tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335816635571750572024-03-12T18:03:13.386-04:00Denying AIDS and other oddities“The whole dissident idea attracts a lot of crazies. And then all of a sudden, without realizing it, you've become one of them." Peter Duesberg, 2009Seth Kalichmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715826946361587097noreply@blogger.comBlogger181125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633581663557175057.post-5834099817040557552015-12-02T22:19:00.003-05:002015-12-02T22:27:54.461-05:00<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<a href="https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/hiv-dissidents-aids-deniers-mark-wilding-828?utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=viceuk&utm_medium=social"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Meeting the Men and Women Who Refuse to Believe That HIV Causes AIDS </span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Published
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">M<i><u><span style="color: #434343; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ark Wilding</span></u></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">On the
maternity ward of California's Kaiser Permanente hospital, John and Jessica
Strangis found themselves facing a terrible decision. It was the 1st of June,
2014, and the couple were expecting their first child. Jessica had begun
feeling contractions at around 4AM that morning, so John called an ambulance,
waiting for it to arrive before getting in his car to make the 20-minute drive
from their home to the hospital.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> Jessica
had gone into labour five weeks early, but there was another complication: John
and Jessica were both HIV positive. They knew the doctors would want to give
her drugs to prevent the virus being transmitted to their child, but this
presented a problem, because both John and Jessica believed those drugs would
kill her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">John and
Jessica Strangis were HIV denialists, part of a small community that, despite
the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, questions the link between HIV and
AIDS. The theories espoused by denialists vary, but typically come down to a
few key beliefs: that HIV does not exist or is benign, and that AIDS is
directly caused by recreational drug use or lifestyle choices and is not
sexually transmitted. As for the vast numbers of people who have died as a
result of the disease? It's the HIV treatment that has killed them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">John's
introduction to HIV denialism came in 2011, shortly after he received a
positive diagnosis. Like many, he stumbled across denialist ideas while
searching for information about his condition online. John decided to reject
treatment. A few months later, Jessica did the same. John became a vocal
spokesman for the movement, making YouTube videos about denialist ideas. When
the couple discovered they were expecting a baby, John discussed various
options with denialists online – anything that might allow Jessica to avoid
taking HIV drugs. Some suggested travelling abroad. Others recommended a home
birth. In the end, the baby's premature arrival meant they had no time to carry
out these plans.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> At the
maternity ward, John argued with one of the doctors. The hospital had carried
out a blood test and discovered that Jessica could be HIV positive. As a
precaution, they recommended using drugs to prevent any harm to the child. John
argued with the doctor for half an hour, but he was gradually worn down. The
couple became worried about what might happen if they refused. "It came to
the point where I'm like, 'If we decide against the treatment, are you going to
send someone at gunpoint to take my kid away?'" says John. "The
doctor said, 'Not me, but I don't know if someone else might.'"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">And so,
reluctantly, the couple accepted the drugs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The roots
of the denialist movement can be traced back to <u>a paper</u> published in <i>Cancer Research</i> in 1987, three
years after HIV was discovered to be the cause of AIDS. Authored by Peter
Duesberg, a biology professor at the University of Berkeley, the paper argued
that HIV was harmless and did not cause illness. Duesberg has expanded on this
theory in numerous papers in the years since, but his ideas have never gained
traction among the scientific community. Nevertheless, they are still used by
committed HIV sceptics to lend validity to arguments which occasionally breach
the boundaries of mainstream culture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> In 2000,
the Foo Fighters <u>played a benefit
gig</u> for an organisation that denied the link between HIV and AIDS.
In 2007, the president of Gambia <u>claimed</u>
he could cure HIV with herbs. But the most damaging impact of the HIV denialism
movement was seen in South Africa in the years between, when president Thabo
Mbeki refused to provide antiretroviral treatment to HIV patients. Harvard
researchers <u>have since concluded</u>
that the policy caused more than 330,000 premature deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> However,
even now, the arguments persist. In 2009, <i>The Spectator</i> organised a
screening of denialist documentary <i>House of Numbers</i>, only for it <a href="http://www.badscience.net/2009/10/this-is-what-the-spectator-sent-when-they-cancelled-their-aids-denialism-extravaganza/"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">to be cancelled</span></a>
after protests. In February of 2015, denialist campaigner Joan Shenton held a
screening of her film <i>Positive Hell</i> in London.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> Much like
climate change deniers, HIV denialists claim they represent one side of an
unresolved debate. But among the scientific community, there is no serious
doubt that HIV causes AIDS. Professor Brian Gazzard is chair of the Expert
Advisory Group on AIDS and of the St Stephen's AIDS Trust. He tells me:
"The consensus is totally overwhelming." After decades of arguing
against the existence of HIV, denialists have found only a small handful of
scientists prepared to lend credibility to their cause – most of them working
in fields unrelated to virology. As Gazzard says: "Brilliant people can
have bizarre ideas."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> In 2000,
the HIV crisis in South Africa prompted a letter to be published in <i>Nature</i>,
dubbed the <u>Durban Declaration</u>,
which declared unequivocally that HIV was the cause of AIDS. It was signed by
5,000 leading researchers in the field. To avoid accusations of bias,
scientists working for commercial companies were asked not to sign. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> The letter
described the evidence that HIV causes AIDS as "clear-cut, exhaustive and
unambiguous", adding: "HIV causes AIDS. It is unfortunate that a few
vocal people continue to deny the evidence. This position will cost countless
lives."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> Mike
Hersee is a UK-based denialist campaigner. In 2006 he founded Heal London, a
website "for people who have questions about their HIV positive diagnoses
and the whole HIV/AIDS paradigm". He tells me he has accompanied patients
to medical appointments on around 20 occasions, to "challenge the doctor
with a few things". These encounters do not always go smoothly. Hersee
recalls the first time: "The doctor, who was initially very keen, within a
couple of minutes was very agitated. Eventually when he backed himself into a
corner and said something stupid, he stood up and screamed, 'Look, he'll die in
a year if he doesn't take these drugs.' We were in shock because you don't
expect a doctor to do that."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> Hersee
acknowledges that his medical expertise is self-taught, "but self-taught
reading things like quite intense debates between medical specialists". At
first, his interest in HIV and AIDS was purely academic. But in 2000, he began
a relationship with a young man named Cornelius. Against Hersee's advice,
Cornelius took an HIV test and was diagnosed positive. Hersee tells me that
Cornelius was given drugs to treat his condition, but decided not to take them
after being shown documents which suggested they were dangerous. Hersee
continued having unprotected sex with Cornelius and sees his failure to develop
the condition as proof of denialist theory. Later in our conversation, I ask
Hersee what happened to Cornelius. "He died of heart failure when he was
23," he tells me. "But he had two faulty heart valves. His mother
told me he wasn't expected to live until he was 25."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> Early
deaths are sadly not uncommon in the denialist community. The website AIDSTruth
has a list of 25 denialist campaigners who have died. Many denialists, like
John and Jessica Strangis, are drawn to the movement just after being diagnosed
with HIV. As John puts it: "Especially if you're first diagnosed, it
sounds pretty good to look at some information that says this condition doesn't
exist."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Gus
Cairns is a journalist and AIDS activist who tells me: "All the denialists
I've known have been driven by a conviction that it's such an appalling thought
that it has to be denied and there has to be an escape somehow. Yet, of course
there is an escape, and the escape is treatment."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> But there
are also campaigners without the disease who have nevertheless dedicated their
lives to exposing what they believe is an HIV conspiracy. In 2009, psychology
professor and AIDS researcher Seth Kalichman published a book, <i>Denying AIDS</i>,
in which he explored the roots of the movement. When I ask him about the
denialists' motivation, he tells me: "My experience has not been that they
are lying or trying to intentionally deceive. The motivating factor for these
rogue scientists and journalists, the common thread, is conspiracy thinking
around science, the government, industry and, basically, the
establishment."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> This view
is confirmed by David Crowe, a Canadian journalist who, since 2008, has been
president of the denialist group Rethinking AIDS. "There's huge amounts of
money, and people's careers rely on this," he tells me. "If you started
doing AIDS research in the 1980s or early-90s, that's all you are. These people
have a lot of money and status and that would all go away."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> After our
conversation, it strikes me that the same could be said of the denialists.
Their reputations are irreversibly tied to their claims. How many people, once
diagnosed with HIV, will have been influenced by their arguments and stopped
taking their medication? With so much at stake, could you ever begin to
contemplate that you might be wrong?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> Five
months after the birth of her son, Jessica Strangis fell ill. The birth had
gone smoothly and the baby was doing well. The experience had planted seeds of
doubt with John about denialist ideas, and he began extricating himself from
the movement. But the couple hesitated before resuming treatment. In December
of 2014, Jessica developed pneumonia. "I've never seen anyone get sick
like that in my life," says John. "I was telling her, 'Forget about
all the stuff that we read. Let's just go with what the doctors say. Let them
treat you, not argue. Let's try a different route.' Because I didn't want her
to die."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16.0pt;">After two
weeks in intensive care, Jessica Strangis recovered from pneumonia and returned
home just before Christmas. Shortly afterwards, she and John resumed their HIV
treatment. Their son, Dominic, is now 18 months old. In June this year, the
couple gave birth to a daughter, Annabelle. Both children have tested negative
for HIV.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">Over the years, HIV/AIDS has evolved from a certain death
sentence to a manageable ailment. This metamorphosis didn’t come easy though,
because for a long time, the ambiguous nature of the disease gave voice to AIDS
denialists who refused to believe the scientific consensus for the
disease.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">The following individuals and their views fuelled a movement
called AIDS denialism, that had many believing AIDS wasn’t caused by HIV. Some
of the most infamous proponents of this movement were molecular-biologist Peter
Duesberg, chemist David Rasnick, journalist Celia Farber, vitamin salesman
Matthias Rath and former South Africa President Thabo Mbeki.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">Peter Duesberg – The Cherry Picker</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">Duesberg’s stance that HIV did not cause AIDS, had disastrous
consequences, particularly in South Africa where President Thabo Mbeki was
convinced Duesberg was right. He was of the opinion that HIV is a harmless
passenger virus and the real cause of AIDS was long-term consumption of
recreational drugs and antiretroviral drugs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">Cherry picking is a logical fallacy that often has disastrous
consequences in scientific research. It alludes to taking a particular position
while ignoring a large amount of data to support your stand. The father of AIDS
denialism, a 2008 <i>Discover</i> Magazine feature on Duesberg has HIV/AIDS
expert Max Essex suggesting: ‘…history will judge Duesberg as either ‘a nut who
is just a tease to the scientific community’ or an ‘enabler to mass murder’ for
the deaths of many AIDS patients in Africa.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">David Rasnick – The Chemist Who ‘helped’</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">Rasnick claimed that retroviruses are not sexually transmissible
and have never been shown to cause disease as distressing as HIV. He believed
AIDS wasn’t caused by HIV. He had proposed that HIV testing be outlawed. His
work with vitamin enthusiast Matthias Rath in South Africa is even more
damaging. They ran trials in South Africa where instead of giving poor people
with HIV effective antiretroviral, they were given vitamin supplements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">Matthias Rath – The Vitamin Salesman</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">Matthias Rath claimed that a program of nutritional supplements
– which he obviously sells – can treat HIV/AIDS. None of his claims have ever
been backed up by research. Rath’s views had a lot of influence on South
African President Mbeki and his health minister Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">Rath was castigated by the head of Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
who said: ‘This guy is killing people by luring them with unrecognised
treatment without any scientific evidence’ whom he obviously tried to sue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">His ‘trials’ led to the death of several participants and a Cape
High Court banned Rath and his foundation from conducting clinical trials or
from advertising their products in South Africa. It also asked the government
to investigate the vitamin trials. Meanwhile, Rath expanded his business to
target Russia, another country with a huge HIV positive population.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">Celia Farber – the Fear-mongering Journalist</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">Duesberg gained a lot of coverage, thanks to journalist Celia
Farber who wrote extensively about HIV/AIDS including articles in which she
pointed out flaws in methodology of early HIV researchers. She was also
critical of AZT – the first US government approved treatment for HIV. Her
writings gave voice to anti-AZT proponents who claimed that the treatment made
the disease worse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">While scientists felt her writings were sensationalist drivel
for tabloids, Duesberg’s words in her column, in which he compared people
taking AZT to ‘people running into gas chambers,’ had a massive impact on
HIV positive people who refused to take the drugs. If Duesberg was the voice of
AIDS denialism, Farber was the loudspeaker that helped promote that voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">Christine Maggiore – The Mother in Denial</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">Christine Maggiore was an HIV positive mother who refused to
take AZT and was a powerful advocate who gave the AIDS denialism movement a
huge boost. She wrote a book called ‘<i>If Everything You Thought You Knew
about AIDS Was Wrong?</i>’ and founded the Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives
organisation. The organisation disputed the link between HIV and AIDS, urged HIV-positive
mothers to not take anti-HIV medication. She refused to take it herself, which
led to the death of her daughter who was born HIV positive and died due to its
complications.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">She never took the medications herself and she allegedly
died of AIDS-related complications herself in 2008. Since an autopsy was never
carried out, there’s no way to confirm the cause of death, The Los Angeles
County coroner’s office stated that she had been treated for pneumonia in the
last six months of her life. A doctor familiar with the family claimed that
anti-HIV drugs could’ve prevented her death, her fellow denialists claim she
died as a result of a toxic alternative medicine or stress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">South African President Thabo MBelki – The ‘believer’</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">South Africa has more people living with HIV than any other
country on the planet and if you were to blame one individual for this sorry
state of affairs, it is former President Thabo Mbeki. His disastrous regime of
AIDS denialism led to 18.8% of the people in South Africa suffering from HIV
while as of 2005, the disease killed 900 people each day. In 2000, Mbeki came
under the influence of AIDS denialists at the International AIDS Conference in
Durban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">He believed Duesberg’s theory that, HIV was caused due to
poverty in Africa and expensive Western medicine was not the key. He deferred
to his Health Minister Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang who served as his health
minister from 1999 to 2008. She believed the disease could be treated with
alcoholic beverages and vegetables like garlic and beetroot, rather than
antiretroviral medicines. It’s believed that these views caused death of at
least 300,000 South Africans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">Operation INFEKTION – KGB’s Secret Agenda</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">Along with the Duesberg champions, another major blow
against HIV was caused by the Russian Intellice in Russia who looked to
implicate the US in a move called Operation INFEKTION. Through manipulation of
data and media control, the KGB wanted to blame the Pentagon for creating HIV
in a lab. This had long-term consequences since the entire nation continued to
be in denial about the disease and positive tests were hushed up to promote the
original view. Docs were forced to misdiagnose and the government failed to
take any steps to protect or warn the public about the disease. While it did
promote anti-Americanism across the world, the denial led to many people from
high-risk groups never getting the treatment that could’ve saved their lives.
