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A weekly podcast of news and views on HIV & AIDS

The story of five individuals who have defied their doctors and lived on for nearly thirty years with a
diagnosis of death.

Rebuttal to Robert Gallo

Dissidents Challenge the Dogmatists

 Rethinking AIDS Medical Professionals List
Doctors and health professionals willing to work
with HIV-positive people without pressure to take anti-retroviral medications

We mourn the deaths of Etienne de Harven and of Kary B.

Mullis

Roberto Giraldo
RA President David Crowe remembers a life of love and
knowledge

Celia Farber remembers Roberto Giraldo

 Etienne de Harven 1928-2019

Michael Ellner, AIDS Warrior. April 10, 1949 – February

26, 2018

Memorial podcast with Celia Farber, Joan Shenton, Bud Weiss, Tom DiFerdinando, David Crowe

RA President David Crowe spoke at the 2017 IVR World

Congress in Lisbon, presenting "Criminally False — the
criminalization of being HIV positive"
RA Board Member Peter Duesberg presents "The HIV-
AIDS Hypothesis—30 Years Later" at the IAOMT Annual
Conference.

RA Board Member Helen Lauer brings Reality to the

Ebola Discussion
International Development Policy — In a rarified and politically correct
discussion of African health policy, which always ends with Western NGOs
demanding more money to save Africa (which somehow never
happens), Rethinking AIDS board member Helen Lauer addresses the
reality that Health SWAT teams and vaccines aren’t going to solve the
development problems of Africa. If Africans don’t get access to simple
things like clean water, no high tech health interventions can bring real
change. While the discussion is mostly about Ebola, it equally applies to
AIDS and other epidemics blamed on infectious agents ignoring all signs of
social, environmental and economic factors.

Helen thanks Rethinking AIDS board members Christian Fiala and David Rasnick for key sources, and
also the podcast work of Elizabeth Ely and David Crowe.
Read the book. Don't believe anything, investigate the
many cited references. One of the better books on the
topic out there.
January 2016 — A review of Joan Shenton's book, Positively False:
Exposing the Myths around HIV and AIDS:

"I have no idea how anyone could possibly still hang onto the belief that
HIV=AIDS after reading even the first 20 pages of this well done book
... This horrible mistake in blaming HIV, has lead the world down the wrong
path, with the wrong medication. It's caused inordinate human suffering
... If you can only read a single book, this could be the one. Read it. You
won't believe it at first. But go ahead and read some of the actual lab tests.
You will realize that no reasonable person could possibly buy into the false
story that HIV=AIDS when you see the actual source data, tests,
experiments, and the real life statistics ..."

November 2013 — "The Gutierrez case has the potential to remap the landscape of HIV testing and
prosecution in the United States military. With any luck, we will soon see the end of HIV test results
being used as a basis to convict a serviceman for aggravated assault."

HIV Assault Ruling Could End All Such Military

Cases

February 24, 2015 — The highest U.S. military court's reversal of a Kansas
airman's aggravated assault conviction for exposing multiple sex partners to HIV at swinger parties in
Wichita will effectively end such prosecutions in the armed forces, his attorney said. The U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces unanimously ruled Monday that prosecutors failed to prove that
any of David Gutierrez's acts were likely to transmit HIV to his partners. That decision overturns a 25-
year precedent that had allowed military personnel to be convicted of aggravated assault solely on the
basis of a positive HIV test, attorney Kevin McDermott said Tuesday. Gutierrez was not accused of
infecting anyone with HIV.
September 2013 — Joan Shenton has announced the launch of a new version of the Immunity
Resource Foundation website, which now includes a blog and a news page and welcomes
contributions. Mo Aziz — of vitamin D "Prescribing Sunshine" fame — will be co-administrator of the
new site. The site includes many videos and full downloadable PDF archives of Continuum magazine.

Important notice on the serious risk to life from the use of antiretrovirals along with treatment
for pneumonia. — Dr. Manuel Garrido Sotelo, Physician

Holy Grails,
Unicorns,
and
HIV Vaccines

Henry Bauer

These three subjects have these things in common:

 No one can produce an authentic specimen.

 All the evidence for their existence is anecdotal and based on human testimony.
 Dedicated and ingenious quests have failed to locate an authentic specimen.
 Nevertheless, their existence is attested by a cult of true believers.

Continue reading...
 DATE: June 10, 2013
FROM: Helen Lauer, Ph.D.
TO: BBC World Service
SUBJECT: HIV analysis using electron microscopy

Dear Worldservice,
This morning May 31, 2013, I listened with great attention to the interesting segment on
HIV detection and analysis using electron microscopy in your Science in Action
programme. I was surprised however to realise that your interviewee failed to reveal
the actual scientific state of opinion about the application of electron microscopy to
HIV analysis...
Yours loyally,
H. Lauer, Ph.D.
University of Ghana Continue Reading...

