Pride & Prejudice & AutoGenocide

In Italiano:Orgolio Prejudizio e Autogenicidio
AIDS Wiki: Gay Autogenocide

Nothing of what I say here is either exclusively mine or necessarily new. In fact many of these ideas I express here have always been in circulation. Many people of all walks of life have already said everything I say here before many times. I am just one more who agrees with them that the HIV=AIDS hypothesis is a lie and must be exposed. I believe we must do our part to ensure that.

Pride & Prejudice & Auto-Genocide

Gay Pride is here again, and one cannot (no matter how hard one tries) get away form the daily ablutions and rituals over the weeks and months that lead up to this yearly festival that (supposedly) celebrates our freedom and sexuality. This year it’s Euro Pride in Spain, so the list of parties and events is more relentless that usual. The posters and publicity are up everywhere; from the streets to the bars, the gay and national press, where this week it’s all about “pride”.

On a personal level bodies and minds are being prepared for this yearly festive ritual much in the same way bodies and minds are prepared for the White Party in Miami, or the Black Party in N.Y., or the Black & Blue Party in Montreal, or the August Matinee gay bash at Space in Ibiza. The mind is prepared by making sure we know who is going to be there, checking out every single profile for every person on “Gaydar” or “Bears” or “BigMuscle” who announces they will be there, and do the same as well, therefore marking your ground.

This week officially closes the grooming period that started round April, when the steroid, testosterone, growth-hormone, chemical sculpting (pill or injected), supplement based dieting, incessant training and even (in some cases) minor surgery rituals and interventions take place to prepare the body for the big show: Gay Pride.
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Pride
I never really liked that word very much, as it has always had religious connotations for me. It reminds me of the story in the Bible, where Lucifer offends God, and is cast out of heaven into hell for his sin: Pride. I have never felt very comfortable with that equation, as it seems to tie the quest for justice and equality with “sin” against God. I never understood how to take pride from its biblical connotations to a newer and healthier understanding of who we are and what we pretend as a community or as individuals; like becoming some kind of “light-bearers” for humanity (if such a thing should even be tried), but we can all agree that has not been the case here.

Since that initial innocent and almost naïve decision to adopt the idea of “pride” as the springboard behind gay peoples fight for equality, many things have changed. The HIV & AIDS catastrophe came along, and exposed us completely; our immaturity, ignorance, stupidity and vulnerability. Suddenly the parallel with the Lucifer story started to take on a more literal manifestation, when we found ourselves with the finger of "the wroth of God” pointing at us “homo-fornicators”. The most infuriating part of that idea being that God doesn’t seem to care about the drugs either.
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Behind this terrified and very confused stupidity and fear we called pride, we were then led like zombies to become the “keepers of the key”, the “guardian-priests” to a new faith that holds a deadly doctrine or “dogma”. Its name is “The Church Of AIDS”, a new ‘death cult”, based on fantastical theories and new scientific rules, a kind of “medical religion”, that places us all (willingly) on the sacrificial alter to a new God, a “virus-god” called: HIV Infection.

This crude but effective political “voodoo” was concocted and pushed on us for the economic and political profit it brought a few, and was blessed with the collective consent that came from the fear and shame it inspired, and the false comfort it gave us all of apparent unity behind one (totally false) belief; that a virus was the cause of all our ills, and that those heterosexuals who say otherwise are motivated by hate for humanity and “homophobia”, whilst the gay ones are guilty not just those initial accusations, but of further more abstract and arbitrary ones like “heresy” and “high treason” by their own community as well. Can this get more ludicrous? Yes, it can.

Those who are gay and have the HIV positive label who speak out, will see how everyone around them withdraws communication, friends go silent and even loved ones question their mental sanity. The human support, or simple contact that was available is withdrawn, and it is made abundantly clear to you that it will be given back on one condition only: that you shut up, take your medication, and agree to die. Of course as most human beings by nature are cowards, they project all this through a hermetic silence broken only by short sharp suggestions of ever-pending-probable-illness. And this is only what you get form your friends and loved ones…!
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“Pride” to “Prejudice”

Through these events we were left clinging on to fear and banality instead of pride, so in order to hide our feelings of confusion and shame, we try desperately to avoid this horrible nightmare through: out-of-control drug use and empty rituals and celebrations, that mask our inability to come to terms with our own self-hate, or what some have called: our “intrinsic death wish”.

The so called “gay-dream” has been turned into the rollercoaster ride to hell and back, it flings hundreds of thousands of bodies to their deaths, in order that some may make lots of money, or high-ride a political career. Does this sound delusional? I wish it were. You only have to look at the way gay AIDS Inc. and the gay media have used propaganda posing as safe sex adds to indoctrinate and entertain, but never ever to educate and inform. It is always deliberately designed to terrorize or delude people even more into staying on board the HIV=AIDS ride to hell. There also seems to be a very deliberate well-orchestrated need to keep people taking the vast quantities of drugs the HIV=AIDS rollercoaster needs to run. Drugs are the only real guarantee that people will eventually get sick, so I suppose that’s why they are actively encouraged through very specific round the clock events like huge parties, where drug use is 110% and treated by all as obligatory. There is a very small minority that does not indulge, true, but they are very small in numbers. The gay media deliberately tries to censure, hide or distort all information that points to the unquestionable, massive and endemic use of drugs, recreational and licit, that make up what we casually refer to as our lifestyle, as the most probable cause of us getting sick when we do, and not through any viral contagion. Why do they deliberately push this lie? For money, that’s why. The gay media is directly guilty of pushing and pimping gay men into this hellhole. They pushed poppers, AZT and everything else that is detrimental to the health of gay men for financial kickbacks from the pharmaceuticals, or anyone who want to use us like lab-rats to get rich, even if they kill us in the process. This is deliberate and it has been going on for nearly forty years now. So where’s the “homophobia”?
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Until we face the true HIV=AIDS horror in all it’s aspects as a community, and recognise what it has permitted us to do to ourselves, and to each other, I don’t see what there is to celebrate or be proud of. So I’m sure that those of you who understand what I am talking about will forgive me if I do not put my harness on and take to the streets to show my pride anymore, so go ahead and enjoy the party without me…and don’t forget to thank God, or the editor of your “gay-rag” that you still have the virus to blame it all on if and when you feel like shit, or get sick, when it’s back again to the retroviral chemotherapy, the Prozac, the Zopiclones, the bulimia-like eating (to make up for not eating for days), the antibiotics, anti-inflammatories and the analgesics, for the whole range of ailments and infections that stem from recreational drug use, not to even mention the problems that come form the kind of sex that “far-out” state tends to lead to and I should know, I used to do it all! HIV must be the most “convenient” virus in the history of mankind, it suites every ones need to live in denial so perfectly. In our case it permits us to ignore all these factors and blame “it” for all our ills for a solid quarter of a century at enormous human cost! How very convenient!
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I ask: How much longer can this outrageous state of affairs go unchallenged by the entire gay community? We have gone from pride to fear to fools to banal, we have been kicked up into the air and landed back on our butts on a stage dressed like clowns, we are part of a show that grows daily more grotesque and obscene. Where is this going from here?

Until our community addresses these questions seriously, our so-called “Gay Pride” fiesta is nothing more than the “official” event celebrating our delusional-chemically-induced-relentless-drive towards “Auto-Genocide”.

Manu.

The Failure Of HIV & AIDS Dissent.

I have decided to edit some parts of the original piece in view of the fact that some points I made (rather naively) regarding certain Doctors, could be interpreted as siding with one faction against another one, as respective doctor's supporters argue about their theories and classify everyone as friend or foe.

I reject the idea of factions and above all any association with any of them. I respect everyone’s input and feel they should all respect the fact that for many of us defeating AID$ Inc. is what's important, not who has the gratest theory on AIDS, which is a political construct and nothing more. I personally maintain that if any theory is going to stop AID$ Inc. it will be a political one, and then again, it will have a lot more to do with will rather than theory.

The Failure Of HIV & AIDS Dissent

This is not a “gay” perspective.
It is a “human” one.

There is a brilliant couplet at the start of the excellent film by Stephen Allen HIV Fact Or Fraud that goes something like:

“The war on AIDS has failed not because it never found a cure.
The war on AIDS has failed because it never found the cause.”

Well by that same criteria one can say the same thing about the AIDS Dissent Movement. After more than twenty years it has failed to get the establishment to listen. Even worse it has also failed in getting the people to listen or even to be interested. Why? After dedicating an entire year to look into a very wide range of material backed up by some direct contact with different aspects of the dissent movement, I will try to venture forth some answers to that question, and hopefully raise some more along the way as well.

The dissident movement has failed to get the establishment to listen because it failed to accept that the establishment is behind the whole lie. It has also failed to get the people interested because it tries to present this as a great tragedy for science when in fact it is an incalculable tragedy for people. No one cares about science. Time always takes care of scientific disputes, and anyone who knows anything about history knows that. Some within the movement call Gallo and Co. “criminals” responsible a “fraud” that now operates as part of a more global “agenda” to perpetrate “genocide”. For others in the movement this language is “counterproductive”. However, when you take into account all that has been perpetrated in the name of HIV & AIDS, the mere idea of adopting a “sanitized AIDS dissent lingo” seems to many a little obscene. I think sanitising language is the same as “political-correctness”. I find that very unsettling when I think of how that has been used in the HIV=AIDS debate, which has been to stall debate and create smoke-screens. Sanitised-AIDS-dissent-language also smacks of the “old boy network”, a seeming anachronism in a dissent movement, until on closer contact with some elements within it, you see that it is a language that obeys and supports an established structure. This seems to keep it all under apparent consented control. When you come into contact with some of these elements, there is a feeling that you are being tested or groomed to follow a line, a language, where you could serve a very specific purpose that is chosen for you. If you refuse to comply, or you disagree, you will be suddenly and abruptly ignored and shut out of the club in punishment. These elements keep the debate within the movement firmly with the doctors centre stage, whilst the “humanists”; who are the ones who really helped us not crack-up under the horrible shock of finding the truth behind the HIV=AIDS paradigm, but they have been relegated throughout this whole dispute to play the equivalent of the colourful (but secondary) role of the “Chorus” in a Greek tragedy.

