2011 Jul 17-20. Pacini S, Ruggiero M. Vitamin D binding protein-macrophage activating factor directly inhibits proliferation of human breast cancer cells, vimentin expression and tumour-induced angiogenesis. IAS 2011.

2011 Apr. Crowe D. Number of Americans Believed to be HIV-Infected (HIV Prevalence). aras.ab.ca.

Estimates of the number of people believed to be infected with HIV in the United States have varied dramatically but the number one million was postulated in the early 1980s and is still the number most frequently cited today. This differs dramatically from the number of AIDS cases that rose until the mid-1990s and then fell almost as dramatically.

2011 Mar. Bauer H. Propaganda Courtesy of the Royal Society and the BBC. aras.ab.ca.

“Science Under Attack”, aired on 24th January in the UK in BBC Two’s Horizon series, is a superb piece of propaganda masquerading as a scientific documentary. It seeks to quench any doubts that emissions of carbon dioxide are greatly speeding up global warming. A secondary aim seems to be to safeguard pronouncements from the scientific Establishment against criticism from outsiders.

2010 Dec 15. Crowe D. HIV Cured with Stem Cells – What about AIDS?. aras.ab.ca.

News reports of a man with “AIDS” who was cured with stem cell transplants produces visions of a man rising like Lazarus from his hospital bed to march vigorously into the sunset. But the reality is that all the paper claims is “evidence” that he was cured of “HIV” and the same paper shows strong evidence that his health is abysmal after intensive cancer and AIDS therapy numerous medical interventions and serious illness. They are celebrating because the zombie has a pulse.

2010 Nov. Freddi A. Treatment of tuberculosis: challenging the World Health Organization recommendation of simultaneous oral administration at the same time of the day of rifampicin, isoniazid and pyrazinamide. aras.ab.ca.

An HIV-positive tuberculosis patient is an AIDS case, according the WHO definition. Tuberculosis death toll is huge in the world, in some African countries 20% of tuberculosis patients die despite anti-TB treatment. HIV is commonly believed the main reason, because some TB victims are HIV-positive and the serostatus of others is unknown. Instead, this article suggests that the WHO-recommended practice of combining medications is the problem. When Rifampicin, Isoniazid and Pyrazinamide are given together at the same time of the day (such as in a combination pill) a reaction between these compounds in the stomach reduces the quantity of Rifampicin, which is pivotal for the treatment to sub-terapeutic blood levels and produces hydrazine which is highly toxic to the liver. It should be expected that proper anti-TB treatment (taking the drugs at different times of the day to avoid this reaction) could completely heal HIV-negative TB patients as well as “AIDS” cases of this kind.

2010 Aug. Crowe D. Top 10 HIV/AIDS Papers. aras.ab.ca.

“What are the top 10 scientific papers that call the HIV=AIDS dogma into disrepute?”

2010 Feb. Hardie J. The Changing Face of AIDS. Oral Health & Dental Practice.

A survey of cracks in the face of AIDS by one of the first dentists to investigate the risk of infection from HIV and conclude that there was nothing there.

2009 [withdrawn under pressure from AID$ Inc]. Ruggiero M, Prayer Galletti M, Pacini S, Punzi T, Morucci G, Gulisano M. AIDS denialism at the Ministry of Health. Med Hypotheses.

We investigated epidemiological evidence regarding HIV infection and AIDS spread in Italy, [using] only official data published by the Italian National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità) and by the Italian Ministry of Health (Ministero del Lavoro, della Salute e delle Politiche Sociali). Based on the data and documents provided for by the Italian Health Authorities, we came to the conclusion (hypothesis) that the Italian Ministry of Health appears to be convinced that HIV is not the (sole) cause of AIDS. Consistent with this hypothesis, according to the Ministry, AIDS can be diagnosed in the absence of signs of HIV infection; there is [a] legal prohibition to [provide information about] new HIV infections to referring physicians and Health Authorities as if HIV spread were not a threat to public health; consistent with the previous point, no national registry of HIV infection is implemented; and AIDS is not classified among relevant [infectious] diseases nor among [infectious] diseases that are susceptible [to] control interventions; one fourth of paediatric AIDS cases is not [associated with] mother–[child] transmission.

2009 [withdrawn under pressure from AID$ Inc]. Duesberg PH, Nicholson JM, Rasnick D, Fiala C, Bauer HH. HIV-AIDS hypothesis out of touch with South African AIDS – A new perspective. Med Hypotheses.

