ISIS Press Release 29/08/07
Science in Society #35 - Letters to the Editor
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Living proof against HIV/AIDS
I read Unraveling AIDS (ISIS
publication) and your mention of Dr. Harold Foster CD4 tailspin (Selenium Conquers AIDS?
SiS 23) is noteworthy. I have come
to know Dr. Foster quite well and am living proof of the efficacy of his nutritional
formulation.
My life is dedicated to promoting the work of Dr. Foster and I remain tireless,
and will not stand idle and let another friend die of AIDS, or from the side
effects of the drugs intended to treat the disease.
I was
diagnosed with symptomatic AIDS in December of 1995 with a CD4 count of 51.
In February of 1996 I commenced a regimen of AZT, the only Health Canada approved treatment available at the
time. Over the next ten years, the ARV regimens included AZT, 3TC, Saquinavir,
Zerit, Norvir, Viracept, Sustiva, Fuzeon and Kaletra. Kaletra’s monograph
states over one hundred side effects on the digestive, endocrine, musculoskeletal,
nervous and lymphatic systems. Metabolic and nutritional disorders in addition
to cardiovascular Bradyarrhythmia (abnormally slow heartbeat) have been reported.
With the advent of entry inhibitors (Fuzeon or T20), I found myself on a regimen
of twice daily subcutaneous injections, and after ten years of antiretrovirals
(ARVs), retained little body fat. As a result, I experienced persistent injection
site reactions such as redness, swelling and hardening of the skin.
I participated in a clinical trial commencing May 12, 2005 sponsored by the
Canadian Immunodeficiency Research Collaborative to evaluate the efficacy of
using the Biojector© CO2 injector delivery system over standard hypodermic
needles. Once again the injection sight reactions persisted due to the absence
of body fat.
I was introduced to Dr. Foster’s work in early 2006 and was somewhat amazed
these findings were rarely published. After considerable research on nutrients,
nutrition, digestion etc, and a decade of ARV regimens, the pills, serums, hypodermic
needles, CO2 guns and most of all, drug side effects, I stopped the
ARVs May 16, 2006.
During August 2006 and January 2007, there was a 49 percent decrease in viral
load and a 38 percent increase in CD4 cells. I celebrate a one year anniversary
of being ARV free and during that time have saved the provincial health $50
000 in medication costs. Fuzeon alone comes with a $2 650/month price tag.
Monthly supplement costs range from $100-$120.
An undetectable viral load and improved average CD4 count - the blood markers
utilized to assess health and therapy outcome – do not necessarily mean a healthy
individual. As someone with a decade of ARV therapy and “good numbers”, I did
not feel healthy. I experienced the plague of high blood pressure and cholesterol
levels, abnormal liver functions, the onset of osteoarthritis, duodenitis, peripheral
neuropathy, lipoatrophy and the progression of hepatitis B to a grade or level
2. Today I am free of these side effects, and have presented normal liver functions
for the first time in ten years.
ARVs are not the panacea; AZT prescribed in mono therapy is considered malpractice
in the US. AZT left me with severe anemia to the point that therapy was discontinued.
To state that if you do not take your drugs you will die is a myth. There are
many individuals such as myself living a healthy life without ARVs.
The 2006 International AIDS Conference discussed the devastation in Africa.
However; we are in a position to learn from the nutritional advancements made
in Africa. AIDS Service Organizations (ASOs) are reluctant to publish this
information as it is deemed anecdotal. ASOs are charged with bringing any and
all information to the community regarding the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
My experience is not unique, and this approach to the treatment of AIDS must
be considered as a viable, sustainable alternative. It is a more humane approach
to HIV/AIDS that treats the patient rather than the disease. I have written
a letter to Canada national newspaper regarding the book 28 stories of AIDS
in Africa by reporter Stephanie Nolan on this very issue, which she
seems to be quite unaware of.
Norman Sartor, Marie, Ontario, Canada
Bird flu
Thank you for
mentioning me in the article How to Stop Bird Flu
Instead (SiS 35). I very much appreciate your willingness
to make a statement about the over-looked connection between bird flu and
environmental toxicities. I certainly wish that the WHO would take a look
at the dioxin connection!
Dr Sherri Tenpenny, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Philanthropy exposed
I have just read Philanthropy Gates Style
(SiS 35) Thank you very much
for your commitment to the moral and noble course of promoting the production
of natural foods, opposing the production of disease and death foods, and
protecting human life.
I am impressed
with the extent and depth of your analytical exposé, as always. I have
been worried by the way those who have accumulated money at the expense
of most other people now use their money. It conforms to the philosophy of
AS IF, because what the ignorant members of the public see as philanthropy
is really incredibly wicked capitalist self-enrichment.
There is
a proverb among the Yoruba ethnic group here in Nigeria: Ti agbalagba ba subu, a wo eyin; which means
literally: when a person falls down, he looks back. He looks back to identify
or find the cause of his fall and remove it so that neither he nor anyone
else would be caused to fall again by that object.
I am not
inclined to believe what Kofi Anan was reported to have said on not promoting
G.M Foods for Africa. I think he considered it safest to say so.
In appropriate Nigerian I
say to you: “Well doing”; “doing” because you are still doing what I
am acknowledging and giving you approbation and appreciation for; not well
done because that would apply after you would have done it
My
regards also to Professor Joe Cummings for his work.
