U.S. JUDGE FORCES AZT TREATMENT (DEC. '98)

"A judge in Eugene, Oregon, ruled that an HIV-infected mother must treat her newborn child with AZT in compliance with her doctor's orders. The parents object to the treatment because of the possible side effects of the drug and because they are unsure of the child's HIV-status. The mother, Kathleen Tyson, must also stop breast-feeding the child as part of the court order. Tyson initially took anti-HIV medication designed to decrease the risk of vertical transmission, but stopped sometime during the course of the pregnancy. It is not known whether Tyson and her husband will fight the court order." (Oregon Live NewsFlash Online 15 Dec. 1998)

HIV OATH (DEC. '98)

A Canadian AIDS organization has decided to require its members to sign a "loyalty oath'' affirming their belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS. Read the story by Colman Jones.

COCKTAILS FOR ONE (DEC. '98)

A new article by Ian Young about HIV treatment as social movement. "The group fantasy of the Homosexual as doomed Grotesque is acted out in rituals of the HIV test (now the principal rite of passage for young gay men in North America) and of the Cocktail Hour (the regular ingestion of chemical toxins)."

NEW COLUMN FARBER (DEC. '98)

"In a decision that will affect millions, the CDC is forcing states to document everyone diagnosed with HIV, civil liberties be damned. As the AIDS hysteria scenario is getting played out to its logical conclusion, it's time to wonder: Where is the outrage?" Read Celia Farber's new column fore more.

THE BIGGEST LIE OF THE CENTURY (DEC. '98)

1st December is "World AIDS Day". In the run-up to it, the AIDS Establishment has been issuing some dubious figures about a "pandemic" of AIDS in Africa. TV documentaries to be broadcast on, or before, 1 December have been lined up in Britain and elsewhere to reinforce the Establishment line. But how accurate are these figures? One African doctor calls it "the biggest lie of the century". Joan Shenton, the award-winning British TV producer and journalist says "it's all bad science". Fortunately, the evidence on the ground in Africa so far doesn't support the "pandemic" figures. Baffour Ankomah reports for New African.

THE POLITICS OF FEAR (DEC. '98)

Sky Gilbert published an article for Canada's national newspaper. "From the beginning, AIDS fear has been used as a method of social control. Everyone -- from public health officials, to homophobes -- have jumped on the "fear" bandwagon..."

BRITISH TV NEWS QUESTIONS HIV (DEC. '98)

On World AIDS Day in a special feature to be shown on Channel 4 News, Meditel Productions reports on leading scientists who say the science behind the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is wrong. The scientists include electron microscopist, Dr Etienne de Harven (emertitus Professor of Pathology, University of Toronto) and the research team at Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia. What is described as HIV, they say, has never been isolated or properly identified, making the HIV test unreliable. The programme will highlight cases of wrong diagnosis. The film report will run for approx. 7 minutes. There will be a studio discussion afterwards.

Update: Channel 4, under heavy pressure from the AIDS industry, decided to censor the item. Read more in this press release.

INTERVIEW STEFAN LANKA (NOV. '98)

Mark Gabrish Conlan interviewed German virologist and AIDS dissident Dr. Stefan Lanka. "While studying the evolutionary aspects of biology, I quickly realized that reverse transcription is common to all forms of life, and in fact is the basis of all higher living. Later I learned that reverse transcription is a repair mechanism for chromosomal DNA. But the mainstream of molecular genetics is still committed to the central dogma: "There is no such thing as reverse transcription from RNA to DNA." In 1970, when they detected biochemically that there is a reverse flow of genetic material, they didn't give up the dogma or even try to change it. Instead, they called it an exception to the central dogma of molecular genetics, and explained it by postulating the existence of retroviruses." Read the interview.

AIDS AS METAPHOR (NOV. '98)

"It is not the HIV retrovirus that has changed our world so indelibly. It is the idea that physical contact and intimacy can kill you. The mass hysteria has invaded our homes and schools and even influenced the Clinton-Lewinsky crisis." See Celia Farber's latest column column.

CLEAN TORTURE WITH FATAL RESULT (OCT. '98)

The German AIDS dissident Dr. Heinrich Kremer M.D. was medical director of the Federal Clinics for Juvenile and Young Adult Drug Offenders for five German counties, including Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg. Read his story how Dr. Gallo's hunt for the virus has degenerated into "clean torture with fatal result".

HEAL CANADA (OCT. '98)

Sky Gilbert reports in a special to Canada's The Globe and Mail about the activities of HEAL Toronto and Vancouver.

POSITIVELY FALSE (OCT. '98)

Medical journalist Joan Shenton, published her new book 'Positively False' about the myths around HIV and AIDS. See also this review by Celia Farber.

