Guest guest Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 AIDS DISSIDENT ACTION ALERT FOR SOUTHERN CALIF: THIS WEEKEND, JAN. 20-22, 2006 West Hollywood, CA In 2001, I went to a training session for 'HIV/AIDS' support group facilitators lead by LA Shanti, fully intending, as a matter of non-violent resistance to the AIDS Industry Apologism, to start a support group for those wanting to explore, in a safe-place, dissenting scientific and alternative medical challenges to the 'HIV/AIDS' theory or model. Afterall, it's not very 'supportive' to attend a group where these issues are considered already settled and 'undeniable' if you still have doubts. However, after the first full day of a two-weekend training program in West Hollywood, whereupon I challenged information that was being presented during an HIV 101 session, afterwhich I was asked to leave. The following weekend I invited a few other AIDS Dissidents to come with me and stand near the exits/entrances to provide AIDS alternative resources and information and to let the other participants know I had been banned and why. I consider it to have been a rather successful dissident non-violent action, planting many seeds and distributing literature while having a number of productive conversations. Because of this action, the PLUS [Positive Living for US] seminars are held in " undisclosed locations " though the present location of the following event has been made known to me. Now, another entity, The Life Group LA, is organizing a similiar event, POZ LIFE WEEKEND SEMINAR, with many of the same cast of characters, LA Shanti, Being Alive LA, etc. for this very weekend: Friday evening and all day Saturday and Sunday, January 20-22, 2006 in West Hollywood, California. I am organizing an educational outreach effort to reach those who may have never heard the AIDS Dissident message. These programs will sometimes claim to be providing a 'holistic' approach, massage and a little accupuncture, yada yada, even while they only present 'complementary' therapies as an adjunct and not a viable alternative to conventional drug 'cocktail' chemotherapy. This CALL TO ACTION is for those in the Southern California area who are free anytime from Friday evening through Saturday and Sunday. Please call me as soon as possible to let me know of your interest and willingness to take this most bold action. Our actions will all be legal and non-violent, though will likely get a bit heated at times. This is a semi-annual event and the opportunity has just presented itself, so I hope you will prayerfully consider participating. Kelly Jon Landis Santa Monica, CA (310) 663-3895 == POZ Life Weekend Seminar LOCATION: West Hollywood Community Center at Plummer Park 7377 Santa Monica Blvd. West Hollywood, Ca. 90046. DATE & TIME: · Friday, January 20, 2006 from 6:00- 10:00 pm. Registration will start at 5:00 pm · Saturday January 21st, 2006 from 9:30 am to 7:00 pm. On Saturday, registration will begin at 9:00 am · Sunday January 22nd, 2006 from 9:00 am to 7:15 pm. On Sunday registration will start at 8:30 am == BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON AIDS CENSORSHIP == Are These Facts News to You? Why are we not getting all the facts about HIV and AIDS? Why do media reports uncritically promote HIV testing and the notion that everyone is at risk for AIDS? Why do the AIDS organizations supported by our tax dollars and donations leave the information addressed in this book out of their education programs and advertising campaigns? Some answers to these questions may be found by examining our current AIDS funding and research systems which offer little incentive for critical review, forthright discussion and innovation, but which are the source of most AIDS news. Total tax dollars spent on AIDS presently exceeds $50 billion. Annual AIDS funding increases every year and is one of the only areas of the federal budget that has faced no threat of cuts. The high priority given to AIDS is based on the notion that AIDS poses a widespread and ever-growing health threat to all Americans. Since the government institutions responsible for generating official AIDS reports are the recipients of these multi-billions in AIDS dollars, it is understandable that the information they disseminate would support, rather than challenge the idea that AIDS is a large and growing problem. Their official reports are the basis for most AIDS newsreports that are not analyzed or investigated before they are repeated by the media and AIDS groups. Investigative media reports on AIDS are generally discouraged because of sensitivity to the many social and political issues that surround HIV and AIDS. AIDS awareness, AIDS drugs, safe sex, and HIV testing are among the myriad concepts about AIDS that have been integrated into popular culture. Widespread acceptance of these concepts makes challenges to current views on HIV and AIDS appear highly controversial or even too dangerous to report. As orthodox AIDS expert and Nobel Laureate Dr. David Baltimore has declared, " There is no question HIV is the cause of AIDS. Anyone who gets up publicly and says the opposite is encouraging people to risk their lives. " 155 The Los Angeles Times recently acknowledged the factors that can influence AIDS news in " Protest Averted, " an article that recounts the decision by a local TV station to alter a broadcast that mentioned decreases in AIDS: " After being pressured by the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, KCBS-TV Channel 2 has revised a station editorial on AIDS, deleting the line that stated 'A new report by the CDC indicates that AIDS is down in all categories and is not an epidemic.' " 156 Many AIDS activist organizations charge that critical examination of HIV and AIDS is equivalent to promoting unsafe sex and may cause HIV positives to stop or refuse necessary pharmaceutical treatment. One such group, the San Francisco based drug advocacy organization Project Inform, brought their concerns regarding AIDS critics before the National Academy of Sciences. Project Inform's founder, Martin Delaney, is a nationally recognized AIDS activist and a member of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Council on AIDS. The group's National Board of Governors includes HIV codiscoverer Dr. Robert Gallo and award-winning AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho. In 1997, Delaney petitioned the Academy asking them to expel members who engage in public challenges to the HIV=AIDS paradigm.157 In his letter to the Academy, Delaney denounces scientists who make information that questions AIDS available to " young and poorly informed people struggling with HIV infection [whose] natural