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 29 (2015) — Calling Science

Pseudoscience: Fleck’s Archaeologies of Fact and Latour’s ‘Biography of an
Investigation’ in AIDS Denialism and Homeopathy, by Babette Babich

"Duesberg’s crime may have been to continue when other scholars simply gave up
disputing what had become standard or received conventionality ... Duesberg has rather a
lot of evidence on his side, epidemiological (including public health analyses) and clinical
but also theoretical. Even more credibly (so one might think), he also has the support of Luc
Montagnier who along with Françoise Sinoussi won the Nobel Prize for discovering the
HIV virus (note that Robert Gallo, himself investigated for failing to credit others, and who
was also in the same department as Duesberg at Berkeley, ought to be named, despite his
own dicinclination to name others, among those who ‘discovered’
HIV). Montagnier supports Duesberg’s claims and in fact Gallo’s claims too accord
with Duesberg’s ..."

Stricken Heroine Rethinkers Died from Toxic Drugs, Not

AIDS
Christine Maggiore, Karri Stokely, Maria Papagiannidou

by Martin K. Barnes and Torsten Engelbrecht

The evidence is clear that Christine, Maria, Karri were NOT killed by 'HIV' or by AIDS, but
'HIV+' should not be routinely ignored as always meaningless, though it may well be
caused by vaccination, pregnancy, African ancestry, or other non-health-threatening
condition. We urge current clinical practitioners to become informed of the increasing body
of research showing serious dangers of long term use of anti-viral medication. Read more...
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January 2020
The AZT Wikipedia Page – Unsafe Despite the Lies

RA President David Crowe writes: AZT is an incredibly dangerous drug because it directly interferes
with DNA synthesis...Hence the name, “DNA chain terminator” for this class of drugs...This is not a
complete analysis of all the errors in the Wikipedia AZT page, there are probably many more. Given
the high quality of the English, and the accuracy of claims that do not put AZT in a negative light, it is
hard to believe that the authors were ignorant of the extensive literature showing that AZT is not
effective, and is highly unsafe. David Crowe continues...

June 2019
Rethinking AIDS Addresses the UK Haemophilia Inquiry

David Crowe, President of Rethinking AIDS, informs the UK Haemophilia Inquiry, that it wasn’t HIV
infected blood that killed haemophiliacs in the 1980s and 1990s, but the impurities in the Factor VIII
that haemophiliacs needed to avoid bleeding to death and, most importantly, the widespread
prescribing of AZT, starting in 1987. This was the year when the death rate in HIV-positive
haemophiliacs soared. This is not new information, AIDS critics were noting the scientific evidence in
the 1990s, but the message has still not got through, probably because the people responsible for
panicking when the HIV=AIDS theory was first postulated, would have to admit that they were the
guilty parties, not the heroes.
RA President David Crowe speaks about the inquiry

April 2019
TRIBUTE TO MOHAMMED AHMED
(ALIAS MO AZIZ)
 From the Archives
Increases in reported death in South Africa from 1997 to 2002
Rodney Richards
In conclusion, everything put forth in this analysis supports the contention that the majority of the
observed increases in reported death in SA over the past several years—even among the sexually
active—are the result of improvements in death reporting...Advocacy campaigns based on the
unfounded proposition that these increases are primarily the result of HIV/AIDS may serve a valuable
purpose in drawing attention to a potentially alarming problem, but to sacrifice an accurate
understanding of South Africa’s mortality data to this end can ultimately be of no value to public health.

January 2019
Positivamente Falso

Joan Shenton’s book, "Positively False" is now available in Spanish.

October 2018
Valencia, Spain
Meeting of AIDS Dissidents
It was a small gathering of 16 people. Nearly all of the attendees had been diagnosed “HIV” antibody
positive and many had been heroin addicts. Some were taking antivirals, some were not, and some
had given them up altogether. Everybody wanted to learn about the history of the challenge to the
virus/AIDS hypothesis.
Read the English report
Read the Spanish report

November 2018
Case (17-1537) Tommy Morrison versus Quest Et Al has reached the U.S. Supreme Court: "The
case will argue Quest labs never tested for the HIV virus, and its lab reports falsifying HIV infected
status were misleading and dangerous, to the detriment and ruination of former world heavyweight
champion Tommy Morrison’s boxing career."

Trisha Morrison, widow of former WBO heavyweight champion Tommy Morrison describes the truth
about Tommy's incorrect diagnosis: "The final report on Tommy, when they did the test, showed no
HIV virus in him, no AIDS disease, but yet ESPN still runs with the story that Tommy Morrison had
AIDS."

