justagirl: <b>Using that logic one could say “AIDS” doesn’t kill as AIDS is never shown on the death certificate as the cause of death and we could always say “well, they were gonna die anyways”</b>
AIDS is another topic I would like to discuss because lots of evidence makes it another exaggerated issue. As this could be a long discussion, I will only point to you some facts not well known to the general public, or even to most scientists, and are related not with the medical side of AIDS, but with statistics --the most elegant way of lying, as I said before.
Dr. Eduardo Leschot, an Argentinian doctor, spent several months in Africa (in 1996) doing an intensive research on the subject. He gathered blood samples from 5,000 prostitutes in Timbuktu (supposedly the most exposed persons to HIV) and run the serum test on them. The rate of <b>HIV serum positive was 60%</B>, the same as it is claimed for Central and South African population (south of the Sahel). Then he took the 5,000 samples and checked them under the electron miscroscope, the only way you can "see" if the HIV virus is actually present in the blood. The results gave <b>a 5% infection rate</b> among prostitutes in Timbuktu.
Why this discrepancy with the serum HIV tests? Simply because malaria carriers <b>always give FALSE POSITIVE results to the HIV serum tests.</b> When you get to know that people south of the Sahel have a rate of malaria of 60%, including the 5,000 prostitutes of the study, the matter gets clearer. Then go north of the Sahel, to Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, etc, and you find the HIV serum positive tests range <b>in the order of 3 to 5%</b>. Look at the malaria cases in the region, and you find the same percentage. No malaria carriers, no HIV false positives.
This side of the question is profitted by corrupt African governments (all of them are corrupt). They see how scared the Europeans and Americans are from AIDS and they say: <i>"Give us money, so we can fight this horrible threat that will eventually kill you all"</i>. And a cataract of money flows into African governments trunks (first) and then this money goes right to Swiss Bank accounts (later).
You must have heard about Dr. Peter Duesberg, the scientist that discovered the retrovirus, back in the early 70s. He was declared the Scientisst of the Year then. Now he is been despised by the scientific establishment because he insists that HIV has nothing to do with AIDS. He says the problem lies in another unknown side of the subject, and challenged is adversaries: he would gladly inject himself the HIV virus to prove he he's right. The government wouldn't allow him to do it: <b>what if he is right?</b> Where will all the billions "invested" in research go? The faucet of money cannot be shut down! The industry of AIDS research --looking for a vaccine they know they will never discover sees Duesberg as a horrible threat. It would be stupid to kill the hen of the golden eggs...
Then, what are the reasons for the miraculous cure of Magic Johnson, the NBA superstar? He had a positive HIV back in 1990; a few years later he had negative tests, one after another, without having had any medical treatment for HIV. And Johnson is not the only case. There are thousands of recorded cases of cures like that, and thousand recorded cases of people who have been infected with HIV for more than 20 years and don´t have any sign of AIDS.
What Duesberg and others say is that the most probably cause for the inhibition of the inmune system shown by AIDS pacients <b>is caused mainly by stress</b>. They keep pointing that stress has been totally proven to decrease defenses and lower the hability of the inmune system to make antibodies and defenses. They also point out that the main risk group remains to be homosexuals, drug addicts and people in extreme poverty. The stress experienced by these groups cannot be denied, and this could be the main cause of their diminished inmune system.
That seems to be reasonable, because when a person knows it has a positive HIV, goes into a state of extreme anguish, fear, and continuous stress that helps the virus to overwhelm the diminished defenses. The big alarm and steady propaganda on the seriousness and mortatlity of the disease have created a state of neurosis in the population that is now bordering paranoia. And that does not help to keep the inmune system in good working conditions.
A parallel can be traced with the Chernobyl nuclear neurosis that provoked more damage in the minds of the Russian population than the actual radioactivity (that, according to studies shown in the international 1996 conference <i>"One Decade After Chernobyl--Summing Up the Consequences",</i> held in Viena, Austria, where thousand s of scientists all over the world gathered for a week to analyze all studies made on the subject. As stated by Dr. Zbigniew Jaworoski, former head of the UNSCEAR <i>(United Nations Scientific Committee for the Study of Atomic Radiations</i>) in his long and well supported article in <A HREF=http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com>21st Century Science & Technology</A> magazine, (Spring, 1996, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 14-25):
<font color="#0000ff"><i>"Therefore, it should not be surprising that <b>no increase in the incidence of solid cancers, leukemias, or hereditary diseases</b> that might be caused by the whole-body doses of Chenobyl radiation, was detected in the population of the former Soviet Union and elsewhere."
"Psychosomatic consequences, on the other hand, appeared in great numbers of the inhabitants of contaminated regions in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. The causes of these psychosomatic consequences was not radiation, or any other physical factor, <b>but hysterical radiofobia, induced by the mass media and improper regulatory policies,</b> based on the no-threshold hypothesis and ICRP recommendations". </i></font>
Just replace the word <b>"radiofobia"</b> with <b>"AIDSfobia"</b> and you have a clear picture. In this mass media world, where the press is behaving in an irresponsible way --in its own selfish and greedy benefit-- the unaware citizen is subjected to a deluge of misinformation and scared to death from anything that the media says it is "suspicious". Those who know the facts, don´t feel afraid. <b>They are dangerous people for the System:</b> it is difficult to take their money away from them, but, worse yet, they keep spreading the truth and take away fears from other people that had been contributing with their money (in the form of taxes or donations to NGOs). They are spoiling the business. They have to go. So, all skeptical scientists are sentenced to "press silence", while scaremongers are given full coverage. Then the <i>"science-by-press-releases"</i> take the place of <i>"real-hard-facts-science"</i> for the sake of the Big Business, or for Geopolitical reasons, the Biggest Business of Them All. We are living in hard times. <font color="#ff0000"><b>Only the knowledge can keep us safe. Only the Truth will make us Free.</b></font> Hope so...
When I read the post from Justagirl, I have the urge to go and kill the government of the U$ at once. It doesn't solve anything though, for the Americans live on, their daily life. Head in the sand, like always.
