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The Alberta Reappraising AIDS Societys collection of online-accessible articles written for a general audience.
2011 Oct 13. Murphy BK. Recovering from AIDS: Re-balancing social health priorities and practice. Pambazuka News. 552: A review of AIDS in poverty stricken parts of the world that addresses both dissent within the establishment (too much money is being spent too inefficiently) as well as critics of the entire paradigm. 2011 Aug 31. Gauld R, Habeck L, Kamman E, Neser E. Breastfeeding: Media get it wrong. SABC. South Africa has finally realized that their increasing infant mortality is due to formula feeding promoted to 'protect' babies from their HIV+ mother's milk even though some people in the media are trying to color the change as an attempt to remove freedom of choice. 2011 Aug 28. Valentine T. HIV-AIDS: Is it a scam. Or what?. Veterans Today. An article introducing the AIDS scam to a military audience (unfortunately containing a few scientific errors such as confusing antibody and PCR tests). 2011 Jul. Crowe D. Book Review: Passionate Journey by Marian Tompson with Melissa Clark Vickers. aras.ab.ca. Marian Tompson did not start a war. She did not end any. She did not make a billion on Wall Street, she did not lose it. She was not the star of a blockbuster movie, she was not famous just because she was famous. She was still one of the most important people of the twentieth century. 2011 Jul 4. Burd D. Sure Cure for US AIDS: Travel to Canada. aras.ab.ca. AIDS deaths around the globe have for over ten years dwindled toward vanishing with myriad countries down to double or single digits, the exception being the United States staying near 16,000 annual deaths since 2000. During this time, the U.S. mainstream media has suppressed news of dramatic victory everywhere over AIDS, thus both shielding failure by U.S. health leaders from scrutiny, and allowing specious justifications for record breaking funding 2011 Feb. Nadezdha's Story. aras.ab.ca. The story of Nadezhda, a young, perfectly healthy, Russian woman with an HIV-negative husband and no desire to take AIDS drugs. 2010 Nov. Swan R. HIV/AIDS Re-Thinking a Crumbling Narrative. aras.ab.ca. Stephen Lewis is in town. A rare opportunity to ReThink the fraud that HIV/AIDS has become. Lewis believes that AIDS is caused by a virus and as UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa in the past and now through charitable interests remains a major drug promoter 2008 Jun. Lenzer J. AIDS Dissident Seeks Redemption and a Cure for Cancer. Discover. 44-50. The trials, tribulations and triumphs of Dr. Peter Duesberg. 2007 Nov 1. Papantonioiu L, Dybul M. Greek Journalist Lambros Papontoniou Corners US Presidential AIDS Coordinator Mark Dybul. US State Department. Ambassador Dybul, have you seen the HIV virus in a laboratory? 2007 Oct 9. Shughart II WF. Book review: Henry H. Bauer. The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory. Public Choice. This is an important book. In 250 fact-filled, closely reasoned pages of text, Henry Bauer, professor emeritus of chemistry and science studies, and dean emeritus of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Tech, systematically demolishes the theorymore correctly the hypothesis or conjecturethat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). 2007 Sep. Strygg C. Conform or deny. Xtra!. While I was glad to read Matt Mills caution against censorship in scientific and public debate on these issues, I am deeply troubled that the word denialist is constantly used to describe people like me (Beating AIDS Denialism, July 19, 2007 issue of XTRA). Why is it that I am labeled a denialist simply because I am not convinced that HIV theory explains AIDS yet? 2007 Aug. Brennan-Jones K, Brennan-Jones P. The HIV/AIDS Myth: A Review of Duesbergs Inventing the AIDS Virus. aras.ab.ca. Over a half a million people have died already of AIDS which appears to be a collection of illnesses brought about by some combination of recreational drugs, poor nutrition, and/or medically prescribed drugs to treat the very disease, immune suppression, the drugs themselves induce. Of the two hypotheses about AIDS, the toxicity hypothesis accounts for a greater amount of disparate data than the HIV hypothesis. The HIV hypothesis does not even come close. Indeed, Duesbergs 1996 book Inventing the AIDS virus eviscerates the hypothesis that HIV causes AIDS. Along the way, Duesberg has provided a fascinating and well-written account of the perfect storm that resulted in the adoption of the HIV-AIDS orthodoxy. 2007 Jun. Nicholas J. Robert R: The American mythology of AIDS begins in St. Louis. aras.ab.ca. Robert was Dr. Elvin-Lewiss first patient. She and Dr. Marlys Witte, who would later move on to the University of Arizona, could not believe what they saw. We knew that he had genital edema and severe proctitis, Dr. Witte recalled. Furthermore, He had Kaposis Sarcoma of the rectum and anus, which is an unusual place for Kaposis sarcoma to be, she said. 2007 Jun. Farber C. The HIV optimists. Alive. 