inclination toward denial gives them a seemingly legitimate way to ignore a positive HIV antibody test, to cast aside...safe sex, and to forgo the complex challenge of multi-drug combination therapy. " He suggests that AIDS is an area of public health that should not be examined in public forums, reasoning that " just as the blanket of free speech doesn't sanction the person who yells 'fire' in a crowded theater, neither does academic freedom provide protection for irresponsible behavior by scientists, " and draws a parallel to criminal behavior claiming that " it is difficult to distinguish [the] actions [of scientists who raise questions about AIDS] from those of a mass murderer. " Attached to Project Inform's appeal is a list of supporting endorsements. Among the individuals and organizations joining the campaign to curtail critical discussion of AIDS science are AIDS Project Los Angeles; the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of San Francisco AIDS Research Institute; FAIR (Foundation for AIDS and Immune Research); the Florida AIDS Action Council; the United Foundation for AIDS; the Multicultural AIDS Coalition Inc.; Being Alive; Test Positive Aware Network; Gregory Britt, CEO of AIDS Research Alliance; noted AIDS researcher Dr. Michael Gottlieb; Brenda Freiberg, Chair of Public Policy at AIDS Service Center in Pasadena, California; Mary Lucey, President of Women Alive; and Dr. Martin Markowitz of the renowned Aaron Diamond Research Center in New York. Project Inform's stance against information that questions AIDS is not unusual. For example, LA Shanti Foundation, a Los Angeles support network for people diagnosed with life-threatening illness, recently took a position on what many regard as life-affirming information about AIDS: My request to be considered as a speaker for their Positive Living For Us seminar, " a weekend for those who have tested positive for HIV...in which experts provide information about treatments, nutrition, sexuality, peer support, public benefits, insurance, legal matters, and other relevant topics, " was not only rejected, my letter of inquiry was forwarded to the FDA's California AIDS Fraud Task Force, and to the District Attorney's AIDS Fraud Unit by the PLUS program manager, Ric Parish.158 When asked by The Valley Advocate newspaper for comments on the growing movement to rethink AIDS, Nancy MacNeill, program coordinator for the Los Angeles AIDS group Women Alive exclaimed, " We hate them. They're spreading dangerous information. " 159 Greg Gonsalves, founder of the New York City AIDS drug advocacy organization Treatment Action Group declared that " SPIN magazine's AIDS column is a public health menace " for its inclusion of alternative perspectives on AIDS.160 Imposing limits on what AIDS information may be brought before the public limits public awareness of different ideas about HIV and AIDS. AIDS organizations that object to public questioning of AIDS science may take their lead from mainstream media venues where news that challenges common perceptions about AIDS is rare. Journalists who cover AIDS seldom engage in investigative reporting and many have built successful careers by reiterating official AIDS views. Uncritical AIDS reports are the ones that have earned awards and have afforded many writers celebrity status. Laurie Garrett of Newsday, for example, has received two Pulitzer Prizes for her coverage of AIDS and frequently appears on television alongside prominent AIDS researchers and government health officials. In a recent issue of Esquire magazine, Garrett described the PCR test, a test not indicated or approved for the detection of HIV and unable to measure actual virus, as measuring HIV with " exquisite specificity. " 161 Rather than rock the boat propelled by establishment AIDS views, high-level AIDS reporters generally dismiss or ignore challenges to the HIV=AIDS hypothesis. Since the publications designed to reach HIV positives are funded almost entirely by AIDS drug manufacturers, it is not surprising that critical reporting on AIDS is absent from these venues. To cite just one example, AIDS pharmaceutical promotions filled 17 out of 31 pages allocated for advertisements in a current issue of A & U: America's AIDS Magazine. Of the remaining 14 pages, nine were purchased by viatical settlement groups offering cash in exchange for the life insurance policies of HIV positives.162 The research labs that produce the studies and reports that are turned into AIDS news all rely on some form of federal AIDS funding. Since the late 1980s, government support for AIDS research has been predicated on adherence to the HIV hypothesis. Institutions that depend on government dollars for support must assume that HIV is the cause of AIDS, and grants are not available to scientists or clinicians whose work may challenge the HIV hypothesis. For example, no funding has been provided for studies that compare the health of medicated and unmedicated HIV positives in matched control groups, for conducting viral load tests and T cell counts on HIV negatives matched to AIDS risk groups, or for verifying the accuracy of HIV antibody tests through isolation of actual virus in people with positive test results.One well-known casualty of the AIDS funding system is Dr. Peter Duesberg of the University of California at Berkeley. Federal support for his laboratory was not renewed after his 1987 article in Cancer Research that questioned Gallo's HIV hypothesis and proposed an alternative AIDS hypothesis.163 Before 1987, Duesberg received ongoing funding as a recipient of the NIH's prestigious Outstanding Investigator Award. He was also a Nobel candidate for his discovery of oncogenes, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Since raising challenges to the HIV hypothesis, Duesberg has had 21 consecutive research grant applications rejected by the NIH and other federal and state funding sources.164 Pharmaceutical company grants are another important source of AIDS research money that make objective circumstances for drug studies almost impossible to achieve. Surprisingly, it is not considered a conflict of interest when AIDS researchers own stock in the companies whose products they test, or when they are hired to run the drug trials they publish in medical journals. In fact, it is common practice for drug companies to pay researchers to author favorable articles about their products.165 Many AIDS scientists previously employed by the US government have gone into private AIDS enterprise, a practice that further blurs the lines between news, public relations, and private interests. For example, the former director of the US Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Donald Francis, used his reputation in government AIDS work and his access to the media to raise $40 million in private investment capital for his AIDS vaccine company VaxGen.166 In a recent CNN report on VaxGen, Francis promoted an AIDS vaccine as " the only way to stop a virus that is essentially 100 percent fatal. " 167 In fact, most media stories that incite fear of AIDS and praise AIDS drugs derive from press releases or studies generated by AIDS drug developers. Since the pharmaceutical industry, like any other profit-oriented business, seeks to increase sales and profitability, expand its consumer base, and maintain a favorable public image, it is understandable that their press releases would promote continued success rather than provide critical or unfavorable information. However, their press releases are rarely questioned or scrutinized before being reported as news. While America's institutions of higher learning are considered appropriate arenas for exploration of new ideas, open debate and discussion, this is often not the case when it comes to AIDS. To take just one recent example, members of the Graduate Students Council at Einstein College of Medicine in New York were discouraged from having their invited guest, Dr. Peter Duesberg, speak on campus. After being voted the student-selected speaker over orthodox AIDS researcher Dr. David Baltimore, and NIH Director Dr. Harold Varmus, Duesberg was informed that faculty members had pressured students into canceling the event. As student council chairman Robert Glover explained, " The general consensus is that many people would be offended by Duesberg's visit. " 168As AIDS advocacy and service providers have grown from grassroots groups into multimillion dollar corporations, it has become harder for leaders to consider new ideas and approaches to resolving AIDS. For example, the success formula for the $45 million nonprofit AIDS Health Care Foundation of Los Angeles is providing AIDS drugs to people who test HIV positive.169 Also, much of the money spent by AIDS groups comes from grants by pharmaceutical companies. To take just one example, the Washington, DC based National Association of People with AIDS receives funding from Merck, Glaxo-Wellcome, Roche, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.170 Such situations provide little incentive for challenging popular ideas about HIV and AIDS.There are an estimated 90,000 AIDS organizations in the US, about one for every six Americans ever given a diagnosis of AIDS.171 Few, if any, of these groups evaluate the news they pass on to us in their education and awareness campaigns. Most repeat unexamined press releases from government agencies, the pharmaceutical industry and government-funded labs to the exclusion of all other information. And most will not participate in public discussion of the questions raised in this book.Over 100 AIDS groups, AIDS specialists and researchers have declined my invitation to engage in a public dialogue on the validity of the HIV/AIDS hypothesis, the accuracy of HIV tests, and the safety and efficacy of AIDS treatment drugs. == THE FOLLOWING TEXT IS TAKEN FROM THE WEBSITE OF " THE LIFE GROUP/LA " RE: POZ LIFE WEEKEND SEMINAR: " The POZ Life Weekend Seminar is a place where compassion, education, community and love is offered unconditionally. It's a place HIV+ men, women, youths and family members can come be themselves, feel comforted and support in their effort to learn how to either live a long healthy productive POZitive lifestyle, or help someone they know and love overcome the fears associated with being HIV+.Our diverse group of Presenters, Volunteers and Staff can effectively reach out and relate to the specific issues that can concern and equally diverse group of men, women, people of color, gay men and heterosexual HIV individuals. Age is not relevant in most cases, however each community and culture has specific needs for support, and each is addressed in breakout or concurrent sessions according to the specific demographic majority of the enrolled number of participants. When enrolling, you'll be asked what your specific concerns might be, or what you hope to achieve by participating in the seminar. We strive to find qualified presenters to address these specific issues, or ask one of the already scheduled qualified presenters to be sure and touch on that topic to insure all questions are answered. Our workshops are extremely interactive. Our Presenters always welcome your questions and comments. You see…presenters and volunteers are not the only ones sharing and teaching. The magic occurs when participants also reach out and help one another with helpful information, suggestions, support and tips. " PRESENTER BIOS READS LIKE A WHOS WHO IN HIV PROPAGANDA OR AIDS APOLOGETICS 101: http://www.thelifegroupla.org/bios.html Although The Life Group LA claims: " Our program is currently not funded in full. All Facilitators, Presenters and Staff are currently Dedicated Volunteers. All donations currently go directly to the client service and production of the weekend seminars. No salaries are paid.Our only compensations are the emotional rewards we receive when you attend! " it appears they are looking to grow and are asking for volunteer grantwriters and fundraisers and donations. Also, they have accepted donations from pharmers Gilead and GlaxoSmithKline [ " GSK " ] as well as professionals employed by the AIDS Industry. == SUMMARY ANALYSIS OF AIDS DISSIDENT CHALLENGES W/ REFERENCES AND LINKS... kjl == HIV DENIAL OR INFORMED AIDS DISSENT? Think only a few scientists, doctors, academics and journalists doubt the 'HIV' theory of immuno-deficiency? THINK AGAIN. http://www.aras.ab.ca/thelist.htm http://www.aras.ab.ca/aidsquotes.htm DID YOU KNOW hundreds of dissenting or dissident scientists, including Nobel Laureates and members of the National Academy of Sciences, confirming alternative medicine's long questioning of the virus/germ mode or 'one-cause, one-course' drug-based model, are calling into question the dominant, conventional pharmaceutically-based scientific and medical hypothesis for the alleged viral pathogenesis and progression of 'HIV=AIDS?' Dissidents dissent from a legitimate scientific and medical bases as to the causatives and curatives for 30-something previously known and unrelated 'AIDS' clinically redefined illnesses, all of which occur in those diagnosed 'HIV' non-specific antibody negative. So, besides the definition and diagnosis of what is called 'AIDS' Dissidents are also challenging the accuracy and specifity of the 'HIV' non-specific antibody tests to measure infection with any virus since there are