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Gary Null: These are all outstanding experts who believe the war on aids is being mismanaged. Part 1

Gary Null: These are all outstanding experts who believe the war on aids is being mismanaged. Part 1

POLITICK-ING, GALLO

“The first casualty of the ‘war on AIDS’ was the integrity of science. The exact moment of the crime can be pinpointed: it was the April, 1984 press conference where the then [US] Health Secretary Margaret Heckler declared that government scientist Robert C. Gallo had discovered the viral cause of AIDS. Heckler hailed the discovery as ‘yet another miracle for American medicine and science’ and a ‘victory over a dreaded disease.’ If smoke and mirror tricks are miracles, then miracle it was…Neither Gallo nor the [Pasteur] Institute proved that the virus was pathogenic. Indeed, they did not even isolate it, as the Pasteur Institute later admitted. But the spin-doctors at the National Institutes of Health had organized

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English: The Red ribbon is a symbol for solidarity with HIV-positive people and those living with AIDS. Français : Le Ruban rouge, symbole de la solidarité avec les personnes séro-positives. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

leading journals to endorse Secretary Heckler’s ‘miracle’ with the seal of Science. From that moment, all AIDS research and policy were based on a speculation converted to dogma by bureaucratic power…. This initial public execution of scientific integrity unleashed a propaganda machine that expands Heckler’s initial obvious whopper (‘victory over a dreaded disease’) into a never-ending sickness saga that extorts money and grinds millions into the muck of bad medicine… Be informed. Withdraw your consent from the most malignant fraud ever perpetrated in the name of medicine. Be aware that the primary truth in the ‘AIDS war’ is that powerful agencies have declared war on YOU and your loved ones, regardless of your HIV status. Be aware that ‘AIDS science’ is 90% mindless repetition and 10% deeply inconsistent findings of no clinical value.”

Dr. Hiram Caton, PhD, Ethicist, Head of the School of Applied Ethics atGriffithUniversity,Brisbane,Australia

 

“In 1990 at the San Francisco AIDS conference, [HIV co-discoverer Luc] Montagnier announced that HIV did not, after all, kill T-cells and could not be the cause of AIDS. Within hours of making this announcement, he was attacked by the very industry he’d helped to create…..  The HIV hypothesis of AIDS is the biggest scientific, medical blunder of the 20th Century. The evidence is overwhelming that AIDS is not contagious, sexually transmitted, or caused by HIV. The physicians who know or suspect the truth are embarrassed or afraid to admit that the HIV tests are absurd and should be outlawed, and that the anti-HIV drugs are injuring and killing people.”

“As a scientist who has studied AIDS for 16 years, I have determined that AIDS has little to do with science and is not even primarily a medical issue. AIDS is a sociological phenomenon held together by fear, creating a kind of medical McCarthyism that has transgressed and collapsed all the rules of science, and has imposed a brew of belief and pseudoscience on a vulnerable public.”

Dr. David Rasnick, PhD, Biochemist, Protease Inhibitor Developer,University ofCalifornia

 

“AIDS is a government-defined disease. The CDC and government-funded investigators accept as fact the supposition that ‘HIV causes AIDS and is sexually transmitted.’ This is not to be questioned. But this HIV-AIDS model does not jibe with the true facts of the matter. Only 1 in 1000 unprotected sexual contacts transmits HIV, and only 1 in 275UScitizens has antibodies to this virus. Consequently, the average uninfected person would need to have 275,000 random unprotected sexual contacts to acquire sexually transmitted HIV.”

Dr. Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD (Harvard, 1965), BMS (Dartmouth, 1963), Professor of Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine. Author of The Practice of Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (1977), co-author of Atlas of Cardiac Surgery (1983, Japanese version 1985), author of Heart in Hand (1999).

 

“The greatest threat to life in the United States and the rest of the world is not the thirty diseases called “AIDS,” it is the $25 billion ‘AIDS’ industry composed of government, academic, medical, and industrial interests in the United States…. “I have concluded that ‘AIDS’ is a scientifically dishonest construct, and, as exemplified in the death of my friend Arthur Ashe, the lies that we have been told make it all the more deadly.”

— Tony Brown, MSW, Journalist, Founding Dean of the School of Communications at Howard University; Coordinator of the historic ‘Walk To Freedom’ March with Martin Luther King, Jr.; Producer and host of Tony Brown’s Journal on PBS; Advisor to the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations; Author, Black Lies, White Lies

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The Pain, Profit, and Politics of AIDs

The Pain, Profit and Politics of AIDS[image error]

 

HIV Twenty-Eight Years Later: What is the Truth?

 

 

Gary Null, PhD

December 3, 2012

 

In the May 4, 1984 issue of the prestigious journal Science, one of the most important research papers of the last quarter century was published. “Frequent Detection and Isolation of Cytopathic Retroviruses (HTLV-III) from Patients with AIDS and at Risk for AIDS” would rapidly become the medical Magna Carta for the entire gold rush to develop diagnostic methods to identify the presence of HIV in human blood and to invent pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines in a global war againstAIDS.

 

This paper, along with three others published in the same issue of Science, was written by Dr. Robert Gallo, then head of the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology (LTCB) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) inBethesda,Maryland, and his lead researcher Dr. Mikulas Popovic. To this day, this article continues to document the most cited research to prove the HIV hypothesis in scientific papers and places like the nation’s Centers of Disease Control (CDC) website.

 

For virologists, molecular biologists and other infectious disease researchers, particularly those tied to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries and the national medical and health institutions, the news of Gallo’s discovery was manna rained down from heaven. All research into other possible causes for the AIDS crisis ended abruptly. As soon as the winds shifted away from earlier efforts to find the cause of AIDS —people’s lifestyles, immune suppressing illicit drug use and other health risks and illnesses that adversely affect the body’s immune system — to that of a single new virus, the case was closed. Constructive scientific discourse and debate between those who quickly adopted the new HIV belief and this view’s opponents, whose numbers in the scientific community continue to grow, would never occur again.

 

Twenty-eight years later, US federal funding for cornering the elusive virus has reached $27.7 billion. This is a far cry from the $100 million awarded HIV research in 1984. Yet surprisingly, there remain very few conclusive results showing any significant progress has been made to isolate and understand HIV let alone to guarantee any relation it might have to AIDS. Rather, a review of the scientific literature and epidemiology suggests a prediction may slowly be unfolding. Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel laureate and inventor of Polyermase Chain Reaction (PCR), a critical technology for studying genetic code fragments, has stated, “Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find  those who excommunicated Galileo.”

 

Many medical scientists throughout the world have scrutinized the HIV hypothesis objectively and have come to the conclusion that there are many unanswered questions about how one retrovirus can cause by itself all 30 AIDS related conditions. The theory’s continued wide acceptance may be simply due to sloppy science and wishful thinking that staying the course will lead scientists in the right direction and will corroborate Gallo’s hypothesis eventually. That has yet to happen yet.

 

However, what if the hypothesis is not just based on bad science but is in fact something more insidious? What if there is truth behind the words of Dr. Bernard Forscher, former editor of the US Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, who claims the HIV hypothesis “is a hoax that became a scam”?

 

In late August 2008, the investigative work by award-winning British journalist and filmmaker Janine Roberts was brought to my attention. Her book, Fear of the Invisible: How Scared Should We Be Of Viruses and Vaccines, HIV and AIDS? (Impact, 2008) has generated a stir in the HIV/AIDS research community, but has yet to reach the greater public. Ms. Roberts spent over a decade on several continents exploring the history of HIV science and interviewing those prominent scientists who have challenged its conclusions. But most important Roberts carefully reviewed the original draft research article, with Dr. Gallo’s handwritten changes—some that were clearly erroneous—and  comments that would eventually become the famous announcement to the world that a retrovirus has been discovered and isolated and is the cause of AIDS.  Although John Crewdson procured a copy of the document through the Freedom of Information Act and reproduced it in his book Science Fictions: A Scientific Mystery, a Massive Cover-Up and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo (Little and Brown, 2003), connecting the dots proving that Gallo never at any time detected and isolated a retrovirus in the samples tested, which would have been absolutely essential for associating it with any disease. This stunning revelation was missed until Roberts put the paper under closer scrutiny.  The only conclusion that I can draw from Roberts’ meticulous evaluation of this manuscript is that Gallo’s research and conclusions were distorted.