132-5. They keep appearing in ever-greater numbers They are called 'AIDS denialists' 2007. Hodgkinson N. Review essay: AIDS, Cancer and Arthritis: A New Perspective by Phyllis Evelyn Pease. Journal of Scientific Exploration. 21(3): 595-605. This book offers a new way forward in our understanding of AIDS and the mechanisms underlying it, which may be enormously important to future directions for research and treatment. Written by a medical microbiologist with more than 30 years of experience with hands on work, especially that involving electron microscopy, it makes extensive use of laboratory-acquired expertise and evidence to question the view that a retrovirus is responsible for the collapse of the immune system seen in AIDS. It describes a possible alternative mechanism in the initiation of AIDS, associated with infective agents but not in a conventional way, and proposes that the same mechanism may also be involved in some forms of cancer and arthritis. 2007 May. Girodian M. Senator Obama accused of terrorism. The Joliet (Illinois) Tribune. Thats what Imamu Mbulu has been saying for months. Mbulu, the director of Aids Alternatives Kenya, says that Bin Lyin has been actively terrorizing the people of his country. On August 26, 2006, Obama Bin Lyin steered two jets loaded with HIV tests into a fateful encounter with the people of Kenya, said Mbulu. The twin towers of Kenyas greatness her peoples optimism and solidarity were attacked in broad daylight. The impact of that event was so great, today we refer to that day as 8/26. 2007 May 10. Nicholson J. Is HIV truly the cause of AIDS? New research could suggest otherwise. City on a Hill Press. HIV is not the cause of AIDS. This statement may seem foolish and wrong to many, but for Peter Duesberg and a growing number of AIDS dissidents it is the reality. 2007 Mar 21. Crowe DR, Pranger J. SARS and the Australian Parenzee Court Case [interview]. Dynamic Health. John Pranger interviews David Crowe about whether SARS is infectious and about the Parenzee court case in Adelaide, South Australia, that has called the existence of HIV into question. 2007 Feb. Scheff L. The ICC investigation Thalidomide for black orphans. aras.ab.ca. Thalidomide, the once-banned sleep-aid that caused a wave of severe and deadly birth defects in the late 1950s and early 1960s, has been reintroduced into the AIDS market (1), and was specifically used on at least one ICC resident in 2003-2004. 2007 Feb. Scheff L. Interview with Dr. Katherine Painter. aras.ab.ca. In May 2003, I began my investigation of the Incarnation Childrens Center (ICC), an orphanage in New York Citys Washington Heights that was being used by government (N.I.H.) and pharmaceutical companies as a test center for the standard AIDS drugs AZT and its analogs, Nevirapine, and the various protease inhibitors. ICC received funding from both government and corporate sponsors to enroll its wards, primarily abandoned children of drug (crack cocaine and heroin) abusers, in NIH clinical trials. What follows in this series are five excerpts of my October, 2003 interview with ICCs medical director Dr. Katherine Painter. In the interview, Dr. Painter provides information about: 1) Who gets into ICC and why. 2) The backdoor through which ICCs wards were used in government/pharma-sponsored Clinical Trials. 3) The measures taken to enforce adherence to the drug regimen. 4) And a hint of the toxicity of the drugs (ie. their ability to suppress bone marrow and cause anemia). 2007 Jan 24. Crowe DR, Pranger J. Stephen Lewis and the definitions of AIDS [interview]. Dynamic Health. David Crowe spent considerable time trying to contact Stephen Lewis and his foundation. Among other things he wanted to know whether any donations came from pharmaceutical companies and wanted to discuss AIDS drug toxicity. He was stonewalled on requests for information on donations and, after handing out leaflets at a Stephen Lewis speaking engagement, was thrown off the campus of the University of Calgary and threatened with arrest if he returned within 24 hours. 2007 Jan/Feb. Chappelle M. Review of Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS by Celia Farber. The Bloomsbury Review. 