Scarily, there are some who still continue to believe that HIV was created in a
lab as a biological weapon.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Seth Kalichmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715826946361587097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633581663557175057.post-6377008044046531372014-08-18T12:26:00.003-04:002014-08-18T12:26:55.849-04:00 The Destructive Legacy of Peter Duesberg and AIDS Denialism
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Cure Device" can wipe out the virus.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #0e0e0e;">The Egyptian military made those claims earlier this
year, but now they have backtracked after the announcement was widely denounced
by scientists, including Egypt's own science ad</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e;">viser.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nonetheless, people are still eager to believe the
unbelievable. Egypt's announcement prompted 70,000 people to send emails asking
to try the new treatment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Complete Cure Device is just one more false
promise in the ongoing fight against AIDS. It is a reminder, too, that for 15
years, beginning in the early 1980s, AIDS was a slaughter, shrouded in mystery,
of people in the prime of their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Then came a breakthrough in 1996: A combination of
drugs could control the virus, allowing infected people to live long and
productive lives. Today, antiretroviral treatment for HIV and AIDS is widely
available. An outright cure still eludes scientists, but the once deadly
disease has become manageable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So any claim for an unproven cure, offering hope that
could deter patients from effective treatment, is cruel. But myths, false
claims and outright fraud have persisted in the AIDS epidemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The bogus theories of Peter Duesberg, a professor of
biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, were responsible for a
global setback to HIV treatment. Duesberg argued that combinations of drug use
and promiscuous behavior caused the virus, and passed his advice on to South
African health officials in 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"The biggest disaster imposed on us was Duesberg
with his statements that HIV did not cause AIDS," says Max Essex, chairman
of the Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative. Essex has been
conducting research on AIDS since 1983, including field research in Botswana
and Southern Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Between 2000 and 2005, as neighboring African
countries were ramping up HIV prevention programs, South Africa stubbornly
stuck to the notion that HIV was not the cause of AIDS. "I think Duesberg
played the biggest role in giving [former South African President Thabo Mbeki]
a convenient excuse to avoid supplying drugs," says Essex.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #0e0e0e;">Researchers including Essex examined the human toll of
those lost years of treatment. Thei</span>r <span style="text-decoration: none;">results</span>,
<span style="color: #0e0e0e;">published in 2008 in the <i>Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome</i>,
estimated that 330,000 South African adults died because of lack of treatment,
and 35,000 infants were born with HIV.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If that was the biggest disaster, no doubt the
cruelest of the AIDS false cure claims was the virgin cleansing myth that took
hold in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as parts of India and Thailand. Some men
believed they could be cured of AIDS by having sex with a virgin. That
reportedly led to the rape of younger and younger girls — even babies, by some
accounts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Other unproven AIDS "cures" have kept people
from seeking life-saving treatments: herbal remedies, potions to rub into the
skin, chemicals like Virodene (derived from an industrial solvent), oxygen
therapy and electronic zappers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There is still much work to be done to prevent HIV
infection, to develop a vaccine, to further improve drug treatment and to
prevent other chronic diseases like cancer and heart disease in people with
AIDS who are living longer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And despite the spectacular scams, there have also
been spectacular successes in hard-hit areas. For example, in the 1990s,
Botswana had the highest rate of HIV infection in the world. Today, almost all
of the country's patients seek treatment; by contrast only half of Americans
infected with HIV get treatment, according to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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successful therapy who will live almost normal lives is 90 percent of
HIV-infected people," says Essex. In that respect, Botswana is No. 1 in
the world.</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At least for a substantial portion of the public, it seems like the answer is no. The Pew Research Center, for instance, found that 33 percent of the public believes“Humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time” and 26 percent <a href="http://www.people-press.org/2013/11/01/gop-deeply-divided-over-climate-change/" style="color: #326891;">think</a> there is not “solid evidence that the average temperature on Earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades.” Unsurprisingly, beliefs on both topics are divided along religious and partisan lines. For instance, 46 percent of Republicans said there is not solid evidence of global warming, compared with 11 percent of Democrats.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a result of surveys like these, scientists and advocates have concluded that many people are not aware of the evidence on these issues and need to be provided with correct information. That’s the impulse behind efforts like the campaign to publicize the fact that 97 percent of climate scientists believe human activities are causing global warming.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a new study, a Yale Law School professor, Dan Kahan, finds that the divide over belief in evolution between more and less religious people is <em style="font-style: italic;">wider</em> among people who otherwise show familiarity with math and science, which suggests that the problem isn’t a lack of information. When he instead tested whether respondents knew the theory of evolution, omitting mention of belief, there was virtually no difference between more and less religious people with high scientific familiarity. In other words, religious people knew the science; they just weren’t willing to say that they believed in it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Kahan’s study suggests that more people know what scientists think about high-profile scientific controversies than polls suggest; they just aren’t willing to endorse the consensus when it contradicts their political or religious views. This finding helps us understand why my colleagues and I have found that factual and scientific evidence is often ineffective at reducing misperceptions and can even backfire on issues like weapons of mass destruction, health care reform and vaccines. With science as with politics, identity often trumps the facts.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once people’s cultural and political views get tied up in their factual beliefs, it’s very difficult to undo regardless of the messaging that is used.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what should we do? One implication of Mr. Kahan’s study and other research in this field is that we need to try to break the association between identity and factual beliefs on high-profile issues – for instance, by making clear that you can believe in human-induced climate change and still be a conservative Republican like former Representative Bob Inglis or an evangelical Christian like the climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But we also need to reduce the incentives for elites to spread misinformation to their followers in the first place.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It may be possible for institutions to help people set aside their political identities and engage with science more dispassionately under certain circumstances, especially at the local level. Mr. Kahan points, for instance, to the relatively inclusive and constructive deliberations that were conducted among citizens in Southeast Florida about responding to climate change. However, this experience may be hard to replicate – on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, another threatened coastal area, the debate over projected sea level rises has already become highly polarized.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The deeper problem is that citizens participate in public life precisely because they believe the issues at stake relate to their values and ideals, especially when political parties and other identity-based groups get involved – an outcome that is inevitable on high-profile issues. Those groups can help to mobilize the public and represent their interests, but they also help to produce the factual divisions that are one of the most toxic byproducts of our polarized era. Unfortunately, knowing what scientists think is ultimately no substitute for actually believing it.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://thebuzzcincy.com/1759792/hiv-positive-pastor-found-guilty-of-knowingly-exposing-woman-to-disease/">HIV-Positive Pastor Found Guilty Of Knowingly Exposing Woman To Disease</a></h1>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Arial;">A Georgia
jury found an HIV-positive pastor guilty Tuesday of knowingly exposing a woman
to the disease and faces 20 years for the crime, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/defendant-in-hiv-trial-found-guilty/ncwb6/"><span style="color: #370105; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">the Atlanta
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Lamar Davis</span></b><span style="color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Arial;"> (pictured)
was said to have sat motionless as the jury read guilty verdicts in two counts
of reckless HIV, both of which are felonies. Deliberations took less than an
hour. The case was the first of its kind in Clayton County, G., which falls in
the metropolitan Atlanta area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Arial;">“We are
pleased with the verdict,” <b>said Kathryn Powers</b>, deputy chief assistant district
attorney, one of three prosecutors in the case, told the Journal-Constitution.
“They (jury) were able to weigh the validity of testimony of people who don’t
believe AIDS or HIV exist.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reached a verdict Friday, but wanted to sit on it until Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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said that Davis , who is now divorced, was a married minister when he had an
affair with two women and did not tell either that he was HIV positive, <a href="http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/24507598/clayton-county-man-found-guilty-of-failing-to-inform-woman-of-hiv-status"><span style="color: #370105; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">according to CBS
Atlanta</span></a>. During his trial, Davis admitted that doctors diagnosed him
with HIV in 2005. And while he admitted having sex with a Fulton County woman,
the former pastor denied a sexual encounter with his second accuser, <b>Ronita
McAfee </b>of Clayton County.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Arial;">“As Ronita
was upset, panicky, thoughts running through her mind, the defendant’s reaction
was to tell her, ‘don’t worry about it. It’s not a death sentence,’” Powers
said during the trail. “‘Don’t you worry about it. There is medicine you can
take if you catch it early.’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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attorney, <b>John Turner</b>, contended that his client never had sex with
McAfee and described her as a “nutcase.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Arial;">The harsh
name calling did not surprise McAfee “I didn’t not expect it,” she said. “I
expected it to be said. I just stayed strong in my convictions and continuously
moved forward.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have been the oddest development during the trial, <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/physician-man-in-clayton-hiv-case-may-have-been-mi/ncrt4/"><span style="color: #370105; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">an expert
witness</span></a> for the defense testified during that Davis’ crack
cocaine use at the time may have caused him to be misdiagnosed for HIV and that
no test on the market can definitively determine is someone has the virus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Arial;">“<b>The
(current HIV) test is an antibody test,” (Dr. Nancy) Banks told The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution after her testimony. “They don’t know where those
antibodies come from. They’ve never been able to isolate the virus from the
protein.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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who testified on behalf of the defense, was asked to review Davis’ medical
records during the time he was alleged to have been diagnosed with the virus.
On Thursday, <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/man-admits-to-having-hiv-but-denies-sex-with-woman/ncrCN/"><span style="color: #370105; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Davis said
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looked at the admission history and his physical exam (records), I didn’t think
he had a very good history,” Banks said. “The doctor neglected to ask him
pertinent questions.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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use,” Banks said, noting that crack users often develop symptoms such as thrush
and certain types of pneumonia that mimic the HIV virus.<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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people smoke crack cocaine, they can develop crack lung,” Banks said. “His
(Davis) X-ray was consistent with that.” She noted that the pneumosistis, a
pneumonia often associated with HIV, is usually detected post-mortem. She also
said that thrush, a yeast condition also associated with HIV and AIDS, is a
side-effect of cocaine use."</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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says she has consistently tested negative for the virus that causes AIDS, but
the Clayton County woman tested positive a a year after her relationship with
Davis began.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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himself against a similar case in Fulton county. He is set to be sentenced for
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A Clayton County jury found a Stone Mountain man guilty Tuesday of knowingly exposing a woman to HIV.</div>
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Shortly before being taken into custody, Davis comforted family members, some of whom were crying.</div>
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The case is the first of its kind to be tried in Clayton County, prosecutors said after the trial.</div>
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“We are pleased with the verdict,” said Kathryn Powers, deputy chief assistant district attorney, one of three prosecutors in the case. “They (jury) were able to weigh the validity of testimony of people who don’t believe AIDS or HIV exist.” Powers also noted the jury’s verdict sends a strong message that it is incumbent that people infected with the virus notify people of their status.</div>
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James Walker, the attorney for the woman whose allegations led to the case, said he hoped the verdict “will give others the courage and fortitude to bring these types of individuals to justice.”</div>
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District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson said Tuesday’s verdict sets the stage for a similar case against Davis in Fulton County. The defense conceded Tuesday’s decision could make it tough to try the same case in Fulton.</div>
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“It’s hard to override 30-plus years of HIV prejudice and hysteria,” John Turner, Davis’ attorney said. “The (Clayton) jury’s decision reflects that. We clearly established reasons to question the results of (HIV testing). We handed them reasonable doubt on a platter but they chose to disregard it.”</div>
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The verdict ended a week of testimony from medical professionals and other witnesses, including a California nonprofit that refutes HIV testing. The Office of Medical and Scientific Justice flew in experts at its own expense to help in Davis’ defense.</div>
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“I’m just disappointed by the verdict,” OMSJ director Clark Baker said. He said his organization is considering filing claims against the doctors, hospitals and others who Baker believes misdiagnosed Davis since HIV tests on the market state they can not be used to definitively detect HIV.</div>
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“(She) lied,” said defense attorney John Turner. “She said they knew mutual acquaintances and that he pressure-washed her car. That’s a lie. If she lied about that, she could have lied about everything else.”</div>
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Turner represents Craig Lamar Davis, 43, charged with two counts of reckless conduct by an HIV-infected person. He was married and led the men’s ministry at an Atlanta church, leading some to refer to him as a pastor. Prosecutors allege Davis had unprotected physical relations with a woman at his Jonesboro home without disclosing he is HIV-positive.</div>
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Davis is also charged in Fulton County with the same charges involving a second woman. That woman testified in the state’s case and the jury is allowed to consider her account as they deliberate Davis’ fate.</div>
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Turner and co-counsel Baron Coleman of Alabama, and prosecutors Erman Tanjuatco, Katie Powers and Marcus Thorpe completed their cases by Friday and closing arguments began at 1:15 p.m. Neither woman is being identified by Clayton News Daily because they are considered victims of alleged sexual assaults.</div>
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The jury got the case after 5 p.m. Friday but returned to Judge Geronda Carter’s courtroom an hour later to say they wanted to stop deliberations and resume them Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. Court is dark Monday because of the King holiday.</div>
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Before the short deliberation, jurors heard one last time from the attorneys. Because the burden is on the state to prove the charges, Tanjuatco and Powers spoke first and last with Turner and Coleman addressing the panel in between the two.</div>
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“The defense is absurd,” said Powers, who went first. “It’s smoke and mirrors.”</div>
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Powers said the case comes down to a battle of the experts. The state presented Davis’ treating physicians, infectious disease expert Joyce Drayton of Decatur, and Courtney Shelton. Both doctors told Davis he was HIV-positive in 2004 and 2005 and prescribed HIV medications for him.</div>
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Drayton testified that Davis had full-blown AIDS in 2005 when he presented at Atlanta Medical Center with thrush and pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, known as PCP, an infection commonly found in patients with AIDS.</div>
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Drayton also testified that she counseled Davis on taking care of himself and preventing the spread of the virus to others. In fact, Davis brought another woman he had infected to Drayton’s office for treatment, the doctor testified.</div>
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<b>Turner and Coleman brought in three experts, all considered “AIDS denialists” associated with Office of Medical and Scientific Justice. The group believes the HIV and AIDS viruses don’t exist and works to exonerate defendants accused of criminally exposing others to HIV.</b> All three underwent a scathing cross-examination by Powers, who got them to admit they never examined or interviewed Davis and reached their conclusions based on incomplete documents provided by the defense attorneys.</div>
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<b>One of the experts, Dr. Nancy Turner Banks, admitted she thinks AIDS is an “imaginary monster” that can be defeated if patients are emotionally balanced and drink water and eat cilantro. Banks also testified that HIV is not sexually-transmitted, a position backed by David Rasnick, who took the stand after Banks.</b></div>
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<a name='more'></a>The defense position is opposite of what Western medicine has believed since AIDS was first written about by U.S. Centers for Disease Control in 1981. Although it was first considered a “gay man’s cancer,” the following year, the virus was detected in infants and in 1983, it was discovered in heterosexual women.</div>
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The methods of transmission were also identified by 1983 and has been known since then to include the exchange of bodily fluids.</div>
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Advances in medicine contributed to the development of drugs that help patients with HIV stave off full-blown AIDS and to live longer lives with the virus. Doctors have even developed a pre-exposure prophylaxis medication for people who are at high risk of getting HIV that is proven up to 90 percent effective, according to CDC.</div>
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In Turner’s argument, he told jurors that getting an HIV-positive diagnosis these days is akin to having diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol. However, he also suggested that Davis simply lied about having it to get a better diet while in Clayton County Jail in 2009. Testimony showed when he was locked up, Davis told officials he was HIV-positive and requested proper medications and a high protein, high calorie diet to include a Carnation breakfast drink to boost his appetite.</div>
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“If you’ve been to jail, you know you want to get as much food as possible,” said Turner. “There is nothing crappier than jail food.”</div>
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Turner spent the night in Clayton County Jail in 2011 when he was arrested for having a weapon in his carry-on bag at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, a misdemeanor. He said at the time it was an “eye-opening experience.”</div>
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Davis has lived his life as a person with HIV, said Powers, taking medications and maintaining the proper diet to stay healthy. However, he has been reckless in his personal life.</div>
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“The only person he takes responsibility for is himself and no one else,” she said.</div>
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Apparently, it was only after being criminally charged with spreading the virus that Davis began questioning his diagnosis, said Powers. She wondered that, if he thought he was misdiagnosed, why hasn’t he filed a malpractice suit against Shelton, Drayton and Atlanta Medical Center?</div>
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“If it was a medical misdiagnosis, there’s some deep pockets,” she said. “Where’s the lawsuit? Why continue the medication? You’re still taking the meds. It’s because you know you are still HIV-positive.”</div>
