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The mission of the Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society is to promote critical discussion of the HIV=AIDS=Death dogma by making basic science available and by publishing the writings of other critics of the theory for a wide audience. The society is always interested in hearing from people who would like to help through volunteering their time, offering their writing or research skills or who wish to donate money to support and expand the work of the society.

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LATEST NEWS

  • April 23, 2010–Rethinking AIDS Day – What Are You Doing?
    Contact us and add your activity to this list.
  • March 11, 2010–The AIDS Trap Website
    "The AIDS Trap" brochure now has its own website. It is now available in Korean and Italian as well as English, Spanish, French, German and Russian!
  • March 10, 2010–Friends Who Took Drugs and Died
    Jonathan Barnett of "resistanceisfruitful.com" posts pictures of "eight close friends who died while faithfully taking their ARVs" and is undeterred even when attacked by the notorious dogmatist Todd De Shong who might work for Baylor Health (whether as a janitor or AIDS doctor is not at all clear). His curse-filled diatribe will not be reprinted here.
  • March 10, 2010–HIV Tests Are Not HIV Tests
    An article by Dr. Henry Bauer in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.
  • March 8, 2010–No Fear of HIV From Corpses
    A group of Italian scientists dismiss the notion that HIV is a risk when dissecting a human corpse. They also point out that, "HIV infection is not necessarily associated with AIDS, and most HIV-positive subjects do not develop AIDS, provided that they do not assume toxic drugs or engage in risky behaviours. Conversely…AIDS can occur in the absence of signs of HIV infection"
  • March 3, 2010–Dr. Donald Miller on Censorship in Medicine
    This article is mostly the MMR vaccine controversy, but it draws significant parallels with censorship in AIDS.
  • March 3, 2010–Dissecting a House of Numbers
    Brent Leung ahd Llewellyn Chapman describe the experience of making and showing "House of Numbers". In "Film and Festival" magazine, starting on page 20.
  • February 28, 2010–HIV Denialism, Mistrust & Stigma
    Yes, people like Seth Kalichman and Nicoli Nattrass really are paid to try to explain why people question whether HIV causes AIDS without being allowed to consider whether their questions have even the slightest validity (let alone total validity). From the black hole at the center of the AIDS universe – Harvard School of Public Health.
  • February 28, 2010–"How Positive Are You" Interviews the Nagels
    "When a Minnesota couple decided to adopt a baby from the wreckage of Ceaucescu’s Romania it seemed like a beautiful thing. But then HIV turned their lives upside down…"
  • February 25, 2010–The Changing Face of AIDS
    Dr. John Hardie, one of the first dentists to investigate the purported risks of transmission of HIV in the 1980s, reports on new developments in the February 2010 issue of "Oral Health and Dental Practice".
  • February 25, 2010–Ozzy Osbourne: Another False Positive
    “The Black Sabbath frontman was tested for the deadly virus during his heady heyday, and was left in shock when a blood test came back as HIV positive…after undergoing another blood test, the star was relieved to hear he had been misdiagnosed because of the impact his hedonistic lifestyle had taken on his immune system. ‘It turned out that because I was drinking and using drugs so much, my immune system had dropped so that it was a borderline result. When I went back to be tested again it was negative.’”
  • February 25, 2010–AIDS: The Greatest Deadly Lie in the History of Medicine
    An article in Russia's Pravda.
  • February 23, 2010–Dr. Marco Ruggiero Address the Democratic Party
    There is more openness in Italy. Here, this molecular biologist who also spoke at RA 2009, addresses Italy's second largest political party (centre-left, modelled on the ideals of the US Democratic party), not mincing any words about the AIDS scam. In Italian with English subtitles. The link is to Part 1. Part 2 is a related video on YouTube.
  • February 22, 2010–Test All, Treat All
    The British newspaper "The Independent" reports on a new recurrence of an old dream by AIDS researchers – test everyone in the world then treat them immediately, regardless of whether they are perfectly healthy or not.
  • February 20, 2010–Obituary for Cass Mann: 1948-2009
    Cass Mann was a gay, HIV+ man who emphasized positive, healthy living and was extremely skeptical about the drugs being offered, including AZT. While still believing that HIV caused AIDS he also believed that lifestyle, such as drug abuse, played an important role in one's health.