 

We are fortunate to have this scribbled up manuscript rather than it having been shredded before or during later Congressional investigations charging Dr. Gallo with scientific misconduct during the early 1990s. Gallo’s lead researcher and the lead author of the paper, Dr. Popovic, had the foresight to protect his own scientific integrity for having reported their laboratory’s research accurately. Being cautious, Popovic sent a copy of the original draft with Gallo’s handwritten changes to his sister living inAustriafor safekeeping. In the event of any future legal investigation, Popovic could retrieve the document. In fact that occasion did arise during the course of the Office of Scientific Integrity’s (OSI) investigation into Gallo’s research at the LTCB.

 

If in fact the experiments in Gallo’s laboratory at the NCI utterly failed to detect and isolate a retrovirus for AIDS, the implications are enormous. If the starting equation is utterly false then everything that follows is fundamentally useless.  Dr. Gallo, nevertheless, continues to be one of world’s most respected leaders in the HIV/AIDS global community, lecturing to the most prestigious scientific and international assemblies to continue the “war on AIDS”, and inspiring countless young and seasoned scientists to continue this pursuit based on his initial hypothesis. If the entire HIV equals AIDS paradigm is founded on faulty science, then Dr. Gallo’s studies and most of those following in its footsteps contribute to the largest and most costly errors in medical science. It would have resulted in countless numbers of people being falsely diagnosed with HIV and subsequently administered some of the most dangerous drugs ever invented.

 

While I had always known serious questions have been raised against Dr. Gallo’s scientific methodology, his publications and public pronouncements, and frequent condemnations against his detractors, seeing for the first time actual evidence showing that he altered the research in order to claim he “isolated” an AIDS causing retrovirus just days prior to submitting his paper to Science compelled me to report it to the media. Four years ago, I hosted a press conference over my radio broadcast on NPR in New York City to engage Janine Roberts and another invited guest, Prof. Andrew Maniotis, a professor of Cell Biology at theUniversity ofIllinois atChicago, on a thorough exploration of Roberts new findings.

 

Janine Roberts recreated the events leading to the development of the infamous Science paper. During the period that Popovic was composing a draft of the paper, Dr. Gallo was away in Europe “to boast that they had already discovered the AIDS virus,” Roberts writes, before the research was completed. He had also arranged for his discovery to be published in Science. Therefore, to preserve his scientific reputation—he had already failed in other pursuits to prove retroviruses (HTLV-1 and HTLV-2) were the cause of a rare forms of human T-cell leukemia—it was essential for Gallo to live up to his monumental declarations to the world’s awaiting scientific community.  As events unfolded, he would not disappoint them.

 

A brief review of the most critical changes and comments made by Gallo in Popovic’s draft prove that his laboratory never discovered an AIDS-causing retrovirus is necessary. Gallo has already been accused and reprimanded for concealing his use of the Institut Pasteur’s sample as the basis for his discovery. In fact, Gallo’s handwritten changes are what tipped off OSI investigators about his intentions to hide his use of the French samples in his experiments.

 

When Gallo returned to the USand read Popovic’s studies’ results and conclusions, he must have been shocked. His comment in a margin, “This abstract is rather trivial for a putative breakthrough paper in Science,” sets the tone for his concerted rewriting of the research claims and conclusions.

 

Popovic’s original title was “Rescue and Continuous Production of Human T-Cell Lympotropic Retrovirus (HTLV-III) from Patients with AIDS.”  Gallo’s new handwritten title would be “Detection, Isolation and Continuous Production of Cytopathic Retroviruses (HTLV-III) from Patients with AIDS and Pre-AIDS.”  “Continuous production” simply refers to successfully growing the virus in a culture, which was really the experiments’ only accomplishment. In the actual Science article, “continuous production” was also dropped from the title.

 

Identifying the retrovirus as “cytopathic,” meaning the retrovirus is responsible for the degeneration and death of cells, in particular killer T-cells, was necessary in order to make the claim that HTLV-III was the cause of AIDS.  (Later the American HTLV-III and the French LAV viruses would be given the common name Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus or HIV during the litigation settlement between the two research teams over who discovered the retrovirus first.)  However, as Roberts observes there is nowhere in the paper “experiments to prove their virus killed T-cells.”  Aside from the prevailing assumption that HIV is a cytopathogen, a retrovirus has never been shown conclusively to kill T-cells nor has any retrovirus ever been shown to be a causal agent for disease in humans.  This has been the unwavering view of one of the world’s leading retrovirus experts, Dr. Peter Duesberg at theUniversityofCaliforniaatBerkeley. After many years of laboratory research, Duesberg  concludes, “I’m not afraid that HIV exists, because I think retroviruses are not much to be afraid of…. HIV is just a latent, and perfectly harmless, retrovirus.”

 

During the 1970s, Gallo searched in earnest to find a retrovirus (HTLV) as the causal agent of a rare form of human T-cell leukemia without success. To this day, researchers continue to hunt in the dark to discover just how HIV destroys T-cells.  According to Roberts, “Gallo was on a rescue mission. He was trying to rescue his hypothesis that retroviruses were major causes of human diseases. He had failed to prove they were a major cause of cancer. He now wanted to prove they caused AIDS.”

 

Later in the paper, Popovic had typed “Despite intensive research efforts, the causative agent of AIDS has not yet been identified.”  Gallo crossed out this sentence. Prior to Roberts’ review no one had drawn attention to this sentence’s replacement line in the final Science article: “that a retrovirus of the HTLV family might be an etiological agent of AIDS was suggested by the findings”.  In addition, Popovic wrote that it was only an “assumption” that a type of HTLV was the cause of AIDS. Gallo changed this word to “hypothesis,” thereby elevating the scientific magnitude of the paper from mundane to momentous.

 

Janine Roberts reviews the primary experimental methods and interpretations in the Gallo/Popovich manuscript to show the faulty logic the investigators relied upon to arrive at their conclusion they had detected a retrovirus causing AIDS. For example, the research depended upon measuring the activity of an enzyme called Reverse Transcriptase (RT) in the cultures under investigation. According to Roberts’ research, Gallo believed RT was “a weapon used by an invading retrovirus to attack our DNA.” Before 1984 it was known that RT is found in every living cell, including the debris from destroyed cells and in all retroviruses. Moreover, as Roberts notes, Popovic added chemicals to the cell cultures to provoke RT activity.  Despite this, measuring RT activity was one of the primary reasons for the researchers to conclude they detected a retrovirus. But now we know that “RT is a vital enzyme that has shaped our DNA over millions of  years of evolution.”

 

Finally, Roberts brings attention to the interpretation of the electron microscope photos of Gallo’s retrovirus published in Science. Four days before Gallo was to submit his article, he received a letter from Dr. Matthew Gonda, Head of the Electron Microscope Laboratory at the NCI, giving his professional assessment of the images. Dr. Gonda wrote, “I would like to point out that the ‘particles’… are in debris of degenerated cells… I do not believe any of the particles photographed are HTLV I, II or III…. No other extracellular ‘virus like’ particles were observed.”  Disregarding Dr. Gonda’s interpretation of the images, the photos were nevertheless submitted for publication.

 

In preparation for the broadcasted press conference, I emailed Dr. Etienne de Harven in Paris, Professor Emeritus from the University of Toronto, one of the world’s foremost authorities on electron microscopy and a leading medical scientist. In response to my question whether there was any time during his long outstanding career in medicine when he had ever observed an HIV retrovirus from an electron microscope, he replied, “I never observed one single particle of retrovirus in any of the thousands of samples of human leukemic, cancerous and AIDS related samples I studied under the electron microscope between 1956 and 1993 (the time of my retirement).”

 

Earlier in 2008, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, wrote an essay “Twenty-Five Years of HIV” in Nature. The title is an indirect reference to the prevailing assumption that Dr. Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute inBethesda,Maryland, and Dr. Luc Montagnier atFrance’s Institut Pasteur simultaneously discovered HIV, as the cause for several autoimmune disease symptoms that were grouped under the umbrella term AIDS.

