Summary of Findings: Medical Tests of the HIV/AIDS Industry
After close inspection and analysis of the scientific research, it can be concluded that:
1. The ELISA antibody test, aka "HIV test" or "AIDS test," absolutely does not test for HIV or AIDS. Therefore, a "positive" result does NOT mean that you are infected with HIV or that you have or will get AIDS. Nevertheless, if you test positive on two tests you will be falsely labeled "HIV+" for the rest of your life. There are, however, 106 different conditions, both infectious and noninfectious, that can produce a "positive" test result. The nonspecificity of the test makes it useless for any diagnostic purpose unless and until validated otherwise.
2. The Western Blot test is just another, more highly decorated, antibody test, and therefore it is incapable of confirming another antibody test. unless at least one of the two tests has been proven to be valid, which is not the case.
3. Viral load is a total misnomer and fraud. The number you are told is a "viral load" is the number of nucleic acid molecules that are copied in the laboratory, not what is in the original blood sample taken from you. These nucleic acid molecules, assumed and asserted to be from HIV, are actually of undetermined origin, Their ability to multiply or not multiply in labware is of unestablished significance and is highly influenced by the laboratory conditions. Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, the inventor of the PCR technique commonly used to measure viral load, has said that the test is inappropriate for such use. The test was developed to copy genetic material, and cannot be accurately used to count molecules, much less molecules of undetermined origin, and even more much less to fool people into believing that such numbers of molecules are present in their blood.
4. CD4 counts are done in a way to validate and advance the Industry's agenda, although they could have been, and should be, developed to provide valuable health information for those whose immune systems are really deficient. A legitimate evaluation would include CD8 and the various CD4+ subtypes. It should be available to all, especially to those with clinical symptoms of immune system damage/ insufficiency/ impairment/ deficiency/ suppression/ depression/ failure. Complete blood cell counts are available to all people, but the existing defective, selective, and bogus CD4+ counts are given only to those who have previously tested positive with the useless antibody tests. It is time to focus on real science, to get answers and acquire more knowledge so that valid tests will be used appropriately and will be interpreted correctly to benefit those with immune deficiencies.
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Having previously shown that HIV has not been proven to exist, much less cause AIDS or any other disease, it is hardly surprising to find that, despite claims to the contrary, there is also no valid test to diagnose an "HIV infection," and no valid test to evaluate the severity and/or progression and/or recession of the unproven "infection."
A REASONABLE PERSON WHO IS BOTH KNOWLEDGEABLE AND MENTALLY COMPETENT CAN REFUSE TO TAKE ANY OF THESE TESTS.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Saturday, December 27, 2014
29. CD4 Part 4 of 4: CD4 Research & Analysis
CD4 Part 4 of 4: CD4 Research & Analysis
Research & Analysis of CD4 and CD4 "Counts"
By RICHARD JANNACCIO
Blood cell counts have been recorded long before HIV/AIDS, under the assumption that if red blood cells (RBCs) were in the "normal" range, you were not suffering from anemia and your body's cells were getting enough oxygen. Likewise, "normal" amounts of various white blood cells (WBCs) meant that your immune system was healthy, and that you did not have leukemia, for example.
One of these white blood cells, T helper CD4+ Lymphocytes, or CD4 cells for short, is hypothesized to be infected and destroyed by "HIV," an alleged retrovirus. According to this theory, the destruction of CD4 cells causes Acquired Immune Deficieny Syndrome, AIDS. AIDS is seen as a drop in CD4 "count."
Furthermore, they say, if a person with HIV/AIDS is treated with Anti-RetroViral Drugs (ARVs), also called Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART), then the CD4 "count' will start to go back up, because the drugs are killing the virus that was killing the CD4 cells.
So the purpose of the CD4 count is to validate the HIV/AIDS theory and its corollaries. Therefore, it is conducted with that goal in mind, and there seems to be no concern for investigating and diagnosing what is really going on.
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Let's do what most physicians are not doing. Let's look at the research.
The first link is to a report published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy entitled, "Non-HIV AIDS: nature and strategies for its management." It is reported that "a cluster of reports of severe opportunistic infections occurring in patients without evidence of HIV infection do not appear to represent a new disease entity or present evidence of epidemiologically associated cases suggesting an infectious agent." In other words, you can have a "cluster" of people developing opportunistic infections for a variety of reasons, and neither HIV nor ANY infectious agent is necessary or suspected.
Remove the bias from the dogma, and the same could be said of those who test HIV-positive. People in a group, engaging in the same habits and/or exposed to the same environmental conditions can produce a "cluster" of immunodeficient individuals. Neither HIV nor any transmissible microbe is needed to achieve this. What this means is that we can have a situation where something looks to be contagious, that is, "transmissible," but people are not catching it from each other. They are getting it independently from the same source, such as eating the same junk food, breathing the same polluted air, or drinking the same contaminated water.
Also, research scientists reported that "a small group of asymptomatic subjects have been identified with constitutively low CD4 T cell populations which appear to have little or no clinical significance since these patients have no evidence of clinical immunodeficiency." In other words, they also found individuals who "normally" have low CD4 counts, but show NO evidence of immunodeficiency.
Therefore, based on this body of scientific research, the judgments that are being made based soley on the result of an antibody reaction with a protein of undetermined origin, are arguably NOT VALID.
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Let's look at the next link, from the Journal of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromes:
In the very first sentence, we learn that when the CD4+ T cells ("helper cells") in HIV-positive people go down, the CD8+ T cells (killer cells) go ... up! Did anybody ever tell you that?
