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From a forthcoming Julian Lake collection of cartoons about P-hacking in AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome research. Don't know what P-hacking is? Read this article in the New York Times . Julian Lake most recent collection of cartoons about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and AIDS is here . See more of Julian Lake's P-hacking cartoon at P-hack University . To learn more about the P-hacking culture of AIDS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and public health science at the CDC and NIH, read Truth to Power , or Iatrogenocide , or if you really have a sense of humor and like wicked satire, Pig: A Memoir .

  Rebecca Culshaw’s Substack articles establish a foundation for arguing that the mass promotion and use of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) in HIV prevention could be considered a form of “genocide,” rooted in several lines of critique that challenge both the scientific and ethical underpinnings of the intervention. ​ Critique of Efficacy Claims Culshaw repeatedly questions the reliability of the efficacy data cited for PrEP, especially the widely publicized claim of “99% effectiveness.” She critiques the primary studies behind this figure, particularly the UK “Impact Trial,” highlighting that its actual observed efficacy was only 86%, and that even this figure is derived from retrospective, less scientifically rigorous analysis. She emphasizes that PrEP, to justify the aggressive and potentially coercive marketing campaigns behind it, should meet a much higher bar of evidence given its target population often consists of healthy individuals. By questioning what she perceives as st...

 

  The nosological, or disease-classification, paradigm of AIDS has indeed often been shaped by social, political, and ideological factors—reflecting what people wanted the disease to be, rather than what it necessarily   was   in purely biomedical terms. This phenomenon manifests in how AIDS was conceptualized, named, and managed over time, combining cultural anxieties and political agendas with scientific investigation. Politicized Beginnings and Cultural Framing When AIDS first appeared in the early 1980s, its definition was heavily influenced by the sociopolitical climate of the United States. It emerged amidst moral panic surrounding homosexuality, drug use, and sexuality—conditions viewed as “deviant” by mainstream society. The term “AIDS,” coined to replace the earlier “GRID” (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency), still carried moral and religious overtones that reflected cultural discomfort more than clear etiological understanding. Stigma, moral judgment, and political ...

 The 1992 Amsterdam International AIDS Conference can be viewed as a critical—but neglected—turning point that exposed cracks in the prevailing HIV/AIDS paradigm. It brought together mounting evidence of immunodeficiencies not fully explained by HIV alone and coincided with emerging research linking Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) to AIDS-like immune dysfunction. Had these signals been integrated, the conference could have become a “Black Swan” event—an inflection point forcing the scientific establishment to reassess the single-virus causation model and to acknowledge parallel disease mechanisms. The Missed Black Swan Moment The Amsterdam Conference occurred at a moment of scientific unease. By 1992, death rates were escalating despite monotherapy with AZT, and leading researchers debated whether HIV alone could explain the spectrum of immune collapse being observed. Alternative views were gaining quiet traction, suggesting co-factors such as immune activation, oxidative stress, an...

  Make the case that a major shift in the HIV/AIDS paradigm could be one of the biggest earthquakes to hit science and medicine in history. A major shift in the HIV/AIDS paradigm would constitute one of the most profound intellectual and institutional earthquakes in the history of science and medicine. It would challenge not only the biomedical understanding of a virus and its pathology but also the sociopolitical and economic infrastructure that has grown around HIV research, treatment, and policy for over four decades. Such a transformation would rival the Copernican, Darwinian, or germ theory revolutions in scope and consequence. [1] [2] [3] The Structure of a Paradigm Shift Thomas Kuhn’s classical model of scientific revolutions shows that a paradigm shift fractures scientific consensus when anomalies accumulate that cannot be explained by the reigning theory. HIV/AIDS research has long been dominated by the biomedical paradigm , which locates the cause of immune coll...

  If Rebecca Culshaw’s HIV critique on Substack were factually correct, it would imply that the overwhelming majority of modern AIDS research—potentially tens of thousands of studies and policy frameworks—would require retraction or radical re‑evaluation. Her position is that the connection between HIV and AIDS is unproven or misinterpreted, meaning that almost all virological, pharmacological, and epidemiological work based on that premise would collapse. ​ Scope of Research Impact Since the 1980s, more than 300,000 peer‑reviewed papers have been published citing  HIV  as either the cause or major cofactor of AIDS. These encompass molecular biology, immunology, pharmacology, antiretroviral drug development, epidemiology, vaccine research, and global health policy. If HIV were not the etiologic cause, the chain of inference underlying nearly this entire corpus would be invalidated, necessitating retraction or reinterpretation of most AIDS‑related literature. ​ Culshaw’s C...

