So, while the academics fight amongst themselves, people need answers, and plenty of people are looking to find something. Not everyone is inclined to simply go an a regimen of toxic drugs, and await what may eventually come their way, brought on by either the virus or the drugs themselves.
In my discussions with friends and strangers alike, several experimental options have been suggested, ranging from diet to electrical devices. But while I could see that including such super-foods as garlic into ones diet may bring a temporary boost to ones immune system, I am not convinced that it has the capacity to expel the virus, merely to perhaps deal it a setback. Nevertheless, one of my friends who was clearly HIV-symptomatic, had nearly immediate results after including garlic into his 'typically-Latino' "staple, meat and what-are-vegetables?-diet". His stomach cramps, diarrhea and fever disappeared within a very short time of the inclusion of garlic, while the swollen lymph remain as a reminder of the greater and more significant problem facing him.
A few days ago, a friend who had been diagnosed with HIV in 1993, and who had developed AIDS in 1996, told me something that got my attention. He brought up the name of a physicist - deceased in 2002 - who claimed to have developed a way to really knock down HIV and other foreign intruders, and potentially even eliminate it from the body altogether. He built a simple apparatus following the principles of a patent that was registered in the early 1990's by Researchers at the Albert Einstein University NYC. My friend told me that a friend of his knew this man personally, as well as knowing a woman who used his method to heal herself of cancer.
Of course, when I heard that story, the first thing that sprang to mind was 'Snake Oil Salesman' and 'what does he have to sell?', because, after all, the scientific community has spent about 200 billion dollars in the fight against HIV and AIDS and hasn't produced a single cure. In contrast to that concerted effort, the claims of this man seemed rather outlandish.
Oddly enough, the profit motive was eliminated as the potential driving factor behind the claims, as the inventor, Dr Bob Beck, made the list of components available free of charge, so anyone with the knowhow could go and buy the parts and assemble them him- or herself.
Beck set out to develop what has become known as the 'Beck Protocol', a systematic approach to apply his 4 different inventions/discoveries to the body. He claims that each is safe to the physical system and only attacks elements which should not be in the body. In each case he gives examples of how to simply and cheaply assemble the needed apparatus. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=Beck+Protocol&aq=f
With profit motive removed, there was little apparent incentive left in my mind, for Beck to promote his views, other than perhaps personal ego or... to promote an idea that is actually meant to help people.
So next on my list of tasks was to find someone who is actually HIV positive and following the protocol - the methods are alleged to be useful for various different afflictions - which proved hard to accomplish, because apparently the FDA forces websites to remove all of their testimonials and declares them to be 'fraudulent and deceptive'. My guess is that if it isn't toxic and invasive and threatens the pharmaceutical monopoly, it has to be fought tooth and nail, especially if the treatment will not generate thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue to keep the self-perpetuating machine well oiled.
But last night I happened to meet exactly such person, and it has been a rather pleasant experience to learn of the experiences, experiments and progress.
Diagnosed with HIV in early 2008, he didn't want to go on the drug regimen, and was looking for alternatives. Being 'symptomatic', I don't imagine that was something easy to stay focused on, as illness is gnawing away on the will to resist the drugs. He told me that 4 months ago - just before going on the Beck Protocol - his viral load test result was 79000. He has been tested again a month ago, with the result now being 8000, a nearly 90% reduction in viral load within 3 months of experimenting with Beck's Protocol, and completely without the use of drugs. While his doctor is not endorsing Beck's Protocol outright, she is encouraging him to continue what he is doing right. These days, he says, he is feeling great, has none of the typical symptoms of HIV infection, and has in fact not become sick with any of the usual temporary illnesses either, like Flu etc.
So, is Beck's Protocol a treatment? a potential cure? How can we know for sure? It appears to me to be a promising alternative to toxic drugs which appear to accomplish significantly less positive and a lot more negative, than Beck's Protocol. While the FDA acts as the guardian of the medical monopoly in forcing alternative methods into obscurity, it cannot stop people experimenting on themselves. And Beck has given us all the means to do exactly that, if we wish to do.
