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February 15 - February 17, 2022
“It doesn’t make any sense to deprive those people of the choice of whether or not they want to take a chance on a drug that has proven to be effective, as long as it doesn’t interfere with clinical trials.
His fifty years at NIH are resounding proof of Dr. Fauci’s unerring survival skills.
When those promising results began emerging, Dr. Fauci and his PIs cancelled the trial, making sure that AL 721 never went to Phase 2.
“Scientists who . . . made their entire careers in AZT . . . sat on committees voting on potential commercial competitors.
In 1987, Dr. Fauci’s team declared the human study a success and terminated it after four months of a proposed six-month study—a record-setting speed
Historically, agencies didn’t announce the results of clinical trials until the data were peer-reviewed and published so that journalists—and the scientific community—could read the study and reach their own conclusion about what the science said.
“science by press release”
The science was what the regulators declared it to be.
And then, as now, some people simply couldn’t conceive that Anthony Fauci would lie or exaggerate.
The FDA approval meant the taxpayers would subsidize AZT’s costs.
NIAID just as quickly lost its brief interest in patient care or in testing repurposed new drugs against the opportunistic infections that killed people with AIDS.
There was only one problem: Dr. Fauci’s entire clinical trial for AZT had been an elaborate fraud.
“Neither one of them could explain the tables in the reports that they themselves had allegedly written.”
the “double-blind, placebo-controlled” trials had become unblinded almost immediately, which alone rendered them invalid.
FDA’s knowing use of false data constituted fraud.
As it turned out, the Boston Principal Investigators (PIs) cheated on almost every patient.
Pharma PIs know that their careers and paychecks depend on their ability to consistently produce study outcomes that will win FDA approval for the subject drug. Such perverse incentives naturally drive research bias, confirmation bias, data tampering, strategic laziness, and deliberate falsification and cheating.
Researchers began by placing the sickest patients in the placebo group.
Even in that innocent era, the United States mainstream media heavily censored journalistic criticism of Dr. Fauci and the corruption in the AZT studies.
AZT is the most toxic drug ever approved for long-term use.
The sycophantic GMA team, characteristically, accepted Dr. Fauci’s statement as gospel. Almost all of Dr. Fauci’s claims in that broadcast were lies.
By 1991, Dr. Fauci had effectively abandoned testing low-profit repurposed drugs in the parallel track CRI program.
ddI accounted for 16 percent of prescriptions for infected mothers and 30 percent of the cancers in their children.
These drugs generated billions of dollars in revenue for drugmakers: in 2000, global revenue from AIDS remedies was $4 billion; by 2004, it jumped to $6.6 billion. In 2010, AIDS drugs cracked the $9 billion mark130 for pharmaceutical giants and topped $30 billion in 2020.
“It’s a Beast system, and Fauci created it. It’s not ‘capitalism,’ at all. It detests merit, standards, and all the values of Western Civilization. It uses the violence of the ‘woke’ economy to re-cast lies as truth, and to proudly crush and block any and all dissenting voices. It does this always in the name of ‘saving lives.’
“What has evolved into the HIV-AIDS industry is supported by a knowledge monopoly, comprised of federal government bureaucratic authorities led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, who hands out billions of dollars in research grants, who collude with crony capitalists from international pharmaceutical cartels, who distribute billions to AIDS advocacy non-profits, and whose official stories are communicated to the public by a science-illiterate mass media.
“Dissent was effectively shut down in mass-mediated public discourse,” Michaels observes. “And it was scrubbed from peer reviewed science and medical journals, which reap significant revenue from drug company advertisements for anti-retroviral drugs.
By repeatedly using these formulas for fifty years, Fauci directed his agency away from its core responsibility—basic research on infectious, allergic, and autoimmune diseases that have become epidemic since he took over NIAID—and transformed his agency into a profit-making appendage for itself and for Big Pharma.
It is a hazard to both democracy and public health when a kind of religious faith in authoritative pronouncements supplants disciplined observation, rigorous proofs, and reproducible results as the source of “truth” in the medical field.
While consensus may be an admirable political objective, it is the enemy of science and truth. The term “settled science” is an oxymoron. The admonishment that we should “trust the experts” is a trope of authoritarianism. Science is disruptive, irreverent, dynamic, rebellious, and democratic.
An obsequious national media had consecrated the orthodoxy and anointed Anthony Fauci with an infallibility formerly reserved for popes.
It’s axiomatic that American democracy thrives on the free flow of information and abhors censorship, so Dr. Fauci’s extraordinary capacity to ruthlessly silence, censor, ridicule, defund, and ruin prominent dissidents seems more congruent with the Spanish Inquisition or with Soviet and other totalitarian systems.
I restate that I take no side in this dispute. It seems undeniable to me that the dissidents have raised legitimate queries that should be researched, debated, and explored.
entrenched powers remove men’s tongues not to prevent them from telling lies, but to stop them from speaking the truth.
most Americans associate with politics, not science: cutthroat ambition, backstabbing duplicity, and moral bankruptcy.
Gallo’s “proof” that the cause of AIDS was a virus—as opposed to toxic exposures—provided the critical foundation stone of Dr. Fauci’s career. This claim allowed Dr. Fauci to capture the AIDS program and its attendant cash flows from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and launch the project of building NIAID into the world’s leading drug-production empire.
theory that had not been subject to peer review.
Only later did the public learn that NIH allowed Gallo to delay the announcement until he had personally patented an antibody kit that he claimed capable of detecting HIV. He had developed the test at taxpayer expense.
A subsequent lawsuit over Gallo’s swindle by the French government ultimately forced Gallo to disgorge half his proceeds.
“Science by Press Release”
Dr. Fauci never funded to completion a single grant to explore whether HIV actually caused AIDS.
scientists seeking to research ideas that departed from official doctrine encountered impenetrable obstacles.
So any of the diseases, when they happen to somebody who tested HIV-negative, are called by their old name; but when they occur in someone who tested HIV-positive, then they’re called AIDS.”
The growth of the AIDS pandemic was predictably explosive.
This loose diagnostic system and the gravy train of financial incentives for finding AIDS everywhere guaranteed riches for institutions and individuals who signed on to Dr. Fauci’s gold rush.
forecast widespread depopulation of the African continent. None of the shrilly predicted depopulation has ever occurred, and most HIV-infected Africans showed no sign of illness.
WHO’s enthusiasm for this loose, all-encompassing definition may reflect the early revelation that the AIDS plague loosened purse strings like no other crisis on Africa’s beleaguered landscapes.
The statistical picture of AIDS in Africa, consequently, is a sketchy projection based on very rough computer-generated estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO), built on a highly questionable data pool, dubious assumptions, and grotesque exaggeration.
No one has ever explained how a disease largely confined to male homosexuals in the West is a female heterosexual disease in Africa.
Africans were rarely tested with expensive PCR tests, so every unexplained death became ‘AIDS.’”
