Lindsey Nagel

Lindsey Nagel was on AZT for a year and a half as a baby

During the time on AZT she suffered excruciating bone pain and a stunted growth chart. Her mother Cheryl reported: "She just got smaller and smaller." After contacting Peter Duesberg, when Lindsey's grandfather found an article in The National Review by Tom Bethell, about the views of chemist and virologist Peter Duesberg, that HIV is harmless and AZT deadly, her parents wrote to him. He wrote back, sending a dossier of information on AZT, and advised the parents to take the child off AZT immediately, "or she will die." They did, amidst the pediatrician's repeated threats and accusations that they were killing their child. On numerous occasions, the parents were told their child wound soon be dead, since she was an infant. One year, two years, four years, etc. Lindsey is now 19 years old, and in perfect health. At least 10 HIV positive children in Minneapolis were medicated with AZT by the same doctors who treated Lindsey. None survived.


Henry Bauer

Hindrances to scientific progress and the failings of HIV/AIDS theory

Mainstream consensus always exerts a cautionary influence on new developments that question an established theory. Sometimes hypotheses once rejected become accepted later on because of the availability of new techniques and new facts. At other times, a theory becomes burdensome because of the accumulation of facts that the theory cannot accommodate, and that theory is eventually replaced in a Kuhnian "scientific revolution". HIV/AIDS theory has generated such a mass of anomalous observations that HIV/AIDS theory seems doomed: it is plain that "HIV" is not a sexually transmitted infection, or indeed any sort of infection, and that it is not correlated with the incidence of AIDS.


Etienne de Harven

AIDS research significantly confused by Human Endogenous Retroviruses (HERVs)

Mainstream consensus always exerts a cautionary influence on new
HERVs (Human Endogenous Retroviruses) are confounding factors in HIV/AIDS research that cannot be ignored. They account for the presence of retroviral nucleoside sequences in the plasma of AIDS patients, erroneously interpreted as HIV "viral load". They falsify claims of innumerable "mutations" of the hypothetical HIV. They also provide a valid explanation for the presence of EM recognizable retroviruses in the original 1983 publication from the French Institut Pasteur. Understanding the interference of HERVs in AIDS research permits us to confirm that an exogenous HIV, actually, does not exist, opening the way to the development of a fully re-directed, non-retroviral AIDS research. (with permission of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons www.jpands.org).


Peter Duesberg

African population doubled from 400 to 800 millions during the HIV-AIDS era

Based on information from the World Health Organization (WHO) Chigwedere et al. have "estimated" that 1.8 million South Africans were killed between 2000 and 2005 by a new Human immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic, and that 330,000 of those were lost because "feasible treatments" with anti-HIV drugs were not available. They blamed former president Mbeki and others, who questioned the HIV-AIDS hypothesis, for restricting anti-HIV drugs, specifically AZT and Nevirapine. In view of the paradox that HIV would cause a huge epidemic in Africa, but not in any other continent despite global prevalence since 1985, we ask here what evidence exists for the claims of (1) 1.8 million South African HIV-deaths, and (2) for anti-HIV drugs able to prevent them. 1) Surprisingly we found no specific numbers for South African "AIDS cases" in WHO fact sheets. Based on verifiable statistics from South Africa, the US and the World Bank we found instead that the South African population increased by 3 million between 2000 and 2005, and had grown steadily from 29 to 49 million since the early 1980s when HIV-AIDS presumably begun. The monotonic growth trajectory shows no sudden loss of 1.8 million between 2000 and 2005, although about 25% were HIV antibody-positive. The population of Uganda also doubled since 1980, despite static prevalence of antibodies against HIV. Even Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole increased from 400 to 800 million between 1980 and 2007 despite high prevalence of antibodies against HIV. We conclude that African growth is independent of HIV, because HIV is an inherently nonpathogenic passenger, neutralized by antibody in millions of Africans with or without AIDS. 2) We adduce biological and statistical evidence that anti-HIV drugs, including the DNA chain-terminator AZT and Nevirapine, cause life threatening AIDS-defining and "non-AIDS-defining" diseases, but may have HIV-independent benefits against microbial infections and cancers. Thus restriction of anti-HIV drugs may have saved lives of HIV-positives and allowed normal growth to continue in South Africa.