There is a balance of different cell types comprising the immune system, but sometimes that balance shifts. Maybe it shifts because it needs more cells of one type and/or fewer of another in order to carry out a needed function, or maybe it shifts in response to some other underlying problem that needs to be addressed, such as an accumulation of byproducts. But, the medical profession assumes that the solution is to give drugs that will restore the "numbers." If the numbers look right, all is better... or is it?
As much as the CD4+ go down, the CD8+ go up, so if you add the two together, the numbers stay about the same. Of course, the physicians are not trained ro don't do that. It wouldn't suit the industry's purpose. Theiir purpose is to show the ravages of HIV and the miracle action of ARV/ART.
The scheme is to not let you see the whole picture, but only part of the picture, so that THEY can fill in the blanks. But if we more of the whole picture, no longer can we be fooled.
"The basis and significance of this phenomenon are not known," the report states. This is where the research needs to be focused -- to get answers that will expand upon REAL research findings.
The report ends by saying that a so-called "drop" in T cell count could result from a drop only in the number of cells occupying the blood; in fact, the cells may have been merely "redistributed," with fewer cells in the blood and more in the tissues. Of course, this finding would not work well with the story that cell counts are dropping because of that killer virus, HIV.
"The most plausible explanation for the conservation of total blood T-cell numbers while subset ratios change is that CD4+ and CD8+ T cells compete for a limited access to the blood compartment. Such interaction between the subsets implies, in particular, that changes in the number of CD4+ T cells occurring in other tissues cannot be reliably inferred from those observed in the blood. We reiterate propositions made earlier (4) that much of the apparent 'depletion' of CD4+ lymphocytes during the asymptomatic phase of HIV infection may be attributed to redistribution between the tissues and the blood compartment."
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The remaining links have to do with the work of Dr. Heimrich Kremer of Germany.
Dr. Heinrich Kremer: The CD4 subsets: Th1, Th2, etc.
More on the work of Dr. Kremer and others: Oxidative stress, "switching" or shift in Th1 to Th2, and more:
"The Cure for AIDS" based on the work of Dr. Heinrich Kremer:
More based on Kremer:
And the diagram - Kremer:
Dr. Kremer has proposed an alternative theory for the cause of "AIDS." He says AIDS is not caused by "HIV" or any other virus, but is the result of oxidative stress at the cellular level. When we talk about drugs and other toxic chemicals, malnutrition, and other known causes of immune system suppression, oxidative stress is a common denominator because all of these other causes have the effect of producing oxidative stress on the body. Antioxidants work to counter/relieve oxidative stress, but extreme oxidative stress can overwhelm their capacity to do so. This is a separate topic with some overlapping value in understanding what is really happening with CD4 cells when someone has acquired immune deficiency.
Kremer says that when the CD4+ count drops, it doesn't really drop. It's all about a shift between the subtypes. When your body is under oxidative stress, it doesn't want to produce more and add to the problem unless absolutely necessary. So it cuts back on its own metabolic functions that produce more oxidative stress and this includes the production of nitric oxide (NO). NO is produced by Th1 cells to kill viruses and other pathogens. Nevertheless, when your body is in oxidative stress, this important function is cut down. Th2 cells do not produce NO. So a shift occurs, whereby more Th2 and fewer Th1 cells are produced. The total CD4+ does not drop.
However, the calculated "CD4 count" goes down. Why? Because the CD4 count is based on CD4+ cells in the blood, and while Th1 cells circulate more in the blood, Th2 cells tend to stay mostly in the lymphatic tissues, according to Dr. Kremer. Therefore, they don't get "counted."
The apparent remedy would be to reduce oxidative stress so that the immune system can return to its optimal functioning state.
But in the world of the HIV dogma, that is not the solution. In that paradigm, toxins called Anti-RetroViral drugs are administered.
Do these drugs work? The drugs have not cured anyone. But after taking them, the CD4+ "count" often goes up. That's a good thing, no?
Not according to Dr. Kremer. Dr. Kremer saya that the toxic drugs make things worse. They increase oxidative stress to an even more extreme level, at which point the Th2 cells are released from the lymphatic system into the blood.
This is not a sign of improved health, but rather a sign of deteriorating health. The CD4+ count procedures do not distinguish between Th1 and Th2 and therefore do not detect the difference.
Instead you are given the "good news:" "Congratulations, your CD4 count is going up!"
What all of this means is that the CD4+ counting procedures are worse than useless. They are misleading. They could be improved to be more accurate and detect the Th1 and Th2 subtypes, as well as CD8+ cells, but that would not serve the interests of HIV/AIDS/ARV.
They want to show that the drugs are helping ... and then you die.
A number of scientists agree with Dr. Kremer's Oxidative Stress Theory, which shows a common mechanism for most, if not all, of the many factors that are known to adversely affect the immune system, including many drugs and other toxic chemicals. The very drugs that are prescribed to treat the alleged "HIV infection" cause oxidative stress, and therefore, far from curing any immunodeficiency, further damage the immune system and can actually cause AIDS and/or other immune system diseases in otherwise healthy individuals.
The Oxidative Stress Theory is compelling, and, unlike the HIV theory, it is grounded in real science. More research is needed, and this is where more of the research money SHOULD go.
Blood counts can be useful if done properly and interpreted properly. Unfortunately, it appears that neither is being done properly for people who test HIV+. Rather, these procedures and their interpretation appear to have been tailored to advance the HIV Theory, to terrorize people into swallowing poison, to fool people into believing that the poison is doing them well, and to confiscate billions in resources and millions in lives using what is perhaps the Deadliest Deception Ever Told.
List of REFERENCES:
Low CD4 count, yet healthy:
The so-called "depletion" of CD4+ cells may actually be redistribution
Dr. Heinrich Kremer: The CD4 subsets: Th1, Th2, etc.