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Coleman countered that Davis didn’t sue because the doctors followed the protocol that exists for an HIV diagnosis. He also admitted Davis made mistakes.</div>
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“The tests are the presumptions we have,” he said. “It would be foolish to said Craig didn’t make some mistakes along the way.”</div>
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Another defense presented involved “crack lung,” an acute pulmonary syndrome. Davis admitted on the stand Thursday that he used to smoke crack and that chest pain sent him to Atlanta Medical Center in 2005. Defense experts argued that the same symptoms can mimic that of PCP and lead to a false AIDS diagnosis.</div>
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Turner also focused on Davis’ assertion that he told the women he was HIV-positive. Davis denied having intimate relations with the woman in the Clayton County case but admitted to the relationship with the woman in the Fulton County case. Davis testified that she continued to be intimate with him despite the diagnosis.</div>
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The woman testified they had sex seven days a week for a year before she was diagnosed HIV-positive in January 2012. She said she was devastated and suicidal and called Davis from the doctor’s office. Tanjuatco said that is proof Davis lied.</div>
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“His story is not plausible,” said Tanjuatco. “Why would she be surprised to learn she had HIV when she knew he was positive? It makes no sense.”</div>
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The Clayton County alleged victim never tested positive, according to testimony. Turner argued that’s because she and Davis never had intimate contact. However, she testified to having four encounters with Davis during May 2012. At the end of May, she said Davis told her to get an HIV test because he just learned a woman he’d been involved with during the Fall of 2011 had just been diagnosed. Davis said she “went off.” Prosecutors said she was justified in her rage and anger.</div>
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Tanguatco questioned whether she was upset because of a lack of intimacy, or “because that player there didn’t tell her he was HIV?”</div>
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<b>The case has drawn worldwide attention. A Spanish film crew has taped every day of the trial for a documentary.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.projectqatlanta.com/news_articles/view/hiv_deniers_play_part_in_atlanta_bareback_case?gid=14951">HIV deniers play part in Atlanta bareback case</a></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #686564; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">By Matt Hennie | Jan 16, 2014 | 12:44 PM</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">It's tough to tell what's worse in a metro Atlanta case criminalizing HIV: a prosecutor comparing the disease to a deadly weapon, the accused man arguing his HIV status can't be proven or HIV deniers spouting their junk science.</span></div>
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The trial of Craig Lamar Davis opened on Monday in a Clayton County court and quickly turned into a three-ring circus. Davis faces two counts of failing to disclose his HIV status before having sex, which is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Gay and HIV activists <a href="http://www.projectqatlanta.com/news_articles/view/hiv_disclosure_law_may_see_court_challenge?gid=14515" style="color: #ec1f27; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">criticize the law</a>, saying it prevents people from getting tested and <a href="http://marksking.com/my-fabulous-disease/hiv-positive-criminals-have-sex-go-to-jail/" style="color: #ec1f27; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">further stigmatizes</a> people with the disease. Prosecutors say Davis, 42, had sex with two women, didn't use condoms and exposed them to HIV.</div>
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But the case has put people with HIV and the tests used to detect the virus on trial as much as Davis.</div>
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A prosecutor <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/state-defendent-in-hiv-case-carries-a-deadly-weapo/ncnXR/" style="color: #ec1f27; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">overreached</a> in his opening statement, going all weapons of mass destruction.</div>
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“When he wakes up in the morning, he has it with him. When he eats lunch, he has it with him. When he goes to bed at night he carries it with him,” Clayton County Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney Kathryn Powers told a jury Tuesday. “Unlike the deadly weapons you can see - like a gun, knife or a bomb, this deadly weapon is something people have to rely on the defendant to tell them about.”</div>
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Davis has done his part, too, <a href="http://www.fox19.com/story/24408726/exclusive-interview-with-accused-hiv-positive-pastor" style="color: #ec1f27; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">casting doubt</a> on whether he's really HIV-positive, despite writing exactly that on jail intake forms after an arrest in 2009. Doctors diagnosed him as HIV-positive in 2005, according to prosecutors.</div>
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"Upon what my attorney just said, I would say no," Davis says in response to a reporter's question about whether he's HIV-positive. Watch his cofounding statements in the clip above.</div>
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His attorney, John Turner, weighed in. You know, to say that HIV tests are bunk.</div>
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Defense attorney John Turner told the jury not to be swayed by the state’s dramatic opening. Stick to the facts and the fact is, Turner said. ”There is no definitive test - scientific or medical for (the detection) of HIV. No such thing.”</div>
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So you say? Uh-huh. Where'd the notion come from? You can thank the HIV deniers of Los Angeles-based Office of Medical and Scientific Justice, which has inserted itself into Davis' case. Say what you want about whether bareback sex should result in criminal charges, but to argue that HIV doesn't really exist and tests that prove its existence are junk science is, well, a bit of junk science on its own.</div>
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“We expect this case will corroborate what we’ve found in all of our other cases … and that is the testing, diagnosis and treatment of HIV in this country is wildly inaccurate and inflated and incompetent,” Baker said.</div>
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The gay panic defense has gone mostly away, only to be replaced with an equally offensive HIV deniers defense. Oh sweet progress.</div>
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Seth Kalichmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715826946361587097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633581663557175057.post-54236233204078634222013-09-03T08:40:00.002-04:002013-09-03T08:40:39.890-04:00Tommy Morrison Died Tragically of Denial
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><b><a href="http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/9628475/tommy-morrison-wild-ride-ended-tragic-denial">Morrison's wild ride ended by denial</a></b></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">By <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tom
Friend</span> | ESPN.com</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-themecolor: text1;">Tommy </span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-themecolor: text1;">Morrison died Sunday night of an
undisclosed illness. But for all intents and purposes</span><span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">, he died of denial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">In
1996, Morrison was diagnosed with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. In 1997, he
told me he was still having unprotected sex with his first wife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">"I'll
trust an attorney before I'll trust a doctor," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">I'm
not sure how many wives he ended up with (I lost count after the fourth), but
nothing ever changed. His last wife, Trisha, recently told ESPN.com's Elizabeth
Merrill that they, too, had had unprotected sex. As far as Tommy was concerned,
his HIV never existed. He searched high and low for rogue doctors who would
assure him he was fine, who would clear him to go back to boxing. He was
nothing without boxing, nothing without sex -- so he looked the other way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">He
tried AZT for a month and threw it in the trash; he thought the HIV therapy
drug taken by most HIV patients was propoganda. His family staged an
intervention to get him back on meds, but he cursed at them and said, "I
will lay down and die before I take any drugs." Magic Johnson tried to
reach out to him in 1996 -- the same Magic Johnson who is thriving 22 years
after his own HIV diagnosis -- and Tommy Morrison plum ignored him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">"I
remember talking to Magic the day I announced I had HIV," Morrison told me
in 1998. "He was preaching, 'Do what your doctor tells you.' Well, I
didn't have a doctor then, so I got down on my knees and I prayed. Every day, I
was like, 'God, what do I do?' Hell, I saw myself dying. And then I started
getting all these books in the mail, and they all said, 'Don't worry about it.
Just live your life.' So that's what I did."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a name='more'></a>Morrison
was a distant relative of John Wayne. But the problem was he lived his whole
life like he was in the Wild West. His mother gave him his first tattoo. And
his father gave him his first woman -- at a strip club when Tommy was 14.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626;">They
entered him, as an eighth-grader, in "tough man" contests. In other
words, his parents essentially signed him up for bar fights. That's how he made
his name. That and setting fire to his high school football field when he was
cut from the team.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626;">The
best thing he had going was his blue eyes, his blond hair and muscles on top of
muscles. He moved to Kansas City, got a promoter and entered the fight game.
Morrison would later admit to me that he was on steroids, but Sylvester
Stallone couldn't take his eyes off of him and cast him as Tommy Gunn in
"Rocky V."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626;">As
a writer for the New York Times, I later watched him defeat 44-year-old George
Foreman in Las Vegas for a heavyweight title. That night, while they were
clenching seconds before the final bell, Foreman whispered to the new champ:
"Don't curse in public." Morrison must not have heard him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">He
would later be arrested for multiple DUIs and was always allegedly profane with
the police officers. Morrison and Stallone had had a falling out by then. So
had Tommy and his trainer. But Bill Cayton was his manager, and had Morrison
not been diagnosed with HIV, Cayton was about to get him a deal to fight Mike
Tyson. The hype would have been through the roof, or at least through the MGM
Grand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">But
after the diagnosis, Morrison became a pariah. His words were mumbled and
nonsensical. His family assumed he contracted HIV from a dirty steroid needle,
but there was no discussing it with him, no discussing anything with him.
Before the new millennium, he bought a cave, convinced that the world was coming
to an end at the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, 2000. That's where he slept on
Dec. 31, 1999 -- delusional then, and obviously in the years to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">He
had a good heart. That was never the issue. He was friendly, would talk to any
kid. But he would also talk to animals, too. He once did an interview with me
with his cat in his arms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">He
died Sunday at the age of 44, the same age Foreman was when Morrison beat him
for the title. Hopefully, he finally took George's advice. Hopefully, Tommy
Morrison wasn't cursing at the end.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Seth Kalichmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715826946361587097noreply@blogger.com59tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633581663557175057.post-40739692122946542872013-08-24T20:53:00.002-04:002013-09-02T23:09:43.505-04:00Rethinking AIDS Denialism: Former Boxing Champ Tommy Morrison <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
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</span>In a house on the edge of a dead-end road, an old woman waits for her son to die. The call will come any day now, she says, and when it does, she wants her youngest boy to be buried in Sulphur Springs, Ark., with the rest of the family. She dreads and hopes for this call, if that makes any sense. Only none of it makes sense. <br />
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Diana Morrison crushes a Pall Mall, lights another and dissects her son's fate. She's matter-of-fact about it, barely emotional, perhaps because Tommy Morrison, former World Boxing Organization champion, former HIV cautionary tale, has stared at death before. But this time it's different.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morrison with David Syner, <br />
Producer of AIDS Denialist<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a1a17f; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;"></span>She says he has full-blown AIDS. She believes he's in his final days. His skin is jaundiced; his liver is failing. "He's too far gone," she says, flashing an incredulous look when asked whether he could recover. "He's in the end stages. That's it." She says Morrison has been bedridden for a year, can't speak and is being kept alive with the help of a feeding tube and a ventilator. <br />
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UPDATE<br />
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/boxing/2013/09/02/boxer-tommy-morrison-dies-at-44/2755083/">Tommy Morrison passed away Sept. 2 2013</a><br />
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"I talk to him on the phone," she says. "I tell him that the family loves him, he's always in our prayers. What can you say to him? I don't tell him to keep fighting or nothing, because I want him to go." <br />
<br />
She is interrupted by her ex-husband, who's living with her now because he's had a couple of strokes. Tim Morrison wraps his arms around Diana, and she tells him to go lie down, but he keeps pacing around the house with a blank look on his face. <br />
<br />
It's the middle of the afternoon, but the house is dark. Diana lights another cigarette. She is slight but imposing, harsh but sentimental; she's a woman with tattoos on her arm and her great-granddaughter's pink bike parked outside the house. <br />
<br />
Diana gets up off her chair and searches for proof of her son's status, pulling down a picture from the wall. It captures one of the last times she saw her son. She's not good with dates, and can't remember when it was taken, but Tommy is thin, gray-bearded -- barely recognizable as the strapping, confident man from six years ago who swore he was not HIV-positive and vowed a comeback. In the photo on the wall, he looks lost. <br />
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It's been about a year since she last saw him. It's complicated. She just had back surgery; he's been shuffled to various health care facilities in at least three states. She says she doesn't have the money to leave her house in Aurora, Mo., and drive hundreds of miles to see him. There's tension between her and Morrison's wife, Trisha, and at the moment, it seems thick. In her heart, Diana believes her daughter-in-law loves Tommy, but is keeping him alive through extraordinary means. She says Tommy wouldn't want it this way. <br />
<br />
<b>She says Trisha, like Tommy, doesn't believe he has HIV. </b><br />
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<b>"Tommy blowed smoke up her butt about it," Diana Morrison says. "He's been in denial ever since he's had it. So he's blown smoke up her rear end and got her believing." </b><br />
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The women communicate daily by text. It's easier that way. Diana says he's in a hospital somewhere in Nebraska. Morrison's wife, reached by phone, declines to say where he is. She doesn't want the hospital to be inundated with reporters and visitors. "He is somewhere," she says, and adds that she is touching his arm as we speak. She says he was to have surgery Thursday to replace a gastrointestinal tube. She is steadfast that his illness is not HIV-related. <br />
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Since Feb. 10, 1996, when the Nevada Athletic Commission said Morrison tested positive for HIV before a fight, the 44-year-old has spent most of his days dodging the diagnosis. And now Trisha Morrison, who married Tommy two years ago, is carrying on that battle. She says both of them question whether the virus exists in him, and if it exists at all. <br />
<br />
She says Morrison's health issues began more than a year and a half ago, when a doctor left a 12-foot piece of surgical gauze in his chest for eight days. She declines to name the hospital or doctor, only that it happened in Tennessee. Things got worse, she says, when he contracted Guillain-Barré Syndrome, an ailment in which the immune system attacks the peripheral nervous system. She says Morrison has the rare Miller Fisher variant, which manifests as a descending paralysis. <br />
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She has hope, but it's all up to Tommy now, she says. God and Tommy. She hangs up the phone, and texts a photo of a gift she says Tommy gave her before he got sick. It's a picture of a heart-shaped piece of wood, and on it is a handwritten note. <br />
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"Don't give up on me!!" it says. <br />
<br />
I've been fascinated by Morrison since I met him in 2006. He was in Arizona that fall, training for a return to the ring, a comeback he said would be so great that if it were a movie, it'd be a combination of "Rocky," "Rudy" and "Slap Shot." He drove like a bat out of hell through the streets of Phoenix that day, getting lost on numerous occasions. He said HIV was a conspiracy by the government, that his positive test was possibly the evil work of a rival promoter. <br />
<br />
The day was confusing, entertaining, uncomfortable and weird. At one point, at a Hooters, he pulled his shorts partway down to show off an Elvis tattoo on his hip. By the end of the interview, I had more questions than answers. That's the way it's always been with Morrison. <br />
<br />
He starred in "Rocky V," spent part of his fortune on pet monkeys and at least one mountain lion and was once married to two women at the same time. Two years ago, in one of his last interviews, he told The Kansas City Star a story about how he teleported himself out of a bar to avoid a fight. <br />
<br />
So it's no surprise that the journey to find Tommy Morrison -- and to find out what exactly is wrong with him -- is nowhere near cohesive. There are tales of chest implants and phantom graves and a dark abyss of drugs and unfulfilled dreams. <br />
<br />
There is a general sense of impermanence to his life. He's lived in Tulsa. Wichita. Kansas City. He had an address in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., also known as the home of Dollywood. <br />
<br />
Morrison made at least $10 million during his boxing career, according to his family and a former promoter, but now has next to nothing. In a financial affidavit filed in September 2011, months after he was charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia -- the charges later were dropped -- he wrote in scribbled cursive that he did not own a home or a car. On the line that asked about his employment, he checked self-employed. <br />
<br />
"Athlete," he wrote. <br />
<br />
His last known job was running a gym called TCB -- Taking Care of Business, which is also the motto Elvis used in the last years of his life. It was 2010. Morrison was featured in The Wichita Business Journal, hobnobbing with the mayor and a handful of old boxers who came for the gym's opening. He promised to work with inner-city kids and teach them his sport. He was still training -- still hoping -- for a comeback that year, even though he was 41. <br />
<br />
The 3,000-square-foot space was donated by developer Rob Snyder, who told the local paper that he was skeptical but was rooting that Morrison would succeed because it would do great good for the kids in the community. <br />
<br />
Morrison had left Wichita by late 2011 and was living in Tennessee when he was taken into custody and transported to Kansas to face the drug charges. When his mug shot was released, boxing fans were startled by his appearance. He was bald and gaunt and barely recognizable. Morrison's uncle Troy, an anesthesiologist in the state of Washington, was floored when he saw the photo. He says his nephew looked homeless and 60 years old in the picture. <br />
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"When I saw him two years ago, he was still of the mindset that he was going to launch a comeback," Troy Morrison says. "I didn't want to deflate that, but I didn't want to encourage it, either. I just tried to change the subject and play along with it. I think he was living in a fantasy world for a while. I think at some point reality slammed him in the face, and that's when he poured the depression and everything into drugs and alcohol, and that accelerated the disease process. <br />
<br />
"You know, I think it's very lonely where he's at right now." <br />
<br />
The number for TCB Boxing Gym was at some point disconnected, and now belongs to a man who says he's never heard of it. By 2012, Tommy Morrison had slipped off the grid, and his fans knew something was wrong. Gordon Berry, an ex-amateur boxer from Maine, was so concerned that he did a search of Tennessee's vital records out of fear that Morrison had died. <br />
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Berry used to love watching film of Morrison's fights in the 1990s, and one day figured, What the heck, why not send Tommy a message on Facebook? Morrison replied, and they talked about boxing and comebacks and even texted each other occasionally. When the communication stopped, Berry knew it wasn't a case of an athlete blowing off a fan. Morrison loved interacting with his fans. Maybe they brought him back to a better time. Maybe they made that time seem closer. <br />
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"I think if he let everyone know he's all right, it would be great," Berry wrote in an email, "or if he's not [and] needs help, I think he'd be surprised at the boxing [community's] concern for him, people would love to help him out." <br />
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His closest friends paint Morrison as a man with good intentions and questionable judgment. One of them declined to talk for this story unless Morrison approved the interview, then suggested that there was no way he'd approve the interview. <br />
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He'd hate for people to know he was sick. Or weak. Years ago, his mother said, he got pectoral implants to make himself look bigger and stronger. Those implants became infected -- hence the chest surgery in late 2011 -- and had to be removed. <br />
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Ask 10 people why Morrison has tried to run from his HIV diagnosis all these years, and you might get 20 different answers. Accepting it meant giving up boxing. Accepting it, back then at least, meant he was going to die. <br />
