Fauci gonged again. Are two Nobels next?
June 22nd, 2008Director of NIAID awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, but may be losing influence
Critics of paradigm complain that massive censorship is not “freedom”
Is the SS HIV/AIDS running into pack ice? Why are its officers hiding?
The much honored and celebrated director of NIAID, the smartly tailored and trimmed Anthony Fauci, was once saluted by President Ronald Reagan as a “hero of AIDS”, and he pocketed a Lasker Award last year (see previous post Fauci wins Lasker).
Now this outstanding bureaucrat, more responsible than anybody else in the US for the massive war on “HIV/AIDS” being conducted here and around the world, and in particular, its rationale that “HIV” and nothing else causes “AIDS”, was awarded, as the Washington Post notes with a very nice picture in Bush bestows Presidential Medal of Freedom awards, the Medal of Freedom on Friday (Jun 20 2008).
Here is what the President said as he awarded the prizes (or at least, what the pr release from the White House said he said):
Three decades ago, a mysterious and terrifying plague began to take the lives of people across the world. Before this malady even had a name, it had a fierce opponent in Dr. Anthony Fauci. As the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for more than 23 years, Tony Fauci has led the fight against HIV and AIDS. He was also a leading architect and champion of the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which over the past five years has reached millions of people — preventing HIV infections in infants and easing suffering and bringing dying communities back to life.The man who would lead the fight against this dreaded disease came from an Italian American family in Brooklyn. Even as a boy, Tony was distinguished by his courage. In a neighborhood full of Brooklyn Dodgers fans — (laughter) — he rooted for the Yankees. (Laughter.) Tony earned a full scholarship to Regis High School, a Jesuit school in Manhattan. And he still quotes what he learned from Jesuit teaching: “Precision of thought, economy of expression.” And now you know why he never ran for public office. (Laughter.)
Those who know Tony do admit one flaw: sometimes he forgets to stop working. He regularly puts in 80-hour weeks. And from time to time, he’s even found notes on his windshield left by coworkers that say things like, “Go home. You’re making me feel guilty.” (Laughter.) A friend once commented that Tony was so obsessed with work that his wife must be a pretty patient woman. The truth of the matter is, she’s very busy herself. Christine Grady is a renowned bioethicist. And together they raised three talented daughters: Jennifer, Meghan, and Allison. And I hope each of you know that for all Tony has accomplished, he considers you to be one of his — not one of his — his most important achievement. Your love and support have strengthened him as he works to save lives across the world.
For his determined and aggressive efforts to help others live longer and healthier lives, I’m proud to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci. (Applause.)
Of course, the big news here for this audience is that Fauci’s wife, Christine Grady, is a “bioethicist”, which must amaze those who like to call her husband the Dr. Mengele of HIV/AIDS, which is very impolite, but not undeserved on the grounds that he has blocked media review of the rationale on which the often fatal drug AZT was and still is administered (though less of it, along with other ARVs) to his loyal congregation of gay AIDS patients.
Perhaps the truth is that Dr Fauci never sees his wife, what with his 80 hour work week running the global anti-HIV political and propaganda machine. He barely has enough time for sleep, it would seem, which may explain why he resists further thinking about the issue of HIV and AIDS, and wishes nobody else to raise the vexed topic. Or perhaps it is because he has already given an inattentive world the final answer to HIV/AIDS, and no one has yet noticed (see below).
Sometimes the Medal is awarded to grease the honoree’s exit from his official position, as in the case of George Tenet, mushy headed ex-director of the CIA, so we hope this is not indicative of this great public servant’s imminent departure from his leadership role. After all, it is not certain that the global HIV/AIDS system could survive the loss intact, especially when the UNAID’s unshaven Pierre Piot is stepping down as he quietly announced in April (Head of UN’s AIDS program Piot to step down).
Why not the Nobel?
Can the Nobel be far behind? This blog hurries to point out that we have already nominated the natty functionary for the top prize in science, despite our fundamental quarrel with his propaganda on behalf of the unlikely, unproven, in fact thoroughly reviewed and rejected and effectively disproven notion that HIV causes “AIDS” or any illness of any kind (”AIDS” illnesses all have other clear causes, as elucidated from 1986 onwards by the best scientist in the field, Peter Duesberg, see rest of blog, starting with post number one).
Of course, we deplore the neatly groomed NIAID director’s imposition of censorship on the ‘What is the true cause of AIDS?’ debate for the last two decades. Long ago Fauci notoriously noted in a AAAS newsletter than any reporter who raised the topic of Peter Duesberg, and Duesberg’s complete rejection of HIV as the cause of “AIDS” in reviews written in the highest journals in science, would be treated as unqualified to report on the topic of “AIDS” and his/her phone calls never again returned by the pr staff or the scientists under Dr Fauci’s paramilitary NIAID command:
AIDS has created a whole new interaction between scientists and the press (…) Journalists who make too many mistakes or who are too sloppy are going to find that their access to scientists may diminish.