PROFESSOR QUESTIONS HIV ISOLATION (OCT. '98)

Dr. Etienne de Harven is Emeritus Professor of Pathology, University of Toronto. He worked in electron microscopy (EM) primarily on the ultrastructure of retroviruses throughout his professional career of 25 years at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York and 13 years at the University of Toronto. In 1956 he was the first to report on the EM of the Friend virus in murine (mouse) leukemia, and in 1960, to coin the word "budding" to describe steps of virus assembly on cell surfaces. He delivered a speech at the 12th World AIDS Conference in Geneva at the session "HIV-testing: Open Questions about Specificity". He wrote an article for Continuum.

MOTHERING AND HIV (OCT. '98)

Celia Farber wrote a couple of articles on AIDS for Mothering magazine. Read her article about pregnant women and AZT, and her article about HIV and breastfeeding.

VICTORY IN U.S. COURT (SEPT. '98)

"After seeing her daughter Tia die horribly while on AZT, Valerie Emerson didn't want her four-year-old son Nikolas to suffer a similar fate. She was dragged into court because of her stance, and her legal victory comes as a watershed event in a climate of increasing medical fascism." Read Celia Farber's report on Emerson's successful battle to keep custody of her child.

Update: Mary Kay Brennan, a former (?) pharmaceutical lawyer and guardian ad litem, assigned by the court to represent the interests of Nikolas, has decided to appeal the Emerson case on her own. Read more about her action.

Update 2: "A mother worried that powerful AIDS drugs might kill her HIV-infected 4-year-old boy can continue to refuse treatment, the state Supreme Court decided today. But the court warned that if the boy's condition worsens or new medical treatments are developed, the state could be given the right to demand treatment. The court unanimously upheld a judge's ruling that Valerie Emerson's decision does not amount to an imminent threat to her boy, Nikolas, as defined by state child abuse law." (Associated Press 19 Nov. 1998)

AIDS IN AFRICA (SEPT '98)

"The alarm over AIDS in Africa - "the new Black Plague"- reached a fever pitch at the recent AIDS Conference in Geneva. A closer scrutiny of the facts suggests that it's time to cool down the rhetoric." See this new article by Prof. Charles Geshekter.

AIDS IN THAILAND (SEPT '98)

The data cited as evidence for widespread HIV infection of Thai men by heterosexual contacts has been critically analysed by Eleni Papadopulos et al. The Pert Group concluded that these data do not prove that Thai men acquire HIV by sexual contact with prostitutes specifically or by heterosexual contact in general. Read their new paper about AIDS in Thailand.

DANCING NAKED (SEPT. '98)

Dr. Kary Mullis, member of The Group, was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Penthouse published an excerpt on HIV and AIDS from his forthcoming book, 'Dancing Naked in the Mind Field'.

FEAR AND LOATHING IN GENEVA (AUG. '98)

Celia Farber has attended, as a reporter, eight International AIDS Conferences - in Washington D.C., Montreal, San Francisco, Stockholm, Florence, Berlin, Vancouver, and this year, Geneva. "They are uniformly awful, and a total waste of a journalist's time. Mostly I go just to fortify my belief that AIDS - the entire industry and social machinery of it - is at its very root a totalitarian system. By that I mean that there is a central ideology that seeks to enforce its domination by methodically obstructing any ideas that run counter to it. This is no place for journalists," according to Farber. Read her Geneva report.

MORTALITY IN AFRICA (AUG. '98)

"In a British-funded study, it was found that mortality in young (13-44) adults in Uganda is 60 times higher for HIV-seropositives than for seronegatives. Mainstream AIDS scientist present these results as a strong evidence that HIV is the cause of AIDS. Such arguments are very persuasive to public and most scientists, even though being essentially flawed. Elementary analysis shows the results don't confirm, but refute the official HIV-causes-AIDS hypothesis, and they are in good agreement with predictions of the alternative hypotheses advanced by 'AIDS-dissidents'". Read this new paper by Dr. Vladimir Koliadin.

WHERE WE HAVE GONE WRONG (AUG '98)

Dr. Valendar Turner is a member of the Perth Group of HIV-AIDS dissidents. He wrote an article asking himself 'where have we gone wrong?'.

HUNGER STRIKE GENEVA CONFERENCE (JULY '98)

A group of dissidents started a hunger strike in front of the main hall of the 12th World AIDS Conference in Geneva. They fast to protest the official AIDS politics, which they think are directly responsible for many thousands of unneccessary deaths. They also ask this costly congress to produce proof of the existence of an AIDS virus.