More on the work of Dr. Kremer and others: Oxidative stress, "switching" or shift in Th1 to Th2, and more:
"The Cure for AIDS" based on the work of Dr. Heinrich Kremer:
More based on Kremer:
And the diagram - Kremer:
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Friday, December 26, 2014
28. CD4 Part 3 of 4: CD4 Count Procedures
CD4 Part 3 of 4: CD4 Count Procedures
By Richard Jannaccio REVISED December 26, 2014
Let's take a quick look at the "CD4 Count" procedures described by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
These procedures claim to count how many CD4+ T Lymphocytes ("CD4") are in one cubic millimeter of blood. This cell type, the so-called CD4 cells, is claimed to be the target of so-called HIV.
It is claimed, but was never proven, that HIV infects and kills CD4 cells. In the US, a CD4 count below 200 is sufficient for a diagnosis of AIDS for someone who has tested HIV+. A diagnosis of AIDS is usually accompanied by a prescription for so-called "Anti-Retro-Viral ARV drugs.
CD4 counts are also used to draw conclusions about how well ARVs are working. Are those conclusions valid? We're going to find out shortly, but consider this: If you gave me a count, I could not tell you if it came from someone who tested antibody positive or negative. However, the reaction by the medical profession is quite different. If you are so-called HIV+ and have a count below 400, they often recommend drugs. In the US, if the count is below 200, they diagnose the person as having AIDS --but only if the person is also tested "HIV+." In fact, even though people who test negative can have very low CD4+ counts, apparently it's not important. In fact, only those diagnosed as HIV+ are even subjected to the CD4+ count procedures. Double standard? You bet. Scientific? Not.
The goal here is to look at the procedure, and see what is happening. Then we'll look at the research.
Please open the links provided and read them along with what is written here.
A. "TriCount Method" for counting CD4 cells -- the U.S. Centers For Disease Control (CDC)
We see that they end up with a "count" [except that it is not a count] of number of CD4 cells per cubic mm (aka CD4+ T helper cells or CD4+ T lymphocytes).
Note that this is as far as they go. They easily could develop a test to measure the subtypes of CD4+ T cells -- but they don't. Remember those subtypes from the previous post? Th1, Th2, Th17, etc. Let's go back and look at the diagram:
This test does not count these subtypes. Neither do the procedures described by WHO. Is it important? The research that we will look at later suggests that it is very important to know the counts of the subtypes, and we will learn why. Not knowing them may lead to false conclusions, including false conclusions about exactly how the ARVs are affecting the CD4+ counts, according to research that we will examine later.
For now, just note what's happening here with this procedure. No Th1, no Th2 -- no subtypes of CD4+ T helper cells. And counts that are not counts and that may be highly inaccurate.
Reading this also provides a glimpse of the setting in which this magic counting is taking place. Flipping through the pages, you can see that this is an elaborate procedure requiring sophisticated lab instruments and lab personnel with high technical skills. At the same time the people doing this have to take all kinds of safety precautions because they are warned to be afraid of catching AIDS or other diseases from handling human blood. Those are their working conditions. Can you imagine the results that may emerge under such conditions?
We are not lab techs, but I posted this so we can get a feel for what's going on, and focus on the important points.
Can you imagine the stress of doing this kind of work day after day? Safety, precise measurements, everything has to be done with the greatest care. Handling blood, numerous reagents, laboratory instruments, etc. This is stressful work. So you have to hope you get someone who is well qualified, super conscientious and focused, and not having a bad day. This is the lab technician's work, day after day. It is more challenging than other lab tech work. We should believe that these are super human beings. But they're not, and so we shouldn't.
On pages 7 - 8 we see that the CD4+ T cells are not really "counted." They are "calculated" to give an "estimate." An instrument is used, along with chemicals that absorb and emit light, and the percentage of cells that is CD4+ is calculated. From that an absolute number of cells is calculated.
On page 8, look at: "8. Reportable Range." Here they tell you about other cell types, which we've seen in the last posting, and how they are distinguished, and that's the last we hear of them. But there is no mention of the subtypes of CD4+, which are the cells of interest. Why bother with these other cells and not nail down the breakdown of specific subtypes of the CD4?
Let's keep reading. Look at all the steps -- and all the things that can go wrong. Flipping to p. 9 we see troubleshooting tips.
Finally, if everything goes right, we have a CD4+ "count" (that is actually a calculated estimate) and that is a lump sum of all of the subtypes. We don't know the breakdown.
This is as good as it gets. When we look at the WHO procedures, we'll see even more problems.
The thing is, when your doctor orders this test, does he or she tell you what procedure is used or how this is actually done? If you have had this test, start asking questions. Which procedure was used to test your blood? Can you get a tour of the lab? Can you meet the team who tested your blood? Why not? This is just as important as meeting your doctor. Why? Because their results can affect your life.
As we will see, a CD4 "count" easily could be very inaccurate, that is, "way off." It's not the lab tech's fault. So many things can go wrong, and they have a lot of work to do. This is only one of many procedures. The choice of procedures can be a major factor as well, in determining what the CD4 "count" is and how accurate it is.
Even if you are lucky enough to get an "accurate" CD4+ estimate, will it be properly interpreted? Or will conclusions be drawn that are wrong?
Regardless, we will not get the "counts" for the CD4+ subtypes with any of the procedures described by the CDC or the WHO. That is a very serious shortcoming of all of these procedures.
B . "Laboratory Guidelines for enumerating CD4 T Lymphocytes in the context of HIV/AIDS" --World Health Organization (WHO)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a 68-page guide entitled "Laboratory Guidelines for enumerating CD4 T Lymphocytes in the context of HIV/AIDS."
