIV] growing in cells in the laboratory and showing that there were as much as a 99 per cent suppression of the development of the virus in the cells when you had high, large amounts of Vitamin C in the medium—amounts that you could achieve in the bloodstream by giving a large oral intake. This result was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”
“…It is much cheaper, of course, to take fifty grams a day [of Vitamin C], that’s only a dollar a day, two cents a gram, $365 dollars a year. AZT used to cost about $10,000 dollars per person. Vitamin C costs very little in comparison with AZT.”
“Long before Dr. Jariwalla did this work, I had written to the president of Wellcome, the manufacturer of AZT, saying that we had some evidence that high dose vitamin C helped to control the disease and perhaps if it were given along with AZT it would be more effective than AZT alone. For one thing, we know with other chemotherapeutic agents, that high dose vitamin C helps control the side effects.
“I got no answer.”
Nutrition Science News, April 1996
— Dr. Linus Pauling, PhD, Chemist, two-time winner of the Nobel Prize
“The convergence between UNICEF’s intentions and the pharmaceutical companies’ interests is no coincidence. It is well known that the UN is facing a severe resource crunch following the failure of member countries to contribute funds and has solicited contributions from the private sector. UNICEF and UNAIDS are both heavily funded by pharmaceutical companies. The survival and sustainability of UN organizations has thus become inextricably linked with the interests of their ‘holding companies.’ By taking on the task of administering AZT drugs to pregnant women, knowing fully well their damaging effects on both mother and child, UNICEF has made it clear that it is no longer dedicated to the service of the needy, but rather to the service of those that can fund its own survival.”
“And what is the role of all the ‘gender-sensitive’ womens’ organizations who will be implementators (and beneficiaries) of this UNICEF endeavor?
“Why are they not protesting against — instead of participating in — such a program? Is it because no foreign funding is available for such a protest? Is it because they see their role of serving people as a poor second to their own need for staying in business?”
“The most obvious ‘achievement’ of HIV/AIDS prevention and control measures has been to create an ‘AIDS scare,’ as borne out by media reports such as the following:
“In a village in Kerala when a whole family committed suicide out of fear of ostracism when the head of the family found he was infected with HIV.
“In a village in Bengal the village priest’s family was thrown out of the village when it was found out that their son, a casual laborer in Bombay, was HIV positive.
“In Tamil Nadu, within a week of UNAIDS declaring it as a ‘successful state’ a suspected case of HIV was burnt alive in the street.
“In Haryana, an entire village was ostracized when medical community, without benefit of recommended tests, declared a villager to be suffering from AIDS.
“In AIIMS — India’s premier medical institute — recently an ‘HIV suspect’ was denied treatment. He died. And his HIV tests turned out to be negative.
“For about a decade now we have been evolving into one of the largest research laboratories and a guinea pig farm for experimenting with dubious [Aids] drugs. Obviously, this is not happening without the knowledge — even connivance — of concerned authorities.”
HIV/AIDS Industry: Agenda Behind the Epidemic, JACK India
— Gita Dewan Verma;
— Anju Singh;
— Dr. Ute Schumann
“No figure on any disease is reliable and often officials in the health ministry take advantage of this to support policies they wish to promote.”
“The irresponsible game with the lives and identities of the mostly disadvantaged people (prostitutes, migrant labourers, truck drivers and others) is evident from Miller’s statements who, as an expert in his position, is not convincing enough about his ignorance of hiv/aids estimates. The WHO, Geneva, too stands exposed in its servitude to pharmaceutical companies.”
Letter to the editor, Outlook Magazine, India, Feb., 2002
— Dr. Ute Schumann, Health consultant to the European Union with several years experience in Indian health services