Jack goes on the record about sex, sex and sex in in this month’s Rolling Stone interview: Interviewer Erik Hedegaard: ”[W]hen the AIDS crisis started, he [Nicholson] tried wearing condoms, but they prevented him from feeling the “full catasrophe” of… Continue Reading
Future of Humanity Exam 1 Alright class, you’re here to predict and solve the problems of the next three centuries. Pencils up…and…go! Proposition: Oil Will Run Dry Within 20 Years… 30 Years? 40 Years? And the Face of the Nation… Continue Reading
No, I’m not talking about Condit, Clinton, Kennedy, Jefferson, Cleveland or Harding. Not them, but those who inspired them. Here are some historical notes on the perversions of the leaders of Rome; truly an inspiration to our folks in Washington… Continue Reading
Notes from the beginning of one Empire (from the end of another). From Suetonius’ The Twelve Emperors: “Aware that the City was architecturally unworth of her position as capital of the Roman Empire, besides being vulnerable to fire and river… Continue Reading
Currently Reading: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus The 12 Emperors. Julius Caesar1 (grabs the crown) Augustus (Octavian)1 (catches it) Tiberius (dirty old man) Gaius Caligula (loves horses) Claudius (a nicer fella) Nero (not so nice) Galba (short and brutish — moiduhd!) Otho… Continue Reading
Reading the standard medical literature on HIV tests, you will discover that: The Tests ‘test’ for no one thing. They diagnose no one thing. They do not show infection with any single thing. HIV tests may tell you that you… Continue Reading
A few thoughts on African loss of life (and eugenics), for those for whom history began before 1979. We’re told that Africa has an AIDS problem. I used to think this was so. But after copious reading research and discussion,… Continue Reading
Lords of Science, Convince Me that (Gore’s) Global Warming isn’t just another Narcissistic Leftist Fantasy… Oh, before you get your hackles up! Yes, I’m sure that things are cooler and warmer and wetter and drier, zone to zone, in parts… Continue Reading
GNN May 25, 2006 AIDS drugs for HIV negatives: the dangerous new trend in AIDS medicine Viread: the feel-good drug A January 22, 2006 article in The New York Times Magazine promoted the idea that gay men – not just… Continue Reading
The NY Times science writer Lawrence Altman reports that studies in our medical journals (and drugs they recommend, and the belief systems they support or impart) are not necessarily sound – and that peer review often fails to ensure ethics… Continue Reading
by Liam Scheff published at GNN, Accuracy in Media, and Tutto in Vendita Spring 2005 Read as PDF As a journalist who writes about AIDS, I am endlessly amazed by the difference between the public and the private face of… Continue Reading
Published at GNN and Tutto in Vendita, 2005 by Liam Scheff Read as PDF The last few months have been exciting for the medical industry. First there was the Nevirapine scandal at the NIH, then the FDA falls apart over… Continue Reading
Two US Navy ships – a missile destroyer and an amphibious transport – have deployed to the Persian Gulf on very short notice. (They left Tuesday). The ships – USS Trenton | James E. Williams This is an “unscheduled deployment”… Continue Reading
Oprah Winfrey takes “A Million Little Pieces” James Frey, (gifted writer and admitted ne’er do well), to task for being a gifted ne’er do well. . “James Frey is here and I have to say it is difficult for me… Continue Reading
By Liam Scheff GNN December 2004 – Thinking of a master plan Bush’s Brain, the 2003 book and film by veteran journalists James Moore and Wayne Slater, and directors Joseph Mealey and Michael Shoob, lays out, with compelling bi-partisan evidence,… Continue Reading