The title alone should raise a red flag. Why does counting CD4 T Lymphocytes need to be considered "in the context of HIV/AIDS?" "HIV/AIDS" should not be a factor in "counting" T cells.
But we know that it is! Because, to the medical profession working for the HIV/AIDS Industry, a low CD4 count means nothing unless you tested HIV+. If you are HIV-, your CD4+ count is so un-important that it is not even measured! Imagine that.
The publication lists many different methods or "counting" CD4 cells, from microscope examination to various methods using flow cytometry technology, like the one described by the CDC. Again, we are talking about calculated estimates, not counts, and they can be way off because small errors get multiplied and therefore magnified.
They also include HIV/AIDS/ARV info that has nothing to do with the CD4 "counting" procedures, per se, but have to do with interpretation in the context of HIV/AIDS. For example, on page 14, this statement appears: "In response to successful ART, the CD4 T lymphocyte count typically increases by >50 cells/µL within weeks after viral suppression, and then increases 50-100 cells/µL per year thereafter until a threshold is reached. In some patients, CD4 T lymphocyte counts may not increase as quickly or as steadily, even with durable viral load suppression. "
In other words, even when what they call "viral load" drops and stays low, the CD4s do not always go up. Maybe the viral load isn't a viral load? Maybe the "virus" is not the culprit after all? There could be many reasons, and they don't offer any, but never once do they consider that their premise could be false. Maybe HIV has nothing to do with what they're looking at. We'll be analyzing all of this shortly.
WHO lists a number of methods and "alternate methods" for "counting" CD4 cells, and the pros and cons of each. Some methods, like counting under a microscope, actually do involve counting cells. But too few cells are counted and then the number counted is multiplied to get the estimated result. That's how a small error gets multiplied into a big error.
With flow cytometry, antibodies with fluorescent tags are reacted with blood cells and attach to the CD4 protein. The fluorescence from the attached tagged antibodies is measured, and, after a series of calculations laden with assumptions that may or may not be accurate, a "count" results. It is in reality a very rough "estimate" (NOT a "count") that may well be based on false assumptions and is almost impossible to duplicate if you take the same sample of blood and run it again in the same lab! Do the procedure in another lab, and the estimate will likely be even more different. Use a different procedure in a different lab, and ... well, you get the picture.
To appreciate how arbitrary and imprecise the whole "CD4 count" testing system is, take a look at page 32, which tells you what standards to use in selecting the right method:
"4.3 Selections of methodology for CD4 T lymphocytes count estimation. For efficient and optimum reporting of CD4 counts, the proper selection of the methodology is essential (Table 4.1).
The choice of the assay should depend on:
Purpose of the assay (whether it is being used for monitoring or for research
p. 33 The age group of the patients (whether adult or pediatric: to indicate whether CD4 percentages or absolute counts are required)
Sample turnover (no. of samples to be tested/day)
Availability of stabilized electric power supply and space
Location of testing (whether rural or urban and whether at primary health centre, district or central referral centre)
Availability of technically skilled personnel as required (the current methods require varying degrees of technical skills)
Availability of technical support and equipment (regular maintenance is necessary)
COST: The cost should include instrument and reagent cost as well as hidden cost of labour (often less expensive), disposables (if available often more expensive), shipping costs, infrastructure, repeat assay run and instrument repair
The time within which the assay can be performed from the time of blood collection.
Technologies that have not been adequately validated should not be purchased."
What else could go wrong?
The staff "should be" qualified, well trained and have continuing education.
The accuracy of CD4 testing results depends on the quality of the blood sample submitted to the laboratory.
" ..the laboratory director or manager should review the results of testing before reporting the results."
"To obtain an accurate and precise enumeration of absolute CD4+ T cells, an accurate measurement of blood is required."
What does this imply?
If the procedures are repeated in the same lab, different labs and using different procedures as well, if the results are close, then and only then should you be confident that the "counts" are accurate.
But even if you do all of that, you still don't have the CD4 T Lymphocyte sub types (Th1, Th2, etc.) AND you still don't have a medical profession that will correctly interpret the results. Most of them are unaware of the research, and that's what we'll be looking at next.
Monday, December 22, 2014
27. The Human Immune System -- Part 2 of 4: Basic Human Cellular Immunology (including CD4)
The Human Immune System and CD4 Counts
CD4 Part 2 of 4: Basic Human Immunology
By Richard Jannaccio on Thursday, July 31, 2014
OK, so having looked at the human anatomy associated with the immune system, let's take a look at the many types of cells that actually are involved in protecting the body, which is what the immune system is all about.
When you open the links here, you will see graphics which are meant to be viewed as you read along, so when a cell type is mentioned, look for it in the schematic diagram.
There are many different types and subtypes of specialized cells that use different processes to incapacitate disease causing microbes and other foreign substances.
We're going to take a look at the big picture and then zoom in on CD4 T Lymphocytes, the cells that we are told are killed by the so-called HIV, the cells that they claim to be counting when they arrive at "CD4 counts."
Overview:
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Looking at the first graphic (overview), top right, there's a cell labeled "early lymphoid progenitor." This cell can develop into any kind of blood cell, depending on what it encounters to influence its development. It is also called a stem cell. It originates in bone marrow.
This stem cell can give rise to 2 different progenitor cells which will follow two different roads to two very different immune-function destinations.
The one labeled "Granulocyte/Macrophage Progenitor" can go on to divide and become one of many different types of cells comprising what's called the "innate immune system."
Some stem cells take the alternate route and become a "Common Lymphoid Progenitor." These can also go on to become a variety of different cells, but these cells function in what's called the "adaptive immune system."
