NotAIDS! News
December 30, 2008, Updated November 5, 2009

by The Editor

The death of alternative AIDS activist Christine Maggiore came as a shock to me, not only because for 17 years she'd offered herself as living proof that a so-called "HIV-positive" diagnosis was not necessarily fatal but, more importantly, because she'd been a close personal friend for 15 years. Her death does not change any of the scientific facts that make the idea that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS not only wrong, but ridiculous; though supporters of the mainstream view of AIDS are exploiting it for propaganda, what it really underscores is the need for more basic research to document whether "HIV-positive" people who take the highly toxic AIDS medications actually live longer, healthier lives than those who don't. - Mark Gabrish, Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine^*

When the rabid AIDS promoters hit the media channels and the Internet gloating over the death of leading HIV "rethinker" Christine Maggiore, it will be in the sadistic manner of which only AIDS-lovers are capable, and they will twist the truth into a scary fable meant to coax you into taking your meds.

Yet, it would be prudent to resist any temptation to believe their false assumption that Christine Maggiore succumbed to an "AIDS-related" illness, specifically, HIV-related pneumonia. If she tested negative, after testing positive, and her son tests negative, how does her death from bacterial pneumonia prove she died from HIV infection? Even if she was HIV positive, on what basis is her death attributed to HIV?

In an international study of bacterial pneumonia outcomes, conducted in part by the University of Alberta, researchers concluded that pneumonia doesn't appear to harm HIV-positive patients any more than those who are HIV-negative.

There was also negligible difference in the mortality rate; total deaths among the HIV patients was 3.5 per cent (two of 58 patients), and 4.8 per cent (seven of 174) among the HIV-negative patients.

Mourners and revelers alike, consider the following, as noted on Medicine.net.

Currently, over 3 million people develop pneumonia each year in the United States. Over a half a million of these people are admitted to a hospital for treatment. Although most of these people recover, approximately 5% will die from pneumonia. Pneumonia is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.

The latest numbers from the CDC put pneumonia as the 8th leading cause of death in the United States as of the last officially available government numbers from 2005.

It is disrespect of the lowest form; not giving time to honor a departed soul. Christine Maggiore was a tireless fighter, for what she believed in wholeheartedly. To hear the evil cackling on some blogs, such as Aetiology, is to hear the desperate rantings of those trying to convince themselves of their stories in the midst of so many questions of their position.

One blogger mocked Maggiore's death from pneumonia as an event extraordinarily rare and remotest of possibility, that a person unaffected by AIDS, HIV positive or not would endure.

It's not very difficult to consult the CDC website to find the top 15 causes of death in the USA, and to find pneumonia at numbers 6 and 8 for the two most recent national population studies.

It is curious that herpes is thrown in there as a cause of death. I don't find any evidence that herpes zoster or disseminated herpes causes death, in HIV seronegative or positive.²

• About 50 to 80 percent of American adults have oral herpes, which is commonly called cold sores or fever blisters.

• About one in five adults in the United States has genital herpes. However, most people don’t know they are infected because their symptoms are too mild to notice or mistaken for another condition.
• Herpes is most easily spread from genital-to-genital or oral-to-genital contact during an active outbreak or during prodrome -- the few days just before an outbreak.
• Oral and genital herpes can be uncomfortable, but they are generally not dangerous infections in healthy adults.
• Herpes does not affect the immune system. It is rare for adults to have any health problems from genital herpes.

The AIDS people often spout wild, baseless accusations of how many deaths AIDS-dissenters directly cause from their "dangerous" thoughts and words, based upon UN numbers that are faulty to begin with and bear no relation to reality. They speak as if Duesberg, or Culshaw, is running public health policy on a continent thousands of miles away.

Defending against this libelous accusations gives these bloggers unwarranted credit. Remember these are the same people who vilify those who advocate good nutrition, food and sanitation technology transfer, and parasite remediation, as "quacks".

One week they condemned the then South African public health minister and demanded her exit because she advised people to eat garlic and some local pomme de terre. The next week there was a prominent feature in an academic health journal discussing a study's newest findings about the far-reaching circulatory and immune function health benefits of garlic.

To say that the bloggers to whom I refer have a credibility problem is an understatement.

To respect their arguments and character is impossible, although this writer would never consider saying they should be silenced through any means. Unfortunately, many AIDS-lovers advocate this mafia-style threat to anyone who disagrees with them or dares to suggest that HIV is not the single cause of AIDS.

It is shameful how certain AIDS promoters used Christine's Maggiore's tragic and untimely death to advance their inference-based research. All the DNA markers in the world still don't elevate unsubstantiated mumbo-jumbo to a level of the proven science throughout history that has given us real medicine, and real cures.

The fascist style censorship evident on certain blogs is a disgrace to science, and the kind of morbid rejoicing from some corners creates a karma problem.

One nimrod even suggested putting Duesberg in prison for espousing his scientific opinion. Ah, Duesberg. I disagree with some of Duesberg's theories, to which he clings maddeningly and stubbornly. But Duesberg is an important scientific explorer and much of the field of biological science owes him a great debt, and a measure of respect. I'm quite certain that the sad excuse for a citizen who suggested that he be decommissioned is many things, but not a scientific explorer.

Of all the disciplines, the science people have and should continue to encourage dissent in the journey to uncover knowledge.

Voltaire, the French philosopher said in a letter to a contemporary, "I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write."¹ Those at the various HIV and AIDS promoting blogs should study this quote and put it to memory.

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* "My Friend, Christine Maggiore"
by Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine ( mgconlan [at] earthlink.net ) Friday Jan 30th, 2009

1. Book of French Quotations (1963), Norbert Guterman suggesting that the probable source for the quotation was a line in a 6 February 1770 letter to M. le Riche. Thanks to http://swampbubbles.com, accessed 01/05/2009.

2. American Social Health Association http://www.ashastd.org/herpes/herpes_learn.cfm

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