The Growing Acidity of Our Oceans is a Threat to ALL Life on Earth!

The growing acidity in our ocean waters is a threat to mankind and will wipe out coral and many species of fish and other sea life if nothing is done soon.

Extra carbon dioxide in the air caused by the burning of fossil fuels is not only spurring climate change, but is making the oceans more acidic and endangering the marine life that helps to remove carbon dioxide from the earth's atmosphere.

Marine scientists have become so alarmed that special briefings have been held for goverment departments. Carol Turley, head of science at Plymouth Marine Laboratory in England, warnedof a "potentially gigantic" problem for the world.

"It is very urgent to warn people what is happening," she said. "Many of the species we rely on to eat, like cod, will disappear. In cartoon form, you could say people should prepare to change their tastes from cod and chips to jellyfish and chips. The whole composition of life in the oceans will change."

Jerry Blackford, another of the authors of a paper presented to a climate change conference in Exeter, England, has modeled the effect on the oceans. He said: "Some scientists are saying that in 35 years all the coral reefs in the world could be dead - it could be less or more. Put it this way, my children may never get the opportunity to go snorkeling on a living reef. Certainly, my grandchildren won't."

Although the phenomenon is caused by the excess acidity of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, it is not a "global warming" problem. It is more serious then that!

A simple chemical reaction between the acidic air and the alkaline sea starts the chemical and electrical attraction. With the sea being alkaline and the air being acidic, it pulls the carbon dioxide into its watery body causing an acidic decline in the pH and the potential death of the oceans! The oceans of the world are becoming cancerous!

Carbon dioxide mixed with water produces carbonic acid making the oceans more and more acidic and increasingly sick. For example, it takes thirty parts of alkalinity in the form of sodium bicarbonate to buffer or neutralize one part or one molecule of carbonic acid in order to maintain a pH of 8.2 - the healthy pH of our oceans. Thus, the chemistry to buffer carbonic acid in the oceans is a thirty to one ratio. This means thatit is going to be virtually impossible to reverse this catastrophic situation unless we do something about decreasing the emissions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere--and do it NOW!

Current scientists, like doctors, have not been looking at this potential problem because they have assumed the chemical composition of the sea is constant just like our blood pH. This is not case for the oceans or our blood. The oceans and our blood are constantly trying to maintain their alkalinity at the expense of the coral for the ocean and the bones for our blood.

Scientist are just now seeing the huge problem with the oceans becoming more and more acidic. They are beginning to see that our oceans are beginning to die.

And when the oceans begin to die, we begin to die - risking human extinction!

The oceans vital role in limiting carbon dioxide levels in theair is now being reassessed by scientists aroung the world. Plankton are as important as plants and trees in the take-up of carbon dioxide.

We estimate that about half the 800 billion tons of carbondioxide put into the atmoshere by mankind since the startof the industrial revolution has been soaked up by the sea.

Much of the carbon dioxide poison is fixed in the shells of creatures called coccolithphores, the tiny plankton whose bodies make up the white cliffs of Dover in England. They live on the ocean surface in trillions and when they die, their shells sink to the bottom of the ocean taking the carbon dioxide with them. They could not survive in a more acidic sea and their removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere would stop. These creatures are part of the survival of the human race. The oceans give us a sustainable atmosphere by taking out the carbon dioxide.

They are the lungs of the planet. People have not awakened to the potential impact that their removal will cause! The acidity of any liquid is measured on the pH scalefrom 1 to 14, with 7 being the midpoint. The higherthe number, the more alkaline. The oceans have previously been recorded at an 8.2 pH reading which is approximately 10 times more alkaline then human or animal blood. But the concern here is that the oceans pH has now dropped to a pH of 8.1 and is continuing to fall.

The sea around Britain has been found to be more acidic than many other areas, partly because of ocean currents, but mainly because Europe and North America are the largest polluters of carbon dioxide! Experiments show that even a small increase in ocean acidity reduces the ability of shellfish and plankton to grow and the population to fall. The loss of coral would seriously affect small islands and coastal regions.

The fundamental problem is the effect on the food chain. Zooplankton, essential food for fish, could suffer increasing mortality rates and starfish, whelks and other shellfish, eaten by cod, might perish. This might lead to a population explosion of other creatures such as jellyfish, crabs, shrimp and lobsters which rely on chitin rather than sodium transformed to calcium for their shells.

The growing acidity of the ocean is highly distrubing to me, personally, because I believe that the human race is only as healthy as our oceans--just as the human cell is only as healthy as the alkaline water in which it is bathed. This problem is at the foundation of global warming as a symptom of our acidic oceans.

I appeal to you to share this email with everyone youknow, love, or care about. It is a matter of life and death of the planet and for you. It will take many sacrifices such as limiting the amount of time we drive our cars or fly on airplanes. But we all need to be aware of the problem and begin doing something about it.

A healthy life is all about the water, and the health of any animal or human is determined by maintaining the purity and akalinity of that water - first from without (our earthly oceans) and then from within (our bodily oceans).

On March 8th, the pH Miracle Center will be releasingour pH Miracle Water. This water is a structured alkaline water with a pH of 9.5 and an electrical potential of -250mV. This water is a natural spring water that containsover 87 trace minerals necessary to sustain life.

When you purchase pH Miracle Water, not only will yoube drinking what I believe to be the best water on the planet, but you will be contributing to the pH MiracleLiving Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to alkalizing our oceans, our planet and the animals and humans that live here.

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Salicylates or Aspirin - Is it Good for the Body?

Salicylates or commonly know as aspirin causes metabolic acidosis and respiratory acidosis leading to tissue acidosis and possible cancerous tissue. Respiratory alkalosis develops first to nuetralize the increase of acids and occurs in all patients with salicylate intoxication.

A superimposed metabolic acidois then develops in some people, especially those with more severe salicylate intoxication. Salicylates are usually ingested as acetylsalcylic acid (plain, 'aspirin'). This compound rapidly dissociates to actylsalicylate, which is metabolized in the liver to salicylate. It is salicylate that causes increased risk for latent tissue acidosis and cancerous tissues.

Salicylate interferes with the alkaline/base balance, leading to increased production of organic acids, especially lactic acid associated with all cancerous tissue.

This increase of lactic acid causes latent tissue acidosis - associated with all cancerous symptomologies. (Protons liberated during the dissociation of acetylsalicylic acid do consume sodium bicarbonate lowering the pH of the extra cellular fluids and interstitial fluids by this mechanism.)

Salicylates also directly stimulate the medullary respiratory center, causing hyper-ventailation leading to respiratory acidosis and possible cancerous tissue of the lungs.

Finally, acetylsalicylic acid unnaturally thins the blood by destroying the red blood cells setting the stage for many blood disorders, beginning with anemia.

Bottom line - acid equals pain and pain equals acid. Using an acid like acetylsalicylic acid or plain 'aspirin' to mediate pain, thin blood or prevent cancer, is like trying to put out a fire with kerosine.

To overcome aches and pains in your body you need to minimize and eliminate metabolic acids from the blood and tissues. To minimize and eliminate metabolic acids from the blood and tissues you need to super-hydrate with high pH water and electron rich alkaline foods.

On March 10th, Dr. Robert O. Young will be releasingthe first stablized electron rich, high pH water, at a -250 mV and a 9.5 pH. This super-charged electron rich, pH stable water will be available in 750ml glass cobalt blue and antique green bottles and will be sold in case lots of 24.

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The pH Miracle Living Acid/Alklaine Saliva and Urine Test

We are receiving many questions on how to best monitor the pH of the saliva and urine.

Here is how to test your own pH...

The pH Miracle Living Acid/Alkaline Saliva and Urine Test:

1. First, upon waking test your saliva with the pHydrion paper. When you get out of bed, lick and wet the end of a pHydrion test strip with your saliva. Note the color change and write down the pH number. Do this before brushing your teeth, drinking, smoking, or even thinking of eating any food. The optimum saliva pH should be 7.2.

2. Second, test your first urine of the morning. This is urine that has been stored in your bladder during the night that is ready to be eliminated when you get up. You need to pee on a strip of pHydrion paper, note the color change and write down the pH number. The first urine should run optimally between a pH 6.8 to 7.2. If your first urine pH is lower than 6.8 you are deficient in alkaline buffers and need to move to a more alkaline diet rich in fresh green vegetables and fruits. If your first urine pH is higher than 7.2 your alkaline buffers are sufficient to neutralize the acidic foods and drinks you ingested the day before.

To balance the pH of the urine you need to move away from acidic foods and drinks and begin ingesting liberal amounts of electron rich green vegetables, low sugar fruits and healthy polyunsaturated fats.

3. Third, test your second morning urine before eating any food. This number should be the pH of your second urine after you have eliminated the acid load from the day before. The acids should be gone the second time you go to the bathroom, so your urine pH should be ideally 7.2 or higher.

If the pH is lower than 6.8, then you are in a state of latent tissue acidosis and you are deficient of alkaline buffers such as bicarbonate, sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium. The lower pH is also indicative of a diet high in protein and an increase in acids from proteins including nitric, sulfuric, phosphoric and uric acids.

Eliminate from the diet proteins from beef, chicken, turkey, pork and fish to normalize pH at 7.2 while eating liberal amounts of green foods and green drinks and healthy polyunsaturated fats.

4. For breakfast eat avocado soup, vegetable soup, the healing soup or drink some fresh almond milk or a fresh green drink. Fourth, wait five minutes and then check your urine and saliva again. Write these pH numbers down also. The pH numbers will go up from the first and second morning urine and saliva if you have sufficient alkaline reserves to buffer acids. If you do not then the pH numbers will show very little change or even go down from the early morning pH numbers.

5. Fifth, make sure you check your urine and saliva pH between meals, i.e., between breakfast and lunch and between lunch and dinner. The pH should always be between 7.2 to 8.4, right after meals and between 6.8 to 7.2 a couple of hours after meals.

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The five tests above show the following:

1. The level of efficiency of the digestive system to deal with what you ate the night before, i.e., the first and second AM urine and saliva pH. These numbers could vary significantly from day to day if you are living and eating an acidic diet. When you begin The pH Miracle Living Plan, you will see the pH of the urine and saliva become more constant and balanced at a pH of 7.2 or higher.

2. How well you treat yourself in general, i.e., how 'strong' are the salivary glands, stomach, pancreas, gallbladder and liver in dealing with excess acidity. This is, once again, the AM urine and saliva pH. This number shows the overall state of your health. It shows the condition of the alkaline reserve ofyour body which reflects the diet you have been eating over recent months and years. This pH number stays rather constant and will only change after some workhas been done in alkalizing and energizing the body as outlined in the pH Miracle books.

