Showing posts with label AIDS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AIDS. Show all posts

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Drugs for HIV Infection and AIDS Might Prematurely Age Brains

(NaturalNews) In a report just published online in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of California at San Diego say they've found a reduction of blood flow in the brains of people who are infected with HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS. What makes this so concerning is that it indicates something is rapidly aging the brains of these patients. In fact, the blood flow in the brains of the HIV-infected research subjects was reduced to levels normally seen in uninfected persons who are 15 to 20 years older.

Does this mean HIV is causing premature brain aging? Maybe. However there's another possibility: according to the researchers, the drugs used to treat HIV/AIDS might play a role in this super fast brain aging.

AIDS drugs may damage the brain

Previous studies have found the HIV virus may adversely affect many parts of the body, including the heart, liver, kidneys, endocrine system and skeleton. Although a strong "cocktail" of antiviral medications has been credited with extending the life span of those with HIV, these drugs are known to come with a host of side effects -- many of which are health problems often associated with aging. For example, the drugs can cause anemia, digestive problems, peripheral neuropathy and osteoporosis. So it can be difficult to distinguish between any signs of rapid aging that are due to HIV or to the drugs used to treat it.

When it comes to the brain, HIV patients are sometimes known to develop dementia. And HIV infected people often complain of thinking problems.

"The graying of the AIDS patient community makes this infection's effects on the brain a significant source of concern," Beau Ances, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of neurology at Washington University and first author of the new study, said in a statement to the media. "Patients are surviving into their senior years, and a number of them are coming forward to express concerns about problems they're having with memory and other cognitive functions."

To investigate possible premature brain aging in HIV patients, Dr. Ances and his research team used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners and a new technique known as arterial spin labeling that allows precise, non-invasive blood flow measurement to check the brain blood flow in 26 subjects with HIV. The scientists also looked at the brains of 25 uninfected controls. Both groups were about the same age and had the same education.

When the study participants were resting in the scanner, the brain blood flow was found to be significantly reduced in those who tested positive for HIV compared to those in the uninfected control group. Significantly, the scientists found that having HIV was associated with reduced brain blood flow even among the younger, most recently infected patients.

The research team asked the research subjects to perform a visual task which normally triggers blood flow to increase in specific regions of the brain involved in the task. The MRIs revealed the HIV group had greater blood flow increases, suggesting their brains had to work harder in order to accomplish the task.

"Brain blood flow levels decline naturally as we age, but HIV, the medications we use to control it or some combination of the two appear to be accelerating this process independent of aging. Could we reduce the harmful effects of the virus if we started treatment earlier, or does treatment significantly contribute to the harm that's being done?" Dr. Ances said in a press statement. "These are the kinds of issues we urgently need to start examining as the AIDS patient population ages."

For more information:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/...
http://www.naturalnews.com/HIV.html
http://www.aids.org/factSheets/550-...

Friday, January 22, 2010

"House of Numbers" AIDS / HIV documentary opens in Portland, Oregon

(NaturalNews) The House of Numbers documentary by Brent Leung, which explores myths about AIDS, HIV and AIDS tests, is currently touring across U.S. universities.

It opens today (January 22) at the Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10 in Portland, Oregon and runs there through January 28:

846 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205
Ph. (503) 221-3280

Attend the Q&A with Director Brent Leung Friday Evening.

For more information: http://www.fandango.com/regal

House of Numbers has played at over 20 Universities and continues the college tour. If you would like to book a screening and Q&A with the director at your college, e-mail Brent Leung via http://www.houseofnumbers.com/conta...

Audience reaction to House of Numbers

The audience reaction to House of Numbers has been very exciting to watch. Many are opening their eyes and beginning to question the medical myths behind the AIDS industry.

Watch this debate between two audience members who just saw the film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3LA...

House of Numbers is causing more and more people to question the validity of HIV tests and the real motives of the drug companies who propel the AIDS industry forward. People are now realizing that the AIDS industry is much like the cancer industry -- it actually causes sickness and disease even while claiming to provide "treatment!"

Watch for more exclusive film clips to be released at NaturalNews.com.