IN MEMORIAM
Leo Varela
 June 2018
Challenging Viral Paradigms
CONFERENCE
Legendary cartoonist R. Crumb has illustrated a theme of the VERS PONT DU GARD France
conference — Medicine meets the business concept: unmasking the flaws behind profit-driven
research and practice.
HIV/AIDS is just one example of many viral paradigms which coincide with $millions in research
money and pharma income. But is each virus proven to be pathogenic? What are the implications for
safer treatments other than dangerous antiviral medicines and vaccines?
CONFERENCE PRESS RELEASE
2012 Conference Report

November 2017
Two Rethinking AIDS board members, Helen Lauer and Joan Shenton, have published a paper in
the Madridge Journal of Immunology criticizing the management of disease in Africa by foreigners.
Some of the problems identified are poorly defined and overly flexible disease definitions (most
notably ‘AIDS’), diagnostic tests that result in many false positives, poor statistics that skew
understanding of the severity of health crises, and the marginalization of local health authorities: "The
considerations collated here suggest that gross errors persist in the One-Virus-Fits-All model of
addressing poverty-related illness in Africa, re-categorized under umbrella labels such as 'HIV/AIDS'
and 'West African Ebola'. The study of infectious disease at the genomic level is gradually turning
away from surveillance of HIV variation and prevalence; and the discovery of new Ebola strains is not
a high priority."

IN MEMORIAM

D.C. Journalist Terry Michael — "...Michael, who was gay, startled some mainline gay and AIDS
activists when he began writing commentaries aligning himself with a small faction of AIDS
researchers who disputed the effectiveness and widespread use of anti-retroviral drugs that most
experts say ended AIDS as a terminal illness.... 'Having spent the past three years studying mysteries
of the HIV=AIDS paradigm, I am ready to admit I am a full-fledged, out-of-the-closet, HIV-AIDS
denialist,' Michael wrote in a Jan. 3, 2010 column in the Washington Times..."
 August 2017
Initiatives to Improve the Quality of Life of HIV Positive Diagnosed Subjects: "We have found
much scientific information that differs substantially from what is commonly disseminated about the
risks of HIV transmission. Diagnostic methods are far from achieving the reliability required to
establish lifelong high-risky therapies for patients. The pathogenicity of the virus is not well
determined. Nor have we been able to establish how the antigens and antibodies used to make
prospective or confirmatory diagnoses are obtained. Eight years after Luc Montagnier has
informed us that 'a normal body gets rid of HIV naturally', we could not find any scientific publication
that has elaborated this idea. Currently, a person who is diagnosed positive for HIV is never fully re-
tested, as it is assumed that this condition can never be reversed. As a result of our research and the
issues we mentioned, we strongly recommend putting this assumption under scrutiny."

June 2017
Positively Wrong
TESTING TIMES

Legendary cartoonist R. Crumb is featured in the just released Testing Times film: "What do I think
about HIV tests? I think it's a complete scam."
PRESS RELEASE

Gordon Stewart 1918-2016

Rethinking AIDS wishes to honor the memory of Dr. Gordon Stewart, one of our board members until
his death in October, 2016. He was a highly respected, well credentialed member of the medical
establishment who was never afraid to criticize when he thought some mainstream dogma was wrong.
He did this with the Whooping Cough vaccine, but most importantly and most notably, with HIV/AIDS,
starting in 1984.

May 2017
Index on Censorship has released a case study detailing the repeated censorship of the film Positive
Hell. A reader's comment: "If this documentary was made by flat-earthers, no one would imagine that
NASA would pressure film festivals to pan the documentary. What makes this documentary dangerous
is that it deals with facts that — when widely understood — erodes confidence in a pathological
industry and threatens the credibility of thousands of incompetent doctors, universities, dangerous
bureaucracies, and the United States as well. The CDC wouldn’t care if Joan Shenton was wrong
— what makes them nervous is that she's right."

IN MEMORIAM

April 2017 — Liam Scheff was one of the most penetrating and fearless investigative reporters of our
time and one of the funniest YouTube satirists of fake science. He broke a story on HIV/AIDS that was
bigger, darker, and more devastating than anything before or since. It came to be known as "Guinea
Pig Kids."

April 2017
MAHA STAR
Rethinking AIDS
in Indonesia
30,000 Member
 Facebook Group

The movement is supported by the work of Luc Montagnier, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine
and Physiology, and Kary Mullis, Nobel laureate in chemistry.

March 25, 2017

Controversial HIV film
takes prestigious award
at New York film festival

"The HIV/AIDS documentary film Positive Hell added a new trophy to its collection of film festival
awards last weekend receiving the Special Jury Prize for World Social Impact at the Queens World
Film Festival"

March 2017
Positive Hell
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
World Social Impact

Documentary
PRESS RELEASE

March 2017
CENSORED
A video describing the censoring of "Positive Hell", an award-winning 30 minute documentary.
PRESS RELEASE

December 2016
HIV+: Alive and Well Without Drugs

French journalist Pryska Ducoeurjoly has posted the article she published in the June-July issue
of NEXUS magaxine: People with HIV and no symptoms have studied the flaws in the HIV=AIDS
theory and stopped taking their medications — without any harmful effects.