A recent study by Chigwedere et al., ‘‘Estimating the lost benefits of antiretroviral drug use in South Africa”, claims that during the period from 2000 to 2005 about 330,000 South African AIDS-deaths were caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) per year that could have been prevented by available anti-HIV drugs. The study blamed those who question the hypothesis that HIV is the cause of AIDS, particularly former South African President Thabo Mbeki and one of us, for not preventing these deaths by anti-HIV treatments such as the DNA chain-terminator AZT and the HIV DNA inhibitor Nevirapine. Here we ask, (1) What evidence exists for the huge losses of South African lives from HIV claimed by the Chigwedere study? (2) What evidence exists that South Africans would have benefited from anti-HIV drugs? We found that vital statistics from South Africa reported only 1 ‘‘HIV-death” per 1000 HIV antibody- positives per year (or 12,000 per 12 million HIV antibody-positives) between 2000 and 2005, whereas Chigwedere et al. estimated losses of around 330,000 lives from HIV per year. Moreover, the US Census Bureau and South Africa reported that the South African population had increased by 3 million during the period from 2000 to 2005 instead of suffering losses, growing from 44.5 to 47.5 million, even though 25% to 30% were positive for antibodies against HIV. A similar discrepancy was found between claims for a reportedly devastating HIV epidemic in Uganda and a simultaneous massive growth of the Ugandan population. Likewise, the total Sub-Saharan population doubled from 400 millions in 1980 to 800 millions in 2007 during the African HIV epidemics. We conclude that the claims that HIV has caused huge losses of African lives are unconfirmed and that HIV is not sufficient or even necessary to cause the previously known diseases, now called AIDS in the presence of antibody against HIV. Further we call into question the claim that HIV antibody-positives would benefit from anti-HIV drugs, because these drugs are inevitably toxic and because there is as yet no proof that HIV causes AIDS.

2007 Dec 7. Papantoniou L. Interview with Dr. Andrew Maniotis, PhD. Paraskevi+13.

An interview with a critic of the HIV=AIDS dogma by a journalist who nobody knew at the time was struggling with his own demon - a secret HIV diagnosis.

2007 Jun. Crowe D. Nice Graphs, No Data. aras.ab.ca.

If you go out in the internet today you will find many graphs claiming that CD4 counts decline after initial infection with HIV, rise again a bit, and then slowly decline until they go below 200, at which point AIDS occurs. Too bad these graphs are not based on real data…

2007 May. Bauer HH. Can we learn from Parenzee. aras.ab.ca.

Dr. Henry Bauer asks some cogent questions about the Parenzee court case in Australia.

2007 Mar 14 [date of interview]. Papantoniou L. Interview with Dr. Robert Gallo. Eleftheros Typos.

Greek journalist Lambros Papantoniou interviews Gallo just before he is about to give a speech with Luc Montagnier (who a year later would get the Nobel instead of Gallo).

2007 Feb. Vitenberg J. [From the French: Medical, legal and political reflections on the work of Professors Georges Mathe (France), Peter Duesberg (USA), Charles A. Thomas Jr. (USA), Eleni Papadopoulos-Eleopoulos (Australia), and others]. aras.ab.ca.

2006 Dec. Crowe D, Kent G, Morrison P, Greiner T. Commentary: Revisiting the risk of HIV infection from breastfeeding. AnotherLook.org.

A major scientific paper on the real risk of HIV infection through breastfeeding which was rejected by Lancet, BMJ and even the Journal of Human Lactation. Thank goodness for the internet…

2006 Nov. Culshaw R, Crowe D. Rebecca Culshaw and David Crowe Challenge Julio Montaner (but Lancet won’t print it). RethinkingAIDS.com.

A dollar a day for a pill that will eliminate AIDS from the planet? Sounds like a bargain until you discover how bankrupt the science is…

2006 Oct. Umber J. Why did HAART improve the prognosis of AIDS?. aras.ab.ca.

When, on May 13th 2000, I received an invitation to sign a petition of support for South African President Thabo Mbeki, I did not expect to discover that behind this desire for re-evaluation of the relationship between the HIV and AIDS there was a debate suppressed for 16 years by the “political-medical-scientific” dictatorship. I was stunned but, after about three days I tried to verify all this information. What amazed me, and convinced that there was something worth investigating, was the strength of the arguments of ‘rethinkers’, and in particular the numerous references they cited, that I naturally tried to verify, compared to the poverty of the information provided by establishment officials, who generally condemn ex cathedra these rethinkers, using the argument accepted by the majority of people by fear: “By criticizing the official dogma, you prevent the patients from looking after themselves and thus you lead them unto death.” This argument reminds me of that of medieval inquisitors.

