-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.registerguard.com/news/19981229/ed.col.tyson.1229.html <A HREF="http://www.registerguard.com/news/19981229/ed.col.tyson.1229.html"> The Register-Guard: Opinion: If HIV really caus </A> ----- December 29, 1998 Opinion: If HIV really causes AIDS, where's the evidence? By DAVID TYSON WHEN MY WIFE, KATHLEEN, tested positive for HIV in October, the sixth month of her pregnancy, we were both stunned. Even more confusing was that my blood tested negative for HIV. We have been married for more than 10 years, monogamous, and never received blood transfusions. Our calculations indicate that we have had 300 percent more sessions of unprotected sex than the literature suggests is required for transmission. Kathleen is and always has been a robust specimen. Neither of us is an intravenous drug user. It was clear that what we had heard about HIV and what we were observing in our own bodies raised profound questions. On our doctor's advice, Kathleen started a regimen of a protease inhibitor and AZT. I hit the books, motivated to get a grasp on the science of our situation and, as it turns out, the politics of the plague warriors. After several weeks reviewing the ``literature'' disseminated by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, I was angry. Nowhere was there any elucidation on a causative link between HIV and AIDS. There were assumptions aplenty, some obscure lab reports, but nothing resembling the precise elucidation that I associate with scientific thinking. I was not, I discovered, alone in my frustration. Dr. Kary Mullis, recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction, someone eminently more qualified than I am to discover such a document, was unable to do so either. Dr. Mullis reports: ``I did computer searches. Neither Montagnier, Gallo, nor anyone else had published papers describing experiments which led to the conclusion that HIV probably caused AIDS. I read the papers in Science for which they had become well known as AIDS doctors, but all they had said there was that they had found evidence of a past infection by something which was probably HIV in some AIDS patients. They found antibodies. Antibodies to viruses had always been considered evidence of past disease, not present disease. Antibodies signaled that the virus had been defeated. The patient had saved himself. There was no indication in these papers that this virus caused a disease. They didn't show that everybody with the antibodies had the disease. In fact they found some healthy people with antibodies.'' (``The Medical Establishment vs. the Truth,'' Penthouse magazine, September 1998.) Mullis goes on to note that to obtain satisfaction in matters pertaining to HIV and AIDS one can do no better than review the literature developed by Peter Duesberg, professor of microbiology at the University of California, Berkeley. Duesberg has studied retroviruses for 25 years and is considered by some to have the most brilliant mind in the field today. Duesberg, it turns out, has argued all along that HIV cannot possibly cause AIDS. His arguments take on the cadence and power of mathematical certainty. Perhaps the most compelling strategy he uses to arrive at his conclusion is the well known scientific principle which states that a theory, in order to be useful, must accurately predict observed phenomena. It can be demonstrated that the infectious HIV/AIDS theory predicts none of the observed phenomena. (My own highly personal observation corroborates this.) There came a point in my research where I started to doubt our medical establishment. Science and conventional wisdom appear to take divergent paths. If Duesberg is correct, the American medical establishment and particularly the Centers for Disease Control should start to notice a substance significantly more repugnant than egg on its collective face. We have an epidemic on our hands all right, an epidemic of bad science - with legions of duped and/or unquestioning doctors of medicine as co-conspiritors. This affair seen in all its stark ramifications is nothing short of murderous fraud on a vast, global scale. But I should perhaps return to my own story. My failure to find any elucidation of the mechanism of pathogenicity for the HIV/AIDS hypothesis, and my success in discovering conclusive evidence of the powerful toxicity associated with anti-retroviral drugs, persuaded my wife and me to abandon her therapy. Compelling arguments put forth by John Yiamouyiannis, Ph.D., Dr. Eleni Papadopulos, a biophysicist, and Dr. Roberto Giraldo, an infectious disease specialist, which indicate that HIV is, at worst, a harmless endogenous retrovirus, diminished our health concerns considerably. So it was that our baby, Felix Hugh, was born at 9:55 p.m. on Dec. 7. He weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and was as perfect a little boy as anyone could possibly hope. We were still basking in the glow of the miracle of birth on Dec. 8, when a stranger entered our hospital room. This person identified herself as an infectious disease pediatrician. She had been referred to us by our regular pediatrician. It developed that this particular doctor of medicine had become concerned because Kathleen had eschewed her anti-retroviral drugs, refused AZT for Felix and was (horror upon horrors) breastfeeding the little tyke. She became quite emotional on the subject, evoking the terrible trauma of treating infants with AIDS, the painful decisions regarding ever more powerful combinations of drugs as the virus mutated and the child deteriorated. (HIV has been shown to be incapable of mutating and remaining viable. It barely has 9,000 nucleotides, hardly