  • February 19, 2010–Scientists Note that Many Serodiscordant Couples Stay that Way and Panic
    HIV continues to spread among couples in long-term relationships in sub-Saharan Africa…Those are among the conclusions reached by scientists presenting research at the 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, the annual mid-winter AIDS meeting in the United States. The failure to recognize how much HIV-transmission has occurred over decades in seemingly low-risk couples is “tragic,” said epidemiologist Rebecca Bunnell of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who worked in Uganda and Kenya for 14 years. “It undoubtedly has resulted in millions of deaths and has produced millions of orphans,” …Only as HIV testing has become more common in Africa in the past few years have health authorities come to appreciate the vast number of “discordant couples,” in which one partner is HIV-positive and the other isn’t. In 40 percent of those couples, both partners are infected. But in 60 percent – about 340,000 couples – only one partner is. [implying that, Good News!, HIV isn’t very easily sexually transmitted]…many HIVaffected couples remain discordant for years. [more good news?]…The problem is that most people do not know their HIV status…A 2007 study that tested the blood of a representative sample of 16,000 Kenyans between the ages of 15 and 64 found that only 15 percent of infected people knew they had the virus…In co-habiting couples, use of condoms, which could greatly lower the risk of transmitting the virus, is very low – about 5 percent. [ah, people need to understand that ‘knowing is beautiful’, that reductions in sexual satisfaction from condoms or latex allergies are a small price to pay and that, most importantly, the AIDS drugs will help even healthy people get side effects (one being that stockholders in the manufacturing companies get rich)]
  • February 16, 2010–David Rasnick at RA 2009
    Who are the real holocaust deniers? A video edited by Celia Farber based on footage from the November conference.
  • February 16, 2010–AZT Sucks
    A new website from the Nagels provides a two-part video. Part I includes shocking archival footage on AZT and Part 2 shows massive confusion over the connection between CD4 counts and starting AZT.
  • February 13, 2010–Denialism: The Death of AIDS
    A new video by graduate film student Nicole Zwiren featuring Duesberg, Gallo, Montagnier and others.
  • February 12, 2010–A Gut Instinct about AIDS
    Russel Schoch writes, "…Tony Lance’s world was turned upside down. “I thought: We’ve been wrong; we’ve been telling people something that simply isn’t true: that refusing recreational and medical drugs was the answer to AIDS.” Lance had lost not only a dear friend; his belief system had crumbled. “I sold my house, quit my job, and put everything I owned into storage because, honestly, I didn’t think I was going to live much longer. Once Tim died, I had two goals: to outlive my grandmother—I didn’t want her to see me die—and to live to see the year 2000.” He decided to take what he feared would be his final journey: he hiked the Appalachian Trail, a six-month trek from Georgia to Maine.
    During this time, Lance thought about taking antiretroviral drugs. “But I stayed on the fence and never started them, primarily because I was always feeling well and also because I still thought that not taking drugs was the lesser of two evils. I had read about the toxicity of protease inhibitors, how they also inhibited a particular enzyme, cathepsin D, which is critical to the integrity of the gut…"
  • February 11, 2010–How Positive Are You – Is Back!
    The podcast returns with a stunning interview with former World Boxing Champion and star of Rocky V – Tommy Morrison. Hosted by David Crowe and Celia Farber and with guest host Terry Michael.
  • February 10, 2010–AIDS: It's All in the Mind
    Germ phobia has driven some people in China to believe they are infected with HIV. Imagine how much stronger this psychosomatic reaction would be if it was backed up by a positive HIV test and the urging of doctors to believe in your own death sentence.
  • February 9, 2010–US AIDS Funding Approaching $300 Billion
    David Rasnick has collated statistics on US AIDS funding from 1982 through 2010 (estimated). In total $287 billion will have been wasted in pursuit of chasing a phantom and poisoning the phantom's victims by the end of this year.
  • February 7, 2010–The Parenzee Case. Once more, from the top…
    Kyle Shields is the Australian who first introduced Andre Parenzee's lawyer Kevin Borick to questions about HIV and AIDS. His statement, following an introduction by Celia Farber, describes how David Crowe was involved in the case from the very beginning and never, in his opinion, interfered. He also describes how the Perth Group threatened to pull out of the case if any other expert witnesses were called, even scientists like Etienne de Harven who is fully in agreement with them on the non-existence of HIV.