 

During a recent interview conducted by the International AIDS and Vaccine Initiative, commemorating a quarter century of HIV research, Dr. Fauci stated, “There are some unique characteristics of HIV that relate directly to our inability, at this point, to develop a vaccine. The most important is that we do not know what a protective immune response would be because, astoundingly, there isn’t a single documented case of anybody who has developed an established HIV infection and then spontaneously eradicated the virus.” Fauci did not mention the much more astounding fact that during the past 28 years of  HIV research, where is a single HIV retrovirus isolated from an AIDS patient? If in fact this has been accomplished, then the retrovirus could be photographed under an electron microscope.  Where are these photographs taken directly from the blood of an AIDS patients? Opinions abound for how and why HIV acts like a disease-causing phantom in the body and scientists continue to hunt for a retrovirus. However, any scientist who stops, questions and suggests the entire HIV hypothesis might be nothing more than a quest for ghosts are categorically denounced by the prevailing scientific HIV/AIDS community.

 

For Dr. Fauci to state that no one who has developed HIV infection and then had the retrovirus eradicated misses the main point. Instead, it should be asked, has anyone with full blown AIDS had their health condition restored? The answer is yes.  And repeatedly so.  But all such success stories of reversing AIDS have been accomplished without recourse to antiretroviral drugs. Fauci also omitted to note that despite the implication that HIV inexorably leads to AIDS and death, even mainstream researchers have an acronym, Long-Term Non-Progressor (LTNP), to describe people who live for many years without adverse health consequences from HIV and without taking AIDS drugs.

 

Today, we are witnessing a surge of funding throughout the AIDS research community, heavily backed by the NIH and CDC, pharmaceutical investors and lobbyists, and opinion leaders like Bill Gates and Bill Clinton, to develop a vaccine against HIV. If such a vaccine were ruled effective by the FDA, theoretically, the next step would be widespread mandatory vaccination across the nation. We might even require possession of  government issued cards as proof of vaccination. This is not an entirely illusory scenario. At this moment there are politically and financially motivated efforts to push Glaxo’s Human Papillonoma Virus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, on state legislatures to make it mandatory for young girls before entering high school. Many serious questions have been raised concerning Gardasil’s safety by the FDA. In the meantime, thousands of young girls and women have  suffered serious adverse effects, including paralysis, lost of consciousness, and at least 110 reported deaths, after receiving the vaccine. The vaccine has only been shown to generate antibodies, not reduce the risk of cancer.

 

According to Dr. Andrew Maniotis, approximately sixty HIV vaccine trials have been executed so far. Each has failed dismally. The most notorious of these trials was the AIDSVax vaccine conducted by GenVax President, Dr. Donald Francis, inThailand. Ever since Dr. Gallo’s pseudo-discovery, Francis has pursued the development of an HIV vaccine with the missionary zeal of a necon warrior. HisThailandtrials resulted in increasing the HIV positivity among those who received the vaccine compared to the placebo group. Nevertheless, after many years of immense funding and nothing important to offer, Dr. Francis and his biotech firm were generously rewarded $877 million to develop an anthrax vaccine for the military.

 

The views and research of the many medical researchers who find serious flaws in the science to support the HIV hypothesis can be summarized easily. There is no diagnostic test with the specificity to singly target HIV. There is no antiretroviral drug that doesn’t also seriously compromise the human immune system and further threaten individuals with other life-threatening illnesses. And there is scant research proving that HIV is readily sexually transmitted.  Nor is there proof that people who become HIV-positive but have none of the commonly associated health risk factors (such as drug or blood product use) are more likely to get sick than the average healthy person. This does not add up to much of an achievement for the HIV/AIDS advocates who preach the faith of Dr. Gallo and his close colleagues’ faith.

 

What will come as a surprise to many readers is that in 1993 the CDC redefined the criteria for diagnosing a person with AIDS. No longer does a person have to show symptoms of illness; instead, a CD4 count of less than 200 is sufficient  for being diagnosed with AIDS, even if a person feels perfectly healthy.  This systematically increased the number of AIDS patients dramatically across the nation as well as increasing the numbers of the “infected” heterosexual population in the national health agencies’ statistics. The science to support such predictions is as magical as any medieval exorcist employed by the Inquisition to prove the existence of a demon. To just give one sample, excessive exercise will lower CD4 count. I have trained thousands of people to compete in the New York City Marathon over several decades. On one occasion, I had almost 100 people in my training groups—each lived a healthy vegetarian lifestyle and was drug free—have their blood drawn prior to a  marathon and again had it drawn upon completion. In all cases, their CD4 count was around 200 or below compared to normal counts before the race.

 

Today, the walls between the opposing sides of the HIV argument continue to climb. Those who deny HIV causes AIDS are often viciously attacked with the words worthy of the most ardent demagogue from a pulpit.  HIV “denialists” or “dissidents,” as they are frequently called, have been compared to pro-fascists who deny the Holocaust ever occurred.  For Dr. de Harven, “Dominated by the media, by pressure groups and by the interests of pharmaceutical companies, the AIDS establishment lost contact with open-minded, peer-reviewed science since the unproven HIV/AIDS hypothesis received 100% of the research funds while all other hypotheses were ignored. How many efforts, how many billions of research dollars have gone up in smoke?”

 

An excellent example of the breakdown in scientific discourse that is now the norm for HIV/AIDS scientific debate took place between the zealous HIV/AIDS advocate Professor John Moore at Cornell University, and The Perth Group, an international group of scientists located at the Royal Perth Hospital in Australia, who have consistently challenged the HIV hypothesis for many years with their own research. As reported by Roberts, thePerthscientists were simply citing academic evidence disproving the dominant belief in the cause of AIDS. Prof. Moore’s curse response was simply, “I despise you and your fellow AIDS denialists, and I regard your level of  ‘scientific analysis’ as pitiful and laughable.”

 

It goes to show that a blind faith in a particular dogma of medical science can display many of the same signs found in the worst of cultic behavior. In its intellectual stagnation, AIDS science has retreated to a threatened embattlement, fighting by any means its opponents who might bring down its towering edifices of a hypothesis built on quicksand.

 

I have heard so many times from people within the orthodox AIDS community that any challenge whatsoever is tantamount to AIDS denialism, and yet hundreds of articles in the peer-reviewed scientific literature show that there are inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and out-and-out falsehoods being perpetrated within that orthodox community. What follows is but a random sample of recent AIDS research showing how they have been wrong on the important issues and continue to defend grossly flawed positions. Also included are a list of over 2,700 notable physicians, scientists and health freedom advocates who have raised doubts over the official HIV/AIDS paradigm. To my mind, the mainstream stance on this issue does not represent science or help those afflicted but rather defends the merits of a grossly misguided medical ideology.

 

 

AIDS Since 1984:  No Evidence For A New, Viral Epidemic – Not Even In Africa

 

Likewise the CDC reports a steady 1 to 1.5 million of HIV-positive Americans since 1985 (see pages 186 and 191 above, and Duesberg et al. 2003). Since immigration of HIV-positives is banned, this indicates that the mortality of average American HIV-positives is close to normal. Furthermore, a study of the US Army reported recently that about 5% HIV-positive soldiers (Renzullo et al., 2001) “through an experiment of nature” developed no AIDS for up to 20 HIV-antibody-positive years without anti-HIV treatments.

 

But since the Army’s study did not investigate the use of recreational drugs, although the majority of American AIDS patients have used recreational and anti-viral drugs (Duesberg et al., 2003, see also Introduction), it is possible that the AIDS-free HIV-positives were those who had used neither recreational nor anti-viral drugs.  …Thus the CDC, the WHO and the US Army provide evidence that supports our demographic evidence that HIV is a passenger virus.

 

The predicted epidemiological pattern of mortality associated with the putative new AIDS virus never showed up in South Africa or anywhere else in Africa between 2000 and 2005. On the contrary, the African population doubled during the HIV-AIDS era, despite high prevalence of HIV.  Our findings that there is no evidence for a new fatal HIV-AIDS epidemic in Africa have thus resolved the paradox that HIV would cause a general AIDS epidemic in Africa, but not in the rest of the world – namely by the absence of said epidemic.

 

 

Source:  AIDS Since 1984: No Evidence For a New, Viral Epidemic–Not Even In Africa.Ital J Anat Embryol. 2011 ;116(2):73-92.