over 60+ known cross-reactors from pregnancy to the flu to immunizations to hepatitis to transfusions and on and on. It is a clinical conundrum or circular construct. TB + HIV = AIDS, whereas TB - HIV = TB and so on and so forth on down the list of 30-something previously known and unrelated illnesses. No one has ever had 'AIDS' or become ill or died of 'AIDS' though persons [mis]diagnosed as such have become ill and/or died. It is not simply a matter of semantics, that we are playing a name game. Most of those [mis]diagnosed with 'AIDS' have no clinical symptoms except a non-specific clinical marker of under 200 T-Cells, and hundreds of thousands of 'HIV' positives in the US who are elligable clinically for AIDS drugs do not avail them. Although some AIDS Dissidents offer an alternative theory or explanation that 'HIV' positivity is a marker for a stressed immune system, there is insufficient evidence this is always or usually a wake-up call rather than a crank call for a poor health style. We therefore recommend all persons address their health irrespective of 'HIV' or 'AIDS' labels. We endorse a multi-factorial approach to immune suficiency and sustainability in addressing the oxidative stressors including physical[malnutrition], chemical[toxicologic], biological[dis-ease], psychological[chronic stress], and spiritual[religious reconciling]-- of which 'HIV' non-specific, non-confirmatory marker positivity is no reliable indicator of worthiness or wellness. We are disbelievers in a '[sAME]SEXUAL=SIN=SICKNESS' mindset having lead for many to the unquestioned acceptance of the 'HIV=AIDS=DEATH' paradigm. We endorse proportionate access to alternative health care for the 50%-2/3 of those 'HIV/AIDS' [mis]diagnosed in the US which the HHS says are not in 'HIV' Specialist Care and many of whom may not choose to access due to their health care philosophy and practise. This is reasonable to assume since a significant percentage of Americans share an alternative health care philosophy and practise. We therefore endorse a model of competition within our health care system to break up the current model of monopoly of conventional, pharmaceutically-based medicine. And we vigerously oppose the enforcement of medical correctness and scientific censorship within governmental and private non-profit insititutions such as that enforced by the AIDS Industry and many organizations within the LGBT community. AIDS DISSIDENT SCIENTIFIC SUMMARY ANALYSIS what is hiv? No laboratory has ever obtained an undisputed sample of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), despite countless attempts. Most laboratories, clinics and medical corporations have come to accept indirect signs, or 'markers', such as antibody reactions, proteins, genetic fragments, 'virus-like' particles, enzymes - that could suggest a virus but also other things - as proving the presence and existence of an 'HIV'. If such a virus were ever isolated by standards applicable until the late 1970s, the expectations are that it would be a retrovirus - a concept of viruses adopted in the early 1970s. The genetic code of a retrovirus would work 'backwards' - 'retro' - transforming RNA to DNA. Most retroviruses are known as harmless passenger viruses a part of all of endogenous or naturally occuring genetic make-up. 'HIV' has never been found in suficient quantities to kill T-Cells and in fact there is no concensus even after 20+ years as to 'HIV's cytotoxic or cell killing mechanism. For a decade, researchers thought cancer was caused by a retrovirus. Professor Peter Duesberg, UC Berkeley, isolated the first retrovirus and is a Father of Retrovirology says 'HIV' is a harmless passenger virus that does not cause the syndrome known as 'AIDS.' In 1984 some signs suggesting a possible new virus were detected in cell cultures by the scientific teams of Frenchman Luc Montagnier in Paris, and American Robert Gallo in Washington, who were trying to explain a single cause for 'AIDS'. The French called their findings Lymphadenopathy Associated Virus (LAV), the Americans called theirs Human T-cell Lymphotrophic Virus III (HTLV-III). The US Government announced at a press conference in 1984 that a new virus was " the probable cause of AIDS, " yet before any scientific papers inviting peer scrutiny were published. When such papers appeared in Science some weeks later, a dispute erupted between Montagnier and Gallo. Gallo was found guilty of scientific misconduct by a Senate Ethics Committee, for misappropriating material and photographs of 'virus- like' particles from the French. Because of the financial stakes - Gallo and the US government applied for a patent for tests for 'HIV' the day of the press conference - the matter was eventually solved only by a closed meeting between the scientists which produced an official history of events, and a meeting between the US and French Presidents. However, neither Gallo nor Montagnier ever managed to purify samples of the virus they claimed to have detected. Many scientists believe that without fulfiling this traditional primary requirement of virus isolation, multiple confusions at the molecular biological level are inevitable over what or whether anything has actually been found. To this day, primary purification of 'HIV' has never been achieved. The last attempts, published in 1997 in Virology, revealed proteins and genetic fragments from microvesicles - sub-cell particles - but no virus. hiv antibody tests INDEX OF ARTICLES, PAPERS http://www.healtoronto.com/hivtest.html Over the years of the HIV/AIDS theory, different types of tests have been used to try to detect such a virus in patients. These have included (1) antibody tests, which look for a reaction in a person's blood between their natural antibodies and synthetic proteins said to belong to HIV, and (2) Polymerase Chain Reaction - PCR - or 'viral load' genetic tests, which purport to use part of the virus' genetic code to detect its presence. All these tests are indirect, or surrogate. They do not claim to detect any whole virus. Rather, they use markers to infer whether a virus might be present. Unfortunately for the accuracy of these tests, these same markers can be found in a variety of non-HIV situations. No HIV test of any kind has ever been validated against the one measure that is not indirect - the gold standard: physical virus isolation. This is because isolation of HIV by the previously conventional standards of viral isolation has never been achieved, despite numerous attempts. Of the antibody tests for HIV, there are two main types - called ELISA, and Western Blot. Neither was designed especially for HIV, but are examples of laboratory methodologies