When the survival of South Africa’s (SA) mining industry now appears to hinge on their ability to blame their laborers’ costly mine-related lung diseases on irresponsible sex, the financial connections between South Africa’s mining industry, government regulators and university researchers is becoming clear.

Because strategic mining operations depend upon our ability to cheaply mine defense materials like gold, platinum and uranium, the US government shares a powerful incentive to promote the “irresponsible sex/HIV” mythology rather than support the historical claims against the SA mining industry.

The latest evidence comes from Farber lawsuit defendant James J. Murtagh MD who recently posted this email about possible criminal prosecution of the so-called AIDS denialists:

Starling new evidence that AIDS denialist Peter Duesberg and his supporters may be liable for vast human tragedy. I hope that other denialists including Gil and Ullberg will read this carefully. I hope Gil and his gang will repent. Time may already have run out.

Attached to Murtagh’s email was this commentary by AIDS Truther Nathan Geffen, which reads in part:

From 1999 to 2007, (Thabo) Mbeki and his Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang obstructed and then undermined the implementation of highly active ARV treatment (HAART) and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the public health system. Two studies, conducted independently of each other, conservatively calculated that over 300,000 people died because of Mbeki’s AIDS denialist policies.

Edward Mabunda was one of them. These studies could not account for additional deaths due to the promotion of quackery, often with the health minister’s support. They also did not consider the number of infections that occurred because of the confusion generated by the insipid state-funded prevention campaign and the messages by some outspoken Mbeki supporters dismissing the link between sex and HIV infection. The Mbeki era also fostered a profound mistrust of scientific medicine, the consequences of which also cannot be quantified.

What, if any, repercussions should be there for those responsible for this tragedy?

Geffen ponders various possible criminal charges and venues citing studies, all written by South African researchers who just happen to also be directly or indirectly funded by the SA mining industry, US pharmaceutical companies, investors and/or consultants to those industries. Some of those reports are published by the National Institutes of Health.

As I described last month, RMIT professor Jock McCulloch used portions of the Leon Commission Report (1995) to explain the incestuous relationships between the SA mining industry and research community which:

… shared the same research focus and a common source of funding through mine revenue. They also shared the same personnel, as key researchers moved between one sector and the other. The same men served on state commissions and departmental committees, and represented the Chamber at public inquiries. That made it difficult for an individual to confront the mining houses over the dust hazard…

While the slippery relationships between the genocidal post-Apartheid groups AIDS Truth, Treatment Action Campaign and the pharmaceutical industry and investors were exposed last month, Murtagh’s latest email and Geffen’s report produce one more financial/pharmaceutical connection.

The report footer indicates that it was published by the newly created Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiancy Syndrome (JAIDS.org), which is managed by co-Editors in Chief William Blattner (who just happens to be the co-founder of Robert Gallo’s Institute of Human Virology) and acclaimed AIDS researcher David Ho.

The website’s domain name registrant is the international investment powerhouse Wolters Kluwers, which generated ~$5 billion in 2008.

According to WK’s 2008 Annual Report:

Wolters Kluwer had 2008 annual revenues of €3.4 billion, employs approximately 20,000 people worldwide, and maintains operations in over 35 countries across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin America…

The division is organized into four market-centered business units – Pharma Solutions, Medical Research, Professional & Education, and Clinical Solutions – to serve the information needs of its customers.

Their product Pharma Solutions:

… provides a wide range of data and analytic capabilities, marketing and publication services, business intelligence products, and diversified consulting services to support life science professionals and the pharmaceutical industry, from drug discovery through distribution, as well as government agencies and other healthcare sectors…

… The unit was awarded multi-year pharmaceutical data contracts, including a long-term agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)… and a multi-year partnership with Bristol-Myers Squibb to provide Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) – compliant prescription sales data to measure business efficiency, control costs, and determine sales force effectiveness.

Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) is the manufacturer of  Sustiva (Efavirenz), which is so highly addictive that African children are now smoking it like crack.  Sustiva’s addiction-withdrawal syndrome also appears to produce symptoms that AIDS clinicians identify as the onset of AIDS.

Because BMS faces significant liability regarding the Sustiva snafu, they have good reason to partner with a damage-control publishing company like WK and children of Apartheid like Nathan Geffen who, with the assistance of very creative legal counsel (probably from WK), threatens real scientists like Peter Duesberg with false charges of genocide.

As an investigator, Geffen’s commentary appears to be one more propaganda piece that fits well with the genocidal post-Apartheid organizations that exploit Africa’s cheap black labor force for mining operations, leaving them with mining diseases, false HIV diagnoses and highly addictive and deadly AIDS drugs.

It is also possible that Geffen’s propaganda is the beginning of fabricated documentary evidence that Murtagh and his co-defendants may try to use to defend themselves from Ms. Farber’s lawsuit – even as they try to distance themselves from him.

Either way, Bristol-Myers Squibb has much to explain.

SSI recently received this email from someone who identified himself as a physician and wants to refer SPR victims to Semmelweis:

Please post this to everyone involved in this running feud. I used SSI when I was having my career ruined. Now I don’t know where to send fellow health care providers to when they are getting their lives ruined in a sham peer review. All the clinics and hospitals will use your fued (SIC) against you in court and discerdit (SIC) SSI. Shame on all of you for what you are doing. Both sides of this SSI fued (SIC).

Dear Doctor:

SSI believes that your question is important. As requested, we have posted your email and this response on our website.

