De mortuis nil nisi bonum - Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has died, and it is real hard to honor the latin admonition. For those who do not know Tshabalala Msimang was the South African Minister of Health under Thabo Mbeki, whose denial that AIDS was caused by HIV has lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of her countrymen, with more in the pipeline. Fortunately, the current government has reversed their policy, although too late for the dead, and many of the living.
Dr. Tshabalala-Msimang advocated marshaling vitamin and nutritional forces against the AIDS virus, H.I.V. She maintained that foods like garlic, lemon, African potatoes and beetroot were stauncher defenses than the antiretroviral drugs that had been proved to prolong the lives of H.I.V.-positive patients and to help prevent the passage of the virus from pregnant women to their babies.The UN envoy on AIDS, Stephen Lewis, accurately characterized the Mbeki government policy "obtuse, dilatory and negligent" andNoting that the drugs had side effects, and adopting the claims of so-called AIDS dissidents who deny a connection between H.I.V. and AIDS, she referred to the antiretroviral drugs as poison.
more worthy of a lunatic fringe than of a concerned and compassionate stateDenial in the face of clear science has murderous consequences. We have seen this with AIDS, we have seen it with tobacco, asbestos, tetra-ethyl lead and more. Observant readers may have noticed another issue beset by politically and industrially based denialism that uses bought and sold, fringe scientific backing. Copenhagen represents a late and probably last chance to avoid this from human made climate change.
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Bravo Bunny!
Yes, some of the skeptics are paid hirelings of the fossil fuel industry. But not all. Consider, for example, journalist Alexander Cockburn. He is not making a dime from his denial of anthropogenic global warming. But in the latest issue of The Nation (print edition Jan. 4, 2009; available online for subscribers only), he believes the stolen emails reveal a global warming conspiracy. Cockburn endorses the paper by Gerlich and Tschauschner (G&T), saying "the Greenhouse effect violates the second law of thermodynamics".
Back in the real world, if there were no greenhouse effect, the surface temperature of the Earth would be lower by about 33C, putting it below the freezing point of water. The errors by G&T were explained by Arthur P. Smith.
I wonder what her maker is saying to her about the hundreds of thousands of lives lost unnecessarily to AIDS?
That would be a conversation worth hearing.
Nick
MarkeyMouse says: Is there no end to stupidity. Where is the Electron Microscope picture of the AIDS Virus? Where is the isolated HIV? Was the original claim ever Peer reviewed?
What passes for Science and Scientists today is a sick joke.
My Rabett Run appears to have an all arounder
http://www.microscopy.org.za/Documents/posters/Aids.pdf
MarkeyMouse says: Not so. Misguided Rabett. What you have there is a "diagram" not a picture of HIV. The photos of the cells could be of any cellular material. Certainly not HIV, cos like I said, it has never been isolated, so no-one knows what it looks like.
http://www.whale.to/m/hiv.html
http://www.healtoronto.com/hiviso.html
http://hivskeptic.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/hiv-has-never-been-isolated-from-aids-patients/
MMouse: Mandatory classification as AIDS victim in Africa if you have:
Major signs:
- weight loss 10%
- chronic diarrhoea 1 month
- fever 1 month (intermittent or constant)
See no-one dies of "African" diseases anymore. They are all AIDS victims. Brings in more money. You think Scientific fraud is limited to ClimateGate. Think again.
http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/chrfafrica.htm
Oh dear, you've opened another can of denioworms.
MMouse:
The WHO guideline is that two out of these three signs, AND at least one minor sign, *in the absence of any other cause of immunosuppression such as cancer, cytostatic therapy, prolonged steroid therapy or malnutrition* are to be considered a sign of AIDS. It is NOT to be seen as a diagnosis, for that a positive HIV test is also required.
Lying by omission.
I am becoming more inclined to think that MarkeyMouse doesn't necessarily believe a single thing he writes, but is just trying to get a rise out of people.
MarkeyMouse says: Marco, if the HIV has never been isolated, how can any one do a test for it that works? What the HIV tests do test for is the wreckage of ant random retro virus, and of course pretty well every one in Africa shows up as positive on that score.
Re the WHO guideline, I didn't reproduce the whole thing cos of space. But you followed the link. Nothing is hidden.
Why I make this point here, is that what has happened with the CRU in Norwich is not isolated. The originator of the AIDS theory was also fraudulent, and has made a lot of money out of it.
The anti-smoking research industry has made Billions, and now it turns out they have found that the lung Cancer is due to a Genetic trait. People without that trait can smoke all they want and never get cancer.
There are others.
The pattern is the same.
