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Posted by Henry Bauer on 2012/03/19
An anonymous group claiming to be HIV-positive “citizens” have made accusations of misconduct against Professor Marco Ruggiero for his work on HIV. The Nature website has a piece about that by Zoë Corbyn, unfortunately but typically one-sided. However, The Truth Barrier has a full discussion with better facts:
“Ruggiero Files Criminal Suit Against Anonymous Accusers”.
Those of us who have come to know Ruggiero have no doubt that his integrity will win the day.
a non said
It is good that anonymous complaints can be made because whistleblowers need the option of anonymity. It is good that anonymous complaints are treated to a proper inquiry. It is of course bad if the complaints are untrue or unreasonable. Ultimately it depends on whether the adjudicating authority has the willingness and ability of treating truth as truth and falsehood as falsehood. Which we shall see in due course.
Henry Bauer said
a non:
You abuse the term “whistle-blower”. Furthermore, anonymous whistle-blowers accomplish nothing. Genuine whistle-blowers don’t behave anonymously. They make themselves known to people who can bring the matter to pubic attention but who will safeguard the whistle-blower’s identity against inappropriate release. Making their identity known to a journalist, an Ombudsman, or the like represents a warrant of honesty and proper motive.
In this case the groupies of “HIVforum” are keeping their identities secret from everyone (trying to keep them secret).
The first step in any investigation of charges brought by individuals is to question those individuals to find out exactly where they obtained their claimed knowledge. Anonymity makes that impossible.
Guy said
Checking out a link in the article led me to the following: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2009-11-02/pdf/E9-26337.pdf
Henry Bauer said
Guy:
Yes, Celia Farber has recently raised the question of the significance of this. But the caveats — for example “casual contacts” — makes this, in my view, not a real chink in the mainstream’s defensive armor.
David Rasnick said
Celia is correct. The wikileaks revelation could be very damaging to the AIDS colossus. The smokescreen of “casual contact” was meant to distract from close scrutiny—and it appears to have worked to some degree. I explain.
On April 30, 2000, President Clinton declared AIDS a threat to the national security of the United States. Sandy Thurman, Clinton’s co-chair of the president’s national AIDS policy, justified Clinton’s action saying:
“AIDS poses the greatest threat to mankind since the Bubonic Plague in the Middle Ages. And with no vaccine and no cure in sight, certainly in the next couple of decades we will have literally hundreds of millions of people dying of AIDS around the world.
“The National Intelligence Council has clearly indicated to us that while Africa is at the center of the epidemic today, India will be the epicenter of the epidemic in 15 years, and we see a dramatic increase of AIDS in the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. So we have an epidemic that is sweeping the globe.
“We have no way to stop it in terms of science. We certainly don’t have vaccines or cures that are available to people in the developing world, or here for that matter. So we have to respond to this because we have never seen a crisis like HIV and AIDS globally.”
Clinton’s action and Thurman’s justification clearly show that the government held HIV infection to be a “communicable disease of public health significance,” as had been codified in 42 CFR Part 34 since 1990.
On Jan 4, 2010, the US government made a very significant about face: “HHS/CDC is removing HIV infection from the definition of communicable disease of public health significance contained in 42 CFR 34.2(b) and scope of examination, 42 CFR 34.3 because HIV infection does not represent a communicable disease that is a significant threat to the general U.S. population.” This was quoted from The Federal Register Vol 74, No. 210, Monday, November 2, 2009 of Rules and Regulations.
To justify this very significant change, the CDC had to say something. The same document above gives the HHS/CDC’s non-sensical explanation for removing HIV infection from the definition of “communicable disease of public health significance”:
“While HIV infection is a serious health condition, scientific evidence shows that it does not represent a communicable disease that is a significant risk for introduction, transmission, and spread to the United States population through casual contact.” What scientific evidence?
The CDC is on record since 1987 (MMWR Aug 14, 1987 / 36(31);509-515 and five later MMWRs) that “HIV infection is not spread through casual contact.” Therefore, what new scientific evidence since 1987 tipped the balance toward removing HIV infection in 2010 from the definition of “communicable disease of public health significance”? I have asked the CDC this question and have not received their answer.
I know the answer. I suppose many could guess it. The real reason for the CDC action was political and not medical or scientific. But no matter how one tries to gloss it over, the US government now officially states in The Federal Register Vol 74, No. 210, Monday, November 2, 2009 of Rules and Regulations, that “HIV infection does not represent a communicable disease that is a significant threat to the general U.S. population.” Does that make it no longer a threat to the national security of the United States? I’ll have to ask the CDC.