But we have no trouble at all in recognizing the great man as a leader in advancing the cause of the critics of HIV.
For in Fauci’s discreetly schizophrenic analysis of how HIV/AIDS works, he publicly acknowledged in answer to an question by the distinguished Science Guardian consultant Robert G. Houston that HIV not only did not kill T-cells, it provoked their increased production. This helpful admission was made at the New School panel in 2006 (see previous post
A thorough account of this watershed event and the Fauci Steam Theory of AIDS is at this post, How Fauci solved AIDS, which also had interesting comments attached.
The main point, however, is one which we hereby underline while Fauci is basking in the glory of his new Medal, since we are not sure it is widely appreciated yet as his greatest achievement of all: Fauci is the one who has discovered the ultimate vaccine against HIV, the one sure antidote to HIV/AIDS, and still no one except the editors of Science Guardian has recognized this giant step forward for mankind: Fauci has shown that the best answer to HIV…is HIV!
Fauci’s Steaming HIV Theory
It is a pity that the media seem to have ignored the true significance of these important SG/NAR posts, and the Fauci views they recorded.
For the bottom line of what Fauci publicly told Houston, and wrote in the quiet backwaters of a specialist textbook perused only in the library by the dedicated deep researchers of Science Guardian/New AIDS Review, in paragraphs apparently hidden from the eyes of mainstream media reporters who otherwise faithfully follow, transcribe and reproduce every precious word that comes from the handsomely clipped head of the best dressed man in Washington, is that HIV/AIDS can solved without drugs:
Several investigators have demonstrated that there is an increase in CD4+ T-cell proliferation in both HIV and SIV infection. In certain studies, the enhanced T-cell proliferation that was observed during active disease was significantly decreased following the initiation of anti-retroviral therapy, and proliferation increased again in parallel with plasma viremia following the cessation of treatment in these individuals.
What we are trying to draw attention to is what now must be labeled The Fauci Steam Theory of and Solution to HIV/AIDS , which is a double barreled solution to World AIDS as follows:
1) If there is any concern that HIV is causing any problems, simply add more HIV.
2) If the body shows any sign of “running out of steam”, add proper nutrients.
This is why we nominate Anthony Fauci for the Nobel. For in company with Peter Duesberg, John P. Moore of Cornell, Robert C. Gallo, Luc Montagnier, and Kevin De Cock, he has revealed the truth about HIV/AIDS which he has long attempted to curtain off from the media, namely, that HIV is not harmful, and that any and all of “AIDS” illnesses are caused by other factors, which are not even “co-factors”, but entirely independent factors, which do not need HIV to do their dirty work.
But it is Anthony Fauci, and Anthony Fauci alone, who has made the ultimate breakthrough and endorsed HIV as a positive antidote to itself, the single best answer to HIV positivity.
For this, this fine bureaucrat, despite his strenuous attempts to restrain media recognition and discussion of this line of thinking (that lets HIV off the hook as a cause of “AIDS”), which we can only presume are motivated by a sincere modesty and unwillingness to take credit for his seminal breakthrough, has brought to the world what it has long sought, in fact spent billions over two decades trying to find: the Final Solution to HIV/AIDS.
Fauci’s cost free solution to “AIDS”
What is more, the cost of Fauci’s solution is minimal, compared to the projected cost of AIDS drugs and an AIDS vaccine. It is, in fact, cost free.
Fauci’s answer to HIV/AIDS is the simplest one of all, and one long advocated by the critics of the paradigm. When tested HIV positive, take the following action: Do nothing at all, other than eat and live in healthy fashion, and most particularly, do not have anything at all to do with conventional HIV/AIDS treatment and medication.
The lesson of course for policymakers is to withdraw all funding from HIV/AIDS, and apply it to ensuring that the health infrastructure, nutrition and living conditions of nations and individuals are maximized, and all possible measures to combat real disease such as TB and malaria (together probably the real nature of most of African “AIDS”, other than undernourishment and starvation) be taken.
Much AIDS is malnutrition in Africa, and food restores HIV+ babies to normal
Just how damaging and widespread malnutrition is in Africa is being underlined tonight on 60 Minutes, which has a section on Plumpynuts, a simple and wildly successful intervention in Africa where the visible and hidden malnutrition of Niger’s black tots is countered by bags of a ready-to-eat peanut mix equivalent to milk plus vitamins. The aim is to get it to 120,000 kids by next year, but it still be a drop in the bucket - 120 million starving small children around the world need it, and five million die each year without it.
This is the kind of thing which the makes the New York Times editorial yesterday, A Global AIDS Campaign Stalled, wringing its hands over the hold up to the $50 billion expected to be authorized by Congress for the Global AIDS-Malaria-TB campaign, look a little more ignorant than normal. Apart from the usual boiler plate of “H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS,” the concern for the enormous jump in funding for the next five years (it was $19 billion for the last five years) seems entirely focused on “all the treatment and prevention programs needed to quell the epidemic”. Hurry up and pass the bill before the purse strings tighten next year urges the editorial writer, anxious to circumcise as many Africans as possible.