The House of Numbers documentary is coming to DVD this June.

Friday, January 8, 2010

Are AIDS / HIV tests a hoax? Documentary footage features conversations with Drs. Niel Constantine and Robin Weiss

(NaturalNews) Brent Leung's myth-shattering AIDS documentary, House of Numbers continues to roil conventional AIDS propagandists who cannot tolerate anyone questioning their "scientific" theories. (They're not exactly "scientific" if they can't stand up to a little questioning, are they?)

Adding to the searing-hot debate, Brent Leung has released exclusive interview footage to NaturalNews that calls into question conventional thinking about so-called "AIDS tests" (which don't accurately detect HIV infections in the first place).

You can watch this exclusive, unedited footage here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL1y...

Here's part of the exchange that takes place in this footage, in which Dr. Constantine tells filmmaker Brent Leung that the AIDS test he took is meaningless:

"I'm gonna ask you one last question that pertains to my HIV test that I took in Africa," Brent Leung says.

"And you want this on air?" asks Dr. Constantine.

Brent answers, "Yes. I tested negative. It's okay."

"Now what if I tell you that the test you took was lousy and doesn't mean a thing, does that make any difference for everybody to hear?" replies Dr. Constantine.

Also in this clip, Leung interviews Dr. Robin Weiss who reveals the diagnostic failure of the so-called "Western Blot" test, which remains the mainstay "AIDS test" to this day.

"I don't think the Western Blot is a useful diagnostic test, "says Dr. Weiss. "I don't think it's worth doing. Western Blots have been ... promoted into some sort of Holy Grail."

This exclusive, unedited footage was released to NaturalNews in response to accusations leveled against Brent Leung by both of these scientists who claimed their words were taken out of context. So Leung released this footage which contains the greater context of the conversation, demonstrating these scientists were not taken out of context when shorter cuts were used in the film.

Why AIDS propagandists cannot tolerate scientific questions

The conventional AIDS propagandists are predictably lashing out violently against Brent Leung's myth-shattering documentary. One critic, Jeanne Bergman, went so far as to accuse Leung of propagating "lies" about HIV even while she pressured ScienceDaily.com to retroactively change the headline of a story the website published in 2007. That story originally reported on a study in primates that showed a sudden loss of T cells is not a trigger for AIDS.

The original headline read, "Sudden Loss Of T Cells Is Not Trigger For AIDS, New Study Suggests". But after being pressured by Bergman, ScienceDaily changed the headline (nearly two years after the original publication date) to: "Progression Of SIV Infection In Monkeys Points To Differences Between Human And Simian Forms Of AIDS."

That's a fairly radical title change. It repositions the entire store and takes away credibility from anyone who had quoted the story as a piece of evidence dismantling conventional AIDS theories. That was the whole point of pressuring ScienceDaily to change their story, of course.

ScienceDaily even engaged in some fairly unusual back-pedaling with an editor's note that was added to the story: "The purpose of the story was NOT meant to suggest that the sudden loss of T cells is not the trigger of AIDS in humans, nor was there any intent to support the erroneous belief that HIV somehow does not cause AIDS. We regret any confusion that this may have caused."

Gee, wouldn't want to challenge conventional AIDS theories now, would we?

Answering the critics

In support of the House of Numbers documentary, The Perth Group has published a response to Jeanne Bergman, which you can read here: http://theperthgroup.com/HON/PGBerg...

They've also published a hard-hitting, point-by-point defense of the idea of questioning conventional AIDS theories. Just keep in mind that when you read this, you're not supposed to question anything told to you by conventional doctors and scientists. They already know everything, and the mere act of questioning their theories is blasphemous. So read this link at your own risk: http://theperthgroup.com/HON/PGHONF...

The Perth Group, by the way, was founded by biophysicist Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, emergency physician Valendar F. Turner and Professor of Pathology John Papadimitriou. The group has published scientific papers on AIDS and two of its members were invited contributors to the Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.

According to The Perth Group, HIV / AIDS experts have NOT proven:

1. The existence of a unique, exogenously acquired retrovirus, HIV.

2. That "HIV" antibody tests are specific for "HIV" infection. (This is a blockbuster realization right here. It means all the so-called "AIDS tests" are basically quackery.)