(If you find this article interesting and are thinking of experimenting with Beck's Protocol, be aware that he states that you must be off all drugs, prescription or other, while using the Protocol, because the toxicity of these drugs to the body increases during application of Beck's Protocol!)
Search: Bob Beck Protocol
Sunday, March 15, 2009
From Gallo to Duesberg ... which way now?
It's been an interesting week since I last posted. Trying to wrap my head around and make sense of all the information that has come my way; but I think I am starting to lean into a direction I didn't expect at all.
First there was Dr Robert Gallo and his 'co-discovery' of HIV, the virus that allegedly eventually causes AIDS in most of those who have become infected with it. I don't like the history of the man. Something tells me there's something really really wrong here. No doubt my distaste for military plays into that, and Gallo's past work on biological weapons tells me that the man is no humanitarian. Anything I have read of him seems to point to a 'look-at-me-and-see-how-great-I-am' type of person, who will do anything to get attention, even if that might perhaps include stealing a virus sample that was sent to him from Paris, renaming the virus to something ominous-sounding, and claiming he discovered it. In fact, in his quest for recognition, it appears he went so far as to change the paper of the findings of his Assistant to say a lot more and different about the discovered virus, than the Experiements actually revealed. Perhaps he is little more than an egomaniac or megalomaniac. I am not sure.
Then there is Professor Peter Duesberg, a Specialist in molecular and cellular biology, basically stating that his research shows that the so-called HIV-virus is little more than a harmless passenger virus which causes... nothing. And that AIDS is actually brought on primarily by recreational drug use - 'poppers' which use is widespread in gay circles - cocaine, injection drugs, and last, but not least, anti-retrovirals like AZT themselves, which attack the bone marrow and the bodies immune system.
So we have a weapons-scientist turned humanitarian (really?) on one side claiming the end is near, and another accomplished scientist who has lost all his research grants for questioning the HIV-causes-AIDS hypothesis, on the other side. The standoff continues.
In the meantime we have people suffering from HIV infection. Not drug users. Not poppers users. Not on anti-retrovirals. And yet, showing symptoms which are declared to be signs of HIV infection: swollen lymph, stomach cramps, fever, diarrhea. Coincidental? Strange coincidence. There are hypothesis' out there, but no answers. While the academics are scoring 'take-that!'-points against each other, people are suffering the reality of a 'harmless passenger virus' which seems to be rather unruly, and doesn't allow itself to get forced off the train.
That Gallo and his team are alleged to have been working on creating a virus with exactly such immuno-destroying consequences for the infected person as HIV is claimed to be, makes him suspect to me as actually not wanting to find a cure, though I would find it a lot more plausible that he'd be interested in finding a better continuous treatment for it... after all, who doesn't like money?
But even though I have ordered Peter Duesbergs book 'Inventing the AIDS virus' to read more about his hypothesis, I already suspect there will be a lot of allegations, but no actual solutions for those who are infected.
If I combine the opinions of - and circumstances related to - the two sides, I get a virus which will escape any scientist with tunnel-vision: A bio-engineered monster which behaves like a harmless passenger virus to foil the research of such people as Peter Duesberg - who perhaps cannot fathom that HIV may be the product of military research and not be naturally occuring at all, and thus outside of their 'laws' of how certain viruses ought to behave -, but which is actually an unruly 'passenger', causing some significant trouble itself, before opening the doors to other killers once the bodies immunity is suffiently broken down.
But these are still hypothesis' and not answers. So who has answers? Well, there may be a surprising discovery after all...
First there was Dr Robert Gallo and his 'co-discovery' of HIV, the virus that allegedly eventually causes AIDS in most of those who have become infected with it. I don't like the history of the man. Something tells me there's something really really wrong here. No doubt my distaste for military plays into that, and Gallo's past work on biological weapons tells me that the man is no humanitarian. Anything I have read of him seems to point to a 'look-at-me-and-see-how-great-I-am' type of person, who will do anything to get attention, even if that might perhaps include stealing a virus sample that was sent to him from Paris, renaming the virus to something ominous-sounding, and claiming he discovered it. In fact, in his quest for recognition, it appears he went so far as to change the paper of the findings of his Assistant to say a lot more and different about the discovered virus, than the Experiements actually revealed. Perhaps he is little more than an egomaniac or megalomaniac. I am not sure.