If you are mugged and you defend yourself, the casual observer might conclude that you and your mugger are equally and shamefully immoral. Reasonable people know, however, that your morality is not based upon the pedestrian’s casual observations. By raising the specter of shame, you are either profoundly misinformed or are practicing the intellectually lazy doctrine of Relativism. If either is the case, I encourage you to join Dr. Murtagh’s cohorts.

If you read my preliminary investigation and my ongoing investigation you’ll see that “the dispute” began in May 2008 when ex-SSI members James Murtagh and Kevin Kuritzky issued outrageous allegations against UC Professor Peter Duesberg and investigative journalist Celia Farber, with the intent to compel the SSI Board to summarily rescind their 2008 awards without review.

Their complaint called for a competent independent investigation because, if false, their libelous allegations could have professionally harmed both (per se libel) and would have unnecessarily subjected Semmelweis and its Board to unnecessary liability.

As a retired member of the LAPD and licensed investigator who had not heard of the issues, disputants or SSI before 2008, no one was better suited to examine the charges. As soon as I began my investigation however, Murtagh’s camp tried to pressure me into stopping it – going as far as criminal attacks and witness intimidation.

My continuing investigation eventually developed sufficient evidence for this New York Supreme Court lawsuit against and Murtagh and Kuritzky, who are still hiding from process servers. Their co-defendant receives, directly and indirectly, millions of dollars in funding from pharmaceutical and mining companies (and their investors) that avoid billions of dollars in liability by blaming their impoverished black African miners’ silicosis, asbestosis and tuberculosis on “irresponsible sex” (e.g. AIDS). Murtagh, his co-defendants, hedge fund operators, pharmaceutical companies, international mining companies and the UN promote the scam as a “human rights” issue in order to sack Africa’s rich mineral wealth while attacking individuals like Farber and Duesberg who question the arrangement.  Without AIDS, thousands of international mining operations in Africa would close – as they almost did in 1995.

So outrageous were Murtagh’s charges that even his collaborators recently distanced themselves – calling him morally repugnant.

If Murtagh’s allegations against Farber and Duesberg were true, he would enthusiastically respond to the civil charges against him - just as SSI did after Ralph Bard filed his frivolous lawsuit against SSI last December. Because of our fact-based response, Bard’s own neighborhood court will soon dismiss his complaints.

So as you can see, the two sides consist of 1) the current board and membership, and 2) “Murtagh’s camp” which libelously tried to rescind the 2008 awards to Duesberg and Farber without evidence – in what anathematically resembles “sham peer review.”

If you read my bio and investigation you’ll see that I have better things to do than keep the peace between SSI and a tiny group of socially dysfunctional ex-doctors.  But as a victim of retaliation myself, I never targeted others for personal gain. Murtagh’s camp demonstrates that not all peer review are shams: Their behavior only serves to corroborate whatever allegations were once made against them.

My year-long examination concludes that SSI, its membership, mission and goals are too important to turn over to alleged men who attacked SSI on behalf of individuals like Murtagh and Kuritzky.

What also appears to animate Murtagh’s camp is SSI’s refusal to advertise legal services by ex-doctors. The SSI Board stopped this practice last year when they sensed that SSI’s former ex-doctor-lawyer board members were exploited SSI’s website, name and members for personal gain.

Since those lawyers were removed from Board influence last year, SSI has assisted more than a dozen physicians and nurses with free legal consultation and affirmative defense that has saved their careers at a minimum cost.

Because of the complications of HCQIA and peer review, SSI no longer promotes the use of career doctors who become lawyers for the same reason that we would not encourage surgery by a career lawyer who becomes a surgeon. When it comes to peer review cases, experience matters.

If you’re still confused about what you’ve called our shameful dispute, SSI probably isn’t for you. Our mission and goals are too important to waste time with Murtagh cohorts or those who are easily confused by them: Nor do we waste much time thinking about them. Like other benign pathologies, they will eventually slough off or find softer targets.

As a former US Marine and LA cop, I am proud that the SSI Board stood strong in the face of Murtagh and his enablers. Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis knew that courage often exacts a terrible price.  Of courage, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote:

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression that the loss of courage extends to the entire society.

SSI membership is not for the morally confused or ambivalent. While it takes courage and endurance to fight corrupt multi-billion dollar healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, it would take comparatively little effort to accept the material benefits that would come by surrendering to them in the name of patient safety and Semmelweis.

As long as there are some healthcare professionals who take their Hippocratic Oath seriously, I am proud to remain in that fight.

Clark Baker
Secretary/Treasurer
Semmelweis Society International

After decades of decline, the war on infectious disease was all but over by 1981. Faced with severe budget cuts, scientists had to make up a pandemic or sell shoes at Macy’s. So when a tiny group of gay men succumbed to their toxic misbehavior the scientists had their pretext.

After nearly three decades of self-serving research and a trillion wasted tax dollars, AIDS has never been identified as a leading medical cause of death and two large prizes for proof of HIV and AIDS causation remain unclaimed.

In the latest sign that the wheels are falling from NIAID’s little red propaganda wagon, Apartheid’s mercenary offspring are starting to get reckless.