 

 

 

On the Risk of Contracting Aids at the Dissection Table

 

Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic it was postulated that health care workers were at at risk of being exposed to HIV and developing AIDS and, consequently, HIV serophobia became widespread among health care professionals including those working in mortuaries. …. However, occupational exposure to HIV is uncommon, and the overall risk of seroconversion after contact with HIV positive blood is extremely low.

 

It is calculated that, on average, 99.7% of health care workers, who are exposed to HIV will not be infected.

 

 

Source: On the risk of contracting AIDS at the dissection table. Ital J Anat Embryol. 2009 Apr Sep ;114(2-3):97-108.

 

 

 

Mis-Steps in Science and the Epidemiology of HIV and of AIDS

 

When the army started HIV testing of recruits in 1985, they found that from all across the country, teenage girls tested positive just as often as teenage boys. But AIDS first appeared in a few big cities among gay men. What supposedly caused it, HIV, was supposed to have come into the US in the late 1970s. It couldn’t have spread across the country like that within a few years so that girls would be as often infected as boys. Anyway, if it had spread like that, then there ought to have been AIDS cases among teenage girls, and there weren’t.  That same peculiarity among teenagers has been seen ever since then, in every social group. I couldn’t understand what was going on, so I looked at all the published data from HIV tests in the United States, and kept finding more signs that HIV tests don’t detect something that’s infectious.
For instance, the estimated number of infected Americans has remained at about the same level while the total number of AIDS cases has kept increasing.
HIV and AIDS also affect black and white Americans quite differently. Again the relative incidence of AIDS has changed steadily and dramatically, while for HIV there’s no sign of any trend. AND the geographic distribution of HIV has been the same for decades, and the same in all social groups
So: in groups as varied as new mothers, military recruits, disadvantaged youth in the Job Corps, blood donors, and overall at testing places, the distribution over the US is about the same and has stayed that way for 20 years or more. No infectious disease stays distributed in so much the same way in every social group and over a period of twenty years.

 

Source:   Bauer, Henry H.  “Mis-Steps in Science and the  Epidemiology of HIV and of AIDS” Powerpoint Presentation, Virginia Tech University. 2012

 

 

Human Endogenous Retroviruses and AIDS Research: Confusion, Consensus, or Science?

 

AIDS epidemiological data have been further confused by several consecutive changes in the official definition of the syndrome, and have failed to support the current HIV=AIDS dogma.
The hypothesis of an exogenous retrovirus “HIV” causing AIDS appears unsupportable by the scientific evidence concerning molecular markers, EM findings, ARV drugs, and epidemiology. However, two intriguing findings deserve further attention: the identification of genomic retroviral sequences in AIDS patients’ blood (“viral load”) and the EM demonstration of retroviruses in cord blood lymphocytes. Simply concluding that “HIV does not exist” is not sufficient unless alternative, satisfactory explanations for these two observations are found.


As emphasized years ago by Papadopulos, Lanka, and others, there is no scientifically verifiable evidence to confirm the existence of a hypothetical exogenous HIV. However, stating simply that “HIV does not exist” is an incomplete statement that fails to explain the complexity of HIV/AIDS research. To that statement, one should always add that HERVs have heavily interfered with HIV/AIDS research in a way that cannot be ignored. Adequate understanding of HERVs as confounding factors opens the way to a better, more objective analysis of AIDS research. Finally, the question as to whether HIV exists, or of whether researchers have been studying a harmless passenger virus, is a question that should be subject to open debate and careful consideration of scientific evidence or lack thereof. Alternative explanations for findings should be decided by the scientific evidence, not by consensus. The advancement of our understanding of AIDS demands nothing less.

 

Source: de Harven, Etienne. Human Endogenous Retroviruses and AIDS Research: Confusion, Consensus, or Science? Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Fall 2010; 15 (3)

 

 

Identification of Differentially Expressed Proteins in the Cervical Mucosa of HIV-1-Resistant Sex Workers (Evidence that prostitutes are not a risk group for HIV)

 

A subset of 140 women out of a total of over 2000 participants from the Pumwani Sex Worker cohort have been identified to be relatively resistant to HIV-1 infection. Previously described resistance mechanisms, such as delta-32-CCR5 polymorphisms, have been discounted in this population as their cells are readily infected in vitro and this genotype has not been detected in this group

 

Source: Burgener A et al. Identification of Differentially Expressed Proteins in the Cervical Mucosa of HIV-1-Resistant Sex Workers. J Proteome Res. 2008 Aug 16.

 

 

 

Gary Null, Ph.D. is host of the nation’s longest running radio program on nutrition and alternative medicine, a NY Times bestselling author, and a documentary filmmaker.  His 2007 award-winning documentary AIDS Inc interviews Nobel laureates, medical academics, AIDS scientists and activists speaking out against the current evidence to conclude that HIV causes AIDS.

 

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Jiaogulan: An Ancient Asian Vine for Health and Longevity

Jiaogulan (Gynostemma pentaphyllum) is a potent herbaceous vine and a member of the cucumber family that grows wild throughout China and other Asian countries. Similar in chemical composition and function to ginseng, only more powerful, jiaogulan has been the subject of a number of medical health research studies that have found this herb to be an effective adaptogen and antioxidant. Sometimes referred to as the “Immortality Herb” or “Miracle Grass,” jiaogulan is now recognized as much more than a “folk remedy,” because of its ability to promote longevity, improve heart health, control weight and reduce stress and fatigue.

Ancient, historical records dating back to the Ming Dynasty point to jiaogulan as a trusted herb used for a wide variety of ailments. Modern American research supports the ancient texts and notes that jiaogulan is one of the top ten most effective anti-aging herbs in the world.

Reduce Free Radicals and Fight Cancer with Jiaogulan

Jiaoglania is full of rich antioxidants that gather up damaging free radicals roaming throughout the body. This reduces mutations in DNA that lead to cancer tumor development. Saponins, a type of phytochemical found in the herb reacts with cholesterol rich membranes around rogue cells to limit the growth of cancer. In addition, a Chinese study of cancer patients who had depleted white blood cells due to radiation therapy demonstrated, with 94% effectiveness, that jiaogulan doubled blood cells counts in as little as five days.

Living Long and Healthy Lives

In a remote area of China known as Guizhou, many people live to be one hundred. Scientists conducting research on these extremely healthy centurions and have discovered that they all have one thing in common; they drink jiaogulan tea. This sweet tasting tea is seemingly responsible for low rates of Alzheimer’s, cancer, high blood pressure and diabetes. Researchers attribute the long and healthy lives to the plethora of antioxidants and saponins found in the potent jiaogulan plant.

Restore Balance

Over 100 saponins are found in jiaogulan, making it an extremely powerful adaptogen capable of restoring balance within the body. A body that is in balance is far healthier than body that is out of balance. Overweight individuals will lose weight while underweight individuals will gain weight in order to bring balance to the body. Jiaogulan also regulates blood pressure and cholesterol and energizes or calms an out of order nervous system.

Because much of the jiaogulan from Southeast Asia is tainted with heavy metals it is always best to choose organic sources of this sweet health- giving herb.

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Top Healing Foods That Stop Ovarian Cancer in its Tracks

Ovarian cancer is one of the most deadly diseases out there. It is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among U.S. women — an astounding 14,000 out of 23,000 diagnosed each year, die. Ovarian cancer tends to be aggressive and generally has very few symptoms until it reaches an advanced stage.

Fortunately, several natural remedies have proven to be exceptionally useful in both preventing and curing this silent killer. Ginger, ginkgo biloba, green tea and flaxseed are all remarkably effective at destroying ovarian cancer cells and tumors — hindering proliferation and increasing survival rates dramatically.

Diet is extremely influential in preventing as well as healing ovarian cancer. Beyond consuming an abundant variety of fresh produce and limiting dairy, meat and sugar, certain foods specifically target ovarian cancer cells — demonstrating extraordinary success in defeating this life-threatening disease.

