Those who can make you believe absurdities, will make you commit atrocitie
—Voltaire
Who Is "Doctor" Nick Bennett??
Is he really a "Doctor"??
Is he really a "Doctor"??
Who is this Nick Bennett who left that post on my blog here?
Is he this Nick Bennett who appears in the list at AIDSTruth, where JP Moore has, as if by art of magic (the "black" kind we hope) vanished from?
Is that the same Nick Bennett for whom Liam left a series of questions in a post here, in response hoping he would answer them?
Is this the Nick Bennett who after throwing what seems to me like the equivalent of a pungent little "fartette" on my blogspace, than ran back to his hole to hide and to scribble:
Now wasn't that a really really sissy thing to do?
How rude you are Nicky. Now that's not the kind of maneuver one would expect from someone who lists Martial Arts, Zen, Computing, Music, Dungeons and Dragons, Rabbits as his interests, someone with such depth in his choice of literature, and music that quite leaves one breathless.
He also adds:
"It should have stopped 20 years ago."
Is this "Doctor" even aware that now even the World Health Organisation seems to disagree with that statement?If you did not come here to debate, then why come?
Do you have some sort of secret uncontrollable crush on Liam?
So, where is JayPee Nicky?
Where he gone to?
You can at least tell us that. We miss him so...
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Questions for "Doctor" Nick:"Doc", You're part of Aidstruth.
A) Where have John P. Moore, Mark Wainburg and Richard Jeffries gone?
They were all on the board of Aidstruth, and now they have fled. Their names are gone from your list of members. Where are they? Why have the abandoned the Aidstruth site?
You're on the Aidstruth board with Nathan Geffen. Geffen has just worked to ban the use of micronutrient studies in South Africa.
B) Are you in favor of banning micronutrient studies in South Africa?
C) Are there any micronutrient studies that improve the health of people given the clinical, subjective and non-standardized faux-diagnosis of "Aids?"
D) Are you at risk for "Hiv" according to the WHO's new and improved risk groups? (Are you a MSM, African or intravenous drug user)?
If not, what is the probability that a reactive "hiv test" represent a "true positive" when you take it and have a "reactive" test?
(Let's say that you've been milking cows lately, or petting a dog, and so you've developed antibodies that react with the false and artificial , non-specific test. Cow, dog, mouse, goat and human proteins all make the tests come up reactive, as we all know).
What is the probability, then, that you're a "true positive?" Or a "false negative?"
E) Please calculate the PPV, according to CDC guidelines.
So, "Doctor" Nick,
we invite you to answer our questions!
On my blog (unlike yours) you can post freely!!
Do pop in!
we invite you to answer our questions!
On my blog (unlike yours) you can post freely!!
Do pop in!
52 comments:
Questions for Nick Bennett:
"Doc", You're part of Aidstruth.
A) Where have John P. Moore, Mark Wainburg and Richard Jeffries gone?
They were all on the board of Aidstruth, and now they have fled. Their names are gone from your list of members. Where are they? Why have the abandoned the Aidstruth site?
You're on the Aidstruth board with Nathan Geffen. Geffen has just worked to ban the use of micronutrient studies in South Africa.
A) Are you in favor of banning micronutrient studies in South Africa?
C) Are there any micronutrient studies that improve the health of people given the clinical, subjective and non-standardized faux-diagnosis of "Aids?"
D) Are you at risk for "Hiv" according to the WHO's new and improved risk groups? (Are you a MSM, African or intravenous drug user)?
If not, what is the probability that a reactive "hiv test" represent a "true positive" when you take it and have a "reactive" test?
(Let's say that you've been milking cows lately, or petting a dog, and so you've developed antibodies that react with the false and artificial , non-specific test. Cow, dog, mouse, goat and human proteins all make the tests come up reactive, as we all know).
What is the probability, then, that you're a "true positive?" Or a "false negative?"
E) Please calculate the PPV, according to CDC guidelines.
Nick,
we're trying to figure out what kind of "Doctor" you are. We found your profile at LinkedIn, which lets you make up information about yourself, so we discovered your real business, which seems to be a software company.
So, it looks like you're a computer guy, and not much of a doctor....
Your company lists nowhere but on your site, so how's that going? Any interest in it? Any sales?
The company, called "SamuraiScientific," does reflect your stated interests in "weapons", but not in "massage therapy, dungeons and dragons, Evanescence, or Dido." Any comment there?
Now, it says you're a resident at State University of New York in Syracuse. Boy, that must be nice, huh? Really playing in the big time. Syracuse! Gotta love that. Just like Northern England. But you're not an Aids doctor. You're not a doctor. You're a Resident. You're in training. That's what it says on your description of yourself.
But not a resident in Aids.
Actually, we couldn't find anything for you, except that you gave a lecture at a mall on Staph infections. That's the only listing in all of SUNY Syracuse, for you:
See Nick at the Mall!
"Nicholas Bennett, MD, and Shelley Gilroy, MD, presented a talk on MRSA at a Health-Link seminar Dec. 5 at ShoppingTown Mall in DeWitt."
Is that for some kind of boy-scout badge or something. Good luck, if so.
You'll fill us in. There are a lot of questions here. We're now very curious about who you are, Nick.
Hey, I found something. Here's you saying that you're not an expert on the subject you libel others on.
"...I'm hardly an expert of HIV/AIDS, I'm just one of the more vocal orthodox scientists/clinicians involved in the HIV/AIDS dissident debates."
That's from here:
Nicky B's not an expert, who knew!
So, wait. I'm confused now. Because I just posted at your blog, and you said, that you "will not debate" on this issue.
And you refuse to debate, because you always say that you're here to "instruct" on the issue.
But then, you know, you're not an expert. I mean, you say so. Y
You seem to be a computer guy, pretending to be a medical expert in a field that you don't work in, don't publish in, and don't have any practical experience in.
Huh!
But you love to libel people... but you won't debate them...
Huh! That's interesting.
Weapons and massage therapy??!!
Oh I must add that to the artwork!
Whoa Whoa Whoa!! Stop the Presses!!!
