Validity Of AIDS/HIV Tests Challenged By New Lawsuit

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http://www.masternewmedia.org/hiv_aids/hiv_aids_testing/hiv_aids_testing_attacked_by_new_lawsuit_20050808.htm Validity Of AIDS/HIV Tests Challenged By New Lawsuit CategoriesAIDS - HIVInformation Accesshealthmedia credibility Health Supreme reports: The test kits used to determine "HIV positive" status in patients aredeeply flawed - they were developed on the basis of faulty scientificmethodology and assumptions and are without value in determiningwhether a person suffers from "HIV Aids", alleges Kim Marie Bannon ina civil suit filed under the Consumer Protection Act of the State ofKansas, US. The legal action against the makers of Aids test kits CALYPTEBIOMEDICAL CORPORATION and ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS CORPORATION was filedmore than a year ago, on 12 April 2004 in the Sedgwick County DistrictCourt by Dennis Webb of Wichita Kansas. injection_time_syringe_with_by_adamci.jpgPhoto credit: Adam Ciesielski At the base of the suit is the scientific mishandling of the Aidscrisis from the very beginning, when on April 23, 1984, the then USHealth Secretary Margaret Heckler announced at a press conference thatthe "probable" cause of AIDS had been found. A controversy between Gallo and Montagnier distracted us from the factthat the "virus" thought to cause immune deficiency had never beenunequivocally isolated. Neither has anyone explained in scientific terms how the virus, whichcannot be found in large numbers of immune deficient individuals,causes the illness. Neville Hodgkinson has written up the history for us to follow. Hodgkinson's excellent article, which first appeared in the Journal ofScientific Exploration, really sheds lots of new light on this tragicissue. Kim Marie Bannon, the courageous woman who is taking on themultibillion pharma manufacturers, says: I was "diagnosed" in 1992. I spent 10 years doubting yet living withthe stigma of conventional AIDS dogma. In April 2002 I stumbled on thePerth Group's article "The Yin and Yang of HIV." I began studying the issue and eventually started looking for anattorney. I've worked in the legal field in Wichita since 1983, and Ifeel it is only my excellent reputation with the local bar thatenabled me to get a lawyer to take the case. Rest assured I'm not looking for a settlement. I want lots of publicity. I welcome anyone with media contacts to help me get my story out. I plan to have the defendants so totally exposed that a settlement andgag order would do them no good anyway. I realize that my life might be more peaceful if I just kept my HIV"status" under wraps and went on with the knowledge that I'm not goingto die from AIDS, but my soul would not be at peace knowing that somany suffer from the orthodox viewpoint. My lawsuit focuses on the narrow issue of the tests which willhopefully be easier for a jury to understand than the multitude ofissues that will surely eventually be raised in the whole fiasco. It will provide a precedent upon which other cases can be built in thefuture. And if they can't test you, they can't diagnose you. Otherscan escape the terror that has been perpetrated on me, as well as onso many of you. If you are interested in the legal details, here is a copy of thepapers filed in court just two weeks ago. Also of relevance in this quest for understanding more and better ofwhere the truth about AIDS really lays, is the interesting AIDSarticle that Sepp Hasslberger had published over a year ago. On hisHealth Supreme blog, he recounts in detail a great exchange he hadjust been having with others who, like many of us indeed, thought thatthe AIDS cures and tests had nothing really bad about them. He wrote: Recently, a friend from the UK sent a copy of an article published inthe Observer, titled: "UK firm tried HIV drug on orphans" whichdetails experiments with toxic AIDS drugs on orphans in New York,involving the British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline. Reading the article that I had forwarded to some people, a medicaldoctor friend has had the following comment: "I see nothing wrong with this. At least the children receivedtreatment for free." That's where we differ, I replied. To me, AIDS treatment (AZT) ishighly toxic and potentially will kill the patient. Considering thehigh rate of false positives of the AIDS test, that is something to beavoided. My friend's reply to that was that "there are several AIDS tests, the initial screening test may havea low false positive rate, but not the others - one can count thenumber of AIDS virus particles in the blood, etc." Knowing that this is not the case, I tried once more, saying no