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Cracks are forming in the myth of worldwide AIDS
By Michael Fumento
For years, I and a handful of others have dared write that worldwide HIV and AIDS figures have been grossly exaggerated; that the official authorities have been lying. I first criticized the African doomsaying in my 1990 book, the Myth of Heterosexual AIDS - 17 years ago! For our troubles we critics were hung, drawn, and quartered.
Now, as I discuss in my new article in The American Spectator Online, "An Epidemic of Falsehoods," the UNAIDS program has admitted its HIV estimate from last year was over six million too high, dropping it from 39.5 million to 33.2 million. The agency also now admits the number of new HIV infections per year peaked way back around 1998.
Trust me; the "corrected" figure is still a gross exaggeration. And as I make clear, the inflated figures were no mere mistake in methodology, as the official and unofficial alarmist groups would have us think. It was a concession that our trusted officials (Trusted by the mainstream media, anyway) could no longer maintain such a massive fiction against the onslaught of reality. It's a sordid tale, but an interesting one. And it's far from over.
Now, when will they admit they've grossly exaggerated the risk of pandemic avian flu?
November 28, 2007 03:18 PM · Permalink
Hysteria, not illness or death, drives gov't disease spending
By Michael Fumento
You've heard that the highly-drug resistant germ MRSA causes 94,000 U.S. invasive infections each year, with about 19,000 deaths. Here's what you haven't heard. As I write in the New York Sun, the government is doing practically nothing about it.
Meanwhile it's working mightily and spending the bank on three diseases that have yet to kill a single American and probably never will: Ebola virus, SARS, and avian flu. Federally-funded Ebola and SARS vaccines are in human trials and the government is already stockpiling FDA-approved avian flu vaccine. Yet government-funded MRSA vaccine research is still in mice.
One spending comparison: Congress has specifically earmarked $5.8 billion for avian flu, the threat of which continually recedes. Yet, although the CDC lists in addition to MRSA 8 important diseases connected to antibiotic resistance, the total annual budget for these is merely $221 million.
I conclude: "We need a government that pays more attention to medical statistics than to headlines. The one we have now is killing us."
November 8, 2007 12:26 PM · Permalink
Perform Miracles with Your PC
By Michael Fumento
"Distributed computing" could theoretically lead to such massive supercomputers as to cure every disease known to man. It works by tapping into the unused portion of your PC's CPU. One percent of all CPUs so linked would absolutely blow away the most powerful stand-alone supercomputers in existence. Read more about how this works and why you need to become a part of it in my new TCS.daily article, "An Idle Computer Is the Lord's Workshop."
March 26, 2007 07:53 PM · Permalink
"Dean's World" is one of prevarication
By Michael Fumento
The blogsite Dean's World suggests that I agree with nutcase Peter Duesberg that HIV doesn't cause AIDS. A simple Google search reveals I think he's a crank and that HIV most certainly causes AIDS. So I tried to leave a comment saying so but Dean's World makes you register. Okay, okay, so I tried to register. But Dean's World says it's not taking new registrations. Huh? So pull your head out of your butt, Dean, and pull down your mention of me as supporting your bizarre conspiracy theories. And don't pretend you allow people to leave comments when you don't.
September 7, 2006 08:15 PM · Permalink
Hurray! No need to worry about getting AIDS!
By Michael Fumento
Well, that's the good news. The bad news is because you already have it. Or so says a t-shirt on a man shown on the front page of the Sunday Washington Post. Specifically, it reads: "We all have AIDS." So toss the condoms, forget about abstinence and all that. Of course, I feel like an absolute fool having written for two decades that AIDS would always be a highly limited disease in this country and anyone who told you otherwise was spouting propaganda. But you can't argue with a t-shirt that the capital's newspaper of record decided to flaunt on its front page.
August 13, 2006 08:37 PM · Permalink
AIDS in Africa Grossly Exaggerated? No!!!!
By Michael Fumento
The UN has finally admitted the African AIDS epidemic is far less severe than it's been claiming all along. It gives all sorts of wonderful reasons, but strangely enough I've been saying this since my AIDS book came out in 1990 and periodically updating it in my columns.
What did I know that the UN didn't? Or what did the UN know that it wouldn't let on?
April 7, 2006 07:32 PM · Permalink
New theory on cause of AIDS
By Michael Fumento
In a demonstration I observed in McPherson Square today that comprised about 100 individuals (and that organizers will claim comprised a million) I saw signs reading: "Bigotry causes AIDS." As a health writer I feel quite foolish because I always thought that it was a virus, one primarily transmitted by anal sex and shared needles. Other signs declared: "Bush Has Declared War on AIDS." Indeed, in a sense he has. His administration has spent more per year on both AIDS research and medical and non-medical assistance to AIDS victims than that of any other president. Glad I'm not completely in disagreement with those million protesters.
November 7, 2005 01:42 PM · Permalink
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