In the past 45 days I have reported that:

• HIV/AIDS drug cocktails are comprised of two components; 1) Zidovudine (AZT), a poison that compromises immune function and kills, and 2) Efavirenz (Sustiva), a powerful hypnotic that is so powerful that addicts now smoke it like crack. When stopped, Efavirenz also produces withdrawal symptoms that clinicians identify as the onset of AIDS.
• After years of unanswered criticism and questions about the alleged co-discoverer of HIV, Robert Gallo MD hired part-time security guard and filter salesman Nick Kontaratos to write Gallo’s definitive defense – a book praised by esteemed Nature and Science writer/editor Barbara Culliton as well as three of Gallo’s own research scientists. Either Kontaratos is the savant-like James Bond of filter-hawking security guards or Gallo’s well-funded enablers helped him promote a fake investigation – just as they promoted all of his other fake research.
• Groups like Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and AIDSTruth have nothing to do with AIDS or truth but are actually malevolent South African mobs that help these 1600+ international mining companies sack Africa of its mineral wealth by misdiagnosing the majority of mine-related lung diseases as a sexually-transmitted virus. In this way, these mining companies avoid billions of dollars in liability that would otherwise shut down strategic mining operations throughout the African Continent by killing off their dying laborers before they and their impoverished families can sue for compensation.

Because of these revelations, investors who support groups like TAC and AIDSTruth are pressuring other financially-compromised university researchers like Seth Kalichman, Steven Siegelbaum and Cornell’s John Moore to promote the propaganda.

In the latest attack, TAC-funder George Soros directed Jonny Steinberg (one of Soros’ well-paid but scientifically incompetent South African shills) to propagandize AIDS in the pseudoscientific magazine New Scientist. Soros appears to have chosen Steinberg and NS for the same reasons that Gallo picked a security guard to investigate his career in HIV research.

NS’ reporting is so sloppy that when science fiction writer Greg Egan noted its combination of a sensationalist bent and a lack of basic knowledge by its writers, the editor admitted that NS is “an ideas magazine (that writes) about hypotheses as well as theories.” Unfortunately, NS rarely makes that distinction for readers who must speculate about the accuracy of its reports and the qualifications of its guest writers.

Like Nick Kontaratos, Kalichman, Bergman and the rest, Steinberg parrots the milk-fed propaganda – this time blaming the death of Christine Maggiore and her daughter on her scientific skepticism. It was no surprise that the truthers reflexively praised Steinberg – just as Gallo’s esteemed scientists praised Gallo’s security guard.

This incompetence was NOT an “accidental oversight” by NS.

Although the story and shills like Kalichman and truther Nick “Snout” Bennett accused Maggiore of killing her baby (160+ comments now), investigative journalist Liam Scheff posted a comment that NS viewed as unfit for its pages.

Ask yourself what was inappropriate about Scheff’s remarks?

I am wondering why the writer, Jonny Steinberg, focuses on one mother, who may have simply been a bad mother, or someone who didn’t know much about health, instead of focusing on the dozens to hundreds of deaths buried in the AIDS drug Uganda trials?

Or in the death by AIDS drug of tens of thousands of people over the years, as the drugs have been cycled down and down and down in dose, (often to no improvement in health, that is they still kill the patient)?

Mr. Steinberg, will you try, for your next article, to contact Jonathan Fishbein, who lost his job and career for blowing the whistle on the NIH fraud in Uganda? Will you talk to the family of Joyce Ann Hafford, who was killed by Nevirapine, or by anyone whose friend or relative died on any AIDS drug?You paint a one-sided picture, and it reeks of pay-for-play. You have no previous articles in New Scientist, and one is left to wonder what your motives are?

The political attack arm of the AIDS industry infiltrates media and creates smear campaigns in order to deflect from the hundreds and thousands of tragedies, errors and crimes perpetrated by the AIDS pharma industry, in selling its wares to the public.

Journalism is supposed to serve the public good by putting a light on the dishonesty of institutions. You have uncovered, badly, what was already in public view – a woman with some health issues and many enemies has died. There are sufficient political reasons to think that she was killed, but that question is never raised.

She was hounded by the AIDS pharmaceutical industry, and many prayed loudly and openly for her demise and downfall, and death, for over a decade.What effect will that have on a human body?

I do not have the details necessary to answer the questions of Christine Maggiore’s fitness or lack of fitness as a parent. I would say she was perhaps too zealous or highly naive in taking such a political stand against such a juggernaut.

On the other hand, please see the cases of the tens of thousands who died on high dose AIDS drugs in the 80s and 90s. Please review the Uganda trial. Please review the case of Joyce Ann Hafford, among others, and put some perspective in your histrionic and political article.

Dangerous words indeed.

In this case, NS found it easier to kill Scheff’s comment than admit their magazine posts unproven and unscientific hypotheses and theories.

If HIV/AIDS was a scientific disease, the proof would speak for itself. But as a political disease, US Government agencies like NIAID refer inquiries to AIDSTruth in the land of Apartheid, where the mountains of Africa’s dead miners continue to grow. So much is at stake that hedge fund managers like Soros now pay the offspring of Apartheid to beat the dead woman with her dead child.

The role of the Ford and Tides foundations and Soros Hedge Fund also explains why pro-Soros websites like Huffington, Daily Kos, TruthOut and MoveOn entirely ignore this 30-year controversy and their complicity in the mine-related genocide of Africa’s poorest and most vulnerable people.

As I begin the second year of my investigation into the AIDS scam, I am still amazed by each day’s revelations. Unlike the predators I’ve driven from the street, Robert Gallo and his cohorts at the Institute of Human Virology (IHV) now behave as if they want to get caught. After decades of acquiescent oversight, NIAID Director Tony Fauci looks more like Tony Soprano than a medical doctor.

Last week I reported that the HIV drug Sustiva is not only being smoked like crack cocaine by thousands, but that abstinence from the drug compromises immune function in the same way that clinicians identify the onset of AIDS. Marketed as a “non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor,” Bristol-Myers Squibb provides no warning of the drug’s highly addictive hypnotic properties or it’s terrifying and potentially deadly affects of withdrawal.