In the “Through the Looking Glass” world of AIDS, HIV infection is a serious communicable health condition, as well as a “communicable disease of public health significance,” and not a “communicable disease of public health significance”.
Patrick Bennett said
I contacted Prof Ruggerio and asked how I might purchase his probiotic formula in the US. He was very paranoid about providing information, as I suspect it was because he did not know my name. I now understand his paranoia very well. It would not surprise me if the people behind this cowardly “anonymous” letter are none other than these loons “Snout” or “Poodle Stomper”, with Kalichman trailing behind. These people need to be institutionalized.
Henry Bauer said
Patrick:
YES!
As one of my colleagues said recently, our paranoia has been well earned
Francis said
Henry
You are only “paranoid” if they are NOT watching you.
One doesn’t have to enter in to the realms of a “Conspiracy Theory” to see that in the case of Duesberg, yourself and now Ruggiero there is an “Orchestrated” attempt by the watch dogs of AIDS Inc to silence another dissenting voice, that (borrowing from another famous person) are stating some “Inconvenient Truths”.
One could think that it is merely coincidence that the very day AIDSTRUTH start trumpeting about Dr. Marco, Seth Kalichman’s blog-atribe runs the same story. The same thing happened with Duesberg quite recently too.
On Seth’s site you can find a picture of him with his arm around Nicoli Nattrass (AIDSTRUTH board member) while she wears her HIV Positive shirt and by his own admissions he’s visited South Africa some 26 times (Who pays for that?)
Seth has admitted on his blog that part of his duties at the UConn are to run his particular little quality blog (who pays for that?) but then as he says and probably honestly too he’s not taken a cent from the Pharma industry, he hasn’t had to as a quick look at his funding in the last 10 years shows some 15-odd million in government grants (mainly NIH/NIAID), quite an achievement really. But then good old Mr Fauci presides over the NIAID and is a stalwart of HIV/AIDS and an old friend and colleague of Robert Gallo, so it’s no wonder that sympathetic “researchers” are rewarded quite handsomely. Quite amusingly one of the main lectures Seth actually delivers at UConn is Grant Applications Writing.
The loons mentioned like Snout and Poodle Stomper are anonymous personas but obviously operating to an agenda and in Snout’s case have at times attempted to start their own blogs (quite unsuccessfully) specifically targeting Prof Bauer on the publishing of his book dismantling AIDS theory. Probably not mad but quite possibly in the employ of a medical marketing department somewhere, strangely they both appear to have an Antipodean connection and both surfaced from obscurity like mushrooms about the same time John Moore, another heavily NIAID funded researcher, came to Australia for a conference/recruiting drive in 2008. Poodle Stomper has been conspicuously quiet of late so perhaps his funding cycle has ended.
There’s of course always a wildcard in any equation and in this case it’s my old friend J Todd DeShong. A particularly nasty HIV-Positive who apparently has an axe to grind and is obviously angry with his circumstances. He started his own blog which vanished when his employer threatened his dismissal when Johnathon Barnett complained about his use of the Baylor Health System’s computers to run that. Todd is a medical technologist and basically sets up PCR machines and lab tests in Dallas TX, he has previously attempted to palm himself off on the net as a microbiologist and is prone to offering AIDS diagnoses to others in HIV chat rooms. He has risen from the E-dead so to speak to start another blog aiming at Clark Baker because he called Todd a “Fading old drag queen” and a “Meth Tranny” over at OMSJ.
Todd uses various monikers and aliases such as TruthyMcTruthenstein and Kralc Rekab amongst many others and endlessly trolls the net seeking fresh victims. The interesting thing is that Seth allows Todd to talk to himself at his blog using his various pseudonyms, I wonder what that says about Seth’s own psychology? Todd is probably the only true AIDS Zealot amongst the others, who in reality have prostituted themselves to the cause and are caught up in a professional catch-22 situation whereby they can’t actually tell the truth.
I could go on……and on…and on, but what’s the point, we all know who they are and what they do, the only real question is who ultimately holds the strings on these sad puppets. Perhaps you could run another series on Kalichman’s Komical Kapers.
Keep up the good work Henry, the mere fact these duds exist in cyberspace is testament to the truths you and others profess and the threat the various AIDS apparatchiks feel over their funding sources.