used in many investigations. Around the world many companies market their versions of the ELISA and Western Blot antibody tests for HIV. However, the uncertain, unvalidated nature of these tests is reflected in the product literature supplied by their manufacturers. A typical example for the ELISA reads: " At present there is no recognised standard for establishing the presence or absence of antibodies to HIV-1 and HIV-2 in human blood. " - Axsym System, Abbott Laboratories A typical example for the Western Blot reads: " Do not use this kit as the sole basis of diagnosis of HIV-1 infection. " - Epitope, Organon Teknika Neither Isolation Nor Validation Any scientist who declares that a genetic sequence, moreover a genetic sequence arrived at by human concensus, represents a naturally occuring virus, has compromised their scientific integrity. To further suggest that this genetic sequence represents a unique, exogenous, sexually transmitted and indeed pathogenic retrovirus is to enter the realms of pseudo-science. Without HIV isolation all is mere speculation. Even if HIV were isolated and the proteins tested for by the ELISA antibody test were actually proteins specific to HIV, an antibody test would still not be accurate enough for determining actual viral infection. Everyone tests HIV positive on ELISA if their serum is not diluted by a factor of 400 because of non-specific antibodies which bind to any proteins. " Of course we looked for it [HIV]... We saw some particles but they did not have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses. ... I repeat we did not purify. " ~ Dr. Luc Montagnier, the " discoverer of HIV " (see French transcript of quote from the interview http://healtoronto.com/lmfrench.html , Did Luc Montagnier Discover HIV? http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/dtinterviewlm.htm or video) " No one believed we really had that many isolates... No one believed we really meant that... " ~ Dr. Robert Gallo, also discovered " HIV " (see Gallo Investigated http://healtoronto.com/galloindex.html ) 'viral load' / PCR test Polymerase Chain Reaction - PCR - or the 'viral load' test, purports to detect, and quantify, blood-borne HIV in patients. However, the genetic fragments it amplifies have never been proved to originate in HIV, or in any virus. The accuracy of PCR viral load is estimated by leading doctors at plus or minus 300% - i.e. a reading of 90,000 could be 30,000 or 270,000! The PCR was not invented for HIV. Its Nobel Prizewinning inventor, Dr Kary Mullis, calls the use of PCR in AIDS medicine, " a tragedy in the practice of Western medicine " and a " viral load of crap. " The uncertain unvalidated nature of the PCR for HIV is reflected in the product literature supplied by manufacturers. A typical example reads: " The Amplicor HIV-1 Monitor test is not intended to be used as a screening test for HIV or as a diagnostic test to confirm the presence of HIV infection. " - Roche, Amplicor VIRAL LOAD OF WHAT? http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/index/kmullis.htm t-cells Since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS theory, it has been suggested that a virus kills a certain type of cell of the immune system - called T-cells, or CD4 cells. 'T' refers to the maturing of these cells in the gland of the Thymus, after their birth in the bone marrow. CD4 is short for Cluster Differentiation 4, referring to a method by which scientists group subsets of these cells according to protein markers on their surface. In fact there has never been any proof that an HIV kills these cells, or indeed that even when they seem in low numbers in a person's blood, cells have not instead migrated out of the blood to bone marrow and elsewhere. Despite common assumptions, even by doctors, CD4/T-cell counting remains a poor predictor of wellness and illness. Since the Berlin World AIDS Conference of 1992 considerably less scientific importance has been attached to T-cell counting. T-cell counts are naturally variable, within an individual over time, between individuals, and between communities. The technology for counting T-cells is accurate only to approximately plus or minus 100 cells. The cells sampled for counting are taken from a person's peripheral blood, where it is widely accepted, less than 10% of a healthy person's T-cells will ever be found. CD-4 T-cells: What Do They Count For? [index of articles/papers] http://healtoronto.com/cd4counts.html what is aids? Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a medical diagnosis applied since 1984 in some branches of medicine and the wider public when a person perceived as infected with a human immunodeficiency virus ('HIV') experiences one of 29 conditions. But all of the 29 conditions exist or occur in persons diagnosed 'HIV' antibody negative and are only redefined as 'AIDS' when someone tests antibody positive. 'Acquired' specifies that the diagnosis does not apply to people with inherent immune deficiencies. 'Immune Deficiency' is conventionally taken to be the inability of a person's body to protect against illness. Syndrome is a group of symptoms or conditions which seem to be more or less linked. The growing list of conditions defined 'in the presence of HIV infection' since 1984 as AIDS, have already all been known for decades. Thus TB plus 'HIV' is AIDS, TB without 'HIV' is TB. Cervical cancer plus 'HIV' is AIDS, without is cervical cancer. Etc. In the early 1980s the 'AIDS-indicator' conditions numbered two: pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (thought to be caused by an opportunistic protozöon, now thought to be fungal), and Kaposi's Sarcoma (a quasi-cancer of the skin and other membranes, first reported in 1887). These two conditions were found increasingly frequently in the early 1980s in the USA and Europe in men having sex with men, and were hypothesised as resulting from infectious immune deficiency, inferred from counting people's peripheral T-cells. The syndrome was for a while classified as Gay Related Immune Deficiency (GRID). The list of 'defining' conditions has increased substantially since 1984, though the major risk groups for 'AIDS' in the West have remained men who have sex with men, people with haemophilia (Haemophilia), and IV drug users (Drugs). Despite early alarms, HIV/AIDS has never become a heterosexual epidemic in the West, which does not mean it's a gay disease, but it has failed to meet the parameters of the infectious model. 