These elements still fail to see that this is not a scientific issue anymore. This is a social and political one. So why is the main emphasis in dissent in general still on science? We are all extremely grateful for the vast amount of scientific theory this dispute has generated over the years, however as ordinary people we inevitably tend to lean more towards the works of Christine Maggiore or Stephen Davis, who through their accessible works have shown us all how to take on face-to-face the ONE and ONLY question we need answered from science: What do the so-called HIV tests prove? We all know Science/AIDS Inc. cannot answer that one without getting into a complete mess. We all know that the HIV=AIDS hypothesis is a load of bull excrement. Better: plain “voodoo”. That’s all the science we need to know. The doctors should have moved off centre-stage a long time ago. The real problem has always been in the political, social and human realm, where the devastation wreaked on peoples minds and lives is palpable. There again we need Maggiore, Farber and Shenton, Lauritsen and Young, Ellner and Crowe, Russell and Pasquarelli, Hodgkinson & Davis, Scovill & Allen, so people can understand the human, social and political motives behind this fraud that has been perpetrated against them, and lots and lots of Mark Weinberg, so people can also see and hear in whose hands they have relegated their health. The last thing we need are more doctors with scientific theories that do not take into account that we don’t even need them. Some even declare now that AIDS can be cured. Great! But who the hell has AIDS? The “classic AIDS”, who has that? This is obviously not applicable to AIDS in Africa, the situation AIDS Inc. has created there is even more sordid and shattering. AIDS Inc. will redefine our understanding of the word “genocide” by the time they have finished in Africa, if they are not stopped.

HIV & AIDS Dissent in Spanish is also something rather alarming but for different reasons. Why is the entire debate in the Spanish-speaking dissent world almost entirely on “curing” AIDS? Here people only have scientific theories to calm their fears and anxieties. No “humanist” material at all to help them understand that there is nothing wrong with them. Nothing! Theories on “oxidative semen” and “viral counts” and lymphocytes, and special diets; it’s crazy. The Spanish-speaking forums where people meet to talk and find out information are desperate places: “AIDS-zones” but without a virus which makes it all the more insane as everyone still thinks they are sick, and no one or nothing to tell them that there is nothing wrong with them. Again people are suffering the consequences of doctors holding the debate on science, and no one else wanting to take the responsibility that comes with knowing, that in over twenty five years of the HIV=AIDS lie, it was with the help of the “humanists” that we survived and never the doctors, and that no real advances in helping people can be pretended without the “humanists” and their contribution to this tragedy. Why is the Spanish-speaking world being made to go through this unnecessary ordeal, when it could and should be avoided? Everyone knows that you cannot just give people scientific theories. It’s a disgrace that when you look for material to point people to you only find addresses to some private practice. So in the Spanish-speaking world there is nothing available for people with a highly probable false unreliable HIV+ diagnosis, except the most detailed documents on how AIDS can be cured. What do these people have that needs curing? Spanish speaking AIDS seems to declare itself able to cure what many have spent years telling us we did not develop through testing positive. Australian AIDS dissent does this too. No wonder people get confused. This is a lot more difficult to explain to people than the simple “fraudulence” behind the HIV test. That’s when it all starts to look and sound like a Feydeau farce. The only problem is that no one is laughing. Except maybe AIDS Inc.

As far as a cure for AIDS goes, the only real cure people need would be to help them see that that HIV=AIDS hypothesis is a plain deliberate lie, another one in a growing list of lies lthat assault us from all directions; a virus from within, terror form without, and God or Mother Nature who are now going to make us all “globally fry”. It is part of something much bigger where maybe doctors have little to do. Call it what you like but it’s there and plain to see for those that want to or can. I’m not even sure this is just about AIDS anymore. Keeping the debate on “cures” is futile and misleading and makes no logical sense at all. It keeps people firmly in the idea that they are sick. Why else would you need a cure? It should be seen a wholly wrong by those who hold the basic belief that: “no one” is “anything” on the strength of “that test”. The only thing we need to cure is our mind from this “voodoo”, this deadly belief. We don’t need cures for AIDS. AIDS is a construct, a belief. Nothing more. I thought that everyone agreed on that!!

This is not a tirade against doctors. I admire and applaud their personal and scientific contributions to this issue and the courage in speaking out in the face of great opposition and even ridicule.

The final question on the nature of the dissent movement that had been bugging me for along time now was; why was the net littered with pages of individuals speaking out over the years, trying to warn people of the danger of the HIV fraud? So many people have known over the years. Have they lost interest? Most would seem to prefer to think that they did. But I am yet to meet a single person who understood the truth behind the tragedy of AIDS enough to speak out about it that has been able to sleep well since then. People don’t get bored with something like the HIV lie, it has a far too lethal effect on our lives to “toy” with it. I don’t know people who have “toyed” with this. People either look it in the face, or they just look the other way. I did notice however that in some cases the efforts of certain individuals and certain groups is referred to in derogatory terms through posts and memos over the net, that when pieced together could leave one thinking that there is a kind of process of selection one has to pass to be in or out. Maybe all those people just didn’t pass, so now they remain silent.

Who Am I?
I am a forty-three year-old gay man. I have a fifteen year-old positive (whatever the hell that means) diagnosis. I stopped treatment a year ago after seven years of retroviral chemotherapy, and have never looked back. I do no viral load or CD4-counts as it’s all just an insidious, twisted “Church of AIDS” ritual designed to keep your head full of imaginary viral debris. There is nothing wrong with me now nor was there ever. I don’t believe it anymore. I have got rid of the “voodoo” just by looking it in the face, and the only virus I saw was in my head, I didn’t need to take any antioxidants for that either, except green tea on ice a couple of times a day as one more drink I take when I am thirsty. I work hard at times long hours and live pretty normally, I smoke and drink beer or red wine occasionally, I eat everything that Mediterranean cuisine has to offer, I take no recreational drugs or steroids or “gay ghetto/lifestyle” trappings of any kind as of a number of years now. And I have no problem at all admitting that any health problems I may have in the past were directly related to the abuse I was subjection my body to at the time. I am a classified member of a “high risk” group, and I am fine with taking NOTHING, because I believe nothing about the HIV & AIDS construct anymore. I have seen how the science behind it is laughable and how it worked just like “voodoo” on my (then) “stupid” mind. Now I see it as something deliberate, criminal, fraudulent, corrupt and full of lies and deceit. It is pure concocted evil.

I am convinced that if this “paradigm from hell” had been left for the “humanists” to fight out, it would have been all over and done with years ago. As Michael Ellner would say:

“Is there a better explanation?”

I am more than eager to hear it.
Manu.

This letter has been sent to the following list of persons asking them for their comments in response to the questions raised in the piece: Rev. Michael Ellner-HEAL NY, Christine Maggiore, Peter Duesberg, The Perth Group, HEAL Toronto, Celia Farber, Alex Russell, John Lauritsen, Ian Young, Robin Scovill, David Crowe, Stephen Davis, Stephen Allen, Etienne De Harven, Joan Shenton, Harvey Bailey, Michael Geiger, Mike Hersee-HEAL London, ACT UP San Francisco, ACT UP Toronto, Roberto Giraldo, Monarcas Mejico and Paul King -Dissent Action among others.


Comments
David Crowe said...
I think that the difficulty combatting the HIV=AID$=Death dogma is that it is supported by a multi-faceted establishment, including scientists, doctors, media and politicians. I agree with you that change will not come from them. Science won't magically self-correct. Change will come from the lobbying of people who have educated themselves on the scientific flaws in HIV/AIDS. It's important to have scientists speak out, but that will never be enough. We need HIV-positive people to stop taking the drugs, gay men and Africans to refuse HIV testing and drugs. We need people to bravely speak out.

The dissident movement clearly has not succeeded, but the day it succeeds it is no longer needed. We have made progress though. Every person who refuses HIV testing, stops or doesn't start the drugs, who talks to other people about this issue, is a success. And gradually, like drops of water on a step, we are eroding the establishment paradigm. Hence the anger and frustration of people like Moore and Wainberg, and the need for Gallo to testify in Australia.
6/18/2007 12:03 AM

Mike Hersee HEAL London said...
Very well articulated, Manu. Essentially, I can boil the reason we have been unsuccessful into a very simple notion: Those who have discovered a different AIDS paradigm tend to be truthseekers, where new information is given equal priority to old information when being analysed. Most people tend to filter new information through their existing beliefs.

Where we've gone wrong is that most of us have tended to assume that people we are trying to reach think in the same way as us, they simply don't have the facts. That is why we have failed. What we have to do is understand not just what other people think, but how they think, and target our approaches that way.

And seeing as most people spend far more on entertainment than they ever do on education - heck, most people spend more money on alcohol than they do on education - we have to make some educational entertainment.
6/19/2007 6:08 PM

Terry Dobbbin ACT UP TORONTO said...
Well said manu! We all need to laugh at this silly construct. Your right most people don't care about the science or understand it. HIV is political.
6/20/2007 1.50 AM

How do we know if the dissident movement has failed? We simply don't. We never set any real goals to begin with so can we really say we failed. There has never been a collective agreement among dissidents about the direction we should take and this may be good. Most of us are free thinkers. Its all a process and I believe the universe always supports the truth and bravery. Everything is working out as it should. We have to trust in the process and just never give up and get frustrated or bitter. There are many other movements facing the same force ( ie 911, global warming..) we are and together we can change the world. WE ARE DO IT!!!! Look at the change that has happpen. Embrace the positive.
6/24/2007 6:18 PM

John Lauritsen says...
Manu, I agree with your conclusion, which is eloquently expressed. HIV=AIDS=DEATH is indeed a "paradigm from hell". It really is "something deliberate, criminal, fraudulent, corrupt and full of lies and deceit ... pure concocted evil."
I have written repeatedly that the prevailing AIDS paradigm is not just an unfortunate mistake, but rather a war -- a war against gay men. It is iatrogenic genocide.
Certainly we AIDS dissidents have not won the war, and perhaps will not in our lifetimes. But, in a struggle of David against Goliath, Goliath usually wins, at least in the short run. An important point is that censorship of AIDS dissent is ruthless and all-pervasive. There are some cracks in the Wall of Censorship, but not all that many.
Many of my articles are now on the Internet. Two books -- The AIDS War (1993) and The AIDS Cult (1997) -- are still in print. After a decade of procrastination, I have finally put together a personal web site, which has a few AIDS pages, including the full text of the 1986 book, _Death Rush: Poppers & AIDS_.
http://paganpressbooks.com/jpl
John Lauritsen
6/24/2007 2:55 PM

Michael Ellner Tom DiFerdinando HEAL NY say...
Bravo Manu!
I am confident that your essay will help many see the light. And every time another person gets it - We are all one step closer to exposing and putting an end to this murderous fraud.