Since the saliva and urine pH is an indicator of intracellular pH, saliva and urine pH readings should never be below the pH of the sodium bicarbonate buffering system, 6.8. (The sodium bicarbonate buffering system is currently referred to my medical savants as the digestive system)

The most accurate readings of saliva and urine pH are recorded immediately upon awakening--after sleeping at least five hours and before brushing your teeth. It is during sleep that the body removes waste and is in an anabolic state restoring and replenishing the body. For example, if you have a saliva or urine pH of 5.5 and only 5.6 after eating, you know that you are deficient in alkaline reserve and your body is devoid of the minerals necessary to process food properly -- your body cannot adequately respond to the physiological crisis of handling food or drink that is acidic.

3. The pH of your saliva and urine after you eat or drink gives you an indication of your alkaline mineral reserves and your body's ability to deal with the acid residues created from the digestion of that food or drink. It is normal for your pH number to increase after you eat or drink, and not bestatic or decrease. This, once again, indicates an inability to deal with acid, the deficiency of alkaline reserves, and the buildup of latent tissue acidosis. Even if you think of a food like an avocado or a lemon, the pH of your saliva should increase by a whole point. This simple test indicates you have sufficient alkaline reserve minerals to pull into your digestive system to begin the digestive and alkaline buffering process.

The ideal urine and saliva pH pattern is 7.2 on awakening, 6.8 to 7.2 before eating and 7.2 to 8.5 following any alkaline meal or drink.A simple test can be done at most any time of the day by eating a few almonds.

This will check the adequacy of the alkaline reserve of the body. When a healthy person with adequate alkaline reserves eats a few almonds, the saliva pH almost immediately goes up to a pH of 8.4.

Following a meal, the more acidic the food thatwas eaten, the more rapid should be the response of the alkaline reserve, andthe higher the pH of saliva should be.

4. The pH of the saliva and urine between meals should be kept in the basic range, pH 7.2 or higher. After one eats, the stomach releases its necessary sodium bicarbonate to help alkalize the food. While doing this, it also acts to make an equivalent amount of base or baking soda--sodium bicarbonate. This is picked up by the blood stream and delivered to the alkaline salivary glands and the glands of the body, pancreas, gallbladder, liver and the pylorus glands in theduodenum. The maximum amount of base in the blood, and therefore in the urine and saliva, occurs one to two hours after you eat.

This rhythm of the acid and base flow of the body is called by Frederick F. Sander the Base-floods and the Base-tides of the Acid-Base household. This information was first published in 1930, by Frederick F. Sander, a German scientist, in a book called The Acid-Base Household of the Human Organism and its cooperation with the 'nail circulation' and the rhythm of the Liver.

In his book he states that the body fluids, and therefore the urine, is most acid at 2:00 A.M. (pH 5.0 to 6.8) (in the morning base tide) and most alkaline at 2:00 P.M. (pH 7.0 to 8.5) (in the afternoon base flood).

'The ideal pH numbers depend on the time of day. Plotted on a curve it looks like the double hump of the back of a camel. The two times per day that theurine should be alkaline and is the top of the humps and corresponds to 10 A.M. and 2 P.M., the alkaline tide after meals. During the rest of the day, the pH should be between 6.8 and 7.2. This is optimal urine. The first urine in the morning should be more acidic because of the decalcification that takes place during the night in neutralizing excess acids.

If all the acids generated from digestion, respiration, metabolism and degenerationduring the day are not all flushed out during the night they accumulate, day after day. The results are the expression of states of imbalance as the body desperately tries to maintain the alkaline fluid pH at 7.365. The day-to-day buildup of acids affects each of us differently depending on our genetics, lifestyle and diet.

I have found that acids settle in the weakest parts of the body, and if not eliminated through the bowels, urinary system, lungs or skin, acids are then bound to fat and stored on our hips, thighs, stomach, breasts and brain.

The bottom-line is that acids are the expression of all symptomologies and the direct cause of ALL sickness and disease.Monitoring your saliva and urine pH puts the responsibility of caring for your health back into your hands. Measuring the saliva and urine pH guides your therapy and shows you how living, eating and drinking determines the quality and quantity of your life.

You should monitor your saliva and urine each day for at least 12 weeks or until you establish a balanced pH at 7.2. Once you have established a balanced saliva and urine pH at 7.2 you can reduce the number of tests to once a day or 2 to 3 times a week.

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Symptoms Are NOT DIS-EASE

When we are dealing with a symptom or an effect we have to look to the cause. To understand the cause is very simple, as well as the treatment. The 'New Biology' explains the cause and effect of all sickness and disease as well as how to improve the quality and quantity of life.

Symptoms are not the disease.

Body weakness, lost power, is not a disease; but, by causing a flagging of the elimination of tissue-waste, which is toxic, the blood becomes charged with acids, and this I call acidosis -- poison in the blood and tissues.

This is disease, and when the toxin accumulates beyond the toleration point, a crisis takes place; which means that the poison or acid is being eliminated.

This we can call disease, but it is not. The only disease is systemic acidosis, which localizes in the weakness parts of our body. And what we call disease are symptoms produced by a forced vicarious elimination of acids through the mucous membrane.

When the elimination takes place through the mucous membrane of the nose, it is called a cold -- catarrh of the nose. And where these crises are repeated for years, the mucous membrane thickens and ulcerates, and the bones enlarge, closing the passages. At this stage hay fever or asthma develops. When the throat and tonsils, or any of the respiratory passages, become the seat of the crises of acidity, we have croup, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, etc.

What is in the name?

All are symptoms are the expulsion of acids from the blood and tissues at the different points named, and are essentially of the same character and evolving from the one cause -- namely -- systemic acidosis -- a crisis of toxemia.

The description can be extended to every organ of the body, for any organ that is enervated below the average standard from stress of habit, from work or worry, from injury, or from whatever cause, may become the location of the crises of systemic acidosis. The symptoms presented differ with each organ affected and that gives color to the belief that every symptom-complex is a separate and distinct disease.

But, thanks to the new LIGHT shed upon nomenclature (naming disease) by the philosophy of the 'New Biology,' every symptom -- complex goes back to the one and only cause of all so-called diseases -- namely systemic acidosis.

So there is only one sickness, one disease, and one treatment. The one sickness and disease is the over-acidification of the blood and tissues due to an inverted way of living, eating, and thinking. The one treatment is to alkalize and energize your body by following the principals outlined in our books.

You can learn more about this program in the pH Miracle, the pH Miracle for Diabetes, the pH Miracle for Cancer, the pH Miracle for Men and Women and the pH Miracle for Cancer.

For more information on our books, CD's and DVD's go to:http://www.phmiracleliving.com/audios.htmhttp://www.phmiracleliving.com/videos.htmhttp://www.phmiracleliving.com/books.htm

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What ARE E.M.F.'s

Electromagnetic fields (EMF) remain the subject of intense controversy. Though they are present everywhere electricity flows, the health effects of exposure to them are still being debated. There is concern that electromagnetic fields around high-voltage sources such as power transmission lines may be linked to cancer.

Studies have also implied that electric fields emitted by household wiring and appliances may effect production of certain neurohormones, disrupting sleep patterns.

What Are EMFs?

In all examples of EMF, the energy field causes a changein everything it encounters.
EMF (or ElectroMagnetic Field) is a broad term which includes electric fields generated by charged particles, magnetic fields generated by charged particles in motion, and radiated fields such as TV, radio, and microwaves. Electric fields are measured in units of volts per meter or V/m. Magnetic fields are measured in milli-Gauss or mG. The field is always strongest near the source and diminishes as you move away from the source.

These energies have the ability to influence particles at great distances. For example, the radiation from a radio tower influences the atoms within a distant radio antenna, allowing it to pick up the signal. Despite the many wonderful conveniences of electrical technology, the effects of EMF on biological tissue remains the most controversial aspect of the EMF issue with virtually all scientists agreeing that more research is necessary to determine safe or dangerous levels.

Iron, necessary for healthy blood and stored in the brain, is highly effected by EMF.
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The permeability of the cell membrane of our nerves, blood vessels, skin, and other organs is effected. The intricate DNA of the chromosomes has been shown to be effected by EMFs as well. In fact, throughout our bodies, every biochemical process involves precisely choreographed movement of EMF-sensitive atoms, molecules, and ions.

When Are EMFs Dangerous?

2.5 mG is the generally accepted limit of ELF magnetic field exposure but no one tells you that the average hair dryer, vacuum cleaner, or can opener you use EMITS AN AMAZING 300 mG or more!!!

After more than 25 years of intensive study, the health and safety conscious Swedish government has established a safety limit for exposure to ELF magnetic field at 2.5 mG, and VLF magnetic fields at only 0.25 mG. Although the U.S. government has been slower to act in establishing its own standards, the Swedish standard is generally accepted throughout the world. What this possibly means is that if someone consistently experiences exposure which exceeds the standard, that person could be at risk for developing health problems which can range from headaches, fatigue, and dizziness to skin rashes, miscarriage, leukemia, and cancer.

In fact, numerous court cases where plaintiffs claim to have been injured by EMFs are now in progress. Even though the controversy of conflicting scientific studies persists, it seems strange that cigarettes and alcohol are packaged with warnings we already know about, and the sodium, fat, and cholesterol content of foods must appear on the labels, but NO ONE TELLS YOU THAT THE AVERAGE HAIR DRYER, VACUUM CLEANER, OR CAN OPENER YOU USE EMITS AN AMAZING 300 mG OR MORE!!!

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What Can You Do About EMFs?

The Office of Technology Assessment of the Congress of the United States recommends a policy of 'prudent avoidance' with respect to EMF. Prudent avoidance means to measure fields, determine the sources, and act to reduce exposure.

1. Detect EMFs in your home and work environment.

You have to know where the sources of EMF are in your everyday world and how strong these sources are. Is there wiring in the wall behind your bed that you don't even know about? Is the vaporizer emitting strong fields in the baby's room? How much EMF are you and your family getting from the power lines in the street? Get a meter, share it with your friends, and test the areas where you spend time.

2. Diminish your exposure to the EMFs you find.

Remember that EMFs go right through doors and walls.

Determine how far you must stay away from the EMF emitters in your home & work environment to achieve less than 2.5 mG of exposure... the microwave oven, the alarm clock, the computer, and so on.

Rearrange your furniture (especially the beds, desks, and couches where you spend the most time) away from heaters, wiring, and fluorescent lights, electric doorbells, and other EMF 'hot spots'.

Test electrical appliances before you buy with a hand held meter in the store. Know what you are buying and buy the lowest EMF emitter. Where practical, replace your electric appliances with non-electric devices.