  • February 6, 2010–Tainted Cocaine Produces Immune Suppression
    In Winnipeg cocaine mixed with a veterinary drug has produced neutropenia in two people, a deficiency of the neutrophil blood cells, often seen in people with AIDS. In fact, if these people were HIV-positive, they might have called it AIDS. Since illegal drugs are produced in secret, unmonitored factors, with no quality control, such problems with drug contamination are common. Even if cocaine and heroin were harmless, street versions might still be deadly.
  • February 5, 2010–Karri Stokely at RA 2009
    Karri Stokely describes the circumstances around her initial positive HIV test and her feelings at that time.
  • February 4, 2010–Questioning AIDS Forum
    The "Questioning AIDS" discussion forum is taking over from the old AIDS Myth Exposed. It is a place for open but respectful discussions of all aspects of the HIV=AIDS=Death dogma.
  • January 28, 2010–Elsevier Wants to Make "Medical Hypotheses" Peer Reviewed
    This journal is the only one that Elsevier publishes that is not peer-reviewed. Most people don't understand how corrupt and stultifying peer-review can be. There's no problem with some journals being peer-reviewed, it works well in non-controversial areas. But to do this to all journals would be to eliminate the creative and innovative edge of science.
  • January 26, 2010–From the Archives: Andrew Herxheimer
    This pharmacologist, being interviewed by Joan Shenton, stated, "…Zidovudine [AZT] was a drug that was never really evaluated properly…It's efficacy has never been provedbut its toxicity certainly is important…it has killed a lot of people, especially at the higher doses [1500 mg/day in the late 1980s]. I personally think it is not worth using alone or in combination [it is still used in combinations such has Combivir, and when not used other drugs in nucleoside analog class almost always are]."
  • January 26, 2010–How Many is Too Many
    Liam Scheff asks how many children have to die in AIDS drug experiments before it is too many for John Moore, Jeannie Bergman, Seth Kalichman and the other AIDS Dogmatism Enforcers.
  • January 26, 2010–Perth Group Challenge Montagnier
    The Perth Group challenge Luc Montagnier to align his comments about strong immune systems defeating HIV (transient infection) with the infectious model of HIV (in which HIV is irretrievably integrated into the human genome).
  • January 24, 2010–Dr. Peter Duesberg Interview
    Katherine Albrecht interviews Dr. Duesberg on her radio show, part of the GCN network.
  • January 22, 2010–House of Numbers Theater Screenings
    22 January (Friday) – Trail Dance Film Festival, CTHC Experience Theatre, Duncan, OK.
    22–28 January – Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10, Portland, Oregon.
  • January 21, 2010–"AIDS Denialist Documentary Fails to Convince"
    If you have an opinion on this review of "House of Numbers" in the "Portland Mercury" newspaper, leave a comment. You don't even have to register to do so.
  • January 19, 2010–Robert Scott Bell in Minnesota
    Robert Scott Bell will be appearing at a forum with Celia Farber at 7pm on Friday, January 22, 2010 at Lakewinds, 17515 Minnetonka Blvd. For more information email Cheryl Nagel at this link.
  • January 18, 2010–From the Archives: Christian Fiala
    Interviewed by Joan Shenton in Pretoria, South Africa, in 2000.
  • January 18, 2010–Djamel Tahi Speaks Out
    Djamel Tahi asks Montagnier to come clean in light of new footage of the Nobel Laureate released by Brent Leung. Tahi interviewed Montagnier and got similar statements from him in the 1990s. What does Montagnier really believe?
  • January 15, 2010–The Future of Medical Hypotheses
    This Elsevier journal, which is proudly NOT peer-reviewed, was forced to withdraw two papers, one by lead auther Peter Duesberg and the other by lead author Marco Ruggiero, under pressure from "AIDS Truth" and allies. This article in the Times Higher Education Supplement gives a good summary but, more importantly, has allowed the most incredible debate, in which Seth Kalichman and John Moore are getting seriously beaten up, correctly accused of McCarthyism and other sins.
  • January 15, 2010–Review "House of Numbers" on Fandango
    If you have seen this documentary write a review on Fandango. You can register a free account or login with a Facebook account.
  • January 15, 2010–The Fauna Foundation: Sanctuary for HIV Research Chimps
    Canada's "Fauna Foundation" is the only institution that cares for chimpanzees rescued from HIV research. Often these chimps, with near human intelligence, were kept in cement and steel cages and operated on frequently. This is a charity worth supporting.
