The New York Times and Village Voice are to be condemned for covering up this crime and you are to be praised whether you are right or wrong about anything else. Thank you.

Yes, I’m an activist for informed consent, and yes, for these kids getting paid for what they went through.

I received questions from the Voice reporter, and I answered them. She suppressed and did not report my answers. I was contacted to give them information on the drug trials. They shifted gears and wanted to do a personality profile in order to do an attack piece. They read no medical studies, no drug studies. They suppressed that information from their readers. They did not report on what is reported in the standard medical literature on the tests and drugs. So what are you arguing, for the suppression of medical data?

I don’t know what an ‘Aids skeptic’ article is, versus and ‘Aids article.’ I don’t really give a damn about Aids skepticism, or dissidence, or denialism, or whatever. I do give a damn about reporting on the details. Medicine, in general, has become a giant black box – opaque to the public, unquestionable, the ‘received wisdom,’ dogma, etc. And the details matter, and they’re not reported. I was trying to get the Voice to understand that there are details in this story that matter.

An investigative article on the drug trials at Incarnation is an article that by definition has to talk about the data on the drug trials, which are the Drugs, and the Tests that confine people to those studies. And the drug information is found again and again in the standard medical literature.

This isn’t just the Aids industry. Don’t miss that point. This is widespread, and is affecting my country, and yours probably too, this lack of transparency on what drugs are, how they work, what medical journals say in the details, versus what they say in the NYTimes.

We’ve got national health emergencies – so many drugs, and simultaneously, so many chronic illnesses, so many damaged children, and vaccine and pill manufacturers passing laws that prevent anyone from suing them for the damage their products do. Over and over again we’re getting this.

* “200?” – 532 children were used in studies, so they say. The VERA institute drips out numbers of dead children, but without medical records. The last number they reveal is 200. They don’t do it in the report – they slip it in for a NY radio journalist, Rebecca Myles, who was incisive enough to ask the question – “where are the rest of the children?”

Where is their accountability? Credibility?

Look, smokers who quit cigarettes after many years, and get cancer, sue the tobacco company, and win. These children were put on immensely toxic drugs with carcinogenic properties and no long term understanding of the damages done by the drugs. Who are these 200? It was 25, then 80, then 29% of the remaining 417 children (120) who are dead. It is now 200 children who were exposed to all of these drugs, and, were still exposed to them after the trials, who are dead.

What are the drugs? Who are these children? Have their families been paid any kind of reparation?

These aren’t minor points, or filigree. This is what the VERA institute was supposed to figure out (but really not supposed to figure out, really prevented from figuring out).

Let’s get the medical records and let the families and the living children see what they’ve been exposed to. These children and now young adults deserve to be paid, at least, for their loss of life and health, exposed to all of these drugs.

Clearly the number of deaths in the trial is a poor reflection of the overall scope of this disaster. And you are right to highlight that number. But when you say these 200 died “in the wake” of the trials, there is a clear imputation that the trials were responsible for all the 200 deaths. That’s unfair and unfounded. I think you need to caveat you statement.

I think you made a tactical error in trying to get Ms. Dwoskin to take the issue of HIV test specificity into account. She made a reporting farce by trying to marginalize your journalism by slamming your activism in her article.

But in truth, an activist has to be very restrained and prudent when donning a journalism hat. You did that to perfection in your published articles about this –but in the follow-up your activism has understandably bled through. I say this as an activist/journalist myself.

Ms. Dwoskin had every right to question your background and motivation in full in emails or by interview. It pertains to your possible bias in the articles you wrote. The same questioning is faced by any witness in a court case. It’s entirely valid.

You tried to force the Voice to do an AIDS skeptic article. They wanted to do one on Incarnation. Sometimes you have make do with leveraging what you can get.

Easy for me to say. You were on the spot and interviewing, then reporting on what are grotesque abominations in the treatment of defenseless, innocent children.

You were on solid ground when you wrote to the Voice as follows:

“Ashley was brought in for non-compliance, not illness, got a tube, was drugged, went home with the tube, was drugged continuously, and died.

“Arial was non-compliant, not terribly ill, got a tube, I believe had a stroke, and died.

“Shyanne was not sick, was non-compliant (did not take the drugs or like them), was therefore brought into the ICC, was given a stomach tube, had a stroke, went blind, died.”

That’s the undeniable soft underbelly of the story.
And the establishment’s most vulnerable point.

From one Journalist to another I think that is great that you were able to break this story. If innocent orphans are being use as you report, and I do believe that what you wrote to be true then may those running the test burn in hell. I also know that when the truth comes out those that are busted tend to blame others so keep up the good work Liam

According to the VERA Institute report, twenty-five children died in the drug studies, an additional fifty-five children died following the studies (in foster care), and, according to Tim Ross, Director of the Child Welfare program at VERA, 29% (120) of the remaining 417 children who were used in drug studies are now dead (out of a total 532 children that are admitted to have been used. [AHRP on VERA report | VERA interview]

No medical records released, just a giant black box put around the whole thing. The city and state need to get the records and, frankly, reparations to the community, family and surviving children.

Can you flesh out that number Liam? I looks to be ten times the number of deaths already reported.

Youtube it!!

On April 1, The Village Voice published a story, “http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-04-01/news/the-aids-babies-as-guinea-pigs-story-is-finally-over-right,” pretending sympathy toward the New York City “orphans” used in painful and sometimes fatal HIV drug trials at Incarnation Children’s Center in Washington Heights. These revelations had already hit the city hard in 2004 and were only recently the subject of a sham investigation. At least 200 children, almost all black and Hispanic, died.

Asserting that only “denialists” would oppose these practices, the reporter did not disclose that she had received — but refused to read — peer-reviewed, published scientific information on high false HIV positives among pregnant women and newborns, and the terrible side effects of the drugs.

Please join us at 4:00 p.m. Monday, April 6, in front of the Village Voice offices at 36 Cooper Square, New York City, for a demonstration in solidarity with parents and minorities to demand:

– Publication of a new story about the inaccuracies of HIV testing and the deadly side effects of FDA-designated “Black Box” drugs, using actual scientific evidence

– Release of the medical records on these children by the State of New York and Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center

You have my deepest respect and admiration for taking on the dogmatists at the Church of AIDism… I’ve seen these kind of witch hunt tactics used over and over in a number of arenas that take on the all mighty Gospel of Officialdom.

The same thing has happened to doctors and scientists who expose the massive vaccine cover-up … smear and slander of their work and findings by the Pharma-cartel and their media lackie$. Do know that more and more people are seeing through those who ply such weapons of mass deception and distraction. True investigative journalists like you are a dying breed, and I applaud your ongoing commitment to this issue in the face of such powerful vested interests poisoning the public with vile lies.

Funny how Ms. Dwoskin takes such an unnecessary turn from the supposed subject matter (foster kids used for AIDS drugs trials) to focus on a deceased mother from Van Nuys and a writer’s supposed “beliefs”. Of course, Ms. Dwoskin doesn’t question her own “beliefs”. Funny how that works.

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/_newsgrabs.htm

But I also agree with what Stefan from Germany says in the preceding comment: Who are they to say anything about this story. The data is available, an it won’t go away, however much the Voice would like to snuggle up to AIDS orthodoxy and its associated killing.
Sepp
Rome – Italy