What's the difference? As the name implies, "innate" is something that stays the way it is. "Adaptive" changes to respond to a specific challenge. The general cell types associated with both the innate and adaptive components of the immune system are shown in the second graphic.
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The cells of the "innate" immune system are always on a "seek and destroy" mission and are ready to attack whenever they encounter what they consider to be junk. If they succeed, the bacteria, virus, etc. never get to first base and are promptly killed.
The "Adaptive" immune system is the component that makes specialized "antibodies" to bind to foreign "antigens." If the innate immune cells don't get the job done, the adaptive immune system prepares itself for battle, and that can take a week or more.The adaptive immune system consists of 2 main types: B cells and T cells. B cells release free antibodies into the blood. T cells carry antibodies on their surfaces.
OK, back to the first graphic.
As you go down, from top to bottom, you see an increasing variety of different, specialized and customized cell types being produced.
The one that is labeled "Lymphoid Progenitor" will be influenced by the thymus gland to eventually become what is labeled "Double Positive." This goes on to produce 3 possible cell types NK (Natural Killer) T Cell, Cytotoxic CD8, or Helper (CD4+).
Helper (CD4+) is what the AIDS industry calls "CD4" and this is the cell that they claim is "counted" in the "CD4 Count" and, according to the dogma, is the type of immune cell that is targeted and killed by the so-called HIV.
The name CD4 comes from the CD4 glycoprotein on the surface of these cells. As we will see in the next segment, the presence of this protein is detected by labeled antibodies and that's how these cells are most often (indirectly) "counted" or estimated by lab instruments and computer software.
BUT, as you can see, this is not the end of the story. The graphic shows six subtypes of the Helper CD4+ cell. They are labeled Th1, Th2, Th3, Th17, Tfh, and iTreg. In a blood sample taken for a CD4 count, Th1 is usually most prevalent.
However, the CD4 counts do not distinguish these types. The counts combine all CD4 cells and do not tell you the percentage of each cell type. And that may be a problem, as we'll see later when we look at the research.
For now, just remember that there are six different subsets of what they are calling CD4 cells, and yet the test just gives you a single-number count. This is a little bit like being told your cholesterol level without being told the ratio of good cholesterol vs. bad cholesterol -- only much worse. The information is incomplete. Incomplete information easily leads to misinterpretation.
There's another problem. Look at the cells that resulted from following the road on the left, producing cells of the innate immune system. Three of them indicate "CD4," and although it is not labeled here, part of the ancestral line of these cells, namely Monocyte, Macrophage, and Dendritic Cell, all have CD4 on their surfaces. While some of these, such as Macrophages, can migrate from the bloodstream, Monocytes comprise 2 - 8% of total White Blood Cells (WBCs).
As we will see, there are many procedures for counting the T helper CD4+ cells, and most procedures (not all) count all cells that contain CD4 apparently without accounting for these other cells in the blood that also contain CD4. These differences in procedures can yield very different results.
We will also see that there are many opportunities for "counts" to be inaccurate. By the way, that's another misnomer. There are no "counts." There are "Estimates" that are inaccurately called "counts." As we will see, these estimates can be, so to speak, out of the ballpark.
In the next installment, we will see that the so-called "CD4 counts" can easily be very inaccurate, and whether accurate or not, the conclusions drawn, your so-called "CD4 count," can be quite invalid. Details to follow.
This lesson on the cells of the immune system was to provide basic knowledge so you can understand what the CD4 count really is claiming to "count", and what the scientific research has to say about it. That's all coming up next.
There are, of course, entire textbooks and lots of research on the human immune system, for those who are interested.
Some more advanced and detailed info (optional reading beyond what is needed for this discussion) is provided here.
Copyright 2014 by Richard Jannaccio
Sunday, December 21, 2014
26. The Human Immune System -- Part 1 of 4: Gross Anatomy of the Immune System
Part 1: Gross Anatomy of the Immune System
This is the best and most complete diagram I could find. It is in Spanish. Refer to it while reading the text below.
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1. Not shown here, but your SKIN is part of your defense system because it is a barrier to microbes. That's why when you have a cut or break in the skin, you have to keep clean to prevent infection.
2. One line points to a leg bone. Some bones have a soft interior called the BONE MARROW. This is where you will find STEM CELLS. Stem cells are the parent cells that divide to produce EVERY TYPE of BLOOD CELL, which includes RED BLOOD CELLS (RBC) and the many types of WHITE BLOOD CELLS (WBC). Anytime you see that something damages your bone marrow, which is very vulnerable to chemical and radiation damage, the impact will be on your blood cells. The result of exposure to toxic chemicals or radiation could include anemia as well as immune system suppression or depression.
3. The green-colored object in the middle of the upper chest labeled "Timo" is the THYMUS GLAND. Some of the cells from the bone marrow will migrate to the thymus gland to become T-cells or T-lymphocytes, and that's where the "T" comes from: THYMUS. Some subtypes include the T-helper (CD4), T-killer (CD8), and more. Yes, we are talking aobut the same CD4 that the HIV/AIDS industry oversimplifies and distorts when using so-called "CD4 counts" to advance their agenda.
4. The structure labeled "bazo" is the SPLEEN, which serves as a filter for old and broken red blood cells and a reservoir for MONOCYTES and other WBCs. It also filters out microbes that have been bound to antibodies, and some antibody production occurs here as well.
5. RBCs and WBCs travel as components of blood pumped by the heart through arteries, capillaries and veins located throughout the body. This is your CIRCULATORY SYSTEM. But there is another system, the LYMPHATIC SYSTEM, which also carries WBCs (but not RBCs) through LYMPH VESSELS and connected LYMPH NODES ("Lymph glands"), Lymph nodes are the little bead-like structures which filter and trap debris and pathogens (see diagram). Together they are called LYMPHATICS. There is no pump like the heart to move lymph through the lymphatic vessels. It moves when you exercise. That is one of the main reasons why exercise is important to a healthy immune system.