Marco Ruggiero

Religion, politics & AIDS in Italy

The Italian Public Health Service is considered one of the best in the world and life expectancy in Italy is among the highest in Europe; Italian women live to be an average of 84 years old, the third highest in the European Union after Spain (84.3) and France (84.4), whereas life expectancy for men is 78.6 years, second in the European Union after Sweden (79). The estimated number of HIV-seropositive subjects in Italy is about 140,000 - 150,000. However, since 66% of AIDS patients ignore their serostatus before the diagnosis of AIDS, it is presumable that the number is higher: Of these >150,000 subjects, in the year 2008, 202 people died of AIDS.It is unlikely that such a low lethality is due to early, pre-AIDS, antiretroviral treatment since only 34% of AIDS patients received an antiretroviral treatment before the diagnosis of AIDS. The data from the few regions of Italy implementing a registry of new HIV infections demonstrate that the relative rates of HIV-positive among males and females has remained the same over the years while the supposed mode of becoming HIV-positive changed from ~75% drug-related to only ~5% drug-related, and sexual transmission supposedly increased from less than 10% to ~80%. These data place a very curious constraint on how infection via dirty needles occurred in males and in females respectively. It must have occurred in precisely the same relative manner as sexually transmitted HIV infection occurs in males relative to females. Otherwise the male-to-female ratio for the consequences of HIV, namely AIDS, should have changed. Instead, the male-to-female ratio for the incidence of AIDS has been essentially constant from 1985 to 2008 at ~3.6. All these considerations cast doubts on a relationship of cause and effect between HIV-seropositivity and AIDS; apparently, the Italian Ministry of Health considers the possibility of a dissociation between HIV-seropositivity and AIDS by stating in official directives that the diagnosis of AIDS can be made in the absence of signs of HIV-seropositivity.


Karri Stokely

How I fell victim to the AIDS machine

My story is one of how I fell victim to the AIDS machine and how my husband and I found out the truth surrounding this controversy after I had been taking the HIV drugs for 11 years. I was given an AIDS diagnosis in 1996, based on nothing but a t-cell count. I experienced many side effects from the drugs over the years, ranging from nausea and vomiting, muscle cramps, anemia, insomnia, wasting, and hair falling out. We were continually told by my doctor that these were all symptoms of HIV disease, or having full blown AIDS. My doctor never told us that these symptoms could be medication related. Since stopping all the medications in April 2007, I have been in the process of regaining my health and well-being, and all side effects of the drugs have disappeared. I do have some concerns about any long-term, unseen damage these poisons may have done to me, but I try not to worry about it, as I live my life as healthy as possible.


Neville Hodgkinson

HIV/AIDS and Goethe's Faust: a pact with the devil?

When Aids was first recognised as a syndrome afflicting growing numbers of homosexual men in San Francisco, New York and elsewhere, the initial response among politicians and the media was to regard it as a "gay plague" associated with a fast-track sex-and-drugs lifestyle. Tragically, that perception became an excuse for neglect. As the death toll mounted, gay leaders and their doctors mounted an intense campaign for a more compassionate and active response. When US Government scientists claimed to have identified HIV as the cause, and to have developed a test to detect its presence, there was an all-round sense of relief. Billions of dollars flowed into the fight against "HIV/AIDS". The red ribbon, and HIV science, became iconic of a compassionate, tolerant society. Hodgkinson shows that from the earliest days of AIDS, scientists have presented evidence challenging the specificity of the HIV test, and offering alternative explanations for the syndrome. For the most part, however, these voices have been suppressed by the global scientific and medical communities, which came to regard questioning the HIV theory of AIDS causation as akin to holocaust denial - a crime against humanity. Hodgkinson argues that despite the noble intentions, these feelings and perceptions have corrupted AIDS science in such a way as to damage the lives of millions, including countless gay men. He likens the mistake to that which ultimately causes Faust - also a doctor - to lose his life in Goethe's version of the tragic legend. Once God's favourite human being, striving to learn everything that can be known, Faust is ultimately ensnared by the devil through the joy he experiences from an act of compassion. Goethe's story has a happy ending: Faust dies, but his soul is saved by the "eternal feminine" and taken to heaven. Can there be an equivalent end to the tragic misunderstandings surrounding "HIV/AIDS"? 