Contact your local utility if you suspect high radiation from power lines near your home, schools, or workplace. They will come out and test. If they find high levels of EMF (ask for the report!) they may be required to re-route the power lines, move them higher, or bury them.

Turn off, don't use, or throw out electrical appliances that you can do without!
Have an electrician correct faulty high EMF wiring and help you eliminate dangerous stray ground currents. Consult a qualified EMF engineer if necessary.

Here's a simple way to reduce exposure from idle computer monitors using the 'Low-Power Standby' mode: In Control Panel, locate the 'Display Properties'. Click the Screen Saver tab and check the Low-Power Standby box. Set the amount of minutes of idle before activation of standby mode. Click OK.

What this accomplishes is that the monitor will power down (almost zero radiation output!) when the keyboard is idle for a short while. To 'wake up' the monitor, simply touch the keypad or mouse. Note: this is better than Screen Savers, which do not reduce radiation or power consumption! This may only be available in some Windows 95/98 computers. For other computers use the Monitor Miser to accomplish the same radiation savings.

3. Shield yourself.

Use shielding devices on your computer screen and cellular phone. Add shielding to your household wiring, circuit box, and transformers. Use shielding-enhanced materials in your bedding or your clothing if you must be exposed to EMFs.

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Did you know that:
You can reduce the EMF exposure from your hair dryer 90% or more by arranging to hang the dryer on a wall hook, get a flexible plastic hose for the nozzle, and direct the hot air to your head with the hose!

USA Today conducted a survey of 4567 readers and reported that EMF pollution is the #1 environmental concern in America today.

The Wall Street Journal reported in 1993 that the real estate resale value of homes decreased by as much as 30%, if exposed to EMFs!

That electric fields are measured in units of volts per meter (V/m) and magnetic fields are measured in units of Gauss (G) or Tesla (T). 1 tesla = 10,000 gauss.

Microwaves are within the upper part of the radio frequency part of the electromagnetic spectrum? Radio frequencies range from kilohertz (thousands of cycles per second) to gigahertz (billions of cycles per second).

Check your microwave oven for leakage!

Epidemiological studies in Sweden by Maria Feychting showed that individuals exposed to high magnetic fields at home and at work had 3.7 times the risk of developing leukemia compared to those not exposed.

That 2 recent research reports have identified elevated risks of breast cancer among women working in jobs with presumed higher than average exposure to EMFs.

The US Postal Service has agreed to allow installation of 200 foot high towers supporting clusters of cellular phone antennas on the rooftops of 11,500 US Post Offices. By using this federal land, the installers can circumvent local planning boards.

The electromagnetic radiation from 4 watt walkie-talkies and 0.6 watt cell phones can cause medical life support equipment (such as infant apnea monitors) to malfunction?

The back of your computer is actually more EMF dangerous than the front? The safe distance from the front of your computer is about 30', while safe EMF levels from the back are about 40'! Think about what this means in schools and offices with rows of terminals. Suggest computer shielding to your employer and school board.

When shopping for appliances, those with a higher EER (energy efficiency ratio) generally produce lower EMF levels and are therefore safer!

One study (Ahlbom & Feychting, 1993) reported that at 2 mG and above, exposed children were 2.7 times as likely to develop cancer as unexposed children, and at 3 mG and above, the odds rose to 3.8 times as likely!

Another study (Wertheimer & Leeper, 1986) stated that couples who use either electric blankets or electrically heated waterbeds had a significantly higher miscarriage rate!
Protect yourself and your family with Sympathetic Resonance Technology:

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HIV on Trial - Part III

Several informative articles were recently posted to our web site at: www.articlesofhealth.blogspot.com

T Cells and Viral Load:

Faith in Quick Test Leads to Epidemic That Wasnt(January 22, 2007 New York Times)
Nearly 1,000 health care workers at a New Hampshire hospital were given a PCRtest in response to a scare started by a coughing staff member. The results: 142people were told they appeared to have the disease, thousands were givenantibiotics and a vaccine, and hospital beds were taken out of commission.Months later, hospital administrators informed the staff the whole thing hadbeen a false alarm no one on staff had the disease. The conclusion: No singletest result is absolute and that is even more important with a test result basedon PCR.

AIDS Drugs Facts and Myths:

New AIDS Drug Study is Flawed and Biased: No Proof Taking AIDS Drugs is Better Than Taking Nothing Responding to a study on AIDS drugs published in the Nov. 30, 2006 issue of theNew England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), scientists from the non-profit publicinterest group Rethinking AIDS state the trial's conclusions are flawed and thatthe idea that AIDS drug interruptions are dangerous is based on unprovenassumptions. According to Dr. Etienne de Harven, a pioneer in virology researchand electron microscopy and President of RA, The NEJM study does not provideevidence that taking AIDS drugs is better than not taking them...'

The Bigger Picture:

Denial By Frank Furedi, Spiked Online 'The charge of denial has become a secular form of blasphemy ... The heretic iscondemned because he has dared to question an authority that must never bequestioned. Here, overwhelming evidence serves as the equivalent of revealedreligious truth, and those who question 'scientists of unquestioned reputation'that is, the new priestly caste are guilty of blasphemy ... 'Denial' hasbecome part of a secular inquisition that stigmatizes free thinking.'

Preaching the Climate Catechism By Lorne Gunter, National Post 'Since 2003, the upper layer of the Atlantic has lost 25% of the extra heat ithad built up in the past three decadesThe broad consensus among solar scientistsis that the Earth's warming is almost entirely explicable by increased solaractivity that began about 100 years ago, and which will end around 2020But theseinconvenient truths would be bad for the cause...'

US Government Pushes Tests with 84% False Positive Results A new mental health surveillance test with close to 90% false positive resultsis currently recommended for use among all American children by the USgovernment. Backed and promoted by pharmaceutical companies and questionedby liberals and conservatives alike, the tests come under fire in two articles fromopposite ends of the political spectrum that both reach the same conclusion:tests are a drug industry dream come true and a public health nightmare.

Bill Gates: Philanthropist or Profiteering Polluter?

The LA Times reports on the contradictory activities of the Bill & Melinda GatesFoundation which has more than $60 billion at its disposal, an amount higherthan the gross domestic products of 70 percent of the world's nations. TheGates Foundation invests millions of dollars in corporations, which pollute thesame areas of Africa that are targeted for vaccines and medicines made bycompanies that Gates also funds.

The Secrets in Eli Lilly's Cabinet: The Dangers of ZyprexaBy Evelyn Pringle To date, Lilly has agreed to pay about $1.2 billion to settle claims withroughly 26,000 litigants who alleged among other things, that Eli Lilly companypromoted the sale of Zyprexa for off-label uses and concealed the health risksassociated with the drug. A lawsuit filed on behalf of private health insurersaccuses Lilly of violating racketeering laws, in part, by bankrolling nonprofitgroups to promote Zyprexa for unapproved uses and to downplay the medicine'sside effects.

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Celia Farber Cover Story of Canadian Magazine

Excerpted from Fast Forward Weekly; read the full story at: http://ffwdweekly.com/Issues/2006/1214/cover.htm

One of the most tragic stories of the AIDS crisis is the excoriation of thosejournalists, researchers, patients whose voices are silenced by a 20-yearorthodoxy of media hype, drug money and scientific stardom. Journalist CeliaFarber, deemed controversial and an HIV denialist by many, has spent twodecades reporting the dark, greedy history of AIDS, played out by drugcompanies, the government and people on the street.

Her new book, Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS (MelvilleHouse, 348 pp.), is a collection of her AIDS reportage, many of the piecesupdated or revised for the book. Uncensored is a most appropriate word for thisoutsiders account of the shady world of the AIDS industry in which, as Farberhas learned, to even ask questions that dont conform to orthodox views conjureshatred. These include pieces on protease inhibitor drugs and their toxicity,AIDS patients who test HIV-negative and, simply, whether HIV causes AIDS.

Recently, Farber published an article in Harpers Magazine ('Out of Control,'March 2006) detailing the twisted history of HIVNET, a clinical trial for thedrug nevirapine, which ended up an unmitigated disaster of corrupt andinconclusive data (National Institute of Health director of clinical researchoperations, Jonathan Fishbein, exposed the story and was fired). The article isprefaced with the tragic story of Joyce Ann Hafford, a pregnant woman who, atthe time, tested positive for HIV. She was part of a clinical trial involvingthe same drug, to which she had a deadly reaction that ultimately killed her.

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From the Same Folks Who Claim You Cant Miss a Dose: Taking AIDS Drugs Halfthe Time is Just Fine

Perfect Adherence to NNRTI Therapy Not Necessary for HIV SuppressionBy Martha Kerr
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Oct 04 - Suppression of HIV levels can be achievedwith nonnucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) therapy adherencerates below 60%, according to a report in the October 1st issue of ClinicalInfectious Diseases.

The study's author, Dr. David R. Bangsberg at the University of California atSan Francisco, told Reuters Health that while perfect adherence to NNRTI therapyis the ideal, it may not be completely necessary.

Earlier studies conducted in 2001 set a 'threshold' of 95% adherence toantiviral therapy in order to achieve adequate HIV suppression. At that time,unboosted protease inhibitor-based regimens were the best therapy available tosuppress HIV replication. Since then, more potent drugs have been developed,including NNRTI agents.

Dr. Bangsberg and colleagues identified 330 HIV-positive patients in the Research on Access to Care in the Homeless (REACH) cohort. About half were onprotease inhibitor therapy and about half received NNRTI therapy.

The investigators used unannounced pill counts and electronic medication monitoring to assess medication adherence.

Average adherence to antiviral therapy was 70%. For patients on NNRTI therapy,viral loads were suppressed to less than 400 copies/mL with adherence rates thatranged from 54% to 100%. In contrast, patients on protease inhibitors requiredadherence rates between 95% and 100% to achieve the same level of suppression.

'Treatment (of HIV infection) has changed since 2001 when the adherencethresholds were set,' Dr. Bangsberg told Reuters Health. 'These data show thatmore moderate levels of adherence can achieve viral suppression.'

Nonetheless, he added, 'More is still better ... Perfect adherence is best, butpatients should be told to get as close as they can.'

Also, he concluded, 'An important message to physicians is that patients with ahigh likelihood of non-adherence, such as those with mental disorders or thehomeless, may still do just fine.' (Clin Infect Dis 2006;43:939-941)

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Vocal AIDS Activists Suddenly Silent: The Pathology Report No Ones Talking About
Dr Nicholas Bennett, a resident in pediatrics at SUNY and self-proclaimed experton the tragic death of Eliza Jane Scovill, has no comment on a new report in thecase which for the first time publishes photographs of lung tissue slides whichBennett and others AIDS activists expected would support their belief in the LACounty Coroners decision that Christine Maggiores daughter died of pneumonia inMay of 2005.