27(1): When Harpers Magazine published Out of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science (March, 2006) by investigative medical journalist Celia Farber, it set off, according to the New York Times, a firestorm in the media and among AIDS researchers (NYT 3/13/06). In modified form, that article reappears as a concluding chapter in Farbers Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS. The book is a collection of updated articles from her twenty years in AIDS reporting, from which a disturbing picture emerges that challenges virtually everything the public mind has been led to believe about AIDS. 2007 Jan. Crowe D. Book review: Serious Adverse Events by Celia Farber. Alive. Celia Farbers book <Serious Adverse Events> (Melville House, 2006) has been a serious adverse event for the multibillion dollar AIDS industry 2007 Jan. Crowe D. Celia Farber's book: Serious Adverse Events. Alive. Celia Farbers book Serious Adverse Events (Melville House, 2006) has been a serious adverse event for the multibillion dollar AIDS industry. 2006 Dec. Singh B. Dont question the GalloHIV AIDS dogma. aras.ab.ca. According to the HIV theory of AIDS, the virus is sexually transmitted and that should produce an HIV-AIDS explosion in the heterosexual population within 25 years. But it did not happen. 2006 Dec 14. Evans B. Twenty years later: Celia Farber looks back on two decades of AIDS reportage. FFWD. 12(1): Journalist Celia Farber, deemed controversial and an HIV denialist by many, has spent two decades reporting the dark, greedy history of AIDS, played out by drug companies, the government and people on the street. 2006 Nov. Kostelanetz R. AIDS reconsidered. Liberty. 20(11): publicists desiring government funding for AIDS problems figured that few would care about the afflictions of gays and druggies. Deciding that all of America had to be scared of AIDS, they suppressed facts about who was really vulnerable 2006 Oct 19. Kruglinski S. Questioning the HIV hive mind? An interview with Celia Farber, long-serving chronicler of HIV dissidents. Discover.com. 2006 Aug. Beaurain J. COSATU in capitalism at its deadliest. aras.ab.ca. Some worker leaders when challenged about the fact that COSATU and their allies are playing right into the hands of the multinational pharmaceutical industry with their demands for ARV (antiretroviral) drugs are quick to deny it. These comrades then usually claim that they have every good intention to manufacture the drugs themselves rather than to enrich the foreign drug companies. The initiative of CEPPWAWU Investments suggests quite a different reality. COSATU would be wise to carefully reconsider its support for these initiatives in light of developments currently playing themselves out in the High Court of South Africa 2006 Jul 17. Laster DQ. Let HIV set you free. aras.ab.ca. I am here to attest to spontaneous healing. You too can heal from disease, and create and maintain a healthy mind, body, and spirit, through awareness of the chakras, meditation, relaxation and spirit guidance. Know that consciousness is really all there is. Nothing exists, save consciousness. The ability to be conscious is a form of non-physical energy that extends its influence into matter through the use of biological vehicles. Your body is a vehicle for the expression of consciousness. All that you see outside yourself is a reflection of your consciousness. Accepting that consciousness creates your experiences allows you to choose a consciousness of health 2006 May 14. Martin N. I choose life. aras.ab.ca. In the movie, Ronald Reagan has an incurable disease and is in love. He is talking to his girlfriend in a room and has a loaded gun, she tells him that life isnt ours to end. She walks out of the room sobbing, closes the door and waits. Several moments later, he walks out to her, he chose life. So my story begins 2006 Apr. Crowe D. Book Review: Unravelling AIDS: The Unexamined Science And the Promising Alternative Therapies by Mae-Wan Ho, Sam Burcher, Rhea Gala and Vejko Veljkovic. RedFlagsDaily.com. A chain of logic holds the HIV/AIDS hypothesis together. Questioning a fundamental link can radically change how other parts should be examined, or even disconnect the whole. For the central discussion of this book, HIV Vaccines, to have any meaning HIV tests have to be accepted as meaningful and accurate, the radically different definitions of the syndrome AIDS have to be taken as one, and the surrogate markers used to measure the stage of the disease have to be accepted instead of clinical evidence of health. 2006 Apr 1. Anonymous. New safer sex guidelines. aras.ab.ca. Following a decade of community outreach and research on sexual transmission of the HIV virus known to cause AIDS, the $20 billion Sex Safety Project, has issued new culturally sensitive sex positive safer sex guidelines celebrating our sexual health and diversity. These guidelines are supported not only by the CDC and WHO but Bono himself. The revisions to the guidelines are seen as a great liberal victory over the sex-negative fundamentalists promoting abstinence. 