HIV-Aids: A Tragic Error

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Recently, a friend from the UK sent a copy of an article published in the Observer, titled: "UK firm tried HIV drug on orphans" which details experiments with toxic AIDS drugs on orphans in New York, involving the British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline. Reading the article I forwarded to some people, a medical doctor friend has the following to say:

"I see nothing wrong with this. At least the children received treatment for free."

That's where we differ, I replied. To me, AIDS treatment (AZT) is highly toxic and potentially will kill the patient. Considering the high rate of false positives of the AIDS test, that is something to be avoided. My friend's reply to that was that

"there are several AIDS tests, the initial screening test may have a low false positive rate, but not the others - one can count the number of AIDS virus particles in the blood, etc."

Knowing that this is not the case, I tried once more, saying no Aids test is able to count virus particles in the blood. Both Elisa and Western blot are non-specific and react to (stressed) protein fractions. None of the tests counts virus particles in 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 in people with full blown Aids symptomology, and it has not been shown scientifically to cause anything. If you start looking into the critical literature you'll get a great surprise. Not content with my reply, my doctor friend asked for help from a pharmacist, editor of several pharmacists' publications and specific drug databases. The question

"Is Josef right about distrusting AIDS tests and viral counts?"

elicited the following answer:

"I think this is an extreme position, but one that some folks around the world have taken. I think the president of some African nation took this position and his people decided not to protect against HIV and it resulted in thousands or millions more HIV positive individuals. We'll get you an answer..."

After some days, my friend wrote, saying "Here is a reply worth noting, to try to put the AIDS test question in its proper perspective. It comes from the objective source that does not 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 Gabriel Valley", had this to say:

"I can't believe that this myth is still floating around! If 4 out of 5 AIDS tests were false positives, you would be hearing a lot more about it in the media. Although it may be technically true that HIV does not kill you directly, the decimated immune system it leaves behind subjects you to dozens 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 Jim Avedikian is rather disappointing. He avoids the scientific issue of the validity of Aids tests. You would be hearing a lot more about it in the media is not really an argument that allays any scientific concern." My friend, after this, bowed out of the conversation with an excuse, but it just so happens that in another online conversation, I came across the answer to the question. Neville Hodgkinson, former medical correspondent of the London Sunday Times, has outlined the history of our medical response to the AIDS problem in a highly interesting article, meticulously documenting what he says.

After this eye opener, the ball is back with the scientists who have been telling us to take the drugs and shut up. Let them respond, if they can...

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

AIDS: Scientific or Viral Catastrophe?

by Neville Hodgkinson

www.altheal.org

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

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

Introduction

An African girl stands beneath a tall, makeshift wooden cross planted in a freshly dug grave. Her sad face, eyes accusingly upturned, dominates the black-and-white cover of a special issue of the British Medical Journal, "Global Voices on the AIDS Catastrophe".[1] Inside, we read that without access to retroviral drugs, "most of the 40 million people currently living with HIV will die"; that more than 600,000 infants are infected with HIV from their mothers every year; that the epidemic will kill 55 million...

To read the whole article:

Other pertinent links:

Aids Test Unscientific: Test Kit Makers Sued in Kansas

Alive and Well

"The House That AIDS Built" and other recent articles on La Leva di Archimede

Price of AIDS Drug Intensifies Debate on Legal Imports - Legitimate price hike or smoke screen to divert attention away from the fact that the whole AIDS house of cards come crashing down?

Virus Myth

Articles on Aids causation and recommended links by Dr. Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati

South Africa: Traditional Medicine to Fight AIDS, Poverty

Survey confirms - Aids Numbers in Africa overestimated

AIDS in Africa

HIV and AIDS

Two articles published in Nexus Magazine which summarize a book by Harold D. Foster titled "What really causes AIDS":

AIDS - The Seleno-Enzyme Solution (Part I)

AIDS - The Seleno-Enzyme Solution (Part II)

Interesting article on selenium in the Medical Journal of Australia, which states amongst other things that the selenium reference values that have been adopted in the United States are based on only two studies, and that twenty-six European studies since 1990 have all reported mean plasma selenium concentrations below 100 mg/L, the level postulated to be required for glutathione peroxidase saturation and cancer protection.....

Selenium: does selenium status have health outcomes beyond overt deficiency?

The Institute of Science in Society has a series of recent articles on the Aids "pandemic" which is well worth checking out.

Start with these links:

Top 100 Aids Inconsistencies - The mounting inconsistencies in Aids are clear grounds for a major overhaul of the Aids paradigm. We expose the misrepresentation, fraud, pseudo-science and unsubstantiated hype in Aids treatment today.

THE AFRICAN AIDS EPIDEMIC: NEW AND CONTAGIOUS - OR - OLD UNDER A NEW NAME? Duesberg

AIDS the Global Pandemic?
Frightening figures on the AIDS pandemic make headlines all over the world. But do the figures conceal the real causes of human suffering?
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 25th March 2004

Aids & HIV?
Does HIV cause AIDS? Is AIDS a single disease? Do anti-viral drugs really help?
Dr Mae-Wan Ho, 30th March 2004