As if that wasn’t enough, the book Dissecting a Discovery, promoted internationally by Gallo and his goons since December 2007 as the most “important reference book to read for the history of AIDS,” is as fraudulent as Gallo and his goons at IHV. With experience allegedly “sought after by Heads of State, Foreign & Political Dignitaries,” the author is in truth an unarmed security guard who also sells filters from his garage.

Based upon information from the Orange County Sheriff and Culver City Police departments, it appears that Nikolas Kontaratos is not licensed to investigate anything and is probably not even qualified to apply for the exam. After I spoke with Kontaratos last week, IHV’s goons quickly distanced themselves from Kontaratos and his book, although it is still being pushed in three languages around the world.

While most Americans would not risk the embarrassment of such an indiscretion, I attribute Gallo’s diminished inhibitions to:

• CONFUSION – Most Americans, including those in Congress, local, state, and federal law enforcement, don’t know (or don’t want to know) anything about microbiology, the scientific process, or how Congress spends billions of our taxes each year. When mobsters like Fauci report that millions of Americans will die unless taxpayers spend billions of dollars to produce a vaccine (protection racket), we respond as irrationally as Bernie Madoff’s once-ambitious investors. The problem with Madoff and Fauci is not that conmen exist, but that agencies like that SEC and Justice Department are too lazy, incompetent, or corrupt to investigate.
• VANITY – Most Americans prefer not having these goons tell them that they’re not as smart as highly paid AIDS researchers or clinicians. So rather than question the biotechnical community’s incoherent gibberish, we politely accept what they say to avoid the scathing condescension that is characteristic of defensive conmen who can’t answer important questions.
• APATHY – People ignore AIDS because AIDS doesn’t affect them and has never been a leading cause of death in the United States or Africa.
• TRUST – Most Americans trust that researchers and clinicians will not turn science into a criminal theology or squander billions of dollars pushing fake research and addictive toxins to enrich themselves. 
• CONFIDENCE – Most Americans have an irrational faith that scientists and the oversight agencies they fund can police themselves and that, wherever fraud exists, Gallo’s friends within the CDC, FDA, and NIH will report the criminal activities that fund their own mortgages, cars, and ballet lessons.

Under the pretext of “public safety,” these mobsters achieve what common racketeers accomplish with extortion, fraud, intimidation, and terrorism. Nevertheless, after nearly three decades and $1 trillion in wasted research, thousands of real scientists are still asking the same embarrassing questions.

Even before Science published his four unproven assumptions (1, 2, 3, 4), Gallo was hounded by reports of incompetence:

In 1975, Gallo and Weiss stated that they had isolated a human leukemia virus, HL23 virus, but this was shown later to have resulted from laboratory contamination by three primate retroviruses. In 1980 Gallo claimed to have isolated a human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV), but did not present positive evidence that this was a human virus. During 1983-4, Gallo and his associates published several papers asserting that the human leukemia virus, HTLV-1, was the agent involved in the development of AIDS. This was eventually disproven but meanwhile the attention of many scientists was misdirected, wasting time and resources that could have been put to far better use… (Karpas)

When I began my investigation in June 2008, Gallo’s goons sent dozens of reports to me that they said “proved the existence of HIV and AIDS.” But like Gallo’s original reports, none explained who, when, where, and exactly how HIV was proven to attack cells or cause AIDS. At best, the reports that I subsequently reviewed were either entirely unreadable or they assumed Gallo’s unproven speculation. The final paragraphs of Gallo’s own chatty gibberish illustrate the weightlessness of his reports:

The transient expression… and the previous lack of a cell system… represent a major obstacle in the detection, isolation, and elucidation of the precise causative agent of AIDS (e.g., we can’t prove it yet.) [1]

… These studies… provide strong evidence of a causative involvement of the virus in AIDS. (e.g. Inconclusive) [2]

… these immunological and nucleic data clearly indicate that HTLV-III is a true member of the HTLV-II family and that it is more closely related to HTLV-II than to HTLV-I. (e.g., This looks more like this than that.) [3]

The data presented here and in the accompanying reports suggest that HTLV-III is the primary cause of AIDS. (e.h., Inconclusive) [4]

Despite millions of pages of incomprehensibly cross-referenced incoherence, these reports (and those stacked upon them) provide no specific information that disinterested and unbiased third parties can use to reproduce experiments used to actually prove or replicate those experiments.

NOTE: Readers can confirm this for themselves by contacting Tony Fauci, Robert Gallo or his staff. Request from them links to documents that “specifically indicate how independent researchers can duplicate the experiments that were performed to prove that HIV attacks cells and causes AIDS.” Don’t get distracted when they call you a denialist or start yammering about protease inhibitors, viral loads, T-cells, or Nobel Prizes. While you’re waiting (you’ll wait a long time), you might see how MIT graduate students built this PDF engine to generate gibberish-filled scientific reports and how easily they were accepted into nationally-accredited journals around the world (more here). I published this fake report in two minutes with my own name. If you eventually do receive links or files from the mobsters or goons that look somewhat legitimate, please send them to me.

Saving Gallo’s Legacy

To put an end to decades of accusations, embarrassment, charges, and scandal, mobsters like Gallo and Fauci needed someone to stop the questions once and for all.

But who could they get?

Gallo’s goons routinely sign each other’s reports and nominate each other for prestigious awards, so assigning one of them to write a book about IHV’s sloppy research might have looked somewhat incestuous. Even if a real scientist suffered ridicule, he couldn’t risk exposure.