3. The HIV theory of AIDS, that is, that HIV causes acquired immune deficiency (destruction of T4 lymphocytes=AID) or that AID leads to the development of the clinical syndrome AIDS.

4. That the "HIV genome" (RNA or DNA) originates in a unique, exogenously acquired infectious retroviral particle.

5. That HIV/AIDS is infectious, either by blood, blood products or sexual intercourse.

6. That mother-to-child transmission of a retrovirus HIV or its inhibition with AZT or nevirapine.

The group also believes that AZT (Big Pharma's key AIDS drug) cannot kill "HIV" and is so toxic that, in fact, it may actually cause some cases of AIDS.

AIDS propagandists are like global warming scientists

I've finally put the pieces together on this. It turns out that AIDS propagandists are just like some of the global warming scientists: They've already decided what's true and they viciously attack anyone who even dares to ask an intelligent question about the validity of their so-called science.

We saw this with the leaked emails of the global warming scientists: They were clearly conspiring to manipulate the data to support the outcome they had pre-decided to be "scientific". And yet that entire approach isn't scientific at all. It's dogmatic.

Many conventional AIDS scientists are just as dogmatic. It doesn't even matter whether they're right or wrong -- their unwillingness to even tolerate sensible questions obliterates any credibility they might have previously had. A credible scientist, you see, is happy to answer questions or even critics. Credible scientific study stands up to scrutiny. It can withstand scientific challenges and weather the storm.

But none of the conventional AIDS theories are allowed to be questioned at all. And why not? Because if an intelligent, evidence-based inquiry into conventional AIDS propaganda were to ever be conducted, the whole fraudulent system would collapse like, well, a house of cards. (Hence the name "House of Numbers" for the documentary.)

But that can't be allowed to take place. Much like we see with vaccines and cancer, too much money is riding on conventional AIDS mythology, and it's too late to change their story.

AIDS myths

So the myths about AIDS continue: That a simple blood test can tell you whether you have AIDS, that AIDS is caused by HIV, that HIV is transmitted through blood, that AIDS has no cure, and so on. These are all AIDS myths because they exist in the realm of conventional AIDS dogma that is utterly unwilling to field any questions or stand up to any scientific challenges whatsoever. The mere mention of any intent to question conventional AIDS mythology brands you as an "AIDS denier" -- a vicious, derogatory term thrown about like a linguistic hand grenade in an attempt to instantly halt any intelligent conversation about HIV and AIDS.

You either agree with the conventional AIDS propagandists, or you're a nut, it seems. There is no room for questioning anything. There's no tolerance for those who might think for themselves instead of just swallowing the conventional theories as if they were scientific fact.

But then again, we shouldn't expect anything more than that from conventional medicine, should we? This is an industry steeped in scientific fraud and routine quackery. It is a field of pseudo science that has become extremely proficient at rigging the data in order to fit whatever predetermined outcomes it wishes to support.

The AIDS industry is an outgrowth of this scientific quackery. Fictions about AIDS have given rise to an entire for-profit industry that depends on the continuation of the mythology to keep its cash registers ringing. That's why the attacks against Brent Leung are so vicious: He's the guy who has dared to stand up and say, "The AIDS emperor wears no clothes!"

For daring to point that out, Leung is branded an "AIDS Denier." It's the equivalent of calling him an "Emperor's wardrobe denier" while pretending the emperor is wearing magnificent flowing robes sewn with golden thread.

It all just makes me wonder: What's the point of having a scientific method if the scientists aren't going to follow it?

Watch the footage yourself here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL1y...

Check out this other exclusive footage from House of Numbers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQoN...

and here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsOl...

Friday, December 4, 2009

Shocking truth about AIDS exposed on World AIDS Day with "House of Numbers" un-cut footage

(NaturalNews) When Brent Leung started showcasing his groundbreaking new documentary film about AIDS, "House of Numbers" (www.HouseOfNumbers.com), he had no way to comprehend the wave of defamatory attacks that would be unleashed against him. Promoters of conventional AIDS theories (with all their vaccines and pharmaceuticals) have gone on a rampage against Leung, calling him an "AIDS denialist" -- with an obvious invocation of the similar-sounding "Holocaust denialist" phrase.