Bennett and Dr David Gorsky, aka Orac, are among the once vociferous critics ofpathologist Dr Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati who concluded that Eliza Jane died as aresult of an allergic reaction to the antibiotic amoxicillin, prescribed for anear infection the day before the three and a half year-old suddenly went intocardiac arrest at the family home.

A link to the new report by Al-Bayati is posted on the home page at theJusticeForEJ.com web site. Also new at the site, witness testimony requested byLos Angeles Police Department investigators as part of the year long effort tocharge Maggiore with negligent homicide in her daughters death:http://www.justiceforej.com/ej-testimony-evidence.html

Bennett and Gorsky also went silent when given an opportunity to engage in apublic debate with Maggiore on the HIV hypothesis and their charges that herdaughter died as a result of AIDS denialism. Their refusal to speak up isdocumented in an entertaining exchange with agent provocateur Casey Cohenposted at the new Rethinking AIDS web site at:
http://www.rethinkingaids.com/challenges/bennett-cohen-ejreport.html
http://www.rethinkingaids.com/challenges/Cohen-Gorski.html
http://www.rethinkingaids.com/challenges/bennett-cohen-debate.html

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HIV on Trial - Part II

Television Azteca Airs 3 Hour News Series on the HIV/AIDS Controversy:

Historic Reporte 13 Broadcast Prompts National Debate in Mexico, Inspires Uproar Throughout South America

A brief meeting at a Studio City hotel late last year with veteran journalist Ricardo Rocha, host of Reporte 13, a popular news program on Mexicos national network Television Azteca, turned into a three part series on the AIDS controversy that has all of Latin America talking. Each one-hour segment of the series features scientists, medical doctors and HIV positives engaging in uncensored discussion of information and experiences that bring all aspects of orthodox AIDS views into question.

Beginning with part one, All The Truth About AIDS, scientists from the US and Mexico share little known facts about the inability of HIV tests to detect the actual virus or accurately identify the infected through antibody response; healthy HIV positives speak openly about never taking AIDS drug treatments or stopping them due to ill effects; and medical doctors reveal they are healing and preventing AIDS diseases without resorting to the use of harmful chemicals.

Part two explores a vital question never before raised by mainstream media, Has Anyone Seen HIV? and part three goes further into unexplored media territory with 60 minutes of evidence for the bold statement, AIDS is Curable.

Despite angry accusations from AIDS industry spokespersons and calls by AIDS activists for Television Azteca to halt further broadcast, the series aired three times in the past several weeks to increasing numbers of viewers.

In response to charges of murder and misinformation, Television Azteca invited critics of the program to engage in a televised debate with featured speakers from the Reporte 13 series. After agreeing to meet face to face to discuss the facts for a fourth segment called The AIDS Debate, the once vocalrepresentatives of the AIDS orthodoxy retreated from the opportunity for a direct confrontation, apparently preferring to launch verbal attacks from the internet or the editorial pages of newspapers.

Now it seems the challengers will not only boycott the debate but try to stop the show from taping. Here's the inside story on the controversy surrounding The AIDS Debate which will be broadcast in two parts on Television Azteca starting the week of February 19:

On the morning of Friday February 9th, the head of media services for the Ministry of Health, Mr. Jorge Herrera, informed Reporte 13 that physicians and researchers from the ministry will not be participating in the debate, in spite of the fact that they had confirmed the names of Dr. Juan Josi Calva, head of Censida, and Dr. Carlos Federico Arias, head of the Institute of Biotechnology at UNAM, and after stating that they would give us the names of two other experts to participate in the debate with them.

Everything seems to indicate that AIDS orthodox activists are keeping their position of boycotting the debate, so much so that they have threatened to organize a demonstration to prevent access to the facilities of TV Azteca on the day we have arranged to hold the debate.
After consulting with heads of the network, our position is very clear and uncompromising: TV Azteca and Reporte 13 will not be intimidated by this group. The debate will take place with our guests: Christine Maggiore and Drs Roberto Giraldo, Charles Geshekter and Roberto Stock, in front of four empty chairs bearing the names of those who had accepted to participate and now refuse to come without rational explanation.

The program will begin with a statement about the controversy caused by the first programs and we will show the press articles in which AIDS activists have called us criminals who practice journalism without investigating. After this, we will present our guests with the most fierce questions that derived from such articles, as well as with the good faith concerns expressed by the public during these weeks.

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AIDS Activists Tell BBC to Dump AIDS Documentary:Group Demands Apology, Calls Film A Lie
Guinea Pig Kids, a two year-old documentary about AIDS drug experiments conducted on infants and children at a foster home in New York City became a hot new issue when angry AIDS activists led by researcher Dr Mark Wainberg suddenly demanded that the British Broadcast Corporation remove all reference to the film from its web site and post an apology from producers.

Based on the chilling details of an article by independent journalist Liam Scheff, the BBC film reveals how the Incarnation Childrens Center (ICC), a home for kids who had lost or been forcibly separated from their parents, enrolled its residents into experimental drug trials. As the film shows, infants, children and teenagers -- some of whom had never tested HIV positive, and all with no voice of their own or advocates to speak on their behalf -- were used as guinea pigs in a variety of studies ranging from toxicity tolerance tests to experimental vaccines.

Thanks to the BBC expose, the disturbing practices at the ICC came to the attention of human rights organizations and local government agencies, prompting hearings, investigations and media coverage that continue to this day. The February 2007 issue of Essence magazine contains a special report inspired by the BBC film, The New York City AIDS Experiment.

Interestingly, Wainberg and others in the group calling for censorship of Guinea Pig Kids, receive funding from manufacturers of some of the very drugs used in the ICC experiments.

In response to the AIDS activists demand that the film disappear, a new web site has appeared where visitors can watch Guinea Pig Kids, read comments from producers, hear director Jamie Doran interviewed on National Public Radio, read original reports by journalists Liam Scheff and Celia Farber, and listen to unedited audio files of ICC personnel who speak unflinchingly about how they used surgically implanted feeding tubes to deliver drugs directly into the stomachs of children who had problems with compliance or adherence.

One visit to http://www.GuineaPigKids.com and youll see why AIDS activists want this information to go away.

Another source for uncensored news on the ICC story: http://barnesworld.blogs.com/barnes_world/2007/02/liam_scheff_the.html

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New 5-Minute Film on HIV Test Flaws and Fallacies:Share the Link, Increase the Views
Stephen Davis, the busiest man in AIDS reappraisal, has another new website thats creating quite a stir: http://www.LeeEvansVideo.com where you can watch or download a brief but powerful video starring two-time Olympic gold medal winner Lee Evans who outlines the many problems with so-called HIV tests.

The video was viewed over 6,000 times in its first two weeks online and is now at YouTube, Google, and the very popular web site of holistic medical doctor Joseph Mercoal (http://www.Mercola.com).

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AIDS Insider Outs Activists and Experts with Ties to Big Pharma

Another new web site worth visiting is http://www.shillfactor.net apparently created by a disgruntled orthodox activist who reports that its no accident that upwards of 95% of current drug development efforts and other clinical research for HIV/AIDS focus exclusively on bringing to market the same type of therapies over and over again. For the most part, development of these antiviral medicines involves small research costs and yields huge profit margins.

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More New Video and Audio Online at HelpForHIV.com

The Big Question, a one-hour South African TV program featuring American AIDS skeptic and former pharmaceutical researcher, Dr David Rasnick and Professor Sam Mhlongo, MD, head of the department of family medicine at South Africas largest teaching hospital in a heated debate with two representatives of orthodox AIDS views on anti-retroviral drugs.

Todo La Verdad del SIDA, the first of three hour-long news segments on the AIDS controversy that aired on national television in Mexico. The other two segments from Reporte 13 will be up soon at the site, and versions with English voice over translation should be posted sometime in the coming weeks.

New interviews with Stephen Davis and Christine Maggiore are also available as podcasts from APART through the APART link at HelpForHIV.com

Also, more real life stories from healthy HIV positives that have quit or never taken AIDS drugs available as podcasts through the HIV Drugs link at http://www.HelpForHIV.com

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More New Audio: TurnSpeak Radio Interviews Professor Peter Duesberg and Christine Maggiore

Jesse Waugh of TurnSpeak Radio invites you to listen to a new interview on the HIV controversy with UC Berkeley microbiologist Dr Peter Duesberg and a really good conversation with Christine Maggiore on HIV tests, the pharmaceutical industry, the difference between conspiracies and business as usual, and the latest on legal happenings related to the death of Maggiores daughter Eliza Jane Scovill.

http://www.turnspeak.com

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New Article on Proposal for Mandatory AIDS Med Compliance

The importance of asking critical questions about HIV and AIDS is introduced to 50,000 chiropractors world wide by Dr. Heide HartmannTaylor who takes a deeper look at the implications of a New York Times article that proposes a disturbing way to make sure HIV positives take their medication.

From the January 2007 edition of the Chiropractic Journal (a publication of the World Chiropractic Alliance):

An HIV Jail in America?By Dr. Heide Hartmann Taylor

According to the June 27, 2006 issue of The New York Times, the New York City health department is proposing to track HIV 'in a manner similar to tuberculosis, monitoring patients and trying to ensure that they take their medications properly.'

No one seems to have paid much any attention to this announcement; apparently very few remember exactly how they 'tracked' tuberculosis, even though it was not that long ago.
The Times explained: 'Thanks to a major infusion of federal financing, New York health officials took an active approach, getting as many patients as possible on directly observed therapy, known as DOT in which outreach workers administered tuberculosis medications in clinics, patients' homes and on the street. For patients who 'failed' DOT, the health department employed forcible detention, either at Bellevue Hospital or at Goldwater Hospital. More than 250 patients were detained between 1993 and 1998, some for as long as two years.'

'Failing DOT' means not taking or refusing to take their tuberculosis medications, for any reason. In other words, you don't want to take the drugs we think you should, we'll lock you up against your will for two years and make you!

The ward in Bellevue is called the 'TB Jail,' and it's still active and receiving patients. It's such a good idea, apparently, that New York wants to use the same model for HIV. In other words, they want to create an 'HIV Jail' where anyone who fails or refuses to take their HIV medications can be locked up and force fed their drugs.

Who is supposed to take HIV medications and will end up in the HIV Jail if they don't? Anyone the medical establishment deems to be HIVPositive and at risk for AIDS. After all, it's for their own good, despite the fact that a new study published in the August 2006 issue of The Lancet concluded that the newest Highly Active AntiRetroviral Therapy (HAART) was no more effective in decreasing mortality than it was ten years ago.