NEXT: The many different cell types of the immune system: how they develop, how they interact and function, etc.
This is the best and most complete diagram I could find. It is in Spanish. Refer to it while reading the text below.
http://alternativa-med.com/html/assets/images/autogen/a_bild_inmune_sistemas.jpg
1. Not shown here, but your SKIN is part of your defense system because it is a barrier to microbes. That's why when you have a cut or break in the skin, you have to keep clean to prevent infection.
2. One line points to a leg bone. Some bones have a soft interior called the BONE MARROW. This is where you will find STEM CELLS. Stem cells are the parent cells that divide to produce EVERY TYPE of BLOOD CELL, which includes RED BLOOD CELLS (RBC) and the many types of WHITE BLOOD CELLS (WBC). Anytime you see that something damages your bone marrow, which is very vulnerable to chemical and radiation damage, the impact will be on your blood cells. The result of exposure to toxic chemicals or radiation could include anemia as well as immune system suppression or depression.
3. The green-colored object in the middle of the upper chest labeled "Timo" is the THYMUS GLAND. Some of the cells from the bone marrow will migrate to the thymus gland to become T-cells or T-lymphocytes, and that's where the "T" comes from: THYMUS. Some subtypes include the T-helper (CD4), T-killer (CD8), and more. Yes, we are talking aobut the same CD4 that the HIV/AIDS industry oversimplifies and distorts when using so-called "CD4 counts" to advance their agenda.
4. The structure labeled "bazo" is the SPLEEN, which serves as a filter for old and broken red blood cells and a reservoir for MONOCYTES and other WBCs. It also filters out microbes that have been bound to antibodies, and some antibody production occurs here as well.
5. RBCs and WBCs travel as components of blood pumped by the heart through arteries, capillaries and veins located throughout the body. This is your CIRCULATORY SYSTEM. But there is another system, the LYMPHATIC SYSTEM, which also carries WBCs (but not RBCs) through LYMPH VESSELS and connected LYMPH NODES ("Lymph glands"), Lymph nodes are the little bead-like structures which filter and trap debris and pathogens (see diagram). Together they are called LYMPHATICS. There is no pump like the heart to move lymph through the lymphatic vessels. It moves when you exercise. That is one of the main reasons why exercise is important to a healthy immune system.
NEXT: The many different cell types of the immune system: how they develop, how they interact and function, etc.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
25. HIV Tests: Interviews With Experts On Both Sides
HIV Tests: What You've Been Told and What You Haven't Been Told
The documentary film linked below includes interviews of "experts" on both sides. Can you determine the truth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgqdYWFonBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgqdYWFonBM
Saturday, December 13, 2014
24. An In-Depth Look At (So-called) "VIRAL LOAD" Reveals That It's A Fraud
(So-called) "VIRAL LOAD" -- The Facts
Richard Jannaccio
THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING WHAT "VIRAL LOAD" REALLY IS, is to know the procedure by which this number is obtained. It is, after all, a number But ....
ONCE YOU KNOW WHERE THE VIRAL LOAD NUMBERS COME FROM, NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO FOOL YOU INTO BELIEVING THAT THIS IS YOUR VIRAL LOAD.
This first video gives you part of the procedure in detail. It's slightly different for HIV, but it only means using a different enzyme in the first step, and they mention that at the end,
The second video I'm including mostly because it shows very graphically at the end how a few molecules can multiply into millions or billions using this magnification procedure that increases the number of molecules exponentially after each cycle. The problem with its use in HIV is that people are told that the number of copies of DNA produced in the lab is their viral load -- YET THIS IS NOT WHAT IS ACTUALLY IN THEIR BLOOD. It is produced outside of your body by adding chemicals to your blood. So what it tells you is how well a biochemical procedure works using your blood. Your blood provides bits of nucleic acid, to which is added enzymes, nucleic acid building blocks, and other chemicals, which is incubated at various temperatures during different steps, the cycle is repeated over and over, after which an estimate --not even a count-- is made of how many copies of these nucleic acids were made. It is assumed but never proven that these are HIV nucleic acids. And you are given the number and lead to believe that this is your "viral load." No. It is the test tube's viral load. Because that's the only place it is. it is not in the blood that is circulating in your body.
Yes, such deception is astounding. Unfortunately, deception is a hallmark of the HIV/AIDS Industry's tests, diagnoses, and remedies.
The third video is specific for HIV, but it is less detailed in the procedure, focuses on related issues, and contains errors. That's OK, we'll correct the errors.
Next, a discussion with Liam Scheff.
Finally, a discussion with Dr. Rodney Richards. The podcast with Dr. Richards, interviewed by David Crowe and Christine Maggiore, covers all of the tests and is well worth listening to, but if you want to fast-forward to the viral load part, it begins near the end, at 40:00 minutes into the show. Dr. Richards is a chemist and expert on so-called HIV tests.
I'm sorry to say I could not find a single source that had all of the important information. So, together, we'll use these and piece together the useful parts. Please have a look, and we'll analyze all of this below.
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) - Multi-Lingual Captions:
This short animation introduces the real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) procedure. Captions are available multiple...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmlLj1aLZ7s- HERE ARE THE STEPS OF THE SO-CALLED "VIRAL LOAD" TEST:
- 1. THEY TAKE YOUR BLOOD.