The implication, of course, is that if you deny any part of conventional AIDS theories, you're as bad as a Nazi war criminal. It's a curious comparison, especially given that the origins of the modern pharmaceutical industry are found precisely in the Nazi regime where pharmaceutical scientists routinely conducted medical experiments on Jewish prisoners. As a fascinating matter of historical fact, the Chairman of Bayer in the 1950's (yes, the same Bayer that makes Bayer Aspirin) was Dr. Fritz ter Meer, a convicted war criminal, who after committing crimes against humanity was sentenced to seven years in prison at the Nuremberg war trials.

The pharmaceutical industry operating today is largely a cabal of unindicted criminals who are guilty of crimes against humanity, and one of their favorite methods of multiplying their profits is to push a disease, then sell a vaccine they claim "treats" the disease. It's the same old scam, whether we're talking about cervical cancer, swine flu or even AIDS.

Getting back to Brent Leung and his film House of Numbers, when the AIDS-pharma promoters saw his film, they knew they had to attack the messenger and try to discredit him as quickly as possible. So they claimed Leung quoted the scientists in the film out of context, thereby distorting what they were saying. In particular, Leung was attacked for his interview with Dr. Luc Montagnier, the Nobel Prize-winning co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, who explained to Leung during the interview that AIDS can be overcome (cured) with nutrition, and that the vaccine approach is entirely overblown.

Such an idea, of course, spells financial doom for drug companies and their cohorts, all of whom profit from the oft-repeated myth that "AIDS has no cure" and that only drugs can treat AIDS. So the critics went after Leung for daring to include Montagnier's words in his documentary. One critic in particular, Jeanne Bergman from an "AIDS truth" website, claimed that Leung "sucker punched" Montagnier.

She also claimed Leung quoted Montagnier out of context and blamed him for asking "leading questions" by saying, "Montagnier does not spontaneously say in the film that a healthy diet will clear the virus. Leung asked leading questions and then presented a fragment of conversation out of context."

As you'll soon see, Jeanne Bergman has no clue what she's talking about. But that's actually par for the course when it comes to the AIDS industry.

The raw interview with Luc Montagnier - revealed!

To help provide clarity to this issue, NaturalNews spoke with House of Numbers filmmaker Brent Leung who agreed to provide us with exclusive, un-cut footage of the conversation with Luc Montagnier, complete with subtitles.

You can now view this exclusive, revealing footage on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQoN...

NaturalNews transcribed this un-cut conversation and below, we've reprinted the words exchanged between Brent Leung and Dr. Luc Montagnier. Here, you'll see that, in fact, Brent Leung did not quote Montagnier out of context, and that Montagnier makes his position crystal clear on points such as how nutrition may help reverse an AIDS infection.

What this transcript (and video) proves is that Leung's critics are, in fact, deeply misinformed in their accusations of Leung, and are guilty of printing false and defamatory information that accuses Leung of distorting the interviews used in his film. Read this transcript to see for yourself:

The transcript between Brent Leung and Dr. Luc Montagnier

Leung [the filmmaker]: You talked about oxidative stress earlier. Is treating oxidative stress one of the best ways to deal with the African AIDS epidemic?

Montagnier [the scientist]: I think this is one way to approach, to decrease the rate of transmission, because I believe HIV we can be exposed to HIV many times without bring chronically infected, our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system; and this is the problem also of the African people. Their nutrition is not very equilibrated, they are in oxidative stress, even if they are not infected with HIV; so their immune system doesn't work well already. So it's prone, it can, you know, allow HIV to get in and persist. So there are many ways which are not the vaccine, the magic name, the vaccine, many ways to decrease the transmission just by simple measures of nutrition, giving antioxidants -- proper antioxidants -- hygiene measures, fighting the other infections. So they are not spectacular, but they could, you know, decrease very well the epidemic, to the level they are in occidental countries, western countries.