Nancy Banks

AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire

It is a mistake to think that wars only concern armies involved in active engagement. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The first engagement is for the mind. The real forces of power wage a psychological and financial war. The dark princes of debt finance have gained leverage over every important social, economic and political institution--including the health care delivery system. This was done by using the obscene profits primarily from the drug trade, but also in the trade of other fungible assets such as diamonds. AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire draws the connections between free market strategies, the destruction of national sovereignty by the process of globalization, and AIDS as one of the health consequences of a neo-Darwinian philosophy. There is a medical-pharmaceutical-industrial complex that was taken over one hundred years ago by the titans of financial capitalism. Their aim was to create profit, not to conquer disease. The AIDS story starts with the British East India Company that created great wealth by pushing opium into China. It finds expression after the events of WWII in the creation of the Bretton Woods Agreement and Vietnam during which massive quantities of opiates found their way to the West. The decision by a state to sell opium and related drugs to its subjects always takes place in situations of political and economic decline. It was known for well over one hundred years that opium and its derivatives are immune suppressors. As the result of the prolongation of the Vietnam War, social upheavals occurred in the expression of sexuality and the acceptance of the casual use of both legal and illegal drugs. AIDS became the cover story for the drug toxicity and oxidative stress of young people in the West and the Bretton Woods Agreement created conditions for environmental degradation and social upheavals in Africa. 


John Lauritsen

The "AIDS" Hoax and Gay Men

From the very beginning gay men have been identified with "AIDS"- even before it had a name. Gay men were linked to the "epidemic" though labelling ("gay cancer", "Gay-Related Immune Deficiency"or GRID). They would be targeted for testing and drugging, just as earlier they had been targeted for the marketing of "poppers" (nitrite inhalants) and other "recreational" drugs. Well before the alleged "AIDS virus" acquired its official name in 1986, I and others had dissented from AIDS-orthodoxy in the gay press. Three things were clear: 1) "AIDS" was not a coherent disease entity, and had never been defined rationally, and 2) whatever "AIDS" might be, it was not infectious, and 3) there were good reasons, having nothing todo with a virus, why "AIDS" patients were sick in the ways they were. The "epidemic" must be seen in context: the historic persecution of gay men. Although sex between males is a part of life, something practised enthusiastically in classical antiquity, it has been ruthlessly suppressed since the 4th century AD, when Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire. Over the intervening centuries gay men have been imprisoned, tortured, castrated and killed - for violating an Old Testament taboo. The AIDS Hoax carries forward this persecution through psychological warfare and the mass poisoning of gay men with toxic and worthless drugs. Using documents obtained from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), I demonstrated that the premier "AIDS" drug, AZT (aka zidovudine et al.) was approved for marketing on the basis of fraudulent research. As the FDA abandoned the double-blind, placebo-controlled trial as the gold standard for drug approval, it destroyed the last pretense of evidence-based drug approval. All of the subsequent "AIDS" drugs from nucleoside analogues to protease inhibitors, rode in on the coat-tails of AZT. The reaction of the "gay community", if there is such a thing, has been mixed: great courage and anger, but also victimhood and masochism. The New York Native, which for over a decade provided a voice for AIDS-dissidents, was destroyed through a boycott led by "AIDS activists" controlled by Big Pharma. The Gay & Lesbian Humanist is now the only gay publication that is open to AIDS critics. At present perfectly healthy gay men are receiving bogus "HIV-positive" diagnoses, and are then prescribed drugs which will cause malaise,deformity and death. 


Joan Shenton

AIDS - Exposing the myths - a video history

Digs into the Immunity Resource Foundation archive and highlights, using clips from this 25 year video collection, the stories, key moments and participants in this historic challenge to a prevailing scientific oligarchy and hostile media establishment. The video clips will take us back to 1986 when Meditel's first documentary on the subject, "AIDS -The unheard voices", was made. The documentary provided a platform for dissenting voices, highlighting Peter Duesberg's rejection of the virus/AIDS hypothesis. The film won the UK Royal Television Society's Award for Journalism. We then dip into a series of subsequent film and video reports featuring the collection of voices raised in alarm at the disastrous consequences of the use of AZT as an antiviral. We recall the momentous Amsterdam Alternative AIDS Conference in 1992, which we believed would end the whole scientific charade -- and feature the ejection of protestors from the Berlin World AIDS Conference in 1993. We reflect the Perth Group's position on whether HIV has ever been isolated, and then move to Africa, highlighting the voices of those who saw "AIDS" appropriating and swallowing up specialties like TB and malaria. Finally, we hear South Africa's former president, Thabo Mbeki, reflect on the censorship and bigotry that surrounds AIDS science. 