We can come and see you! It seems you're giving a talk - about your website! Paid for by the taxpayers of Syracuse, NY, it seems:
“Healthcare in the Information Age:"
[Hey, that's computers. That's what you like. Good for you, Nick!]
"A Case Series of Pseudoscience and Snake Oil.” Nicholas Bennett, MB BChir, PhD, Upstate Medical University. 9:15 to 10:30 a.m. 6500 University Hospital. Wednesday, May 28, 2008."
Nick likes Computers and talks about it!
Oooh... looks like we just missed it.
Maybe you'll give another soon. A few of us could come down and ask questions at your presentation. Hey, we can film it! What do you think, Nick? Open to questions? That sounds like so much fun.
Hey, what's this: PhD. So, you're really not a doctor who works in the phony field of Aids, are you?
Huh. Interesting. Interesting, interesting, interesting.
He gives talks at the MALL?
Well I never, chuck!!! this is really really interesting. It's amazing what that bunch at AidsTruth do for a living....
When is the next Mall talk?
This stuff is scandalous.
This guy is no doctor. He is a computer geek of some sorts.
Is anyone really a doctor at AIDSTruth? Where do they get all this scientific authority from?
These people decide what is good for our health calling themselves doctors and then it transpires they are computer geeks who talk at Malls??!!
WTF!!
Where do they get all this scientific authority from?
The same place that the 'global warming' "scientists" get theirs.
They get it from the MALL? That;s news to me...
AIDS experts who are really computer geeks who talk at malls and who refuse to debate after throwing challenges and insulting people under the banner of "doctor"???
Scandalous!!!
Is it actionable?
Blogger Manu said...
So then why come to my blog if not to debate? My blog is all about debate. I make the rules there and I don't remember inviting you to come, so if you came by yourself then you debate.
I think you should come and answer some questions.
That is if actually you can.
4:22 PM
Blogger Manu said...
You should come and answer some questions Doctor Bennett. Your visit has provoked many questions...
4:24 PM
Blogger Bennett said...
I popped in randomly and saw Liam spouting BS so thought it was worth correcting him (yet again) so people such as yourself could know the truth.
If you have questions I'm sure that I have answers somewhere on this site. Or perhaps in the hundreds of other messages I have left over the web on misc.health.aids, sci.med or the BMJ debate. After I cut-and-pasted my umpteenth reply I stopped wasting my time with public arguments (they're not debates if people refuse to be educated).
There is nothing to debate unfortunately - all the denialist questions have answers, it's just that the denialists refuse to accept them. The real problem is that their questions are founded on false premises (e.g. that AZT is a toxic failed chemo drug, that antibodies prove immunity, that retroviruses cause acute disease, that STD's should be equal between the sexes). People like Duesberg started all these myths and the lay public doesn't know better. It's simply not true, and if you take these pseudofacts out of the equations there aren't any real questions to answer...not at least about whether HIV exists and causes AIDS.
Cheers
Bennett
5:42 PM
No our questions are these:
Manu said...
Liam does NOT post BS on my blog and if he did i would make him come and be challenged.
Now I am the one who is telling you that YOU posting BS on my blog and not Liam.
So you should like a man come back and be challenged to. That's what Liam does because he is a man and not a ninny who runs back to his blog to hide there.
Ok, "doctor" (you are a doctor aren't you) Bennett
Cheers
5:54 PM
Blogger Bennett said...
Liam said my blog didn't allow comments. Truth be told he hadn't posted anything here to allow through. I wanted to point out that it was he in fact was should be held up as a censor of debate, not me. Since you seem to be defending him, rather than holding him to task, I rather think that you have an agenda (and at the very least you can be judged by the company you keep).
You are fast approaching the point where your comments are not worth posting either. I don't censor here, but I do moderate.
And I have two doctorates, for what it's worth. Even if I didn't, if what I'm saying is the truth it shouldn't matter if I was a nobel prize winner or a bus driver!
Cheers
Bennett
7:08 PM
So if scientific credentials do not matter, what exactly is it that you use here to declare that what you say IS truth when that "truth" you say you speak should be scientific?
That's like saying you can sing Traviata when you can't read the score?
No?
Supercheers
Manu
Oh, he moderates. he does not answer questions but he moderates.
I AM impressed.
This guy is such a phony.
Blogger Bennett said...
I link to the published literature, which if read and interpreted correctly should speak for itself.
The interpretation is helped by a little training and education (since you asked, one of my doctorates in in HIV molecular biology) but it doesn't take a doctorate to say that "Richard Beltz, one developer of AZT, told the Re-Appraising AIDS denialist listserve that AZT was inactive in his anti-cancer assays". That's a simple statement of truth. David Crowe even hosts the email on his website. And yet the AIDS Denialists still say that AZT was rejected because it was too toxic, not that it was not toxic enough. You tell me why they refuse to accept that truth (one could say they "deny" it). That simple email destroys an entire paradigm of the AIDS denialist movement. Without "toxic AZT" for example, they have no explanation for the so-called AZT-AIDS deaths, other than to accept that HIV killed them.
I rejected the rest of your diatribes as they were basically insults - it seemed like a 6 to 1 ratio of content, and that's probably a record for this site. Most denialists figure it's a waste of their time, but I will say that as a moderator it's really satisfying to shut the denialists up. I can hardly stop you from posting on your own blog, or the AME forum, or misc.health.aids, or anywhere else that's out there - but I don't see why I should give you yet another forum to spout on.
Bennett
7:52 PM
You are a really delusional. You are not even capable of answering a simple question like :
WHERE IS JP MOORE AND YOU THINK YOU ARE SHUTTING DENIALIST UP?
I don't think so.
Where is JP Moore "Doctor" Nick?
WHERE IS HE?
The only insulting thing here is your cowardly evasive inability to answer a simple question "doctor"!!
You are a coward. That is not an insult. That is a simple statement of fact.
This guy is a fraud. I have never been more sure of anything in my entire life.
And I have two doctorates, for what it's worth. Even if I didn't, if what I'm saying is the truth it shouldn't matter if I was a nobel prize winner or a bus driver!
Dr. Nick seems to be having a meltdown.
