NATURE Bends Over for Pharma-funded Activists
Last week, the journal Nature posted a story by Zoë Corbyn about the publication of this report by cancer researcher Peter Duesberg Ph.D., which refutes the HIV-AIDS link. But when gay political activists complained, assistant news editor Brian Owens changed the title and link. And when readers like Christian Fiala MD, Prof. Charles Geshekter Ph.D. and (more…)
Documents Detail Psychiatrists’ Corrupt Practices
AHRP - “From the start, the [Tri-University Schizophrenia Practice Guidelines] project subverted scientific integrity, appearing to be a purely scientific venture when it was at its core, a marketing venture for Risperdal.” (more…)
Insanity Inc: How the CDC Disclaims Itself from Itself
3 Feb – There’s a sucker born every minute. Although this remark is widely attributed to the showman PT Barnum, RJ Brown reports that it was actually said by a banker named David Hannum, who sued Barnum in 1869 for promoting a fake exhibit. When Hannum (more…)
GSK Hired Ghostwriters to Pen Scientific Papers
2 Dec | ProPublica – This isn’t news but according to newly released documents from GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceutical company often paid ghostwriters to pen medical studies, editorials and even a textbook that listed physicians as the authors. (more…)
Skinning the HIV/AIDS Cat
2 Dec – There’s more than one way to approach this task, so popular folklore would have it. The experience of three decades teaches that a direct assault within the mainstream-controlled venues does not bring attention to the evidence. Moreover, the most important audience (more…)
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Believing Witnesses or Felons?
Recently, investigative journalist John Lauritsen posted this report regarding the so-called AIDS controversy. in response, Andrew John posted this analysis of the dispute. (more…)
In Defense of AIDS Critics
Profits of the “AIDS industry” run into many billions of dollars every year. When AIDS dissidents speak up, they are ridiculed with often ad hominem arguments. Here, the AIDS dissident John Lauritsen looks at one piece of ridicule in particular, and questions why he was not allowed to write a reasoned reply in a British humanist publication. (more…)
Court Trials Unnerve HIV Propagandists
It began in 2009 with Eneydi Torres. Accused of exposing several men to HIV, Florida prosecutors threatened Torres with decades in prison unless she accepted their plea deal. But when asked to prove the reliability of HIV testing, prosecutors abruptly reduced their offer of 15 years in state prison to five days of unsupervised probation. (more…)
Depressing News About Antidepressants
Although the year is young, it has already brought my first moral dilemma. In early January a friend mentioned that his New Year’s resolution was to beat his chronic depression once and for all. Over the years he had tried a medicine chest’s worth of antidepressants, but none had really helped in any enduring way, and when the side effects became so (more…)
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