- 2. THEY SPIN IT IN A CENTRIFUGE SO ALL THE BLOOD CELLS SETTLE AT THE BOTTOM, AND THE TRANSPARENT SERUM IS ON TOP. THEY ONLY NEED THE SERUM, WHICH CONTAINS PROTEINS, NUCLEIC ACIDS, SUGAR, VARIOUS METABOLITES, ETC. THEY ASSUME THAT SOME OF THE RNA CHAINS ARE FROM HIV, BECAUSE, AFTER ALL, THE BLOOD CAME FROM SOMEONE WHO TESTED "POSITIVE." NEVER IN 30 YEARS HAVE THEY BOTHERED TO PROVE THAT ANYTHING IN THE SERUM CAME FROM HIV. IT IS ASSUMED.
- 3. ISOLATE RNA PRESUMED TO BE FROM HIV. IGNORE THE POSSIBILITY THAT IT COULD BE ENDOGENOUS (THAT IS, YOUR OWN RNA). ADD BUILDING BLOCKS (NUCLEOTIDES), PRIMERS, AND REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE IN A BUFFERED SOLUTION WITH OTHER NEEDED CHEMICALS (SUCH AS MAGNESIUM) AT THE APPROPRIATE TEMPERATURE AND PH. THIS ENABLES THE RNA TO PRODUCE DNA.
- 4. THE DNA IS PUT THROUGH NUMEROUS CYCLES OF DUPLICATION IN THE PRESENCE OF BUILDING BLOCKS, PRIMERS, AND A POLYMERASE (ENZYME).
- 5. VARIOUS "TAGS" CAN BE ATTACHED TO ALLOW THESE MOLECULES TO BE "SEEN" BY LAB INSTRUMENTS THAT GIVE A NUMERICAL READING FROM WHICH THE CONCENTRATION (NUMBER OF MOLECULES PER MILLILITER) IS CALCULATED.
- 6. THE RESULT IS A NUMBER THAT THEY CALL VIRAL LOAD. IT IS NOT VIRAL LOAD. IT IS THE NUMBER OF SELECTED RNA MOLECULES, COPIED AFTER REPEATED COPYING CYCLES IN THE LABORATORY. THE ORIGINAL MOLECULES CAME FROM BLOOD WHERE THEY WERE PRESENT IN UNDETECTABLE LEVELS AND OF UNDETERMINED (CELL? VIRAL?) ORIGIN.
- THE REPORTED CONCENTRATION OF RNA MOLECULES OF THIS TYPE DOES NOT EXIST IN ANYONE'S BLOOD, ONLY IN THE LABORATORY AFTER AN EXTREME DUPLICATING PROCEDURE UNSEEN IN NATURE.
- WHAT DOES THIS REALLY TELL YOU? MOSTLY IT TELLS YOU HOW WELL OR HOW POORLY THE LAB PROCEDURE WORKED THAT DAY TO MAKE COPIES OF THE CHOSEN MOLECULE. IF YOU'RE TAKING ARVS, OF COURSE IT SHOULD HARDLY BE SURPRISING TO SEE FEWER NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES IN YOUR BLOOD. BECAUSE ARVS PREVENT NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS!
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- SO HERE'S THE STRATEGY: THEY TAKE YOUR BLOOD AND MEASURE THE NUMBER OF COPIES OF DNA THAT THEY CAN PRODUCE IN THE LAB FROM RNA SEGMENTS TAKEN FROM YOUR BLOOD. THEN THEY PRESCRIBE NUCLEIC ACID CHAIN TERMINATORS. THEN THEY RETEST. GUESS WHAT? FEWER NUCLEIC ACID COPIES CAN BE MADE FROM YOUR BLOOD. MAGIC! THEY CALL THIS "VIRAL LOAD" AND TELL YOU THE DRUGS ARE WORKING! BUT NO ONE HAS PROVEN THAT THESE SO-CALLED "VIRAL LOAD" NUMBERS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH ANY VIRUS OR RETROVIRUS, AND IF YOU READ ABOVE HOW THE PROCEDURE WORKS, YOU KNOW THAT THIS NUMBER THEY TELL YOU HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY "LOAD" THAT'S INSIDE YOUR BODY. INSIDE YOUR BODY, YOURS AND EVERYBODY'S TRUE VIRAL LOAD IS ALWAYS UNDETECTABLE FOR HIV.
- COULD PCR BE MORE USEFUL? PERHAPS WITH MORE RESEARCH AND LESS GUESSWORK, BUT NOT THE WAY IT'S BEING DONE, WHICH IS AS AN INAPPROPRIATE ADAPTATION OF A GENE MANUFACTURING TOOL. WITHOUT PURIFIED VIRUS TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE DEALING WITH HIV GENES, THIS PROCEDURE IS TOTALLY UNSCIENTIFIC, BASED WHOLLY ON ASSUMPTIONS AND LEAPS OF FAITH.
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- A MOST SOBERING QUOTE:
- "A chief problem with gauging viral load for an individual is the large margin of error in the original estimate of the quantity of pathogen, on which the amplification formula is based. The efficiency of PCR must be perfect or the error through amplification can be exponentially increased to forty or fifty times (Craddock 1996). Mainstream literature concedes that overestimates of infectious virus have occurred by a factor of at least sixty thousand (Piatak et al. 1993). In the Piatak paper, one-half of the patients that were detected as having a viral load showed no evidence of virus by culture."
Source: http://rethinkingaids.com/.../HIVM612...pp105-106 - Richard Jannaccio: Viral load measurements are determined by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), but again, as long as HIV has not been demonstrated to exist living in blood, these PCR tests cannot be calibrated for HIV—and they cannot be used to measure “HIV viral load’.
