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Malnourished woman with AID tests HIV+

Hertfordshire Mercury has reported about a woman who lost her appetite following a head injury which resultantly impacted on her immune system. She came to test HIV+ so her malnutrition/AID was reframed as HIV/AID. (S has been omitted intentionally here as we don’t know if she presented any HIV/AIDS-defining illness) The (likely black) woman was also told that she […]

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Woman receives two false-positive diagnoses

”Over the course of a few weeks, I spiraled [sic] from a well-adjusted, sexual college woman into someone who was ready to take her own life over a disease she didn’t have”. Zoë Ligon, 23. …Though Zoë’s ELISA indicated that there were antibodies in her system, the western blot did not. The PCR also showed that there […]

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Poisoner and saviour

The Guardian has highlighted the contradiction of major supporters of health in South Africa being instrumental in the cause of ill health in the first place through investing in mining. As a supposed hotbed region of HIV/AIDS, one cannot help think that the saviour is inadvertently the poisoner, whether understood from a mainstream or Rethinking […]

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Skeptiko interview with Henry Bauer

Alex Tsakiris of Skeptiko interviews Dr. Henry Bauer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry & Science and author of Dogmatism in Science and Medicine, about scientific research and its dogmatic assertions. Excerpts of the interview can be found here as well as the full 65mins of audio.

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New mainstream opinion article approaches the dissident border

Trends in Molecular Medicine has published an open access opinion article by Jay A. Levy that demonstrates some open-mindedness in dealing with AIDS, read here. What’s interesting is that – on the assumption of HIV theory as true, for argument purposes – the article nods at trying to strengthen innate (non-adaptive) immunity as opposed to […]

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Commentary on summary of Penrose Inquiry report

7yrs after its initiation and with £12m spent, the Penrose Inquiry completed its findings into infection by blood transfusion and blood products in Scotland between 1974-1991; 1991 being the cut-off period of risk because of installed procedures against infection. The result was an 1800 page report which was branded a “whitewash” by people affected because […]

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