How accurate are the HIV blood tests that determine who is HIVPositive? I posed that question to Stephen Davis, former Arizona state senator, Physician's Assistant, Director of Development at Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic, and now the author of 'Wrongful Death: The AIDS Trial,' who has spent the last ten years researching AIDS and HIV.

His statements are shocking but important for all health care professionals to read: http://www.worldchiropracticalliance.org/tcj/2007/jan/o.htm

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Important New Paper on HIV, AIDS and Breastfeeding

The international research organization, Another Look at HIV and Breastfeeding, headed by La Leche League, International founder Marian Tompson, posted a new document at its web site which refutes claims that breastfeeding increases the risk of HIV transmission. The idea that the vital health benefits of breastfeeding are outweighed by the risks of HIV transmission gained popularity following a meta-analysis that appeared in the medical journal Lancet in 1992.

The new document begins with an account of the authors two-year struggle for publication in the Lancet, which ultimately ended in rejection. After more unsuccessful attempts at publication in the British Medical Journal and the Journal of Human Lactation, the authors decided it was more important to get the information to the public than to beg journals to publish controversial facts about analysis flaws in mainstream research. Interestingly, two of the articles authors, well know infant nutrition experts Ted Greiner and Pamela Morrisson, hold very mainstream views on HIV on AIDS.

http://www.anotherlook.org/papers/g/english.pdf

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HIV on Trial - Part I

HIV is on Trial in Australia:

Court Weighs Evidence for Claims of Isolation, Transmission and Testing

A motion for appeal in a criminal hearing in Adelaide, Australia has become thefocus of international attention as fundamental claims by orthodox AIDSresearchers -- including the infamous Dr Robert Gallo -- come under vigorouscross-examination by an attorney demanding scientific evidence that the virus exists.

Top AIDS industry spokespersons from around the world have appeared inperson or by satellite in Adelaide to defend the HIV hypothesis against chargesby a local team of scientific and medical experts known as 'The Perth Group'(http://www.theperthgroup.com/ <http://www.theperthgroup.com/> ) who assertsthat two decades of AIDS research have failed to produce a purified isolate of HIV,validation of the accuracy so-called HIV tests, or proof that HIV is transmitted through bodily fluids.

Below are two news articles about the legal proceedings. Other information aboutthe trial and actual transcripts of testimony can be found at http://aras.ab.ca/<http://aras.ab.ca/> /index.php
For this week's testimony by alleged HIV discoverer Dr Robert Gallo, go directlyto http://aras.ab.ca/articles/legal/Gallo-Transcript.pdf

Michael Geiger, a close observer of the events in Adelaide, reports being'stunned and amazed' by Gallo's statements to the court. Geiger says, 'It'sdifficult to tell if Gallo was defending HIV or if his testimony is a publicadmission of guilt.'

Geiger urges transcript readers to note:

- Page 1294 where Gallo agrees that he found evidence of HIV in only 40% of theAIDS patients in his original study, and that 40% is not enough to prove HIV isthe cause of AIDS:

Attorney to Gallo: 'You had 48 out of 119, or 40%?Gallo: 'I agree'

Attorney: 'Do you agree that the isolation of HIV from only 40% of patients isnot proof that HIV causes AIDS?'

Gallo: 'I would say of course, in and of itself, 40% isolation of a new virus, Iwould not say is the cause.'

- Page 1'00 where Gallo admits to finding low percentages of HIV positivity inpeople with AIDS symptoms:

Attorney: 'For adults with KS, 30%; for adults with AIDS opportunistic infections47%. Do you accept your figures?'

Gallo: 'I accept the figures.' - Page 1317 where Gallo acknowledges finding no HIV in KS lesions or in T cells,and testimony on page 1318 in which Gallo admits that 'viral load' tests cannotbe used to prove infection with a virus.

The language in news articles covering the Adelaide trial speaks loudly andclearly of media prejudice in AIDS reporting. In the first of the two piecesthat follow, medical and scientific experts challenging the notion that HIV hasbeen isolated according to proper, scientific standards are branded 'anorganized group of HIV deniers' and lack official titles such as MD, while thosebeing called by the court to produce evidence are referred to as 'experts' withrepeated references to their professional credentials.

The obvious bent of Australian coverage is at least one step up from the US media response: Not a single story on the uproar from down under has appearedin American news. Don't you wonder WHY!

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Adelaide Independent WeeklyFebruary 2, 2007

Does AIDS exist? Is HIV actually a virus? Incredibly, not everyone says yes.But never before has a scientific theory on HIV been tested like this in a courtof law. In this landmark South Australia case, the verdict will decide if a manconvicted of infecting his girlfriend with the virus can walk free.

Expert Attacks HIV SkepticsBy Hendrik Gout

One of the world's top HIV researchers has branded as 'wrong, mischievous andharmful' claims by an organized group of HIV deniers that the virus does notlead to AIDS. David Cooper, director of the National Centre in HIV Epidemiologyand Clinical Research at the University of NSW, said the evidence tendered tothe Supreme Court of South Australia by the so-called Perth Group lacked 'anyscientific validity' and endangered lives in Australia and the developing world.
'Saying that HIV is not sexually transmissible is a tragedy for us in Australia who are trying to prevent people from getting sick,' said Professor Cooper, whois cited within the top 10 experts on HIV in the world. 'It is a tragedy for thepeople in the developing world who might think they will not get sick after theyread about these claims.'

Professor Cooper gave evidence yesterday for the Director of Public Prosecutionsin an appeal launched by Andre Chad Parenzee, 35, who has been convicted forknowingly exposing three women to HIV by having unprotected sex with them.

For more than two weeks, representatives of the Perth Group have testified underoath that HIV does not lead to AIDS. Perth Group members EleniPapadopulos-Eleopulos and Val Turner also claim HIV is not sexually transmittedand has never been properly isolated and identified in the lab. ProfessorCooper, the first of up to eight prosecution witnesses, took the stand yesterdayas part of a DPP move to debunk the claims. Up to six other HIV experts,including famous immunologist and former Australian of the Year Gustav Nossal, are expected to provide evidence.

Professor Cooper's facility leads clinical trials of new therapies and vaccinesfor HIV and he is head of the Immunology-HIV-Infectious Diseases ClinicalService Unit at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney. He has treated more than 2500HIV-AIDS patients. He is author of more than 400 published scientific papers,mostly on HIV and AIDS, and is a past president of the International AIDSSociety. Professor Cooper is also chair of the AIDS vaccine advisory committeeof the World Health Organization and UNAIDS. He said he had read some transcripts of the evidence of the Perth Group in the appeal and was alsofamiliar with their work as a HIV skeptic group dating from the late 1980s.

'We believe that their statements are wrong, mischievous and harmful,' he said.Professor Cooper was asked to respond to the Perth Group's central claim thatHIV has never been properly identified, or 'does not exist'.

'To say that it doesn't exist is just scientific mis-truth,' he said.

He said HIV had been identified by three methods since its discovery in the1980s and the most effective modern method was using molecular biology toidentify its genetic sequence.
The case continues.

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The Australian (National Newspaper)HIV Skeptic Backs Unprotected SexBy Jeremy Roberts and Elizabeth Gosch

January 31, 2007

A medical physicist at Royal Perth Hospital has declared that she would haveunprotected sex with an HIV-positive man, believing she would not be at risk ofinfection. Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos was giving testimony at the Supreme Courtof South Australia during an appeal by a man convicted of exposing three womento HIV. She was asked by prosecutor Sandi McDonald whether 'you would haveunprotected vaginal sex with a HIV-positive man.'

'Any time,' replied Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos.

The admission came on the last day of Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos'scross-examination. She is the lead expert witness for Andre Chad Parenzee, 35, who was convicted in February last year on three counts of endangering life. Ajury found Parenzee had unprotected sex with three women despite knowing he was HIV-positive. He infected one of them.

He remains in custody awaiting sentencing. His mother, Jeanette Thumlert, hasspent $250,000 on her son's defense. Some of that money has gone to flying twoexpert witnesses from Perth on three occasions since October last year. Thewitnesses, Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos and emergency doctor Val Turner, representthe Perth Group.

The group's key claim is that HIV has never been isolated and identified as aretrovirus. HIV is the result of the misinterpretation of laboratory phenomenaand experiments, the group says.
Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos says AIDS is a disease that results from the oxidizingof the inside of the body from repeated exposure to semen resulting from passiveanal intercourse. It is not a 'virus' and cannot be 'transmitted' from oneperson to another during sex.

Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos's views are largely ignored by mainstream scientific journals. She has a bachelor of science and is a medical physicist at Royal Perth Hospital, with Perth Group member David Causer, the head of clinical physics.

A spokeswoman for the hospital said neither worked with AIDS patients, or in HIV research. 'Their views are not consistent with the hospital's views onHIV-AIDS,' she said.

Despite the Perth Group's marginal position, its evidence in the Parenzee appeal has spurred up to seven eminent HIV-AIDS scientists to give rebuttal testimony. The prosecution has told the court that Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos hasmisrepresented scientific papers and will call some of the papers'authors to set the record straight.

Renowned immunologist and World Health Organisation public health expert Gustav Nossal is preparing to give written evidence or appear in person debunking the testimony. He has called the HIV skeptics 'a very considerable embarrassment to Australian science'.

Yesterday, Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos continued her strident defense of herclaims. She was asked to consider the good record of anti-retroviral drugs inextending the lives of HIV-AIDS patients.

Judge John Sulan asked: 'Is it your evidence that it is a waste of resources to give anti-retrovirals to pregnant women?'

'Yes,' she said.

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HIV Positive Boxer Now HIV Negative:Tommy Morrison Returns to the Ring After 10 Years of

Fighting Doctors about AIDS Drugs

For some reason this news has failed to make any headlines: professional boxer and outspoken AIDS skeptic Tommy Morrison inexplicably tests HIV negative 10 years after testing HIV positive and being forced out of the ring at the height of his career. In fact, reports by Fox News on Morrison's return gave moreattention to his injured hand than to his change of HIV status.

Here's the story from http://www.notaids.com/ a cool new web site offering thesort of news about AIDS that ought to make the news:

Tommy Morrison, Boxing Champ, 'Rocky V' Co-star, Tests HIV Negative

Boxing star Tommy Morrison, two-time world champion, actor, known to many as The Duke - a reference to his being the great-grand nephew of Marion Morrison, aka John Wayne - has just tested negative for HIV.

Ordinarily, a negative test result wouldn't be a major newsmaker, but for Mr.Morrison and his fans, this is big news.