I agree -- The "Dissident Movement" must completely free itself from the "AIDS Zone" before it can help others see the light.

Of course, it's easier said than done because in order to wake up from the “AIDS trance” we must fully understand at least five things: noninfectious diseases and the conditions associated with developing them; the US Public Health Service’s history of viral etiologies and sexual terrorism; the greedy, arrogant and market-driven nature of modern medical science and its toxic medications; the mass media and manufactured consent; and the psychospiritual dimensions of health, mass-hysteria and high-tech “bone-pointing,” particularly in the gay community and among gay “AIDS activists,” past and present.
Michael Ellner
6/24/07 7:34 AM

Christine Maggiore says...
From my experience, I've noticed that most scientists have a practical and methodical way of thinking and addressing their concerns about AIDS, and that some are less connected to the human aspect of AIDS and more connected to the biology.

I also see that doctors among us are addressing the fact that some HIV positives are ill and need help, not because of HIV, but for reasons that would make just about anyone in like circumstances ill. I believe their focus on healing comes from their desire to be healers and I don't see any doctor on this side of the issue making money from patients, talks or books. Like me, they are investing huge amounts of time and energy into their efforts to help, to make a difference.

I understand your frustrations about how experts in science, medicine and humanities tend to stay in separate orbits but I don't see this as intentional or motivated by ill will.

I hope you will continue to be a voice of love, sanity and self empowerment.

With big hugs,

Christine.
6/27/07 2:09 AM

Darin Brown from AIDS Wiki says...
Hi, Manu

I just read your post of the "failure of HIV and AIDS dissent".

"There is a brilliant couplet at the start of the excellent film by
Stephen Allen HIV Fact Or Fraud that goes something like:

“The war on AIDS has failed not because it never found a cure.
The war on AIDS has failed because it never found the cause.”

Well by that same criteria one can say the same thing about the AIDS
Dissent Movement. After more than twenty years it has failed to get the
establishment to listen."

The establishment will _never_ listen. They only understand the logic of
force/violence -- and by "force/violence", I don't mean physical
force/violence, I mean political force/violence. They will only listen
when the political forces threaten them -- when public sentiment is
strong enough to threaten their funding and their profits -- when
millions of people refuse to be tested, when millions of people refuse
their drugs. _THAT_ is what they will listen to. _THAT_ is why they are
frightened today for the first time in 20 years; this is the first time
they have been seriously challenged.

"Even worse it has also failed in getting the people to listen or even
to be interested."

The people are the _only_ people who have a hope of listening, as I said
above.

"The dissident movement has failed to get the establishment to listen
because it failed to accept that the establishment is behind the whole
lie."

I think it's a bit more complicated than that, unless you take a really
broad definition of "establishment". There are powerful psychosocial
forces at work, that go beyond economics.

"It has also failed to get the people interested because it tries to
present this as a great tragedy for science when in fact it is an
incalculable tragedy for people. No one cares about science. Time always
takes care of scientific disputes, and anyone who knows anything about
history knows that."

Focusing too much on the scientific tragedy is a problem. I think this
is probably because a lot of the people involved in AIDS dissent are
themselves scientists, and so science is a very personal issue for them
and they do feel the "scientific tragedy" on a deep personal level --
simply imagine how you would feel if you saw the subject of your life's
work corrupted and plundered for profit. But most people are not
scientists, so they don't share this personal feeling.

As far as scientific disputes always resolving, I don't think
comparisons with the past are apt. Never in the history of the world has
the scientific enterprise been as enormous and powerful as today -- not
just economically, but spiritually, in a sense. Its hegemony is almost
complete.

"These elements keep the debate within the movement firmly with the
doctors centre stage, whilst the “humanists”; who are the ones who
really helped us not crack-up under the horrible shock of finding the
truth behind the HIV=AIDS paradigm, but they have been relegated
throughout this whole dispute to play the equivalent of the colourful
(but secondary) role of the “Chorus” in a Greek tragedy."

I'm sorry you've had this experience.

"These elements still fail to see that this is not a scientific issue
anymore. This is a social and political one. So why is the main emphasis
in dissent in general still on science?"

Well, there is one reason I can think to still spend some time on
science (although not the "main emphasis"): and that is that 99.9% of
the world does look to the AIDS establishment for "scientific" reasons
to cling to their HIV beliefs, because they still see it as a scientific
issue. They [the establishment] are then forced to respond to specific
arguments (by Duesberg, Perth, etc.) and their responses can be very
clever, clever enough to satisfy someone wanting to cling to their
beliefs. Not responding is interpreted as not having an answer.

Also, there are constantly new papers and "research" coming out claiming
to answer the dissidents once and for all, or claiming to resolve some
paradox about HIV. Almost all of these do just the opposite. I feel we
_must_ respond to these papers; this is why I spent so much time on the
Rodriguez paper last fall.

"the ONE and ONLY question we need answered from science:What do the
so-called HIV tests prove? We all know Science/AIDS Inc. cannot answer
that one without getting into a complete mess."

Yes, that's the crux of it all.

"and lots and lots of Mark Weinberg, so people can also see and hear in
whose hands they have relegated their health."

Yes, I know a few people who were motivated to question HIV just because they were shocked to hear Weinberg speak.

"AIDS is a construct, a belief. Nothing more. I thought that everyone
agreed on that!!"

I thought so too recently...but I've encountered a few dissidents since
then who seem to disagree.

"The final question on the nature of the dissent movement that had been
bugging me for along time now was; why was the net littered with pages
of individuals speaking out over the years, trying to warn people of the
danger of the HIV fraud? So many people have known over the years. Have
they lost interest? Most would seem to prefer to think that they did.
But I am yet to meet a single person who understood the truth behind the
tragedy of AIDS enough to speak out about it that has been able to sleep
well since then."

There are different reasons. I think loss of interest is rarely one.

Burnout is probably the most common reason. The second most common
reason is probably just that someone feels they have contributed all
they have to offer. Another big reason is life circumstances -- people
often have things happen in their life that simply preclude the time and
effort involved. This can be anything from going to graduate school,
caring for ailing relatives, raising a family, starting a new career,
moving, etc.

Darin
6/29/07 3:43 AM

My Bout of So-Called AIDS

by Christine Maggiore

This past March [2002], I had the unsettling experience of being diagnosed with an AIDS defining condition. The news arrived with cruel precision on the 10-year anniversary of my testing HIV positive, coinciding perfectly with the orthodox axiom that we get a decade of normal health before our AIDS kicks in.

The diagnosis was based on a grade 3 Pap smear with cervical dysplasia, a result that insinuates cancer. Devastating enough on its own, my HIV positive label added a layer of complication.

As you may know, cervical dysplasia and cervical cancer were added to the AIDS definition in 1993 causing the number of women classified with AIDS to increase notably. Even though some 65,000 Americans are diagnosed each year with cervical cancers, and only a small fraction of these (about .0015%) are among women that test positive, HIV + cervical abnormalities = AIDS.

I imagined Dr. Matilde Krim cackling with delight at this seemingly tragic turn of events. Director of the orthodox AIDS research group AmFar, Krim had pronounced me "delusional" in a national television broadcast last fall for daring to consider myself healthy. According to the good doctor, I am merely enjoying the so-called latency period between testing positive and getting sick. During her interview, she did everything short of wish I would die of AIDS.

As an outspoken representative for alternative AIDS views, a full time mascot for healthy HIV positives, and a new mother for the second time, tackling this challenge was the last assignment I wanted. The diagnosis was totally inconvenient to my life and work. I fell prey to despair, called my husband and sobbed into the phone. Together, we recovered my rationality. I dried my tears and asked the doctor to perform another test.

Given the unreliability of diagnostics in general, and the fact that Pap smear slides are read by lab technicians for a matter of seconds, this seemed a perfectly reasonable request. She refused, however, imploring me to "stop being in denial," and acquiesced only after I politely but unrelentingly insisted. Holding my own was emotionally exhausting, and in the end it felt more as if she were humoring me than respecting my judgment.

The second Pap came back grade 2, a slightly less concerning level of diagnosis. According to my doctor, this suggested the presence of Human Papilloma Virus or HPV, a supposedly contagious condition associated with cervical cancer. Since I have never been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease, my husband's never had one, we've been together for six years, and all my previous Paps have been normal, I questioned the new results. My skepticism seemed to reinforce her notions I was lolling in denial. Our conversation turned contentious.

I cited information refuting the HPV/cervical cancer hypothesis, Professor Peter Duesberg's well-referenced deconstruction in particular. I recalled how the assumption that HPV caused cervical cancer had risen to popularity in the late 1970s following the complete failure of the Herpes Virus/cervical cancer hypothesis of the 1960s. That according to studies, half the American adult population is infected with HPV yet only 1 percent of women develop the cancer, and while equal numbers of men and women have HPV, men rarely develop penile cancers.

My doctor responded by recommending I see a specialist.

After much discussion, the new gynecologist acknowledged the presence of HPV only correlates with cervical cancer in some cases, and there is no evidence of a direct, causal relationship.