Ginger

Ginger root is an outstanding food for annihilating ovarian cancer cells. When researchers dissolved ginger powder in a solution containing ovarian cancer cultures, the mutant cells died. Ginger destroys ovarian cancer cells in two ways. First by a process of cellular self-destruction called apoptosis then by autophagy where the cells digest themselves. Scientists at the University of Michigan found that ginger caused the same rate of apoptosis as common chemotherapy drugs yet without any side effects. Ginger root also controls inflammation which is a precursor to ovarian cancer.

Ginkgo biloba

Research has shown that the herb ginkgo biloba significantly lowers the risk of developing ovarian cancer. More than 600 women with ovarian cancer and 640 healthy control subjects were studied. The participants had a history of using either ginkgo, echinacea, St. John’s wort, ginseng or chondroitin. Only those who took ginkgo supplements had lower rates of ovarian cancer – an impressive 60 percent decrease in risk.

Green tea

Drinking a mere two cups per day of green tea can slash the risk of ovarian cancer by half. Researchers followed 61,057 women, ranging in age from 40 to 76, over the course of 15 years. For those who drank one cup of green tea daily, the risk of ovarian cancer was reduced by 24 percent while two or more cups lowered the risk by 46 percent. And for women who consumed the beverage consistently for over 30 years, ovarian cancer rates dropped by 75 percent. Scientists believe the high level of antioxidants found in green tea are responsible for the results. Not only do these powerful phytonutrients help prevent andrepair DNA damage but they also hinder the growth and spread of cancer cells by increasing apoptosis.

Flaxseed

A case-control study discovered that U.S. women who had the highest intake of plant lignans also had the lowest rates of ovarian cancer. Lignans found in flaxseed are considered phytoestrogens. These compounds ‘plug’ into estrogen receptors, blocking stronger forms of the hormone which aggravate ovarian cancer. Flaxseed lignans also act as an antioxidant. In a surprising investigation involving flax fed chickens, researchers at the University of Illinois found that ovarian cancer was significantly reduced in hens that consumed the seed. According to professor Janice Bahr, “In hens fed flaxseed, we found that more tumors were confined to the ovary and they had less metastatic spread. This is an important finding as the metastases that accompany late-stage ovarian cancer are the main cause of death from the disease.”

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“Green tea consumption enhances survival of epithelial ovarian cancer” Zhang M, Lee AH, Binns CW, Xie X, School of Public Health, Curtin University of Technology, Australia, Pub Med, November 10, 2010. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15382073

“Green tea fights ovarian cancer” David Liu, PhD, Food Consumer, May 9, 2012.foodconsumer.org

“Ovarian cancer vitamins, supplements, herbs and natural treatment” Ray Sahelian, MD.raysahelian.com/ovariancancer

“Natural Cures for Ovarian Cancer” Thomas King. ehow.com/about_5480292_natural-cures-ovarian-cancer

“Green tea intake may reduce the risk of gynecologic cancers” Jonathan Benson, Natural News, May 8, 2012. naturalnews.com

“Gallons of benefits in just two cups of tea” Karen Collins, RD, NBC News. msnbc.msn.com

“LIgnans” Linus Pauling Institute. oregonstate.edu/infocenter/phytochemicals/lignans

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http://wakeup-world.com/2012/12/01/top-healing-foods-that-stop-ovarian-cancer-in-its-tracks/

More Bad News for Doha, World: Global Warming Could Easily Reach 5C

Greenhouse Gas emissions such as carbon dioxide (CO2) are rising annually by three percent, a pace that could bring the world up to a five degrees Celsius (9.0 degrees Fahrenheit) increase by 2100, and reek catastrophic destruction on the earth as we know it, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change by the Global Carbon Project consortium on Sunday.

Currently, leaders at the international climate conference COP18 in Doha, Qatar are struggle to agree on ways to limit the world to a 2C (3.6F) maximum rise in global temperatures, with very little progress one week into negotiations as talks balance on the edge of self-destruction.

"We are on track for the highest emissions projections, which point to a rise in temperature of between 4C (7.2F) and 6C (10.8F) by the end of the century," said Corinne le Quere, a carbon specialist at the University of East Anglia, eastern England.

The study is based on national carbon dioxide (CO2) data estimates for 2011 and 2012 which saw a rise in CO2 emissions globally by a 3.1 percent annual average -- a rate that the is sure to quickly exacerbate climate change induced extreme weather events and food shortages.

Last year, all the world's nations combined put nearly 38.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the air through burning fossil fuels such as coal and oil. This total amounts to more than 2.4 million pounds of carbon dioxide released into the air every second.

Glen Peters at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo, Norway told the Associated Press that the only way to to start reducing world emissions now is to "throw everything we have at the problem."

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/02-2

 

Gary Null: Letter To Dr. OZ

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Dear Dr. Oz,

 

You may remember when I invited you to appear in a PBS special, Get Healthy Now, along with other medical panelists, in 1999. We have not spoken since, however, my audience and I are very concerned about the inflammatory comments that you made in a recent issue of TIME Magazine. In effect, you stated that there is no basic difference between non-organic, genetically modified produce and organic varieties and that people are wasting their money buying organic foods. You also suggest that individuals who purchase organic foods are taking part in a “snooty” form of “elitism” and that in effect, it’s the “99%” just trying to act like the “1%”.

 

This was unexpected as a person with your reputation and resources could easily have found the several hundred to several thousand peer-reviewed articles highlighting the dangers of consuming pesticides, fungicides, herbicides and genetically engineered foods, especially to those people most vulnerable to chemical toxicity or environmentally-induced illnesses, such as children. Also, you could have examined the 40 years of scientific and lay literature on the plight of farm workers who experienced the highest incidence of birth defects and other adverse health consequences as a result of working with toxins in the soil as well as the hundreds of studies confirming the damaging effects of modern commercial meat, poultry and fish production on our health the environment. Additionally, you could have carried out a review of the water and soil conservation literature that shows how the enormous quantities of excess nitrogen released during the production of our commercial, factory farmed foods have contributed to massive fish die-offs and dead zones, the largest of which is at the mouth of the Mississippi river and is larger than the state of New Jersey. And finally, you may want to have a conversation with your wife, who recently used our studios at the Progressive Radio Network along with Jeffrey Smith, the leading critic of GMO foods in the US, to narrate a documentary challenging genetic engineering. Certainly your wife, a dedicated, conscientious and highly educated consumer activist, would be a great resource for you.

 

My hope is that this information will motivate you to have your staff do their due diligence, research the facts and realize that you are supporting the “1%”- Monsanto, your television network and their sponsors- and that may be a position in need of reevaluation. I will remain optimistic that you will be thoughtful enough to set aside your ego and any special interests that have propagandized you, and that you will seek the truth, speak out and write a rebuttal. I look forward to your communication.

 

Sincerely,

Gary Null

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Studies Showing the Health Benefits of Organic Versus Conventional with Summary:

 

Three-year Italian study shows organic peaches and pears have more polyphenols and vitamin C than conventional alternatives

 

J. Agric. Food Chem., 2002, 50 (19), pp 5458–5462

DOI: 10.1021/jf0202584

 

Organic crops have higher phenolic content compared to non-organic crops

Brandt K and Molgaard JP (2001), 'Organic Agriculture: Does it enhance or reduce the nutritional value of food plants', Journal of Science in Food and Agriculture, 81, p. 924 - 931

 

UK’s Soil Association finds that organic produce generally contains higher amounts of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients than conventional produce

 

Soil Association (2001) Organic Farming, food quality and human health: a review of the evidence.

 

Independent analysis determines organic foods contain significantly greater amounts of vitamin C, magnesium, iron and phosphorus compared to conventional foods

 

Worthington V (2001) Nutritional quality of organic versus conventional fruits, vegetables, and grains. The Journal of Complimentary Medicine, vol. 7, No. 2, p. 161 - 173.

 

Organic oranges offer more vitamin C than conventional oranges

 

American Chemical Society (2002, June 3). Research At Great Lakes Meeting Shows More Vitamin C In Organic Oranges Than Conventional Oranges. ScienceDaily. Retrieved September 7, 2012, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­ /releases/2002/06/020603071017.htm

 

Organic soups found to have an average of 600% more  of the anti-inflammatory compound salicylic acid than non-organic soups

 

Baxter, GJ, Et Al. "Salicylic Acid in Soups Prepared from Organically and Non-organically Grown Vegetables." European Journal of Nutrition 40.6 (2001): 289-92.Pubmed.gov. Web. .