Gallo and the goons at IHV needed someone truly independent – someone with not only a reputation of unimpeachable credibility but who would also not notice if something was amiss. They needed someone who was reasonably cooperative and open to gentle guidance and redirection so that the book would deliver the expected conclusions. The book also required the same integrity and intellectual weight that was expected in all of Gallo’s AIDS-related research.

Policeman and private investigators were problematic. If caught faking evidence or lying to a court, a perjury beef would result in the loss of the investigator’s license, badge, and career. Unlike some judges and lawyers who think that impartiality is something to aspire to, credibility is an intrinsic part of professional cops and investigators.

Robert Gallo needed someone like Warren Christopher – someone whose experience was sought by heads of state, dignitaries, A-list celebrities, county agencies, as well as the United States Government; someone whose expertise has benefitted U.S. presidents and prime ministers but also possesses the necessary wisdom and servility to reach the appropriate conclusion.

Unfortunately, such men are hard to find. Christopher was visiting his taxidermist, William Bratton was juking stats for the Vignali boys, Bernard Kerik was under investigation, Tony Pellicano was in jail, Arthur Anderson was under new management, Jessie Jackson wanted too much money, and Johnny Cochran was dead.

Despite the overwhelming odds, Gallo found his man after a recommendation by IHV researcher Dr. Tony Kontaratos.

The Candidate

According to the website, Nikolas Kontaratos was a retired police officer whose:

… experience was sought after by Heads of State, Foreign & Political Dignitaries, A-list celebrities, County Agencies, as well as the United States Government. His strength in security planning has benefited separately a former U.S. President, a Prime Minister, and top level Olympic organizing for the 2004 Summer Games in Athens…

Kontaratos didn’t say who, but it “was over dinner one night that he was asked to investigate the international scandal.” After “three years of interviews, persistent document collection, and reading the many accounts and records…” Kontaratos claims to have uncovered and exposed shameful secrets by drawing on his formidable investigative credentials:

(Kontaratos) “… documented with incontrovertible evidence what really happened between scientists, politicians, and countries when AIDS made itself known onto the world stage. Exposing the harsh realities of an unforgiving society and the battles that took place behind the scenes as scientists raced to understand the coming epidemic the disease would bring to our world.”

A Masterwork!

(Kontaratos’ book is) “…

The website further describes the book as an ironclad exposure of the truth… (that) stands alone as a timeless, important, historical reference loaded with many new shocking revelations proved true… Congress has asked Dr. Gallo for materials to be donated to them to preserve forever his part in this drama of discovery. This book is to be included in that collection of materials…

Gallo, Kontaratos, and the Mayor met in Rome for the book’s “grand unveiling” at World AIDS Day 2007. Translated into Italian and Spanish, it was heralded by four icons of the AIDS industry:

“Congratulations – This book is the best,” said Barbara Culliton.

If anyone can recognize rigorous investigative work, Ms. Culliton is that person. As the Deputy Editor of Health Affairs, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Investigative Medicine, Editor-in-Chief (and Founder) of the Genome News Network, Correspondent-at-Large for Science, Deputy Editor and Washington Bureau Chief for Nature and paid consultant to Gallo’s Institute of Human Virology, her respect for the literary works of security guards and part-time filter salesmen is no different from the complicit journalism that helped mobsters like Fauci and Gallo become the icons of medicine they are today. It also explains why the editors of Science refused to respond to the demand by these cretinous doctors and scientists to depublish Gallo’s four original 1984 reports and how Gallo got his revised version of AIDS history published Nature.

Coincidentally, Culliton’s published works include titles like A Conundrum of Ethics, Politics and Genes, Clinical Investigation: An Endangered Science, and NIH needs clear definition of fraud.

“You have done a great service to science history,” said Dr. MG Sarngadharan.

As a co-author of three (1, 2, 3) of Gallo’s four original reports and “co-inventor of the AIDS test,” few people in the world understand the importance of scientific integrity better than Dr. Sarngadharan. Anyone who is impressed by Robert Gallo’s miraculous discoveries will appreciate Mr. Kontaratos’ comparative incandescence.

“With this book you have performed a tour de force on behalf of the scientific truth,” said Dr. Daniel Zagury.

As one of Gallo’s accessories since the beginning of AIDS and author of similar works, Zagury knows what an investigative tour de force looks like. He is also the Founder of the French biotechnology company Neovacs.

Coincidentally, Barbara Culliton defended Zagury in this article (1992) after he was accused of, among other things, conducting medical experiments on African orphans. It is unclear if Kontaratos or another security guard conducted that investigation.

Having spent his entire career with the same mobsters at Cornell and U. of Maryland’s School of Medicine, one can also sees how this co-founder of Gallo’s Institute of Human Virology is so energized by the page-turning craft of Gallo’s security guard.Sarcasm aside, the fact that Gallo specifically chose Kontaratos to author a book that chronicles his ostensible life and the work of his collaborators offers the first clue, from Gallo himself, that the foundation of all AIDS research, science, and policy is nothing more than a lie.

An Offer of Proof

Having conducted thousands of criminal investigations since 1980, it’s hard not to recognize the fundamental behavioral differences between the innocent and the guilty.

When falsely accused, the innocent will intuitively seek the most ethical, competent, and unbiased investigator available to dig up as much evidence as possible and to prove their innocence before an unbiased judge and jury. The guilty, however, are less enthusiastic about such investigators. Ideally, the guilty prefer less-skilled investigators who are less likely to find damning evidence and more likely to make mistakes. If given the opportunity, they will pay for someone to contrive a plausible alibi.