the crafty foe myth has made it out to be.) It was simply terrifying, she remarked, how the infernal HIV eluded the earnest efforts of plague warriors like herself to expunge it from its lair in the lymph nodes and bone marrow of its victims. We didn't begin to realize, the doc pleaded, the awful risk to which we were exposing Felix. As I have indicated we were far from ignorant on these issues. Yet she was intolerant of our views. How dare we question the wise counsel she offered! She snorted with indignation at the mention of Peter Duesberg. ``What an egomaniac,'' she muttered. And she then, and to this day, reminded me of no one so much as the evil fairy in Sleeping Beauty who, enraged at not being invited to the birthday celebration, lays a curse on the beautiful child. We were to discover what form this curse was to take later that evening when hospital security forces cordoned off the maternity ward at Sacred Heart. Apparently some concern had arisen that we would attempt to blow that popstand and hightail it to the winter hills with our newborn, inoculating him with the dread HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, through mama's contaminated breasts. Into this increasingly nightmarish scenario came the petitioner from the court. We were informed that the state of Oregon had taken custody of Felix. The petitioner handed me a summons. We were charged with ``intent to harm'' Felix. Apparently if you don't buy into the unsubstantiated gibberish promulgated by the Centers for Disease Control you are intending to harm your newborn baby. Felix was released to our physical custody on the condition that we treat him with 0.65 milliliters of AZT every six hours and did not breastfeed him. Now it seems to me that this sort of medical fascism has implications on the civil liberties of us all. When the state sees fit to literally hold your child in ransom for your cooperation with a health program that is based on an unproved hypothesis which is, in turn, challenged by some of the best minds in the world, something is horribly amiss. Our science, our dignity as responsible citizens and our desire as parents to ensure the welfare of our children are all being swept aside by the paranoid plague mongers of the Centers for Disease Control. The malignancy of the $50 billion a year HIV/AIDS industry includes lucrative research grants, the HIV test kit business and pharmaceutical giants like Glaxo Wellcome. Tens of thousands of people are employed in this racket, er, industry. Tens of thousands of people owe their livelihood to the unlikely hypothesis that HIV causes AIDS. And some of them even know how to compose pamphlets instructing us on the techniques of safe sex and how to bleach our hypodermics before shooting up. For a major institution like the Centers for Disease Control to admit such colossal and murderous blunder is not very likely. If there is evidence against their theory they can manufacture contrary evidence in a matter of hours. The financial muscle of their buddies over at Glaxo Wellcome can wheel into position a formidable arsenal of attorneys and so-called experts to dupe the public. About the only thing they don't have in their favor is the truth, the scientific truth and nothing but the scientific truth. And the powerful thing about the scientific truth is that eventually it is all so obvious to everyone we wonder how we could ever have thought otherwise, and the wool falls from our eyes. And we recognize the wicked ones in our midst. I look forward to seeing them on the witness stand under oath. I look forward to seeing them behind bars. David Tyson is a Eugene electrician. Copyright © 1998 The Register-Guard ===== from: http://www.registerguard.com/news/19981229/1a.tyson.1229.html <A HREF="http://www.registerguard.com/news/19981229/1a.tyson.1229.html">The Register-Guard: Couple doubt HIV causes AIDS</A> ----- December 29, 1998 Couple doubt HIV causes AIDS By JEFF WRIGHT The Register-Guard David Tyson recalls the scene at the hospital: The maternity ward had been cordoned off, and a court representative and police officer were headed toward his wife, who had given birth by Caesarean section the day before. The police officer took notes, Tyson said, as the court representative told them they were being charged with threatening to harm their newborn son. ``And then the officer handed me the summons,'' he said. Tyson, a 47-year-old Eugene electrician, said he and wife, Kathleen, are still struggling to come to terms with what happened next: a court hearing three days later when they lost legal custody of their son, Felix, because they balked at giving him anti-HIV drugs and wanted to breast-feed him. In an interview and in a written statement to the newspaper that appears on today's opinion page, Tyson talked about the family's decision and said his son is doing well. Tyson said he will fight the court order. "I don't want my son in the custody of the state of Oregon," he said. "I'm going to fumble along and find out how to undo that." He said he and his wife view the state's intervention as a violation of their civil liberties and rights as parents. Kathleen Tyson, who has tested positive for HIV three times, declined a request for an interview. "When you have a controversial health issue, you have to leave it up to the family to choose its own path," David Tyson said. ``When the state comes along and says, `You have to do this,' that's not the way we do things in this country.'' The Tysons don't believe HIV causes AIDS, he said. ``Just because a majority of doctors believe in this hypothesis, that doesn't mean I should have to,'' he said. A classic case of denial? Tyson says no. "If someone can