Science Guardian

Readers may wonder who are the main characters involved in the various paradigm challenges are, so here is a brief SG guide to both sides of the HIV∫AIDS issue and in future, other science wars:

(Page in progress: This list will be built up as time allows, and all objections, corrections and contributions from readers in email or in comments are welcomed. Currently it is a rough, off the top of the head temporary draft in many instances, and the facts remain to be confirmed if the end of the biographical mention is so labeled.)

The HIV∫AIDS Debate

HIV Negative (as in debunker):

Peter Duesberg - Very distinguished, capable and literate University of California at Berkeley cancer retrovirologist with exceptional theoretical, analytical and expository talent, as well as great personal courage and integrity, whose career includes initiating two major fields of research, oncogenes and aneuploidy, two theories of cancer, repudiating one of them (oncogenes), and in his reviews authoritatively rejecting the paradigm of yet another field (HIV∫AIDS). This Berkeley professor is the chief critic of the HIV=AIDS (only-HIV-causes-AIDS) paradigm and has written extensively in the peer reviewed literature about its overwhelming failings, only to be met with severe political and professional hostility and a significant absence in peer-reviewed attempts at direct refutation and rebuttal in the same elite journals. Cancer Research (in 1987) and the Proceedings of the National Academy (in 1989) published the initial two comprehensive critiques which sank the hypothesis theoretically, though it has survived and flourished politically and financially ever since. Events since have continually borne out his points as the outcomes of their own AIDS studies regularly embarrass paradigm promoters by conflicting with their claims, as this blog has often noted. His book on the topic is both popular and scientific, Inventing the AIDS Virus (Regnery, 1995) and an excellent account of how one of our finest scientists has been politically and financially harmed for exposing the gross scientific inadequacy of the politically and financially rewarding HIV/AIDS paradigm, and how this came about. All Duesberg’s papers on AIDS are available at his AIDS site. and those on cancer at his cancer lab site.

Kary Banks Mullis, Ph.D. (born December 28, 1944) is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate. Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993 for his development of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology which allows the amplification of specified DNA sequences. Dr Mullis subsequently was awarded the Japan Prize that same year. Mullis is a delightfully spontaneous and lively personality with a incessantly busy mind who is entirely beyond the reach of all tyrannical conformity. His PCR technique, dreamed up during a late night California drive with his lab girl friend sleeping beside him (he woke her up to ask her opinion of the idea, promising her a share in the Nobel if she participated, but she relapsed into sleep again), is an inspiration many believe to be without parallel in usefulness in modern biology, and it has enabled over two hundred innocents to be released from jail from DNA evidence otherwise impossible to analyze. Anthony Liversidge interviewed him for OMNI Magazine in a classic Q/A where Mullis’ best attributes are on display,

Serge Lang was a distinguished mathematician at Yale well known for his many textbooks, and for carrying on fruitful and original mathematical work into his later years. His unique avocation was to challenge misinformation purveyed by academic professors and officials, by the government bureacracy and by editors and reporters in the media, sending them letters demanding change and publishing the resulting exchange of correspondence in compendium “Files” which he would forward to 100 influential people in the US. Some of these remarkable works were collected in “Challenges”, a unique book which should be not be neglected by anyone who needs to understand how politics and incompetence distorts truth in the higher reaches of US institutions. The finest work of this kind Lang did was his last, a substantial File on HIV/AIDS, partly included in the book, which with utter clarity demonstrated the inadequacy of claims in the field and the unacceptable nature of its statistics from the CDC, presented in terms completely free of politics and personal comment, an academic and public ideal which Lang advocated and lived up to in all his public interventions.

Harvey Bialy, founding science editor of Nature Biotechnology and long a staunch supporter of Peter Duesberg, whose pupil he may have been at one point at Berkeley, is the author of Oncogenes, Aneuploidy and AIDS: A Scientific Life and Times of Peter H. Duesberg (North Atlantic, 2004), a most accurate guide to the way the difficult politics and exemplary science of Duesberg’s reviews of the HIV and oncogene theories, and his pursuit of a new research path in cancer, have unfolded over the years. Notorious for the fierce lack of restraint of his emails lambasting the errors of recipients, Bialy took over the editing of the cheeky Barnesworld dissenter blog initiated by a West Coast lawyer in 2006, and turned it into a group blog carrying posts by several prominent AIDS dissenters, as well as more scurrilous material such as Bialy’s entertaining email provocations of John P. Moore (Moore’s revenge consists of various excerpts from this claiming to expose Bialy’s (nonexistent) homophobia on AIDSTruth). Renamed You Bet Your Life, the blog became a center for the most intelligent and witty debunking of the HIV∫AIDS paradigm until it suddenly ceased operation in May this year, after Bialy warned associates that he was either ill and subject to chemotherapy, or was intending to go into a Buddhist retreat, or possibly both. Since then he has turned to preparing and exhibiting art, having communicated that the debate on whether HIV could possibly be the cause of AIDS is now over, as far as he is concerned, the paradigm having been exposed as scientific error in every respect.