Harry van der Zee

AIDS and homeopathy in Africa

Homeopathy has proven to be a potent and effective system for healing individuals because individualizing each case is the essence of its methodology. Homeopathy's greatest asset, though, appears to be in treatments for specific conditions, such as epidemic diseases and collective trauma. There are impressive historic examples of such specific applications of homeopathy in the 19th and 20th centuries. Also AIDS has been treated with homeopathy in Africa since 2002 with consistent results, especially with a specific remedy, PC1 (www.arhf.nl). For the selection and efficacy of a homeopathic remedy for AIDS the more technical discussion of the mechanics behind AIDS are of less relevance, as in selecting a remedy a homeopath is guided by the common symptoms all patients are suffering from and not by any explanatory model for the condition. Conventional medicine is based on the principle of attacking, in this case the virus thought to be responsible for AIDS, which in the long term results in therapy resistance and as a side effect damages the immune system and compromises the natural healing ability of the organism. Homeopathy is based on supporting the immune system and in the case of AIDS to mobilize it to contain and manage whatever deranges the diseased individual, and it offers a safe, free from side-effects, effective and cheap treatment. Homeopathy, PC1, can be complementary to any other rational approach to AIDS, and even if patients are on ARVs still proves to be effective and considerably reduces the side-effects of ARVs by improving the patient's condition.  


Christian Fiala

Die Epidemie findet nicht statt - auch nicht in Afrika

"Können wir Afrika retten?" fragte die Zeitschrift Newsweek auf der Titelseite bereits 1984 und gab damit eine alte Überzeugung der westlichen Länder wieder, dass Afrika sowieso verloren ist durch Hungersnöte, Kriege, Katastrophen und Tod. Diese Überzeugung wurde zwei Jahre später wiederholt in einem Artikel in der gleichen Zeitschrift. "Afrika, die Katastrophenjahre" war der bezeichnende Titel. Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO bestätigte, dass "im Jahr 1991 schätzungsweise bereits 1,5 Millionen Menschen in Uganda eine HIV Infektion hatten, das waren 9% der gesamten Bevölkerung bzw. 20% der sexuell aktiven Menschen". Ähnliche Berichte wurde in den letzten 25 Jahren laufend veröffentlicht. Die Vorhersagen kündigten einen praktisch unvermeidlichen Zusammenbruch des Landes voraus, in welchem die weltweite Epidemie angeblich begonnen hatte. Heute hören wir interessanterweise kaum noch etwas von Uganda, weil sich alle Vorhersagen als vollkommen falsch erwiesen haben. Das Statistische Amt von Uganda fasst die Situation folgendermaßen zusammen nachdem die Ergebnisse der alle 10 Jahre stattfindenden Zählung der Bevölkerung vorlag: "Die Bevölkerung von Uganda wuchs jedes Jahr im Durchschnitt um 3,4% zwischen 1991 und 2002. Das hohe Bevölkerungswachstum ist im wesentlichen das Ergebnis einer anhaltend hohen Fruchtbarkeit (im Durchschnitt 7 Kinder pro Frau in den letzten 40 Jahren). Der Rückgang der Sterblichkeit, welcher sich in dem Rückgang der Kindersterblichkeit ausdrückt und in der Demographischen Untersuchung von 1995 und 2000-2001 dokumentiert wurde, hat auch zu dem hohen Bevölkerungswachstum beigetragen." In anderen Worten nahm das bereits hohe jährliche Bevölkerungswachstum in Uganda in den letzten 15 Jahren weiter zu. Uganda ist damit eines der am schnellsten wachsenden Länder der Welt. Aber auch in wirtschaftlicher Hinsicht hat sich das Land in der gleichen Zeit sehr stark entwickelt, was die Energie und Entschlossenheit der Menschen in Uganda zeigt, die ihre Lebensbedingungen verbessern wollen. Es ist überfällig, dass wir die offensichtlichen Fakten anerkennen, dass alle Vorhersagen über Aids in Afrika falsch waren, weil diese Vorhersagen auf falschen Annahmen beruhten. Folglich müssen auch alle Budgets neu ausgerichtet werden auf die tatsächlichen Bedürfnisse der lokalen Bevölkerung. Auf der anderen Seite müssen auch alle Organisationen und Individuen zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden, welche zuerst die Hysterie in die Welt gesetzt und dann mit dieser Hysterie sehr viel Geld verdient haben.  


Claus Kohnlein

HIV/AIDS Behandlung - Wo sind die Fakten?