From Perplexity A.I.   Assuming Rebecca Culshaw's Substack and books are correct, here are 20 moments in the last 40 years when scientists should have recognized fundamental problems in the HIV/AIDS paradigm, based on major controversies, failed predictions, and repeatedly anomalous findings highlighted by critics like Culshaw and others: Key Moments Highlighting Paradigm Failures 1984: Early claims of HIV as the sole cause of AIDS were made before conclusive evidence, leading to widespread adoption of a viral paradigm without rigorous challenge or alternate hypothesis consideration. ​ Mid-1980s: Discovery disputes between Luc Montagnier (France) and Robert Gallo (US) over the "AIDS virus" involved accusations of sample misappropriation and scientific misconduct, but were glossed over for the sake of an international consensus. ​ 1987: Peter Duesberg publicly challenged the HIV-AIDS causation model, noting unanswered questions around risk group disease patterns and viral ...

  Perplexity A.I. on the potential impact of Rebecca Culshaw Smith: Rebecca Culshaw's debunking of David Ho's foundational AIDS research and the HIV/AIDS paradigm claims that the connection between HIV and AIDS is unsupported by critical scientific evidence, citing flaws in research, data interpretation, and the toxicity of AIDS drugs. If her critique is accepted and validated by the scientific community, it could expose fundamental misconceptions about immune system dysfunction and open new avenues for understanding mysterious inflammatory immunological diseases. ​ Potential Impact on Immunological Diseases Culshaw argues that the AIDS paradigm’s misdiagnosis and mistreatment with toxic drugs perpetuates chronic inflammation and immune imbalance, possibly paralleling other unexplained immunological diseases like chronic fatigue, autoimmunity, and inflammatory syndromes. ​ By questioning the virological basis of AIDS, alternative hypotheses anchor disease causation in pharmacol...

 

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Transplant Complications Bone marrow supression Colitis/diarrhea Delirium/CNS Dysfunction Encephalitis/Amnesia GVHD Hemophagocytic syndrome Hepatitis /Liver failure Pneumonitis Transplant Reactivation Overview Encephalitis Encephalitis / Meningitis Overview Encephalitis in the Immunocompromised Encephalitis in the Immunocompetent Rhomboencephalitis Limbic Encephalitis Encephalomyelitis Amnesia Rash & Roseola Seizures Febrile Seizures Status Epilepticus Cognitive Dysfunction Delirium Amnesia Hypersensitivity (DIHS/DRESS) Drug Induced Hypersensitivity Syndrome (DIHS) Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia & Systemic Symptoms (DRESS) Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS) Immune Suppression Bone Marrow Suppression Lymphadenopathy/Fever Possible Disease Associations Multiple Sclerosis Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epilepsy Mesial/Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Status Epilepticus Colitis/Diarrhea Endocrine D...

"HHV-6 is actually likely to reduce HIV patient survival by accelerating the depletion of CD4 and CD8 T cells. HHV-6A was shown to accelerate AIDS progression in macaques.  Macaques co-infected with simian HIV and HHV-6A died quickly and showed a dramatic depletion in both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, whereas those infected with only simian HIV never progressed to full blown AIDS."  "We believe that infections are the most logical explanation for the inflammation neurodegeneration associated with Alzheimer’s , but don’t believe that there is a single pathogen responsible. HHV-6A and HHV-7 were identified as likely culprits in 2018 paper , using RNAseq analysis by Readhead and team. Two subsequent studies did not find an increase in HHV-6/7 using the same data, but at the same time did not find a significant presence of ANY herpesviruses in the brain, which we know is not the case. Dozens of careful studies have identified a high prevalence of low-level HHV-6 and HSV1 DN...

This is what oral Kaposi's Sarcoma looks like. Source:  https://doctorspiller.com/kaposis-sarcoma/ Compare it to these crimson crescent lesions in the mouths of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients. "Burke A. Cunha, MD, discovered what he called crimson crescents in the mouths of 80% of his CFS patients. After the word got out, Cunha received calls from other parts of the country. Physicians began telling him that they also were finding the crimson crescents in their patients once they looked for them." https://www.prohealth.com/library/crimson-crescents-facilitate-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-cfs-diagnosis-11266 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients may have undiagnosed internal Kaposi's Sarcoma. Susan Levin found HHV-8, the Kaposi's Sarcoma virus, in half of CFS patients she looked at. Prevalence in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of the Following Infectious Agents in a Cohort of 12 CFS Subjects Susan Levine Published online: 04 Dec 2011 ABSTR...

