26 October 2006

Stranger Than Fiction: AIDS on Trial ... for real this time

In Charles Ortleb's book, The Closing Argument, he chronicles the trial of a Black man accused to have attempted murder by spreading the HIV virus through unprotected sex and puts the HIV-AIDS theory on trial by challenging the science behind it. Ortleb was the publisher of The New York Native, a writer, and printed many of the early dissident pieces from Celia Farber, who recently released Serious Adverse Events about the controversies surrounding the invention of HIV as a deadly virus.

Australia in 2006 has brought fiction to reality. An Australian, Andre Chad Parenzee, 35, has been convicted of endangering the lives of three female sex partners with whom he had "unprotected" sex. Like the lawyer in Ortleb's novella, Parenzee's lawyer turns the tables on the government's case by putting a huge question mark next to HIV's potency as a killer virus.

A recent story in The Australian provides some details.

It has been horrifying enough that sex between men is demonized and found yet another rationale to be curbed, chained, proscribed, then outright made illegal - isn't it ironic while we pretend to celebrate gay rights, we demonize gay sexuality unless it strives for "marriage" rights! But if straights are to be also convicted of the kind of sex their parents and grandparents performed, we have truly entered a tortured musical comedy.

The judge in the trial has just set aside the conviction to put essentially HIV on trial. Dr. Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, a noted HIV dissident, has been flown in as an expert witness. She has been asked if HIV causes AIDS and replied in an interview that there was no such proof, and she proceeds to lay out her counter-argument.

Dr. Eleni is not alone among those in the scientific community who, from the infamous 1984 Press Conference, has resisted the HIV-AIDS link. David Rasnick is another. But the most famous is a former star and National Academy of Sciences member, Univ. of California researcher, Peter Duesberg.

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