Both gynecologists agreed I should disregard the second test and consider the one indicating cervical dysplasia to be correct. Both recommended a colposcopy (a fairly invasive and painful procedure), to prepare for a biopsy, and urged me to act promptly. Instead, I decided to gather other opinions from holistic health practitioners.

In consultation with a naturopath, I determined I would follow the gynecologists' advice and act as if the worst-case scenario were true, that I had cervical dysplasia or cervical cancer. Together, we created a protocol that would serve to better my health no matter what diagnosis?if any?were correct. This program included detox, colon hydrotherapy, digestive enzymes, daily juicing, food combining, some new supplements, and regular exercise?something I'd slacked off on since the birth of my daughter. On my own, I added ozone therapy to the regimen.

Life went on as normal, apart from the whirr of the juicer every morning and arranging for childcare during the ozone infusions.

Although I vacillated between dauntless, nervously hopeful and scared, my confidence in what I know about HIV and AIDS did not waiver. What makes sense in times of health makes the same sense in time of health challenge. I felt no temptation to suddenly regard my positive HIV test as an illness in need of treatment. Sometimes I worried how others might interpret or use my situation, but the possibility of cancer did not inspire any panicked denouncing or erosion of what I understand about science, medicine, natural health, HIV and AIDS. If given a choice, I would have preferred not having to deal with another dreaded diagnosis, but as long as life dished it up, I accepted the opportunity to learn.

In August, I had a new Pap smear performed by a third gynecologist. I used an assumed name and did not mention my HIV status. This time the result was normal.

My doctor was at lunch when I called with the good news, so I left a message with the front office manager who was totally unimpressed. She explained, "That happens all the time. Most women get an abnormal Pap after having a baby. We just run the test again and it usually comes back normal. If not, the doctor gives them this little cream and that takes care of it."

Until that moment, neither doctor had mentioned an abnormal test was normal after childbirth, that second smears are routinely performed in such cases, or that there was any "little cream."

I have since discovered that the overwhelming majority of my female friends?all HIV negative, some with children?have received abnormal Pap results like mine. For them, a second test was a matter of course rather than a hard won concession. In every case, their results reverted to normal with no therapy.

Testing HIV positive often means being treated differently?with prejudice, based on unfounded assumptions, and as though well informed decisions are elaborate forms of denial. It seemed the dysplasia diagnosis confirmed my doctors' beliefs about HIV, and my supposed illness was the expected outcome. I felt frustrated, and even humiliated. I had to insist on getting what everyone else receives without discussion?the chance to be a healthy human being until proven otherwise.

Whenever I speak in public someone invariably asks, "If HIV doesn't cause AIDS, why do a lot of people who test HIV positive get sick and die?" I think a better question is: How does anyone who tests positive remain well?

Between the initial devastation of the diagnosis, the subsequent social isolation, dire predictions by doctors, lab tests measuring our remaining time, medical care that assumes our inevitable early demise, AIDS organizations poised to usher us into death, negative expectations of friends, family and the public, constant media reports on the incurable fatal virus, pressure to consume toxic drugs, to regard ourselves as infected, abnormal, and ill, pitches to sell off our life insurance, exchange work for disability, and get a handicapped parking pass, and the orders to keep a safe, latex-covered distance from people we love, I wonder how so many of us manage to live.

According to official definitions, I had AIDS a few months ago. I'll never know if the detox, ozone treatments, and dietary changes "cured" me, if the diagnosis changed along with my name, or as with most women, my cervical abnormalities went away on their own?if they ever existed in the first place. Of one thing, however, I feel certain: My knowledge and convictions prevented me from accepting an unverified diagnosis, engaging in unnecessary invasive procedures, and from believing my ability to live in health had come to a crashing halt.

All too often, our options are limited by medical authorities that encourage us to believe the worst, disregard the facts, deny our intuition, doubt our health, and quietly obey orders. I offer my experience with hopes that those of you also labeled HIV positive will create a foundation of knowledge that supports your choices and that enables you to act in your best interests when faced with life's many challenges.

AZT on Trial at The Hague

By Alex Russell

A criminal complaint against South African Treatment Action Campaign leader Zackie Achmat has been served on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague.

Particularized in a 59-page draft bill of indictment, the complaint seeks Achmat’s prosecution on a charge of genocide, arising from his direct criminal role in the deaths of thousands of South Africans, mostly black, mostly poor, from poisoning with so-called antiretroviral drugs.

The complaint and the ICC’s service receipt can be downloaded and printed at www.tig.org.za.

Adv Anthony Brink
Chairman, Treatment Information Group
Cape Town
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arbrink-at-iafrica-dot-com

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Demanding Justice
Remember: Arthur Ashe, Kimberly Bergalis, Kenny Everett, Derek Jarman, Rudolf Nureyev, Denholm Elliott, Freddie Mercury, and Ryan White were subject to Direct Medical Killing (Iatrogenic-AIDS) by AZT ('AIDS by prescription') and other cyto-toxic illegal HAART drug regimes.

It is time we set up an AIDS War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague and put Adler, Baltimore, Barré-Sinoussi, Blattner, Broder, Conant, Curran, Darby, Delaney, Essex, Fauci, Fischl, Francis, Gallo, Gazzard, Gottlieb, Ho, Jaffe, Karpas, Montagnier, Peckham, Pinching, Piot, Tedder, Varmus, Volberding, Weiss on trial for perpetuating Iatrogenic-AIDS (pharmogenocide) alongside AIDS War Crime Collaborators: Alcorn, Altman, Bloom, Bono, Bodell, Campbell, Cohen, Connor, Deutsche, Garrett, Geldof, Harrington, Horton, Jowell, King, Kramer, Maddox, Meldrum, Partridge, Scott, Wade, Watney, and Youle.

In 1980, Robert Gallo’s first alleged ‘human retrovirus’, 'HL23V', was declassified as non-existent. Now 'HIV ' must also be declassified and declared non-existent.
No one is 'HIV positive'

"To an extent which undermines classical standards of science, the scientific establishment has handled purported scientific results concerning AIDS by press releases rather than by scientific exchanges, thereby manipulating the media at large."
Serge Lang to the Council, National Academy of Sciences, USA.

"The AIDS research establishment are responsible for this tragedy. The marketing of HIV, through press releases and statements, as a killer virus, has so distorted research and treatment that it may have caused thousands of people to suffer and die."
Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, The Sunday Times, 17 May 1992.

"Since 1990, Nature, Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, the British Medical Journal and other mainline, peer-reviewed journals have preferred to reject papers by others besides my colleagues and myself containing verifiable data that throws doubt on the claim that AIDS is capable of causing epidemics in general populations of developed countries...The Lancet has published some short letters but has consistently refused to publish fuller reasons for dissent..."
Prof. Gordon Stewart, A paradigm under pressure; Index on Censorship, Vol.28, No.3, May/June 1999.

"Like Altman in the New York Times and Cohen in Science, Horton contributes to fudging the issue about relationships between AIDS (whatever it is), HIV and other viruses...Horton is still accountable to the scientific community for his tendentious selectivity in presenting the HIV/AIDS issues...I accuse you, Richard Horton, of scientific and journalistic irresponsibility.."
The Horton-New York Review File, Serge Lang.

"Politically it stinks. Medically it stinks. Culturally it stinks. More and more people are beginning to realize this and are demanding a full-scale public investigation of what, quite literally, is turning out to be a (medical) fairy tale...Those who continue to perpetrate the myth that HIV is 'the deadly AIDS virus' have blood on their hands and will be tried as war criminals once the truth about 'AIDS' is finally brought to light."
Dr. Michael Ward, Director of the Institute for Self Healing, San Francisco, 'Is the 'deadly AIDS virus' Government Fraud?', New York Native, 4, February, 1991

"The official AIDS paradigm represents the most colossal blunder in medical history. The Crimes Against Humanity committed in the AIDS War rank with any in history...If there were justice in the world, the AIDS-criminals would be brought to justice, given fair trials, and executed..."
John Lauritsen, The AIDS War, Asklepios, New York, 1993


Alex Russell


Alex Russell MA is a writer, painter and sculptor. He is the third son of Ken Russell, Film Director, and the late Shirley Russell, Film Costume Designer. He was born in London on 23 August 1959 and studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art (1978-1979) and the Chelsea School of Art (1979-1980). In 1986 Alex took First Class Honours in a Cultural Studies Degree where he made two films: East End of the Body and The Judy Garland Myth. In 1987 He took an MA in Modern European Thought attending lectures by the radical Freudian theorist Mark Cousins.

In 1993 Alex became involved in the AIDS debate and later became Assistant Editor of Continuum, a nutritional health magazine promoting an alternative view of AIDS. In 1999, Alex returned to writing, drawing, painting and more recently, sculpture. At his School of Francis Bacon website Alex is currently writing a philosophical treatise Being & Alien. Alex currently writes art and concert reviews for Seen & Heard International whilst continuing his career as a painter and sculptor.

The Case of Haemophiliacs proves that HIV cannot be the cause of AIDS
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Queer Corrupted-Death Camp 23

Queers don't want to be informed that 'hiv' and 'aids' do not exist; they have internalised these 'authoritarian personality' constructs so deeply; like they desire to be poisoned (punished) to death, put to death, by 'antiretroviral' euthanasia by 'daddy doctors'. If you take away 'hiv' from many queers they'll have nothing to live for.

Every gay person should read this article. This is a brilliant piece full of rage.


DEATH CAMP : 23
April, 1999

Putting Pressure on the 'HIV' Paradigm Protector Publications.

Editorial: It is time to make the Editors of Nature, Science, The Lancet, BMJ, JAMA, New Scientist, Scientific American et al publish the evidence that 'HIV' does not exist; write to them directly or pay them a visit at their offices! Ask them to give you the empirical evidence for the existence of 'HIV' and 'AIDS'. As the public face of the 'scientific community', these Editors control the discourse around 'HIV' and 'AIDS' but have kept the knowledge for the non-existence of 'HIV' from their readership. These editors have an ethical, political and scientific responsibility to the 'scientific community' and public at large to inform them that 'HIV' is government fraud. Harold Varmus, Robert Gallo, Luc Montagnier, Robin Weiss, Myron Essex, David Baltimore, Anthony Fauci, Donald Francis, James Curran, David Ho, et al, must be brought to justice and charged with 'AIDS War Crimes' (that is, government manufactured genocide: iatrogenic and pyschogenic aids-cleansing policies).