Although technically a “retired police officer,” Kontaratos spent no more than three months in a police academy, fifteen months in an Orange County jail, and nine months as a trainee with the Culver City Police before retiring with a complained-of knee injury in 1994. His experience is far different from the majority of retirees who spend twenty or thirty years responding to calls, interviewing victims, witnesses and suspects; collecting evidence, and putting cases together so that a competent jury can decide the reasonable guilt or innocence of a defendant. Although hundreds of thousands of highly qualified and ethically unchallenged investigators are licensed throughout the United States, the fact that Gallo singled out someone who had nothing more than the right credentials is as damning as it gets. In return, Gallo (or his goons) flew Kontaratos first class to Europe to meet the Mayor of Rome.

Investigators & Rats

While almost genetically identical to rats and primates, it is our intellectual curiosity that sets humans apart. While we are all genetically coded to be curious, some of us are more deeply driven by a desire to understand the world around us than others.

When it comes to intellectual curiosity, there little difference between incorruptible cops and incorruptible scientists. After one spends a few years working with peers of equal integrity, our ability to recognize imposters becomes as easy as one’s sense of smell. Proving what our senses tell us depends upon the acuity of our senses and whether the odor is masked or unmasked.

In the case of Gallo, his decades of misconduct are masked by a core group of scientists and journalists (~ 100) who are motivated by something other than intellectual curiosity. Based upon what I’ve found during this past year, Gallo appears to be a charismatic man who was, at best, intellectually lazy. Instead of pursuing excellence that sometimes leads to greatness, Gallo appears to have sought greatness and a pretext to make it plausible.

He didn’t have much time. Because of sloppy research and fraud related to the so-called War on Cancer, Congress was preparing to withdraw all funding from scientists like Gallo. At the same time, a small group of promiscuous, addicted, nitrite-huffing, gonorrheal and syphilitic bath house veterans began to get sick.

Faced with the imminent loss of funding, Gallo and his goons needed a new virus that they could frighten Americans with. At the same time, gay activists wanted the world to believe that their lifestyle had nothing to do with their symptoms. If lifestyle was blamed, individuals would be responsible. But if Gallo blamed a harmless retrovirus, President Reagan would be politically responsible if he didn’t support an unmerited fight against it. As a result, billions of taxpayer dollars were diverted from real diseases while Gallo and his goons enriched themselves and those who supported their theology: leaving only a handful of incorruptible journalists, scientists, and skeptics to ask questions. (More here)

By choosing Kontaratos to author “the world’s most important historical account of the history of AIDS,” Gallo’s effort to rewrite history provides the best evidence that all AIDS research was built on nothing more than a fraud.

This investigation is no longer about one isolated fraudster. The fact that none of Gallo’s goons within the IHV, the University of Maryland, the journals Science and Nature, Cornell University, the CDC, NIH or any other university or law enforcement agency ever bothered to check allegations against Gallo, Blattner, Culliton, Sarngadharan, or Zagury, shows that the fraud is systemic throughout the pharmaceutical industry and university research centers. The fact that the federal government relies on Tony Fauci’s advise and guidance is a problem.

Gallo’s goons include Nicolas Bennett, Jeanne Bergman, James Murtagh, Brian Foley, Nathan Geffen, Gregg Gonsalves, Bette Korber, Kevin Kuritzky, Nicoli Nattrass, Jeanne Bergman, Ken Witwer, Richard Jeffreys, Seth Kalichman, Todd DeShong, Eduard Grebe, Bob Funkhouser, and John Moore. While some are PhDs and MDs employed by universities like Syracuse, Cape Town, Johns Hopkins, Weill Medical School and Yale, others operate from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and advocacy groups like the ASRU, ITPC, Project Inform, and TAG. Some write books about their targets. Some are unemployed or expelled medical students. Some are simply not firing on all pistons. All are directly or indirectly supported or directed by the makers of HIV drugs under the nose of NIAID Director Tony Fauci, MD.

Their exclusive role is to isolate, attack, libel, stigmatize, destroy, complicate, or make miserable the lives of anyone who questions Gallo – or what they call “the consensus.”

Because real proof is as easy to produce as the hyperlinks I’ve posted in this blog, Gallo’s goons are hard pressed to explain why they’ve spent years attacking and writing books when they need do nothing more than email a PDF or post proof on a website. Their IS TOO! – IS NOT! arguments are tedious.

Conclusion

As evidence mounts, I believe that there is probable cause to believe that Robert Gallo and the employees within IHV are engaged in an ongoing criminal enterprise that has helped universities and drug companies defraud taxpayers of hundreds of billions of dollars since at least June 1981.

The fact that I, a retired cop and private investigator, could identify a fraud that the world’s top AIDS researchers and the editors of the most prestigious scientific journals could not (or refused to) identify makes these revelations even more disturbing. It also explains why the mainstream media is so intimidated when considering a story that challenges the “scientific consensus.” If I were a New York Times reporter, the last thing I’d want is someone like Barbara Culliton telling the owner that I’m a lousy investigator.

When I sent this sarcastic note to Gallo last year, I never expected his cheerful reply; nor could I stop the uncomfortable feeling of having insulted someone so out of step with reality.

The uniform enthusiasm for Dissecting a Discovery by Gallo, Culliton, Sarngadharan, Zagury, Blattner and the goons’ mindless devotion to AIDS theology is as soulless as the Borg.

The whole thing would be a farce except that healthy young women like Krizs are ordered to give their babies AZT under threat of having them taken away to be poisoned. This happens every day to women throughout Africa, Europe, and even in the United States. One Bay Area mother was threatened this year by Child Protective Services. After a tough fight, she was allowed to keep her children.