It was a little over 10 years ago in a room at a smoky Las Vegas hotel before a tournament of boxing matches that would have netted him millions that Tommy Morrison, rising boxing star, was taking a Nevada state-mandated HIV test before the match, and his life changed forever. \

The test was positive for the erst while'human immunodeficiency virus.'

For these past 10 years, Tommy Morrison has claimed that the test was bogus, suggested that HIV does not cause AIDS, refused antiretrovirals, was fired as a patient by famed AIDS expert, Dr. David Ho, and has proposed that agovernment-funded debacle perpetuates the great lie of HIV.

Mr Morrison estimates he lost about $100 million in cancelled fights because of what he and many others consider to be a flawed test for an imagined killervirus.

Flawed or not, the HIV test that came back positive one fateful day in Las Vegas ended an illustrious but short career of 46 wins out of 50, a movie, and two world titles: the WBO belt in 1993, and the IBC title in 1995. Many may remember his co-starring role Rocky V (1990) as the fighter Tommy Gunn, who dukes it outwith Sylvester Stallone's legendary, imaginary Rocky Balboa.

Not only did Tommy Morrison lose a lot of money from the fights cancelled because of the positive HIV test 10 years ago, but he lost a lot 'friends' - many turned their backs on the boxing star because of the positive HIV test result.

Through the years, many newspaper reporters described Morrison's doubt of the validity of the HIV test and of the HIV/AIDS killer theory itself, as quackery. Calling Morrison's opinion bizarre, some internet pundidts went so far as to moralize, saying he messed up his life and is paying the consequences. The press often wrote that he had fell under the spell of Internet fiction and conspiracy fantasyland, and ridiculed as 'denial' his belief that no such killer virus asHIV afflicted him.

When Mr. Morrison received the positive HIV diagnosis, he was first seen by Dr. David Ho, promoter of the AIDS drug 'cocktail' regimen that many scientists now question but eschewed the AZT and other pills prescribed for him in favor of good nutrition, exercise, and rest. Not music to Dr. Ho's ears, and unwilling to wander off the track of convention even for a minute, Ho dropped Morrison as apatient. Morrison was fine with being fired as a patient.

'All Dr. Ho did was my blood work,' Morrison said in a 1997 interview with POZ Magazine 'And then he tried to give me the damn medication. The top guy in the field doesn't even understand...'

Morrison's wife read all the same literature as he has, and is familiar arguments on both sides. The couple had frequent unprotected sex, she remainsnegative, and they both remain healthy.
Morrison feels the decision to avoid ARVs saved his life. He knows of many people who were healthy and started getting sick on the ARVs. He's become a personal advocate for those who opt out of the drug regimens.

Now, 10 years after he was first diagnosed with HIV, Morrison, AIDS-drug free, healthy, energetic, and willful in his accidental role as anti-AIDS establishment celebrity endorser, is causing a commotion again. He has tested negative for HIV and awaits a decision by the Arizona Boxing Commission to license him. He was hoping to get into the ring for a boxing tournament held in Phoeinix.

Peter McKinn, a boxing promoter out of Phoenix said that the latest test is not a fluke: it's the third negative test Mr. Morrison has taken recently.

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If It's Not HIV, What Can Cause AIDS?

Contrary to popular belief, HIV is not necessary to explain acquired immune deficiency and the illnesses associated with AIDS.

To understand why this is so, it is first necessary to understand what AIDS is. AIDS is not a new disease or illness; it is a new name or designation for 29 previously known diseases and conditions. As the NIH states in its comprehensive report on AIDS, "the designation 'AIDS' is a surveillance tool."191 Since 1981, the surveillance tool AIDS has been used to track and record familiar diseases when they appear in people who have tested positive for antibodies associated with HIV.

The AIDS virus hypothesis supposes that the health problems renamed AIDS develop as a result of infection with HIV; that the virus somehow disables the body's defense system that protects against opportunistic illness, allowing the development of one or more of 29 diseases, such as yeast infection, certain cancers, pneumonia, salmonella, diarrhea, or tuberculosis, which are then diagnosed as AIDS. However, every AIDS indicator disease occurs among people who test HIV negative, none are exclusive to those who test positive and all AIDS diseases existed before the adoption of the name "AIDS."

Prior to the designation AIDS, these 29 diseases were not thought to have a single, common cause. In fact, all have recognized causes and treatments that are unrelated to HIV. For example, yeast infection is a widespread problem due to an imbalance of natural bacteria. The yeast infections that occur in people who test HIV positive and in people who test HIV negative are caused by the same imbalance of natural bacteria. All the opportunistic illnesses called AIDS have various, medically proven causes that do not involve HIV.

Immune deficiency can be acquired by several risk factors that are not infectious or transmitted through blood or blood products. The following factors are widely recognized causes of immune suppression, compromised health, and opportunistic infections, as documented in the medical literature for more than 70 years. Chronic, habitual and multiple exposures to these risks can cause the group of symptoms called AIDS.192 In fact, there is no case of AIDS described in the medical literature without one or more of these health risk factors.193

Physical Risk Factors

These risks include malnutrition and chronic lack of sleep. In 1985, orthodox AIDS researcher and director of NIAID, Dr. Anthony Fauci declared that malnutrition was the most prevalent cause of immune deficiency diseases throughout the world, particularly in developing regions such as Africa where common illnesses like measles run rampant and take millions of lives.194
The medical literature notes that malnutrition and infection are invariably linked, as one condition aggravates the other. Hunger and endemic disease are familiar problems in those countries around the globe thought to be under siege from AIDS. Intrauterine malnutrition occurs when expectant mothers are improperly nourished, and can result in prolonged, sometimes lifelong, immune suppression.195

Poverty, crowded living conditions and unclean water promote endemic disease and compromised health. The populations in many developing regions of the world are devastated by rampant infections with common microbes that pose little or no health threat to people in industrialized nations.

Infections due to malnutrition immunodeficiency are the world's leading causes of infant and child death.195 Among citizens of industrialized nations, subclinical malnutrition, rather than starvation leads to compromised immune function, especially when combined with chronic lack of sleep.196 People who make habitual and prolonged use of certain drugs like methamphetamines, heroin and crack cocaine often suffer from malnutrition and chronic lack of sleep.

Chemical Risk Factors

Immune-compromising chemicals include pharmaceutical drugs such as AZT and other cancer chemotherapy compounds, protease inhibitors, antibiotics and steroids, and recreational drugs such as cocaine, crack, heroin, nitrites (poppers), and methamphetamines (crystal, speed).
Chemotherapy targets and destroys the bone marrow cells from which all immune cells derive. They also kill fully formed immune cells in addition to killing B cells and red blood cells.196,197 Chemotherapy destroys the digestive system by killing the cells that compose the inner lining of the digestive tract which interferes with the body's ability to absorb and digest nutrients, causing malnutrition. Even when used very briefly, chemotherapy suppresses normal immune function, increases susceptibility to a variety of opportunistic infections, and can cause life-threatening anemia and diarrhea. AZT, ddI, ddC, D4T and 3TC are all chemotherapy compounds used as antiviral AIDS treatments.

There are many pharmaceutical drugs known to suppress the immune system, particularly when used for prolonged periods of time. Protease inhibitors cause impaired liver function and liver failure (the liver removes disease-causing toxins from the body) in addition to kidney failure, dangerously high cholesterol levels, diarrhea and other health-compromising effects. Steroids are a known cause of immune deficiency often prescribed to AIDS patients to counteract the muscle wasting caused by AZT.198 Antibiotics, especially when used habitually, can cause yeast infection and diarrhea, two conditions that can lead to malnutrition.199 Septra and Bactrim are sulfonamide antibiotics commonly prescribed for continuous, prophylactic or preventative use by HIV positives. These drugs are leftover from the days before penicillin; they do not target invading microbes as narrowly as modern antibiotics and are notorious for their side effects.200 Both cause nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, anorexia, bone marrow destruction, rashes, fever, hepatitis, and anemia by interfering with the production of red blood cells.201

The immunosuppressive effects of recreational drug abuse are well-documented in medical literature dating back to the turn of the century. They include pneumonias, mouth sores, fevers, endocarditis, bacterial infections and night sweats, all conditions now associated with AIDS.202 Amphetamine drugs suppress the appetite, causing chronic users to suffer from malnutrition. Many habitual users of heroin and crack do not provide themselves with adequate food, sleep, shelter and healthcare.

Prolonged exposure to common chemical toxins such as insecticides and herbicides can also impair immune function.203

Biological Risk Factors

These risks include multiple exposures to and/or chronic infections with syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and other venereal diseases, hepatitis, tuberculosis, malaria, fungal diseases, amoebas and parasites such as giardia, bacterial infections such as staph and E coli, chronic bowel infections, blood transfusions, and the use of blood products. In addition to the damaging effects of recurrent infections, many of the pharmaceuticals used as treatment have adverse effects on immune function.

Factor VIII (the blood clotting agent used by hemophiliacs) and blood transfusions are immune suppressive and leave patients vulnerable to infection.204 Due to the serious conditions for which transfusions are necessary and the deleterious effects they have on the immune system, half of all HIV negative transfusion recipients die within a year of receiving a transfusion.204

Psychological Risk Factors

Chronic anxiety, panic, stress and depression have been shown to compromise health, damage immune function, and result in symptoms identical to AIDS.205 Mental stress provokes production of the hormone cortisol; excessive cortisol causes rapid and dramatic reductions in T cells, a condition known as lymphocytopenia. Within minutes, stress induces cortisol levels to increase as much as 20-fold. High levels of cortisol can eventually cause what medical texts describe as "significant atrophy of all the lymphoid tissue throughout the body" which may lead to "fulminating infection and death from diseases that would otherwise not be lethal."206
A profound fear of AIDS is enough to cause even people who repeatedly test HIV negative to develop physical symptoms of AIDS.207 Termed "AIDS-phobia," this condition is characterized by weight loss, wasting, reduced T cell counts and other signs considered indicative of AIDS, and typically follows intimate contact with people who sufferers believe may be HIV positive.