show me that HIV positivity has any alarming prospects, I would certainly look at it," he said. "I'm open-minded about this." The Tysons still have physical custody of their son, pending a fact-finding hearing in February. They have agreed not to breast-feed their son and to treat him every six hours with AZT, a drug believed by most specialists to reduce the likelihood of HIV. Representatives from the state Services to Children & Families agency visit the family once a week, Tyson said. Caseworkers have witnessed Felix receiving AZT at least once, but are generally "trusting us as reliable citizens to undertake what we've agreed to do," he said. The state won legal custody four days after Felix was born Dec. 7. But the infant began receiving AZT when he was 2 days old. He was breast-fed several times before the Tysons were handed their summons at the hospital, Tyson said. "It was important because that was the colostrum," he said, referring to the protein-rich fluid found in a mother's breasts in the first few days after birth. The family's dilemma began when Kathleen Tyson, 38, learned in October that she had tested positive for HIV during a routine prenatal checkup, David Tyson said. He and his wife were shocked and have "absolutely no clue" how she could have acquired the virus, he said. That started them on a desperate search for information about HIV and how to treat it, Tyson said. He began his research with no preconceived notions - except, perhaps, that he'd find a solid scientific basis for the belief that HIV causes AIDS, he said. His first stop, he said, was the Eugene Public Library, where he found a book that questioned prevailing medical assumptions about AIDS. ``That was my first intimation that something other that what we hear in the media was going on,'' he said. Further research on the Internet convinced him that HIV does not cause AIDS. In fact, he became suspicious that AZT and other anti-HIV drugs might actually be part of the problem. The more he researched, the less concerned he was about whether his wife was HIV positive. "That's something you only have to worry about if you believe HIV causes AIDS," he said. "If you don't believe that, then it's not a scary thing." Kathleen Tyson decided during her pregnancy to stop taking AZT and other drugs intended to reduce the likelihood that she would transmit the virus to her son at birth. They didn't want to give AZT to their son after birth because of its toxicity and potential side effects - and because they won't know for several more months whether he even has HIV. In years past, Tyson said he harbored no deep-seated suspicions about traditional medicine. ``I've had my life saved by Western medicine,'' he said, alluding to a tractor accident in 1984 in which he suffered serious internal injuries and was transported to Sacred Heart Medical Center in shock. ``On the other hand, I've had really good luck with acupuncture treatment and some ancient Chinese medicines,'' he said. Tyson, the son of a Congregational minister, said his and his wife's medical preferences are not grounded in religious belief. "We express our religion best in our appreciation for the outdoors," he said, recounting wilderness treks and camping trips they've enjoyed with their daughter, now 9. Married almost 11 years, the Tysons moved to Eugene from Douglas County six years ago. In that time, they've cultivated a network of supportive friends. Frances Gerald, a neighbor who has cared for the Tysons' daughter after school, said they're an intelligent and caring couple "who rise above the call of duty when it comes to helping others out." She recalls the time, for example, that David Tyson helped her and her husband replace a broken sump pump. "It was a real neighborly thing to do." Gerald said she won't second-guess the Tysons' medical decision. "But I know their decision is based on well-thought-out thinking and extensive research," she said. "I have some respect for them not buying into doing what the government says you should do." Laurie Henry, principal at the Eugene elementary school attended by the Tysons' daughter, said she knows Kathleen Tyson as an active volunteer who serves on the school's parent site council. "She's very supportive of her school, her daughter and her learning," Henry said. "She's a child-centered mother who is wonderful to work with." Even Dr. Lauren Herbert, the pediatric infectious disease specialist who reported her concerns about the Tysons to the state, has lauded their sincerity. ``They are wonderful parents who obviously thought they were doing what's very best for their child,'' she said earlier this month. David Tyson said the support they've received has helped them cope with an unexpected media spotlight. The biggest hurdle, he said, has been deciding what to tell their daughter, who has tested negative for HIV. "She's not so insensitive that she doesn't know something is up, but we haven't spelled it out for her," he said. "We're still not sure on the best way to deal with it." Explanations aren't yet necessary for Felix, 3 weeks old. "But he's doing terrific," Tyson said. Copyright © 1998 The Register-Guard ===== from: http://www.registerguard.com/news/19981229/1a.tysonside.1229.html <A HREF="http://www.registerguard.com/news/19981229/1a.tysonside.1229.html"> The Register-Guard: Skeptics doubt AIDS treatme </A> ----- December 29, 1998 Skeptics doubt AIDS treatment By JEFF WRIGHT The Register-Guard A mother who is HIV-positive decides to hold off giving anti-HIV drugs to her newborn. Good idea? "I think it's an extraordinarily rational decision," said Dr. Robert Da Prato of Portland, a physician employed by the U.S. Defense Department. And what