In each research discipline, by PhD level, the candidates must have completely bought in to the current theory, so as not to interupt the flow of research grant money.
Each discipline is regulated in the same way. Exclusion from University Research if you don't follow the Party Grant Line, exclusion from the Literature etc.
Research in Medecine, Education, Criminology etc all have this problem. It is Political Control of Scientific thought, and of the Public.
MarkeyMouse says: Marco, the World Health Organisation INTERIM WHO
CLINICAL STAGING OF HIV/AIDS AND HIV/AIDS CASE DEFINITIONS FOR SURVEILLANCE AFRICAN REGION says, page 19
"BOX 2. PRESUMPTIVE CLINICAL STAGE 4 IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN AGED UNDER 18 MONTHS WHERE VIROLOGICAL CONFIRMATION OF HIV INFECTION IS NOT AVAILABLE"
http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/guidelines/clinicalstaging.pdf
See. No test required. They may try to do a test, but if not, the case will still be reported as AIDS.
AIDS/HIV has been heavily studied in the last couple of decades. As a result, we know more about the way in which HIV causes AIDS than we do about the details of most other diseases. AIDS researchers often disagree about other points, but they agree that HIV causes AIDS.
The visitors to the Rabett Run used to include global warming deniers. Now the portfolio has broadened to include HIV/AIDS deniers.
What's next? Creationism?
Markey's divorce from reality has now been demonstrated without a doubt to be total.
Marky is a slow little guy, and usually only posts one thing at a time which allows others to use him as a useful teaching tool for the lurkers.
Eli thinks we really hit his sweet spot with AIDS/HIV. OTOH there are very few specialist denialists, you almost always get the entire package, if for no other reason that they are spread thin on the ground.
And oh yeah Marky, those TEMs (which you asked for) are part of a publication and the virus was identified.
Hey Murky, you missed the biggest conspiracy of them all - that old round Earth scam. Any idiot could tell you that if the Earth really was a basketball, the people on the bottom would fall off.
CIP
Markymouse sure has his share of deniotopics. But I really can't stand the HIV bit, that denial has already killed tens of thousands of people.
Here, Marky: HIV on a picture
http://www.avert.org/aids-picture.php?photo_id=503
We have a study of the formation of the HIV particles:
http://www.pnas.org/content/106/45/19114.abstract
We can produce GP120 depleted HIV particles:
doi:10.1016/S0264-410X(97)00196-5
More pictures:
http://www.medgadget.com/archives/img/hhiivv.jpg
http://www.aids-info.ch/bilder/unterricht/bilder_download/koch6_1.jpg
How does it feel, Markymouse, to have associated yourself with a group of people who are DIRECTLY responsible for the death of tens of thousands of people, by convincing them, or others, to withhold treatment?
Eli thinks we really hit his sweet spot with AIDS/HIV. OTOH there are very few specialist denialists, you almost always get the entire package, if for no other reason that they are spread thin on the ground.
Eric Raymond, author of the well-known essay, "Cathedral and the Bazaar", and who's been making a bunch of noise over some of the code stolen from the CRU server, apparently is also an HIV denialist.
Nutters tend to be nutty, that's for sure.
MarkeyMouse says: Rabett (and the claque), Watch the House of Numbers Clip, at about 45 secs, the Scientist is asked if the Cells in your picture are HIV/AIDS. He says Yes....PROBABLY.
You are being led by the nose and seem to have a propensity for it that is troubling.
http://www.houseofnumbers.com/video-clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylyzcQdn3FU&feature=related
Thats right, ignore the links that have been put forwards, in favour of your own ones. Thus we know you are a nutter.
Eli said:"Eli thinks we really hit his sweet spot with AIDS/HIV. OTOH there are very few specialist denialists, you almost always get the entire package, if for no other reason that they are spread thin on the ground."
It is a lot easier to be ignorant in many fields than knowledgeable in one.
Jim Eager said:"Markey's divorce from reality has now been demonstrated without a doubt to be total."
Not only is MarkeyMouse divorced from reality, but evidently lost visitation rights.
MarkeyMouse says: Marco, you picture has no provenance, it could be of anything.
Where in your links does it say HIV has been isolated?
The GP120 link doesn't work.
The remaining pictures again don't have any provenance, and could be of anything.
If that's the best you can do, it's pathetic.
And the guilt is all on you.
People have been imprisoned falsely, fed toxic drugs, given living death sentences, and Billions have been wasted on an alleged virus that has never been isolated, and of which no proven picture exists.
You people are living proof that Socialism has excised any rational thought processes from you. It has left you completely unable to analyse information and reach a correct conclusion.
No Picture, no Isolation, no Virus. Seemples.