2006 Sep. Crowe D, Fiala C, Rasnick D, de Harven E, Bauer H, Anderlini K, Corbett K, Maloney M, Houston R. Correcting Gallo: Rethinking AIDS responds to Harper’s ‘Out of Control’ critics. Rethinking AIDS.

In its March, 2006 issue, Harper’s magazine published “Out of control: AIDS and the corruption of medical science”, an article by Celia Farber which described the death of one woman in a US-based clinical trial of Nevirapine in pregnant HIV-positive women, and the shoddy, corrupt or perhaps outright fraudulent trial of the same drug in Uganda. She described the coverup that occurred, and raised important questions about the effectiveness and safety of HIV/AIDS research.
Shortly after this article was published a document started circulating entitled “Errors in Celia Farber’s March 2006 article in Harper’s Magazine” It's authors were Robert Gallo and several other AIDS researchers and drug treatment activists.
After the Rethinking AIDS response the website “AIDSTruth.org” wrote that they “are aware that the AIDS denialist group, Rethinking AIDS, has finally prepared what they deem to be a rebuttal of our exposure of the errors perpetrated by Celia Farber in her Harper’s Magazine article. We have looked over the AIDS denialists’ response. It is characteristically superficial and silly, further exposing the Rethinking AIDS group’s misunderstanding of the science of HIV/AIDS. We will not be responding further to it. The AIDStruth website will continue to post, at periodic intervals, information that is relevant to understanding how HIV infection causes AIDS and how AIDS can be treated with anti-retroviral drugs.”
The Gallo document claims to have noted 56 errors in the Farber article. The purpose of this website is to address all of these. For each supposed error, relevant text from the Farber article is given, followed by the error description from the Gallo et al document, and then our response, including references identified as “RA”.

2006. Papadopulos-Eleopulos E, Page BAP, Causer D, Turner VF, Papadimitriou JM, Alfonso H. Would Montagnier please clarify whether HIV or oxidation by the risk factors is the primary cause of AIDS?. Med Hypotheses. 67: 666-78.

At the beginning of the HIV/AIDS era we proposed a non-HIV theory. This states the cause of AIDS is the oxidation induced by the risk factors including malnutrition to which patients in the AIDS risk groups are chronically exposed…

2006 Feb 24. Bauer HH. The HIV/AIDS blunder. Virginia Tech.

…All official institutions, international as well as national, all mainstream scientific and medical organizations, journals, and funding sources, insist that HIV unquestionably is the cause of AIDS. I have no credentials in molecular biology or virology or immunology or epidemiology, and yet I can see that the data demonstrate, without doubt and quite conclusively, that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS…

2005 Oct. Bialy H. Finding the Truth About HIV and AIDS. aras.ab.ca.

Of all the accusations that have been leveled against my friend, Peter Duesberg, over the many years he has been challenging conventional wisdom in cancer genetics and ‘deadly’ disease etiology, the one that is most frequently heard in scientific circles, and one that is impossible to counter except by extended debate, either at a scientific forum or in the journals (something that for some reason has never occurred) is that “Peter abuses the literature”. Either he cites so many papers that no one can read them all, or (much worse) he misquotes and draws inferences that are not appropriate from the data in the papers he cites. The latter, as I said, has been a damning accusation, impossible to refute – until now.

2004 Sep 6-7. Corbett K. Inside the ‘black box’ of the antibody test: deconstructing official classification of ‘risk’ in the test algorithms used for identifying the human immunodeficiency virus. BSA Risk & Society Study Group Conference.

2004 Apr 9. Crowe D, Le Van Fram J, Kent G, Railhet F, Hathaway J. Long-term Infant Health Outcomes Critical in Feeding Decisions by HIV-Positive Mothers. AIDS. 18(6): 963-4.

Expectant mothers should be made aware of the extremely high infant mortality rate among babies who were formula fed because of preceding morbidity (326.8/1000 over 2 years), and also be told that exclusive breastfeeding may minimize HIV transmission as well as maximizing overall health outcomes…

2003 Sep 26-28. Corbett K. Contesting HIV/AIDS: The Lay Reception of Biomedical Knowledge. British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Conference.

HIV/AIDS screening and testing technologies embody degrees of certainty over diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. It is further argued that lay theorising and global activism over such technological indeterminacies has helped to foster diverse meanings for these health technologies. The paper draws on a discourse analysis of interview data drawn from a U.K. sample of diagnosed people

2003 Jul. Levinsky E [pro], Crowe D [con]. Should HIV testing be mandatory in pregnancy?. Parkhurst Exchange. 16-17.

…Mandatory HIV testing, despite the possibility of errors and debilitating or fatal consequences, will result in the coercion of mothers by health care workers who believe, erroneously, that they know with certainty what is best for her baby. HIV testing should be voluntary, and only performed after women are honestly informed of the likely consequences of a positive test.