Then there is Professor Peter Duesberg, a Specialist in molecular and cellular biology, basically stating that his research shows that the so-called HIV-virus is little more than a harmless passenger virus which causes... nothing. And that AIDS is actually brought on primarily by recreational drug use - 'poppers' which use is widespread in gay circles - cocaine, injection drugs, and last, but not least, anti-retrovirals like AZT themselves, which attack the bone marrow and the bodies immune system.
So we have a weapons-scientist turned humanitarian (really?) on one side claiming the end is near, and another accomplished scientist who has lost all his research grants for questioning the HIV-causes-AIDS hypothesis, on the other side. The standoff continues.
In the meantime we have people suffering from HIV infection. Not drug users. Not poppers users. Not on anti-retrovirals. And yet, showing symptoms which are declared to be signs of HIV infection: swollen lymph, stomach cramps, fever, diarrhea. Coincidental? Strange coincidence. There are hypothesis' out there, but no answers. While the academics are scoring 'take-that!'-points against each other, people are suffering the reality of a 'harmless passenger virus' which seems to be rather unruly, and doesn't allow itself to get forced off the train.
That Gallo and his team are alleged to have been working on creating a virus with exactly such immuno-destroying consequences for the infected person as HIV is claimed to be, makes him suspect to me as actually not wanting to find a cure, though I would find it a lot more plausible that he'd be interested in finding a better continuous treatment for it... after all, who doesn't like money?
But even though I have ordered Peter Duesbergs book 'Inventing the AIDS virus' to read more about his hypothesis, I already suspect there will be a lot of allegations, but no actual solutions for those who are infected.
If I combine the opinions of - and circumstances related to - the two sides, I get a virus which will escape any scientist with tunnel-vision: A bio-engineered monster which behaves like a harmless passenger virus to foil the research of such people as Peter Duesberg - who perhaps cannot fathom that HIV may be the product of military research and not be naturally occuring at all, and thus outside of their 'laws' of how certain viruses ought to behave -, but which is actually an unruly 'passenger', causing some significant trouble itself, before opening the doors to other killers once the bodies immunity is suffiently broken down.
But these are still hypothesis' and not answers. So who has answers? Well, there may be a surprising discovery after all...
Saturday, March 7, 2009
HIV, Fact, Fiction or Fraud?
While there is little doubt that there are factors which are destroying the body's immune system in a lot of people afflicted with what we call AIDS, the real and perceived causes are subject of heated debate. That HIV causes AIDS has been the accepted 'PartyLine' since the early 1980's, though the list of dissenting scientists is steadily growing.
Last December, a group of scientiests challened the Magazine 'Science' to revisit the May 4, 1984 papers by Dr Robert Gallo, which established the basis for everything we today believe to be true about HIV and ultimately, AIDS. [read the letter at: http://www.rethinkingaids.com/Home/tabid/146/Default.aspx]
The letter alleges that the published papers include some faulty research, as well as that the conclusions represent a serious divergence from scientific protocol, questioning the integrity of the original papers, as well as other papers which have built upon the alleged errors of the first one.
I will restate some of the allegations made. References to certain statements can be found at the link given above.
According to the letter to 'Science', the Office of Research Integrity of the US Department of Health and Human Services expressed serious concerns with the published paper, stating that it was “fraught with false and erroneous statements,” and that the “ORI believes that the careless and unacceptable keeping of research records...reflects irresponsible laboratory management that has permanently impaired the ability to retrace the important steps taken.”
The letter by these Scientists continues with a statement that Dr Robert Gallo, often cited as the co-discoverer of HIV, made many unreported deletions and unjustified alterations to the lead paper. Popovic, who carried out and recorded the findings of the experiments while Gallo was in Europe, produced a typewritten draft report which was subsequently substantially altered by Gallo upon his return, days before it was submitted to 'Science'. All the while it has been stated that the results of the experiments had never been peer reviewed. The ORI concluded that
“Dr. Gallo systematically rewrote the manuscript for what would become a renowned LTCB [Gallo's laboratory at the National Cancer Institute] paper.”