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Morrison grew up in Jay, a northeast Oklahoma town with a population of about 2,500. He always considered himself a country boy at heart. There was a time, at the height of his career, when he was on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno. He went to a bar with Sylvester Stallone after the show, then Stallone asked Morrison and his promoter, Tony Holden, to come back to his house. Morrison eyed the scene, the celebrities and the swooning fans, and decided to go back to his hotel. When he got in the car, he told Holden, "You know, this is a lot of fun, Tony. But this isn't us. Let's go back to Oklahoma." <br />
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There was once a sign at the town's city limit proudly welcoming folks to the home of WBO heavyweight champ Tommy Morrison, but then just after after his HIV diagnosis, it reportedly was taken down. It made Morrison feel isolated. <br />
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To the people of Jay, HIV was something that happened thousands of miles away. It was a different time. In some places, it was still known as "the gay plague." <br />
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"Tommy had a hard time with it back then," Holden says. "People wouldn't shake his hand, wouldn't come close to him, wouldn't let babies next to him. And I saw that, and you took a kid from this height of stardom, being in movies, to the point where everyone wanted to be Morrison's friend to the point where, man, nobody wanted to be in the same room with him. <br />
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"I witnessed it. And it was heartbreaking." <br />
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Holden was the one who broke the news to Morrison that he'd tested positive for HIV in February 1996, hours before he was supposed to fight Arthur "Stormy" Weathers in a tuneup for an eagerly anticipated bout with Mike Tyson. Holden says the man with the Nevada Athletic Commission who informed him of Morrison's test results had tears in his eyes. <br />
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He was 27 years old and had just signed a contract that, according to previous Morrison interviews, guaranteed him three fights and $38 million. And with that test, the guarantees were gone. He called his mother. "Come home," she told him, then advised him to take another HIV test. That one also was positive. <br />
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His life before that was a decadent stream of parties, limos and sex that would've made Keith Richards blush. His life after that appeared lonely. He once lent/gave large sums of money to his entourage, a group that shared copious amounts of booze and women with him as he prowled the bars of Westport in Kansas City. That group of friends, Holden says, disappeared once the money was gone. <br />
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Morrison, who's 6 years younger than Holden, was like a little brother Holden wanted to hug and smack upside the head. He tried repeatedly to get Morrison to save his money, to be careful. Holden and trainer Tom Virgets used to take Morrison to all-male military academies to train so he'd lay off the women and the bars. After the diagnosis, Holden tried to get his friend to take care of himself. He took him to Dr. David Ho, who treated Magic Johnson for the disease. <br />
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"<b>Tommy bought into it at first, and then did some research," Holden said. "And then he went into the direction that he didn't have it, that it doesn't exist." </b><br />
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And so after his tearful news conference, after he confirmed he was HIV-positive and blamed it on a reckless lifestyle, after he promised to get in touch with anyone he'd come in contact with -- sparring partners, and especially the young ladies -- Morrison did a complete about-face. <br />
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Holden said Morrison quickly had a change of heart after doing research on the Internet. He concluded that HIV was a conspiracy, and that the doctors were "quacks." He said the tests were false positives. He staged a comeback in 2007, tested negative for HIV, but questions swirled over whether the blood was actually his. <br />
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Holden is one of the few people who stuck around for his friend. He says Tommy was loyal to him back in the 1990s, when other bigger promoters tried to snatch him away. Now Holden won't leave him. There was a little spat a few years ago, when Morrison wanted to fight again, and Holden was strongly against it. But they're fine now. "Here's the thing," he says. "I believe in HIV; he doesn't. We both know where we stand." <br />
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Holden declines to say whether he communicates with Morrison right now, but he does check in with Trisha every other day. <br />
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"I know that sometimes there's a rift, sometimes not, with the family and Trisha," he says. "But I will say this: His wife has been by his side, 24/7, every day. She's always there for him. Every time I call, she's with him." <br />
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Trisha Morrison says she met Tommy in 2008, but then again, maybe it was 2009. It was whenever the documentary "House of Numbers" played at the Tallgrass Film Festival in Wichita. Trisha says she was working at a hotel in Wichita then, and Morrison, who happened to be staying at that hotel, asked whether she'd go to the film with him. <br />
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<b>"House of Numbers" is a controversial film about HIV and AIDS that the New York Times once called "a weaselly support pamphlet for AIDS denialists." Tommy, according to Trisha, watched the documentary with his mouth wide open. He told her that he's been saying the same things about HIV for years, but nobody believed him. </b><br />
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Before she met Morrison, Trisha didn't have a lot of thoughts on HIV or AIDS. She used to believe that a person had to "be careful" around HIV patients. But then she did her own research. She goes on about how she wants to see a real picture of the virus, not just a computer-generated image. <br />
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Dr. Richard Haubrich, a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California San Diego, said that there are photos of HIV using scanning electron microscopes. <br />
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"HIV," Haubrich said in an email, "is the best documented infection there is." <br />
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But Trisha is resolute. She forwards an email to ESPN.com with Morrison's viral load levels. She sends a text that says HIV tests on the market do not detect HIV infection. She refers to Dr. Robert Gallo, the man known for his role in the discovery of HIV as the infectious agent responsible for AIDS, as "the biggest medical fraud in history." <br />
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Trisha adds that she's had unprotected sex with Morrison. <br />
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She does a lot of research. She knew of Tommy's past via Google. When they met, one of the first things she told him was that she's never done drugs, has no body piercings, and has never been a hooker or a stripper. She felt like she had to get that out there after everything she'd read. <br />
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She says Morrison looked at her and said, "You're the type of person I'm looking for." <br />
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Morrison's wife says she came to the United States in the early 1990s to work in the tourism industry. She, too, was once an athlete, an accomplished tennis player in her youth. In an article on the Sundridge Park tennis club website in England, she's listed under "Famous members." The article says Trisha played on the tennis circuit, and once took three games off former French Open champion Sue Barker. "However," the article says, "when she was beaten at Kent by Anthea Cooper, she did not like the feeling and gave up competitive tennis." <br />
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Trisha denies that she stopped playing competitively because of that loss. <br />
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"You have to devote yourself 100 percent to it," she says. "I had other stuff I was doing." <br />
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Trisha says she's known who Morrison was since 1993, when she was in Las Vegas. She was trying to book hotels for clients, but all the rooms were gone. She later found out why: Morrison was fighting George Foreman that week. <br />
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She says she isn't with him because he was in "Rocky V," and she isn't a groupie. She was drawn to him because he has a kind soul. Because he's an emotional guy. A decent guy. She says she's going to read Morrison this story while he lies in his hospital bed. <br />
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She disagrees with Diana Morrison on a number of things, but makes a point, in a later text, that Tommy loves his mother very much. She says he would always call her every time they flew somewhere. She says she doesn't believe she's keeping him alive through extraordinary measures. <br />
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"You never give up hope, right?" she says. "And you never give up. That's him, too." <br />
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When Morrison was in jail for the drug charges, Trisha made an appeal to his fans to donate money for his bail. She concedes that they are struggling financially but quashes rumors that she is writing a book. There is a book that Tommy wrote that is sitting on their computer from a while back, she says, waiting to be published. It's called, "My Darkest Years." <br />
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She says Tommy wrote it by speaking into a handheld recorder, and then Trisha typed it out for him, and he proofread it. <br />
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"I haven't got time to write a book," she says. "I'm not out to profit on any of this. I'm with him 24/7, taking care of him." <br />
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But back in Missouri, Morrison family members believe they have reason to be wary. They think she will write a tell-all book that will paint an unflattering picture of the family. <br />
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They know that there's plenty of material out there already. It's been written, many times, that Morrison's dad, Tim, was abusive, that he'd get drunk and beat Tommy and Diana, that he was a perpetual philanderer until she finally left him. It's also widely known that Morrison's brother, Tim Jr., spent 15 years in prison for rape. And four decades ago, Diana was acquitted of a murder charge. <br />
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Tommy's brother says he doesn't mind if his past is mentioned "because that's public record. I don't care. But she's been listening to the delusions of a guy whose mind don't work right." <br />
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Tim Jr. -- he's called Timmy by his family -- is visibly frustrated by his brother's condition and his inability to do anything about it. He was the one who used to take care of his little brother, who watched to make sure people treated him right. Tim was a fighter, too. He was in a hotel in Boise, Idaho, in 1992, the night after a fight, when he watched Tommy, with a broken jaw and a busted hand, go nine rounds to beat Joe Hipp. Tim was so proud of Tommy that night. <br />
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But Tim went to jail when he was 28, and got out at 43. His boxing dreams were over, so he did construction work. About four or five years ago, Tommy was short on money, so Tim hired him to work on a construction project he was overseeing. Construction was not exactly Tommy's thing. <br />
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"Basically, I paid him to hang around," Tim says. "I mean, we were working on a house, and I get up there and say, 'Paint this side of that door,' and he climbed up the ladder and said, 'Ahh, I can't do these heights.' He sat in the truck." <br />
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Tommy struggled to find a niche outside of boxing. He was so used to having people take care of things for him, Tim says. If he was lonely or sad, the brothers never talked about it. They were raised in a household where men don't cry, stuff happens and you handle your business and go on. The closest they ever got to talking in depth about Tommy's fall from grace was Tim telling his brother, "Kind of a bad deal," and Tommy replying, "Yeah, I know what you mean." <br />
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The last time he saw his brother was roughly a year ago. He says it took Tommy 10 minutes to figure out who he was. Tim says he doesn't visit Tommy anymore because Tim just gets angry. He acts tough and shrugs when asked about his brother's fate, and says everybody has to die sometime. But he clutches onto his lapdog named Jezebel during part of the conversation. <br />
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His dad was bound for a nursing home after the strokes, but the family couldn't stand for that. "I still love him," Diana says. So she took him back in, and together, Tim and Diana take care of Tim Sr., who walks with small steps. <br />
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Tim Sr. has a glass eye. His eye was gouged many years ago at work. People close to the family speculate that Tim Sr. lost his way as a young man, on a construction site, when his older brother was crushed by a blade, <br />
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When he was younger, Tommy wanted to be a jail warden, his family says. No one is quite sure why. Tim says he could've been anything. He would've been a great comedian. With his wit and looks, he could've been a TV analyst, if he'd only kept his conspiracy theories to himself. <br />
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Diana loves boxing -- she used to corner for her sons and taped their hands -- but her favorite Tommy story has nothing to do with that. He was 3, maybe 4 years old. His daddy had just bought a car, a shiny, new-to-them Lincoln, and Tommy was outside playing in his cute little bib overalls. He ran inside and said, "Dad, I filled your car up." They went outside. They saw the garden hose. <br />
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She still smiles when she tells that story, still picturing Tommy smiling and running his thumbs through his overalls. <br />
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"He was always a mama's boy," she says. <br />
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Tommy has three sons of his own, two who are adults now. His oldest, Trey, has considered taking up boxing. Trey recently called Tony Holden and said he wants to meet up and talk about his dad. He wants to know about the old days, when his dad was a superstar. <br />
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Holden is eager to tell him about a man he was so close to, he made him best man at his wedding. <br />
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"I think he knows he screwed up," Holden says, "and probably didn't get the chance to spend the time he wanted to with his boys. But he sure cherished them, and loved being around those kids." <br />
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When Tommy is gone, Morrison's family hopes he's remembered as a person, and not just a personality. Tim Morrison says Tommy brought a lot of excitement back to boxing. He says he was human. <br />
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"Try being 20 and a millionaire," Tim says. "You're not always going to make the most wise decisions. Tommy was way too young to have all the money and fame that he had. That was his whole problem. <br />
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"He had the world by the balls. And he blew it." <br />
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Years after they watched him fight on pay-per-view, the Morrisons sit in a single-story house with worn-out floors and tales. Diana was so scared before his first professional fight. She covered her eyes for part of the time. She once charged toward a referee when Morrison was getting beaten to a pulp and the ref wouldn't call the fight. She knew when he'd had enough. <br />
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Some days, Diana says, Trisha puts the phone up to Tommy's ear and Diana can hear him breathing. She wonders why he's still hanging on. <br />
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"I think he's waiting for me to tell him it's OK to go," she says. "I want to tell him, 'Your family is going to be fine. Your sons are fine. And I'll be fine.'"</div>
Seth Kalichmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715826946361587097noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633581663557175057.post-92221175165503325472013-08-18T23:32:00.002-04:002013-08-18T23:32:34.766-04:00AIDS Denier Clark Baker Needs a Real Job<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://newswire.xbiz.com/view.php?id=167836">HIV Denialist’s Suit Against Blogger Should Be Tossed, Sperlein Says</a></span></h1>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">By Rhett Pardon, SAN FRANCISCO</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Adult industry attorney Gill Sperleinfiled court papers Friday on behalf of Todd DeShong, a blogger accused of trademark infringement and defamation relating to his criticism of notorious AIDS denialist Clark Baker and his organization the Office of Medical and Scientific Justice (OMSJ). </span></h1>
<br />Baker believes the pharmaceutical industry promotes faulty HIV tests in order to sell HIV-suppressing drugs; DeShong, meanwhile, believes early HIV testing and treatment saves lives. <br /><br />But the importance of accurate testing is well known in the adult entertainment industry, Sperlein said.<br /><br />According to court documents, Baker first attempted to shut down DeShong’s website HIVInnocenceGroupTruth.com by filing a UDRP complaint, accusing DeShong of infringing the trademark “HIV Innocence Group.” <br /><br />The UDRP arbitrator disagreed, ruling that OMSJ was actually guilty of reverse domain name high jacking because OMSJ clearly knew DeShong was legitimately using the mark when it filed its complaint, Sperlein said.<br /><br />Undeterred, Baker and OMSJ sued DeShong in federal court for trademark infringement, defamation, and business disparagement. <br /><br />But Sperlein and a team of attorneys came to DeShong’s defense filing two separate motions to dismiss Friday, arguing that the trademark claims should be dismissed because DeShong’s use of the mark was fair use and the defamation related claims should be dismissed because DeShong’s statements were either opinion or factually accurate. <br /><br />Sperlein also argued that the claims were brought after the statute of limitations had passed.<br /><br />DeShong’s pro bono defense team also includes another industry attorney, Gary Krupkin, who serves as local counsel; Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen; and Neal A. Hoffman of the Houston firm Bush & Ramirez.Seth Kalichmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715826946361587097noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633581663557175057.post-66400354211879127032013-06-29T10:25:00.001-04:002013-06-29T10:26:11.949-04:00David Rasnick for the Defense: How AIDS Denialists Help Prove You Are Insane<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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N.Y. (AP) - A New York drug dealer imprisoned in the 1990s amid accusations he
infected 13 young women with HIV lost his bid for freedom Friday despite having
completed his sentence more than two years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Arial;">A jury
in western New York found that Nushawn Williams, 36, suffers from a mental
abnormality that makes him subject to "civil management" and will
either be confined to a secure treatment facility or kept under strict
supervision, according to the attorney general's office.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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citizens of New York will be safer," said Melissa Grace, a spokeswoman for
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chautauqua County jury deliberated for just over an hour. A hearing will be
held to determine Williams' level of management.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Arial;">Williams,
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statutory rape and reckless endangerment in 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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state officials sought his continued imprisonment and described him as a mentally
disturbed, sex-obsessed drug user likely to infect more women if set free. A
psychologist's report said Williams targeted vulnerable young women who were
underage and/or drug addicted and "used charm and coercion to secure
sexual contact."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Arial;">Before the
trial's start, Williams' lawyer John Nuchereno claimed that a new test showed
that Williams isn't HIV positive. Nuchereno argued that without HIV, Williams
is not a danger and should be freed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Arial;">Nuchereno
earlier this year said he arranged for a new blood test as part of efforts to
get Williams released. State lawyers at that time questioned whether the April
blood sample had been properly handled, as well as the reliability of the test
submitted by Nuchereno, which was conducted using an electron microscope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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did not immediately return a call seeking comment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Arial;">In
1997, before he was charged, authorities in the small western New York city of
Jamestown took the unusual step of announcing publicly that Williams was HIV
positive in an effort to stem further spread of the virus by Williams' partners
to others. News that the dreadlocked Bronx native known as "Face" had
been found to be the common denominator in numerous HIV cases, including that
of a 13-year-old girl, set off a local panic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Arial;">He told
a reporter in 1999 that he'd had sex with 200 to 300 partners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: Arial;">The two-week
trial was held out of the public eye because of health privacy laws.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="bylineName" style="color: #333333; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">By <a class="bylineName" href="mailto:jtokasz@buffnews.com" style="color: #333333; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="Email Jay Tokasz">Jay Tokasz</a></span> <span class="bylinePosition" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">| The Buffalo News </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><i>June 8, 2013</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><i><br /></i></span></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">Nushawn
Williams, the Jamestown man who gained national notoriety when accused of
spreading the virus that causes AIDS, remains behind bars more than 15 years
after his criminal offenses in Chautauqua County.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">But
when a 20-year-old Buffalo man admitted in 2011 to having unprotected sex with
four young women and a 15-year-old girl while knowing he was infected with HIV,
he was sentenced to a year in jail for his crimes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">“It was
similar enough to say, ‘My God, the treatment was so different,’ ” said John R.