'HIV=AIDS' does not fulfill Koch's Postulates as none of the apes injected with 'HIV' have developed 'AIDS' conditions. The international CDC definition of AIDS is specifically founded on 'infection with HIV', assumed or demonstrated. Thus by definition it is nearly impossible to have 'AIDS' that is not 'correlative' with 'HIV', though it is widely accepted that 'Immune Deficiency' can be 'Acquired' in a many ways. There are also many well documented causes and treatments for all of the 29 'AIDS' redefined conditons or for addressing aquired immune deficiency. Between different regions of the globe, the criteria and means for arriving at an AIDS diagnosis vary. There are at least seven varying official criteria for diagnosing 'AIDS.' In Africa, for example, the same official concept of AIDS can be found, but since a meeting in 1985 in the city of Bangui, Cote d'Ivoire, the World Health Organisation's Bangui AIDS Definition has allowed for diagnosis of AIDS in Africa with no test performed for 'HIV', if a person experiences the relatively common African symptoms of weight loss, cough, fever and diarrhoea for more than a month. HIV cannot be the cause of AIDS. Why would a virus infect 1% of the US population and 30% of some Africa countries? Why would a virus cause different symptoms depending on your age, gender, and location? Why hasn't 20 years worth of research and billions of dollars spent created a vaccine or " cure " ? Why do the pharmaceutical companies and the government censor the scientists, doctors and laypeople that ask these questions and provide reasonable answers? The infectious model does not work that way. See how 'HIV=AIDS' unfills Kochs' Three Postulates of the Infectious Model of Disease. This is why there will never be an 'AIDS' vaccine or cure for 'AIDS' or a manner to prevent transmission of the alleged 'HIV.' 'AIDS' IN AFRICA INDEX OF PAPERS, ARTICLES http://healtoronto.com/africa.html BEYOND FLAT EARTH MEDICINE How popular consensus and the medical establishment have often stubbornly clung to the wrong ideas, unable to think outside the box. When medically 'correct' wasn't always. A Brief History of Mismanaged Epidemics [Disease]---[Popular Consensus]---[Actual Cause] Scurvy------Contagious---Malnutrition: Vitamin C deficiency Beri-beri---Contagious---Malnutrition: Thiamin deficiency Maternal Fever---Non-contagious---Contagious: Unsanitary doctor practices Influenza---Bacteria---Virus Pellagra----Contagious---Malnutrition: Niacin deficiency SMON(1950s-70s, Japan)---New Virus---Iatrogenic: Pharmaceutically induced In science as in the law, the affirmative statement or theory bares the burden of proof for establishing itself. Those who critique it's establishment in fact, are not required to reprove or replace another theory of it's aetiology, especially when immune dysfunction has a multi-factorially influenced set of unrelated conditions, or according to Alternative Medicine, all illness/wellness is on a continuum and the result of immune sufficiency or deficiency. Alternative Medicine has long questioned the virus/germ mode or 'one-cause, one-course' drug-based model or theory of illness which is confirmed by the work of hundreds of AIDS Dissident Scientists, including Nobel Laureates, Members of the National Academy of Sciences and pioneers in their fields. Many often disconnect the alternative theories of diagnosis[PHILOSOPHY] from the alternative therapies of treatment [PRACTISE]-- in how Alternative Medicine differentially diagnoses the individual and treats using a holistic, multi-factorial or 'many-causes, many-courses' approache to illness. They treat the underlying causes of symptoms, not diagnosing/treating diseases and certainly not diagnosing/treating syndromes, which are a 'catch-all' of redefined classifications or catagories of conditions. And therefore, Alternative Medicine does not generally recognize conventional disease classifications. " For disease, all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives. " " There are no specific diseases: there are [only] specific disease conditions [or states of dis-ease]. " Florence Nightingale (Nursing Pioneer, Disease Dissident) Interesting that AIDS Apologists, or those who defend or defer to the affirmative statement or new theory, in this case the 'HIV=AIDS' hypothesis, often compare AIDS Dissidents with Flat Earthers, but Galileo was a Dissident, the Flat Earthers were the mainstream scientific establishment. There is a famous story about Galileo, that is relevant here, I think. Galileo was in trouble with the Church authorities, for his observation of Jupiter's moons, through his telescope. (The four moons that he saw are traditionally called the " Galilean " moons, after their discoverer.) Anyway, he offered to let an influential member of the Clergy look through the telescope at these moons, so that said clergyman would see what Galileo had seen. This pious man refused, saying that as long as he did not look, his religious faith could remain intact. Sadly, we are dealing with a kind of medical " church " , regarding the HIV theory; its members do not want their faith shaken (or stirred! :-) ) Scurvy was thought to be transmitted by a microbe for 200 years even while Dissident Scientists were arguing it was a Vitamin C deficiency. The implication was that Seamen or Sailors engaged in 'buggary' were sexually transmissing a 'bug.' Homosexuality was deemed a psychiatric disorder by the medical and scientific establishment until 1973, a decade later the medical diagnosis of GRID-- Gay Related Immune Dysfunction was described in the literature. PEER REVIEW REVIEWED See especially: Little Evidence for Effectiveness of Scientific Peer Review, British Medical Journal 326:241, February 1, 2003; Study Faults Industry Clinical Trials: Company-backed Tests Rarely Follow Guidelines, Report Finds; Associated Press, October 23, 2002, Trials Funded by for Profit Organizations Favor the Intervention: The British Medical Journal, August 3, 2002; 325:249; Scientists for Sale, Health Editor The Guardian, Thursday February 7, 2002; Medical Journal Eases Conflict Rules The Associated Press; Conflicts of Interest in Medical Journals, AMA Journal Critiques Report Data, Associated Press. Hidden Risks, Lethal Truths, Sunday Reporter, Los Angeles Times June 30, 2002; Something Rotten at the Core of Science? Trends in Pharmacological Sciences Vol. 22, No. 2, February 2001; Definning Disease A review by Marilyn Werber Serafini, from National Journal June 8, 2002: Pharmacracy. INDEX OF ARTICLES IN MAINSTREAM PRESS INCLUDING THOSE LISTED: http://www.questionaids.com/index.php?page=PeerReview New quotes examining the supposed transmission of HIV/AIDS via sex, blood products etc. Top 100 Inconsistencies in AIDS Science. New quotes on the relationship between ‘recreational’ drug use and HIV/AIDS. Similar quotes regarding other AIDS drugs (collectively