DISSIDENTS IN GENEVA (JULY '98)

A satellite programme entitled "HIV-Testing: Open Questions Regarding Specificity" has been approved by the Executive Committee of the 12th World AIDS Conference in Geneva. IFAS managed to get this satellite organised as a complement to the official programme.

A debate took place between Dr. Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, bio-physicist from Royal Perth Hospital, Australia, and Dr. Etienne de Harven, Professor Emeritus of Pathalogy, Universtity of Toronto, Canada, with an extensive background in the isolation of retroviruses at the Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, USA. They discussed the problematic issues regarding HIV-testing and possible solutions to improve diagnostic measures, ruling out possible dangers of maltreatment.

See the presentation by Dr. Papadopulos, and this press communique by IFAS, released after the meeting.

IS ANYONE POSITIVE? (JUNE '98)

"On 28 June scientists at the 12th World AIDS Conference in Geneva will hear arguments that a modern dogma, almost universally accepted, is flawed in a fundamental and dangerous way," Neville Hodgkinson wrote a report for The European.

15 YEARS OF AIDS (MAY '98)

The continuous failure in the prevention and treatment of AIDS is rooted in the misinterpretation of an inflammatory auto immune process as a lethal, viral venereal disease, says the German-Swiss group of AIDS dissidents Prof. Alfred Hässig, Dr. Heinrich Kremer, Dr. Stefan Lanka, Prof. Liang Wen-Xi, and Dr. Kurt Stampfli. Read their latest paper about 15 years of AIDS.

NEW BOOK BY PROF. LANG (MAY '98)

Dr. Serge Lang, Professor of Mathematics at the Yale University, and a member of The Group wrote a new book. In 'Challenges' Prof. Lang published several of his famous 'Files' on science, journalism, and politics, including the one on Gallo, and the one about HIV and AIDS.

PIONEER DEPLORES HIV (APRIL '98)

Dr. Etienne de Harven is Emeritus Professor of Pathology, University of Toronto, and a member of The Group. He worked in electron microscopy (EM) primarily on the ultrastructure of retroviruses throughout his professional career of 25 years at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York and 13 years at the University of Toronto. Prof. de Harven wrote a letter to Continuum.

MONKEY BUSINESS OVER AIDS (APRIL '98)

"Just as we thought the African green monkey theory about the origin of AIDS was dead and buried, American researchers have resurrected it by publishing "new evidence" in February which sought to pin the origins of AIDS on the African monkey via a "1959 blood sample" taken from "a man in Central Africa". But is this any more reliable than previous evidence? Baffour Ankomah has put it under the miscroscope and found it wanting." Read the article from New African. See also this article by Dr. Christian Fiala printed in the same issue.

MONTAGNIER COULD NOT PURIFY HIV (APRIL '98)

The French journalist Djamel Tahi interviewed Dr. Luc Montagnier, the discoverer of HIV, about the isolation of the virus. Although he says he isolated HIV, Montagnier confirms he could not purify the virus. See also the comments by the Perth Group.

INTERVIEW VALENDAR TURNER (MARCH '98)

Dr. Valendar Turner, a member of the Perth Group of HIV/AIDS dissidents, talks with Huw Christie, the editor of Continuum magazine in London, about the HIV antibody tests.

Read the interview. See also the new Perth Group homepage here.

DISSIDENT MEETING SPAIN (MARCH '98)

From 6th to 15th March there will be a reunion of AIDS dissidents in Barcelona.

EPIDEMIC DECLINES SINCE 1992 (MARCH '98)

The epidemic of AIDS in the USA has been declining steadily since 1992. Dr. Vladimir Koliadin, a senior research scientist at the Kharkov Aviation Institute, Ukraine, and a member of the American Mathematical Society, analysed public CDC data. Read his new paper.

FORUM FOR ACCESSIBLE SCIENCE (FEB. '98)

The International Forum for Accessible Science (IFAS) based in Switzerland; is an independent world-wide body of scientists, workers for the public good and organisations concerned with the following general principles which constitute the aim of IFAS: to make science in general and medical research in particular accessible to the public. See their mission statement, and this press release.

HEAL SUPPORT GROUPS (JAN. '98)

HEAL is the alternative network of support groups for people diagnosed as HIV positive. It already has over 25 chapters all over the U.S. and abroad. See this article about HEAL and some of the people behind it, written by Mark Anderson.

INTERVIEW ELENI PAPADOPULOS (JAN. '98)

Dr. Eleni Papadopulos is a biophysicist and leader of a group of HIV/AIDS scientists from Perth in Western Australia. Over the past decade and more she and her colleagues have published many scientific papers questioning the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. This interview by Christine Johnson looks at this work and especially her group's views on the AIDS virus itself.