Leung: So if you have a good immune system, then your body can naturally get rid of HIV?

Montagnier: Yes.

Leung: Oh, interesting. Do you think we should have more of a push for antioxidants, and things of that nature, in Africa than antiretrovirals (AIDS drugs)?

Montagnier: We should push for more, you know, a combination of measures; antioxidants, nutrition advice, nutritions, fighting other infections -- malaria, tuberculosis, parasitosis, worms -- education of course, genital hygiene for women and men also, very simple measures which [are] not very expensive, but which could do a lot. And this is my, actually my worry about the many spectacular action for the global funds to buy drugs and so on, and Bill Gates and so on, for the vaccine. But you know those kind of measures are not very well funded, they're not funded at all, or they are, you know, it really depends on the local government to take choice of this, but local governments they take advice of the scientific advisors from the intelligent institutions, and they don't get this kind of advice very often.

Leung: Well there's no money in nutrition, right? There's no profit.

Montagnier: There's no profit, yes. Water is important. Water is key.

Leung: Now one thing you said, you were talking about the fact that if you have a built immune system, it is possible to get rid of HIV naturally. If you take a poor African who's been infected and you build up their immune system, is it possible for them to also naturally get rid of it?

Montagnier: [Nodding yes] I would think so.

Leung: That's an important point.

Montagnier: It's important knowledge which is completely neglected. People always think of drugs and vaccine. So this is a message which may be different from what you heard before, no?

Leung: The closing?

Montagnier: No, no, yes, my message, it's different from what you heard from (Anthony) Fauci or...

Leung: Yes, it's a little different.

Montagnier: Little different.

Analysis of the conversation

As you can see from this transcript (and from watching the video), Leung asks no loaded questions and engages in no trickery whatsoever. If anything, Leung is quite reserved in his questioning, preferring to allow Montagnier to do most of the talking. In particular, Leung does not interrupt Montagnier, nor does he attempt to verbally entrap him in any way.

For his part, Dr. Montagnier doesn't mince words. He's very clear on the points he's making, saying them several times in different ways. His points are, essentially (paraphrased):

• You can be exposed to AIDS without getting infected.
• A strong immune system can protect you against AIDS.
• With the help of good nutrition, you can fight off AIDS.
• The importance of AIDS vaccines is exaggerated.
• AIDS can be approached with low-cost, highly-effective alternatives to vaccines.
• What the African people really need is better nutrition to protect themselves from AIDS.
• The facts about nutrition and AIDS are being neglected (by the medical establishment).

He's not wishy-washy about these things. He speaks with clear intent and does not waver on these points. At the end of the interview, before the cameras are turned off, he even acknowledges to Leung that what he just said was essentially a "bombshell" of information that stands at odds with conventional AIDS scientists such as Fauci.

Now, if you go back to the House of Numbers movie and watch the clips of Leung's conversation with Montagnier, you'll find that the quotes used in the film are right in line with what Montagnier is saying in his un-cut conversation. There is absolutely no distortion, no out-of-context quoting going on here. If anything, Leung has acted in a very professional way in choosing quotes for the final film that accurately reflect the essence of what Montagnier is communicating.

And for that, Leung gets blasted by critics and accused of misrepresenting what these scientists are saying. That's because the conventional AIDS-pharma proponents can't stand up to real-world scrutiny. Their AIDS mythologies are based on lies and disinformation, so instead of engaging in intelligent debate based on the available evidence, they simply attack any person who questions the tenants of their AIDS-pharma cult.

What the drug companies don't want you to know about AIDS

The drug companies don't want you to know the truth about AIDS... or cancer, or diabetes or heart disease. There's a simple truth that, if widely acknowledged, would absolutely devastate the pharmaceutical industry with all its heavily-promoted vaccines and patented chemicals. What simple truth is that?

AIDS has a cure. Cancer has a cure. Diabetes can be cured. Heart disease can be cured. The list goes on and on...

