This week, Miami, Florida area doctor Roberto Rodriguez was sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay $9 million back to Medicare after being convicted of committing fraud in submitting fraudulent claims for treatments supposedly provided to patients with HIV and AIDS. The physician recruited patients who were given these diagnoses and then enlisted to make the fraudulent claims for HIV drug infusions, in which multiple medical professionals were sharing in the profits from the Medicare payouts for these unneeded and non-existent treatments. This rather blatant scam is just one symptom of a medical system geared toward profit rather than fostering public health. In the area of HIV and AIDS treatment the disregard for the scientific method and natural immune enhancing therapies has been widespread, as documented by many independent HIV & AIDS researchers such as Dr. Leonard Horowitz and Dr. Peter Duesberg.
HIV tests have been shown to be unreliable at showing whether a person truly has an infection, and there is considerable doubt among many researchers as to whether HIV is really the cause of immune deficiency syndrome. Factors such as substance abuse, poor nutrition, infections with other types of pathogens, exposure to chemicals, and exposure to anti-retroviral chemotherapy drugs are all known to impair the immune system and sometimes foster a progression of illness that matches the symptoms of AIDS. With a lot of hype about HIV as an incurable deadly disease one would have expected it to spread more widely and be more deadly than it has been. Yet, the areas where HIV/AIDS has supposedly created the most misery and death are populations with high levels of drug abuse or malnutrition. It would appear that the materials believed to represent the presence of a retrovirus are harmless in healthy people, and that other factors are present which are damaging the immune system. If this is the case, then the focus of treatment would need to be on addressing the factors that contribute to immune breakdown - getting patients off of drugs, providing immune enhancing nutrition, promoting a healthy pH balance, and cleansing the body. Fostering a positive, empowering attitude, and clearing away any mental and emotional negativity (such as fear, anger, or guilt) would help restore health as well.
Thus, Dr. Rodriguez is not the only one defrauding AIDS patients... the medical establishment in general has pursued a misleading paradigm that wastes public funds on research and treatments that are applied based on dubious assumptions about AIDS and health care. Furthermore, while the fake HIV infusion treatments merely took the public's money (from Medicare), many standard HIV and AIDS treatments have harmed the public's health, with the doctors who have practiced these toxic treatments being lauded rather than prosecuted.
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Jed,
Thank you very much for the informative, truthful article on HIV fraud in Miami. You are one of the very few in the media who will report the actual facts about HIV and AIDS. I was also pleased to see that you realize the bigger story surrounding the questioning of the flawed HIV=AIDS theory.
I was caught up in the terrorism that is HIV for 11 years before discovering the truth. You may see my story here:
www.myspace.com/rethinkaids
Sincerely,
Karri Stokely
As someone who has conducted thousands of criminal investigations as an LAPD officer, I was asked to investigate allegations against Peter Duesberg PhD and journalist Celia Farber. When I concluded the investigation now known as "Gallo's Egg" I discovered that their critics were almost always heavily funded by the makers of HIV tests and drugs. Most striking, however, was their extensive effort to attack real scientists and their uniform refusal or inability to show proof that HIV exists, attacks cells and causes AIDS. Faced with billions of dollars of liability in the Mbini Case, the Leon Commission (1995) has produced a powerful motive for African mining companies to employ physicians to blame mining-related fatal illnesses like silicosis, asbestosis, TB and pneumoconiosis on the alleged sexual behavior of their laborers. In this way, the 1600 mining companies that operate in Africa can kill off their laborers with AIDS drugs and avoid costly liability - including US-owned mines.
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Thank you for the honorable mention. You are SO RIGHT ON! The entire system medical system is fraudulent. View my latest appeal on YouTube regarding "Health Care Reform" that entirely neglects Alternative and Complementary Care. People dropping out of the toxic system are likely far better off. Likewise for people without insurance with no incentive to visit drug pushers advancing "iatrogenocide." Bravo! Keep up the truth!!! telling!
A brilliant article. Thanks for standing up for the truth!
WIth respect, I disagree. Duesberg has caused huge suffering. Please see this report from New Zealand:
We haven't heard all that much from them in this area of the world, but the AIDS denialist fraternity has caused undeniable heartbreak and misery amongst many groups and individuals, especially in South Africa.
According to the New Scientist reporter Jonny Steinberg, it all began back in 1987 when Peter Duesberg (University of California Berkeley) abruptly reversed his earlier theories about retroviruses and cancer, and then denied that HIV led to AIDS. Over time, clinical and epidemiological data accumulated to demonstrate that Duesberg was wrong. Today, he has little support amongst mainstream figures in microbiology, epidemiology and biochemistry. Denialist propaganda currently circulates primarily amongst self-published denialist journals, right-wing publishing houses and denialist websites.
Mr. Murtaugh, Jed Shlackman knows everything about anything. He can't possibly be wrong about Duesberg. ;)
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