2006 Mar 17. Crowe D. How TheBody.com keeps the chaff and throws out the wheat. RedFlagsDaily.com. A friend recently told me that TheBody.com was featuring a Red Flags letters page with references to a lecture I did on HIV, along with other web sites and books by people who have questioned the dogma of HIV=AIDS=death. Our inclusion was not intended as a compliment. The page is titled GOTCHA! Grossly Over-Exaggerated (or Incorrect) Treatments or Cures for HIV or AIDS. 2006 Mar. Singh B. Can I have my chemo supplement please?. aras.ab.ca. The future is wirtten in emerging history. As it is emerging and slowly creeping upon us, we find medical associations banning doctors from prescribing natural antioxidants and micronutrients as supplements to restore health in favor of pharmaceutically prescribed drugs that are not part of the normal and healthy biochemistry of cells but rather can be detrimental to that very life-giving biochemistry and biochemical pathways and we find toxic poisons like AZT that could not be approved for chemotherapy due to its extreme toxicity being presented as a retoviral in conditions like AIDS that is associated with malnutrition and attendant oxidative stress that impairs health rather than a virus proven through the gold standard. Coversely, within this scenario, one should expect toxic chemo being repositioned in the market as a retroviral. That naturally broadens the market and fattens the bottom line. 2006 Mar. Crowe D. HIV, sex and jail time in Canada. Canada Community Police Publication (Western Edition). 32-39. Canada is getting into the habit of throwing people in jail because they have sex without revealing to their partner that they are HIV-positive. Even when sex is completely consensual, it is reclassified as aggravated sexual assault, or even murder, under these circumstances 2006 Feb. Singh B. Dangerous Philosophy of Treatment in Medical Science. aras.ab.ca. Would medical science prescribe a cancer causing drug to cancer patients? Last March, the federal government issued an unusually detailed alert to the nations 5.5 million health care workers: The powerful drugs used in chemotherapy can themselves cause cancer and pose a risk to nurses, pharmacists and others who handle them (The Washington Post, Tuesday, February 15, 2005; Page HE01, Jim Morris). Chemotherapy drugs in human and animal studies have shown they have the potential to cause cancer or reproductive problems, said Thomas Connor, a research biologist with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). 2005 Dec 21. Mazibuko L. Road carnage link with HIV-AIDS. Sowetan. HIV has been blamed for everything except traffic accidents. All that changed at the end of 2005 2005 Dec. Singh B. Are Malnutrition and Oxidative Stress the Cause of gp41, gp120 and gp160 in Robert Gallos HIV Isolate?. aras.ab.ca. Malnutrition impairs the bodys natural defenses and its natural defense mechanisms. When selenium intake is low, the production of selenoproteins, including glutathione that form the selenium based antioxidant enzymes falls and in those cases where the intake of vitamins from natural sources, the antioxidant defense biochemistry is weakened while their cellular function may be rendered below optimal. Over time, these may be impaired as oxidative stress and oxidative injury may alter the integrity of cell membranes and the metabolic pathways in cells while the ability to repair and rejuvenate is compromised. 2005 Oct 27. Bird flu, H5N1 and AIDS. Faktuell. you should take some time and listen to an independent scientist who has not been bought yet: Virologist Dr. rer.nat. Stefan Lanka. 2005 Aug. Crowe D. Death in a bottle. Alive. 274: HIV/AIDS has been used as an excuse to promote formula feeding around the world, particularly in Africa. This is going to result in millions of deaths 2005 Jun 22. Farber C. Drugs, disease, denial. New York Press. The hysteria-laden question of whether anti-HIV drugs are life-saving, as the AIDS orthodoxy holds, or deadly, as the HIV dissidents claim, is unanswerable in the currently available language, which was blunted and rendered incoherent by political forces as early as 1981. 2005 Jun. Bannon KM. One womans story re: HIV and AIDS. aras.ab.ca. A week later, I sat in the waiting area for two hours waiting to get my results. I was finally taken to a private exam room by two women. They apologized for making me wait for so long and then explained that the reason for my wait was because they were trying to figure out how to handle the situation. My test was positive. Almost everyone who tests positive is either gay or on drugs or suspects they are positive for some reason. Here I was a heterosexual female, non-drug user, non-prostitute, and I was really giving them a problem. 2005 Jun. Watson J. Vitamin guru provokes wRath of scientsts, activists. Nature Medicine. 11(6): 581. The campaign, led by physician and vitamin supplier Matthias Rath, says antiretroviral drugs are poisonous and extols the benefits of multivitamins to treat AIDS. In its marketing literature, the Rath Foundation implies endorsement from several international bodies, including the World Health Organization, UNICEF and UNAIDS. 