known as HAART). Scientific quotes indicating that not just injected street drugs are associated with HIV and AIDS. HIV tests and measurements are not as accurate as many claim. Is HIV/AIDS really transmitted between people, or is this just an illusion? Myths & Mysteries of HIV and AIDS (html or pdf formats). ==== ARE THE NEWER CLASS OF AIDS DRUGS RESPONSIBLE FOR DECLINES IN 'AIDS' ATTRIBUTED DEATHS? YOU GOTTA HAVE HAART [or Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy]? INDEX OF ARTICLES, PAPERS ON THE NEW CLASS OF AIDS DRUG COCKTAILS http://healtoronto.com/ptease.html CDC data on number of AIDS cases and AIDS deaths. AIDS cases and deaths CLEARLY begin to decline *PRIOR* to the release of new " miracle " drugs! (Taken from: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats/hivsur92.pdf ). However, only 19% of so-called " HIV-positive " people were on the new drugs by the end of June *1996* (see: http://www.retroconference.org/2001/abstracts/abstracts/abstracts/494.htm ). Also, the dosage of the TOXIC AZT has been lowered SUBSTANTIALLY (by at least 50%) since its release in 1987. LINKS TO DISCUSSION THREADS... BUGGERY, BUG-CHASING, BAREBACKING http://forums.delphiforums.com/innocuous/messages?msg=619.1 HIV Epidemiology or Epidemio-illogic: An AIDS Numbers Game http://forums.delphiforums.com/innocuous/messages?msg=606.1 'HIV' Super Strain: Another False Alarm http://forums.delphiforums.com/innocuous/messages?msg=992.1 Logical Fallacies Used Against HIV/AIDS Rethinkers or Dissidents http://forums.delphiforums.com/innocuous/messages?msg=269.1 Why People Diagnosed with 'AIDS' Are Living Longer Now http://forums.delphiforums.com/innocuous/messages?msg=490.1 Who Counts as Socalled " Long-Term Non-Progressors? " http://forums.delphiforums.com/innocuous/messages?msg=180.1 ======================================== RESOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ======================================== The GROUP for the SCIENTIFIC REAPPRAISAL of the HIV/AIDS HYPOTHESIS [100s of pages of articles, papers] http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/find.htm BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL [bMJ] MODERATED ONLINE DEBATE ON HIV/AIDS http://bmj.com/cgi/eletters/326/7387/495 [Especially note referenced contributions of The Perth Group of Austrailian AIDS Dissident Scientists, lead by biophysicist Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, whose other extensive archives are found here http://www.theperthgroup.com and here: http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/perthgroup/ ] Roberto Giraldo, MD President of The Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis http://www.robertogiraldo.com/eng/papers/papers.html TREATING AND PREVENTING ILLNESS ATTRIBUTED TO OR ASSOCIATED WITH " AIDS " http://www.robertogiraldo.com/eng/papers/TreatingAndPreventingAIDS.html REBUTTAL TO NIAID/NIH " Evidence for HIV " DOCUMENT http://www.healtoronto.com/nih INTERNATIONAL AIDS PANEL, INTERIM REPORT Synthesis of deliberations by the panel of experts invited by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki and the ten experiments the Panel designed in attempt to resolve the controversy, endorsed by the African National Congress [AIDS Dissidents/'Denialists' and AIDS Apologists/Orthodoxy] http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/reports/aids/aidspanel.htm REBUTTAL TO DURBAN DECLARATION http://thedurbandeclaration.org/ HEAL [Health Education AIDS Liason] http://www.healtoronto.com ANOTHER LOOK [breastfeeding and 'HIV/AIDS'] http://www.anotherlook.org MOMM [Mothers Opposing Mandatory Medicine] http://www.informedmomm.com AIDS MYTH EXPOSED [Largest AIDS forum on MSN] http://www.aidsmythexposed.com V I R U S M Y T H [Largest AIDS forum on Delphi] http://forums.delphiforums.com/innocuous Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. 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Guest guest Posted January 19, 2006 Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 Hey All, UPDATE ON THIS WEEKENDS' ACTION AT " POZ LIFE WEEKEND " IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Well, they found out about the planned action as I hoped they would. Ric Parish, formerly of LA Shanti and the PLUS seminar program, who now says he is not supportive of LA Shanti, called me this morning about the planned 'protest' er outreach for this weekend of The Poz Life Group LA's POZ LIFE WEEKEND SEMINAR. He asked me what we wanted, suggesting a place at the table, the literature table that is;) And then offered to participate in co-organizing a future debate, for which I offered encouragement, even while acknowledging the only acceptable alternative to our planned action would be inclusion in the program itself as a speaker or presenter. Well, he is actually considering this and wants to meet with me today or tommorrow at the offices of Being Alive, in the West Hollywood Park, which is the fiscal sponsor of this new group. I have had previous dealings with Being Alive and they are well aware of me, having attended several board meetings with other Dissidents, asking that an organization claiming to represent the 'HIV' positive community be inclusive of those with a dissenting scientific and alternative health care philosophy and practise, allowing us to have our own support group. This was met with opposition ofcourse and ultimately denied us. I suspect the reason for this new entity, The Life Group LA, was due to some interperson[n]el conflicts within LA Shanti. A new director took over LA Shanti a few years ago and that may have had something to do with it. Also there is a lot of competition for LA County's Office of AIDS Programs and Policy or OAPP, whose director Chuck Henry, is being investigated for fraud as of a June article in the LA TIMES reproduced below. When I talked to LA Shanti, a PLUS program staff member told me there was negative feedback from the community re: LA Shanti, though he was only on staff for six months and didn't really understand why. I took the opportunity to explain the growing movement of the 'HIV' disaffected-- as opposed to the PC buzz phrase " HIV affected[and infected] " and sent him a detailed e-mail I often send out entitled: " HIV Denial or Informed AIDS Dissent? " with a summary analysis and references/links. I told him I don't have all the answers, but the consumer has a health and human right to hear all the questions; to be fully informed in their consent or dissent on a life and love-effecting matter and he couldn't disagree with that. Anyway, now it is even more critical that every available AIDS Dissident in Southern California attempt to be there this weekend whatever the