 

 

Research demonstrates organic tomatoes have higher antioxidant content than those that were sprayed with pesticides

 

Anna Vallverdú-Queralt, Olga Jáuregui, Alexander Medina-Remón, Rosa Maria Lamuela-Raventós. Evaluation of a Method To Characterize the Phenolic Profile of Organic and Conventional Tomatoes. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2012; 60 (13): 3373 DOI: 10.1021/jf204702f

 

Study of organic and non-organic strawberry crops finds that organic strawberries have greater concentrations of antioxidants and vitamins and also survived longer without rotting.

 

Reganold JP, Andrews PK, Reeve JR, Carpenter-Boggs L, Schadt CW, et al. (2010) Fruit and Soil Quality of Organic and Conventional Strawberry Agroecosystems. PLoS ONE 5(9): e12346. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012346

 

 

Blueberries produced by organic farming practices displayed significantly higher levels of antioxidants when compared to conventionally-grown varieties

 

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol. 56, pages 5,788-5794 (2008), published online on July 1, 2008.

 

Four-year Study from Europe discovers organically-grown vegetables, fruits, and milk show greater antioxidant activity and healthy fatty acid content.

 

"Organic Food Is More Nutritious Say EU Researchers." Medical News Today. MediLexicon International, 29 Oct. 2007. Web. 10 Sept. 2012. .

 

 

Organic lemonade contains 10 times as much of the antioxidant eriocitrin than lemonade made with conventional fruit.

 

 

Biopharmaceutics & Drug Disposition, Vol. 29, pp. 63-82, September 2007.

 

 

52% more vitamin C in organic corn than conventional corn and higher antioxidant content in organic marionberries compared to the conventional kind.

 

Danny K. Asami, Yun-Jeong Hong, Diane M. Barrett, and Alyson E. Mitchell

J. Agric. Food Chem., 2003, 51 (5), pp 1237–1241

 

 

Organic foods contain higher levels of certain nutrients, lower levels of pesticides, and may provide health benefits for the consumer

 

Crinnion, WJ. "Organic Foods Contain Higher Levels of Certain Nutrients, Lower Levels of Pesticides, and May Provide Health Benefits for the Consumer." Alternative Medicine Review 15.1 (2010): 4-12. Pubmed.gov. Web. 10 Sept. 2012. .

 

 

Swedish Study shows that extracts from organically grown strawberries are more effective combating cancer growth than extracts from conventional strawberries.

 

Olsson, Marie E., C. Staffan Andersson, Stina Oredsson, Rakel H. Berglund, and Karl-Erik Gustavsson. "Antioxidant Levels and Inhibition of Cancer Cell Proliferation in Vitro by Extracts from Organically and Conventionally Cultivated Strawberries." Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 54.4 (2006): 1248-255. Pubmed.gov. Web. 10 Sept. 2012. .

 

Study shows ascorbic acid and phenolic activity higher in organic broccoli than non-organic broccoli

 

Zapata, PJ, Et Al. "Quality Parameters and Antioxidant Properties in Organic and Conventionally Grown Broccoli after Pre-storage Hot Water Treatment." J Sci Food Agric (2012): n. pag. Pubmed.gov. 30 Aug. 2012. Web. .

 

Mineral content greater in organic produce compared to non-organic produce

 

Journal of Applied Nutrition  1993; 45:35-39.

 

 

Studies Showing the Health Risks of Pesticides with Summary:

 

The connection between pesticides and childhood cancers

 

Daniels JL, Olshan AF, Savitz DA 1997. Pesticides and childhood cancers. Environ Health Perspect 105:1068-1077. http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.971051068

 

Adler T 2007. Keep the Sprays Away?: Home Pesticides Linked to Childhood Cancers. Environ Health Perspect 115:A594-A594. http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.115-a594a

 

Sandler DP, Ross JA. Epidemiology of acute leukemia in children and adults. Seminars in Oncology 1997; 24:3-16.

 

"Environmental Health Perspectives"; Household pesticides and risk of pediatric brain tumors.; Pogoda, Preston-Martin 1997; 105:1214-20.

 

Prenatal exposure to the pesticide impairs neurodevelopment, cognition and motor skills in children

 

Barrett JR 2007. Pesticides: Toxic Legacy. Environ Health Perspect 115:A190-A190. http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.115-a190b

 

 

Lower IQ in elementary school students whose mothers were exposed to higher amounts of pesticides during pregnancy

 

Rauh V, Arunajadai S, Horton M, Perera F, Hoepner L, Barr DB, et al. 2011. Seven-Year Neurodevelopmental Scores and Prenatal Exposure to Chlorpyrifos, a Common Agricultural Pesticide. Environ Health Perspect 119:1196-1201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1003160

 

Bouchard MF, Chevrier J, Harley KG, Kogut K, Vedar M, Calderon N, et al. 2011. Prenatal Exposure to Organophosphate Pesticides and IQ in 7-Year-Old Children. Environ Health Perspect 119:1189-1195. http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1003185

 

Engel SM, Wetmur J, Chen J, Zhu C, Barr DB, Canfield RL, et al. 2011. Prenatal Exposure to Organophosphates, Paraoxonase 1, and Cognitive Development in Childhood. Environ Health Perspect 119:1182-1188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1003183

 

Research links autism and pesticide exposure in utero

 

Shelton JF, Hertz-Picciotto I, Pessah IN, 2012 Tipping the Balance of Autism Risk: Potential Mechanisms Linking Pesticides and Autism.Environ Health Perspect 120(7): doi:10.1289/ehp.1104553

 

McGovern V 2007. Autism and Agricultural Pesticides: Integrating Data to Track Trends. Environ Health Perspect 115:A504-A504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.115-a504a

 

 

Long-term exposure to low levels of pesticides result in cognitive impairments in adults

 

Baldi I, Filleul L, Mohammed-Brahim B, Fabrigoule C, Dartigues J-F, et al. 2001 Neuropsychologic Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Pesticides: Results from the French Phytoner Study. Environ Health Perspect 109(8): doi:10.1289/ehp.01109839

 

 

Examining the connection between Parkinson’s Disease and chemical pesticides

 

Twombly R 2004. Pesticides and Parkinson Disease. Environ Health Perspect 112:a548-a548. http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.112-a548b

 

Brown TP, Rumsby PC, Capleton AC, Rushton L, Levy LS, 2005 Pesticides and Parkinson’s Disease—Is There a Link?. Environ Health Perspect 114(2): doi:10.1289/ehp.8095

 

 

Studies associating pesticide exposure with increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease

 

Parrón, T., et al. 2011. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. Epub ahead of print

 

Hayden KM, et al. 2010. Neurology, May 11;74(19):1524-30

 

Tyas SL, et al. Int J Epidemiol. 2001 Jun;30(3):598-9]

 

 

Adults exposed to pesticide oxychlordane twice as likely to develop type 2 diabetes

 

Airaksinen, R., P. Rantakokko, J. G. Eriksson, P. Blomstedt, E. Kajantie, and H. Kiviranta. "Association Between Type 2 Diabetes and Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants." Diabetes Care 34.9 (2011): 1972-979. Print.

 

Pesticide applicators up to 200% more likely to suffer from diabetes

 

Montgomery MP, Kamel F, Saldana TM, Alavanja MCR, Sandler DP. Incident diabetes and pesticide exposure among licensed pesticide applicators: Agricultural Health Study 1993 – 2003, Amer J Epidemiol, 2008;167:1235-46.

 

 

 

 

Studies Showing the Dangers of Consuming Genetically Modified Organisms(GMOs)

 

 

Review of 19 studies in which mammals were fed GM foods shows a consistent trend of kidney and liver damage.

 

Séralini GE, Mesnage R, Clair E, Gress S, de Vendômois JS, Cellier D. Genetically modified crops safety

assessments: Present limits and possible improvements. Environmental Sciences Europe. 2011; 23(10).

 

Rabbits on a diet of GM soy found to have abnormal enzyme function in the kidneys and heart.