AIDS wurde anfang der 80er Jahre als" neues Syndrom" sichtbar. Die "Neuen Krankheiten" waren PCP und Kaposi-Sarkom. Die relativ jungen Patienten waren durchweg Homosexuelle, die Drogenmissbrauch beschrieben. Die ursprüngliche Drogen-AIDS Hypothese wurde zugunsten der Virus-AIDS Hypothese verworfen. Der HIV- Antikörpertest kam auf den Markt und machte alle, die positiv auf diesen Antikörper reagierten zu potentiellen AIDS-Opfern. Die "Seuche" breitete sich fortan durch die seuchenartige Verbreitung des HIV-Testes weiter aus , weniger durch klinisch Erkrankte. Das 1987 zugelassene Heilmittel AZT war, wie wir heute wissen, zu hoch dosiert, so dass praktisch alle, die das Medikament bekamen, frühzeitig durch Knochenmarksuppression starben. Diese Übersterblichkeit fiel uns Klinikern zunächst nicht auf, weil wir dachten, dass die Patienten an AIDS sterben. Erst nach deutlicher Dosisreduktion und Einführung neuer Wirkstoffe (Proteasehemmer) kam es zu einem Rückgang der Sterblichkeit. Die Akzeptanz der VirusAIDS Hypothese hat dazu geführt, dass Patienten im wesentlichen aufgrund ihres HIV-Status behandelt werden, völlig unabhängig von klinischen Erkrankungen, in vielen Fällen werden eventuell vorhandene Erkrankungen noch zusätzlich behandelt, was zu einer erheblichen Übertherapie führen kann. Weiterhin wird völlig gesunden HIV-Positiven geraten, sich prophylaktisch behandeln zu lassen und eine lebenslange Chemotherapie empfohlen. Diese "Leitlinientherapie" ist nichtt durch randomisierte, placebokontrollierte Langzeitstudienabgesichert und deshalb als Therapieempfehlung ungeeignet. Vielmehr sollten HIV-positive Patienten entsprechend ihrer klinischen Erkrankung behandelt werden. Die mitunter zu beobachtenden Heilerfolge bei schwerkranken HIV-Positiven, die meist an invasiven Mykosen leiden(PCP,Kryptokokkenmeningitis, Histoplasmose) haben ihre Ursache in der guten antimykotischen Wirksamkeit der Proteasehemmer, die in Kombination mit Nukleosidanalogea eine potente antimykotische Wirkstoffkombination darstellen und möglicherweise anderen Antimykotika wie Amphotericin in Kombination mit Ancotil sogar überlegen sind. Hier (in der Therapie invasiver Mycosen) wären weitere Studien erforderlich, die prüfen, welche Therapieregime langfristig besser vertragen werden. Dies ist jedoch nicht möglich, ohne die Virus-AIDS Hypothese in Frage zu stellen, was offenbar, wie jüngste Vorgänge zeigen, nicht möglich ist. (Zensur von zwei wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen, die der herrschenden Auffassung von der Ursache des erworbenenen Immundefektsyndroms widersprechen).  


Uta Santos-Konig

Unbefleckte Empfängnis oder befleckte Erkenntnis - Wissenschaftsbetrachtung durch Ludwik Flecks Bril

Ludwik Fleck, Arzt, Molekularbiologe und Wissenschaftstheoretiker betrachtet Wissenschaft als historisch und soziologisch bedingtes Produkt von forschenden Individuen, die ebenso nur bedingt zu erkennen vermögen. "... Erkennen ist weder passive Kontemplation noch Erwerb einzig möglicher Einsicht im fertig Gegebenen. Es ist ein tätiges, lebendiges Beziehungseingehen, ein Umformen und Umgeformtwerden, kurz ein Schaffen." Ludwik Fleck, (1929) Mitten im Geschehen sieht man nicht weit. Der distanzierte Blick des Betrachters ist zwar auch nie "objektiv" aber besser geeignet, ein Ganzes, dessen Bewegung und blinde Flecken und den eigenen Standpunkt zu erfassen. Damit ist jeglichem Dogmatismus und Fanatismus der N?hrboden entzogen.  


Juliane Sacher

HIV/AIDS - neue therapeutische Konzepte entsprechend den neuesten Ergebnissen immunologischer Forsch

Recounts experiences gained in the course of 25 years with non-toxic therapies for HIV/AIDS, with conventional medical remedies being used in emergencies. These therapies are based on recent evolutionary-biological and cell-biological scientific findings on immunological mechanisms. Presented in a simple and intelligible manner, these principles can easily be grasped even by laypersons. There is no cause for scaremongering; the point is to responsibly strike new paths.