He proclaims that he has two doctorates, "for what it's worth". What's that supposed to mean? Are his doctorates worth something or not?
But those doctorates are meaningless if one is "speaking the truth". So, one could be a bus driver and speak with the air of authority that Mr. Bennett does, and have no compunctions about "correcting" others?
His post is confusing...all those "ifs". Is he trying to be confusing, or is he unable to speak plainly?
In fact he is boring me shitless.
Someone else take over...
I link to the published literature, which if read and interpreted correctly should speak for itself.
It does, Dr. Nick! It does!
Nick,
nobody's censoring you.
We asked four or five questions at the top.
Uno, Where are the Aidstruth'ers run to?
Due, Why ban vitamins in South African trials?
Tre, Are there any micronutrient studies that have been shown to help "aids patients."
Quattro, Are you in an "at risk" group? If not, can you calculate the PPV of a reactive test in your case, given the CDC guidelines?
Further along,We asked for clarification as to your actual title at the hospital where you claim to be a medical doctor, but are listed as a PhD - and not in the field in which you claim ultimate expertise.
Your response:
First,You forbid any notion of debate.
Second,You libel your opponent by calling them by a name of those who deny the Nazi holocaust.
Third,You run from any invitation to debate, and cling to ephemera (like you had one comment held on a blog, because you refused to debate with anyone in a fair manner).
We've posted many questions, and our list for you is growing.
Please return to answer our questions for you, or we will be forced to conclude that you have no credibility.
Lastly, we would be surprised to find that a state hospital employee was at leave to represent himself as an expert in a field in which he does not work, does not publish, and does not study.
Your response, Nick?
I have more
Maybe he will answer there:
Is it ethical that he claims to be the ultimate Aids authority, who libels, attacks and denigrates public and private figures, and who then offers no ability to be questioned in debate, when he is actually more or less a failed computer programmer?
Who are his bosses?
What is his actual position?
What has he published?
Where does he collect his paycheck, and for what specific duties???
Hear, hear!
Let me add:
Bennett (if that is your real name),
How did you represent yourself to the BBC when you and Aidstruth libeled the ICC orphan documentary, and threatened the BBC suits with being called "denialists" if they didn't capitulate?
Have you ever met a single child from the ICC?
Have you ever seen a single medical record from the ICC?
You libeled me and others for our coverage of the story. Have you done this homework?
I see in one blog you mention "calling ICC and getting to the bottom of this."
Did you? Did you get your hands on a Single medical record from the place?
Did you look at Joyce-Ann Hafford's records? You libel me for covering her story. You ignore her death, and the drug that killed her, and focus, again, on ephemera, in order to call me a liar.
Have you seen her medical records?
What is the extent of your medical knowledge of any story you pretend to write about?
We're waiting.
Blogger Bennett said...
Manu - it reads as if you're being sent information from someone else, but your questions are ones that are answered here on my blog, at least those about me. The paranoia and insinuations are laughable (as is the point that whoever asked the questions appears incapable of reading my own introduction on the site).
The computer programmer comment is amusing too, as I assume someone has googled me and stumbled onto my other life - and since that started in 2005 it's not as if that's my defining purpose in life... I hardly claim to be the ultimate authority on anything, I would guess that's someone like Liam putting words into my mouth. But I can show you my PhD thesis on HIV viral packaging if you'd like some evidence of relevant experience.
I would assume that it's pretty obvious what I do. As my front page says "I am currently working as a pediatric resident physician, with a goal to subspecialize in infectious disease. My salary is paid by New York State." As for duties you can take your pick - depending on the particular rotation I can be managing patients in an outpatient clinic, in the ICU, in the ER or on the inpatient floor (currently I'm senior resident overseeing a couple of interns and medical students on an inpatient unit). I could be writing prescriptions for ear infections or intubating a premature baby in the delivery room. In a few months I'll be transitioning to the fellowship. In the past AIDS denialists actually tried to get me fired from my pre-residency research position because I was debating them online. The chairman needless to say found the whole thing pretty funny.
When the ICC story broke I wasn't a member of AIDStruth, so I didn't represent myself to the BBC at all. I was very much on the sidelines of the story looking in until the end.
I didn't get access to medical records as without the patients' permission that would be a federal offence. Anyone who claims they have could get into a lot of trouble. However, to say everything I did say doesn't require me to see anything of the sort.
The simple facts are that Scheff and others created a story about trials at the ICC that were misleading and represented pseudoscientific "facts" as the truth, all because of a preconceived notion that HIV was harmless and that the AIDS studies must have been inherently flawed. The BBC recognized this to be the case once they realized that AIDS denialists were behind the story, not an independent investigator. It's the worst kind of journalism.
I'm more than happy to provide a few links on topics that I have written about.
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic293.htm
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic655.htm
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic688.htm
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic705.htm
http://mlo-online.com/articles/0107/0107cover_story.pdf
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic886.htm
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic977.htm
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic979.htm
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic2807.htm
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic1610.htm
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic1833.htm
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic2709.htm
http://emedicine.com/MED/topic3777.htm
The point is that if the stories of the ICC or any other AIDS denialist point, were grounded in decent science then they would have something worth saying. They're not. The thing that is so frustrating is that by refusing to be educated they waste my time in debating with them, so I no longer do so. I simple prefer to post statements of truth - pointing out errors in fact and logic, and leave the reader to make their own mind up.
Bennett
11:41 AM
Liam does not put things into my mouth. He is not into that sort of thing with boys.
Where are the answers to the questions we are posing? I don't see them in that post.
Bennett posted on his blog, but refused to come over here. The end is as good as the rest:
The point is that if the stories of the ICC or any other AIDS denialist point, were grounded in decent science then they would have something worth saying. They're not. The thing that is so frustrating is that by refusing to be educated they waste my time in debating with them, so I no longer do so. I simple prefer to post statements of truth - pointing out errors in fact and logic, and leave the reader to make their own mind up.
I posted a response on his blog, but it's not up. I'll repost it below.
Before I do, I want to say, this is very serious. Bennett is a non-professional posing as a professional, dispensing opinion, which he declares is "truth."
