Is It the Trend?
By
Ching-Chee Chan, Ph.D.
As Part of the Supplement to
An Alternative Approach to AIDS and Related Problems: Book 2
All Rights Reserved
Egret Publishing Inc.
February 2001
The HIV industry used to be very confident, because the media had
been repeating that HIV caused AIDS almost every day. If someone
questioned the link between HIV and AIDS, proponents of the HIV
hypothesis would reply "It is the virus, stupid" and the mainstream
media would echo in similar way. The public in some peculiar way
have accepted the hypothesis as a proven theory. Since President
Mbeki of the Republic of South Africa expressed doubt about the
link, something has changed. The mass media are no longer echoing
the view of the HIV industry so readily. A mainstream newspaper,
the Toronto Star, published a letter from this author on September
25, 2000 on page 17. It is reproduced below.
"Is HIV the cause?
Re. Immigrants may face HIV test, Sept 20.
This is most outrageous. HIV being the cause of AIDS is a
hypothesis. A hypothesis is an assumption made by scientists for
discussion about their scientific problems.
Now the Ministry of Immigration is considering using a mere
assumption to bar entry of potential immigrants. You know you are
not permitted to use assumption as evidence in a court of law.
Ching-Chee Chan
Etobicoke"
The Toronto Star had published many letters from this author but
never one about HIV/AIDS. Perhaps the mainstream media are
shifting their position a bit.
A mainstream newspaper used to publish articles, regarding HIV
and the HIV industry on December the first, the AIDS Day, in the
past few years. It devoted at least four or five pages, occasionally
even a whole section of ten to twelve pages, for HIV-related articles.
On the last AIDS Day, December 1, 2000, it had only a small column
about AIDS statistics. Next day, it had a slightly larger column
about some AIDS activists but a page for ALS and the terminally ill
and a section for caring for dying patients. A TV programme called
60 minutes showed a few HIV-positive people who doubted the link
between HIV and AIDS.
In August 1999, this author submitted a proposal to a mainstream
radio station and the receipt of the proposal was acknowledged.
Nothing more was heard about the proposal until January 16, 2001,
an e-mail was received by this author. The sender apologized for the
delay due to misfiling and maternity leave. All these are not
coincidental. The attitude of the media is changing.
The war on AIDS is being fought like "Vietnam" with the media as
cheerleaders. Many people are making a good living out of it,
writing positive reports, no matter how negative the results are.
Heads of activists groups are drawing good salaries, up to two
hundred thousand dollars per annum. Like "Vietnam," when
casualties, side effects in this case, are mounting and the media stop
cheering, the mood will change. AIDS is really a chronic disease
which does not cause death immediately. Some AIDS activists may
have realised this, resulting in many countercurrent organizations.
The high death rates due to AIDS in the early nineteen nineties were
due to aggressive treatments with AZT which may have activated
and kept activating AIDS but the HIV industry claims the relatively
lower death rates in the late nineteen nineties were due to the
efficacy of the cocktails (mainly consisted of protease inhibitors) on
HIV. This is false. The relatively low death rates would not have
appeared if the high death rates due to aggressive treatments with
AZT had not occurred in the early nineteen nineties. Many HIV-positive people, not treated with the cocktails, have remained
healthy for more than fifteen years.
Perhaps the medical community is also changing its position.
According to New Scientist, the 'hit hard, hit early" HIV treatment
may be in the way out in the US, because early use of currently
available drugs may do more harm than good (see No More
Cocktails by Michael Day, New Scientist.
Http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns22698). Of
course, iatrogenic effects will be more obvious when healthy HIV-positive people are treated and become sick. The risk of drug
toxicity is just as high if not higher when the patients are sick or it
does not matter because they are going to die anyhow. It is easier to
blame the iatrogenic effects on AIDS when the patients are sick and
treated. The benefits may only exist in the imagination of doctors.
They would feel better when they think something can be done. It is
more likely that the harm is real and the benefit is zero, because
HIV does not cause AIDS. Did they not believe in the benefit of
AZT? The decline in the number of deaths due to AIDS coincided
with the advent of thalidomide treatment for AIDS patients and the
reduction in AZT dosages before the advent of the cocktails.
Thalidomide is very effective in treating ENL. How many guesses do
they need? They have come a long way but there is still a long way
to go before they find out what is AIDS and what is the cause.
Postponing treatments will reveal that AIDS is a chronic debilitating
disease like arthritis, asthma, ALS, lymphoma (ICD 202) . . . etc. and
the disease is manageable especially when the patients are relatively
young and the disease is not activated. One possible scenario is, that
many HIV-positive people, refraining from dangerous behaviours,
continue to live without serious health problems until sixty-five and
over. It may even prove HIV and AIDS are not related eventually.
Now the HIV industry is being quietly dropped by parts of the mass
media. Meanwhile, the HIV industry is going to recover its
investment by marketing those drugs to the third world. South
Africa refused to pay for those drugs with borrowed money. The
HIV industry has turned its attention to China's bulging foreign
currency reserve. There are very few AIDS dissidents in China.
Rumour-mongering is China's national pastime. This makes China
an easy target.
Relevant authorities in the USA have issued warnings about some
more AIDS drugs. When these filter through to the investment
community, it is going to affect the market. When they finally admit
HIV does not cause AIDS, there will be violent reaction from the
market, because the HIV industry has spent billions of dollars in
HIV research and most of the money may not be recoverable.
Something good may come out of this. Government funds allocated
for HIV research may be diverted to more fruitful research. It is an
enormous amount of money and a lot can be accomplished.
As Winston Churchill said "This is not the end, nor the beginning of
the end. Perhaps it is just the end of the beginning."
What Is Going to Happen to the Dissidents and the Dissident
Media?
A dissident publication requested and got a manuscript from this
author in September 1999 and it promised to publish a shortened
version or something about the work. So far nothing has happened
and it did not respond to e-mails, requesting it to release the
manuscript back to this author. It looks like that dissident media are
carrying out a different kind of censorship, just wait until it is safe
to publish, when the whole world reaches a consensus about the
cause of AIDS. Dissidents do not necessarily agree with one another.
Some dissidents question the drug hypothesis because some
celebrities known to use drugs and do not develop AIDS. This
certainly shows drugs alone are not enough to cause AIDS, but it
may play a part in activating AIDS, if the ENL mechanism (see
Chapter 2 in Book 2) is considered. The slimming disease has been
around Africa since ancient time. Most of the dissident hypotheses
cannot account for the sudden increase in AIDS cases since 1960.
This is the major reason that most of these hypotheses are not
accepted by scientists.
As the mainstream media become more flexible, the niche of the
dissident media will become more confined, especially those
publications dominated by one or two schools of thoughts. Some of
these are going to disappear unless they evolve. Most dissidents and
their publications have one thing in common that is HIV does not
cause AIDS, but they are unable to provide a satisfactory cause for
AIDS with a reasonable mechanism. Most dissidents will probably
disappear from the scene when we know what AIDS is.