Tudisco R, Lombardi P, Bovera F, et al. Genetically modified soya bean in rabbit feeding: Detection of DNA fragments and evaluation of metabolic effects by enzymatic analysis. Animal Science. 2006; 82: 193–199.

 

Consumption of GM tomatoes causes stomach lesions in rats

Dona A, Arvanitoyannis IS. Health risks of genetically modified foods. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2009; 49(2): 164–175

 

Mice fed a diet of GM peas found to be more susceptible to allergic reactions

Prescott VE, Campbell PM, Moore A, et al. Transgenic expression of bean alpha-amylase inhibitor in peas results in altered structure and immunogenicity. J Agric Food Chem. 16 Nov 2005; 53(23): 9023–9030.

 

A GM corn diet corresponds with digestive disorders in sheep and cellular alterations in the pancreas and liver in lambs.

 

Trabalza-Marinucci M, Brandi G, Rondini C, et al. A three-year longitudinal study on the effects of a diet containing genetically modified Bt176 maize on the health status and performance of sheep. Livestock Science. 2008; 113(2): 178–190.

 

Diet of GM soy increases aging of the liver in mice.

Malatesta M, et al. A long-term study on female mice fed on a genetically modified soybean: effects on liver ageing. Histochem Cell Biol. 2008; 130: 967–977.

 

GM corn causes a disruption to immune cells and biochemistry in mice

Finamore A, Roselli M, Britti S, et al. Intestinal and peripheral immune response to MON810 maize ingestion in weaning and old mice. J Agric Food Chem. Dec 10 2008; 56: 11533–11539

 

Rats that consumed GM potatoes display organ toxicity and changes related to the development of cancer.

Pusztai A, Bardocz S. GMO in animal nutrition: Potential benefits and risks. In: Mosenthin R, Zentek J, Zebrowska T, eds. Biology of Nutrition in Growing Animals. Vol 4: Elsevier Limited; 2006:513–540.

 

Ewen SW, Pusztai A. Effect of diets containing genetically modified potatoes expressing Galanthus nivalis lectin on rat small intestine. Lancet. Oct 16 1999; 354(9187): 1353-1354

 

 

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EU Food Safety Agency: Please Stop Performing GMO Research

After it came out that Monsanto’s genetically modified maize crop was linked to tumors and organ damage in rats, the EU food safety agency immediately went up in arms in an attempt to find a chink in the armor of the scientific research – as expected. After all, WikiLeaks has revealed that Monsanto literally has enough political pull to have major United States politicians threaten ‘military-style’ trade wars against nations that reject GMOs.

One thing that went truly above and beyond the call of political corruption, however, is the agency’s call to stop studying GMOs as they are perfectly ‘safe’ and ‘require no study’. A call that obviously states ‘please stop questioning GMOs and revealing their true effects to the world’.

Stop Questioning GMOs or It Will Hurt Monsanto

After all, the study that linked GMO consumption to premature death in both male and female rats thanks to tumor development and organ failure garnered the most attention of any study performed on GMOs in the past. It generated massive awareness. The kind of awareness that profit-driven biotech corporations like Monsanto simply do not like.

The kind of awareness that could affect bottom line profits.

And it’s doing just that. More and more consumers have begun taking an interest in regards to what they are putting into the mouths of their families. Over 95% of people in the US are in favor of GMO labeling on average, and Non-GMO Verified products are quickly becoming the norm when it comes to baseline natural and organic products.

The EU food safety agency knows this, and they are desperate to perform damage control and reassure citizens that GMO ingredients like aspartame and high-fructose corn syrup are perfectly safe. After all, the leaked documents via WikiLeaks reveal that any agency that dares to speak out against GMOs should be hit with a “a target retaliation” that “causes pain” towards the region.

In other words, crossing the USA’s crusade to spread GMOs across the land will end with serious consequences.

http://www.nationofchange.org/eu-food-safety-agency-please-stop-performing-gmo-research-1354376211

Canadian Researchers Discover New Evidence That Vitamin D Shuts Down Cancer Cells

Researchers at McGill University have discovered a molecular basis for the cancerpreventive effects of vitamin D, whereby its active form essentially shuts down cancer cells.

People with higher blood levels of vitamin D live significantly longer than people who have low blood levels of the vitamin.

The team, led by McGill professors John White and David Goltzman, of the Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Physiology, discovered that the active form of vitamin D acts by several mechanisms to inhibit both the production and function of the protein cMYC. cMYC drives cell division and is active at elevated levels in more than half of all cancers. Their results are published in the latest edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

For the past several years, there has been considerable interest in the role vitamin D plays in improving health and preventing disease. Previous finding show that low levels of vitamin D have been directly associated with various forms of cancer and cardiovascular disease. Stephen B. Kritchevsky, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine and Transitional Science at the Wake Forest School of Medicine found a signficant correlation.

“We observed vitamin D insufficiency (defined as blood levels

Although vitamin D can be obtained from limited dietary sources and directly from exposure to the sun during the spring and summer months, the combination of poor dietary intake and sun avoidance has created vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency in large proportions of many populations worldwide. It is known that vitamin D has a wide range of physiological effects and that correlations exist between insufficient amounts of vitamin D and an increased incidence of a number of cancer. These correlations are particularly strong for cancers of the digestive tract, including colon cancer, and certain forms of leukemia.

“For years, my lab has been dedicated to studying the molecular mechanisms of vitamin D in human cancer cells, particularly its role in stopping their proliferation,” said Prof. White. “We discovered that vitamin D controls both the rate of production and the degradation of cMYC. More importantly, we found that vitamin D strongly stimulates the production of a natural antagonist of cMYC called MXD1, essentially shutting down cMYC function”.

The team also applied vitamin D to the skin of mice and observed a drop in the level of cMYC and found evidence of a decrease in its function. Moreover, other mice, which lacked the specific receptor for vitamin D, were found to have strongly elevated levels of cMYC in a number of tissues including skin and the lining of the colon. The finding suggests that topical vitamin D may be just as effective as ingested to prevent cancer.

Chemoprevention Through Vitamin D Without The Side Effects

“Taken together, our results show that vitamin D puts the brakes on cMYC function, suggesting that it may slow the progression of cells from premalignant to malignant states and keep their proliferation in check. We hope that our research will encourage people to maintain adequate vitamin D supplementation and will stimulate the development of large, well-controlled cancer chemoprevention trials to test the effects of adequate supplementation,” said Dr. White.

It’s been known that vitamin D can prevent that genetic damage. When vitamin D binds to specific receptors, it sets off a chain of events by which many toxic agents including cancer cells are rendered harmless. However, if there is not enough vitamin D the system can become overwhelmed and cancer can develop. “This is one of the reasons that people living closest to the equator have a much lower incidence (or absence) of specific cancers which consequently increase in locations further from the equator.”

The link between vitamin D intake and protection from cancer dates from the 1940s when Frank Apperly demonstrated a link between latitude and deaths from cancer, and suggested that sunlightgave “a relative cancer immunity”.

Both D3 and D2 precursors are hydroxylated in the liver and kidneys to form 25- hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), the non-active ‘storage’ form, and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25(OH)2D), the biologically active form that is tightly controlled by the body.

There is growing evidence that 1,25(OH)2D has anticancer effects, but the discovery that non-kidney cells can also hydroxylate 25(OH)D had profound implications, implying that higher 25(OH)D levels could protect against cancer in the local sites.

Theories linking vitamin D deficiency to certain cancers have been tested and confirmed in more than 200 epidemiological studies, and understanding of its physiological basis stems from more than 2,500 laboratory studies, according to epidemiologist Cedric Garland, DrPH, professor of family and preventive medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. “This is the number one chemopreventive substance on the planet and its natural without side effects.”

Dr. Garland’s findings only lend further credence to the mountain of growing evidence that optimal levels of vitamin D are essential for your health. Here are just a few highlights into some of the most noteworthy findings:

* Some 600,000 cases of breast and colorectal cancers could be prevented each year if vitamin D levels among populations worldwide were increased, according to previous research by Dr. Garland and colleagues. And that’s just counting the death toll for two types of cancer.

* Optimizing your vitamin D levels could help you to prevent at least 16 different types of cancer including pancreatic, lung, ovarian, prostate, and skin cancers.