While Popovic reveals in the draft that he was using the samples provided by Institut Pasteur, Gallo deleted this revelation, and renamed the samples HTLV-III, perhaps in order to claim the credit for discovery.
The letter to 'Science' continues that Popovic's original draft clearly states that "despite intensive research efforts, the causative agent of AIDS has not yet been identified,” which Gallo then replaced with a statement claiming the opposite, namely “that a retrovirus of the HTLV family might be an etiologic agent of AIDS was suggested by the findings.”
So here we have Popovic, who performed the actual experiments, saying that the cause of AIDS had indeed not been found, in the very paper which days later became the cornerstone of the accepted dogma that HIV leads to AIDS, due to the changes made by Robert Gallo.
Robert Gallo's alterations to the original findings by Popovic, his attempts to conceal the origin of the sample provided by Institut Pasteur to claim credit for a 'great discovery', speaks of someone consumed by the pursuit of prestige and recognition, rather than someone who is focused on bettering the world through selfless scientific research. Robert Gallo's alleged lending of his scientific credentials to biological weapons research - an effort at attempting to create weapons of indiscriminate death to be unleashed upon humanity - for nearly two decades prior to the dissemination of these falsified findings to 'Science', also does not add any credit to his credentials.
Notations:
Draft of M. Popovic's May 4 1984 Science article, with accompanying alterations made by Gallo.
http://sciencefictions.net/pdfdocs/draft_of_m_popovic_05.04.84_science_article_undated.pdf
Letter from Dr. M. Gonda to Dr. M. Popovic (cc R. Gallo). 1984 Mar 26, stating that the microscope fotos taken do NOT show virus. Gallo subsequently submitted the fotos to Science to be published in conjunction with his paper, claiming that the fotos show virus. http://sciencefictions.net/pdfdocs/Letter_from_M_Gonda_to_M_Popovic_03.26.84.pdf
Last December, a group of scientiests challened the Magazine 'Science' to revisit the May 4, 1984 papers by Dr Robert Gallo, which established the basis for everything we today believe to be true about HIV and ultimately, AIDS. [read the letter at: http://www.rethinkingaids.com/Home/tabid/146/Default.aspx]
The letter alleges that the published papers include some faulty research, as well as that the conclusions represent a serious divergence from scientific protocol, questioning the integrity of the original papers, as well as other papers which have built upon the alleged errors of the first one.
I will restate some of the allegations made. References to certain statements can be found at the link given above.
According to the letter to 'Science', the Office of Research Integrity of the US Department of Health and Human Services expressed serious concerns with the published paper, stating that it was “fraught with false and erroneous statements,” and that the “ORI believes that the careless and unacceptable keeping of research records...reflects irresponsible laboratory management that has permanently impaired the ability to retrace the important steps taken.”
The letter by these Scientists continues with a statement that Dr Robert Gallo, often cited as the co-discoverer of HIV, made many unreported deletions and unjustified alterations to the lead paper. Popovic, who carried out and recorded the findings of the experiments while Gallo was in Europe, produced a typewritten draft report which was subsequently substantially altered by Gallo upon his return, days before it was submitted to 'Science'. All the while it has been stated that the results of the experiments had never been peer reviewed. The ORI concluded that
“Dr. Gallo systematically rewrote the manuscript for what would become a renowned LTCB [Gallo's laboratory at the National Cancer Institute] paper.”
While Popovic reveals in the draft that he was using the samples provided by Institut Pasteur, Gallo deleted this revelation, and renamed the samples HTLV-III, perhaps in order to claim the credit for discovery.
The letter to 'Science' continues that Popovic's original draft clearly states that "despite intensive research efforts, the causative agent of AIDS has not yet been identified,” which Gallo then replaced with a statement claiming the opposite, namely “that a retrovirus of the HTLV family might be an etiologic agent of AIDS was suggested by the findings.”
