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Are AIDS drugs worse than the disease? Don't ask the people who make them - by Celia Farber, New York Press - Dec.
28, 2004
AIDS Researcher Chief Altered Safety Report (nevirapine trials) - Dec. 15, 2004
Dentists do not get occupational AIDS! - by E. Neiburger and the Center for Dental AIDS Research. This article was
published in the January issue of the Journal of the American Association of Forensic Dentists, vol. 26, no. 1-3, 2004
David
Rasnick exposes statistical fraud in San Francisco's Department of
Health - plus there are links to the actual reports, so you can do the
math for yourself! "How the San Francisco Department of Public Health turns a 30% decline in HIV infections among gay men into a two-fold increase."
AIDS
Funding: 'An Epidemic of Waste?' - one government watchdog group says
about $1 billion in federal AIDS money has already been wasted. Jan 10, 2002 - Tanya Pampalone wrote
this piece for the San Francisco Examiner - The
City looks at its AIDS programs - AIDS service organizations have come
under scrutiny lately...
The principal author of the
Model
State Emergency Health Powers Act, Lawrence O. Gostin, has written
an opinion
piece that appeared in the L.A. Times on November 4, 2001. Anyone who thinks this
act couldn't possibly impact the HIV-positive population should
read this carefully.
In November 2001 the Washington Monthly
ran an article in which San Francisco's
Department of Health/EIS officer Jeffrey Klausner discusses possible ways to stem the alleged "epidemics" of syphilis and
AIDS by shutting down sex venues and quarantining "barebackers" and others
who supposedly harm the public. Because he gives antibiotics to people who have no prescription,
against common sense and federal law, this guy should be fired. Although there is a phony syphilis
alert scaring the public, the bumbling SF Health Department isn't able
to give even an estimate of how many tests were given in the city over the past
few years, so they can easily say the number went up because more testing
is being done. Testing is particularly encouraged among young gay males
and young people of color... When
Rubbers Hit the Road - Klausner later said his comments
were taken out of context. See this story
from Nov 2001: Syphilis
declines in 2000. The same figures are easily available in
Pretoria,
South Africa. Syphilis is in decline there, despite the racist misconception
that there's some unusual kind of sex happening in Africa. From Rolling
Stone Magazine - November 22, 2001 - a report by writer Rian Malan,
called "AIDS in Africa:
In Search of the Truth" - also, read this letter from the editor -
"A Number
Problem." Writer Rian Malan went to Africa to try to make sense of
AIDS statistics. He left Africa with many questions about what is really
happening. Find a copy of Rolling Stone, Nov. 22, 2001, issue RS 882 -
it has a photo of Bob Dylan on the cover. See
this article, also by Rian Malan - Far
More At Stake On HIV/Aids Than a Denialist Conspiracy - printed in
Business Day/Johannesburg, this story was recently posted on the allafrica.com
website. Patricia Nell
Warren gives us an insightful report on the scary future facing non-violent
protesters as our civil liberties disappear. "The
Bell Tolls For Civil Rights" -- from A&U Magazine, September
2001.
See this
PRESS
RELEASE from ACT-UP/SF, October 30, 2001. Jeffrey Klausner, Director of San Francisco's STD Prevention unit claims
that there is a sudden increase in syphilis cases, and blames gay men using
America Online's chat rooms. However, there is an increase, but not an epidemic, there are simply more tests being given, so more positive
results. Klausner
pressured AOL to post STD warnings - but only on the chat room for gay
men. More homophobia from the Department of Public Health --
Also this article from the SF Examiner,
August 1999, that shows how dangerous this kind of scapegoating can be.
Mothering
Magazine
cover
story: "SPECIAL REPORT: HIV, Families and Medical Justice -- by Susan Gerhard...
it's a story about families who have had to go to extremes to prevent the
enforced poisoning of their children:
Here's an article
from the September 2001 issue of GQ, "Gentleman's Quarterly," called,
"The
AIDS Deniers." This trashy story attacks the direct-action group
ACT-UP/SF, mother/activist Christine Maggiore, and professor Peter Duesberg.
Read
the article here. This sleazy slanted fantasy story comes from
GQ's assistant managing editor, Jim Nelson. There are two lively responses
by ACT-UP/SF's Ronnie Burk including a must-read letter to the editor.