When the co-discoverer of the AIDS virus says, on camera, that essentially AIDS can be cured with nutrition, he is speaking a disallowed truth that the drug companies (and their minions) cannot tolerate. If people knew that AIDS could be halted -- or even reversed -- with nutrients such as antioxidants, they might not put so much faith in the billions of dollars worth of vaccines being pushed all around the world by not only Big Pharma, but even Bill and Melinda Gates, too (who have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into the pockets of the drug companies to inject more children with vaccines).

This is why Brent Leung's film House of Numbers (www.HouseOfNumbers.com) is simultaneously so courageous and so relevant to modern health care. It's the first film to stand up and declare, "The AIDS Emperor wears no clothes!" This film, in fact, presents stunning evidence that, in many ways, exposes Big Pharma's AIDS vaccine scam. No wonder Leung is being so viciously attacked by the AIDS industry. Hundreds of thousands of jobs in the sick-care industry depend on more people being diagnosed with AIDS and treated with monopoly-priced drugs!

More un-cut footage coming your way

The AIDS industry's attacks against Brent Leung aren't over yet. Under pressure from proponents of the conventional AIDS industry, two more scientists interviewed for the film have now claimed their words were also taken out of context.

Through an exclusive arrangement with Brent Leung, NaturalNews plans to air full, un-cut footage of the interviews with these scientists, proving beyond any question that their words were in no way distorted by Leung. Watch for those exclusive clips in the days ahead...

Why you can't argue with members of the "AIDS vaccine cult"

Meanwhile, I thought about calling some of the accusers over at the "AIDS truth" website, but they have a statement on their website that already says everything you need to know:

"We will not engage in any public or private debate with AIDS denialists or respond to requests from journalists who overtly support AIDS denialist causes."

Got all that? In other words, unless you agree with them, they won't talk to you!

Fascinating bit of intellectual protectionism, isn't it? This is precisely how the entire conventional AIDS industry works, by the way: You're either "on board" with their current AIDS vaccine mythology, or you're ostracized and shunned by the whole crowd. With such a polarizing philosophy in place, it's obviously impossible to talk to these people on any intelligent level. No facts, no evidence, no science will even be considered by them unless it "pre-agrees" with their foredrawn conclusions.

This is why the AIDS industry offers no solutions for AIDS -- and it never will. The "search for a cure for AIDS" is about as hopeless (and fraudulent) as the search for a cure for cancer. No industry that depends on the continuation of disease will ever produce a cure for that disease. It would put too many people out of a job and cost billions in lost profits.

To keep the profits flowing, the AIDS industry has to keep the propaganda pumping, too, and that requires attacking anyone who dares to stand up and speak the truth about AIDS, HIV and vaccines. The situation is actually worse than that: Leung merely stood up and asked some questions about AIDS and HIV. He didn't shove his own conclusions down our throats. He didn't create a distorted, one-sided documentary. In fact, Leung goes out of his way to present views from scientists who disagree on many points. If anything, Leung has gone to great lengths to keep his own opinion out of the film.

It is a sad day in our modern world when a young filmmaker who simply dares to ask some sensible questions is vilified by a multi-billion-dollar industry that depends on sickness and disease to stay in business. Rather than being attacked, truth-seekers like Leung should be celebrated for their courage and tenacity. We need more people like Leung in the world, asking more questions about more diseases (and the fraudulent industries behind them).

Of course, I know all too well what it's like to be in Leung's shoes. As someone who has spent the last several years asking similar questions in print, I know that in our modern world, there is no reward for telling the truth. There is little tolerance in our profit-driven system of corporate greed for people who ask legitimate journalistic questions. The very act of asking questions is, in and of itself, now considered practically traitorous.

The mainstream media isn't asking the tough questions anymore... it has already surrendered its soul to Big Business. There's no room for independent thinkers in our global corporate propaganda machine, and those who attempt to ask reasonable questions will always be condemned for stepping out of line and daring to challenge the status quo.

Those whose incomes depend on the status quo will always disparage independent thinkers who question it.

Watch trailers and clips for House of Numbers here:
http://www.HouseOfNumbers.com

The film isn't yet released to the public, but we expect to see a distribution deal in the works soon, and NaturalNews will alert you of when and where you can see the entire film once it's available.