There is much at stake. Thousands, if not millions of people, are being poisoned and killed each year in the US and around the world because of mindless clinicians, Gallo’s goons, and Fauci’s acquiescence. In Texas last week, a man was sentenced to 45 years in prison after allegedly infecting six women with HIV. While he may be guilty of promiscuity, how does a jury convict someone of spreading HIV when the laws are built entirely upon Gallo’s unproven research? If the women begin taking AZT and Sustiva, the drugs and the stigma of Gallo’s benign virus will harm them much more than an evening of casual sex.

As for Kontaratos, I have no desire to attack him personally. At the same time, he should have recognized his role in covering up what has become a multi-billion dollar fraud that has sickened and killed millions and stained millions more with the stigma of nothing more than a harmless retrovirus.

Real scientists would answer these questions and would acknowledge their past mistakes – which is exactly why Gallo, Fauci, and their goons hate the so-called denialists.

Until last year, I was a strong supporter of the pharmaceutical industry. When Merck was sued (Vioxx), I blamed the lawyers for filing frivolous lawsuits against drug makers who, I then believed, were the innovative champions in Humanity’s fight against disease.

I dismissed stories about “big pharma” as fast as I heard them. The notion that scientists would deliberately poison patients for profit, or that the US Government would fund medical doctors like Robert Gallo after he violated his Hippocratic Oath was preposterous. As much as I like Ralph Fiennes, I refused to see a movie as unbelievable as The Constant Gardener.

So when the physicians and nurses at Semmelweis Society International (SSI) asked me to investigate allegations that UC Professor Peter Duesberg had killed millions in Africa, I expected to complete my task within days. With almost thirty years of investigative experience, I figured that a few Google searches would resolve the questions, one way or the other.

Little did I know that the allegations issued by James Murtagh MD, Kevin Kuritzky, and Richard Jefferys would consume thousands of hours of my time or expose me to the ugly underbelly of the pharmaceutical industry and its chicken-ranch relationship with America’s most prestigious universities.

While the evidence I discovered now suggests that millions may have been poisoned and murdered, I’ve found that Dr. Duesberg more closely resembles Moshe the Beadle than his pharmaceutically-funded accusers – who now appear to have far more in common with Phillip Morris than Louis Pasteur.

Since the release of my preliminary report (PDF) in July 2008, filmmaker Brent Leung completed his documentary and investigative reporter Celia Farber, who was also targeted, has filed suit against her accusers in the New York Supreme Court.

My report established the two sides of the dispute:

• One side, (commonly referred to as truthers, goons, and troofers) is comprised of the beneficiaries of millions of dollars in pharmaceutical funding. Truthers insist that HIV attacks cells and causes AIDS.
• The other side, (called rethinkers, denialists, and skeptics) question whether anyone has ever proved that HIV attacks cells and causes AIDS. These individuals rely mostly on private donations and represent a tiny fraction of what truthers receive from the pharmaceutical industry.

After examining both sides, the evidence now indicates that:

1. All HIV/AIDS research is based upon Dr. Gallo’s unproven assumption that HIV attacks cells and causes AIDS;
2. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) spends $206,906 per AIDS death (compared to $13,365 per Diabetes death, $12,000 per prostate disease, $9,000 for Parkinson’s disease and $9,000 for Alzheimer’s disease), even though AIDS has never been a leading cause of death in the United States or Africa;
3. Except for rare individuals like US Senator Charles Grassley and Rep. John Dingell, the US Congress, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) appear to share many of the same organizational flaws that the SEC, FBI, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Treasury exhibited before the 2008 financial.

New Evidence

Although the toxic effects of HIV treatments are well documented, I was still confused by HIV+ patients who reported that, after years of treatment, many became ill within two weeks of discontinuing their medication. If HIV didn’t kill cells or cause AIDS, why were patients getting sick when they interrupted their drug regimen?

Although patients like Karri Stokely attributed her four-month post-drug illness to “the shock of no longer being on toxic drugs,” I didn’t accept it. Toxins don’t ordinarily make someone sicker when stopped – addictive drugs do that. If someone takes regular doses of arsenic for six months, there is no evidence that their sudden abstinence would cause anything but a recovery. Conversely, addicts (and those who know them) understand the distress that comes with abstinence from coffee, tobacco, and harder drugs like alcohol, cannabis, opiates, meth or cocaine. The degree of withdrawal depends upon factors that include the addict’s health, dosage, resistance, the intoxicant, and how the drugs are metabolized.

But while post-HIV drug symptoms sounded suspiciously like addiction withdrawal, I found little more than a mild warning (404) of the “potential for additive central nervous system effects when SUSTIVA is used concomitantly with alcohol or psychoactive drugs.” Nothing alluded to intoxicating properties of the drug itself.

When I met Karri Stokely last week, she explained her medical history, her two-month recovery from a post-operative infection, and various tests that eventually led to her HIV+ diagnosis in June 1996 when she began her treatment. (more)

Karri reported that she was initially prescribed Combivir and Crixivan until 2001, when her doctor detected signs of liver damage and switched from Crixivan to Sustiva. After that, Karri took Combivir and Sustiva as prescribed until April 2007, when she discovered Dr. Duesberg’s questions about AIDS research. After studying the information on Rethinking AIDS and Virus Myth, she abruptly stopped her medication.

At first, Karri detected no adverse symptoms. During the second week, however, she noticed increasing symptoms of fatigue, exhaustion, depression, insomnia, body aches, and a significant loss of appetite. During the next month, she developed an extreme sensitivity to pain when touched, even when lying in bed or eating. Visits to the toilet and tub were difficult and, as the weeks passed, her weight dropped from her normal 135 to 114 (she’s 5-8). Karri also experienced night sweats and often noticed a thin green/yellow coating on her tongue. Most notably, her throat was sore and she possessed an almost continuous and unquenchable thirst.

