3rd August 2008

Journalism Ethics 101 - My Conversations with New York Times Reporter Janny Scott

Twenty Questions on Ethics and Standards for the New York Times.

In 2005, I was interviewed by New York Times reporter Janny Scott about the Incarnation Children’s Center (ICC) scandal. My investigation had revealed that orphaned children were being used in taxpayer and Pharma–funded drug studies in a Catholic orphanage in New York City.
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26th May 2008

The Writing is on the Wall for UNAIDS

The mainstream medical community is beginning to understand the limits of the Aids venture into Africa. Persons who are serious about improving the lives of the poorest in the world are thinking twice about the monies spent on the Aids campaign.

There is a call for the permanent disbanding of the United Nations Aids division, in order to re-focus efforts on the myriad of problems that plague Africans: Lack of food, water, work, safety, and basic medical care for malaria, tuberculosis, and dysentery.

The writing is on the wall for UNAIDS

By Roger England, chairman, Health Systems Workshop, Grenada
The British Medical Journal

HIV exceptionalism is dead—and the writing is on the wall for UNAIDS. Why a UN agency for HIV and not for pneumonia or diabetes, which both kill more people? [….]

UNAIDS should be closed down rapidly, not because it has performed badly given its mandate, which it has not, but because its mandate is wrong and harmful. Its technical functions should be refitted into WHO, to be balanced with those for other diseases.

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23rd February 2008

Hiv Testing Section

Hiv Testing

The following is a public service announcement:

Know your rights: You have a right to informed consent, a right to read and review all critical literature on a medical procedure before agreeing to undergo it.

Know your rights: You have a right to read and review all critical literature on Hiv testing, before submitting to a test. You have a right to choose whether or not to take a test, based on your reading of the critical medical literature on testing. It is your legal right:

  • To review all critical literature on the tests and on testing.
  • To take or to not take a test.

Before you test, seek answers to the following questions:
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4th November 2007

My Interview for Nature Medicine

I received an interview request from Nature Medicine regarding the BBC’s capitulation to the pharma cabal at Aidstruth.org. (Background on that story Here )

I have been slimed by Nature Medicine in the past, without ever being asked for an interview, so this is a first. I respond in some detail to the request, with some questions of my own for the reporter.

The bottom line:

  • “What is borne out in reviewing 25 years of medical literature on the paradigm, is the failure of the surrogate markers to consistently, dependably, usefully predict illness, or to be the most useful or appropriate target for therapy. Aids, therefore, is a more important phenomenon than what we refer to as “Hiv”, because the surrogate markers by which we define and infer, or perhaps imply “Hiv”, fail to assist us in making patients better.”
  • “Leaving behind the failed surrogate markers, lifting the a priori death sentence enforced by the supposition of the utility of the surrogate markers, and finally, treating Aids, as in, Immune Deficiency, will be the next, and most successful step in the eradication of Aids globally.”

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1st November 2007

John P. Moore, Aids Denialist, and AZT walks like Thalidomide

Please see my post at Health Supreme on the “denialism” of Aidstruth.org. Then have a look at the ever-ready Anthony Brink’s press release on AZT and Thalidomide (at Treatment Information Group).

John P.Moore, Aids Denialist

by Liam Scheff

John P. Moore, of the New York Times, and of Aidstruth.org, on his approach to discourse and debate in science [Here ]:

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25th October 2007

Radio Interview with ICC Childcare Worker

The following transcript is taken from the 2005 radio interview on the Lizz Brown Show (lizzbrown.com), featuring Mimi Pascual, former ICC orphanage childcare worker and Liam Scheff, who broke and investigated the story. Mimi worked at ICC for 8 years over a ten year period. Her story is told in Inside Incarnation.

Listen to the interview

Read the Interview Here.

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25th October 2007

Notes on a “Scandal”

The Aids Cabal is crowing glorious victory over their defeat of journalism, truth-telling, medical discourse and debate. That is, they’ve convinced the BBC to feel doubtful that the documentary “Guinea Pig Kids” should be allowed to stand, without correction from the pharma cabal that the film indicted.

John P. Moore of AidsTruth.org writes:

[Here]

  • “By now, the leading AIDS denialists will be aware of AIDS Truth’s latest victory: The acknowledgment by the BBC of the many flaws in the Liam Scheff-inspired documentary “Guinea-Pig Kids”, produced by Jamie Doran, attacking the use of ARVs to treat HIV-infected foster children at New York’s Incarnation Children’s Center. Full details of this victory for science, medicine and public health will be posted on the AIDS Truth website, where additional material will be added once the BBC finalizes its decision on the fate of the producers and editors responsible for the inaccurate and damaging documentary.”
  • “Many AIDS professionals contributed to this fight against the BBC, although Jeanne Bergman deserves most of the credit.”

[….end excerpt…]

So, a few notes on the documentary in question.

It was released at the near end of 2004, in November. I provided what is called, original research, which really consisted of pointing to the National Institute of Health’s (that’s the US government’s) own database of clinical trials, and noting that the drugs they were using were Black Box labeled, meaning they’d caused severe disability, or death, in patients taking them.

And that these were being used in combination of 2, 3, 4, up to 7 at a time, “at higher than usual doses”, in children as young as 4 years old. That’s orphans, as young as four, and then, other drugs and vaccines, in infants as young as six months old. [Here]
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24th October 2007

My Letter to the Guardian, “Serious Concerns over HIV Film”

Please contact the editor at the UK Guardian on their reportage:
email: editor@mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 7239 9857.