"The official AIDS paradigm represents the most colossal blunder in medical history. The Crimes Against Humanity committed in the AIDS War rank with any in history...If there were justice in the world, the AIDS-criminals would be brought to justice, given fair trials, and executed..." John Lauritsen, The AIDS War, Asklepios, New York, 1993.


We must combat 'hiv' occultist mind control by deprogramming those manufactured/voodooed as 'hiv' zombies or 'aids' clones. We must inform everyone that 'hiv' and 'aids' do not exist but are merely very crude semantic media-political constructs designed to regulate and exterminate soiled sections of smelly society. They use the constructs 'hiv' and 'aids' as social cleansing devises: get tested, get labelled, get stigmatised, get exterminated via 'psychogenic aids' and 'iatrogenic aids'. And, as usual faggots are their own worst enemies; they largely instigated the 'hiv/aids' fraud on their own brothers - bastards! Gays Against Genocide (GAG) were, in hindsight, correct to publicly promote their street-flyposter campaign titled: 'GAY MEN KILLING GAY MEN'. GAG-men saw politically correct middle-class gaymen promoting iatrofaggocide and wanted to inform the homofascist community about this cultural cleansing of young queenery and faggory. Queers are still collaborating to kill Queers; queer doctors, queer journalists, queer 'hivaids' community (business) directors and queer community leaders (carrerists) promote faggocide cleansing. From the mid/late 1980s onwards Martin Delaney, Larry Kramer, Simon Watney, Edward King, Keith Alcorn, Duncan Campbell, David Smith, Nick Partridge et al promoted the 'hiv' fraud as the politically expedient lie that would take the heat of queers by making it look like 'everyone' was at risk; they could not be honest enough to see that very specific cultural behaviours caused multi factorial conditions specific to particular high risk-groups; the crude labels 'hiv/aids' simplified and obfuscated the multif actorial reasons for premature deaths observed mainly in gaymenkind. We can only sole and dissolve 'hiv/aids' once we have erased these voodoo constructs; it is these constructs that are the problem. Yet many queers desperately need 'hiv' and 'aids' as 'crutches', as 'ideological cement', as a 'unifying label' as a suburban petit-bourgeois lifestyle community identity; gay men and queers need 'hiv' and 'aids' because they are 'comforting lies'.

Queers don't want to be informed that 'hiv' and 'aids' do not exist; they have internalised these 'authoritarian personality' constructs so deeply; like they desire to be poisoned (punished) to death, put to death, by 'antiretroviral' euthanasia by 'daddy doctors' (they desire to be killed by their doctors are their symbolic fathers. If you take away 'hiv' from many queers they'll have nothing to live for.

Editors of science journals also need the money-career spinner: 'hiv'. Richard Horton (The Lancet), Philip Campbell (Nature), Floyd Bloom (Science) have all been given the evidence that 'hiv' does not exist; but they simply cannot afford to publish such data because it would be a colossal threat to the multibillion dollar 'hiv' war industries. Those 'hiv' paradigm-protectors and profiteers like Richard Tedder, Robin Weiss, Robert Gallo, Jay Levy, Luc Montagnier have the knowledge that 'hiv' does not exist but they cannot 'come out' in public on this since they'd lose face and kudos and careers. They simply dare not admit they pushed the 'hiv' fraud. At this late stage in the fake-game why aren't the likes Duncan Campbell, Simon Watney, Keith Alcorn, Mike Youle exposing the 'hiv lie'? They can't milk it forever (andeverandever amen). In his superficial liberal-humanist-coffee-table-kitsch book, 'practices of freedom', Watney wrote the cliché: "hiv, the virus that causes aids", and Duncan Campbell said in 'Open Eye', Issue 3, 1995:"I absolutely believe that hiv causes aids." Yet surely these very liberal, Observer/Guardian reading politically correct - (though scientifically incorrect) - gay men would have realised that 'hiv' and 'aids' are media constructs and have not existence in bio-logical 'reality'? Many dissenters have argued that politically correct gay journalists and charity directors - through propagating the 'hiv/aids' lie - have perpetuated and directly instigated 'iatrogenic aids' and 'psychogenic aids' by pushing fraudulent 'hiv' testing and azt/ddi/ddc/pi poisoning politically correct gay men have made 'good money' from killing innocent gay men; they must be made to pay back all that wet shiny dripping blood money they've milked from the iatrogenic queer tear deaths.

David Smith, editor of the homofascist filth, Gay Times, has long promoted psychogenic and iatropharmo 'aidsing' in vulnerable gay men and has openly despised 'hiv/aids' dissidents and still promotes poisonous poppers to panic-poofs. David Smith is too smug and self congratulatory to confess he's been bullshitting his readers for years in pushing the 'hiv lie'; no doubt David Smithh will go on and onandonand-on with the highly profitable 'hiv-related-lies':since lies sell his rag and 'hiv-ads' help keep gaytimes and all the other poof-publications in business: fags need lies, lies make money: so profits and parasites poison public opinion; and hence, David Smith will never admit 'hiv' does not exist; glossy Gay Times makes money from 'hiv-aids' lies. So the whole gay commercial scene largely depends upon advertising revenue from 'hiv straight pharmaceutical drug pushers' and the 'hideous hiv service' industries; what a sick sad state queer identity has become enslaved to: a 'pseudo disease diseased identity industry'. It is tragic that Larry Kramer, Mark Harrington, Martin Delaney and Peter Tatchell became so easily stiched into the cosy 'hiv' lie: what happened to critical autonomous thinking...they just became sold out clones; but then to win 'respect' in the insidious 'gay community' one has to become enslaved to cretinous cloned 'hiv' belief; such is the authoritarian ethos of the 'homofascist' community; being subservient to a lie: 'hiv belief'. As Hitler rightly observed: "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe in it." There's simply too many people with reputations and vested interests for the 'hiv lie' machine to be blown apart easily.

To think of all those politically correct scientifically incorrect evil queens that have made so much money out of mass murdering gay men! And they still do; there's money in murder.

In a 'review' of Duesberg (which was an overt form of hiv propaganda), The Lancet editor, Richard Horton, naively asked: "How could so many scientists have gotten it all so badly wrong?" ('Truth & Heresy about AIDS', New York Review of Books, 23 May, 1996). Quiet easily. They got it "so badly wrong" because they were (and still are) 'framed' ('interpellated') and group-tranced within the dominant ruling-ideology of the 'hiv paradigm. We need mass-deprogramming to get the synthetic constructs 'hiv' and 'aids' out of peoples' skulls and torsos; only by erasing the totalizing constructs 'hiv' and 'aids' can we then begin to (re-examine the dis-eased body in all its 'plurality', 'heterogeneity' and 'difference'. None has hiv & aids - they have histories of particular conditions; and those conditions illnesses evolve through time; as does the body; so no one person ever experiences the same set of conditions in the exact same way!

Stefan Lanka jetisons the construct 'aids' altogether: "AIDS is an energy deficiency problem. The 'AIDS' term is absolutely meaningless because it has nothing to do with n immune defect or immune deficiency. It is clear that we are dealing with an energy deficiency. So the term 'AIDS' has to be replaced by the term 'AEDS', 'Acquired Energy Deficiency Syndrome'. 'AEDS has a rational basis, and is treatable." (Zenger's, December, 1998). It was at the 12th AIDS Conference, Geneva, that Lanka presented a press release announcing the 'AEDS' hypothesis ('A.E.D.S., not A.I.D.S. Has the global sex and blood plague been only a scientific bluff?, Regimed & MuM, 1st July, 1998, Geneva World AIDS Conference). So at Geneva, evidence was given that 'HIV' and 'AIDS' do not exist; yet Richard Horton did not mention this 'news' in his overrated and discredited journal, The Lancet. However, sooner or later, Horton and his henchwoman, Stephanie Clark will be forced to eat crow and kak and publish the fact that 'hiv' and 'aids' were fraud. They cannot live in 'hiv-aids related fairy- cake-castle-toy-town foreverandever'.

David Barry, William Blattner, Sam Broder, John Coffin, James Curran, Max Essex, Anthony Fauci, Donald Francis, Robert Gallo, David Ho, Harold Jaffe, Jay Levy, Luc Montagnier, Peter Piot, Richard Tedder, Harold Varmus, Jonathan Weber, Robin Weiss, as the propagators and profiteers of the 'hiv/aids' paradigm, are accountable to the scientific community and society at large for perpetuating the 'hiv' fraud; they must answer questions and engage in public debate.

Can Robin Weiss and Richard Tedder prove the existence of 'hiv' in Nature, Science and The Lancet? It amazes us at death camp that fag community leaders and 'diagnosed queers' and editors of 'hiv queer community' magazines seem so subservient and protective of these highly paid and overrated straight hiv careerists! Queers protect and propagate the very straight people who promote faggocide!

Groups such as IFAS, GAG, HEAL, ACT UP SF, ApS, TAPS, Regimed and MuM must put pressure on the editors of science journals to expose the 'hiv' fraud. Philip Campbell, Nature, Floyd Bloom, Ellis Rubinstein, Jon Cohen, Science, Richard Horton, Stephanie Clark, The Lancet, Rudy Baum (C & EN), Lawrence Altman, New York Times must be made publicly accountable for spreading misinformation uncritically with their 'hiv/aids' war-propaganda.. They continue to abuse their journalistic power (kudos) by disseminating 'hiv' propaganda. They have also treated the 'hiv' dissenters in an unprofessional and unscientific manner by responding with innuendo, obfuscation, verbiage and ad hominem attacks...like repugnant pernicious politicians in fact. They continue to either misrepresent, ignore or censor scientific arguments that deconstruct the 'hiv' hypothesis and, indeed, the (non-existence of 'hiv'. The greatest barrier to the advancement of science is the profitable paradigm of the dominant group. There are just too many people profiteering from the putrid 'hiv' paradigm for it to be abandoned. Serge Lang sums this up: "The first law of socio dynamics (a) The power structure does what they want, when they want; then they try to find reasons to justify it. (b) If this does not work, they do what they want, when they want, and then they stonewall..." Or to paraphrase cultural theorist, Slavoj Zizek: "The 'hiv' paradigm (Party-and-State bureaucracy) feigns to rule in the name of the people while everybody knows that it rules in its own interest - in the interest of reproducing its own power..."


