What is this chatter in the AIDS dissidence community lately about banning the word “denialist”? When did this become the most compelling matter for us to confront at this time in our history? Of course the use of derogatory terms by others to define us should be challenged, and AIDS Dissidents have been challenging the […more]
Tony Lance I’ve gotten to know Tony Lance personally the last few months. The more we visit, the more things we seem to discover we share in common. Both of us are gay men who came out just before, or in the very earliest years of the Gay Plague. We are both “poz” and […more]
courtesy of freefoto.com AIDS researchers continue to stretch the limits in finding excuses to spend some of the billions of dollars worth of funding being made available to them. Lately, the anti-smoking forces have been rallying to compete for a piece of the HIV research pie. This morning’s news brought this “study” about the lung […more]
No one wants to see the grave of a loved one disturbed. It’s dishonorable, distasteful, and usually illegal. That is exactly what happened this weekend though. There is a page on my blog called “the graveyard”, a list of dead friends that I published as a response to those who claimed that every time an […more]
I developed Bell’s palsy (BP) yesterday, a couple of days after striking the left side of my head rather severely on the sharp, hard edge of my car door. After self-diagnosing my symptoms, I was reluctant to seek any medical care, mainly because there really is no successful treatment or cure for BP. Most people […more]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAw7oot55tY&hl=en_US&fs=1&] David Rasnick, PhD: Do ARVs Save Lives? The raw data Rethinking AIDS Conference November 6-8, 2009 Oakland, CA
“Let’s go to lunch,” Tracy said, seeing how frustrated I was after discovering that I had miscalculated the distance needed to rough-in a door that I was helping her install in a newly framed wall. “Fine. How about chile rellenos?” “I know this restaurant,” she said, “but I don’t remember the name… down on Southwest […more]
Did I ever tell you that I used to be a “database specialist” in the marketing department of an HMO? Well, I did, and it was a very enlightening opportunity to observe the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of corporate America and our so-called “health care” system. My job was to parse data. By parse, I mean to […more]
Tony Lance knows about gay men, because he is one. He has spent years studying and developing a theory that explains how and why so many of us develop poor health and damaged immune systems. Lance proposes that the disease affecting so many gay men is actually caused by disruption and destruction of the intestinal […more]
A recent experience drove home for me that the rotted foundation for explaining AIDS is still trying to support some pretty inexcusable medical practices at local doctors’ offices. My partner Michael is taking a class to get his EMS (Emergency Medical Services) certificate. One of the course requirements is that he get a series of […more]