Gordon Stewart, emeritus professor of public health at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, physician and consultant whose field is epidemiology and preventive medicine. In a professional career of over 50 years in the UK and elsewhere, he has specialised mainly in the control of infections, with increasing emphasis upon the importance of behavioural, social and environmental conditions as prime factors in disease control. He was one of the first physicians to recognise the dangers to personal and public health of the sudden increase in drug addiction, sexual freedom and unfamiliar infections which began in the 1960’s, now called HIV=AIDS. He designed programmes for investigation and control of some of these problems in the USA and UK. The WHO asked him to continue this work when he retired in 1983. This led to an intense involvement in the epidemiological investigation of AIDS, on which he has written reports for the WHO, medical, nursing and economic journals, and the Press. He has participated in many radio and television programmes internationally. In 1987, he challenged the view that AIDS would cause a pandemic by heterosexual transmission in the general populations of the USA and Europe. Mathematical projections which he prepared then have now been shown to be accurate to within 10% of registration data. In Stewart’s view, present policies for the control of AIDS in the UK are erroneous and unbalanced because the medical emphasis is upon elimination of HIV by vaccination or chemotherapy whereas, in the USA and Europe at least, the epidemiological evidence shows unequivocally that AIDS is attributable in the first place to behaviour which places individuals and sometimes entire communities at high risk of all sexually­transmissible and many other infections.

Celia Farber is one of two daughters of Barry Farber, the gravelly voiced radio host who conducted the most interesting late night conversation on the Manhattan air waves for several decades, and she is the most literate and dogged investigative reporter in HIV∫AIDS, who rose to prominence with her Words from the Front column in SPIN magazine, which with publisher and editor Bob Guccione Jr.’s strong support covered the doubtful claims and inconsistencies of the paradigm of HIV=AIDS from 1986, when she first interviewed Duesberg. Farber’s persistence in the face of scorn and counter attacks from the AIDS scientific, activist, media and political establishment marks her as the most courageous illuminator of dissent from this globally entrenched belief, dissent which otherwise is censored from mainstream media coverage by the notorious hostility of paradigm participants, particularly Anthony Fauci, to review. In March 2006, Farber succeeded in publishing in the liberal flagship Harpers magazine a seminal piece entitled “Out of Control: AIDS and the corruption of medical science”, her 12 page review of the poorly administered (by NIAID) Uganda trial of the damaging drug nevirapine, and included the underlying problem with the credibility of the paradigm, detailing the objections of Duesberg which had been evaded and ignored for 20 years. This unprecedented elevation of the alternative view into the heights of liberal East Coast media was partly due to the courage and perceptions of Roger Hodge, the new young editor who was taking over the helm of the advertiser-independent monthly from Lewis Lapham, but the initiative was unfortunately not taken up by the rest of the liberal media, who merely barked at the intruder and continued to act as the lapdogs of scientists whose expertise they are not prepared to challenge. A paperback collection of Farber’s best work in the field, Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS, was afterwards published by Melville House ($16.95) and it currently forms the most literate and culturally perceptive survey of the social ramifications of this scientifically indefensible paradigm. A profile of Farber and her valiant role in HIV/AIDS coverage was published in the New York Observer a few months ago.

David Crowe is a young, married Canadian journalist in Alberta who formed the Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society, whose excellent web site keeps current with new developments and carries a great deal of useful information, with key articles by Crowe. He is a board member of Rethinking AIDS (the Committee for the Reappraisal of HIV/AIDS) and AnotherLook. He has written numerous articlesfor magazines including Alive magazine and Red Flags Daily as well as technical letters in the Lancet, AIDS, JAMA, Medical Hypotheses and Pediatrics. He is a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists.

Rebecca Culshaw is a young mathematician and professor who worked on epidemiological models for mainstream HIV∫AIDS for ten years until she threw up her hands in disgust on the grounds that the paradigm was severely flawed and the models were invalid. She published two short essays explaining her decision on LewRockwell.com and then, at the beginning of 2007, a fine short book, Science Sold Out, which runs through all the arguments for the HIV paradigm and why they do not pan out, and is currently the best work on the unreason of HIV∫AIDS.