This will be interpreted by overly-trusting readers seeking medical help, as authorized medical advice. And it is not.
It is not sane, critical, or authentic. It is absolutely, zealously dogmatic, and would be disagreed with my most working practitioners in even this horribly flawed and corrupted field.
Here are my comments to Bennett, and I will report his responses:
So, no.
The answers are no. You have never looked at any records for the ICC story, which you libel.
Or the Joyce-Ann Hafford story, which you libel.
Further, you won't debate.
And you're not an Aids doctor. You [claim to be] a "senior resident."
Your comments are focused on any filigree that you can hang your favorite epithet ("LIARS!") upon.
But you won't talk about Nevirapine, the drug that has killed so many.
How does that make you a critical thinker, or a trustworthy source for information?
Please answer our other questions, as succinctly as you are able. They have been posted here, I think, already.
They go to Aidstruth's Nathan Geffen and his "victory" in getting micronutrient studies in South Africa made illegal.
Please also tell us where the rest - the major members - of Aidstruth have gone. It looks like they've you holding the bag.
Please be succinct, if you're able. You change the subject often, which I think you use to diffuse attention from your inability and unwillingness to respond logically.
For example, when we request that you debate those you libel, you write stories about Peter Duesberg.
We're not curious about Peter Duesberg. He's probably wrong about many things, and right about many. But we're not Duesbergians, here to argue anybody else's point of view.
We want to know about you. You, who have no expertise in the field you claim to be "un-debatable" in:
What medical body has given you authority to dispense critical advice and libelous attacks on critics of (your very limited and stupefyingly dogmatic interpretation of) the current mess called "Aids research?"
Who gives you the authority? You're not a doctor, and you're not a student in Aids medicine.
You have no published papers, and you don't run any studies.
But you pose as a doctor, and dispense "un-debatable" truths, in this field, and this field alone.
You claim to "correct" all critics. But you are not a doctor, researcher, specialist, or journalist in this field.
And you allow no dissent to your opinion - an opinion without sanctioned authority.
I think that constitutes a breach of the public trust, and of medical ethics.
If someone listens to you, they will walk away believing that they have no right to question any aspect of medical dogma. They may falsely believe that "hiv tests" are unquestionably accurate, standardized, or meaningful.
They may feel that they have no right to the option of invoking "informed consent" about any of the tests or drugs given in this (or any other) paradigm.
You are posing as a medical expert. You are not a medical expert.
You answers do not reflect medical ethics.
I think that you have been left at the top of the Aidtruth queue, because the others have run from the building, the collapsing building.
Where have John P. Moore, Mark Wainberg, and Richard Jeffries gone, in relation to Aidstruth?
I'm asking you for the record. I will quote your response.
Liam Scheff
One more submitted, but not posted at Bennetts, we'll see if it goes up:
And no, it's not okay to do what you do. To claim medical expertise in an area where you have none. To libel but refuse debate, and to denigrate an entire class of people as "holocaust denialists" because they are better at reading the medical literature than you are.
It constitutes a crime, what you are doing.
If you put forward an opinion, and owned it as such, and allowed for debate, and did not claim medical expertise, you could possibly defend some of what you do here, but you'd have to stop the libeling people as a class.
What you do represents a hate-crime.
I want to know, for the record, where have the disappeared members of Aidstruth gone.
You say you're a recent member? How recent?
Who invited you to join the group?
What is your position there?
If you've never reviewed any of the medical records, study records, any official literature that form the basis for the crimes committed against children at ICC, and in Uganda in the NVP trial, and against Joyce-Ann Hafford, then you have to remove those blogs from your roster.
Or, you have to remove any notion from this blog that you have any right to claim a position of authority. You are endangering the lives of others who may be foolish enough to believe you without doing further research, because your approach is cultish and ultra-dogmatic.
You may be endangering your future ability to practice medicine, if you do not either stop libeling others, or stop claiming absolute, unquestionable authority in an area in which you have none.
I, as a journalist, a reporter, report the other side of the coin. I do not give medical advice. I advocate for informed consent.
If a person chose to take the tests and drugs which kill, but which you do not question, I would not even begin to presume that I had a right to stop them. As long as they were allowed to read all critical literature and make their informed decision.
You do not allow for that.
I'm going to quote you, for the record, with whatever you reply, as to where the missing members of Aidstruth have gone.
The simple facts are that Scheff and others created a story about trials at the ICC that were misleading and represented pseudoscientific "facts" as the truth, all because of a preconceived notion that HIV was harmless and that the AIDS studies must have been inherently flawed.
Actually, Guinea Pig Kids was about the ethics of using orphans for drug trials.
The documentary never once questioned HIV as the cause of AIDS. Unless you think that by stating that any of the children who felt better or appeared more healthy when not on "AIDS drugs", then, yes, but it's certainly a bit of a stretch.
That appears to be one of the jobs of "AIDStruth" crowd...to keep us all in line with AIDS dogma, no matter how ridiculous or illogical. Like helping to ban micronutrient trials? What's next? Banning a study about potential health benefits from fresh vegetables and clean water? Almost sounds like somebody's trying to keep people sick. But that just sounds macabre, nobody would do that, right?
I'm going to hold Bennett to his assertions, for which he offers no evidence:
Did the ICC trials occur? Yes.
Did they involve orphans? Yes.
Did they involve FDA-labeled Black Box drugs in high dose combinations? Yes.
What is a Black Box drug? One that has permanently damaged or killed patients who take the drug at a normal dose.
Have children died at ICC? Yes, according to ICC employees, wards and parents of wards.
Has the ICC/Columbia Pres released the medical records from those trials?
No. They will not do so.
Bennett makes much noise, but answers very little at his blog.
I submit the following:
Can you please answer the questions, not with more assertions, which you have no evidence for, but with succinct answers.
True or false:
* Did the ICC trials occur?
* Did they use orphans abandoned by drug-addicted mothers?
* Did they involve FDA-labeled Black Box drugs in high dose combinations?
* What is a Black Box drug?
* Have children died at ICC?
* Has the ICC/Columbia Pres released the medical records from those trials?