2002 Aug. Eastman A, Tompson M, Crowe D et al. Breastfeeding and HIV and AIDS. JHL.

…Nearly all research on breastfeeding by HIV-positive mothers has used HIV-infection as the major or only end-point. A more meaningful end-point would be to compare death rates or rates of serious health problems in groups with well-defined feeding practices…

2002 Mar 22. Tompson M, Crowe D, Eastman A et al. What can we do to enhance the health and survival of infants born to HIV-positive mothers?. BMJ Rapid Response.

McIntyre and Gray view programmes to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV with rose-coloured glasses. While they believe that ‘the challenge remains in their implementation’, we believe that scientific justification for these programs has not yet been established…

2002 Mar 6. Eastman A, Tompson M, Brussel C, Buchanan P, Crowe D et al. Breastfeeding vs formula-feeding among HIV-infected women in resource-poor areas. JAMA. 287(9): 1111.

…Until the true, long-term health consequences of [breastfeeding vs. formula for HIV-positive mothers] can be established by more tightly controlled trials…we believe that the safest alternative is exclusively breastfeeding.

2001 Nov 9. Crowe DR. Is peripartum zidovudine ‘safe and highly beneficial to African children?’. AIDS. 15(16): 2204-5.

The strong conclusion `Peripartum exposure to zidovudine [AZT] is safe and highly beneficial to African children, whether or not they are infected' that was made by Dabis et al. [1] does not appear to be warranted, and when considered carefully, the opposite conclusion can be drawn…

2001 Sep 29. Tompson M, Buchanan P, Crowe D et al. Nduati's claim that breastfeeding HIV-positive mothers have higher mortality may be unwarranted. Lancet. 358(9287): 1095; author reply 1096.

Ruth Nduati and colleagues claim to show that breastfeeding strikingly increases mortality among HIV-1-positive mothers. In her May 26 commentary, Marie-Louise Newell discusses some of the study’s limitations and compares it with research by Coutsoudis and co-workers that draws very different conclusions. We have concerns about some additional issues…

2001. Conlan MG. Rodney Richards PhD: Why the "HIV Tests" can't tell you whether you have HIV. Zenger's.

the US Food an Drug Administration (FDA) has never approved any product for medical use that claims to be able to confirm the presence or absence of HIV in any sample with any degree of stated accuracy

2000 Oct. Wright M. Gaping holes in the AIDS case definition. aras.ab.ca.

The 1987 AIDS case definition was so loose and flexible that it provided circumstances under which persons who were HIV negative or of indeterminate HIV status could be diagnosed as AIDS cases. In my October 2000 communication from a CDC source, I was informed that HIV positive status is still not an absolute requirement for diagnosing AIDS under the revised 1993 definition…

2000. Johnston R, Irwin M, Crowe D. Durban declaration rebuttal. HEAL Toronto.

The “Durban Declaration” is like a religious creed, a concise statement of dogma, masquerading as science by majority opinion. This document deconstructs it, showing just how flawed it is…

1999 Summer. Kent G. What is AIDS?. Continuum. 5(6): 66-70.

1997. Papadopulos-Eleopulos E, Turner VF, Papadimitriou JM, Stewart G, Causer D. HIV antibodies: further questions and a plea for clarification. Curr Med Res Opin. 13(10): 627-34.

The only way to obtain ‘specific reagents’ is to isolate the virus…

1997 Jan 14. Craddock M. Analysis of the Ho and Shaw papers. virusmyth.net.

I have completed a preliminary analysis of the papers by Ho and Shaw which appeared in Nature, January 12, 1995. My considered opinion is that they are total rubbish. I seriously doubt that the two groups really have any idea what they are doing when they construct their supposed models of the interaction of the virus and the immune system. The models when analysed properly do not do what they think they do…

1996 Aug. Rasnick D. Inhibitors of HIV protease useless against AIDS. Rethinking AIDS.

David Rasnick earns his living as a designer of protease inhibitors, the class of substances touted as the latest anti-AIDS miracle drug. Dr. Rasnick agrees that these drugs do indeed block HIV protease, and thus stop HIV replication. But he is sure that this action can have no effect on the course of AIDS. Why? Because people diagnosed with AIDS are sick from a variety of non-contagious factors, not HIV. Here he explains.

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