One wonders what Markey thinks about the moon landings. (I haven't been over to Bad Astronomy to see if he exhibits the same disconnect with reality there.
"The GP120 link doesn't work."
And here you show yourself to be the empty suit that you are. It wasn't a link, it is a Digital Object Identifier, a system used to identify, among other things, peer-reviewed scientific articles. You don't know what that is, do you? I'll give you a hint: those conspiracy-theory web pages that you visit to get your talking points aren't peer-reviewed.
"You people are living proof that Socialism has excised any rational thought processes from you."
Priceless! The person on this blog (and possibly in this hemisphere) who is the most irrational is telling us that we have lost the capacity for rational thought. Riiiight.
And since there has been no talk of economics, how do you know we are socialists? Does your tin-foil hat let you read our thoughts?
MarkeyMouse says: Mark why the hysterical reaction. Just produce a Peer Reviewed Paper that shows that the HIV has been isolated, or shows a picture of a proven HIV cell.
You can't can you?
Come on be rational. How can you belive in something no-one has ever seen?
Oh, and you are Socialist aren't you?
Markymouse:
We know your ilk. We come with a paper, you reject it, because...well, because it shows what you asked, but you won't accept it. Just look how Duesberg went after the money the Perth Group offered to show HIV existed...and was declined because the Perth Group did not agree. Several non-virologists attacking someone who at least has some knowledge of viruses...sigh.
Oh, and Markymouse: show me a paper that proves the existence of an influenza virus, including a picture of a proven influenza virus, and including full purification of that virus. Compare that paper to several of the papers I linked to regarding HIV.
This is going to be fun: will Markymouse now also deny the existence of the influenza virus?
MarkeyMouse says: Marco. All you have to do is produce a Paper or a Picture backing up your allegation. Why not just do that?
MarkeyMouse, my reaction was scornful, not hysterical. I heap scorn on you, scorn that you richly deserve. You have been presented with evidence of the existence of the HIV virus, and you refuse to accept it. That is your prerogative, but with that refusal, you identify yourself as unreasonable and irrational. Furthermore, you won't even bother to seek out information that has been provided to you.
That DOI (that you didn't even realize wasn't a hyperlink) linked to a peer-reviewed article from 1998 about isolating inactivated HIV. You just complained that the "link" didn't work. If you don't even know what a DOI is, why should anyone believe anything you say? So, keep on making your ridiculous accusations and insinuations of conspiracy and socialism. It's all you've got: heated words with no factual basis.
MarkeyMouse says:
Mark. You mean you can't even name a Paper which isolates HIV? You hanen't got a picture?
I'm beginning to think that MarkeyMouse is a 13-year-old boy just looking for attention.
Marco gave you a DOI of a peer-reviewed paper that isolated HIV. Read that paper. Since you've already shown that you don't know what a DOI is, I think your odds of success are not good.
MarkeyMouse says: Mark and Marko, your article: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119427023/abstract
Purification of Bionanoparticles
Keywords
Bionanoparticles • Downstream processing • Gene therapy
It is nothing to do with isolating the HIV.
You can't produce any Peer reviewed literature , or a picture of it cos it's never happened.
Consider your very unsupported positions please.
Markymouse still doesn't know how to use the doi system.
You just found 10.1002/ceat.200800176, which refers to the paper I cited.
And please respond to my challenge.
MarkeyMouse won't be responding to your challenge, Marco. (I suspect you know that anyway.) He made a demonstrably false claim, you called him on it, and now he's desperately engaged in a vain attempt to save face.
MarkeyMouse says: Marco and Mark, if you want to cite that paper, you pay for it. Quote any part which says HIV has been isolated. Or alternatively that will be an admission that you can't find a single publicly available Paper which demonstartes HIV separation.
No Paper, no Picture, no HIV.
(Why is it so difficult for Socialists to admit they are wrong)
I already gave you examples, and you still ignore them!
Answer my challenge, or admit you are a moron. Those are the only two options you have.
Marco, it appears that MarkeyMouse cannot answer your challenge, and of course he will not back down. So, he desperately tries a third tactic: evading the subject and calling names. Everyone sees you for what you are, MarkeyMouse: an empty suit.
wow, after 25 years of hiv science, with tons of scientific publications on hiv......BELIEVE IT OR NOT THE SO CALLED HIV IS YET TO BE DISCOVERED AND ISOLATED.
tegare shows that denialists lack basic reading comprehension skills.
science is about asking questions, performing experiments to prove or disprove, not literature and comprehension,read Gallo and Papovic`s paper 1984 announcing discovery and isolation of hiv. If you are so gifted Mark, and inform us.
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