Perhaps someone should force this writer to sit down and watch the 60 Minutes episode, and then thrust this paper (noted today at AIDSWiki) in front of them: Home-based therapy with ready-to-use therapeutic food is of benefit to malnourished, HIV-infected Malawian children (Acta Paediatr. 2005 Feb;94(2):222-5), which shows that food restores children to normal weight more effectively that ARVs:
CONCLUSION: More than half of malnourished, HIV-infected children not receiving antiretroviral chemotherapy benefit from home-based nutritional rehabilitation. Home-based therapy RUTF is associated with more rapid weight gain and a higher likelihood of reaching 100% weight-for-height
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Here is the full summary:
Home-based therapy with ready-to-use therapeutic food is of benefit to malnourished, HIV-infected Malawian children.Ndekha MJ, Manary MJ, Ashorn P, Briend A.
College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Malawi.
AIM: To determine if home-based nutritional therapy will benefit a significant fraction of malnourished, HIV-infected Malawian children, and to determine if ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) is more effective in home-based nutritional therapy than traditional foods. METHODS: 93 HIV-positive children >1 y old discharged from the nutrition unit in Blantyre, Malawi were systematically allocated to one of three dietary regimens: RUTF, RUTF supplement or blended maize/soy flour. RUTF and maize/soy flour provided 730 kJ x kg(-1) x d(-1), while the RUTF supplement provided a fixed amount of energy, 2100 kJ/d. These children did not receive antiretroviral chemotherapy. Children were followed fortnightly. Children completed the study when they reached 100% weight-for-height, relapsed or died. Outcomes were compared using regression modeling to account for differences in the severity of malnutrition between the dietary groups. RESULTS: 52/93 (56%) of all children reached 100% weight-for-height. Regression modeling found that the children receiving RUTF gained weight more rapidly and were more likely to reach 100% weight-for-height than the other two dietary groups (p < 0.05).CONCLUSION: More than half of malnourished, HIV-infected children not receiving antiretroviral chemotherapy benefit from home-based nutritional rehabilitation. Home-based therapy RUTF is associated with more rapid weight gain and a higher likelihood of reaching 100% weight-for-height.
PMID: 15981758
Such studies bring home the extreme tragedy that anyone should think that AIDS drugs are the right intervention for African children.
With NIAID shut down, a second Nobel?
Since Anthony Fauci’s view, on the other hand, implies the immediate shutdown of all NIAID activity, we are newly stunned by the daring and public responsibility of his leadership in this respect.
Could it be that the man deserves two Nobels, the Biochemistry prize for solving HIV/AIDS shared with Peter Duesberg and Robert Gallo, and the Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Peter Duesberg, for doing the most to serve the public interest by diverting the billions spent on HIV/AIDS to the proper targets?
After all, for any bureaucrat, let alone a champion milker of the public purse such as the dapper Fauci, to propose shutting down his own fiefdom is probably unprecedented in the history of Washington.
The AIDS platform is cracking
Of course, we have to note as an afterthought Dr. Fauci’s willingness to step off the high platform on which he has perched and preened for so many successful fund raising years may be influenced by hearing it creaking under his polished shoes.
The UNAID rushed to issue a press release in the aftermath of Kevin De Cock’s watershed admission that heterosexual AIDS is a non starter after all, trying to reassure all concerned that the urgent global HIV/AIDS threat remains as vast as ever -
Aids claim sparks backlash for WHO
The World Health Organisation was struggling yesterday to control the global backlash from an admission by one of its most senior directors that the threat of a generalised heterosexual epidemic of Aids outside Africa may be over.
The WHO has been under siege since Kevin de Cock, head of its HIV/Aids department, told The Independent on Sunday that, outside sub-Saharan Africa, the disease was recognised to be largely limited to high-risk groups, such as injecting drug users.
Facing headlines such as “World Aids pandemic over”, specialists fear a media onslaught could hinder efforts to help those infected, and fuel further spread. One said: “People are using the interview to say all scientists are lying and funding for Aids should be cut. Kevin de Cock is the most committed, cautious epidemiologist but now a lot of people want to take him down.”
In a statement in response to the interview, the WHO said: “Aids remains the leading infectious disease challenge in global health. To suggest otherwise is irresponsible and misleading.”
The latest WHO report says that at the end of 2007 there were 33 million people with HIV; 2.5 million were infected that year; and 2.1 million died of Aids.
But the damage control was late, for at least one on line columnist, Brendan O’Neill at the Guardian of London (no relation to Science Guardian) had already committed himself to accepting De Cock’s rash admission, complaining that we have all been misled for two decades for the pla