Challenging Scientism

Happy World AIDS Day.

Please see the World AIDS Day Special at RTB. There, you’ll be able to watch and listen to Dr. Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize winner for “co-discovery of HIV,” as he explains the best treatments and preventions for the plague in Africa are….

…nutrition, anti-oxidants, and clean water.

I’ll tell you, I like this guy more and more. See what you think.

Watch the video. Download the 25-page web ‘zine.
Leave comments at RTB and Youtube.

Dr. Luc Montagnier, 2008 Nobel Prize winner for discovering HIV, describes patients’ ability to get rid of HIV naturally if the immune system is supported, and points to the profit motive that stands in the way of this remedy and research.

Dr. Luc Montagnier: “We can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected. Our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system.”
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Liam Scheff Interview on Fintan Dunne’s AIDS is Over.com

In August of 2008, I gave an interview to Fintan Dunne of Breakfornews.com and AIDSisover.com. We discussed the religious/cult dynamic of the AIDS industry and the catch-22 in which those who uncritically accept the paradigm find themselves. We went over the events of the Incarnation Children’s Center, briefly, before turning to recent admission by the World Health Organization that AIDS is, once again, predicted to be specifically confined to the African and Gay populations. The following is an edited transcript of that conversation.

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Question:

Is the AIDS industry honest?

Ask yourself if you have ever heard this, or anything like this before:

“We can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected. Our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system.”

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by Liam Scheff

There are at least 200 dead children lying in the wake of the high-dose drug studies done by Columbia Presbyterian on orphans in NYC. The perpetrators won’t release a single medical record, not even to participants.

Children weren’t paid, families weren’t paid, weren’t asked.

The children and infants used in major drug trials were often orphans.

This week’s Village Voice doesn’t trouble the reader with this information in a meaningful way. They excuse it. Read the rest of this entry »

Emailed from Liam Scheff to writers/editors Village Voice – Retraction! Village Voice Compounds NY Times “Errors.” 4/4/09

To the Editor, Writers, Village Voice,

While your article on the ICC scandal is too riddled with error to fix line by line, there is one demonstrably false statement that you must retract and amend.

Quoting the New York Times 2005 article, which attempted to cover up the ICC scandal, you claimed that the information I provided was done through un-named sources and un-documented research. You then acknowledged that you were interviewing my sources, using the leads that I provided you. Therefore I think you owe your audience some clarification.
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House of Numbers, a 2009 Documentary by Brent Leung (IMDB) takes on the most controversial human rights and human health issue of the last fifty years. Asking the un-askable, questioning the un-questionable, Mr. Leung uncovers the mass of information about HIV testing and the AIDS diagnosis that is daily suppressed by government and media, and hidden from public view. Read the rest of this entry »

This is (maybe!) the final in a long line of letters for an interview process by Village Voice reporter, Elizabeth Dwoskin, who says we can read her story today.

From Elizabeth Dwoskin, Village Voice, to Liam Scheff; subject: “deadline question”; sent 3/30/2009, received 3/31/2009

Hi Liam:

I am going to press tomorrow. You have asked me to submit correspondence in writing. I’d like to know, looking back, how you feel your work has been considered by the public and by the press. Has it had the effect you hoped it would have?

Thank you.

Elizabeth Dwoskin
Staff Writer
The Village Voice
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The following essay was originally a letter in a series for a long interview process for the Village Voice. Find the earlier exchanges and context [Here].

Denialism: The inability to ask questions; the suppression of investigation; an attack and silencing of critical thinking.

This letter refers to many things, but most of all the drugging of orphans in New York City in government clinical trials. Read that story [Here].
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This has been updated, please see letter dated 3/16/2009

I was contacted in January, 2009, by a young reporter for the Village Voice called Elizabeth Dwoskin, who asked me to help her investigate the ICC story, and provide sources for her investigation. She told me her interest was in helping the children affected by the drug studies. I offered help by email and telephone, by providing material and sources for her work.

At present, Columbia Presbyterian is holding patients’ medical records hostage. They will not release medical records, neither to any investigating body, nor to the young adults who were put through medical experiments under the auspices of Columbia/Presbyterian and the National Institutes of Health.

These children can’t get their own medical records. The question I hope you will be asking throughout is:

• What can we do to get Columbia Presbyterian to release medical records to the ICC trial participants?
• Who can we write, petition or legally pressure, so that young people who were used in studies, or their families (because at least 200 children died in and after the studies), can read their own medical records?

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% 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]

WBAI New York Covers the Story:

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ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION
Promoting Openness, Full Disclosure, and Accountability
http://www.ahrp.org and http://ahrp.blogspot.com

The final report of the VERA Institute investigation commissioned in 2005 by the NYC Administration of Child Services will hardly put to rest the controversy surrounding a 20-year period during which children in foster care were subjected to toxic Phase I and Phase II AIDS drug and vaccine experiments–mostly without parental consent and without the protection of an independent advocate–as mandated by federal regulations in force then and now.
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WBAI Radio New York on Incarnation Children’s Center Scandal:

Please find below my correspondence with the VERA Institute of Justice, which purported to be doing an investigation into the NIH/ICC orphanage clinical trial scandal. Reading their questions to me, and their refusal of my materials during the interview, you can get a sense of what the VERA Institute accepts, and does not accept in an interview with a journalist:

1. No names, no dates, no files, no interviews, audio, video, no pertinent, relevant, detailed information can be given to a VERA interviewer during a VERA Institute interview.

2. But questions about “feelings” are fine.

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ICC Update – Twenty-five (no, Eighty) deaths in ICC studies – but drugs ‘not to blame’. Vera Report and NY Times come back to save face, once more.

The ongoing non-investigation by the major media into the NIH clinical trials scandal. Try to make sense of the New York Times continual burial of the ICC story:

First, no children died:

“It was seen as one of the great successes of AIDS treatment. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, hundreds of children in New York City were dying of AIDS. The only approved drugs were for adults, and many of the patients were foster children. So doctors obtained permission to include foster children in what they regarded as promising drug trials….”

“[T]here is little evidence that the trials were anything but a medical success.”

That was the line in 2005, when reporter Janny Scott and the New York Times first tried to bury the story.

Now, children have died, but not really.
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