  • January 15, 2010–AZT is a Carcinogen according to California
    It's about 30 years too late, but the state of California has recognized AZT as a carcinogen. Remember that AZT was approved as the first AIDS drug at massive doses of 1500 mg/day in 1987 (and, in Australia, apparently at 2400mg/day) and was the only drug available until 1991. Many people believe that it is no longer used, but there are actually combination pills (such as Combivir) that include AZT as one component. And even when AZT isn't being used one or two other nucleoside analogs are used instead. If the nucleoside analog AZT causes cancer it's quite likely that others do also (it is hard to say with certainty because AZT was the only AIDS drug used extensively by itself).
  • January 13, 2010–Videos from John Lauritsen
    A new page on the "Pagan Press" website with archival video from the 1990s.
  • January 11, 2010–From the Archives: Dr. Sam Mhlongo
    Another Joan Shenton video, this interview from June, 2000: "What is making black Africans so sick in Africa when their counterparts in Europe are not even half as sick?"
  • January 10, 2010–Dr. Charles Geshekter reviews "House of Numbers"
    "With his first film, House of Numbers, Brent Leung has produced a profound documentary. It’s a case study about how scientific knowledge can be created, then harden into a rigid dogma, defended with religious zeal by its creators who stubbornly refuse to debate anyone who disputes their claims but who labor overtime to prevent critical opinions from being heard…"
  • January 10, 2010–I really, really don't care what causes AIDS
    Carl Strygg, writing on Celia Farber's website, "The Truth Barrier"…"One thing is absolutely clear to me: I have never met even one HIV positive person who felt healthy whose quality of life was improved by HIV drugs. What benefit there may be is certainly limited to those very near death, in my experience…"
  • January 10, 2010–"House of Numbers" is a top iTunes Trailer
    The DVD release of "House of Numbers" is closer now that the trailer is available on Apple's iTunes store. At the time of posting it was one of the top featured videos.
  • January 8, 2010–AZT: Good for What Ails You
    AZT. We all know how much good that did for AIDS. Now it's considered malpractice to give AZT alone in large quantities for AIDS. But, according to this article, AZT is going to be great to kill XMRV, the virus that causes (?) Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Anything that causes severe or fatal anemia just has to be good for chronic fatigue. Take AZT and you'll never be tired again!
  • January 8, 2010–AIDS Experts Deny HIV Test Validity…On Camera
    Raw footage from "House of Numbers" of Dr. Niel Constantine saying (after Brent Leung indicates that he tested HIV negative in Africa), "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?" and top UK HIV virologist Robin Weiss saying, "I don't think the Western Blot is a useful diagnostic test, I don't think it's worth doing…You don't need a western blot and it's become a dogma in HIV research that you need one ELISA followed by a Western [blot]. You don't!…Western Blots have been sort of promoted into some sort of holy grail."
    There have been some efforts by Constantine and Weiss to claim that their statements were taken out of context. Constantine has claimed that he was talking about HIV tests made in garages. It is true that he and Brent Leung discussed this but the discussion on camera is clearly related to Brent's HIV test which was a commercial test produced under circumstances that are normal in Africa. Weiss claimed that he was being pressed by Leung, but the video shows that he was very relaxed. He has also claimed that he was referring to the status of Western Blot testing in the 1980s but that is clearly not the context of the question and Weiss uses the present tense,
  • January 8, 2010–Write a "House of Numbers" Review
    If you have watched the documentary "House of Numbers" then you should write an IMDB review. This does require a registration, but it's free. There is a concerted effort (by you-know-who) to give this film a low rating.
  • January 8, 2010–Lancet Authors Indicate that Antiretroviral Therapy Kills Quickly
    This article is full of spin, but here are the revealing nuggets, "Out of nearly 200,000 patients initiated on ART in Malawi by the end of 2008, 12 % were known to have died and a further 12% were 'lost to follow up' [which usually means they died]…nearly two-thirds of the deaths occurred within three months after starting ART"
  • January 4, 2010–The Year in Review by Connie Howard
    Writing in Edmonton's independent "Vue Weekly", "…pharmaceuticals are where it's at—or so the industry wants to keep us believing—even though it isn't drugs that have sustained human civilizations since forever…"
  • January 4, 2010–From the Archives: Luc Montagnier
    Luc Montagnier being interviewed in Pretoria in June, 2000.

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