Beliefs and expectations are well-known to manifest in the physical body. The life-altering influence of beliefs was detailed dramatically in 1942 by Dr. Walter B. Cannon in his accounts of a phenomenon he called "voodoo death," a form of capital punishment practiced among certain Aboriginal tribes. Cannon reported that shaman, tribal medical authorities thought to possess special powers, were able to kill errant tribe members by simply pointing at them with a bone. Convinced of the shaman's ability to invoke a lethal curse, the people pointed at died within a matter of hours or days.208

In modern medicine, the power of expectation is a commonly accepted fact known as the "placebo effect." Placebos are inert chemical substances disguised as active preparations and given to patients in place of drugs. The health benefits gained from a placebo occur because the person taking it expects a positive effect. Since the benefits of any drug may be due in part to this placebo effect, most new drugs are tested against a placebo preparation.209
A recent study conducted at the University of Toronto demonstrated the profound physiological effects of expectation with regard to placebos. Researchers found that cardiac patients who strictly adhered to a placebo treatment regimen lived longer than patients who did not take their placebo regularly. In summarizing the study, lead researcher Dr. Paul Dorian noted, "What you believe has an important influence on your outcome."210

How These Risk Factors Apply to All AIDS Groups

There is not one case of AIDS described in the medical literature that does not include one or more immune-destroying health risk factors. There is no case of AIDS documented in a person whose sole risk is exposure to HIV. Every case of AIDS involves factors known to damage the immune system and leave a person vulnerable to debilitating infection and deadly illness.211

Men Who Have Sex With Men

Well-documented causes of immune dysfunction can explain AIDS illnesses among men who have sex with men although none of these causes are unique to this risk group or can be generalized to include all gay men. In fact, focusing attention on certain sexual practices rather than recognized health risks obscures our understanding of immune suppression and limits approaches to preventing and resolving AIDS.

Nitrites, more commonly known as poppers, are immune-suppressive, carcinogenic drugs chronically used by some gay men. At one time, 95% of gay men in major urban areas like Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco reported using poppers.212 Nitrite use correlates with Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS) and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, two AIDS-defining cancers found almost exclusively in this risk group.213 There are several studies that further strengthen the correlation between poppers and KS by documenting KS in HIV negative gay men who use poppers.213 KS is hardly ever found among members of any other CDC risk group or among women with AIDS, and is never diagnosed in children or infants with AIDS.213 In 1981 when AIDS was first identified, half of all AIDS diagnoses were for KS. As popper use has diminished, so has KS which since 1993 has accounted for less than 5% of all new AIDS cases.214

In the only studies that asked gay men with AIDS about recreational drugs, 93% to 100% of participants acknowledged using cocaine, crack cocaine, poppers, heroin, ecstasy, methamphetamines like speed and crystal, and/or Special K (an animal tranquilizer).215
Combinations of parasitic infections that include amebiasis and giardiasis along with rectal infections, syphilis, and gonorrhea can result in acute diarrhea which in turn causes malabsorption and malnutrition, or wasting.216 This collection of infections and resultant problems was commonly known as Gay Bowel Syndrome in the years before AIDS.216 The CDC reports that 20% to 50% of all gay men in major US cities have been treated, often repeatedly, for intestinal parasites using immune suppressive pharmaceutical drugs.217 Antibiotic treatments for recurrent venereal infections are immune suppressive, as is the practice of using these antibiotics on a regular basis as a prevention. Steroids are another immune damaging drug frequently prescribed to offset the wasting caused by diarrhea and malabsorption.217
Campaigns that encourage HIV testing, the consuming of toxic AIDS drugs, and living in fear of AIDS are primarily directed at the gay community. Many gay magazines may have up to half of their commercial advertising devoted to AIDS-related promotions.218 Such constant emphasis on AIDS gives rise to the notion of the inevitability of AIDS, a belief which can evoke chronic terror, despair and hopelessness, psychological risk factors known to impair immunity and compromise health.

The chance of registering false positive on an HIV test is greater for people with high levels of non-HIV antibodies and microbes in their blood. Antibodies produced in response to the particular microbial and viral infections frequently found in some gay men are documented causes of false positive HIV test results.218

For people who test HIV positive, the drugs prescribed as preventative treatments for opportunistic AIDS-defining infections become harmful and even deadly when used on a daily, continuous basis. Bactrim and Septra, for example, are powerful sulfonamide antibiotics that kill digestive flora and cause anemia and bone marrow destruction. The anti-HIV drugs AZT, ddI, D4T, ddC and 3TC are all highly toxic chemotherapies that destroy the immune and digestive systems, in addition to causing five of the 29 official AIDS-defining illnesses.219 Two 1993 studies conducted in the US and Canada found that every one of several hundred gay men with AIDS had a history of significant recreational drug and/or AIDS drug use.220

Identifying this risk group as people who engage in habitual, prolonged use of recreational and/or pharmaceutical drugs, have chronic exposure to a multitude of infectious microbes, who suffer from chronic malnourishment and/or chronic fear of HIV and AIDS provides a more appropriate and comprehensive explanation of immune suppression that invites many possibilities for prevention and resolution.

Injection Drug Users

Members of this risk group account for 35% of all diagnosed AIDS cases, while another 4% of people diagnosed with AIDS cite heterosexual contact with injection drug users as their sole risk. However, the majority of people who initially claim intimate contact with IV drug users as their only risk later acknowledge taking drugs themselves.221

Considering only injection drug use as a high risk activity for AIDS disregards the immune suppressive effects brought about by habitual use of non-injected street drugs as well as the many health-compromising factors that can accompany the regular, long-term use of illicit chemicals. The emphasis on sharing needles over the damaging effects of the narcotics injected with the needles distorts our view of immune dysfunction and prevents application of practical solutions to the health problems common to this risk group.

Prolonged, habitual consumption of drugs such as heroin, crack, speed, and cocaine, whether taken by injection or other means, is well-known to disable immune function. Chronic use of these drugs is documented to bring about many conditions synonymous with AIDS including pneumonias, tuberculosis, mouth sores, fevers, night sweats, bacterial infections, and endocarditis. Malnutrition, the number one cause of immune deficiency diseases worldwide, and multiple infections are frequent side effects of habitual injection drug use, and are factors that suppress immunity.

Antibodies generated in response to the multiple infections and chemical toxins typical of chronic drug use can cause false positive readings on HIV tests. Positive test results most frequently lead to ongoing treatment with various immune suppressive antibiotics and chemotherapy drugs, and to a sense of hopelessness and profound despair.

A more compassionate and inclusive way to portray this diverse group is as people who engage in habitual, prolonged use of recreational drugs, have chronic exposure to a multitude of infectious microbes and toxins through septic syringes or septic living conditions; who suffer from chronic malnourishment, lack of adequate sleep, the immune suppressive effects of AIDS drugs, and/or the chronic despair that follows an HIV positive or AIDS diagnosis. The immune deficiency diseases caused by these multiple and variant factors can be resolved with treatments that do not involve toxic anti-HIV drugs and long-term use of powerful antibiotics.

Transfusion Recipients and Hemophiliacs

Hemophiliacs and blood transfusion recipients together make up 2% of adult AIDS cases in the US. As noted previously, Factor VIII, the blood clotting treatment used by hemophiliacs, is itself immune suppressive. Hemophilia is a life-threatening condition in people with or without an HIV positive diagnosis. Ryan White, the young HIV positive hemophiliac who became famous as an AIDS victim, actually died of common complications attributed to hemophilia (internal bleeding and liver failure), not of illnesses that define AIDS.223

Blood transfusions suppress the immune system. Medical experts note that higher amounts of blood transfusions among hospitalized patients correlate with higher death rates. The authors of one recent study on transfusions specifically mention that the immune suppressive effects of transfusions leave recipients vulnerable to deadly opportunistic infection.224

Factor VIII and blood transfusions can cause positive results on HIV antibody tests in persons never exposed to HIV by triggering the production of antibodies that react with the nonspecific proteins used in the HIV antibody test. Once a person has tested positive, they are subject to immune suppressive drug treatment regimens, and the terror of developing AIDS.
Members of these risk groups can be more accurately described as people with serious preexisting health challenges, critical or chronic exposure to immune suppressive blood products and toxic AIDS drugs, and/or who are affected by the chronic despair of a fatal diagnosis. Based on this view, immune compromising anti-HIV chemotherapy and continuous antibiotic treatments would compound preexisting health problems, rather than resolve them.

Heterosexual Contact

Six percent of Americans diagnosed with AIDS cite heterosexual contact as their sole AIDS risk. However, upon further investigation, 60% to 99% of these people are reclassified as injection drug users and/or men who have sex with men, groups with identifiable health risks documented to cause immune dysfunction.225 As previously noted, people diagnosed with AIDS voluntarily select a risk group from among six categories determined by the CDC which limits health risks to possible exposure to HIV through sex or blood.

The damage caused by AIDS chemotherapy and the acceptance of a fatal diagnosis are sufficient to bring about serious illness and even death in people with no other risk factors.
Members of this group may be better described as people with no health risk factors acknowledged by the CDC who, because of their positive HIV status, regularly consume chemotherapy and/or engage in continuous treatment with antibiotics and other immune suppressive pharmaceutical drugs, and/or suffer from the chronic panic and hopelessness of a fatal diagnosis.

Adolescents, Children and Infants

Although teenagers and children are not a specific AIDS risk group, cases of AIDS among young people, however rare, are a matter of great concern. The fact that babies are diagnosed with AIDS has been used as an argument against non-HIV explanations for AIDS illnesses. Despite widely held beliefs, the majority of AIDS cases that occur among children and adolescents can be explained by the same causes of immune suppression prevalent in adults with AIDS.
In 1998, new AIDS cases among this country's 26 million teens totaled 293; of these, 229 offered information which placed them in the two primary CDC defined AIDS risk groups for adults.226

Over 80% of the mothers of babies diagnosed with AIDS voluntarily acknowledge using injection drugs during pregnancy, a practice which almost universally results in intrauterine malnutrition. The remaining cases of AIDS in infants and children may be due to the immune suppressive medical treatments given in response to an HIV positive test result, or to the same factors that cause HIV negative babies to suffer from pneumonia, bacterial infections, and immune disorders. In 1998, new AIDS cases in children age 13 and under totaled 382.227

Residents of Developing Nations

In stark contrast to the US and Europe, AIDS cases in developing areas of the world are found almost exclusively among non-drug using heterosexuals.228 Mainstream AIDS experts offer no plausible reason why AIDS would spread primarily through drug-free heterosexual contact only outside the US and Europe.

A coherent explanation for AIDS cases in developing areas of the world is the well-known health risks shared by these countries, widespread poverty and malnutrition; lack of clean water, a regular food supply, and sanitary living conditions; limited access to medical care; endemic diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, and parasitic infections that manifest in conditions identical to AIDS; and the practice of diagnosing AIDS based on a nonspecific set of clinical symptoms.

Although HIV tests are not required for an AIDS diagnosis in many parts of the world, widespread exposure to hepatitis, tuberculosis, leprosy, malaria and other conditions are more than sufficient to account for positive results on the nonspecific HIV antibody tests. 229
Resolving the immune suppressive conditions caused by poverty and malnutrition provides a means to alleviate the suffering of many people in developing nations who are currently counted and treated as victims of AIDS.