Prince Pieray C. P Odor, The University of Lagos, Nigeria
Philanthropy Gates Style
(SiS 35) is a welcomed and overdue
article, unfortunately just a little late for Germany. Last
week, the country’s leading news magazine Der
Spiegel
carried a cover story on the “Billionaire Samaritans”, with the cover picture
entitled, “The Saviours of the World”, and Bill Clinton swooping out in the
guise of a modern-day Superman. One can wonder what he will be able to do
now with the paltry 200 million dollars in his foundation, compared to what
he neglected as President.
I can’t begin to
tell you about the runarounds I got from US government officials
here in Germany on the issue of climate protection when he and Al Gore were
in office.
Jeff Michel,
Berlin, Germany
More on legal action against GMOs
Regarding your excellent report Scientists
and MEPs for a GM free Europe (SiS 35)
I would like to clarify that there are three organisations involved in the legal
action against GMOs. The first group is “Public Eye on Science”, founded by
Urs Hans inspired by his experiences with the BSE crisis. The second group is
the network of "Aktion Genklage" (approximately translated as "action
legal”), created in the past year, its most important promotors/actors, include
Christiane Luest at Munique as coordinator, Dr. Christoph Palme at the Institute
for Nature Protection Law in Tuebingen, and Werner Mueller from Global2000/FoE-Austria.
There is an English documentation of the project at http://www.attac.de/wtal-agrar/pptlegalaction.ppt.
As it is a juridical project, it uses all existing juridical concepts including
co-existence (of GM and non-GM agriculture)
The third group is the “Network for a GMO-Free World” created at the moratorium
workshop on April 20th 2007 at the conference of GMO free regions in Brussel.
The Steering Committee members of this network have agreed to reject co-existence,
and to promote a ban or moratorium of GMOs.
Dr. Wolfgang Wiebecke,
Agrarian group of attac in Wuppertal, Germany
I fully agree with Wolgang Wiebecke’s account (above). I also wish to highlight
farmer Glöckner case (reported in Cows Ate GM Maize & Died, SiS
21). I spoke as president
of the farmers organisation Public Eye on Science. Our aim is to bring light
to this dark story. We tell what happens when after field trials of Bt corn
gets fed to cows, and unexpected things shows up: serious health problems in
the animals and depression in milk production. But there has been no investigation
and monitoring by officials. As soon as the farmer goes public, the company
starts their repressive campaign on the farmer and the whole media.
As farmers, scientists and consumers we will take actions against the clear
worldwide contamination strategies of the agribusiness.
Urs Hans, Public Eye on Science, Germany
Question
on Honeybee
Such questions in Parliaments
(, SiS 35) are a very powerful
awareness raising action that forces the country or countries to take responsibility.
More effective still
would be notices of claim for unlimited liabilities by affected countries
on those approving such chemical releases without having considered all the
consequences. We have producer and product liability laws and it is time that
the lawmakers practice what they preach.
Walter
Jehrne, microbiologists, Healthy Soils, Australia
Biofuels
and family planning
When I learned the truth
about corn and alcohol (Biofuels: Biodevastation,
Hunger & False Carbon Credits, SiS
33), I started a public campaign warning groups that the rising price of corn
is resulting in starvation because poor people cannot afford it.
It is obvious there is one sane solution that progressives never discuss,
and which was addressed on Earth Day 1970, and the solution subsequently forgotten.
Family planning is the answer. As long as population increases demand for
natural resources increases, a fact which somehow is lost in discussions. No
matter how green we are, more people means more demand for water, more development
and growth and less habitat.
I am serious - is anybody else? Don't take my word for it - go to American
Singles, select postal code 33089 or Lakeland, Florida - and you will read that
I have no children as yet, and plan on having only one child.
Daniel
Barker, Lakeland, Florida, USA
Quantum dance and Qigong
Your article Quantum Jazz, The Tao
of Biology on the quantum dance and quantum coherence, how the organism
straddles quantum superimpositions, rides the quantum probability wave, reminds
me very strongly of the channeled books of Seth by Jane Roberts in the 60s
and 70s. The organism is very aware of which probabilities lie within its
scope, and navigates through the quantum world in such a fashion. This is
all part of the argument that each one of us is choosing our own reality,
creates it in fact.
I admire your work, and love the direction you have taken professionally.
I have a BSc in Biology, which enables me to appreciate what you write. I am
also a Qigong practitioner.
I believe
that the practice of Qigong is causing me to feel qi in my meridians, not only superficially,
but deep in the core, running through the organs. This is of supreme importance
in your “coherence” argument. The increased qi flow leads to increased coherence, I believe.
It would also go a long way to understanding Sheldrake’s morphic fields, and
explain how our organism is able to pick up information from the environment.
The style
of Qigong I practice is meditative and uses meridian tracing movements with
hand mudras for specific meridians. It is rather unique I believe, and very
effective in training one to feel and cultivate qi.
Thanks
for being there and taking such an active part on behalf of our world!
Mark Wigzell
Wi-Fi?
I have always wondered about
Wi-Fi (Drowning in a Sea of Microwaves,
SiS 34) Someone recently joked:
“W-Fi? Why fry?” Keep up the good work!
Calestous
Juma, Harvard University, USA
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