AIDS HEALTH WARNING TO ALL EXPECTANT MOTHERS - and to all who are being recommended to test for HIV
PRESS BRIEFING
-16 July 2001- Glaxo
faces legal battle in South Africa and Ireland
Lawsuit alleges: "The deceased died as a direct result of the cellular
toxicity of AZT."
Author
and journalist Patricia Nell Warren wrote a marvelous article in
the June, 2001 A&U Magazine - "Fourteen
Dollars" - "Today the United States has suddenly junked its respect for civil disobedience. Quietly, when Americans weren't looking, law enforcement and legislators have slapped a high
markup on the penal price of protest." A&U promotes and glamorizes the pharmaceutical
treatment of AIDS. This story about ACT-UP San Francisco will surprise many people who read the magazine regularly...
- This is a great article from The Washington Monthly by Wayne Turner of
ACT UP/DC. While activists may clash on a few points, most agree that accountability
is important when it comes to AIDS service organizations.
Read an article
published in Outcast Magazine - and most recently, Magnus - written by
Alex Russell: "
Straight to the point: Where is the UK heterosexual AIDS epidemic?"
San Francisco's AIDS Office fights federal audit reports - Bay Area Reporter, March 24, 2005 Oversight is needed at Washington DC HIV/AIDS Administration! There are phantom groups run out of
empty offices (Washington Blade, March 25, 2005), poor management of federal funds, unreliable data, unexplained expenditures. Physician, Know Thy Patient - Los Angeles Times, October 24, 2004 - "Most of the knowledge that now
guides medical care comes from studies sponsored by drug and medical-device companies. And through advertising and news media, patients are introduced to these companies' products as well. The information is
designed to persuade us that good care calls for increased use of the products, sometimes without documented benefits to patients. " "One hundred years ago, the first professor at the Johns Hopkins medical school
and greatest clinician of his time, Dr. William Osler, said that "it is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has." In most cases, that remains true today,
though Osler's wisdom is almost completely drowned out by the commercial din that now dominates American medicine." How does a doctor get a job after being forced to leave his job for gross negligence and incompetence? This story tells how a California hospital failed to remove a dangerous doctor from
medical practice. An Undisciplined Doctor - Time Magazine - June 9, 2003 - This sickening article explains how San Francisco's
prestigious Kaiser Permanente Medical Center didn't bother to report a doctor after he allowed a patient under his care to bleed to death following surgery, or how he frequently had unusual cases of infection following
his surgeries. Although Kaiser eventually wouldn't let the doctor perform surgery without supervision, he wasn't fired, but resigned without any fanfare. This doctor went on to practice medicine in a hospital in
Wisconsin, where he was allowed to operate on patients, and now faces 28 lawsuits for botched surgeries. Even though the hospital in Wisconsin looked thoroughly into the doctor's history, since the problems
weren't reported, they never surfaced until people started geting sick again, and a whistleblower reported Kaiser's coverup. It would be interesting to know where HIV/AIDS specialists fit into this trend of unreported
doctors and bad medicine. June 21, 2001:
"CDC Reports Drop in
AIDS,
Gonorrhea, Syphilis Cases." - Even the Centers for
Disease Control say AIDS is in decline - this item from The
Advocate, a gay publication. Feb. 2000: San Francisco AIDS Foundation donates $55,000 to No on Knight campaign - during an
epidemic, Pat Christen, director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation thinks it's okay to give some of that AIDS Walk money to a failed same-sex marriage initiative. This was obviously meant to be an attempt to
clean up SFAF's well-deserved homophobic reputation, but the poor and sick who attempt in vain to get services from the AIDS Foundation might not appreciate it.
Is anyone Really Positive? -
by Gina Comparini. After 13 years of research scientists are still baffled by the link between HIV and AIDS. November 1997.
Here is a series of articles by AIDS dissident Dr. Peter Duesberg. Download in .pdf format. "The
AIDS Epidemic - In Search of a Cure" - Newsweek, April 1983. An early
scare story about AIDS. "AIDS Incorporated" - This is a
great article from The Washington Monthly by Wayne Turner of ACT
UP/DC. While activists may clash on a few points, most agree that
accountability is important when it comes to AIDS service
organizations. Satya Magazine
printed an article by Christine Maggiore, What do we really know about AIDS
- From March 2001. Here is an article from
the South African legal journal, De Rebus. It discusses the legal problems that may arise - should the
dissidents be right.