The answer to "have children died" has been provided by staff, children and mothers of children at ICC. The answer is yes.
We have Seon, who died being pumped with Thalidomide.
Ariel, who died after having a tube inserted into his stomach to feed the drugs, which he was previously adverse to taking.
We have Shyanne, who had a stroke and went blind after having the tube surgery to feed the drugs, which she was adverse too. She was previously healthy, and Ariel failed after having the tube surgically implanted. Not before.
There are more. There's Ashley, another girl who didn't like the drugs, and was doing alright in terms of health, and had the tube put in, and died soon after.
These are stories that I have to live with, because they were related to me by the people who knew these kids. Staff, children, mothers, even volunteers at the ICC. And that's what I reported.
I personally knew Seon, who the nurses called "Lumpy", because he was covered in the lumps caused by the protease inhibitors.
So, I don't know which of these children was "saved." None of them, I think.
But, back to you. And please don't change the subject. Aids is a fraud. The tests are fraudulent, the diagnosis is absolutely fraudulent, and can be applied to any Black child born to a drug addict.
Again, for the record:
* Have you looked at a single medical record from ICC, interviewed a single doctor, nurse, child-care worker, or teen from ICC?
No, you have not.
I have, and I report what they say. They've gone on the public record. Some of them on TV, some for film, some for print, some on radio. But they're there.
Now, you are absolutely posing as an authority, an unquestionable authority on Aids, and this is fraud.
You are not an Aids doctor, researcher, or even mildly curious critic.
You're not a journalist. You could care less what real people experience. Joyce-Ann Hafford's death is nothing to you.
So, what are you?
You are apparently a religious fanatic for the paradigm.
I have no such religious convictions.
You must take down your blogs on ICC and on the Uganda trials, because you have no idea what you are talking about.
You've done no original research to bolster your claims, which are libelous, and you ignore all contradictory evidence.
Moreover, you change the subject when asked simple questions.
You are not an Aids doctor, and this blog must come down, or be altered to reflect that you are just a 31-year old with an opinion. A hateful, childish opinion, but an opinion, nonetheless.
You've done no research. You are defrauding the public, who may read this site as an authoritative medical blog.
You are not in the position of a medical authority. You admit that you have no authority. But you act as though you do. You will not debate, you libel constantly, and you provide no clue to the gullible reader that you are only providing a debatable opinion.
Please answer these questions for the record:
Why did John P. Moore leave Aidstruth, and disappear from the scene? He has previously devoted himself to the destruction of all honest researchers who dared breathe a contrary public word about the phony aids diagnosis.
Where has he gone? Is he afraid of lawsuit? Is that why he left?
Who specifically invited you into Aidstruth?
What is your title?
What is your job function?
Who is the captain of Aidstruth at present. Who is the CEO?
Does your university know that you are a member of an organization devoted to destroying the lives and livelihoods of honest researchers who happen to be trying to find better solutions that David Ho or Robert Gallo to the false umbrella diagnosis, now no better than a brand name for poverty and drug abuse, in my opinion, called Aids?
Do they know that you are signed on to a group whose sole and soulless purpose is to destroy critical thought in medicine and research?
Do you have any sympathetic words to say to the children who were murdered at the ICC, via implantation of Gastric tubes, through which high dose multi-combinations of FDA Black box drugs were pumped day and night? Drugs including Nevirapine, and Thalidomide?
Did you ever try to interview any survivors of the ICC? Any staff who can give you their stories?
Would you be interested in interviewing survivors of drug trials?
Would you be interested in interviewing Audrey Seranno, who was given the phony Aids diagnosis for 9 years, poisoned with drugs, and then had it retracted?
Would you be interested in interviewing anyone at all who has anything contentious to say about the topic you write about?
One more:
"I link to the published literature, which if read and interpreted correctly should speak for itself."
This is an example of your fraud. You have no authority to claim that your reading of any literature is "correct."
You are a not a specialist. You are behaving fraudulently.
That is absolutely evident.
This was emailed to me by a non-Blogspot member. Consider:
1. Fundamental assumption: accept medicine the way it is. Therefore, your attempts to improve it are unwanted.
Who really knows how long those kids will live? Maybe all of them will die in their 20's due to ARV's? Who knows, there is evidence that ARV's prolong lives that are Th2 imbalanced, with respect to their immune system balance among Th1 and Th2 (helper T-cell inversion). The reason, the drugs depress the production of the cells that make these cytokines by killing them, and thereby abating an autoimmune condition.
But there is much evidence that these are harmful:
It has been about 7 years since it was published in The Journal, AIDS, that children born to ZDV-treated mothers "are more likely to have a rapid course of HIV-1 infection compared with children born to untreated mothers, as disease progression and immunological deterioration are significantly more rapid and the risk of death is actually increased during the first 3 years of life" [12. de Martino et al., Rapid disease progression in HIV-1 perinatally infected children born to mothers receiving zidovudine monotherapy during pregnancy. AIDS. 13 (8):927-933, May 28, 1999.The Italian Register for HIV Infection in Children. AIDS, 13:927-933, 1999].
Therefore, it behooves us to think about at least improving the situation for the children involved, don't you agree?
Discussion is warranted. Can we suppress the Th1-2 population by non-toxic means, or perhaps by interference. Suppose we invent a peptide that interferes with the harmful effects of Th2 cytokine-driven storms on the tissues and especially on other immune cells (since the Payer's patches go first finally, indicating complete disruption of the lymph system).
Are we really expected to believe that there is no room for growth in medicine? Critical analysis, and then discussion regarding weaknesses and strengths in a hypothesis are required.
Bennett said...
Liam, I'm letting this last post through even though it's clearly crossing the border of reasonable discourse.
I'm not going to debate whether or not kids died at the ICC, because I'm sure some died from HIV. You can argue otherwise of course. We both know that an investigation ruled that no-one died as a result of drug toxicity, but you are free to ignore that if you like.
