Healthy Skepticism about HIV

By Robert MacDonald, C.H.T.

Don is a 38-year-old gay man who has been HIV-positive for 15 years. He has watched many of those around him succumb and die due to AIDS. Yet Don is neither scared nor worried about his supposed ill fate due to his HIV status. What sets Don and many like him apart from other HIV-positive people? Don, and others like him, including a growing number of scientists, researchers, medical professionals, and activists, do not believe that HIV is responsible for causing AIDS.

Of all the people touched directly by the HIV/AIDS disaster, the ones who have fared best are those who remained skeptical of the diagnosis, took responsibility for their treatment, declined to use the cocktail of prescribed medical drugs, examined their lifestyles, and made such modifications that were necessary to re-establish a state of homeostasis within their body to regain their health.

People test 'HIV' antibody positive for many reasons. Both the ELISA and the Western Blot tests are used to detect only antibodies to HIV, but both of these tests are non-specific for HIV antibodies and are highly inaccurate. By being non-specific, the tests can respond to a vast number of non-HIV antibodies, microbes, bacteria and other conditions that are often found in the blood of normal healthy people. Since no antibody is ever specific to any one disease, it is not possible to have a specific antibody test for any one disease. An accurate antibody test can only be constructed and validated by viral isolation.

Many doctors and scientist contend that the lack of viral isolation for HIV tests completely invalidates HIV tests. To quote the test manufacturers themselves: "A positive antibody test result is of itself not an indication of active infection"; everyone should know and remember this information.

Conditions Cause Positive Test

The flu, a recently administered flu vaccine, and pregnancy are just a few common conditions that can cause a false-positive HIV test result. Would you, as an expecting mother, want to embark on an extremely toxic 'therapy' on the basis of such tests? Would you give your asymptomatic newborn child DNA-terminating drugs if you knew that 70% of children identified as having "HIV" antibodies serorevert to HIV-negative within eighteen months WITHOUT medical intervention?

The onus is ours to make informed choices as to the course we wish to follow for our progeny and ourselves.

Other problems with the test are that there is no gold standard and no consistent reading of the results. Therefore a positive HIV test may only be indicative of the presence of and number of foreign proteins in the blood. (See list of possible factors that can lead to a positive HIV test.)

After 16 years of AIDS research, and broken promises that a cure is around the corner, HIV positive people who choose conventional treatment are inundated with an arsenal of medical techniques and pharmaceutical cocktails that are prescribed to defeat the enemy within, attempting to give it a deadly blow. Since an early death is still seen as being inevitable, all attempts, regardless of how toxic, are seen as compassionate. Therefore a life-long attack is waged to kill a virus with increasingly more toxic chemicals and immune suppressing drugs.

How long can a healthy (let's suppose misdiagnosed) person survive such aggression? How long can a sick person survive this treatment?

Shaky HIV-AIDS Connection

There is still no consensus as to whether HIV leads to AIDS. Luc Montagnier, the discoverer of 'HIV' was quoted at the 8th International AIDS conference in Amsterdam as saying that "All leading AIDS researchers are now fully aware that HIV is not sufficient to cause AIDS." Yet this is far from common knowledge and available information for the general public. In fact, there are a great number of documented cases of AIDS without HIV. Yet orthodox medicine still maintains that HIV causes AIDS and the pharmaceutical companies continue to produce highly toxic "anti-HIV" drugs - all at great human and financial cost.

AIDS by definition is not new and is not a disease. AIDS is a new name for 29 old illnesses and conditions, including yeast infections, diarrhoea, pneumonia, cancer and tuberculosis. These illnesses and conditions are called AIDS only when a person tests positive for antibodies to HIV. The official definition of AIDS has been expanded three times since 1983. With each change the number of AIDS cases grows exponentially overnight. It is only through the various expansions of the definition of AIDS that the number of AIDS cases has grown.

Causes of AIDS include a number of well-documented stressors that can suppress the immune system and cause AIDS-defining illnesses:

• Chemical stressors: recreational drugs (i.e. cocaine, heroin, poppers, marijuana, amphetamines), 'anitvirals' (i.e. AZT, 3TC, ddI, d4T, protease inhibitors), 'PCP prophylaxis" (i.e. sulfa drugs), antibiotics, steroids, vaccinations, pesticides, herbicides, solvents, cleaning products, personal lubricants.

• Biological stressors: multiple and/or chronic infections (i.e. gonorrhea, herpes, syphilis , chlamydia, EBV, CMV, TB, hepatitis, parasites, candida), blood products (i.e. Transfusions, Factor VIII), semen

• Mental stressors: chronic fear, guilt, anxiety, sustained stress, depression (i.e. believing death is imminent). The psychological stress that accompanies the diagnosis of being HIV positive may well be in itself immune compromising.

• Physical stressors: poor nutrition, lack of sleep, lack of exercise.

If you are HIV positive I strongly urge you to do your own research about alternative theories on HIV and AIDS and take charge of your health. Determine if you have any of the conditions that may have lead to a false positive HIV test and follow a detoxifying regime using herbs, fruit and vegetable juices and vitamin and mineral supplements.

If you are ill, ask your Doctor, Naturopath, or Clinical Herbalist to treat the illness you have individually instead of treating the highly questionable "HIV infection" with immune suppressing drugs.

This article cannot, by itself, create a long overdue change in AIDS treatment. It can awaken and inform only one person at a time. But it is hoped that as more people become aware that HIV need not lead to AIDS, and take more personal responsibility for their health, eventually real changes will take root.