Nuchereno, defense attorney for Williams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">Williams,
now 36, was supposed to be freed in 2010, upon completing a 12-year sentence
for a statutory rape and reckless endangerment conviction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">Yet,
three years later, he remains in Wende State Correctional Facility because the
state attorney general contends Williams is a sexual predator likely to infect
others with HIV.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">The
trial, while not open to the public, is expected to draw plenty of interest,
both from civil liberties groups troubled by the state’s civil confinement
policy and from various HIV and AIDS organizations intrigued by the potential
legal impacts of the case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">Nuchereno
already has made the stunning claim in a pretrial hearing that Williams does
not have HIV, based on a recent electron microscope analysis of his blood by
the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">The
contention appears likely to be a crux of Williams’ defense, which is being
aided by the Office of Medical and Scientific Justice, a nonprofit organization
based in Studio City, Calif.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">The
group runs the HIV Innocence Project and has used electron microscopy results
in military trials to help defend soldiers accused of transmitting the virus to
sexual partners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">G.
Baron Coleman, an Alabama lawyer connected with the Office of Medical and
Scientific Justice who has represented several soldiers, is expected to assist
Nuchereno in at least a portion of his defense of Williams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">Lawyers
from the Attorney General’s Office questioned the legitimacy of the electron
microscope test and asked State Supreme Court Justice John L. Michalski to
allow them to do their own analysis of Williams’ blood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">Rules
of law prohibited Michalski from agreeing to the request.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">But
several medical professionals and HIV experts contacted by The News said the
electron microscope was not an accepted method for finding HIV or for
monitoring a patient infected with the virus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">“Electron
microscopy is not, never has been and never will be an appropriate, relevant or
approved way to detect HIV in the blood. Indeed, it’s beyond silly suggesting
it could, would or should be used for this purpose,” said John Moore, professor
of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York
City.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">‘A
little bit out of left field’<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">Williams’
blood was analyzed in April by Gregory M. Hendricks, manager of the Core
Electron Microscopy Facility at the UMass Medical School, who found “no
evidence” of HIV, according to a letter he sent to the Office of Medical and
Scientific Justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">Dr.
Joseph S. Cervia, clinical professor of medicine and pediatrics at Hofstra
North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, noted that blood tests screening for the
presence of HIV antibodies have been used reliably for years to determine
whether someone has HIV.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">HIV,
AIDS ‘denialists’<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">Seth
Kalichman, an HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment researcher, expressed
concern that the startling legal strategy in the Williams case will mislead
people about accepted science with regard to diagnosing and treating HIV.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">The
Office of Medical and Scientific Justice and its executive director, Clark
Baker, are HIV and AIDS denialists, Kalichman said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">And he
said their efforts are potentially damaging to public health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">“They
have no credibility. They’re not really scientists at all,” Kalichman said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">The
organization has become adept at trying to manipulate juries in court-martial
cases by raising suspicions about HIV tests and the influence of big
pharmaceutical companies, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">And
that’s potentially destructive, because some people who test HIV positive can’t
deal with the reality and will seek out the misinformation put out by AIDS
denialists as a source of comfort, said Kalichman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">“These
guys provide them with a way out,” he said. “There have been people who have
died because they listened to these people.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"></span></b></div>
<a name='more'></a><b>HIV
status matters<o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">Baker,
though, contends that the standard tests to detect HIV are unreliable and
useless and that the electron microscope “is the only device that will see” the
virus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">“If he’s
infected with it, why wouldn’t it be there?” said Baker, who began examining
Williams’ case in 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">Baker
said he looked through hundreds of pages of Williams’ medical records and found
no evidence of a proper HIV diagnosis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">“If
you’re going to accuse somebody of being infected with HIV, you’d better have
some evidence,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">Authorities
accused Williams of infecting at least 13 young Chautauqua County females,
including a 13-year-old and a 15-year-old.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">The
case never went to trial, so the public didn’t get a close look at the criminal
evidence against him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">Nuchereno
said his client has been contacted over the years by numerous groups that “have
offered assistance, including mainline HIV organizations because they see this
as criminalization of a disease.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">Law
affected plea deal<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">After
completing his prison term for his admitted sex crimes, Williams now is subject
to a law that was passed nearly eight years after he pleaded guilty with the
understanding that he would be released from prison in no more than 12 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">In
effect, the plea deal has changed, even though Williams never consented to the
changes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">“It’s
really unforgiveable in 2013. This application of the law is informed by
grossly outdated misunderstandings of HIV, and the state should really be
ashamed about it,” said Catherine Hanssens, executive director of the Center
for HIV Law & Policy in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">Hanssens
said we still don’t know “who infected who” in the Williams case, and the
state’s civil confinement law makes it possible for anyone with HIV to be held
indefinitely for infecting a sexual partner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">But
Burstein maintained that the state has a case no matter what Williams’ HIV
status may be because of Williams’ “known predatory behavior with young girls.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">“Regardless
of whether he was positive or negative, that’s just unconscionable,” she said.
“Developmentally, 13- and 15-year-olds don’t have the cognitive ability to
understand what they’re consenting to.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">Thomas
Shevory, who wrote a book chronicling the media spectacle around the case, said
he has no idea whether the current legal strategy will persuade a jury.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">But
Shevory, who has kept in contact with Williams, is convinced Williams is not a
threat and that he wants to get out of jail, get a job and be with his wife and
four children in Virginia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">“At this
point, for what he’s accused of, even if he’s guilty – which I’m not convinced
of – 15 years is long enough,” said Shevory.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/1997/11/09/the-victims-stories.html">Nushawn Williams. Remember him?</a> In 1999 Williams was convicted as a sexual predator in New York State; Guilty of rape and reckless endangerment. Williams is HIV infected and he infected his victims, including a 13 year old. <br />
<br />
It looks like <a href="http://www.omsj.org/corruption/nush-timeline">Clark Baker and his AIDS Denialist crew of medical mischief and pseudoscientific scams</a> have come to rescue Nushawn Williams, who now claims that he is not HIV infected. Williams may have tested HIV positive, but the tests were, of course, invalid. <br />
<br />
New tests ordered by the defense, with what appears to be consultation from Clark Baker, uses an AIDS denialist favorite scheme -- electron micrographs. <br />
<br />
For an AIDS Denialist, the only proof that HIV exists would be an image of the ‘pure virus’. AIDS Deniers refute science that relies on combinations of antibody/antigen/PCR testing to diagnose HIV. They also, by the way, refute images of HIV because they are not ‘pure virus’. <br />
<br />
While in prison, Williams had been receiving treatment for his HIV infection. Successful treatment leads to viral suppression, making it very hard to get an image of the virus. <br />
<br />
This is the new tactic of AIDS Deniers Clark Baker and David Rasnick. They have been using services of The Core Electron Microscopy Facility at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. <a href="http://www.omsj.org/corruption/nush-timeline">A cell biologist named Gregory Hendricks has been running these tests in cases that employ Baker and Rasnic</a>k. <br />
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There is no reason to believe that Gregory Hendricks is an AIDS Denialist. I doubt that he is aware that he his providing pseudoscientists like David Rasnick with material for testimony in legal cases. Aware or not, that is what is happening. Dr. Hendricks and U-Mass Medical School probably want nothing to do with these clowns. Talk about a credibility liability. Hopefully they will figure this out. <br />
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AIDS Denialists are masters of confusion. Doubt is the one thing that they seem good at generating. That is why they have found a place in the courts. <br />
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Below are the news stories… <br />
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<a href="http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130521/CITYANDREGION/130529851/1002">In court, lawyer says Nushawn Williams ‘doesn’t have HIV’ Man is said to have infected 13 women</a> <br />
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By Gene Warner Jay Tokasz <br />
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Throughout Western New York, Nushawn Williams has been known for 16 years as a sexual predator who infected young women with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. <br />
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But Williams, 36, appeared in State Supreme Court in Erie County on Tuesday to argue that he never had the virus. <br />
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His attorney, John R. Nuchereno, dropped the bombshell revelation Tuesday morning in a hearing before Justice John L. Michalski. <br />
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“He doesn’t have HIV,” Nuchereno said. “Now, it doesn’t just go away, and it leads me to believe the victim in this case is right here. His liberty has been denied for 16 years.” <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Nuchereno had a sample of Williams’ blood sent to the Core Electron Microscopy Facility at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where an analysis showed no HIV, according to a report by Gregory Hendricks, a cell biologist and the facility manager. </span><br />
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In February 1999, Williams pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree (statutory) rape and one count of reckless endangerment for his Chautauqua County crimes. Authorities have said he infected at least 13 young Chautauqua County women, including one 13-year-old, with the virus that leads to AIDS. <br />
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After his plea, Williams, in an interview with a New York City television station, said he had slept with 200 to 300 young women before he was put behind bars. <br />
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Williams’ 12-year prison term ended in April 2010, but he continues to be held in Wende State Correctional Facility under a state law that permits civil confinement of sex offenders. A trial had been scheduled for this summer in Chautauqua County to decide whether the state can prolong his confinement. <br />
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When his story broke in 1996, Nushawn Williams made headlines around the world. He was widely portrayed as a pariah, and Chautauqua County was thrust into the spotlight as an unlikely hotbed of sordid sexual activity and drug use among teens. <br />
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Tuesday’s hearing brought the furor back to the forefront. <br />
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Chautauqua County Sheriff Joseph A. Gerace had trouble making sense of Williams’ new claim in court. <br />
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“I think it’s a desperate effort to try to get him released from custody,” said Gerace, who has been sheriff since 1995. “I don’t recall any claim that he wasn’t HIV-positive. In fact, it was shown in court that he was HIV-positive and continued to have unprotected sex with girls as young as 13. That’s what made it so heinous.” <br />
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But Nuchereno said Williams wasn’t made aware of the HIV test results until shortly before he was arrested and after the public was warned about him. <br />
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“He wasn’t told. That’s always been a major contention. It was never litigated,” Nuchereno said. <br />
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Williams now goes by the name Shyteek Johnson, largely to shield himself from notoriety in prison, Nuchereno said. <br />
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“His name’s been slandered across the country. He has been a target in the Department of Corrections. He’s notorious,” Nuchereno said after Tuesday’s hearing. <br />
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Handcuffed and wearing green prison garments, Williams listened intently to the court deliberations. <br />
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Lawyers for the State Attorney General’s Office questioned whether the blood sample was properly handled and whether the electron microscopy is a scientifically valid method for detecting HIV. <br />
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“It’s sort of a Pandora’s box at this point, this test,” said Joseph Muia Jr., an assistant attorney general. “The information we have is that the electron microscope testing is not the gold standard, so to speak, of testing in this area.” <br />
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Muia also suggested that with proper treatment, HIV-infected people can have their “viral loads” reduced to the point that the virus becomes undetectable. <br />
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“That may be what we have here,” said Muia, who asked the judge to allow the state to draw Williams’ blood and do more testing. <br />
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Assistant Attorney General Wendy R. Whiting reminded the judge that Williams admitted to his crimes, and medical experts are able to link people infected with HIV to a source of the infection. <br />
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“Links can be made that, at a minimum, many parties came up HIV-positive,” Whiting said. <br />
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Nuchereno tried to cast doubt on those links. <br />
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“My concern with the victims is I don’t know if they were even properly tested,” he said. Back in 1996, HIV testing was still relatively new and potentially riddled with error, Nuchereno said. “It was the equivalent of taking a home pregnancy test,” he said. <br />
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Williams’ HIV-positive status stuck, even though the test wasn’t confirmed, Nuchereno said. <br />
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“Everybody’s just assumed it all along – and, most importantly, he even assumed it,” he said. “He accepted those results. He stated, ‘They must be true because the government told me that.’ ” <br />
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Muia said Williams was tested four times a year for HIV in prison, but when pressed by Michalski, the state’s lawyers said they did not have documentation of such testing. <br />
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That’s because it did not happen, Nuchereno said. <br />
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“They kept telling him, ‘We’re treating you, but we don’t find any evidence of the virus,’ ” he said. <br />
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Williams stopped taking HIV medication in preparation for the electron microscopy, Nuchereno said. He has remained off of HIV drugs since discovering the results of the test in April. <br />
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Additional Reporting from the Associated Press <br />
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<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/23/3413366/lawyer-ny-man-at-center-of-hiv.html#storylink=cpy">Lawyer: NY man at center of HIV scare not positive</a> <br />
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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Nushawn Williams, a New York drug dealer imprisoned amid accusations he infected 13 young women with HIV in the 1990s, does not have the virus that causes AIDS, according to his attorney, who said he arranged for a new blood test as part of efforts to get him released from prison. <br />
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"The results were that there was no HIV," lawyer John Nuchereno said Thursday, after revealing the findings during a court hearing earlier in the week. <br />
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He said Williams, 36, may have been the victim of a false positive when tested 16 years ago. <br />
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"Everybody just assumed the results were correct. Everyone just accepted it," he said. <br />
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State officials, seeking to keep Williams locked up, have questioned the validity of the new results. <br />
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Williams has been in prison since pleading guilty in 1999 to statutory rape and reckless endangerment. <br />
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In 1997, before he was charged, authorities in the western New York city of Jamestown took the unusual step of announcing publicly that Williams was HIV positive in an effort to stem further spread of the virus by Williams' partners to others. News that the dreadlocked Bronx native known as "Face" had been found to be the common denominator in numerous HIV cases, including that of a 13-year-old girl, set off a panic in the small city and sent lines for HIV testing out clinic doors. <br />
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He told a reporter in 1999 that he'd had sex with 200 to 300 partners. <br />
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Williams, who now goes by the name Shyteek Johnson, completed a 12-year prison sentence in April 2010 but has remained in custody as the state seeks to have him committed indefinitely under a civil law that allows extended confinement for sex offenders with mental abnormalities that make them likely to offend again. <br />
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Nuchereno argues that Williams, without HIV, is not a danger and should be freed. <br />
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"Are you dangerous because at 19 or 20 you liked to have sex?" he asked. <br />
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A trial is scheduled for next month. <br />
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The state's request to conduct its own HIV test on Williams was denied on Wednesday. <br />
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Assistant Attorney General Joseph Muia Jr. questioned whether the April blood sample had been properly handled, as well as the reliability of the test submitted by Nuchereno, which was conducted using an electron microscope at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. <br />
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"The information we have is that the electron microscope testing is not the gold standard, so to speak, of testing in this field," Muia said during a motions hearing Tuesday in state Supreme Court. <br />
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He told the judge that Williams had been tested quarterly while in prison and treated for HIV because of consistently positive findings. But he said he did not have access to the prison medical records to show the court. <br />
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State corrections officials said Thursday they could not discuss specific inmates' care but that offenders generally receive services consistent with the standard of care in the community. <br />
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Muia also suggested the treatment Williams received in prison had made his HIV undetectable. <br />
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Dr. Joseph McGowan, medical director of the Center for Aids Research and Treatment at North Shore University Hospital, told The Associated Press that the accepted protocol for HIV testing involves screening the blood for antibodies and then confirming the results with a second test. An electron microscope would be unreliable, particularly for someone infected a long time, because the number of cells harboring virus genes would be diluted over time and difficult to detect, said McGowan, the New York and New Jersey chairman of the American Academy of HIV Medicine. <br />
