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Candidate HIV vaccine boosts antibodies against gut microbes

[T]he vaccine stimulated antibodies that recognized HIV as well as microbes commonly found in the intestinal tract, part of the body’s microbiome. …but these antibodies did not neutralize HIV. If the antibodies created recognise the material expected to appear in intestinal dysbiosis, how do you know that those antibodies are actually for that and not ‘HIV’? […]

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Hear no evidence, see no evidence, speak no evidence

The Guardian has an interesting recent article which, as ever, can be viewed from the lens of Rethinking. Here’s some quotes to consider: …While a Missouri judge found Johnson guilty, the court actually never produced any evidence that he had any intent on exposing the his partner(s) to HIV, nor could they prove that the […]

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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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HIV linked with deprivation

Reuters reports on a new study which connects acquisition of a HIV-positive status with societal issues. Unfortunately, the virus hypothesis is not divorced. In unrelated news, a video has recently appeared online in which Dr Peter Gotzsche of the Nordic Cochrane Centre (Cochrane produces detailed reports on all the literature available on a subject) condemns […]

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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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