Darin Brown Introduces The AIDS Wiki

This week, I would like to present a quick "tour" of the AIDS wiki.  Of course, the best way to learn  is just to start exploring by mouse-clicks, but this very brief introduction should help orient first-time visitors.

The content of the wiki is of two types -- articles and documents. Articles are written on specific subjects or topics and are "open source" (covered under GFDL, a free documentation license).  Documents are copyrighted material (articles, scientific papers, essays, and other documents) "posted in the manner of bulletin boards in schools and workplaces, to encourage public education and citizen awareness".  Each are categorized and hyperlinked, allowing for quick browsing of related
material.

The Main Page contains links to most of the most important information on the wiki.  Just below the introduction is a link to "Categories"  Here you will find information on the wiki organized by topic. .  Below the  Václav Havel quote, several boxes are arranged in two long columns. 

Let's start with the first column.  AIDS Wiki gives the wiki's mission statement and policies and guidelines (which, as this is a wiki, are not set in stone).  "Current events" lists current articles and events of interest.  "Hank's 'You Bet Your Life'" contains recent articles from  YBYL.  "Suggested reading" offers a good starting point for new readers.  Ten articles are arranged in an order to maximize the reader's understanding.  Also included are a remarkable satire by Jon Rappoport and three video documentaries.  Finally, the Community Portal provides links to a page with announcements, news, and petitions.

Moving to the second column, we start with a "Featured article(s)/document(s)" which changes periodically.  The next box is perhaps the most important.  It is entitled "Essential documents". It contains primarily links to scientific papers.  These papers and documents directly challenge the orthodox assumptions and are among the most damaging to the establishment.  Included are two rebuttals to documents frequently cited as support for the HIV/AIDS hypothesis (the NAIAD "fact sheet" and the Durban Declaration), papers questioning the antibody tests (ELISA testing in Africa compiled by Harvey Bialy, and the 1993 Western blot paper by Papadopulos-Eleopulos E. et al), Peter Duesberg's 1992 Pharmacology and Therapeutics paper with hyperlinks to most of the references, a collection of three papers by Henry Bauer proving that the results of HIV antibody tests are  incompatible with an infectious microbe, a commentary by Andrew Maniotis on mainstream denialist" thought, the seminal 1984 paper by Casper Schmidt addressing  the group-psychological aspects of AIDS, and the Serge Lang Memorial HIV/AIDS Archive.

The second column finishes with a link to a list of dissidents (currently numbering over 2,400) and a short list of some of the more prominent dissident websites.

Happy wiki-ing!

Next week ... The Real Deal Lo' Down on Viral Loads

Darin C. Brown received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2004. His dissertation was in algebraic number theory, although he tells us he also has "interests in Fuchsian groups, category theory, and point-set topology". (Fuchsian groups? Sounds exciting !) His "mathematical lineage traces to Stark and Chebyshev". Dr. Brown is also the wikimesiter at the AIDS Wiki, and recently became curator of the Memorial Serge Lang Archive, announced in the Oct. issue of The Notices of the American Mathematical Society