Reappraising AIDS Vol. 3, no. 1

VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1, PAGE 4 REAPPRAISING AIDS JANUARY 1995

one key medical blunder that might, if client groups
became aware of it and pressed the point, bring down
AIDS science. (See box to right. eds.)
The gay men who presented with wrecked immune
systems in 1981 were pursuing a "live fast, die young"
lifestyle, as they well knew. Common health sense would
have put them, and others living as they did, on a rigid
diet and fitness regimen to detoxify their bodies and
rebuild the immune system. Instead, doctors invented a
causality in which lifestyle is neutral to disease causality
and to therapeutics. Why? Because conventional
medicine defines sickness as conditions that respond to
pharmaceutical and surgical procedures in the medical
armamentarium. Patients are sidelined as spectators in
the healing process managed by doctors. They are told
that they can do nothing to escape the iron grip of
scientifically confirmed disease agents. This thinking
leads to a therapy consisting of highly toxic drugs that
attack the very immune cells whose rehabilitation is
wanted. The therapeutic is lethal, yet it is consistent with
the logic of chemotherapy
The few studies of long-term survivors of HIV infection
indicate that they either abandoned or never
commenced AZT therapy. The survivors also
commenced diet and fitness regimes. This means that
they maintain health by rejecting standard therapy, and
by becoming doctor-free agents of their own health.
There is a need to assemble as many such cases as
possible, and to support client groups who will carry the
message into the corridors of medical self-esteem.
The AIDS saga illustrates the crisis of contemporary
health services. The crisis is expressed in the spiral of
costs, in growing millions of doctor junkies, in the
over-mastering complexity of health services, in endless
litigation and in the need for health rights tribunals. The
process is driven by anxiety of death harnessed to belief
that doctors can somehow forestall death. Yet doctors
invariably lose all their patients, while billions of people
today thrive without benefit of doctors. The AIDS Mirage
focuses contemporary medicine as but one of many
ways of coping with human suffering. It is costly, it
induces dependency, and in the case of AIDS, it is a 100
percent failure that fuels anger among patients. An
alternative is alive and well at your local fitness center.
Hiram Caton is a head of the School of Applied Ethics at
Griffith University in Brisbane, and Fellow of the Australian
Institute of Biology.

HIV+ AND HEALTHY
The Group operates an HIV+ support group called "HIV+
and Healthy." Address inquiries to:
Harry F. Flynn at 818-769-3769 or <[email protected]>
Anyone who scores positively on the often faulty HIV
antibody test, is feeling fine and living a healthy life should
join this group. About one million people are expected to
be HIV+ and most don't even know it. Those who are tested positive become frightened - needlessly. This support
group will introduce you to the many others just like you.
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Eleen Baumann, Ph.D.
Harvey Bialy, Ph.D
celia Farber
Philip E. Johnson, J.D.
Russell Schoch

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Peter H. Duesberg, Ph.D.
Charles L. Geshekter, Ph.D.
Robert W. Mover, F.S.A.
Gordon T. Stewart, M.D.
Charles A. Thomas Jr. Ph.D.

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THE NUMBERS GAME

By Bob Maver

Here's an interesting tidbit from JAMA 261:3415-18, as reported by Pete Plumley, FSA in An Actuarial Analysis of the
AIDS Epidemic As It Affects Heterosexuals (Transactions, Volume XLIV. Society of Actuaries).
Illinois instituted mandatory HIV testing for all marriage applicants January 1, 1988. After six months, out of 70,846
persons tested, only 8 tested positive for HIV, a rate of.011 percent. The estimated cost for these tests was $2.5
million. There was a 22.5% decline in the number of marriage licenses issued compared to the prior year, as many
Illinois residents crossed the border to other states to get married. The law was subsequently repealed.