Your assertation that "any black child born to a drug addict" would test HIV+, because EVERY SINGLE CHILD in New York state gets a HIV test, and our clinic sees a tremendous number of babies born to drug-using mothers, and the ONE SINGLE child I know who is HIV+ in my own patient-list was born to a HIV+ white mother who didn't take her meds (her other child on the other hand she did take prophylaxis for, and he remains HIV-free). So go figure. (Incidentally, who appears more full of hyperbole here...hmm?)
You really, really seem hard to educate. How many times do I have to say it: AIDSTruth is a group. No single person decided to invite me. As a group, there is no leader, no roles. We have no "jobs" or "functions". To claim otherwise is to have an incredible amount of paranoia about the whole issue. Your world must be a very strange place to live in...
As I've stated numerous times, I researched HIV for over three years during the PhD (and besides, have read pretty much every major denialist article to boot over the last ten years) so your claim of lack of experience falls pretty short I'm afraid.
Critical thought is fine - uncritical, mindless acceptance of a series of falsehoods such as AIDS denial, and not even FAKING an attempt to learn anything about it is not fine. And that is why you aren't going to get very far with me Mr Scheff.
I'm amazed you can't even consider the option that you have been mislead, and that you are continuing to mislead others.
Bennett
4:27 PM
As an "HIV+" man (whatever that means) i disagree.
You stand on the side that told me tests were reliable and specific. Liam does not.
You stand on the side that says I must take medication or i will die. Liam does not.
I threw my medication down the toilet three years ago now and I am still fine, better that i was even. Not that there was ever anything wrong with me, apart form the toxic body deforming side effects of HIV "black-box" label medication.
You and all those on your side of the argument are the ones who have misled me.
I accuse you of lies. I accuse you of misleading me. I accuse you of misleading others. I accuse you and all those like you of having blood on your hands.
Liam has not done any of that. You have. You do.
Thanks to Liam and those who like him fight people like you I am alive and well.
You are misleading people and you have no authority to do so.
You are a fraud.
And more, and he's threatening to post no further:
I researched HIV for over three years during the PhD (and besides, have read pretty much every major denialist article to boot over the last ten years) so your claim of lack of experience falls pretty short I'm afraid.
You are again posing a specialist. I've studied Aids for 6 years, and it's incredibly fraudulent, damaged paradigm.
I'm still not allowed to give public medical advice as you do.
And Aids is not your specialty.
And you are not a doctor.
That's point one.
I'm not going to debate whether or not kids died at the ICC, because I'm sure some died from HIV.
You have no evidence, you're not interested in research. There was no open investigation. The medical records have never been examined.
The NY Med examiner made it absolutely clear to me that any death, even from drug toxicity, would be assigned by the presiding physician. It is up to these people, running illegal studies with orphans, to file a report that a child who dies from protease inhibitor and Nevirapine poisoning, or, to claim that they died of "Aids."
Any death in anybody with the false "hiv" diagnosis is an "Aids" death.
In Massachuesetts, people who have tested "positive" and committed suicide or died in accidents, have been countable as "Aids deaths."
Questions:
What is your job title?
Who is your boss?
Where did you study for your PhD, and who may be contact to confirm it?
And another, and still no closer to answers:
How many times do I have to say it: AIDSTruth is a group. No single person decided to invite me. As a group, there is no leader, no roles. We have no "jobs" or "functions".
You were invited by a person, not a group. You were probably invited by email, or you wrote one of the members and asked to join.
Groups have meetings, and have assigned roles: president, treasurer, secretary.
How does Aistruth work? Who writes the web articles?
Who posts them?
Who is the spokesperson for the group?
Who is the senior member, president, etc?
Who writes the letters to Deans of Universities libeling professors and demanding their firing?
Surely you don't intend anyone to believe that these are automated functions? You are people, no?
And again:
What is your specific job title?
I looked at the re-written encyclopedia entries you posted as your resume. That's not research, and you don't show up on medline.
http://search.medscape.com/medline-search;jsessionid=B5DB1EB9A0C07CF94EEB4E838056ED3F?newSearch=1&queryText=Nicholas+Bennett
Not once.
I second all that. I think considering the fact you present yourself as an authority on AIDS and HIV, I as an affected person would like to know where and with who I can confirm how you have this authority.
From what I can deduce here:
YOU HAVE NONE, therefore YOU ARE MISLEADING ME and others when you present yourself with authority as you do.
It seems to me that all of you at AIDSTruth just say you have authority, but in actual fact you are all frauds. None of you have any authority at all, do you?
Who are you all really? Who gives you all this authority to tell us what is good for us?
I really want to know...
I just checked that link:
http://search.medscape.com/medline-search;jsessionid=B5DB1EB9A0C07CF94EEB4E838056ED3F?newSearch=1&queryText=Nicholas+Bennett
This seems to be about vacuum cleaners or humidifiers.
How is it relevant?
I don't see the word AIDS there.
What research is that?
Blogger Bennett said...
So, AIDS is apparently not my specialty, despite having a PhD in HIV molecular biology and investigated AIDS denial and read the research for over ten years, and despite getting onto an infectious disease fellowship. Hmm.
And I'm apparently not a doctor, despite having passed the usual undergraduate medical exams in the UK AND the USA (and having been awarded the MB/BChir medical degrees from Cambridge University).
Feel free to contact the curriculum office at Cambridge (specifically Selwyn College) to verify any of this. My PhD supervisor was Andrew Lever in the department of medicine.
All of this is already online from the misc.health.aids newsgroup, so why you can't do your own research I don't know... You're not really convincing me (or I hope my readers) that you're not a lazy researcher.
Job title: technically it's "Assistant Clinic Instructor", but fundamentally it's "senior resident in pediatrics". My Boss I suppose is the chairman of the dept. Hey, I have a great idea, why don't you tell ME who my boss is - the chairman of the dept of pediatrics. Shouldn't take long for an investigative journalist, and I can't be expected to spoon feed you everything!
Here are the links of my past, since you might want prove that I'm not slandering you by accusing you of being lazy. All of the article links I provided today have my departmental affiliation.
Supervisor
Where I work
A mention in the newsletter of where I work
None of this is exactly private knowledge...sheesh.
