The Pain, Profit and Politics of AIDS

In the May 4, 1984 issue of the prestigious journal Science, one of the most important research papers of the last quarter century was published. “Frequent Detection and Isolation of Cytopathic Retroviruses (HTLV-III) from Patients with AIDS and at Risk for AIDS” would rapidly become the medical Magna Carta for the entire gold rush to develop diagnostic methods to identify the presence of HIV in human blood and to invent pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines in a global war againstAIDS. This paper, along with three others published in the same issue of Science, was written by Dr. Robert Gallo, then head of the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology (LTCB) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) inBethesda,Maryland, and his lead researcher Dr. Mikulas Popovic. To this day, this article continues to document the most cited research to prove the HIV hypothesis in scientific papers and places like the nation’s Centers of Disease Control (CDC) website.

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Gary Null: Why Does the American Academy of Pediatrics Put Corporate Profits Ahead of Children’s Health?

Progressive Radio Network, December 21, 2012 The United Nation’s recent announcement that its forthcoming Fifth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee session, scheduled in January 2013, would propose a ban of ethylmercury (commonly known as thimerosal) from all medications and vaccines worldwide has laid bare the battle lines between those government health departments and professional medical organizations who value the health of children from those who favor drug profiteering. It is no surprise the pharmaceutical industry and its special interest groups are moving aggressively to oppose the UN’s binding treaty. One of Big Pharma’s prime directives is to resist any legislation, domestic or international, that threatens sales and revenues. Therefore, it comes as a surprise that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)—once a leader in advocating the removal of mercury from all medical products and vaccines—would hold hands with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Big Pharma to oppose the UN’s proposal.

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