So here we have Popovic, who performed the actual experiments, saying that the cause of AIDS had indeed not been found, in the very paper which days later became the cornerstone of the accepted dogma that HIV leads to AIDS, due to the changes made by Robert Gallo.
Robert Gallo's alterations to the original findings by Popovic, his attempts to conceal the origin of the sample provided by Institut Pasteur to claim credit for a 'great discovery', speaks of someone consumed by the pursuit of prestige and recognition, rather than someone who is focused on bettering the world through selfless scientific research. Robert Gallo's alleged lending of his scientific credentials to biological weapons research - an effort at attempting to create weapons of indiscriminate death to be unleashed upon humanity - for nearly two decades prior to the dissemination of these falsified findings to 'Science', also does not add any credit to his credentials.
Notations:
Draft of M. Popovic's May 4 1984 Science article, with accompanying alterations made by Gallo.
http://sciencefictions.net/pdfdocs/draft_of_m_popovic_05.04.84_science_article_undated.pdf
Letter from Dr. M. Gonda to Dr. M. Popovic (cc R. Gallo). 1984 Mar 26, stating that the microscope fotos taken do NOT show virus. Gallo subsequently submitted the fotos to Science to be published in conjunction with his paper, claiming that the fotos show virus. http://sciencefictions.net/pdfdocs/Letter_from_M_Gonda_to_M_Popovic_03.26.84.pdf
There's a WAR brewing!
Having so far been directly unaffected by HIV, I had for years been under the impression that the matter had been settled long ago. That the virus had been studied, cause and effect established, and that it was generally a done deal.
To my surprise it is far from that. What started out as a tiny group of dissenters about 20 years ago has grown in number to several thousand. People who have evaluated and observed the virus and have come to the conclusion that HIV is in fact a misnomer... because, as these scientists suggest, the virus is a harmless "passenger virus" which in fact does nothing, and that the real reason for the post-HIV-infection crumbling of the human immune system is in fact the use of drugs, legal and/or illegal, and that the very drugs administered to diminish and control the virus, are the actual cause of what has become known to us as AIDS.
To my surprise it is far from that. What started out as a tiny group of dissenters about 20 years ago has grown in number to several thousand. People who have evaluated and observed the virus and have come to the conclusion that HIV is in fact a misnomer... because, as these scientists suggest, the virus is a harmless "passenger virus" which in fact does nothing, and that the real reason for the post-HIV-infection crumbling of the human immune system is in fact the use of drugs, legal and/or illegal, and that the very drugs administered to diminish and control the virus, are the actual cause of what has become known to us as AIDS.
It's a new journey on an old trail.
HIV... these three letters can change anyone's life in an instant. In a way, it has changed my life just recently, as a very dear friend of mine has become what is refered to as 'positive'. It has set me on a journey to wade through the available material, to review professional opinions, to rethink positions, to draw my own conclusions.
I am not a professional scientist. I do not have the means to conduct research to defeat the virus, or the illnesses generally thought of as eventually resulting from infection with this virus. But a short time of reading on the subject has brought to light that there is a vast range of differing opinion on the subject even among the brightest minds, something I was not aware of even just two months ago.
What I will present here will be a collection of thoughts as I progress through the material. I hope it will be found useful.
In whichever way HIV may affect you, my hope is that you will never lose your compassion; and if you know someone who has been diagnosed, to be the best friend you can possibly be to that person.
Peace
I am not a professional scientist. I do not have the means to conduct research to defeat the virus, or the illnesses generally thought of as eventually resulting from infection with this virus. But a short time of reading on the subject has brought to light that there is a vast range of differing opinion on the subject even among the brightest minds, something I was not aware of even just two months ago.
What I will present here will be a collection of thoughts as I progress through the material. I hope it will be found useful.
In whichever way HIV may affect you, my hope is that you will never lose your compassion; and if you know someone who has been diagnosed, to be the best friend you can possibly be to that person.
Peace
Enlightenment!!!
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. ~Ben Sweetland
Welcome to my blog. It is my effort to illuminate and to share some of my thoughts with the world. I hope you enjoy it.
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