I will not post any further comments of yours that that contain similar attacking material. I know you are simply trying to attack the messenger, but really, it's not working. You're making a(n even bigger) fool of yourself, which is the only reason why I allowed the post through :o)
By the way, my resident colleagues watching me over my shoulder say I should be far less polite to you. [shrugs]. If I didn't have more work to do I'd be wasting a whole lot more time with you...
Bennett
6:12 PM
Blogger Bennett said...
Liam, you're hilarious.
I purposefully omitted my medline publications and you proved that you're incompetent at searching.
Bonville CA, Bennett NJ, Percopo CM, Branigan PJ, Del Vecchio AM, Rosenberg HF, Domachowske JB.
Abstract
Diminished inflammatory responses to natural pneumovirus infection among older mice.
Virology. 2007 Nov 10;368(1):182-90. Epub 2007 Jul 25.
PMID: 17655904 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Bennett N, Ellis J, Bonville C, Rosenberg H, Domachowske J.
Abstract
Immunization strategies for the prevention of pneumovirus infections.
Expert Rev Vaccines. 2007 Apr;6(2):169-82. Review.
PMID: 17408367 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Bonville CA, Bennett NJ, Koehnlein M, Haines DM, Ellis JA, DelVecchio AM, Rosenberg HF, Domachowske JB.
Abstract
Respiratory dysfunction and proinflammatory chemokines in the pneumonia virus of mice (PVM) model of viral bronchiolitis.
Virology. 2006 May 25;349(1):87-95. Epub 2006 Mar 24.
PMID: 16563455 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
All the e-Medicine articles are peer reviewed.
How does AIDStruth work? That's a great question. We just email each other - someone might spot a message on a listserve, someone else might go to a conference, someone else might get a phone call. Articles are written by individuals and edited and commented by the group as a whole. When everyone is happy with the final copy it gets posted. It's really very simple. There are no "roles" with the exception of web-manager (and the time needed to run that role explains at least some of the people changes in AIDSTruth). I've never met any of these people in person, although I have spoken to a couple by phone and know several others from online discussions in years gone by.
So, anyway, at some point I'll reply to the rather more sensible series of comments that your friend sent to you, but you're distracting me from the real issues here.
Bennett
This is AIDSTruth? A bunch of people that just email each other?
"Doc" Nick said:
"How does AIDStruth work? That's a great question. We just email each other - someone might spot a message on a listserve, someone else might go to a conference, someone else might get a phone call. Articles are written by individuals and edited and commented by the group as a whole. When everyone is happy with the final copy it gets posted. It's really very simple. There are no "roles" with the exception of web-manager (and the time needed to run that role explains at least some of the people changes in AIDSTruth). I've never met any of these people in person, although I have spoken to a couple by phone and know several others from online discussions in years gone by."
Anyone believe this? I think it's hilarious.
Links provided for previous post by "doc" Nick
Supervisor
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.health.aids/browse_thread/thread/81539ee62191fa2/a751584f06db13c7?lnk=gst&q=bennett+PhD+supervisor#a751584f06db13c7
Where I Work:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3230/is_1_39/ai_n18629695/pg_8
A mention in the newsletter of where I work
http://www.upstate.edu/medalumni/alumni_resources/au06alumjournal/au06deptnotes.pdf
As Mr. Bennett is a member of the laissez-faire group known as "AIDStruth", I was interested in his answers to Liam's questions about micronutrient studies.
It sounds like a very casual, relaxed group. Just find a message here or there, someone writes something about it, the group takes a little look and, voila! Magic!
Bennett said...
Manu -
From the beginning, or at least from the very early days of HIV/AIDS understanding, it was clear that HIV wasn't the rapidly progressive death sentence it was thought to be. The early cases were the outliers, the rapid progressors who presented with bad immune deficiency. The denialists ignore the literature from the early 1990s where 8-10 year of AVERAGE progression was clearly stated, and instead make out the AIDS message to be one of doom and gloom.
I'm glad you're doing well - I hope you continue to do well for some time! My advice is to stay off the meds unless you get clear signs of immune deficiency, or your labs get horribly screwy (low CD4 count, high viral load). My advice is the same advice as most every other HIV specialist in the world.
The scientific literature clearly shows increased risk (not certainty) of opportunistic infections with low CD4 counts, and it also shows that these risks go away with antivirals. On the other hand the literature also clearly shows that treating otherwise healthy people with good labs (hit hard, hit early) is a waste of time and effort and simply exposes people to side effects, and perhaps predisposes to viral drug resistance.
I've said this for years, and nothing in the literature has suggested we do anything else just yet. Drug holidays are a hit and miss affair, IL-2 immune stimulation is tough for the patient and doesn't work. Vaccines are still in clinical research with nothing outstanding to offer as yet.
So I hope I can show you that the "side" that you perceive is to a large degree a fabrication of the denialists. I do know that some docs are pushy with the meds, and docs in general need to listen to their patients needs and concerns more, so if you have had a personally crappy experience then I wouldn't be surprised, but don't lump the entire establishment in together with that!
And BTW - don't accuse me of blocking a post until it is actually blocked...you sent it three times after all.
Cheers
Bennett
7:16 PM
I am not on a "drug holiday" this is not fucking Ibiza!!
You also seem to think I actually wrote to you for advice!
I never wrote for advice. I want to know on what AUTHORITY you give it though.
I donl;t do tests or labs or any more HIV voodoo rituals at all. In fact I have not even seen a doctor in the last 3 years.
I am perfectly thank you very much. You see there is nothing wrong with me at all. i don't do drugs of any kind. i live clean and healthy.
I am saying that this HIV is just voodoo and that you are a witch-doctor. AIDS is a political construct.
I say all those who get sick do so because they take drugs or live badly.
You see "doctor" I am a "denialist" too. I am one of them.
I am one of them because I prove your theory wrong. I am alive and i am healthy and i take no drugs or go to the doctor.
I KNOW FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE THAT THIS IS ALL BULLSHIT!
It went poof when I just stopped believing in it. It went away just like heterosexual aids did lasdt week.
Poooof!! and it was gone.
More for pediatrics assistant Bennett:
A few notes. First, thanks for the links. We'll look into them.