New Statesman gets
skeptical - This story is from a mainstream point of view,
but it tells the sad story of the side effects of protease
inhibitors. - New Statesman, February 5, 2001 - "Gay men of
the world give up the Russian roulette; unsafe sex practices of
gay men and long-term effects of AIDS drug therapy"
Drug cocktail scam - Miami New Times, October
21, 1999 - "The New Dealers" - It seems that some
people would rather sell their HIV/AIDS medications than take
them. One wonders if this practice is common. "HIV - A Red Herring? - AIDS Dissidents Wage a
Lonely Battle." "For years, medical
skeptics, including a Nobel prize winner, have questioned the
orthodoxy that HIV causes AIDS. Now they're organizing." By
Sky Gilbert, special to The Globe and Mail (Toronto),
October 13, 1998. On the HEAL Toronto website. Mario Roederer- In these T cells, HIV
does no harm - The finding that HIV can't replicate in these
cells -- and as a result can't directly harm them -- could lead
to new weapons against HIV, said Mario Roederer, a genetics
research associate at Stanford University School of Medicine. It
also adds to the evidence that something other than viral
infection destroys HIV patients' T cells. From April 1997. This item is
from 1985. San Francisco's Tom Waddell, MD was very concerned
about faulty HIV tests. It is ironic that there is now HIV
testing at a clinic named for the late Dr Waddell. He was a
visionary man who was himself gay. Read this advice from Tom
Waddell. DON'T TAKE THE TEST from Coming Up! The
Lesbian/Gay Community Calendar of Events and Newspaper for the
Bay Area, Volume 6, No. 10. July 1985. A story from 1983 - by Edwin
Diamond "As anyone who watches TV or
reads newspapers knows, these same medical experts have been telling us over the past year that the major risk groups for AIDS are male
homosexuals, heavy intravenous users of drugs and Haitians.
(It turns out that they were probably wrong about Haitians; more
about that later.) So the question naturally arises: how did the
general public - everyone who isn't a male homosexual, an IV drug
abuser or a Haitian - pick up the idea, undeniably scary and patently false, that they were in danger of getting AIDS? The
obvious answer: the public got this notion from the same sources
that alerted four out of five of us to the existence of AIDS in
the first place - the medical experts and the media. This is the ARCHIVE PAGE for What is AIDS?
See also:Through the Looking Glass - AIDS Programs: An
Epidemic of Waste
- by Citizens Against Government Waste. Feb. 2002, still relevant today...
See an earlier
story, "Fourteen Dollars."See
Patricia
Nell Warren's website for editorials and more.
"Safe
and Sound Underground." Cover reads, "HIV+ moms say NO to AIDS Drugs,"
and has a photo of Christine, her son and husband.
A story you must read about breastfeeding: Is
Breast Still Best?
There's some
valuable advice for mothers from Christine Maggiore, MOMM's
Advice
Another article,
by Neville Hodgkinson asks: "Molecular
Miscarriage - Is the HIV theory a tragic mistake?" -- "Although US
taxpayers have spent $93 billion on AIDS, scientists do not know how or
why HIV causes the disease..." - Also by Hodgkinson: "Poisoning
our Babies - The Lethal Dangers of AZT"
MOTHERING
magazine questions vaccines and baby formula, and promotes breastfeeding. Also -
read the letters
to the editor of Mothering regarding the great articles found in the
Sept/Oct issue.
This breaking
story will help awaken the public from the AIDS trance. An asymptomatic
HIV+ man given AZT died, yet he had never developed any of the defining
illnesses of AIDS. The term "iatrogenicide" comes to mind. Perhaps people
will finally begin to question the sincerity of pharmaceutical corporations.
Three cheers for Anthony Brink, for helping to take on this lawsuit. He
is a South African barrister and author of "Debating
AZT."
HIV/AIDS Administration spends $450,000 on a luncheon for "World AIDS Day." - Washington Times, March 18, 2005
from Science
Magazine. Includes, "Could Drugs, Rather Than a Virus, be the Cause of AIDS?"
"TV News and AIDS - How Bad Reporting Scared America"