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"Electron microscopy is not typically a means for confirming or ruling out HIV infection," said Dr. Joseph Cervia, who is also a certified HIV specialist with the American Academy of HIV Medicine and a clinical professor at Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine. <br />
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In its 2010 petition seeking civil confinement, the attorney general's office described Williams as a mentally disturbed, sex-obsessed drug user who was unruly and sometimes violent in prison and would likely infect more women if set free. A psychologist's report said Williams targeted vulnerable young women who were underage and/or drug addicted and "used charm and coercion to secure sexual contact." <br />
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Just as we were getting bored with the same old (elderly white male) AIDS Deniers, enter Dr. Nancy Banks. Claiming to have a medical degree from Harvard, Dr. Banks has been recruited into Clark Baker’s AIDS denialism legal team. She is one of his star witnesses for his Office of Medical and Scientific Justice. Banks is an ‘expert’ witness in Military cases, where Clark Baker has actually found an attorney dim enough to employ his services. <br /> <br />What I like most about Nancy Banks is that she illustrates something we have known for years… AIDS Denialists and Holocaust Deniers are nuts in the same shell. In the case of Nancy Banks, she is one nut that has it all – conspiracy theories, AIDS denial, and Holocaust denial. Below is an essay that sheds light on Nancy Banks. I have agreed not to name of the author to evade Clark Baker’s harassment. <br /> <a name='more'></a><br />Dr. Nancy Banks has no background in infectious diseases, has never done research, and has never published anything other a self- published book “AIDS, Opium, Diamonds, and Empire: The Deadly Virus of International Greed”. <br /> <br />Banks explains that AIDS is caused not by HIV but by a global conspiracy in league with a variety of secret societies and Western governments to loot Africa of its diamonds and other natural resources while diverting attention from the plunder by manufacturing the AIDS epidemic. According to her theory, AIDS symptoms are actually caused by the antiretroviral AIDS drugs or by tuberculosis and other diseases afflicting mineworkers. This subterfuge allows diamond corporations like DeBeers to escape liability for hazardous working conditions while at the same time engaging in a vast scheme to depopulate continent. <br /><br /> Banks draws heavily on anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. For example, she quotes prominent anti-Semitic authors Eustace Mullins, Andrew Carrington Hitchcock, and Salvador Astucia. As the quotes below also show, she is not afraid to openly accuse a Jewish conspiracy of genocide in Africa. She singles out Israel, the American Jewish Congress, and Maurice Tempelsman as examples of the wider Jewish conspiracy. Finally, as can be seen in the index, Banks’ book is a compilation of some of the most widely disseminated conspiracy theories of the 20th century including such varied topics as the Kennedy assassination, fluoridated water, the Matrix, and 9/11, all of which somehow explain her theory of HIV/AIDS. <br /><br /> Banks believes that almost all world events of the past 75 years can be tied to so-called HIV hysteria: “The AIDS paradigm has created a universal belief system based not on science but on inference, innuendo, and association. Very few people will exercise the capacity to synthesize what on the surface may appear to be unrelated events. The assassination of President Kennedy, the prolongation of the Vietnam War, the War on Drugs, the War on Cancer, the rise of Kissinger and Iran-Contra, the de-industrialization of the United States and the strengthening of China as a world power, the genocide in the Congo and the current financial crisis are different acts of the same psychodrama.” Banks, AIDS, Opium, Diamonds, and Empire, p362. <div>
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Banks uses a variety of anti-Semitic and other conspiracy theories to advance her theory of HIV/AIDS: <br /><br /> AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire by Nancy Banks, p29, fn 38: Andrew Carrington Hitchcock, The Synagogue of Satan: The Secret History of World Jewish Domination. <br /><br /> AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire by Nancy Banks, p95, fn 123: John Coleman, The Conspirators’ Hierarchy: The Committee of 300. Coleman believes that world governments are controlled by a conspiracy of 300 families in England that acquired power and wealth during Great Britain’s Opium Wars with China. See http://coleman300.net. <br /><br /> AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire by Nancy Banks, p127, fn 173, 175, 176: Various books about the Gemstone File. The Gemstone File is a conspiracy theory that Aristotle Onassis, Joseph Kennedy, Eugene Meyer, and others were involved in a global conspiracy including the mafia, oil and drug cartels, and rogue militaries. According the conspiracy theory, the Kennedy brothers were murdered when they attempted to break away from the conspiracy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemstone_File. <br /><br /> AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire by Nancy Banks, p128-29, fn 182. “Eustace Mullins stated that ‘Bernard Baruch, Eugene Meyer, Jr., and Paul Warburg . . . exercised more direct power over the American people than any president, because back of these men was the strength of the financial oligarchy which had maintained undisputed sway in this country since 1863.’” Eustace Mullins, The Federal Reserve Conspiracy. <br /><br /> Note: Eustace Mullins was a prolific anti-Semitic author and white supremacist who believed in a vast Jewish conspiracy to control the world through finance and medicine. <br /><br /> According to the Anti-Defamation League, in his book The Federal Reserve Conspiracy, Mullins <a href="http://www.adl.org/special_reports/control_of_fed/print.asp">wrote</a>: “The American people have assumed the burden of hundreds of billions of dollars of debt simply because we let a handful of enemy aliens take over our monetary system. The three most important architects of our present monetary system are ... Paul Warburg, the German Jew who wrote the Federal Reserve Act, Emmanuel Goldenweiser, the Russian Jew who supervised the details of Federal Reserve Board operations through its first thirty years, and Harry Dexter White, son of Lithuanian Jews, who set up the International Monetary Fund.”<br /><br /> AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire by Nancy Banks, p141: “Diamonds are common and cheap. . . . This is a commodity that is tightly controlled by a small group of individuals who form a spider web of misery and intrigue that leads from South Africa to Tel Aviv to Brussels and New York. These sparkling gems are not a girl’s best friend, but a warmonger’s best asset of untraceable funds to pay for guns, corrupt politicians, assassins, and chaos in pursuit of an agenda run out of Israel.” <br /><br /> AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire by Nancy Banks, p145: “It is not surprising, according to reports, that [Premier Diamond of South Africa] has blamed this rapid rise in the incidence of tuberculosis on AIDS, inferring that working conditions are irrelevant. The cynical use of AIDS, as a method to neutralize potential legal action against Premier Diamond’s sub-standard mining practices is rather typical of the ‘impeccable business decisions’ of this organization. What possible liability could accrue to a company that has a graveyard full of dead workers and cities full of injured workers who have a disease that was ‘sexually acquired’?” <br /><br /> AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire by Nancy Banks, pp148-49: “AIDS is part of the business model being used by the West to explain away the numerous atrocities committed by extractive corporations as a part of their routine business practices [in Africa]. Maurice Tempelsman, an icon of such business interests, has invested his entire life in supporting this business model whereby workers’ lives are ended abruptly by deliberate business decisions that privilege profit over human life. . . . Tempelsman has played a key role over the course of the last six decades in the destabilization and economic ruin of several African countries. . . . By sitting on the board of the Harvard School of Public Health’s AIDS Initiative, Tempelsman has made sure that the atrocities he instigates in Africa as a staunch advocate for mining interests are misconstrued as the HIV/AIDS crises. . . . [His] resume omits that Tempelsman is chairman of the American Jewish Congress, a Zionist pressure group that claims it works closely with the Israeli military.” (emphasis added). <br /><br /> AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire by Nancy Banks, pp150-51: “The Congo is the second largest country in Africa. For decades, under Belgium rule, it was ruthlessly stripped of its natural resources . . . . King Leopold claimed that everything in Congo belonged to him. . . . The corporations answered to King Leopold, and Leopold answered to the Rothschilds who became the court bankers in 1853.” <br /><br /> AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire by Nancy Banks, p159: “AIDS is the subterfuge for the economic destruction of a continent and psychological warfare against the African people of the Diaspora. [Maurice] Tempelsman as chairman of the Harvard School of Public Health’s AIDS Initiative intends to keep it that way. It’s just business!” <br /><br /> AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire by Nancy Banks, p169, fn 263: Salvador Astucia, Opium Lords, Israel, the Golden Triangle and the Kennedy Assassination. Astucia’s thesis is that the World Jewish Congress, in league with Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky and the FBI, hired French heroin traffickers to murder John F. Kennedy. As repayment, the heroin traffickers were allowed to resume their activities in southeast Asia, which required the U.S. to overthrow the government of South Vietnam. <br /><br /> Opium Lords, Israel, the Golden Triangle and the Kennedy Assassination, by Salvador Astucia, p1 “Opium was the glue that held together the rivaling factions that conspired to kill JFK. The main factions in the conspiracy were Zionist instigators, the American Mafia (headed by Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky and his lieutenant, Santo Trafficante), French-Corsican crime syndicates in Marseilles, France and Southeast Asia, and the US military.” (emphasis added). <br /><br /> Opium Lords, Israel, the Golden Triangle and the Kennedy Assassination, by Salvador Astucia, pp250-51 “Regardless of the document’s origin, many of the Protocols [of Zion] bear a striking resemblance to reality. And quite frankly, the general tone of the Protocols is similar to that of the Talmud. . . . The first example—Protocol XII, Control of the Press—clearly reflects reality in modern America. The US news media is almost completely dominated by Jewish individuals at the executive and ownership levels.” (emphasis added). <br /><br /> AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire by Nancy Banks, p225, fn 336-37: Eustace Mullins, Murder by Injection. Mullins is a prolific anti-Semitic author and white supremacist. In Murder by Injection, he claims that a Jewish global banking conspiracy led by the Rothschilds and acting through their American agent Jay Rockefeller have created a medical monopoly in the United States that is poisoning Americans with vaccines and fluoridated water in order to reap profits from the medical and pharmaceutical industries while also sapping the will of Americans to resist the New World Order. Banks takes her theory of HIV/AIDS directly from chapter six, “Whither AIDS?” <br /><br /> Murder by Injection, by Eustace Mullins, p5. “The present work, the result of some forty years of investigative research, is a logical progression of my previous books: the expose of the international control of monetary issue and banking practices in the United States; a later work revealing the secret network of organization through which these alien forces wield political power—the secret committees, foundations, and political parties through which their hidden plans are implemented[.]” Mullins’ reference to his previous works is significant. Mullins’ previous works include the virulently anti-Semitic books The Curse of Canaan and The New History of the Jews. <br /><br /> The Curse of Canaan, by Eustace Mullins, pp150-51. “With Satan’s help, the Canaanites attacked and seized the land of Israel. . . . The Canaanite invaders now occupying Israel are not ‘Christ’s’; they are the revilers and mockers of Christ. . . . We have been persecuted because we have fallen into the trap of the world, the dualism which offers us the choice of following God’s Will, or of passively joining the Canaanites in accepting Satan as the leader, which means participating in the shedding of blood and the obscene rituals of human sacrifice.” <br /> <br />The New History of the Jews, by Eustace Mullins, p5. “Throughout the history of civilization, one particular problem of mankind has remained constant. In all of the vast records of peace and wars and rumors of wars, one great empire after another has had to come to grips with the same dilemma . . . the Jews.” <br /> <br />The New History of the Jews, by Eustace Mullins, p49. “Jews and Ritual Murder: At the dawn of civilization, the blood rite, in which human blood is drunk from the body of a still-living victim, was known to many tribes. However, only one people, that has never progressed beyond the Stone Age, has continued to practice the blood rite and ritual murder. This people is the Jews.” <br /><br /> Murder by Injection, by Eustace Mullins, p203. “In reviewing the all-pervasive influence of the Rockefellers and their foreign controllers, the Rothschilds, in every aspect of American life, the citizen must ask himself, ‘What can be done?’” <br /><br /> Almost every major conspiracy of the 20th century can be found in Banks’ book. Banks weaves each conspiracy theory into her narrative and blames each one for being the true cause of the AIDS epidemic and AIDS symptoms: <br /><br /> Deep politics, p13 <br />Jay Rockefeller and the Flexner Brothers, p27</div>
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World Zionism and the Versailles Conference, p28 <br />Fluoridated water, pp71, 73, 363 <br />Fluoridated water is a form of population control, p366 <br />Unemployed cancer researchers looking for fame, p109 <br />The Skull and Bones Society at Yale, p112 <br />Kennedy Assassination, pp113, 116 <br />George H.W. Bush, p113 <br />Dick Cheney, p121 <br />Joint Special Operations Command, p121 <br />9/11 (The World Trade Center was leveled by explosives by neoconservatives to justify the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan), pp121-23, 356 <br />Nixon and Kissinger start the Vietnam War to expand their drug empire and poison American blacks and Hispanics with heroin, p126 <br />Mafia and Joseph Kennedy, p131 <br />CIA and the Kennedy assassination, p133 <br />HIV does not cause AIDS, pp233, 259, 395 <br />AIDS is a hoax, p241 <br />AIDS is an energy deficit condition, p353 <br />AIDS medications cause AIDS, p242 <br />AIDS is caused by dehydration, p393 <br />AIDS is caused by lack of sleep, p393 <br />AIDS is caused by pollution, p394 <br />AIDS is caused by heavy metal music, p394 <br />AIDS is caused by Coca Cola, p395 <br />Love and gratitude prevent HIV, p396 <br />HIV is not sexually transmitted, p293 <br />Stargate and Army remote viewing program, p328 <br />The Matrix, p360-64 <br />Chakras, p365</div>
Seth Kalichmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715826946361587097noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633581663557175057.post-12487658982307146082013-02-19T14:25:00.001-05:002013-02-19T14:25:08.669-05:00Celia Farber's Day in Court: Dismissed with Unavailing Contentions<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6jdgBAwCKoo/USPRTQ9cUzI/AAAAAAAADD4/Y3Ikfujgmy0/s1600/celia_writing_in_notepad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6jdgBAwCKoo/USPRTQ9cUzI/AAAAAAAADD4/Y3Ikfujgmy0/s200/celia_writing_in_notepad.jpg" width="134" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Supreme Court properly determined that plaintiff was a limited public figure because, through her publication of countless articles, she voluntarily injected herself into the controversial debate on whether HIV causes AIDS with a view toward influencing the debate (see Krauss v Globe Intl., 251 AD2d 191, 192 [1st Dept 1998]), and "project[ed] [her] name and personality before . . . readers of nationally distributed magazines . . . to establish [her] reputation as a leading authority" in this area (Maule v NYM Corp., 54 NY2d 880, 882-883 [1981]). The court also properly concluded that the subjects of HIV/AIDS, plaintiff's journalism, and her receipt of an award for her journalism fell "within the sphere of legitimate public concern" (Chapadeau v Utica Observer-Dispatch, 38 NY2d 196, 199 [1975]). Indeed, the record established that plaintiff was a contentious figure within the traditional HIV/AIDS community. </span><br />
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<b><b><a href="http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/34163/title/Monster-Hunting-2-0/">Monster Hunting 2.0</a> by Dan Cossins for<i style="font-style: italic;"> ScienceNews</i></b></b><br />
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">So long as the standards are kept high, then I think it will demonstrate that cryptozoology isn’t just full of crackpots chasing Nessy. —Darren Naish, University of Southampton, U.K.</i><br />
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Since the demise of the journal Cryptozoology in 1996, there has been no peer-reviewed English-language periodical for the controversial field, which studies animals known from anecdote, folklore, or fragmentary physical evidence, but not yet authenticated with actual specimens. So when the U.K.–based Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) approached popular cryptozoology writer Karl Shuker about launching a new journal, he was happy to oblige.<br />
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“I felt it imperative that a journal of this nature should exist again as a platform for formal scientific cryptozoological research and reviews of past cases that mainstream journals may not be willing to consider,” says Shuker, who has a PhD in zoology and comparative physiology from the University of Birmingham, U.K. Having assembled a panel of reviewers who then pored over the first batch of submissions, the CFZ and Shuker published the first issue of The<i> Journal of Cryptozoology</i> in October 2012. Editor-in-chief Shuker insists that all articles are subjected to the “same level of rigorous peer-review evaluations as [in] any mainstream journal.”</div>
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Shuker hopes that by providing an outlet for cryptozoological research with a genuinely scientific approach, the new journal will ensure that serious contributions get the attention they deserve. Much depends on the quality of the material and rigor of the review process, of course, but he also hopes that The Journal of Cryptozoology will raise the reputation of this much-maligned field in the eyes of the scientific community.<br />
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Such aspirations will no doubt raise a few eyebrows. For many onlookers, the term cryptozoology is inextricably linked to crackpot amateurs who make sensational, unsubstantiated claims about the existence of Sasquatch or the Loch Ness Monster. That’s understandable; there are all manner of “investigators” seeking out fantastical cryptids in a distinctly less-than-scientific manner.<br />
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Most people who unashamedly call themselves cryptozoologists are doing a form of travel writing, says Darren Naish, a paleozoologist at the U.K.’s National Oceanography Centre at the University of Southampton who also dabbles in cryptozoology. “It tends to be a lot of speculation and not much analysis of data, and the conclusions are not based on a robust-enough framework to be considered of the normal caliber you’d expect for scientific conclusions.”<br />
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But the fundamental concept of cryptozoology is not pseudoscientific, argues Shuker. “If cryptozoology is approached in a rigorously scientific, objective manner, it is no more a pseudoscience than is any other branch of zoology,” he says. And there are several recent cases of new species being discovered on the basis of anecdotal evidence, including the saola (or Vu Quang ox), found in the forests of Vietnam in 1992, and the kipunji, a monkey in Tanzania, officially described in 2003. These creatures are not as exotic as the yeti or the orang pendek—a bipedal primate said to roam the rainforests of Sumatra—but they demonstrate that even today, in an age of satellite maps and camera traps, animals as large as oxen can escape science’s gaze.<br />
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Zoologists engaged in this sort of research are doing cryptozoology, says Naish, whether or not they would identify their work as such. But there is a small cadre of trained zoologists with positions at accredited universities who scientifically analyze supposed evidence for the existence of cryptids—and who describe themselves as “scientific cryptozoologists.”<br />
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Naish, who includes himself in that group, uses his knowledge of vertebrate paleontology to scientifically evaluate strange-looking carcasses and to assess the likelihood that extinct marine creatures such as plesiosaurs could still be around. He was part of a team that used statistical models to predict the number of extant pinniped species yet to be described, a study published in 2008 in Historical Biology. Another notable example is Jeff Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University, who applies his understanding of functional foot morphology in primates to evaluate alleged sasquatch footprints.<br />
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Citing the work of Meldrum in particular, Loren Coleman, director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine, says that “the standards are already high among those who are working academically and scientifically.” Despite the presence of established scientific cryptozoologists, however, the term cryptozoology remains tainted—something Shuker hopes to change with The Journal of Cryptozoology.<br />