- "Heinz Ludwig Sänger, a professor of molecular biology who was awarded the renowned Robert Koch prize in 1978, is one of several researchers who shares the view that “HIV has never been isolated, for which reason its nucleic acids cannot be used in PCR virus load tests as the standard for giving evidence of HIV.” Studies also confirm that PCR tests are worthless in AIDS diagnosis, as published in Annals of Internal Medicine (1994). More recent work published in 2006 in JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association involved 28,000 positively tested people using the viral load tests, the established means of testing for AIDS since 1996, and concluded that viral load measures failed in more than 90 percent of the cases to predict or to explain the immune states of the subject. http://rethinkingaids.com/.../HIVM612... pp137-138
- “Many times, with huge viral loads in the millions, they can’t find any infectious [live] virus,” said Dr. David Rasnick.
http://rethinkingaids.com/.../HIVM612...p152 - ************************************************************************************************************************
Results of the viral load test cannot be reproduced. This can be seen in the wide range of variability that is accepted in the quality controls set by the companies that make and commercialize the test kits. For example, Roche accepts low control having a variability between 880 and 7,900 copies per ml [Lot # 0034], and high control having a variability between 79,000 and 710,000 copies per ml [Lot # 0041] [Roche, Amplicor HIV-1 Monitor test Lot # 88618, expiration January 1999]. Most important of all, the problems with the lack of a gold standard for HIV infection also apply to the evaluation of the accuracy of the PCR or Viral load test (38,67,68). As a consequence, the specificity of the Viral load test for HIV has never been defined properly. Therefore, all viral load positive results are likewise potential false-positives for HIV. http://rethinkingaids.com/.../HIVM612... p168 **********************************************************************************************************************- Since the viral load results are given in copies per ml of plasma (61) AIDS researchers, health care professionals, and lay people may think that they represent copies or counts of the virus itself (38,62-67). However, the Viral load test only makes copies of fragments of nucleic acids. It does not count HIV itself. A positive viral load test cannot be regarded as signifying the presence of the whole HIV genome, and therefore the test cannot be used to measure virus.
- Richard Jannaccio "Without purification of HIV it is obviously impossible to know what the RNA of HIV is, and therefore, it cannot be known whether Viral Load tests are detecting HIV or something else."
http://rethinkingaids.com/.../HIVM612... p337
What viral load DOES NOT mean, but what the AIDS Industry wants everybody to think it means...
ADVANCED Discussion:
Measuring “Viral load” does not prove the existence of a hypothetical HIV by Etienne de Harven, M.D.
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Below is an example of INACCURATE information being spread by someone who says he's a doctor.
NOTE: MUCH OF THE INFO IN THESE NEXT 2 VIDEOS IS FALSE AND THESE 2 SHORT VIDEOS ARE INCLUDED HERE BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT YOU MAY HEAR FROM YOUR DOCTOR
HIV FAQ: What does viral load mean?
http://thehealthybear.com/hiv-faq/#VIRAL-LOAD
This is what you will hear on this 28-second video:
This is what you will hear on this 28-second video:
"Viral load is a measure of how much HIV virus can be found in the blood. Modern HIV treatments are very effective at reducing nucleic acid synthesis, so the nucleic acids that are in the blood will be fewer and abnormal, having been prematurely terminated. Hence, when these are taken from a blood sample, they will not produce much product in the so-called "viral load" procedure. This drug effect results in a lower number and is interpreted as a good thing because it is assumed that a higher number is due to the presence of virus."
DISCUSSION
This doctor packs a lot of lies into 28 seconds. Let's take a look, sentence by sentence:
1. He says: "Viral load means the amount of HIV virus that can be found in the blood."
FACT: What they call "viral load" (to fool us) is the number of copies of pieces of DNA that they can make in the lab, using your serum and a group of lab procedures, and claiming (without proof) the these pieces of DNA were made using RNA in your blood that originally came from HIV. But, again, there is no proof that this RNA came from HIV, and the number of copies is the number of copies MADE IN THE LABORATORY, not the number in your blood. The RNA chains are UNDETECTABLE in blood and HIV is NOWHERE to be found.- 2. He says: "The higher the amount of virus within the blood, the higher the chance of its effect on the immune system."
- FACT: The existence of "the virus" has never been proven and it has never been directly detected in blood, but assumed to be there due to nonspecific reverse transcriptase enzyme activity that could have nothing to do with HIV. It has been claimed but never been proven that HIV affects the immune system or causes ANY kind of disease whatsoever. Also, the implication is that the "viral load" has something to do with "virus within the blood" but that, too, has not been proven, only assumed, for more than 30 years.
3. He says: "Currently the medications used to treat HIV are becoming more and more effective at reducing the amount of virus that can be found in the blood."
FACT: Drugs or no drugs, not a single HIV has been found in anyone's blood so far.
Bottom Line: VIRAL LOAD IS NOT VIRAL LOAD. When you look at the procedure by which "viral load" is determined, it is quite clear that "viral load" is a fraud.
Next, this same guy does another video in which he asserts that even if there's no way to detect the virus, it's "likely" still there. Is there any evidence at all to support that claim. He admits there is none, but asserts the fact and expects us to believe it.
FAQ: Does "undetectable viral load" mean that the HIV virus (sic) is gone?
FAQ: Does "undetectable viral load" mean that the HIV virus (sic) is gone?
Of course not, according to this guy. It's still there even if there's no way to prove it, even with the fake tests. People actually will believe this at face value because 1) it comes from an authority figure and 2) it is repeated over and over, so, it must be true.
These are examples of the misinformation that is fed to the public as fact, but there is no convincing evidence to back it up.
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Copyright 2014 By Richard Jannaccio
These are examples of the misinformation that is fed to the public as fact, but there is no convincing evidence to back it up.
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Copyright 2014 By Richard Jannaccio
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