2005 Jun. Basu P. AIDS denialists back on the upswing. Nature Medicine. 11(6): 581. With his condemnation of antiretroviral therapy and the global drug cartel, maverick doctor Matthias Rath has brought the AIDS dissident movement back into the world spotlight. Comprising a loose worldwide network of scientists, journalists and activists, the dissidents have long contended that HIV does not cause AIDS and, like Rath, that AIDS drugs are akin to poison. Some members also argue that the virus has never been properly isolated. Since 2000, when they successfully swayed South African President Thabo Mbeki with their views, dissident groups have largely faded from the public eye. But the movement is most definitely growing, says Valender Turner, a physician at the University of Western Australia and a leading member of the dissident Perth Group. 2005 May 29. Tiwari M. The debate over HIV. Hindustan Times. What causes Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)? As people die of diseases their immune systems are no longer capable of fighting, international scientists remain divided about the origin and causes of the syndrome. The virus supposedly responsible for the disease HIV is under attack 2005 Mar 8. NAPWA expels TAC members. Business Wire. The South African National Association of People Living with HIV and AIDS (NAPWA) expelled fifteen Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) plants from both its leadership and from the organization at its national conference in February 2005 Feb 1. Chowka PB. HIV/AIDS and cancer: How far have we come?. NaturalHealthLine. On the air in Los Angeles that afternoon in January 1990, with calls from listeners punctuating the discussion, Gottlieb defended AIDS and medical orthodoxy and seemed surprised as I pointed out many disturbing parallels between the decrepit War on Cancer and what by 1990 was often referred to as the War on AIDS 2004 Dec 21. Crowe D. Rethinking HIV and AIDS. Knights of the Round Table. Everyone knows that: HIV is a retrovirus that leads to the fatal disease called AIDS. The virus is transmitted by sex and contaminated blood products. (The catechism of AIDS) But, what if everyone is wrong? 2004. Ketter A. Our trip to New Mexico. Fauna Foundation. I have never seen such a dreadful place. I knew that it would not be an easy place to visit, but I was not prepared for what I was about to experience. Even though Carole Noon, of the Centre for Captive Chimpanzee Care, has made some tremendous improvements, like skylights to bring in some natural light, much better diets and enrichment for the chimps, it is still very sad to see these chimpanzees, some of whom have spent their entire lives in this dingy laboratory in Alamogordo, New Mexico and others who have been transferred time and time again from one laboratory to another, only to end up at what was once, the notorious Coulston Foundation. 2004 Mar. St. Pierre G. The AIDS sex myth justifies poisoning babies. aras.ab.ca. I am not HIV positive (whatever that means), and do not know anybody with that label. I am not a woman, not gay, and not working or studying in a medical field. 2004 Feb 17. Murphy BK. The Political Economy of AIDS. Red Flags Weekly. No health issue has so galvanized the world and public attention as has the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a condition in which a persons immune system is severely compromised and left vulnerable to a broad range of infections and diseases that debilitate and can lead to death. It is a medical construct that captures many disease phenomena in one basket for purposes of investigation, diagnosis and treatment. Within this complex syndrome there are many factors. No one factor including the various viruses associated with immunodeficiency is alone sufficient to bring on the onset of chronic acute immune deficiency. The most determinant predictors of immune suppression and associated disease, in the north and the south, are factors directly related to social and economic status or to medical treatment itself. And increasingly, front line workers in the fight against acute immune deficiency are asking that resources be priorized in the area of basic health promotion. 2004 Jan. Scheff L. The house that AIDS built. altheal.org. This article deals with pharmaceutical abuse in a childrens home in NYC. This piece was investigated and written in summer through winter of 2003 and published in January 2004, with occaisional updates. The story broke wide in early 2004, with coverage in the New York Post and the New York Press. It served as the basis of investigation for the BBC film "Guinea Pig Kids," and has prompted further investigation by the Associated Press - as well as a pointed attack by the New York Times. The investigation is ongoing. 2003 Dec 16. Crowe D. Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?. RedFlagsWeekly.com. Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? asks the teacher. A vegetable! shout the children. Wrong, replies the teacher with a smug look, Its a fruit. Both are wrong, although the teacher bears more responsibility for propagating false fruits and for using rote humiliation to substitute for learning 2003 Nov 26. Crowe D. Does Selenium play a role in AIDS. Red Flags Weekly. According to Canadian Geography Professor Harold D. Foster, lack of the trace element selenium plays a role in causing AIDS. Well, lest you think that he is a true AIDS dissident, questioning any role for HIV in AIDS, he also believes that HIV causes AIDS. And he slams Peter Duesberg and other dyed-in-the-wool dissidents in order to establish his mainstream credentials 2003 Nov. Crowe D. Book Review: What really causes AIDS? . RedFlagsWeekly.com. According to Canadian Geography Professor Harold D. Foster, lack of the trace element selenium plays a role in causing AIDS. Well, lest you think that he is a true AIDS dissident, questioning any role for HIV in AIDS, he also believes that HIV causes AIDS. And he slams Peter Duesberg and other dyed-in-the-wool dissidents in order to establish his mainstream credentials. 2003 Jun 23. Crowe D. Manufacturing Certainty. RedFlagsWeekly.com. Technology is the practical application of science, and one of the major distinctions is its need for certainty. Studying semiconductor physics can be a beautiful thing, but it remains pure science until a discovery results in products that can be reliably manufactured and used. Biological systems, especially human beings, are far more complex and less predictable than inorganic systems. Medicine, being the practical application (technology) of human biologic science, requires a high degree of certainty before new discoveries can be applied 2003 Apr 10. Crowe D. A tribute to Rob Johnston, AIDS Reappraiser. RedFlagsWeekly.com. Rob Johnston contributed enormously to the AIDS Reappraisal movement (also called dissidence or denialism by those who are offended by it). He died of liver failure completely unrelated to AIDS on April 3, 2003 in Toronto, and will be missed by many because of his commitment, knowledge, intelligence and plain old friendship 2003 Apr 2. Crowe D. The crime of asking questions at an AIDS panel discussion. RedFlagsWeekly.com. I almost got arrested for the first time in my life a few nights ago. My crime? Asking questions and pointing out speakers errors at a panel discussion organized by the University of Calgary Global AIDS Action Group (GAAG) 2003 Mar. Crowe D. Malnutrition: overfed and undernourished. Alive. 245: 34-7. A nutritional basis for AIDS seems a ridiculous idea since most people endorse the infectious theory. However, poor countries define AIDS and malnutrition the same way. The World Health Organizations Bangui definition does not require an HIV test and is used to diagnose AIDS on the basis of two of three major signs (weight loss, diarrhea and fever) and one minor sign (e.g. ,persistent cough). Indeed, according to biophysicist Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos and colleagues: The signs and symptoms considered to signify death from AIDS in the Bangui definition are signs and symptoms of [tuberculosis], malaria, gastrointestinal, parasitic infections and malnutrition. 2002 Nov 11. Crowe D. Lefties, pharmas and AIDS. RedFlagsWeekly.com. One of the strangest moments of my life occurred when I confronted Ralph Nader at a public talk on medicine in my home town on the subject of AZT and was accused, by him, of being a conspiracy theorist. It was particularly ironic because I have been a Green Party activist for several years and, in just about every other way admire him for his integrity and cogent analyses of all that is wrong with society today. 2002 May 13. Murphy BK. Ignoring the poverty and chronic ill-health that breeds AIDS. Red Flags Weekly. The justifiable grim preoccupation of the caring public concerning the threat of global plagues needs to be moderated and re-oriented towards a critical reappraisal of the link between poverty and disease, and a re-emphasis on addressing the social roots of disease. The lurid attention to AIDS is a graphic example. Progressives have lost their reason over this phenomenon, and we need desperately to reclaim our balance. The world depends on it 2002 Mar. Castro Hlongwane, caravans, cats, geese, foot & mouth and statistics. ANC. Is the real author of this article Thabo Mbeki? 2001 Dec. Crowe D. The infectious question: Needle Exchange Programs. Alive. 230: 30-1. Needle Exchange Programs (NEP) provide clean needles to IV drugs addicts. It seems obvious that cleaner needles should lead to lower levels of HIV and Hepatitis infections in addicts. So obvious, in fact, that it was years before any research was done to test this hypothesis. The results of the best research came as a total surprise - indicating that needle exchange is associated with a dramatic increase in the rate of HIV and Hepatitis B and C 2001 Dec. Crowe D. AIDS Funding in Canada. Alive. 