December 9, 2016
Behind the Fear: The Hidden Story of HIV
Best Documentary Feature

Bluestockings Pulls Controversial HIV/AIDS Films

Controversial HIV/AIDS Films To Be Screened at Bluestockings This Weekend
October 22, 2016 — Having scheduled the screening of two films, Positively False and Positive
Hell, one banned twice in 2016 London film festivals, New York indie bookstore Bluestockings, for the
first time in its 17-year history, at the very last moment canceled the screening after having received
threats of organized disruption.
October 2016 — Alumnae News features an article by Joan Shenton about the censoring of her
film, Positive Hell.

October 2016
Behind the Fear: The
Hidden Story of HIV
Feature Film

Portobello Film Festival

criticised for banning film

Film makers respond to

Portobello Film Festival last
minute film ban

Film About Survival Without

HIV Drugs Removed From
Portobello Film Festival
After Threats
Sobre la censura en Londres
del documental "Infierno
Positivo"
 September 2016
Positive Hell
Documentary

August 2016
Positive Hell
Award Winner
Short Documentary

May 2016
Positively False — the programme that never got shown

April 2016
Banned HIV/AIDS film screened to full house
 Joan Shenton on London Live

Andrew Herxheimer 1926-2016

April 2016 — Dr Herxheimer was always alert to claims made by the pharmaceutical industry about
safety and efficacy of their products: "I think zidovudine [AZT] was a drug that was never really
evaluated properly and that its efficacy has never been proved but its toxicity certainly is important.
And I think it has killed a lot of people — especially at the higher doses. I personally think that it is not
worth using alone or combination at all."

IN MEMORIAM

January 2016 — Robert Laarhoven, a long-time AIDS rethinker, and founder of

the VirusMyth website, died of lung disease in November, 2014. He will be missed by the entire
community. Rethinking AIDS will ensure that the VirusMyth website lives on.
September 2015 — Joan Shenton's film Positive Hell has been officially selected for inclusion in Los
Angeles CineFest, a monthly international online event. Positive Hell is the story of five individuals who
have defied their doctors and lived on for nearly thirty years with a diagnosis of death. The film
highlights a network of people diagnosed HIV Positive in the province of Galicia in Northern Spain.

February 2015 — This British Journalist Has Spent Her Career Championing HIV Dissidents
Gareth May interviews Joan Shenton about the updated anniversary edition of Positively False:
Exposing the Myths around HIV and AIDS.
"HIV itself has never been isolated, it's never been purified. So what you have to consider is that it
doesn't exist – that there isn't a virus, and that the whole thing is a massive fraud."

August 2015 — Alumnae News features a full-page review of Joan Shenton's film Positively False:
"The US government was unable to prove a likelihood that an HIV person is at risk, even during
unprotected sex, because there is no proof. And if the transmission of HIV is now in such doubt, the
entire edifice of the infectious hypothesis for AIDS will surely come tumbling down."

March 2015 — Commentary on the Penrose Inquiry Report, by M. Aziz: "The dissident view is that
the more severe the haemophilia the more likely chance there is of testing HIV+, partly because of the
'antigen overload' of clotting treatment."
 February 2015 — “You Are Going To Die”: An Alternative Look At HIV/AIDS. Anna
Rodgers reviews Joan Shenton's film, Positive Hell: "Their story begs the question, how can people
who were previously told they were going to die and who 'must take the medication' in order to survive
still be alive and well today, almost three decades later, without taking any HIV drugs?"

September 23, 2014 — Questioning the HIV-AIDS hypothesis: 30 years of dissent, by Patricia
Goodson: “The HIV/AIDS hypothesis is one hell of a mistake”, wrote Kary Mullis in 1996. Mullis –
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1993 – and other distinguished scientists have claimed the HIV-causes-
AIDS hypothesis is false, unproductive, and unethical.

March 19, 2013

Aids: Anomalies and Contradictions

Professor Charles Geshekter

African scientists and policymakers should familiarise themselves with the body of literature that
demonstrates the contradictions, anomalies and inconsistencies in the conventional view of Aids.
Africa has suffered from numerous real wars over the past 30 years, but a prism called “the war on
Aids” continues to distort its public health landscape. It is time for a critical look at Aids in Africa.
African scientists and policy-makers should familiarise themselves with the literature that
demonstrates the contradictions, anomalies and inconsistencies in the conventional view that the
symptoms of Aids are caused by a single viral infection.

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