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The first issue featured a reevaluation of evidence for a footprint first reported in 1871, said to have been made by a Queensland tiger, an Australian marsupial thought to be similar to the Tasmanian tiger; and another, by Naish, that examines a previously enigmatic carcass from Australia’s Margaret River known only from a single photograph. “Neither paper was likely to have been published in a mainstream journal,” says Shuker, “and yet both were fully deserving of publication on account of their strictly scientific approach.”<br />
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Although it’s early days, the response to the new journal has been encouraging: since the first issue was published, Shuker says he has received submissions from researchers within the mainstream zoological community.<br />
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Naish is cautiously optimistic. If cryptid studies come from a well-reasoned scientific approach, they should be accepted by mainstream zoological journals, he says. “On the other hand, you could argue that every specialized subdiscipline needs its own special community-interest publication.”<br />
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The big challenge is to make sure the journal is robust enough to be taken seriously, Naish adds. “So long as the standards are kept high, then I think it will encourage a gradual rise in the standing [of the field] and demonstrate that cryptozoology isn’t just full of crackpots chasing Nessy.”Seth Kalichmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715826946361587097noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633581663557175057.post-90012149270251748852013-01-26T22:55:00.001-05:002013-01-26T23:12:55.665-05:00A Hard Nut to Crack: Why AIDS Denialism Won't Die Easy<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<a href="http://www.stonehearthnewsletters.com/false-beliefs-persist-even-after-instant-online-corrections/human-behavior-honesty/">False beliefs persist, even after instant online corrections</a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">By Jeff Grabmeier</span><br />
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It seems like a great idea: Provide instant corrections to web-surfers when they run across obviously false information on the Internet. But a new study suggests that this type of tool may not be a panacea for dispelling inaccurate beliefs, particularly among people who already want to believe the falsehood.<br />
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“Real-time corrections do have some positive effect, but it is mostly with people who were predisposed to reject the false claim anyway,” said R. Kelly Garrett, lead author of the study and assistant professor of communication at Ohio State University.<br />
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“The problem with trying to correct false information is that some people want to believe it, and simply telling them it is false won’t convince them.”<br />
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For example, the rumor that President Obama was not born in the United States was widely believed during the past election season, even though it was thoroughly debunked.<br />
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The prospect of correcting falsehoods like this online before they have a chance to spread widely has obvious appeal, Garrett said.<br />
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In fact, it has already been attempted: A team from Intel and the University of California, Berkeley, developed Dispute Finder, a plug-in for web browsers that was released in 2009 and would alert users when they opened a webpage with a disputed claim. That project has ended, but Garrett said similar efforts are under way.<br />
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“Although the average news user hasn’t encountered real-time correction software yet, it is in the works and I suspect it will see more widespread use soon,” he said.<br />
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But will it work? In order to find out, Garrett conducted a study with Brian Weeks, a graduate student in communication at Ohio State. Their study (available <a href="http://wp.comm.ohio-state.edu/misperceptions/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/GarrettWeeks-PromisePeril-CSCW-final.pdf">here</a>), which they will present Feb. 26 in Austin, Texas, appears in the 2013 Proceedings of the Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing conference.<br />
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Participants in the study were a diverse group of 574 adults from across the country who participated online.<br />
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The experiment was designed to see what would happen when participants read false statements copied from a “political blog” (actually text prepared by the researchers) about the issue of electronic health records.<br />
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While some of the information, collected from news stories and government sources, was correct, the researchers also inserted several false statements about who was allowed access to these records. For instance, the message falsely claimed that hospital administrators, health insurance companies and even government officials had unrestricted access to people’s electronic health records.<br />
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The participants were divided into three groups – some were presented with an immediate correction, saying that FactCheck.org, an independent fact-checking organization, had concluded this blog post contained factual errors. Inaccurate statements were italicized, enclosed in brackets and displayed in red, and a detailed correction appeared at the bottom of the page.<br />
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Others read the blog post with the errors, followed by completing an unrelated three-minute task, and then were presented with the exact same correction.<br />
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The final group was presented only with the inaccurate message during the study.<br />
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Afterwards, all participants were asked how easy or difficult it would be for several groups (including hospital administrators, government officials and others) to access electronic health records. Participants were graded based on the accuracy of their answers.<br />
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In general, those who received the immediate correction were just slightly more likely to be accurate than those who received the delayed correction. Those who received no corrections were, not surprisingly, the least accurate.<br />
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But the most interesting results came when the researchers analyzed who was influenced by each kind of correction.<br />
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The real-time correction worked well with participants who indicated at the beginning of the study that they supported electronic health records, also called EHRs.<br />
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“But for those who opposed EHRs, the effect of the immediate correction was essentially the same as if they had received no correction at all,” Garrett said.<br />
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The reason appears to be that opponents of EHRs discounted the credibility of the source of the correction, Garrett said. On the other hand, the more favorably an individual felt about EHRs, the more credible the correction was perceived to be.<br />
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Although this pattern was also evident among those who received the delayed correction, the effect was significantly weaker.<br />
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Garrett said the results of this study cast doubt on the theory that people who believe false rumors need only to be educated about the truth to change their minds.<br />
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“Humans aren’t vessels into which you can just pour accurate information,” he said.<br />
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“Correcting misperceptions is really a persuasion task. You have to convince people that, while there are competing claims, one claim is clearly more accurate.”<br />
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Garrett noted that, while instant corrections were slightly more effective than delayed corrections, the problem is that instant corrections actually increase resistance among those whose attitudes are supported by the falsehood.<br />
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“We would anticipate that systems like Dispute Finder would do little to change the beliefs of the roughly one in six Americans who, despite exhaustive news coverage and fact checking, continue to question whether President Obama was born in the U.S.,” he said.<br />
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Garrett said it may be better to find a way to deliver corrections later, when people may not be so defensive about their beliefs.<br />
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<span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Accused of bilking nearly
$200,000 from a partly paralyzed doctor, <a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news%2Flocal_news&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Douglas+McClain%22"><span style="color: #373737; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Douglas McClain</span></a>
Sr. said Friday he was no scam artist and intends to pay back Dr. <a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news%2Flocal_news&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Charles+Arnold%22"><span style="color: #373737; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Charles Arnold</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">McClain, 61, said he's
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">“That would be nice,” said
Arnold, a 73-year-old neuropsychiatrist who was paralyzed in a motorcycle wreck
several years ago. “But it isn't true.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The criminal case is the
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Oaks Ranch appraised by the county at nearly $410,000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Over the years, angry
investors have filed more than $7.8 million in civil court judgments against
McClain at the Bexar County courthouse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Last year, the U.S.
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telling investors a drug derived from goat blood could potentially cure HIV and
other diseases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">McClain sold $300,000 in
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a Texas holistic clinic. He took their money but never gave them any stock, the
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">McClain spoke to a
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">“That is not true,” said
McClain, who was waiting in District Court Judge <a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news%2Flocal_news&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Philip+Kazen%22"><span style="color: #373737; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Philip Kazen</span></a>'s
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Asked why investors kept
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">“The amount of judgments
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">McClain said he was
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">“I actually can't discuss
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Arnold said McClain gained
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The mediation sessions
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The money was supposed to
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">McClain put up a rifle as
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">San Antonio police
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crimes detail, checked McClain's bank records and discovered the funds Arnold
paid him “were being used for day-to-day expenses, such as eating, shopping,
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>The news below makes an important
point about the type of legal cases that AIDS Denialist <a href="http://clarkbakeromsj.wordpress.com/">Clark Baker</a> targets
for his Office of Medical and Scientific Justice (OMSJ). There are far better legal
defenses than AIDS denialism for those accused of HIV-related crimes.
Psychopaths aside, no one infected with HIV wants to infect another person.
Failure to disclose HIV is a serious consequence of the stigma and
discrimination that people living with HIV encounter. People with HIV may also
fail to disclose when they believe that they are no longer infectious and use condoms. Reasonable people can differ regarding these dilemmas and their implications
of HIV disclosure. What is not reasonable or even rational is to claim that no
harm can come from failing to disclose because HIV does not cause AIDS, HIV
tests are invalid, or some nutty conspiracy theory. Everyone accused of a crime
deserves a competent defense. It looks like Canada is on the right track toward dealing with this issue.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> (Thanks to Truthy for the tip)</span></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/canadarealtime/2012/10/05/wsj-law-blog-canada-supreme-court-softens-hiv-disclosure-rules/"><b>Canada Supreme Court Softens HIV Disclosure Rules</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Wall Street Journal Law Blog<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>By
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">People with low levels of HIV have no
legal obligation to disclose their condition to sexual partners as long as they
use a condom, <u>the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday</u>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">From the ruling, authored by Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The court, in a 9-0 decision, said a
low viral load combined with condom protection doesn’t create “a
significant risk of serious bodily harm.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A significant risk of
serious bodily harm is established by a realistic possibility of transmission
of HIV. On the evidence before us, a realistic possibility of transmission is
negated by evidence that the accused’s viral load was low at the time of
intercourse and that condom protection was used. However, the general
proposition that a low viral load combined with condom use negates a realistic
possibility of transmission of HIV does not preclude the common law from
adapting to future advances in treatment and to circumstances where risk
factors other than those considered in the present case are at play.</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The court considered two separate cases, from Manitoba and Quebec. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><u>The court ruled 14 years ago</u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> that people with HIV had to disclose their condition to sexual partners or face a charge of aggravated sexual assault, which carries a maximum life sentence. Prosecutors from both provinces argued that people with HIV must inform their partners regardless of the risk.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">In the U.S., <u>more than 30 states</u>
have laws that make it illegal for people to not tell sexual partners whether
they are HIV-positive.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I posted earlier
that AIDS Denialist and LA Private Investigator Clark Baker is focusing his
attention on the US Military justice system. Baker’s storefront business, the
Office of Medical and Scientific Justice (OMSJ) is paid by US taxpayers to bring AIDS
denialists to the court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">How are AIDS
Denialists used as experts in legal cases?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to the
defense attorneys involved in these cases, denialist testimony concentrates
on HIV testing, diagnosis and treatment. Court petitions show that their
expertise is needed to explain sample processing, the use of testing equipment,
interpretation of test results, and dozens of other factors that are necessary
to establish whether someone is or is not infected with HIV. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">AIDS Denialists
testify under oath that people living with HIV infection who are accused of
having unprotected sex without disclosing their HIV status cannot possibly be
guilty of endangering anyone because HIV does not cause AIDS. And even if HIV
does cause AIDS, HIV tests are invalid and cannot be used to diagnose HIV
infection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The defense
attorneys themselves are not buying into the OMSJ story. But as one of them
told me, if it can get their guy off they will use it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">OMSJ is not about the
truth. Clark Baker is paid to deliver doubt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Defense attorneys
contract Baker because they have been convinced that AIDS deniers can raise
doubt, even if based on lies, pseudoscience, and conspiracy theories. Anyone
who has listened to AIDS Denialists knows all too well that they can raise
doubt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And it gets worse when prosecutors call true experts, allowing the AIDS
Denialists to create the illusion of a scientific debate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Is AIDS denialism
a competent defense? </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is not a
single case where AIDS Denialists actually accounted for an acquittal or dismissal.
Despite their trying, AIDS denialists in courts have failed in the US, Canada,
Europe, and Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The military
case that Clark Baker boasts winning was actually thrown out of court. People
close to the case have told me that the judge’s ruling had nothing to do with
OMSJ testimony delivered by Nancy Turner Banks and Rodney Richards. In fact there
were technical factors regarding the alleged assault that resulted in the
dismissal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In another military case, the accused was found guilty after OMSJ experts testified.
Not surprisingly, Baker does not have much to say about this case. <span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>US Taxpayers are
funding OMSJ in Military Courts</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the Military
Justice System, the US government is responsible for both prosecuting the
accused and providing a sound defense. That means the prosecution has to
ensure that the case is properly tried. Because the
Military is responsible for both prosecuting and defending the accused, they
are required to clear defense experts and approve their cost to taxpayers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">That is why the Army
has required the defense to use Army experts in cases involving OMSJ. (see post
below for Baker’s whining about it) And by the way, those Army experts are
actually true experts who are very helpful in making the AIDS Deniers of OMSJ
look like idiots. The true experts will not lie under oath. Of course, when
experts on the same side do not agree it can cause even more confusion and
potentially more doubt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a matter of
military due process, service members are entitled to expert assistance and the
military defense has the resources of the government at its disposal to pay for
this assistance. The basis for the requests comes from cases such as <i>US v.
Garries.</i> It is understandable that the defense has a right to
government-funded expert assistance. And at the same time the government has
the responsibility not to waste its funds on cranks, quacks and frauds. Hence,
the OMSJ experts are most often not accepted as experts and not allowed to
testify.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><b>What's in it for OM$J? </b></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Baker and OMSJ
act as the agents in this theatre of the absurd. The $3500 that is charged for
pre-trial consultation goes to Baker. If the AIDS denialist expert testifies,
Baker gets another $400+ per hour + travel + fees. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In my previous
blog post on OMSJ (see below), I discussed David Rasnick and Rodney Richards. I
only mentioned Nancy Turner Banks briefly without much detail. She seems to be on the
witness / consultants list for all of these OMSJ Military cases. My previous
post raised questions about her perceptions of reality. Here is a more complete
accounting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nancy Turner
Banks received an MD from Harvard in 1978 and a Masters of Business
Administration in the area of Finance in 1996. Her most recent professional
appointment was as a consultant physician in private practice of Obstetrics and
Gynecology in Nyack, New York. She has never held an academic appointment and
she has only published one work -- Her self-published book entitled<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire, the
Deadly Virus of International Greed, </i>published by Universal in 2010.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to Dr. Banks, she “tells the
dramatic story of a financial ideology that is damaging to everything that it
means to be human. It is the story of a long running global conspiracy and
business model that can be traced back to the British East India Company that
places profits over people. In the end, it is the story of hope and how we can
regain our sanity and our health in a world gone mad.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In reality, her
ideas are firmly rooted on AIDS denialism. This is not surprising given that
she is a long-term member of the Rethinking AIDS Society. Nancy Turner Banks
believes that AIDS is a conspiracy between secret
government agencies, the CDC, and pharmaceutical companies. But what is unique about
Nancy Turner Banks is that she includes the DeBeers Mining Company in her
conspiracy. These forces are believed to conspire to kill blacks and profit
from HIV. To build her case, she cites Andrew Carrington Hitchock’s 2006 book
‘The Synagogue of Satan’ and Eustace Mullins’ ‘The New History of the Jews’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you are not
familiar with Andrew Carrington Hitchcock, here is a sample of his views.