if that same HIV-positive mother decides she wants to breast-feed her new baby? "She should be breast-feeding," Da Prato said. "It's insane not to nurse your child." But other doctors argue that what's really insane is Da Prato and others who give such advice to people with a life-threatening disease. The belief that AIDS is caused by anything other than HIV "is not considered tenable by anyone in the mainstream," said Dr. Paul Lewis, director of the pediatric HIV clinic at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. "The time for skepticism on the causation of AIDS has passed." Not for Kathleen and David Tyson, the Eugene couple who risk losing permanent custody of their newborn son, Felix, because of their suspicions about anti-HIV drugs and their desire to breast-feed. Among those the Tysons have consulted is Da Prato, who is affiliated with the Portland chapter of HEAL (Health Education AIDS Liaison), an international group that challenges the medical establishment's view that HIV causes AIDS. Da Prato earned his medical degree from UCLA in 1972 but is no longer practicing medicine. He said he is licensed to practice in Washington and California, and that his views are not endorsed by his employer, the federal government. AZT, he said, is an extremely toxic drug that stops human DNA from replicating. "You do not want to give (this drug) to anyone, but especially to a baby, which is basically a mass of replicating DNA," he said. "I have an 8-year-old daughter, and I would never give her AZT - I would leave the state or country first." Da Prato said it's not easy espousing a contrarian view, especially his belief that anti-HIV drugs can actually cause AIDS. "It's terrible to tell a practicing doctor that his therapy is killing his patients," he said. "There's almost no way to engage orthodox physicians in this debate because they go nuts on you." That's the kind of talk that does indeed drive Valerie Haynes nuts. Haynes, a registered nurse who serves as health care director for the nonprofit HIV Alliance in Eugene, said she sees the proof of the effectiveness of AZT and other anti-HIV drugs every day. "The people who I see who are not dying are the ones on these treatments," she said. "The patients who do die are the ones who aren't able to adhere to the (drug) regimen, for whatever reasons." Haynes said the introduction of "combination therapy" or "three-drug cocktails" in 1996 has erased all doubt about the effectiveness of AZT and other drugs in fighting AIDS. Instead of an AIDS patient dying every one to two weeks, the alliance now sees such deaths about once every three to four months, she said. The turnaround has been so dramatic that last year the alliance closed its hospice for dying patients. Haynes said denial is a common and powerful reaction to AIDS - especially in patients who seem healthy. "It's pretty natural for someone with no symptoms to question a medical community that says, `You are ill,' " she said. But that doesn't excuse members of the scientific community who foster such beliefs, she said. "It's really irritating to me to be fighting this same battle when I know people who are alive today who wouldn't be if they weren't taking these treatments," she said. Some people can "beat" AIDS because anti-viral drugs can slow the process to such a degree that they die of other causes before they die of AIDS. But Haynes said it's wrong to suggest that such people are "cured" of AIDS because they still have the virus detectable in their bloodstream. In the Tysons' case, most of the focus has been on the AZT treatment ordered for their son. But Doug DeWitt, the HIV Alliance's education and prevention director, said the family's desire to breast-feed their son is much more troubling to him. The evidence that HIV can be transmitted via breast milk is incontrovertible, he said. "We see people all over the country who are prosecuted for having unprotected sex," he said. "But this is like having unprotected sex four or five times a day, only it's a baby who has no choice in the matter." David Tyson said he and his wife view breast-feeding as the healthiest choice for a newborn. Also, they don't accept as fact that HIV causes AIDS, that HIV can be transmitted via breast milk, or that either Kathleen or Felix even have HIV. Kary Mullis, a biochemist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry, helped invent one of the most common tests now used to test for HIV. But he has since voiced skepticism about the connection between HIV and AIDS, making him a cause celebre among Tyson and other doubters. According to a World Wide Web site (www.virusmyth.com) sponsored in part by HEAL, "a growing group of biomedical scientists claim the cause of AIDS is still unknown." Some self-described "dissidents" view the virus as benign while others question its existence. Many doubt that AIDS is sexually transmitted, and some believe "people die because they are poisoned to death by antiviral drugs." Still others suggest that overuse of recreational drugs is the primary cause of AIDS. Lewis, of OHSU, is unimpressed. He said Mullis and most challengers to medicine's understanding of AIDS are lab scientists with little expertise in medical care. If they are right about anti-HIV drugs causing AIDS, "then how can we explain the stunning death rates from AIDS in Africa and Asia where these drugs are not available?" Lewis asked. "There are essentially no cases of AIDS in people who do not carry HIV. As the amount of HIV in a patient's body increases, their AIDS condition worsens." Copyright © 1998 The Register-Guard ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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