 

 From Perplexity A.I. Make the case that the critics of the HIV theory of AIDS would be more effective at their messaging to politicians and the public by constantly referring to HIV as a red herring. Critics of the HIV theory of AIDS—those who argue that HIV is not the causative agent of AIDS—often struggle to convey their message effectively to politicians and the public because the scientific consensus firmly upholds the link between HIV and AIDS. However, from a communications strategy perspective, such critics might amplify the clarity and urgency of their argument by consistently describing HIV as a "red herring." Here’s why this tactic could make their messaging more effective: 1. Framing the Narrative Labeling HIV as a "red herring" frames the dominant scientific focus on the virus as a distraction from finding the true cause of AIDS (as the critics would argue). This concise phrase presents the debate in terms of misdirection, which is an accessible and com...

https://hhv-6foundation.org/cihhv-6/the-activation-of-cihhv-6-by-telomeric-circle-formation-qa-with-dr-bhupesh-prusty Tweet If you have Amazon Prime or Kindle Unlimited, you can immediately begin reading The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up and you will soon understand why the facts about the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic have been hidden from the public for almost four decades. Click here to begin reading Or purchase a print copy for only $20 shipped by Amazon Prime  If you want to know the truth about the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic, you need to discover the reporting of Neenyah Ostrom. For a decade, starting in 1988, Ostrom reported on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for a newspaper called New York Native . What her reporting uncovered about the true nature of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic will shock you.                                 ...

 

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https://hhv-6foundation.org/cihhv-6/the-activation-of-cihhv-6-by-telomeric-circle-formation-qa-with-dr-bhupesh-prusty Tweet If you have Amazon Prime or Kindle Unlimited, you can immediately begin reading The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up and you will soon understand why the facts about the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic have been hidden from the public for almost four decades. Click here to begin reading Or purchase a print copy for only $20 shipped by Amazon Prime  If you want to know the truth about the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic, you need to discover the reporting of Neenyah Ostrom. For a decade, starting in 1988, Ostrom reported on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for a newspaper called New York Native . What her reporting uncovered about the true nature of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic will shock you.                                 ...

Read the interview in which Judy Mikovits called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome "Non-HIV AIDS." https://www.prohealth.com/library/plague-an-interview-with-judy-mikovits-32911   If you have Amazon Prime or Kindle Unlimited you can immediately begin reading this book. If you have Amazon Prime or Kindle Unlimited, you can immediately begin reading The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up and you will soon understand why the facts about the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic have been hidden from the public for almost four decades. Click here to begin reading Or purchase a print copy for only $20 shipped by Amazon Prime  This is the book causing heated debates about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and HHV-6, "The Fifty Shades of AIDS Virus," in laboratories, doctor's offices, and homes all over the world.                                         ...

 

 

https://simplycharly.com/interviews/peter-duesberg-on-why-robert-kochs-postulates-are-germane-to-infectious-diseases/ Read more about Peter Duesberg in this Amazon bestseller. The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up Volume Two is available in print and Kindle formats at Amazon .

How much HIV research can be replicated? Is the whole field of AIDS build on HIV pseudoscience that cannot be replicated? We need an HIV replication movement that demands it all be replicated. We need to know if HIV is a solid as XMRV. How has HIV helped hide the epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which has been called "Non-HIV AIDS"? Read this book if you want to know the whole story. Available now on Amazon here .

https://www.gscene.com/news/new-doctors-guidelines-for-severe-me/ On April 16, 1996, Congressman Jerrold Nadler spoke on the floor of Congress about his request for a General Accounting investigation into how the CDC had handled the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic. Nadler did that at the urging of Charles Ortleb, the publisher and the New York Native and his reporter Neenyah Ostrom. Ortleb and Ostrom had made the case to Nadler that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the virus it had been linked to, HHV-6, were serious public health issues.                                                 In an interview in New York Native with Neenyah Ostrom,Congressman Nadler said, "Congress can mandate research into CFS as a viral disease. Maybe it will turn out that HHV-6A is the cause of CFS; maybe it will turn out that other viruses are involved. But Con...