* A large-scale, randomized, placebo-controlled study on vitamin D and cancer showed that vitamin D can cut overall cancer risk by as much as 60 percent! This was such groundbreaking news that the Canadian Cancer Society has actually begun endorsing the vitamin as a cancer-prevention therapy.

* Light-skinned women who had high amounts of long-term sun exposure had half the risk of developing advanced breast cancer (cancer that spreads beyond your breast) as women with lower amounts of regular sun exposure, according to a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

* A study by Dr. William Grant, Ph.D., internationally recognized research scientist and vitamin D expert, found that about 30 percent of cancer deaths — which amounts to 2 million worldwide and 200,000 in the United States — could be prevented each year with higher levels of vitamin D.

Inflammation is likely at the root of many cases of vitamin D deficiency, and all chronic degenerative diseases.

Stay Away From Sunscreen

Skin color adapts to sunlight intensities which produce vitamin D or ultraviolet light damage to folic acid. Researchers at the University of Leeds suggest that people with very pale skin may be unable to spend enough time in the sun to make the amount of vitamin D the body needs — while also avoiding sunburn. The key is to stay away from conventional subscreen and use non-toxic alternatives to extend exposure time.

The further you live from the equator, the longer exposure you need to the sun in order to generate vitamin D. Canada, the UK and most U.S. states are far from the equator and the logic of using sunscreen is quickly becoming illogical even in scientific circles.

Unlike fads that sizzled and fizzled, the evidence for Vitamin D’s health benefits is now strong and keeps growing. If it bears out, it will challenge one of medicine’s most fundamental beliefs: that people need to coat themselves with sunscreen whenever they’re in the sun. Doing that may actually contribute to far more cancer deaths than it prevents, some researchers think.

The vitamin is D, nicknamed the “sunshine vitamin” because the skin makes it from ultraviolet rays. Sunscreen blocks its production, but dermatologists and health agencies have long preached that such lotions are needed to prevent skin cancer. Now some scientists are questioning that advice. The reason is that vitamin D increasingly seems important for preventing and even treating many types of cancer.

Comprehensive scientific reviews indicate that 83% of 785 sunscreen products offer inadequate protection from the sun, or contain ingredients with significant safety concerns. Only 17% of the products on the market are both safe and effective, blocking both UVA and UVB radiation, remaining stable in sunlight, and containing few if any ingredients with significant known or suspected health hazards. The assessment is based on a review of nearly 400 scientific studies, industry models of sunscreen efficacy, and toxicity and regulatory information housed in nearly 60 government, academic, and industry databases.


Many products lack UVA protection. Fully 12% of high SPF sunscreens (SPF of at least 30) protect only from sunburn (UVB radiation), and do not contain ingredients known to protect from UVA radiation, the sun rays linked to skin damage and aging, immune system problems, and potentially skin cancer. FDA does not require that sunscreens guard against UVA radiation.


Sunscreens break down in the sun. Parodoxically, many sunscreen ingredients break down in the sun, in a matter of minutes or hours, and then let UV radiation through to the skin. Our analyses show that 54% of products on the market contain ingredients that may be unstable alone or in combination, raising questions about whether these products last as long as the label says. FDA has not proposed requirements for sunscreen stability.

San Onofre nuclear plant may have been sabotaged

Officials at the San Onofre nuclear power plant in California are investigating why they found coolant mixed with oil in their safety equipment. Investigators are now trying to determine if the incident was an act of sabotage by an employee.The Southern California Edison’s San Onofre nuclear power plant has often fallen under scrutiny for creating dangerous conditions that some have worried could result in California’s Fukushima. The plant was shut down over radioactive leaks in January, but has since drafted a reopening plan without undergoing a safety hearing.

While the coolant was found on Oct. 30 before it caused any damage, the incident comes at a critical time for the company: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) officials are set to meet with Southern California Edison representatives Friday night to discuss the limited restarting of the plant.

In order to restart, inspectors would have to deem the plant safe enough to operate. But the presence of the coolant may give some NRC officials second thoughts.

The coolant was found on equipment that helps run an emergency diesel generator. San Onofre’s diesel generator was temporarily taken offline for maintenance, but if the coolant had remained when the generators were activated, the equipment that controls the generators speed would have failed.

 

In Fukushima, Japan, it was the failure of emergency generators that were partially the cause of the plant’s failure in 2011. At San Onofre, the backup generator would be needed to help keep the reactor cool if power was lost at the site.

Since the discovery of the potentially harmful coolant, security investigations have become much more rigorous. An employee at San Onofre told the Huffington Post that the FBI will soon take over the investigation and that there may be criminal charges involved.

“The comprehensive investigation has included rigorous tests, a review of station logs and employee interviews to determine the cause of the presence of the residual engine coolant,” said representatives of Southern California Edison (SCE).

The unit in which the coolant was found has since been de-fueled due to the security issues, angering many of the SCE customers who donated a combined $167 million to pay for the new equipment that would restart the plant. The company already has a history of security flaws, and the new incident further harms its already-bruised reputation. SCE is also being forced to lay off more than 700 employees by the end of 2012. The plant’s inactivity has so far cost $300 million in losses.

An SCE employee told the Huffington Post that while the company’s employees are upset with the status quo, he finds it hard to believe that someone may have purposefully endangered peoples’ safety by tampering with the generator.

“While morale is as low as it has ever been and the environment is as chilled as it has ever been, no one I know could imagine doing such a thing,” he said. “First of all, the chances of getting caught are so high. But more importantly, what are you accomplishing? You’re only endangering yourself and your coworkers and the surrounding public.”

Still, the employee admitted that “people can do crazy things when they are under extreme stress.”

The San Onofre plant has caused more safety concerns than any other plant in the US. After radioactive leaks caused the plant to shut down in January, a number of other significant technical problems were uncovered over the following months. More than 3,400 steam generator tubes in the new steam generators were damaged, as well as another 3,400 in two other units – even though they were replaced in a $670 million overhaul in 2010. The plant has been a frequent target of environmental activists, who have protested against restarting it due to hazardous conditions they believe it could create.

“If you think of it as a big tent they took the tent pole out and stuffed more tubes in there, and then their modeling was all wrong and when they turned the things on they started doing a hula hoop dance,” said David Freeman, the senior advisor of Friends of the Earth.

http://rt.com/usa/news/san-onofre-nuclear-employee-009/

HPV vaccine link to infertility needs to be tested, says Miranda Devine

A north coast doctor has published a paper in the British Medical Journal warning that the premature menopause of a healthy 16-year-old girl may be linked to the Gardasil vaccination.

Dr Deirdre Little and her co-author, obstetrician Dr Harvey Ward from the University of NSW, are urging further testing of the Australian vaccine for the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer.

"Fertility is not a small matter. It should not be placed at risk by an absence of published research," said Dr Little.

When a 16-year-old patient came to her North Bellingen surgery in 2009 complaining of having lost her period and experiencing hot flushes, six months after being given three Gardasil vaccinations, Dr Little had doubts.

But further investigation raised real concerns of a link. The doctors warn there may be a group of young women who should not be given the vaccine, which has been administered to teenage girls across Australia since 2007. It is due to be given to boys from next year.

"It's important to be certain that fertility is protected at all costs, as premature menopause in a teenager is one of the most disastrous consequences," said Dr Ward.

"We need to be certain that a vaccine does not diminish egg-bearing capacity."

Premature menopause is rare in girls so young. But if there is a problem with the vaccine, Dr Little says it may go undetected because one third of teenage girls are on the pill, which prevents ovulation and masks the symptoms of ovarian failure. The doctors say further studies are needed.

Dr Little notified the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of a "possible adverse event following HPV vaccination". She says while there have been no other notifications of premature menopause, four cases of "scant periods" have been reported.

Dr Little is an advocate of vaccination, which she regards as a "gift to medicine", but is worried that Gardasil had been rushed into use without the "rigorous standards" applied to established vaccines.

Vaccine-maker CSL recorded a record profit this year because of higher than expected royalty payments from Gardasil as the vaccine spreads around the globe.

One case of premature menopause may not mean anything but the consequences for young women are so dire that further research is warranted.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/hpv-vaccine-link-to-infertility-needs-to-be-tested-says-miranda-devine/story-e6freuy9-1226528052334