230: 24. Health Canada funding amounted to over $160,000 for each of the 261 Canadians newly diagnosed with AIDS in 2000 2001 May 15. Crowe D. Book review: The AIDS Indictment by Marvin Kitzerow. aras.ab.ca. The AIDS Indictment by Marvin R. Kitzerow, Jr. is a new book from a dissident perspective that focuses on nitrite inhalant (popper) abuse. Unfortunately the book suffers from a conspiratorial and sometimes hysterical tone and numerous errors that, while often minor, will only help support the contention that AIDS dissidents are semi-educated conspiracy theorists 2001 May. Crowe D. Revised HIV/AIDS Treatment Guidelines. Alive. 223: In February 2001, US AIDS authorities, led by the Department of Health and Human Services took a major step away from the Hit Hard, Hit Early philosophy that has guided mainstream AIDS treatment since 1996. The implication that their previous advice had resulted in illness or death in many people was avoided by an unprecedented two month period of damage control in the media prior to the guidelines being released 2000 Dec. Crowe D. Lies, damned lies and AIDS misinformation. Alive. 218: 56-7. According to most media reports, victories in the war against AIDS are being won largely through the development of new drugs. There are people who dispute this view, who question the benefits of AIDS drugs, whether AIDS is a unique condition or just a lumping of disparate symptoms together, and even whether AIDS might be caused by exposure to toxic and immunosuppressive substances and not a virus 2000 Sep. Crowe, D. Take the pills, or well take your kids!. Alive. 215: Jane Doe in Montreal refuses to give toxic, lifelong medication to her two healthy sons, and loses custody of them. Another woman in Montreal hears this and decides to have an abortion 2000 Sep. Crowe D. Pregnant? What you should know about HIV testing. Nurturing Magazine. Getting tested for HIV is being made to seem like part of the medical routine for expectant mothers. But, in fact, volunteering for an HIV test is playing Russian Roulette, where the outcome can be harassment, drug-induced illness or even death 2000. Gannett L. An eyewitness account of gross irregularities and medical incompetence in the early clinical trials of AZT. http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/lgazt.htm. I didnt even realize that human beings were even CAPABLE of this kind of corrupt, insane, self-motivated behavior 1998 Nov 27. Crowe D. Letter to CBC Quirks and Quarks. Personal Correspondence. I was pleased last Saturday, when I found out that Quirks & Quarks had decided to rethink HIV as the cause of AIDS. However, your programme falls far short of a balanced review of the two radically different sides of this issue 1997. Anderson MK. The big tease. The Valley Advocate. protease inhibitors have proven to be some of the most controversial as well as the most expensive AIDS drugs yet concocted. First put on the marketplace in late 1995 after the fastest and least stringent approval process in the history of the Food and Drug Administration, protease inhibitors have a mixed clinical record at best one that most AIDS clinicians have overlooked for the time being in favor of the increased treatment options the drugs offer 1987 Oct 19. Lauritsen J. AZT and cancer. New York Native. It is urgently necessary to review the toxicity of AZT in light of recent marketing developments. Prior to last August [1987], AZT therapy was officially indicated only for AIDSor ARCpatients who either had a history of cytologically confirmed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) or an absolute CD4 (T4 helper/inducer) lymphocyte count of less than 200/mm3 in the peripheral blood before therapy is begun. (Physician's Desk Reference) This changed dramatically in August, when a series of press releases were issued by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and other branches of the Public Health Service (PHS), claiming that AZT was beneficial for HIV-infectedpersons with mild symptoms of immune system damageand also for HIV- infected persons who have not yet developed symptoms. 1981. Evans A. Poppers: An ugly side of gay business. Pagan Press. A 1981 article on the danger of poppers to the gay community [just after the first announcements of GRID, aka AIDS] by a gay liberationist and one of the main founders of the Gay Activists Alliance (who died September 11, 2011). 1981. Evans A. Poppers: An ugly side of gay business. Pagan Press. A 1981 article on the danger of poppers to the gay community [just after the first announcements of GRID, aka AIDS] by a gay liberationist and one of the main founders of the Gay Activists Alliance (who died September 11, 2011). | |||||||
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