Henry Bauer is the author of The Origins, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory (McFarland 2007), the latest trade book on the HIV=AIDS debacle, a judiciously phrased, academically accurate, but very readable analytical survey particularly valuable for its exposure of the false epidemiology drawn by HIV positive tests as biased towards certain groups without justification. As the editor of the Journal of Scientific Exploration, and by virtue of long acquaintance with and analysis of the field of paradigm novelty and dissent in science, Bauer answers the question of how so much science can have gone so far wrong better than anyone else to date. His blog, HIV Skeptic” continues his work eviscerating the unacceptable scientific foundation of HIV=AIDS claims as they enter the media news stream. Bauer is emeritus professor of chemistry and science studies and Dean emeritus of arts and sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.

Darin Christopher Brown is a young mathematician with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2004. His research area is algebraic number theory, and his dissertation was on Lifting Properties of Prime Geodesics on Hyperbolic Surfaces. His earlier mathematics degrees were an MA from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2000) and a B.A. from California State University, Stanislaus (magna cum laude, 1996). He was a graduate teaching fellow in 1996-97 in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon. He founded and administers the AIDS Wiki, an accurate encyclopedia of AIDS scientists, their critics, and the disputed science of HIV∫AIDS, which corrects the mainstream bias of the relevant entries in the standard Wikipedia and presents accurate biographies of dissenters and their ideas. Unfortunately the AIDS Wiki currently omits any prominent mention of this blog, if any at all, apparently owing to the fact that Brown objects to some material posted in comments here which lavishly complimented his friend and fellow mathemtician Rebecca Culshaw on her charms, a personal compliment which her husband says she always appreciates. In April 2007 Brown wrote a classic piece on the now stalled, HIV=AIDS debunking group blog You Bet Your Life on the quintessential flaw in AIDS epidemiology, the flat line prevalence of HIV positivity in the US over the last twenty years, as a defense of Rebecca Culshaw superb debunking HIV=AIDS book, “Since Sold Out”, under the title Science Sold Out” Scares AIDS, Inc. Silly. Brown is also the curator of the e Lang Memorial HIV/AIDS Archive initiated in 2006.

Anthony Liversidge is a science reporter who has published numerous interviews with leading scientists and other articles in popular national science and general interest magazines in the US, as well as covering a variety of other topics including technology, events and travel. Born in England, he studied economics and philosophy at the University of Edinburgh (MA with honors, 1963) and worked in economic research and as a reporter for magazines in London and then New York before taking up independent reporting on science politics and general interest topics, most notably a series of personal interviews with leading scientists for OMNI magazine. H is accent is still British and that may be one reason why the ebullient Robert Gallo granted him interviews in the early years of HIV∫AIDS on the topic of the science and its dissent which the leading AIDS scientist surely later regretted for their frankness in revealing to all perceptive readers that no scientific substance lay behind his novel and soon-to-be-global paradigm that HIV=AIDS. His interest aroused as an investigative reporter and science critic, Liversidge has followed the issue ever since, increasingly appalled by and eventually resigned to the fellow traveling of the media whose producers and editors are supine under NIAID censorship and uncritically cooperate by banning all coverage of Peter Duesberg and his views, even though the Berkeley scientist’s peer-reviewed dissent has never been directly refuted or even responded to in the same journals, and is now supported by an unprecedented accumulation of books, scientific papers and major articles in magazines (eg Harpers, March 2006) and newspapers which have flouted the censoring edict of NIAID’s Anthony Fauci, who effectively banned coverage of dissent from the beginning. Liversidge’s own key articles on this topic include two early interviews with Gallo and some columns on the topic of the heresy for SPIN, an article, Modern Galileos, for the now defunct OMNI magazine, covering Duesberg along with two other distinguished scientific heretics, Thomas Gold and Linus Pauling, an article, The Limits of Science, for the Cultural Studies Times, and all the posts on this blog, Science Guardian/New AIDS Review. His talk given in Naples at the Institute of Philosophical Studies, The Scorn of Heretics, was expanded for publication in the Proceedings of the Conference on Science and Democracy, 2001.

Robert Houston is a Manhattan-based independent investigator, science writer and consultant who researches the medical and scientific literature of cancer, HIV∫AIDS, and nutrition. He has published articles on these topics in medical and scientific journals and books, newspapers and magazines as a science writer, and he wrote a classic survey of paradigmatic resistance to change in cancer, Repression and Reform in the Evaluation of Alternative Cancer Therapies (Project Cure, 1989). The book formed part of the briefing of the Office of Technology Assessment when it was preparing its report on cancer and its treatment at that time, when Houston headed off the disparaging rejection of alternative cancer treatments the OTA was preparing by producing for them many scientific studies they were overlooking. Unfortunately for the state of public knowledge Houston avoids television appearances though earlier he appeared as a guest on WBAI, and provided consulting research and analysis to television program