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<i><u style="text-underline: #1000FF;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Hitler had been doing phenomenally well in turning his
country around economically by breaking with the Jewish international bankers
and trading by barter</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hitler
simply issued what money was needed on the authority of the German Government,
which was backed by the productivity of the German labour force, and not the
empty promises of Jewish international bankers</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
citizens of Germany were able to make Germany the most powerful and prosperous
state in Europe in only a seven year period</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Jews could not let this continue as they knew that it would spell the death of
their debt driven money system and so World War 2 starts</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
is not a war between Germany and the Allies, it is a war between Germany and
the Jewish money power”</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nancy Turner
Banks herself is a regular on the anti-Semitic radio program ‘The French
Connection’. Banks therefore is a rare find – a blend of genocidal conspiracy
theories, AIDS denialism and a clear link to Holocaust Denial. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Clark Baker and his crock business venture, the Office of Medical and Scientific Justice (OMSJ) are back at it. Clark and his team of fake HIV experts are infesting the US Military Justice System with AIDS Denialism testimony.<br />
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The cases that Baker targets are tragic -- typically involving HIV positive people who are accused of exposing others to HIV without disclosing their status. Failure to disclose HIV is a complicated and serious issue. No one has the right to knowingly expose another person to a life threatening disease. But we live in a society that has made it enormously difficult to disclose HIV status. AIDS stigma has not gone away. People living with HIV face rejection, discrimination, and even violence when they disclose. They have to deal with disclosure issues every day. When accused of a crime for failing to disclose HIV, they deserve a competent defense.<br />
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So it may seem hard to believe that defense attorneys would employ the AIDS Deniers at OMSJ.<br />
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In recent cases, Baker and the gang have called into question the reliability of Elisa and Western Blot tests. You know, the package insert says a single test is not diagnostic; the tests cross-react to all sorts of antibodies; clinical algorithms are circular; PCR is not diagnostic; RNA is not the virus; there is no gold standard for testing HIV antibodies; if a lab tech dilutes the specimen wrong everyone tests positive; HIV diagnosis is a sham. Blah, blah, blah. Nothing we have not heard before.<br />
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But when unchallenged by real science, the words of a fake expert can confuse a jury and raise reasonable doubt.<br />
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When unexposed as crocks, the AIDS Deniers can easily fool people into thinking they are scientists.<br />
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Who are the OMSJ experts?<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Looks like anyone listed as a member of Rethinking AIDS Society can sign-up. In the case I am most familiar with there were three OMSJ experts:<br />
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<b>Rodney Richards </b>-- worked in biotech until around 1992. He has been an AIDS Denier since seeing Peter Duesberg give a talk around that same time. Since then he has been sort of self-employed. He has never published anything in a peer reviewed journal as first author. In fact, it seems he has never written anything at all. Even his Masters Thesis and Doctoral Dissertation were published with his Major Advisor writing the papers and publishing as lead author. He relies on package inserts and technical manuals from the testing kits for his claim that the tests are invalid. For example, that a positive Western Blot result 'presumes' the presence of HIV. This tactic can work well on the witness stand when unchallenged by a true expert.<br />
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<b>Nancy Banks -</b>- has never worked anywhere relevant to AIDS. Amazingly, she made it through Harvard medical School and then actually treated patients as a Gynecologist. She has never worked in research and, at least according to her CV, has not worked anywhere since the year 2000. She has no peer reviewed, or even non-peer reviewed papers of any kind. But she has written a book called <a href="http://www.nancybanksmd.com/"><i>AIDS, Opium, Diamonds, and Empire: The Deadly Virus of International Greed</i>,</a> in which she exposes the vast conspiracy of Jews who run the pharmaceutical industry and control the media and Federal Government to kill Africans with toxic poisons. She is a rare bird - both an AIDS Denier and Holocaust Denier. Her current whereabouts are unknown.<br />
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<b>David Ransick </b>-- best known as Peter Duesberg's sidekick, has never published on AIDS because of a conspiracy to keep him silent. He has never done research because the government is against him. To this day he claims that the CIA is following him. He was the Scientific Director for German vitamin entrepreneur Mathias Rath -- <a href="http://www.tac.org.za/community/files/file/TACAndSAMAVersusRathAndGovernmentJudgment.pdf">both found guilty of conducting illegal clinical trials in South Africa.</a> He is most notorious for serving on the infamous AIDS panel of former South African President and AIDS Denialist Thabo Mbeki. Rasnick claims to have been a visiting scholar at University of California Berkley, but the University says otherwise. On Rasnick's CV, he boasts three failed business attempts, no academic appointments and not much else.<br />
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OMSJ Experts are paid $400 per hour per 'expert'. The actual cost breakdown looks like this...<br />
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Expert Consultation on documents and records $350/hour<br />
Expert dispositions and testimony $400/hour<br />
Travel paid at standard per diem rates<br />
Travel time $350/hour<br />
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Keep in mind that in Military cases these are tax dollars.<br />
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I was fortunate to have been called as an expert in a recent OMSJ case. I will not write about the case itself out of respect for the US Army, the Court, prosecution team, and victims.<br />
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I was not called as an expert on AIDS.<br />
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I was asked to consult as an Expert on AIDS Denialism because of OMSJ's involvement.<br />
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Richards and Banks were at first going to be called to testify on the questions surrounding HIV as the cause of AIDS, testing reliability etc. I testified at a preliminary hearing regarding their views. association with Rethinking AIDS, scientific backgrounds, and connection to AIDS Denialism.<br />
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Subsequently, Richard and Banks were not asked to testify at trial. <br />
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Rather, on trial day Clark Baker showed up with David Rasnick. AIDS Denialist blogger and 'freelance journalist' Teri Michaels was also present to take notes and chronicle the events.<br />
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Clark may not have been feeling well the two days I was in court. He seemed pretty out of it. His eyes were closed most of the time. At times he was definitely asleep. But at other times his eyes were just closed while he shook his leg and coughed quite a bit. In any case, he seemed pretty out of it. Maybe a combination of jet lag and a bad cold? Or perhaps this was Clark's 'normal' state. Hard to tell. <br />
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Rasnick, on the other hand, slept through the afternoon on my first day and the morning of the second day. I mean the man was taking some serious Z's. He did testify, but his expertise was limited to antibody testing. He could not discuss anything else, including PCR, which seemed to sadden him. He was allowed to testify as an expert because he worked at Abbott Labs in 1978.<br />
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On the stand Rasnick spoke of how his minority views on AIDS have been silenced by the establishment. He was not sure what journals he had published in that were or were not peer reviewed. He claimed letters and commentaries as peer-reviewed articles. He claimed to be completely unaware of any charges being filed against him in South Africa. He was surprised to find the verdict against him in the case documents - said he had no idea about it. He said he worked with Rath but was uninvolved in any clinical trials.<br />
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Rasnick went on to explain how HIV testing is completely unreliable. When asked about statements made by previous real experts on the stand, Rasnick seemed unaware of what they had said. I suppose because he was sleeping during their testimony.<br />
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It was remarkable to see OMSJ deliver crocks and cranks who will actually spew their crazy talk under oath.<br />
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I will post updates from the AIDS Deniers and anything public that comes out of this case. Clark Baker has already started to fill in his Facebook Friends at the Rethinking AIDS Society.<br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/RethinkingAIDS/10150989472358187/?notif_t=group_activity">June 29, Rethinking AIDS Facebook page.</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.shapingtomorrowsworld.org/lewandowskySouljah.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">A Cabal of Bankers and Sister Souljah</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.shapingtomorrowsworld.org/bio.php?u=22"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">By Stephan Lewandowsky</span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Winthrop Professor, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">One of the many adverse consequences of<a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/Vivid-demonstration-knee-jerk-science-rejection.html"> knee-jerk science rejection</a> is the voluminous noise generated in response to certain events, such as the recent publication of my paper on rejection of science and conspiracist ideation. Whenever <a href="http://www.shapingtomorrowsworld.org/ccc2.html">baseless accusations are launched</a>, whether against me or other scientists, this detracts attention from other potentially substantive issues.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">My inbox has been overflowing with messages relating to my paper, to the point where I can no longer guarantee a personal response to each message. Some emails raise good points and substantive scientific issues. Likewise, the comment stream on my earlier posts contain some interesting points, and I apologize for not being able to engage with the comments to the extent that I would like—I am however monitoring them so I can make a note of important insights.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will endeavour to take up those substantive issues here as time permits. I consider the following points to be particularly worthy of d</span>iscussion in connection with my forthcoming paper: </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The distinction between conspiracist ideation and meritorious criticism. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Outlier detection and interpretation of extreme responses. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The role of structural equation modelling and how it differs from Excel cross-tabulation. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Details of the methodology and the supplementary online material. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I look forward to posting on those issues (roughly in the above order) in the near future.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I would do so sooner if my time weren’t also occupied with other, comparatively trivial matters, such as the identity of those “skeptic” bloggers whom I contacted for my study. I have several phone conversations scheduled for tomorrow, Monday, W.A. time, with the ethics committee at my university. I will report on the outcome as soon as a decision has been finalized.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I want to offer some further thoughts on the crucial notion of “triage”, that is, the separation of an intellectual signal from the noise of the echo chambers: </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">One must differentiate between the organized purveyors and pushers of science denial on the one hand, and the “consumers” of such denial on the other. While the former legitimately attract moral scorn because their conduct causes much human pain, the latter are in a very different category. This distinction can be brought into sharp focus by considering AIDS denial: The purveyors of pseudo-scientific nonsense who convinced South Africa’s President Mbeki that antiretroviral drugs were “racist” medicine deserve little other than moral contempt. Their actions have killed—330,000 people in South Africa alone, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19186354">based on the peer-reviewed literature</a>—and their actions continue to kill.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The sick and desperate people who turn to the purveyors of denial to deal with their tragic illness, by contrast, deserve not contempt but compassion, however ill-informed and counter-productive their actions may have been. The triage between the perpetrators and the victims of science denial is, alas, frequently very difficult and I can only highlight that dilemma without being able to resolve it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">In this context, it is of interest that my forthcoming paper on the rejection of science found a stronger link between conspiracist ideation and the rejection of sciences other than climate science (including rejection of the link between HIV and AIDS). To date, however, this fact has been overshadowed by the eager self-immolation of the climate-denial community, who has seen fit to respond to my paper with more conspiracist ideation than my modest survey could have ever uncovered. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">There are subtle indications that even among climate “skeptics” a penny has dropped. Ardent “skeptics” suddenly recognize the need to address their own fringe. This is best illustrated by the moves of Mr. Andrew Bolt, a right-wing blogger and Murdoch columnist, who commands a large audience in Australia despite his high-profile conviction for <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/topic/andrew-bolt-race-discrimination-case/">racial vilification</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Mr. Bolt has referred to me variously as a <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_curious_evidence_of_professor_lewandowsky">global warming evangelist</a> or <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/if_lewandowski_has_the_facts_why_resort_to_such_smears/">smearer</a>. Despite those obvious failings, Mr. Bolt publicly <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/happy_to_help_those_who_ask_but_not_people_who_peddle_this/">distanced himself</a> from the “Galileo Movement.” The Galileo Movement is an Australian climate-denial outfit that variously reminds me of Monty Python and Fox News.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Although initially listed as one of their "advisors", together with other practicing scientists such as Australia's most famous shock jock, Mr. Bolt discovered that the Movement's views about climate science comprise an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory involving a “cabal” of bankers who strive to dominate the world via carbon trading (or something like that, I apologize if I have not penetrated the full nuances of this theory).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">If even Mr. Bolt is concerned about anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, then we have arrived at a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Souljah_moment">Sister Souljah moment</a> for climate denial.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">If you’re reading this from anywhere but <a href="http://www.forbes.com/places/il/chicago/"><span style="color: #0f234b; text-decoration: none;">Chicago</span></a>, you just missed
the Autism One conference, which ends today. <a href="http://www.autismone.org/content/program-guide-autismonegeneration-rescue-2012-conference"><span style="color: #0f234b; text-decoration: none;">This conference</span></a>,
run by Jenny McCarthy and Generation Rescue, purports to tell parents “the
truth” about autism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The conference is a veritable festival of unproven claims,
offering a powerful but false message of hope to parents who are desperately
searching for new treatments for their children. It’s also a nexus for
anti-vaccinationists, who run special seminars educating parents about how to
get vaccine exemptions so that they can enroll their unvaccinated children in
public schools.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">A look at the presentations reveals that rather than presenting
“the truth,” one speaker after another is making unsupported, unscientific
claims and then offering their own special therapy. The one thing that most of
these presentations have in common is that the speaker is making money from
selling their so-called treatments. For example, Anat Baniel offers her
self-named “Anat Baniel method” and is promoting it through ads in the
conference program. Other speakers are offering special diets, hyperbaric
oxygen therapy, and in perhaps the most damaging treatment, Mark and David
Geier’s <a href="http://genome.fieldofscience.com/2009/06/frightening-quack-autism-treatment.html"><span style="color: #0f234b; text-decoration: none;">chemical
castration</span></a> therapy. <a href="http://canaryparty.org/index.php/who-we-are"><span style="color: #0f234b; text-decoration: none;">Mark Blaxill</span></a> is
there, still pushing the thoroughly disproven link between mercury and autism,
and hawking his book on the topic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The other major theme of the conference is conspiracies: how the
government, big pharma, and the scientific establishment are all conspiring to
hide “the truth” about autism, which the speaker will reveal to the audience.
Coincidentally, many of the speakers also offer treatments, for a fee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">This year’s speakers include Jenny McCarthy and Andrew
Wakefield, as usual, but also a new entry: Luc Montagnier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Jenny_McCarthy_Body_Count/Home.html"><span style="color: #0f234b; text-decoration: none;">Jenny McCarthy</span></a> has
been a leader of the anti-vaccine movement for over a decade. She’s a former
Playboy playmate and MTV host, with no medical qualifications whatsoever, who
is convinced that vaccines caused her son’s autism. She’s been spreading her
anti-vaccine message very effectively, with particular help from <a href="http://www.forbes.com/profile/oprah-winfrey/"><span style="color: #0f234b; text-decoration: none;">Oprah Winfrey</span></a> and
Larry King, who gave her prime television exposure countless times. Oprah even
offered McCarthy her own show, until <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/07/28/exclusive-jenny-mccarthy-dumps-oprah-winfreys-struggling-network-for-nbc/"><span style="color: #0f234b; text-decoration: none;">McCarthy ditched
Oprah</span></a> for NBC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Andrew Wakefield, the thoroughly discredited doctor who <a href="http://genome.fieldofscience.com/2009/02/autism-vaccines-and-andrew-wakefields.html"><span style="color: #0f234b; text-decoration: none;">falsified data
in order to push his false hypothesis</span></a> that autism is caused by
the MMR vaccine – whose medical license was revoked in the UK, and whose famous
1998 paper on autism and vaccines was retracted after it was shown to be
fraudulent – claims that <a href="http://www.autismone.org/conference_speakers?select_name=Andrew+Wakefield&presentation="><span style="color: #0f234b; text-decoration: none;">his talk</span></a> ”offers
solutions [that] will be ignored by those in power and the more dire of its
predictions will result.” Too bad I missed that one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">It’s no surprise that Jenny McCarthy and Andrew Wakefield,
leaders of the anti-vaccine movement, are speaking at AutismOne. Much more
surprising is the presence of Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier, co-discoverer of
the link between the HIV virus and AIDS. What is he doing at this festival of
pseudoscience?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Well, apparently Montagnier has <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/11/23/luc-montagnier-the-nobel-disease-strikes/"><span style="color: #0f234b; text-decoration: none;">gone off the
deep end</span></a> into pseudoscience himself. He claims that his new
group, Chronimed, has discovered in autistic children<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“DNA sequences that emit, in certain conditions, electromagnetic
waves. The analysis by molecular biology techniques allows us to identify these
electromagnetic waves as coming from … bacterial species.”</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">What the heck? In what seems to be a desperate effort to stay
relevant, Montagnier is promoting wild theories with little scientific basis,
and now he is taking advantage of vulnerable parents (see <a href="http://montagnier.org/To-autistic-children"><span style="color: #0f234b; text-decoration: none;">his appeal here</span></a>) to push a
therapy of long-term antibiotic treatment for autistic children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">This is truly a wacky theory. Montagnier hasn’t been able to
publish this in a proper journal, for a very good reason: it’s nonsense. He
claims that quantum field theory – an area of physics in which he has no
qualifications – explains how electromagnetic waves emanating from DNA can
explain not only autism, but also Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease,
multiple sclerosis, Lyme disease, and rheumatoid arthritis. Montagnier makes
these claims and more in a self-published paper that he<a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/.1012.5166.pdf"><span style="color: #0f234b; text-decoration: none;">posted on arXiv</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Seth Kalichmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01715826946361587097noreply@blogger.com110