"Like Altman in the New York Times and Cohen in Science, Horton contribute to fudging the issue about relationships between AIDS (whatever it is), HIV and other viruses...Horton is still accountable to the scientific community for his tendentious selectivity in presenting the HIV/AIDS issues...I accuse you, Richard Horton, of scientific and journalistic irresponsibility.."
The Horton-New York Review File, Serge Lang.

"Politically it stinks. Medically it stinks. Culturally it stinks. More and more people are beginning to realize this and are demanding a full-scale public investigation of what, quite literally, is turning out to be a (medical) fairy tale...Those who continue to perpetrate the myth that HIV is 'the deadly AIDS virus' have blood on their hands and will be tried as war criminals once the truth about 'AIDS' is finally brought to light."
Dr. Michael Ward, Director of the Institute for Self Healing, San Francisco, 'Is the 'deadly AIDS virus' Government Fraud?', New York Native, 4, February, 1991

Protective Stupidity by Michael Ellner

Ever notice how defensive some people become when you point out that the non-specific ‘HIV’ tests are not proof that anyone is infected with the putative ‘HIV’ ? Or that there is compelling evidence that low T-cell counts can reflect merely a chronic psychocortico-physiological redistribution of T-cells to the skin and other organs, not an indication of one's actual state of health or illness? Or that long-term antibiotic and chemotherapy/’anti-viral’ drug use are classically recognized to cause ‘AIDS’?
Instead of being relieved, most people are insulted! How dare anybody suggest ‘HIV’ is any less than the brutal killer ‘virus’ that every-body knows it is! Without ‘HIV’ we might have to look at the true nature of the world around us, and perhaps even our responsibility in it all. No. It’s better not to know that you can escape from the AIDS Zone; it’s better not to lose ‘HIV’ solidarity and the social tolerance one gains within an unaccepting society. Note that you're tolerated just as long as you die!

PROTECTIVE STUPIDITY
Epidemic hysteria, Mass Hypnosis and Escaping from the AIDS Zone by Dr. Michael Ellner
This document was provided by Continuum Magazine
VOL. 5 No. 2

Michael Ellner is President of HEAL - Health Education AIDS Liaison - in New York City. A prominent hypnohealer, he has received many honors including the first International Association of Counselors and Therapists’ Mind/Body/Spirit Award, and two Hypnosis Humanities Awards from the U.S. National Guild of Hypnotists (1989,1994). His new book Quantum Healing written with Richard Jamison Ph.D. explores self-healing and empowerment.

CAN WE TALK?
Cultural hypnosis, group fantasy and psychogenic death have profound social functions. They collectively serve to keep everyone’s attention off anything in life that matters like real love, health and happiness. They specifically serve to keep our attention off anything which threatens the focus of this paper –the Big Lie that: within a world in crisis, everything is OK.
Experts and officials also have a social function. If you think about it, when dealing with personal Big Lie issues, people not only expect to be lied to, but they depend upon it. As long as the lies have a seed of ‘truth’ it gives those who need it an opportunity to dismiss messy things like the role of self-responsibility in health and illness, not to mention things like economic injustice, political exploitation and most of all medical murder. And the experts all happily oblige; after all, they need the Big Lie too. Without it they would have to acknowledge their racism, sexism, homophobia, exploitation and countless other crimes against humanity.

PROTECTIVE STUPIDITY
When dealing with this sort of group think, the only thing we can be sure of is that nobody is thinking. This is confounded by the fact most hypnotized people cannot appreciate that they are already in a hypnotic Big Lie-protecting trance. In fact most people become irritated, defensive or even hostile at the mere suggestion, because once hypnotized there is a spontaneous impulse to defend the resulting mythology. Orwell called this "protective stupidity". (Orwell, G. "1984")
This defensive reflex is in itself evidence of the trance as without the trance a person would simply consider the information being presented. When in a trance however, one will dismiss as out of hand "dangerous information", i.e., any information which threatens the Big Lie view of the world or which suggests taking responsibility and/or action around issues of one's own health and happiness, particularly in the social realm.
This is what makes it so very challenging to help people realize that they have been culturally brain-washed throughout their lives (hypnotized without their knowledge or consent). Without the Big Lie, the true state of the world would be emotionally devastating.
The group fantasy ends up serving a powerful survivalistic and anxiety-regulating function. One is not even permitted to think about it let alone discuss it.

THE GROUP FANTASY NEED FOR ‘HIV’
The very ideas of group fantasy, cultural hypnosis, epidemic hysteria and psychogenic death are so unsettling that they almost always produce an "I can’t believe that!" response.
Put simply, group fantasy is the social agreement that black is white, up is down, and that the emperor is wearing clothes. It is used to mask rather than unveil the Big Lie and the identity of all who participate in perpetuating it.
‘Epidemic hysteria’ is the psychophysiological bridge between the group fantasy and the development of clinical psychogenic symptoms. Both have very important functions in that they are unconsciously used by the group to purge the social body of poisonous feelings that have been generated by the Big Lie in the first place. (C. Schmidt. MD, Group Fantasy Origins of AIDS. The AIDS Cult - Essays on the Gay Health Crisis edited by John Lauritsen and Ian Young).
Epidemic hysteria does, however, require a seed of ‘truth’ of its own (the core group, discussed later); it requires the existence of people who are actually sick to get started - people who are in fact sick because of the Big Lie. To dissociate this connection between sickness and the lie, we pull out the old standby: ‘viral’ scapegoats - like the group fantasy object ‘HIV’.

‘HIV’ AND THE BIG LIE
But how does one tell whether, in the case of epidemics of illness, one is dealing socially with hysteria, psychogenics and protective stupidity, or with an actual effort to curb social and physical illness? It depends on how the truly sick are dealt with. If their illnesses are used to direct attention to the Big Lie, health and better social conditions will result.
If on the other hand, it is being used to direct attention away from the lie, as in the case of ‘AIDS’/‘HIV’ and as evidenced by the many defensive reactions triggered by exposure of the fraud, there will be an escalation of both illness and social tension, i.e., a golden opportunity for the critically urgent psychosocial purge. This explains why most of us have such a hard time seeing that the perception of an ‘epidemic’ of ‘HIV disease’ particularly in the gay community is a group fantasy.
As Aids analyst Michael Baumgartner points out, more gay men will die of heart disease this year than ‘AIDS’. And yet no-one is putting any energy into heart disease.
Why is it that people are not up in arms over this? Without seductive and titillating triggers like sex, anal sex or the threat of sexual transmission, there is not opportunity to bring to a climactic head pre-existing social tensions. There is nothing titillating about heart disease. With AIDS however there is enough to arouse in everyone a hysteria. This mass hypnosis allows people to unconsciously act out their reconditioned roles, roles which are essential to perpetuating the Big Lie. If you’re tranced ‘HIV+’ your part is to get sick and die; if you are a doctor your role is to test for an antibody, make healthy people sick and sick people die, and then blame an alleged ‘virus’; if you’re a gay AIDS activist your role is to insure that unproven treatments get into everyone’s body and that everyone wear a condom as if everyone’s at risk; if you’re an AIDS organization your role is to deliver ‘HIV+’s’ to the pharmaceutical ovens and silence anyone who questions the insanity; and if you’re not in any of these groups your role is to wear a red ribbon, a latex condom and act like you care.
‘AIDS’ works because everyone has something to do. It all serves to keep us all from looking at what's truly going on in the world. The rampant death and subsequent social cleansing artificially absolve everyone of the repressed tension generated by the pre-existing social conditions. Meanwhile and more importantly they simultaneously help in evading the Big Lie which gave rise to both ‘AIDS’ and the need for the fantasy in the first place.

THE AIDS AND OTHER ZONES
Which brings me to the AIDS Zone. The AIDS Zone too serves a protective function within the Big Lie. I think it is the ultimate protective Zone within many other Zones. It is the little box within which ‘HIV’ causes ‘AIDS’, AIDS is always fatal, and poison can prolong your life. The broader Big Lie Zone sustains the AIDS Zone. The whole thing is structured and prolonged by our cultural myths, illusions and delusions. These are anchored to our deepest fears and doubts about sex, drugs and life, fears and doubts originally generated by the Big Lie itself.
Everywhere we turn in the USA the AIDS trance is being deepened; the lie is getting bigger. Vaccines, prenatal testing, notifiable diagnosis, enforced drug therapy, contact tracing - the lie is becoming more difficult to see, let alone escape. Remember the ‘Red menace’? Its social function was to scapegoat all the social problems in our lives. Economically it justified the multi-billion dollar war industries and reinforced the manufactured belief that we need military experts, covert operations and weapons of mass destruction to protect us from the ‘Reds’.
Today, the collective ‘Red menace’ has been replaced by the much more individual ‘viral ’ menace. The social function of the ‘viral’ menace is also to scapegoat all the social problems in our lives. Economically it justifies the multi-billion dollar AIDS War industries which reinforce through their mystery the manufactured belief that we need to invest in medical experts, Public Health operations and chemotherapies of mass destruction to protect us from (the Big Lie) ‘HIV’.