When considering non-HIV explanations for AIDS, consider that:
AIDS is a collection of familiar illnesses, not a disease.

Since 1993, more than half of all new AIDS diagnoses in the US are given to people who are not ill. In 1997, two-thirds of Americans diagnosed with AIDS had no symptoms or illness.*
Acquired immune deficiency predates the creation of the category "AIDS" and has numerous, well-documented causes.

There are no AIDS cases noted in the medical literature in which exposure to HIV has proved to be the sole health risk factor.

There are well-documented causes for every AIDS disease that do not involve HIV, and all illnesses now called AIDS occur in the absence of HIV.

HIV tests do not test for the actual virus, but for antiviral proteins or genetic material that are not specific to HIV.

The chance of a positive reaction on a nonspecific HIV antibody test increases proportionately with the level of other antibodies and microbes found in the blood.

Five of the six AIDS risk groups defined by the CDC have health risk factors that involve multiple, chronic exposure to viruses, bacteria and other antigens known to produce antibodies
identical to those associated with HIV.

Once a person has tested HIV antibody positive, chemotherapy and other immune suppressing chemicals are almost always prescribed for treatment or prevention of AIDS.

Alternative explanations for AIDS provide opportunities for effective AIDS prevention and for using practical, nontoxic approaches to resolving AIDS.

1997 was the last year that the CDC provided information on how many AIDS cases were diagnosed in people who are not sick.

Defined Terms:

Endemic: A medical term applied to a disease or disorder that is constantly present in a particular region or in a specific group of people.

Cancer Chemotherapy: Drugs used to treat cancer. Most anticancer drugs are cytotoxic (kill or damage cells). Others are synthetic forms of hormones. All anticancer drugs prevent cells from growing and dividing. Some work by damaging the cell's DNA; others block the chemical processes in the cell necessary for growth. Side effects of treatment include nausea, vomiting, and life-threatening diarrhea. By altering the rate at which cells grow and divide, anticancer drugs reduce the number of blood cells produced by the bone marrow, causing anemia and increased susceptibility to infection.

Endocarditis: Inflammation of the internal lining of the heart.

Incorrect Information about HIV and AIDS Costs Lives
Can you imagine receiving a fatal diagnosis without being told the diagnosis is based on an unproven idea and an uncertain test? Being instructed to take powerful, experimental drugs without being told these drugs compromise health, destroy functions necessary to sustain life, and were approved for use without adequate testing? Being informed that you have, or should expect, deadly illnesses without being told that these same illnesses are not considered fatal when they occur in "normal" people?

For anyone who tests HIV positive, getting all the facts is a matter of life and death. The important decisions a person makes should be based on thorough, verifiable data. All of us need and have the right to receive honest and complete information about HIV and AIDS.

Almost every AIDS organization in the country offers free instruction for people who test HIV positive. Standard information includes how to prepare a will, how to collect disability, health insurance, and public benefits, what drugs and tests to take, and which diseases to anticipate, all based on the assumption that HIV positives are or will be ill and do not have long to live.

Information on AIDS that is free from bias, that accurately describes tests and drugs, and offers facts that support a will to live, participate in society, and cultivate a healthy future are rarely, if ever mentioned. Some AIDS groups even lobby to limit public access to data that undermine their dire presentations of HIV and AIDS.

For many people handed an HIV positive diagnosis, these brief pages provide their first awareness that a normal, healthy life is not something they can only hope for, but something they can choose to achieve. Unfortunately for most people who test positive, the AIDS education they receive portrays their choices as being limited to toxic drug therapy or devastating illness, and encourages chronic fear, sadness, and resignation to an early death.

There are thousands of HIV positives who lead healthy lives without toxic AIDS drugs. What they have in common is not some unique, mysterious gene or a weakened strain of the virus, but an open-minded approach to information, an understanding of basic principles of medicine and science, and the knowledge that the responsibility for their well-being is ultimately their own. For more information on their lives, please see The Other Side of AIDS on page 94.

This book examines only a portion of the growing body of scientific, medical and epidemiological evidence that refutes popularly accepted ideas about HIV and AIDS. Readers are strongly encouraged to conduct further research and use the resources offered here.

To the degree that we allow unfounded ideas about HIV and AIDS to determine our actions, influence our choices, dictate our public policies, or define our world view, we are all victims of AIDS.

Since the 1984 announcement that HIV causes AIDS, all AIDS research has been based on the hypothesis that HIV, an inexplicably lethal new virus, is responsible for a group of previously known, disconnected diseases renamed AIDS. Setting the focus of all AIDS efforts on HIV, a virus that strains the rules of biology, epidemiology and logic, has rendered humankind few, if any, beneficial results.

The lives of over 400,000 Americans have been given to the notion that HIV is the only possible cause of AIDS, and that toxic drugs offer the only possible prevention, treatment, or hope for a cure. Many more lives have been forever altered by a positive result on a non-standardized test for harmless antibodies that may or may not be associated with HIV.

More than $50 billion in federal AIDS funding has provided no significant understanding of HIV, has produced no safe and effective therapies, and has not brought us any closer to ending AIDS. Instead, we have constructed a powerful AIDS establishment that regulates our news, limits our access to information, and demands an ever greater allocation of our resources and support. Rather than helping to resolve AIDS, we have funded the growth of multi-billion dollar industries, institutions and organizations that depend on AIDS and on our continued devotion to the narrow and unproductive HIV hypothesis.

Objective Examination of HIV and AIDS is Fundamental to Progress.

To understand and solve AIDS, it is necessary to investigate all legitimate scientific data, even when such information challenges our present understanding and perceptions. Progress in any area depends on the ability to engage in an unbiased evaluation of facts, to raise critical questions and to conduct an objective search for meaningful answers. Silence = Death...Of People, Ideas and Progress

" There is classical science, the way it's supposed to work, and then there's religion. I regained my sanity when I realized that AIDS science was a religious discourse. The one thing I will go to my grave not understanding is why everyone was so quick to accept everything the government said as truth. Especially the central myth: The cause of AIDS is known. What in the world made activists accept tha, ton the basis of a press conference, no less?

"My only theory is that AIDS requires the daily management of massive amounts of uncertainty, and people cling to any certainty they can find. Even if it's false."
Michael Callen, author, AIDS activist (deceased),Genre magazine, February/March, 1994
"Most HIV trials are useless rubbish. Research scientists [outside AIDS research] laugh at us. To them a good sample size is 30,000 people. We do studies with 1,500 people and think that's wonderful when the actual number of relevant patients is sometimes so small, you cannot rule out chance as the reason for the results you get. It is also unethical to run trials of drugs in places like Malaysia with only 30 people involved and then try to justify these flawed trials because some people got access to drugs who otherwise would have had nothing."

Kevin Frost, Manager of Research Programs for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR), Positive Nation, September 1998

"The story of AIDS is deeply connected with the vicissitudes of the theory that viruses cause cancer and the failure of the cancer research program. Michael Verney-Elliot put it most acidly when he said: 'From the people who didn't bring you the virus that causes cancer, it's the virus that doesn't cause AIDS.'"

Jad Adams, Author, The HIV Myth, 1989

"AIDS is not another disease, it is the most metaphorical disease in history. It is the ultimate triumph of politics over science."

Michael Fumento, Author, The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS, 1990

"Perhaps I'd feel different about it if I thought people were dying from AIDS. But I don't. I think they're dying from bad medicine, bad drugs, bad attitudes. There is nothing I want from 'Big Daddy' I don't want his medicines, his laws, his approval."

Gavin Dillard, Author, In the Flesh, HIV positive since 1985, San Francisco Frontiers, May 20, 1999

"In the September 4 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the CDC announced that a diagnosis of AIDS no longer requires an HIV test. The government now considers you an AIDS carrier if you suffer from any of the maladies on its new list of diseases indicative of AIDS, including such relatively common infections as herpes simplex, tuberculosis, Salmonellosis and the shockingly broad category 'other bacterial infections.' This broad definition will lead to countless new AIDS diagnoses, whether or not the person actually has AIDS. A major problem with the new AIDS definition is that it ignores the many environmental causes of immune suppression. Exposure to toxins, alcoholism, heavy drug use or heavy antibiotic use all can cause onset of the list of 'diseases' indicative of AIDS. The CDC itself conceded in a stunning remark near the end of the JAMA article that the new AIDS ground rules are highly suspect. 'The diagnostic criteria accepted by the AIDS surveillance case definition should not be interpreted as the standard of good medical practice,' warned the CDC."
Los Angeles Weekly, December 18, 1987

"The real trick is to get off the medication. I felt I was losing quality of life..."

Greg Louganis, HIV positive Olympic Gold Medalist,The State, April 15, 1997

"It's not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There are no such documents."

Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate, HIV not Guilty, October 5, 1996

" If you think a virus is the cause of AIDS, do a control without it. To do a control is the first thing you teach undergraduates. But it hasn't been done. The epidemiology of AIDS is a pile of anecdotal stories selected to the virus-AIDS hypothesis. People don't bother to check the details of popular dogma or consensus views."

Dr. Peter Duesberg, Do You Think HIV Causes AIDS?,Scientists for Legitimacy in Science, 1995

"Beware the scientist who believes that mainstream research thinking on any public health issue is equivalent to truth. Or the scientist who bullies or ridicules other scientists because they oppose the prevailing view. This is a person who has become what I would call a propagandist and should not be trusted.

"I have worked as a medical science reporter for 30 years. I've interviewed thousands of scientists for newspaper and magazine stories, radio and television productions, and books. I've met scientists who at least try to keep an open and fair mind on scientific issues. I have also met many propagandists who think they're scientists. In all the time I've worked as a journalist, I've never come across a nastier group of people to interview than those propagandists who work in HIV research."

Nicholas Regush, Medical Science Reporter, Second Opinion, ABCNews.com, September 29, 1999

"As a scientist who has studied AIDS for 16 years, I have determined that AIDS has little to do with science and is not even primarily a medical issue. AIDS is a sociological phenomenon held together by fear, creating a kind of medical McCarthyism that has transgressed and collapsed all the rules of science, and has imposed a brew of belief and pseudoscience on a vulnerable public."

Dr. David Rasnick, Designer of Protease Inhibitors,SPIN magazine, June 1997

"Considering there is little scientific proof of the exact linkage of HIV and AIDS, is it ethical to prescribe AZT, a toxic chain terminator of DNA developed 30 years ago as cancer chemotherapy, to 150,000 Americans, among them pregnant women and newborn babies, as an anti-HIV drug?"

Rep. Gil Gutknecht (R-MN), US House of Representatives, Letter to NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, March 14, 1995

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