Noted: You always answer with sarcasm, so you never really have to tell the truth simply. You just insinuate that the asker or reader is too stupid to understand what was being asked or answered.
Makes it easy to think you're full of shit. Try short, clear, helpful answers, if you're concerned about appearing as a fraud.
Aids is not your specialty by your job description. You claim to work in general Pediatrics, as far as you've let us know.
You gave Manu medical advice, which you claim is standard. Your advice should be:
"Go talk to a doctor you trust."
The micronutrient studies...
Your group's Nathan Geffen was crowing victory for helping make illegal vitamin studies in South Africa for people given the phony Aids diagnosis.
Can you name any micronutrient studies that have improved the lives of people given the phony Aids diagnosis?
I have a question for Nick, which I am sure he'll duck, avoid or use subterfuge to evade, but nonetheless, here goes.
Nick,
As I understand it and from every angle, Eliza = surrogate maker, Western blot = surrogate maker, PCR = surrogate maker. Now you can't debate those facts. Right? So now, lets see. What makes you, without a doubt, say someone harbors a dreaded virus said to cause any number of disease states more than a decade down the road? Isn't that an assumption built upon an assumption?
Another question for Nick.
Are you or are you not the person who's synonym is "Snout" on Yahoo/Answers?
Bennett said...
Liam, unless you change your M.O. this will be your last post allowed through. You are following the pattern of every other AIDS denialist I have debated with, and it's not a debate, it's a spoonfeeding of information that they inevitably refuse to accept.
>>>A few notes. First, thanks for the links. We'll look into them.
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Problem one: you should "look into" these kinds of things _before_ posting questions that could have been answered by them. It's a 5 minute online search.
>>>
Noted: You always answer with sarcasm, so you never really have to tell the truth simply. You just insinuate that the asker or reader is too stupid to understand what was being asked or answered.
<<<<
I actually answer with frustration, and I insinuate that the reader is capable of understanding the truth when presented with all the facts (as opposed to half of the story, and that half being misleading to start with).
>>>
Makes it easy to think you're full of crap. Try short, clear, helpful answers, if you're concerned about appearing as a fraud.
<<<<
Ah, you see I'm not concerned about that, because I'm not one :o)
>>>>
Aids is not your specialty by your job description. You claim to work in general Pediatrics, as far as you've let us know.
<<<<
AIDS is not my job description, but I would have thought that in denialist circles that would actually count for something! Surely therefore I can't be on the AIDS Industry bandwagon!!! But AIDS was certainly my be-all and end-all for some time, and that knowledge doesn't go away easily.
>>>>
You gave Manu medical advice, which you claim is standard. Your advice should be:
"Go talk to a doctor you trust."
<<<<
By using the word "claim" you are insinuating it is wrong. A simple 5 minute search would reveal the truth: do you really have to be spoonfed every time?
"Panel’s Recommendations:
• Antiretroviral therapy should be initiated in patients with a history of an AIDS-defining illness or with a CD4 T-cell count <350 cells/mm3. The data supporting this recommendation are stronger for those with a CD4 T-cell count <200 cells/mm3 and with a history of AIDS (AI) than for those with CD4 T-cell counts between 200 and 350 cells/mm3 (AII).
• Antiretroviral therapy should also be initiated in the following groups of patients regardless of CD4 T-cell count:
a. Pregnant women (AI);
b. Patients with HIV-associated nephropathy (AI); and
c. Patients coinfected with HBV when treatment is indicated (BIII).
• Antiretroviral therapy may be considered in some patients with CD4 T-cell counts >350 cells/mm3. (See text for further discussion.)
• The necessity for patient adherence to a long-term drug regimen should be discussed in depth by the patient and clinician (AIII). Barriers to adherence should be addressed before therapy is initiated."
Adult Treatment Guidelines
>>>>
The micronutrient studies...
Your group's Nathan Geffen was crowing victory for helping make illegal vitamin studies in South Africa for people given the phony Aids diagnosis.
<<<<
He was actually happy that the vitamin fraudster Rath was stopped from running his illegal, unregulated research studies in unsuspecting people, much like you claim was happening with the ICC. Rath has been accused with similar offenses in the UK, Netherlands, and USA. If you want to talk about conflict of interests, the denialists Anthony Brink and David Rasnick are board members of his company. They have a vested interest in promoting AIDS denial and refusal of conventional therapy in South Africa so they can tout their "cure". THAT's the real story behind the TAC's legal victory.
>>>>
Can you name any micronutrient studies that have improved the lives of people given the phony Aids diagnosis?
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Actually, the real question is, can YOU, since you would presumably prefer this to conventional HAART. The short, simple answer is "yes, I can". I am aware that some studies showed benefit in limited settings (malnutrition) but not in others (over-supplementation in otherwise well nourished people). I am aware that certain miconutrients might be depleted in HIV+ people but that the evidence for replacing these nutrients to improve symptoms or lab parameters is sketchy.
But I'm not going to spoonfeed you the information - that's not a debate, that's laziness. You ask questions, I do a lit search and post the answers. Hardly an equal exchange of ideas.
You have reminded me why (and why so many others in the conventional circles) no longer debate AIDS denialists.
Bennett
6:21 AM
Bennett, throughout this communication, we've noted a few chronic habits of yours in responding to our questions:
The first is that you seem to be unable to communicate normally, and seem pathologically confined to denigrating, abusive speech. This makes it hard to trust anything you say. It's difficult to know when your sarcasm ends, and anything real begins.
You don't care about the dead you leave behind. Nevirapine, AZT, orphans at the ICC. None of it matters, as long as you win (or say that you're winning).
Meanwhile, the mainstream has shifted further and further from your entrenched positions.
Breastfeeding is recommeneded. UNAIDS is being asked to dismantle. The WHO retracts the threat of heterosexual aids for the well-fed people of the world.
Micronutrient studies, which you tip your hat to, slightly, are very effective in the treatment of hunger, poverty, and disease, all those things that "Aids" is a relabeling of.
Nobody gave up on open, public, moderated debate, as you claim. They all run from it.
Just like you.
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