outcome. We may be participants or 'protestors'[doing non-violent outreach and education outside the event]. Those interested in speaking may actually be given the opportunity. If not, we will take the opportunity, as a matter of non-violent resistance. Onward and Upward, Kelly Jon Landis (310) 663-3895 == == No-Bid AIDS Contract Draws Dissent: County board votes 3 to 2 to award funds to an agency that auditors are probing based on a tip. Los Angeles Times - June 1, 2005 Jack Leonard, Times Staff Writer Amid questions about the way Los Angeles County doles out grants to combat AIDS, a divided Board of Supervisors approved a nearly $200,000 contract Tuesday with a private nonprofit agency without accepting competing bids. The 3-2 vote comes at a tumultuous time for the county Office of AIDS Programs and Policy, which recommended the award and is responsible for granting $82.5 million in federal and state funding for education and treatment programs. On Friday, another major treatment provider sued the county, alleging bias in the way those contracts are awarded. Two weeks ago, the office's[OAPP] director[Chuck Henry] was removed after a county investigation into allegations that he solicited contributions from county contractors while working for Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa's campaign. The contract approved Tuesday requires AltaMed, which operates clinics in the eastern and southeastern parts of the county, to hire an additional employee to encourage young, gay Latino men to seek AIDS and HIV-infection prevention and treatment services. Supervisors questioned the way the county AIDS office selected AltaMed. County auditors are investigating a tip that AltaMed did not adequately provide AIDS and HIV-related services under other county contracts. " You have an entity ... being awarded a contract under investigation by our auditor-controller, " Supervisor Don Knabe said. " I just have a very hard time on a sole-source situation like that making that award. " John Schunhoff, chief operating officer of the county Public Health Agency, told supervisors that AltaMed was chosen because of its track record in providing AIDS services to Latino men. The four-year contract uses a federal grant to pay AltaMed. Schunhoff said county health officials had only four weeks to submit a proposal to Washington for the grant and thus didn't have time to seek other bids. Supervisor Gloria Molina, in whose district many of AltaMed's clinics are located, asked county public health officials to avoid similar problems in the future by allowing other nonprofit agencies the opportunity to register themselves to be considered for such contracts. Nevertheless, she voted with Supervisors Zev Yaroslavsky and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke to approve the contract. Knabe and Supervisor Mike Antonovich cast the dissenting votes. Last week, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation filed a lawsuit alleging that the county had allowed the former director of the AIDS office, Chuck Henry, to award contracts to agencies he had ties with and to punish those with which he did not. County health officials declined to comment on the suit but said they awarded contracts fairly and based on merit. In the lawsuit, foundation President Michael Weinstein accuses Henry of retaliating against him - for complaints he made - with a series of " arbitrary and punitive and other programmatic audits " and attempts to reduce funding for the foundation. Earlier this month, county auditors accused Weinstein's organization of overcharging the county $348,000 for services provided to AIDS patients at the group's Carl Bean House hospice in Los Angeles. Original Message: ----------------- kjlandis kjlandis Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:19:51 -0500 reappraising-aids, reappraising-aids Dissident Action: Jan. 20-22 For Those Near LA CALL TO ACTION: JAN. 20-22, 2006 West Hollywood, CA In 2001, I went to a training session for 'HIV/AIDS' support group facilitators lead by LA Shanti, fully intending, as a matter of non- violent resistance to the AIDS Industry propaganda, to start a support group for those wanting to explore, in a safe-place, dissenting scientific and alternative medical challenges to the 'HIV/AIDS' theory or model. Afterall, it's not very 'supportive' to attend a group where these issues are considered already settled and 'undeniable.' However, after the first full day of a two-weekend training program in West Hollywood, whereupon I challenged information that was being presented during an HIV 101 session, afterwhich I was asked to leave. The following weekend I invited a few other AIDS Dissidents to come with me and stand near the exits/entrances to provide AIDS alternative resources and information and to let the other participants know I had been banned and why. I consider it to have been a rather successful dissident non-violent action, planting many seeds and distributing literature while having a number of productive conversations. As a result of this action, the PLUS [Positive Living for US] seminars are held in " undisclosed locations " though the present location of the following event has been made known to me. Now, another entity, The Life Group LA, is organizing a similiar event, POZ LIFE WEEKEND SEMINAR, with many of the same cast of characters, LA Shanti, Being Alive LA, etc. for this very weekend: Friday evening and all day Saturday and Sunday, January 20-22, 2006 in West Hollywood, California. I am organizing an educational outreach effort to reach those who may have never heard the AIDS Dissident message. This CALL TO ACTION is for those in the Southern California area who are free anytime from Friday evening through Saturday and Sunday. Please call me as soon as possible to let me know of your interest and willingness to take this most bold action. Our actions will all be legal and non-violent, though will likely get a bit heated at times. This is a semi-annual event and the opportunity has just presented itself, so I hope you will thoughtfully consider participating. Kelly Jon Landis Santa Monica, CA (310) 663-3895 [cell] == POZ Life Weekend Seminar LOCATION: West Hollywood Community Center at Plummer Park 7377 Santa Monica Blvd. West Hollywood, Ca. 90046. DATE & TIME: · Friday, January 20, 2006 from 6:00- 10:00 pm. Registration will start at 5:00 pm · Saturday January 21st, 2006 from 9:30 am to 7:00 pm. On Saturday, registration will begin at 9:00 am · Sunday January 22nd, 2006 from 9:00 am to 7:15 pm. On Sunday registration will start at 8:30 am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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