THE REALITY OF PSYCHOGENIC ILLNESS
Recently there was a brilliant essay published in CONTINUUM ("Communicable disease" – Alex Russell, vol 4/no 6 June/July ’97) designed to help ‘victims’ liberate themselves from the AIDS Zone. It was a masterpiece that offered readers a free pass out. This was followed by "Dissenting view" (WhoseHysteria?, by Cooper and Walker, vol 5 no 1). What we get in this essay is a conditioned reflex based on the authors’ unwillingness to address the staggering implications raised in Russell’s article. The reality of a transmissible hypochondria and subsequent psychogenic death was just too much for them.
Make no mistake about it, if you are branded ‘HIV+’ you do not have the luxury of ducking this urgent consideration. For you, understanding the nature and scope of the AIDS Zone and psychogenic disease (and how to escape both) is a matter of life and death. There are many concurrent epidemics of hysteria raging today and the psychogenic factor, particularly in the case of pseudo ‘HIV disease’, becomes clearer when we differentiate between the physiological factors of illness and the psycho-social factors of illness - that is, the core group of people getting sick and the much larger shadow group of people getting interpreted as identically ill if they really are ill, or as at risk of illness.

SOCIAL HEALTH RISKS
Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) is an excellent example of what I am talking about. The primary social health risk is the stress of war itself. From here things break up into two groups. In addition to the stress of war, the core group of people developing GWS symptoms suffer very serious exposures to very serious stressors, i.e. experimental vaccines, deadly pesticides, chemicals and possibly weapons of biological war - the very probable physiological factors of their illnesses. But the much larger shadow group unconsciously identifies with the core group and, even in the absence of the same complex of stressors, begin to generate physical, psychosomatic versions of these symptoms to express the intense emotional trauma of war.
This is also the case with ‘AIDS’. The core group of people who develop ‘GRID/AIDS’ indicator diseases and conditions suffer the physiological impact of very serious stressors, i.e., experimental vaccines, deadly medicines, street chemicals and sexually transmitted biological stressors (not ‘HIV’!).
The much larger group of people who are developing symptoms perceived by themselves and others as AIDS-related symptoms are suffering a combination of hypochondria and normal flu, colds etc. But within the AIDS Zone, these take on a life of their own. They were once called ‘ARC’ -AIDS- related complex, the precursor to AIDS, but are now called ‘HIV disease’ because in the absence of treatment a majority of ARC cases never develop into ‘AIDS’. Those actually presenting psychogenic symptoms though are suffering from the psychological consequences of the destructive social lies nobody wants to talk about - alienation, homophobia, racism, poverty, malnutrition, self-hate, medical consumerism and drug use.
The unaddressed emotional tension finds a substitute form of expression by gravitating to and identifying with the physical syndrome manifested by the core group - this, in addition to the medical choices based on the hysteria, can lead to death. In the case of pseudo ‘HIV disease’ the major emotional stressors, the major psycho-social stressors relate to being gay, non-white, and/or labeled ‘HIV+’. Simply put, it’s the core group that defines the badge and the others who later adopt it. If that sounds unfeasible consider this:
1) There are well documented case studies of people who are loosely called "the worried well". Even though they have repeatedly tested ‘HIV’ negative and have been repeatedly assured they are not at risk for ‘AIDS’, these people present a whole range of pseudo ‘HIV disease’ symptoms like dramatic weight loss, low grade fevers, skin disorders, diarrhoea, low T-cell counts and chronic flu like symptoms. The American Psychiatric and Psychological Associations named the disorder AFRAIDS (Acute Fear of AIDS) deeming its symptoms psychogenic (Redotz. Considering the psycho-social aspects of AIDS. Mi. Hosp. Jnl. 8/86, Vol.22 No.8) Of course such studies have failed to explore an equation between those who test negative and think they are ill and those who test positive and think they are ill. Since the ‘HIV’ test is unvalidated, both groups are actually dogged by the same beliefs and victims of the same ‘HIV’ hex.
2) Among certain cultures there is a powerful phenomenon called "bone pointing". Its similarity to an ‘HIV-positive’ diagnosis is a crucial and long over due consideration because among those cultures, the belief that the bone can kill is enough to cause death. The bone has no physical power in the same way that ‘HIV’ has no physical power, but inside the Zones, the belief in either the bone or ‘HIV’ can be deadly.

WE NEED AIDS!
Which brings us back to the mass hypnosis. Ever notice how defensive some people become when you point out that the non-specific ‘HIV’ tests are not proof that anyone is infected with the putative ‘HIV’ ? Or that there is compelling evidence that low T-cell counts can reflect merely a chronic psychocortico-physiological redistribution of T-cells to the skin and other organs, not an indication of one's actual state of health or illness? Or that long-term antibiotic and chemotherapy/’anti-viral’ drug use are classically recognized to cause ‘AIDS’?
Instead of being relieved, most people are insulted! How dare anybody suggest ‘HIV’ is any less than the brutal killer ‘virus’ that every-body knows it is! Without ‘HIV’ we might have to look at the true nature of the world around us, and perhaps even our responsibility in it all. No. It’s better not to know that you can escape from the AIDS Zone; it’s better not to lose ‘HIV’ solidarity and the social tolerance one gains within an unaccepting society. (Note that you're tolerated as long as you die!)
They react like many people who are told their GWS problems and symptoms are the result of post war stress. They are hurt and offended because like everyone else they have been culturally conditioned to seek the legitimacy of the medical industry for their health complaints; post war stress just isn’t an industrially or socially sanctioned disorder - we might have to consider things like economic injustice, political exploitation and emotional murder! As communities we have been persuaded and programmed to ignore and/or de-value both psychogenic disease and the intense distress of the war experience!
We have become unknowingly programmed to surrender our power to experts, germs and other government officials who know what's best for us; to ignore anything that challenges our necessary illusions. We believe in the entity of ‘AIDS’ through the same mechanisms as we believe in the marvels of modern medicine: brainwashing, protective stupidity and the social function of the lie.

THE DOCTOR WILL KILL YOU NOW
Modern medicine exploits the unconscious pain of a wounded society to obscure the real causes of its disease, while artificially numbing that pain. Even though in the US the day to day practice of conventional medicine kills at least three times as many people as are attributed to ‘AIDS’, we still insist on being treated by these charlatans. Surely this can be explained only by a lifetime of social and cultural conditioning to stop thinking while surrendering to "experts" all responsibility for our health. Which brings me back to the AIDS Zone. The ‘War on AIDS’ is a huge success socially, politically and economically because most people really don’t care if gay men and IV-drug users are being murdered. Their homophobia and own guilt and shame dull their basic humanity while contributing to their "stupidity". But as terrible as this gay extermination is, it is only the tip of the genocide. Most people really don’t care if 30 million of the poorest people on earth starve to death either. The Big Lie ‘HIV’ simplifies things. These horrific crimes are more easily ignored when these people are sentimentally written off as victims of a mythical ‘AIDS pandemic’.
The Zones are the only atmosphere in which pseudo ‘HIV disease’ and this massive cover-up could thrive. In other words, everybody has been hypnotized to turn off their thoughts and feelings and, instead of living, we are mindlessly sleepwalking from one Zone to the next. There is an ‘unconscious’ agenda at work - evading the role of self-responsibility in generating one’s own health and happiness - that simultaneously serves its broader social function - evading the Big Lie. Is there a better explanation?

Safe Sex The Condom The Facts

I am not saying that it is all right to have unsafe sex. On the contrary, since from a scientific standpoint the cause or causes of AIDS are unknown, it would be best to live in a healthy and sensible way. This means avoiding promiscuity and forms of sexual activity that are likely to transmit disease. Even more important, it means eating well, getting enough rest and sleep, getting enough exercise, and avoiding the use of "recreational drugs" (including poppers, MDA, quaaludes, Eve, Ecstasy, ethyl chloride, heroin, crack, cocaine, barbiturates, amphetamines, and PCP).

As gay men, we have good reason to fear the fears of others. We are in greater danger now from the political, than from the biological manifestations of AIDS.

The Hazardous Condom


Former U.S. Congressman Tom A. Coburn, M.D., ran a tank through the propaganda of condom safety in a recent press release he issued entitled "Safe Sex Myth Exposed by Scientific Report."

The spectacular evidence of condom dangers came from a report co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Institutes of Health , "(NIH)"the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

The high-ranking scientific panel considered data on only eight of roughly 25 widespread STD's: HIV, chancroid, genital herpes, human papillomavirus (HPV), gonorrhea, syphilis, trichomoniasis and chlamydia.

For decades the CDC, Planned Parenthood, the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States and the rest of the sex-education cartel have sworn kids could be safely sexy and confident when rolling on their stylish rubbers. Sure.
The panel reported, however, that after millions of tax dollars were spent for decades of sex-education programs, posters, lectures, plays and documentaries promoting their use, condoms are a toxic STD prophylactic.

Dr. Hal Wallis, a spokesman for the Physicians Consortium of over 2,000 medical doctors and healthcare professionals, noted that the NIH report "proves that abstinence, not condoms, must be the focus of federal health efforts," adding that "the entire public health model developed by the CDC … is a lie."

Dr. Coborn is livid. He charged that the CDC violated the law he authored (Public Law 106-554) compelling all federally-funded organizations to supply "medically accurate information regarding the effectiveness or lack of effectiveness of condoms in preventing" HPV and other STDs.

No health agency has released a guesstimate of how many children and adults, operating their condoms by the book, have died based on the health establishment's bogus condom claims.

For, it turns out that while STD infections are a principal cause of women's sterility, chronic disease and early death, condoms afford girls and women categorically no protection from seven of the eight STD's studied, even when used faultlessly 100 percent of the time.

Condoms may curb gonorrhea in heterosexual intercourse – but only for men!

And even the claim that condoms often hinder"HIV/AIDS" is questionable.

Here are a few reasons seldom mentioned:

The scientific panel studied data from several small groups of heterosexual couples, with one partner an AIDS carrier – the longest follow-up study being three years. Allegedly, if condoms are applied without fail in " vaginal intercourse"

, approximately 15 out of each 100 uninfected partners will get HIV annually.

However, there is no information on how often these "couples" actually did the "marital act."

