Twenty-five years and hundreds of billions of dollars after the "discovery" of "the AIDS virus" by Luc Montagnier in the journal Science, AIDS researchers admit they have suffered "setbacks" and that "new ideas", "young talent", and "different eyes" are needed to address "some fundamental biological questions".
"'We still don't completely understand the various forms of the virus. It's more complicated for us than we thought,' said France's Luc Montagnier, who with Robert Gallo of the United States identified HIV as the cause of AIDS.
'We need to go back to the question of basic research, to have new ideas, new teams, to take a new look at cellular biology,' said Jean-Francois Delfraissy, director of France's National Agency for AIDS Research (ANRS)."
Hey, guys, how about these "new ideas" for just a start?:
1. BAN HIV TESTING. Without a gold standard, all available "HIV tests" are fraudulent:
"Primary infection was defined as a confirmed positive virologic test result with either a negative HIV antibody assay result or an indeterminate Western blot. Because there is no virologic gold standard, we assumed that levels of plasma HIV RNA had a sensitivity of 100% for diagnosing primary infection."
Daar ES et al. "Diagnosis of primary HIV-1 infection". Ann Intern Med. 2001 Jan 2;134(1):25-9.
"At present there is no recognized standard for establishing the presence and absence of HIV-1 antibody in human blood."
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 HIVAB HIV-1 EIA. Abbott Laboratories. 1997 Jan.
"The evaluation of the sensitivity and specificity of PCR for the diagnosis of HIV infection in infants is particularly difficult because there is no reference or ‘gold standard’ test that determines unequivocally the true infection status of the patient..."
Owens DK et al. "A Meta-analytic Evaluation of the Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Diagnosis of HIV Infection in Infants". JAMA. 1996 May 1;275(17):1342-1348.
"Whenever possible, studies of the performance of a diagnostic test should use reference tests that unequivocally establish the true state of disease or health... The lack of an appropriate reference test substantially complicates evaluation..."
Owens DK et al., "Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Diagnosis of HIV Infection in Adults: A Meta-Analysis with Recommendations for Clinical Practice and Study Design", Annals of Internal Medicine, 1 May 1996
2. FUND ALTERNATIVE NON-VIRAL HYPOTHESES.
"At a time when fresh ideas and new paths of investigation are so desperately being sought, how can the AIDS community afford not to fund Duesberg’s research?"
Horton, R, "Truth and Heresy About AIDS", New York Review of Books, Volume 43, Number 9, 23 May 1996
3. WHY STOP WITH UNAIDS? Shut down ALL AIDS organizations and agencies that aren't producing demonstrable results. (Oops... that would mean shutting down all of them, I guess!!)
"The joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, on which significant effort has been focused, is damaging health systems and distorting health financing, writes Roger England, Chairman of the Health Systems Network, in a View & Review feature released on May 9, 2008 in BMJ. As a result, he believes that UNAIDS should be closed down immediately... HIV globally accounts for 3.7% of mortality. However, 25% of health aid and a large proportion of domestic expenditure is allocated for HIV interventions. England points out that the global catastrophe once predicted with the AIDS epidemic has not occurred, and in comparison draws attention to the fact that global HIV deaths do not overtake the number of deaths of children under five years old in India. He claims that its recognition through a division of the UN, the disease has become more than just an ailment to prevent and cure. "With its own UN agency, HIV has been treated like an economic sector rather than a disease."
"Expert Claims UNAIDS Should Be Shut Down", Medical News Today, 10 May 2008.
So, why aren't these "new ideas" being implemented? Silly me, I forgot:
"New ideas, young talent and injections of money are needed to invigorate the war against AIDS, top experts said here Monday at a review of medical progress since the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was discovered 25 years ago."
Huzzah and Hoorah! Barnesville is back! With a vengeance!
Want some new ideas, Aids 'experts'?
We've been kicking your sorry butts with new ideas for years and years, and decades and decades. Find some spit-polished and Sunday-dressed above. And USE 'EM, for a change, why doncha!
Posted by: Liam S | May 27, 2008 at 04:18 PM