From: Liam Scheff to editor@mediaguardian.co.uk

Subject: Original investigator on “Flawed BBC Film” demands apology, correction

Dear Editor,

Please have your reporter, Leigh Holmwook, contact me, Liam Scheff, to correct the egregious errors in your reportage of the current attack on honest, critical, investigative journalism by the ‘AidsTruth’ pharma cabal. [Here]

Your reportage on this is missing more than half of the story. Your reporter Holmwood is quoting, at length, one Jeanne Bergman, activist for the drug use that is being criticized in the Guinea Pig Kids film.

You are citing the aggressor, not the aggrieved.

The issue at hand is the following - orphans in NYC were and are being used in clinical drug trials - “experiments” - with extraordinarily toxic drugs - as per the studies themselves.

Have a look at the title, the drugs, the warnings on every drug in the study, and the compound use of the drugs - seven at a time, in children as young as four years old.
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24th October 2007

Who is AidsTruth?

Who are these people?

John P. Moore, Martin Delaney, Jeanne Bergman, Nathan Geffen, Greg Gonsalves, Nicholas Bennett? [Here]

Who are these people, who have taken it upon themselves to inform every reporter, news organization, researcher, and individual in the world, what is and what is not acceptable to talk about, or think about, in relation to the medical (and quite religious) paradigm known as “Aids”, “Aids drugs” and “Hiv Tests?”

God knows, if you read the actual, critical, useful, necessary medical literature on any of these subject categories, you find a wealth of fascinating, horrifying information, always running in seven contrary directions from what the mainstream advertises as “Aids.”

But, heaven help you if you report any of what the literature lays out in evidence, or what real people who are affected by the tests, drugs and diagnosis testify to, because if you do, the “AidsTruth” clan calls you…
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23rd October 2007

The BBC Gives in to the Aids Mafia

Received by email:

Dear Liam,

What’s your take on this? Do you know about it already?

‘Serious concern’ at BBC over flawed HIV film

My take is that it doesn’t matter. I didn’t know about it, but I’d never rested my hat or laurels on the BBC movie. I was trying to help some kids…

Most of them are either locked into the system for life (or dead from drugs), or they’ve semi-escaped into NYC poverty.

There’s nothing more I can add to what I’ve done. It wouldn’t be fighting for them anymore, it would be fighting for some perception of ‘legitimacy’ in the eyes of an establishment that does little but cower and lie, pedal deception, half-truths, fear-monger, etc, as a status quo.
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17th September 2007

The Aids Pogrom - Invitation to Debate

My letter to PLoS Medicine, and BigGayNews.com, regarding the Aids pogrom. (The PLoS version is shorter, and posted in comments below)

Dear Reader,

Regarding Tara Smith’s PLoS journal entry on Denialism on the Web, I personally have tried to engage Tara Smith in reasonable, factual, point-for-point, issue-specific debate, on her blog,

1. here

2. and here

(There may be more, but I only kept track of these, she posts so much on “denialism,” it’s hard to keep track).

You may review these files, and note that none of my concerns are answered, and are usually deflected by charges of ‘being silly,’ in some manner, or, of course, of being a ‘denialist’.

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21st August 2007

Voltaire and the Scientists

Francois Marie Arouet - 18th Century writer, philosopher, and sit-down comedian (satirist) - is better known to all third semester French students as Voltaire. He lived his life in full. Smart, cruel, generous, witty, kind, atheistic, humanistic, misanthropic, absurdist, English-loving Francophobe, Francophilic Parisian; long-suffering, well-rewarded, hunted, despised, and dearly beloved.

He gave to literature some of the strangest confabulations ever seen, even in the modern era - stories of science fiction absurdity - spacemen, giants, deranged civilian populations, plagues, pirates and villains pretending to do public good; and then mystical, perfect (and boring) Edens, soon to be discarded for lustier, more perilous pursuits.

He tried to wrangle out of the human condition some sense, some middle ground, but seemed to enjoy the highs and lows of existence - in his writing, and in reality - more than the simple, quiet life his literary creations claimed to desire.

He gave, in some work or another, or perhaps only in speech, a phrase which echoes in my mind in almost every conversation I have with those defending the various religions of our era - Bird Flu, Aids, Sars, Bombing Iraq for democracy’s sake, etc.

“If you want to converse with me, first define your terms.”
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6th July 2007

Liam Scheff Interviewed by Heather Anderson on FM Australia

The interview covers a great deal of ground in a few mouthfuls. The ICC story, HIV testing, some bird flu propaganda analysis, a little biographical information on yours truly, and some personal philosophy. (See notes at the bottom for further reading in greater detail).

Heather: I’ll say briefly, which is probably a crazy word to use when talking about this issue, but can you briefly explain what the HIV/AIDS myth is or what the alternative theories about HIV and AIDS are that you have been researching and that you have been writing about?

Liam: Yeah sure, AIDS is a brand name. There was a phenomena in this country, in my country, in the United States in the early 80’s in a very small community, the gay community over here.

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24th June 2007

The NIH/ICC Investigation

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In 2004, I broke open the NIH clinical trial scandal - government researchers using New York City orphans in clinical trials with combinations of highly toxic, speculative drugs. Read the story below.
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28th April 2007

The NIH Scandal and the Future of AIDS Research

A federal investigation calls drug trials on orphans unethical. Now what?

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Human Research Protections investigating the clinical trials on Black and Hispanic orphans at New York’s Incarnation Children’s Center (ICC) has found that the National Institute of Health (NIH) and Columbia Presbyterian Hospital acted unethically.

The Associated Press reported Thursday June 16th: “The government has concluded at least some AIDS drug experiments involving foster children violated federal rules designed to ensure vulnerable youths were protected from the risks of medical research.”

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