“I felt as if my system was shutting down,” she said.

Karri’s decline continued from April through August 2007, when her symptoms began to subside. She returned to her clinic for another blood test in August and, when the lab results returned a week later, the nurse called Karri in a panic: “Your lab tests are way off! You didn’t stop taking your drugs, did you?”

The nurse became more alarmed when Karri admitted that she’d been off the drugs for four months.

Nurse Nancy asked, “Why would you do such a thing? Do you know what happened to your lab work?

“No.”

“Do you even want to know what your lab work says?”

“Yes.”

“Your T-Cell count dropped to 97 (from 200s) and viral load to 135,000! Are you coming in?”

A week later, Dr. Van Hook crossed his arms and scowled at Karri. “Why would you do this?”

Karri asked him, “Did you know there is another view of HIV, that it might not cause AIDS?”

“No,” said the doctor.

“Do you want to know?”

“No, Karri, I don’t want to know. You’ve done a very stupid thing and you will be dead very soon.”

Karri Stokely didn’t die and, during the next two years, her symptoms disappeared entirely.

After listening to Karri’s story and comparing notes with other reports, I noted similarities between Karri’s symptoms and known withdrawal syndromes, including those of antidepressants. I also found reports that HIV drugs were being crushed and smoked by addicts in Africa:

The children do not know where they are and they stop making sense.

The research, production, and distribution of this class of drugs is not without controversy. Japanese researchers recently reported antidepressant (SSRI) users “who developed increased feelings of hostility or anxiety, and have even committed sudden acts of violence against others.” (Other SSRI stories indexed here.) Texas psychiatrist Karen Wagner MD was recently exposed for failing to disclose a $160,000 payment from GlaxoSmithKline while understating the dangers of Paxil for children.

Many of these known SSRI withdrawal reactions are consistent with Karri’s post-Sustiva experience.

As for Nurse Nancy’s report of Karri’s erratic T-Cell counts and viral loads, numerous clinical studies show a direct connection between the stress of withdrawal (cocaine and heroin) and decreases in immune function for up to two years. Those reports show a direct correlation between addiction, withdrawal, and the human immune system (white blood cells, T-cells, and viral loads) regardless of whether HIV is present or not. But because AIDS experts and testing rely on T-cells and viral loads to establish HIV infection, it’s hard to understand how the experts know the difference between HIV infections and physiological changes due to illicit drug use. This would also explain why active and former drug addicts are frequently identified as HIV carriers.

The revelation that Sustiva is not reported to be an extremely addictive psychotropic drug is disturbing. After speaking with patients like Karri who interrupted their prescriptions, it now appears that abstinence from so-called “ARVs” like Sustiva results not in an increased risk of AIDS but, instead, precipitates the onset of a painful and violent withdrawal syndrome not dissimilar to withdrawal from cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines, and alcohol. Unfortunately for patients like Karri, AIDS clinicians typically mischaracterize the withdrawal syndrome as a manifestation of AIDS that will soon kill them. Unless given further information, care, and nurturing, most patients are physically and emotionally unprepared to contradict their white-coated physicians. Once the drug is re-administered, however, the “AIDS symptoms” disappear in ways not unlike junkies who inject a long-awaited dose of heroin.

Conclusion

It is not known how many AIDS medications are addictive or why; nor have I established whether the pharmaceutical industry unintentionally or deliberately marketed addictive drugs for the purpose of misleading otherwise uninfected individuals. But if a retired cop can identify Sustiva’s addictive properties, it’s hard to understand how the GlaxoSmithKline’s PhDs could have missed so much evidence.

Intentional or not, by marketing this class of drugs (MAOIs and SSRIs) as “AIDS medications,” the pharmaceutical industry has built into its HIV cocktails a mechanism that punishes HIV patients when they interrupt their drug use.

Karri’s cocktail contained two drugs – a deadly poison (AZT) that kills and a highly addictive drug that makes patients feel cheerful, more optimistic, and more physically active.

At $419/mo, a patient (or taxpayers) would pay $5,028 a year for Sustiva alone. Multiplied by the alleged HIV+ US population of 1,185,000, receipts could total $6 billion/year. Multiplied by the estimated global HIV+ population, GlaxoSmithKline could generate $100 billion in sales and tax deductions annually.

Despite these facts, no one can seriously believe that a pharmaceutical company would deliberately poison and addict millions of homosexuals, drug users, and illiterate Africans for $100 billion dollars a year. No, that’s out of the question. Of course they wouldn’t.

But if the pharmaceutical industry knows that Sustiva and/or other HIV drugs are addictive, it would also explain the hysterical attacks by so-called AIDS researchers who, instead of delivering proof that HIV attacks cells and causes AIDS, attack individuals like Karri Stokely who have the temerity to ignore the results of HIV tests that prove nothing.

While the Harrison Act of 1914 prohibits the distribution of addictive drugs to perpetuate addiction, the evidence suggests that GlaxoSmithKline has circumvented the spirit of this law by delivering intoxicants, other than opiates and coca, to millions by classifying them as HIV treatments.

Karri Stokely is one of many former HIV patients who have kicked the habit and now live a happy, healthy and drug-free life. I look forward to the day when politicians jump start the agencies that are supposed to be looking out for the most vulnerable in the US, Europe, and Africa.

Smoking the pills has a hallucinogenic and relaxing effect.