And, for those folks who engage in various sodomies, NIH gave no clues on rates of condom breakage and slippage. So, the data clearly void condom "security" for homosexual participants.

Also relevant, condom safety claims may be killing girls and women en masse. Condoms do not stop genital HPV, the most common STD. Said Dr. Coborn, "every year, 15,000 cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed and 5,000 women die of the disease. Hundreds of thousands of other women will be diagnosed and treated for pre-cancerous condition. HPV is the cause of nearly all cervical cancer and has also been linked to prostate, anal and oral cancer."

So, sexual disease results from promoting sexual license and concealing condom dangers.

Since 1950, Kinseyan sexuality advocates have promoted the importance of sexual freedom. On that simple-minded basis, American laws were altered to push child "education" in sex, via "safe sex" condom mastery.
But, they lied.

So, hold on to your hats folks. Look for possibly thousands of lawsuits coming down the expressway.

Planned right, these should make the tobacco debacle look like a Victorian ladies tea as teachers, school systems, the CDC, Planned Parenthood, SIECUS, etc., are sued for wrongful death, "false claims," "contributing to the delinquency of minors," and scores of other criminal violations of law.

Since latex condoms can have naturally occurring holes which are at least 50 times larger and up to"500 times larger than the[so-called] AIDS virus" , and since cell-free HIV could be 10,000 times more efficient at vaginal infection then cell-associated, and since each ml of semen potentially contains as many as one million cell-free particles, those who promote condoms have a duty to inform their clients of these facts and that clients have a right to this information which they need before giving consent to use a so called ‘health product’.

More on So-Called "Safe Sex" John Lauritsen, 'Latex Lunacy'
Herbert Ratner, 'Semen and Health'
Raj Persaud, 'Semen Acts As an Anti-Depressant'
Fred Cline, 'A Second Look at Anal Sex and "AIDS"'
Stephen Byrnes,'Benzene, Lubricants and AIDS'
Associate Press, 'Spermicide Linked to Infections in Women'
Bohdan Zachary, 'Nonoxynol-9: Better Safe Than Sorry?'
Bob Roehr, 'Is Nonoxynol-9 an HIV Risk?'
Martha Brannigan, 'Spermicide Made by Columbia Labs Fails to Stop HIV'
Maggie Fox, 'Spermicide Worsens HIV Risk
ANC Today, 'HIV/AIDS, Profit and Fundamental Human Rights'
Bruce Berlow, 'The Newest Epidemic: Latex Allergies'
Amy Behrman, 'Latex Allergy'
Celia Farber, 'Unprotected'
Christian Fiala, 'Epidemiological Evidence Against Prevention-Campaigns'
Will Dunham, 'Experts Defend Condoms Despite US Gov't Report'
The Physicians Consortium, 'Press Release'




LATEX LUNACY
By John Lauritsen

New York Native 2 July 1988

Events have gone beyond satire. On June 1, an American company, Hemodynamics, Inc., announced that it would soon receive the first shipment of a total of 18 million latex gloves from a Malaysian corporation with which it had formed a joint venture. Hemodynamics attributed the demand for the latex gloves to concern over the "AIDS virus" and its impact on the health care profession. Hemodynamics expects that the Malaysian latex venture will add 10 million dollars to its revenues.

As much as anything, the so-called "AIDS epidemic" is an epidemic of fear. The AIDS delusional system continues to expand, and discourse becomes ever more irrational. And the people who ought to provide rational leadership -- public health officials and the medical establishment -- are themselves beating the drums for mass hysteria.

I am fascinated by the role of latex in the AIDS plague. There are, of course, legitimate medical uses for latex gloves. But why now? Why should concern over the "AIDS virus" engender such an urgently felt need for latex gloves?

A few weeks ago I visited a prisoner in the Special Medical Unit of Trenton State Reformatory, a maximum security prison. (The Special Medical Unit was established to house prisoners who have been diagnosed as having AIDS, but are not in need of immediate hospitalization.) After we had talked for a couple of hours, time was up, and a guard knocked on the door of the Visiting Room. As we walked out, the first thing I noticed were the hands of the guard. He was wearing latex gloves. He looked scared. But of what?

Latex gloves have acquired talismanic properties; they symbolize protection against the evil virus -- akin to such medieval charms as garlic flowers, crucifixes, amulets, or magic gestures (the sign of the cross, the gesture to avert the evil eye, etc.) Firemen and policemen have demanded that they be issued latex gloves, in case they might, in the line of duty, be required to touch a person with AIDS (PWA). Courtroom workers recently demanded latex gloves in a case where a PWA was scheduled to appear as a witness. Dentists and their assistants have become obsessed with AIDS and latex gloves, although no dentist has ever developed AIDS from working on a PWA.

Fear is not necessarily irrational. One may be faced with a horrible reality. Yet a characteristic of irrational fear is that it resists being articulated, resists being thought through. To evaluate the rationality of AIDS fear among the general population, and the appropriateness of latex gloves as a preventive measure, it is necessary to address two issues: Is AIDS truly an epidemic and is AIDS truly contagious?

Is AIDS truly an epidemic?

In terms of numbers, AIDS does not qualify as an epidemic. In a decade, from 1978 to the present, there have been only 35,188 deaths in the United States from AIDS, out of a population of 250 million. In a true epidemic, such as the influenza epidemic of 1918, more people than that died in a day. In the bubonic plague, one-third of the population of the entire world died within the space of five years.

For further perspective, consider that, according to James Mason of the Centers for Disease Control, about 1000 people in the U.S. die every day from lung cancer, emphysema and other illnesses acquired as a result of cigarette smoking. As many people die from cigarette smoking in five weeks as have died from AIDS in a decade. In a decade in the U.S. there are, on the average, nearly ten million deaths from heart disease, and nearly five million from cancer.

AIDS also fails to qualify as an epidemic because it does not affect most of the population. AIDS is compartmentalized. This is the central epidemiological puzzle, to which every hypothesis on the cause of AIDS must address itself. Why, year after year, has AIDS in the U.S. confined itself almost entirely to two main "risk groups": homosexual/bisexual men and intravenous drug users? Why hasn't AIDS begun to fan out into non-IV-drug-using women and straight men? (Early last year Surgeon General C. Everett Koop predicted that within a few months AIDS would "explode" into the heterosexual population. The explosion fizzled. Public health officials then had to admit that for the foreseeable future, AIDS would remain in the same risk group categories.)

Is AIDS truly contagious?

Of course a truly communicable disease does not remain compartmentalized. The Kinsey studies established the fact that a lot of bisexual activity takes place in the U.S.; if AIDS were really a sexually transmitted disease, it would long ago have spread beyond the gay male population.

The official line is that AIDS is an infectious disease, caused by a retrovirus (HIV) which is spread from one person to another through blood or semen. Gay men are said to become "infected" through anal intercourse, and IV-drug users, through the practice of sharing needles.

However, a compelling argument against the infectiousness of AIDS is afforded by studies of needle-stick injuries. There are now well over a thousand well-documented cases of health care workers who accidentally stuck themselves with syringes that had been used on AIDS patients. In no case has AIDS resulted from one of these accidental inoculations, which are equivalent to the "shared needles" blamed for causing AIDS in IV drug users. (Actually, there is no evidence that all, or even most, of the IV drug users with AIDS ever did share needles.)

Many tens of thousands of health care workers have had contact with AIDS patients, and not a single one has developed AIDS as a result of such contact. There is not a single documented case of a household member who developed AIDS from living with a PWA. And there are tens of thousands of sexual partners of PWAs, who themselves remain perfectly healthy. In short, AIDS is minimally contagious, if at all. Whatever legitimate reasons there might be for wearing latex gloves, protection from AIDS is not one of them.

Condom mania

Another form of latex, the condom, is being promoted as the panacea for AIDS prevention, as the premier symbol of "Safe Sex". AIDS groups, "gay leaders", church groups, public health departments, colleges, and Surgeon General Koop have all joined in the chorus of praise for condoms.

At Dartmouth, an official student group, RAID (Responsible AIDS Information at Dartmouth), put on an exhibition of safe sex, in which a male student held a plunger between his legs and a female student slid a condom over the handle. Then students did timed contests to see who could place condoms on dildoes the fastest. RAID handed out Safe Sex kits to entering first-year students and prepared its own Valentine gift package, a piece of chocolate and a condom. This provoked Dartmouth journalist, W.R. Grace, to comment: "I wouldn't advise purchasing a RAID Valentine gift pack for your one true love. It's difficult to tell a woman that you love her and then give her a condom so that you don't catch her diseases." To which I would add that, in selecting the women they want to be their wives and the mothers of their children, most men don't look for proficiency in putting on condoms.

It's easy to make fun of such heterosexual foibles. But what really bothers me about the condom mania in the gay community is the suspension of logic. Consider the following propositions, the first representing the prevailing viewpoint (from which I dissent), and the second, simple fact:

AIDS is caused by a deadly virus, a single exposure to which can result in infection leading to inevitable death.
Condoms, even when used conventionally (i.e., vaginal intercourse) have a failure rate of about 10%. When used for anal intercourse, they can break as often as 50% of the time.
If both propositions be true, having anal intercourse with a condom is rather like Russian roulette, isn't it?

Conclusion

I am not saying that it is all right to have unsafe sex. On the contrary, since from a scientific standpoint the cause or causes of AIDS are unknown, it would be best to live in a healthy and sensible way. This means avoiding promiscuity and forms of sexual activity that are likely to transmit disease. Even more important, it means eating well, getting enough rest and sleep, getting enough exercise, and avoiding the use of "recreational drugs" (including poppers, MDA, quaaludes, Eve, Ecstasy, ethyl chloride, heroin, crack, cocaine, barbiturates, amphetamines, and PCP).

As gay men, we have good reason to fear the fears of others. We are in greater danger now from the political, than from the biological manifestations of AIDS. *

References:
1. Reuter dispatch of June 1, 1988.
2. W.R. Grace, "Dr. Sloane, Dartmouth's AIDS Messiah", The Dartmouth Review, February 17, 1988.