Aidstest is able to count virus particles in the blood. Both the Elisa and Western blot testsare non-specific and react to(stressed) protein fractions. None of the tests counts virus particlesin the blood. In fact, the virus itself is a construct that escapes logic. It is not present in many so-called HIV positive individuals, even inpeople with full blown Aids symptomology, and it has not been shownscientifically to cause anything. If you start looking into the critical literature you'll get a greatsurprise. Not content with my reply, my doctor friend asked for help from apharmacist, editor of several pharmacists' publications and specificdrug databases.The question "Is Josef right about distrusting AIDS tests and viral counts?" which then elicited the following answer: "I think this is an extreme position, but one that some folksaround the world have taken. I think the president of some African nation took this positionand his people decided not to protect against HIV and it resulted inthousands or millions more HIV positive individuals. We'll get you ananswer..." After some days, my friend wrote, saying:"Here is a reply worth noting, to try to put the AIDS test question inits proper perspective. It comes from the objective source that doesnot make money on any drugs." The "expert", Jim Avedikian, owner of what his website describes as"the Largest and Oldest HIV Specialty Pharmacy in the San GabrielValley", had this to say: "I can't believe that this myth is still floating around! If 4 outof 5 AIDS tests were false positives, you would be hearing a lot moreabout it in the media. Although it may be technically true that HIV does not kill youdirectly, the decimated immune system it leaves behind subjects you todozens of opportunitic infections which will kill you. Please do not reprint or spread these rumors in your publications... it will do a lot more harm than good!" Less than convinced, I replied once more, saying "the response of JimAvedikian is rather disappointing. He avoids the scientific issue ofthe validity of Aids tests. You would be hearing a lot more about itin the media is not really an argument that allays any scientificconcern." My friend, after this, bowed out of the conversation with an excuse,but it just so happens that in another online conversation, I cameacross the answer to the question. Neville Hodgkinson, former medical correspondent of the London SundayTimes, has outlined the history of our medical response to the AIDSproblem in a highly interesting article, meticulously documenting whathe says. After this eye opener, the ball is back with the scientists who havebeen telling us to take the drugs and shut up. Let them respond, if they can... In essence, despite more than $100 billion spent on AIDS by UStaxpayers alone, scientists have not been able to ascertain how HIVcauses the AIDS syndrome. Predictions about the course of the epidemic have proved inaccurate. While millions are said to be infected and dying in Africa, AIDSdeaths have fallen in Europe and the USA and now total fewer than 250a year in the UK, which has a population of nearly 60 million. Claims that cocktails of antiviral drugs are responsible for a declinein 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" fromthe drugs. The HIV theory of AIDS causation has fulfilled certain social andpublic health needs, but the scientific community has not acknowledgedor addressed serious flaws in AIDS theory and medical practice, inparticular a failure to validate "HIV" diagnostic tests againstisolation of virus. Genetic and chemical signals produced by disordered immune cells mayhave been misinterpreted as evidence of the presence of a lethal virus. There is vast over-diagnosis of AIDS and "HIV disease" in Africa andother countries where malnutrition and grossly impoverished livingcircumstances, with associated infections, are the real killers. The harmful consequences of these mistakes and omissions areincreasing now that the World Health Organisation and UNAIDS,convinced of an African pandemic, are urging finance ministers ofAfrican countries to devote more domestic funds to HIV/AIDS activities. On the other hand, if debt relief and other emergency aid for whichUNAIDS is also campaigning are used appropriately, enormous relief ofhuman suffering will be possible. A reasoned response from the scientific community to the full range ofevidence challenging the HIV theory is overdue. If you want to find out more about this thorny issue, here are plentyof great pointers to start analyzing the validity of the informationyou have taken for granted until now. Sepp Hasslberger - - Health Supreme [ Read more ]Related topics: AIDS - HIV Information Access health media credibility