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May 15, 2023Liked by Rebecca Culshaw Smith

These trembling, enraged and vulnerable zealots are witlessly admitting either one thing or another:

1) that Smith’s book is so strong and persuasive that it alone threatens to undermine the previous 1 million or 2 million articles, papers or books that toe the AIDS party line! Whoa Nellie.

2) or that the orthodox AIDS mindset is really so feeble and fragile that it would crumble like a stale cookie at being challenged and refuted, hence Smith’s complete rebuttal must be burned and destroyed.

After nearly 40 years of believing in fairy tales, the AIDS dogmatists are terrified of being exposed as doomsday frauds and insufferable hacks. Adios amigos.

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May 16, 2023Liked by Rebecca Culshaw Smith

Rebecca, thank you so much for this book, which I just listened to as an audio book. I would whole-heartedly recommend it to anyone. If any of my loved ones were to share with me that they tested HIV+, or were considering doing PrEP, I would give them a copy of your book, sit down with them and express all of my concerns in the most urgent and caring way possible, and not leave until they agreed to read it.

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May 16, 2023Liked by Rebecca Culshaw Smith

Dear Rebecca, I've received that diagnosis exactly 20 years ago, at age 23. It has had an immense impact on my whole life - literally. Not because of my health, but rather because life can never be the same after this. There are so many things I feel frustrated about, so many, many things nobody talks about. Thank you for having the guts to open the conversation again. It means a lot to me.

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Books by Erich Fromm: “The Pathology of Normalcy,” “The Heart of Man: Its Genius for Good and Evil,” “The Art of Being,” “The Art of Loving,” “The Sane Society,” “Escape from Freedom,” “You Shall be as Gods,” “The Forgotten Language,” “For the Love of Life,” “The Anatomy of Human Destructivness.” Lantern Inn.

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“As the generations pass they grow worse. A time will come when they have grown so wicked they will worship power; might will be right, reverence for the good will cease to be. At last, when no man is angry any more at wrongdoing or feels shame in the presence of the miserable, Zeus will destroy them too. And yet even then something might be done, if only the common people would rise and put down rulers that oppress them.” - Greek Myth on the Iron Age.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist….but when I look at pre-history, I am an Optimist.

(Lantern Inn)

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Here's another more recent one: https://48hills.org/2023/05/now-the-anti-vaxxers-are-resurrecting-aids-denialist-lunacy/

Of course, you knew what you were getting into. I have to confess I submitted a 4-star review to Amazon where I said I felt the second edition was not as strong as the first and that Skyhorse could have done a better job with the editing and with the book design - and I stand by my criticism. The thing that did happen in 2021 is that RFK Jr. sold over a million copies of a book that raised awareness of the problems of 'HIV' and this general awareness has tumbled over into the alternative media.

The thing is your book's critics risk the "Barbara Streisand Effect." Prior to 2021, how many people actually knew there was a challenge to HIV? The more sophisticated propagandists are likely to treat your book by ignoring it. What I observed (along with Ron Unz) is media given to RFK Jr.'s Fauci book repeatedly skipped over the AIDS chapters - Tucker Carlson and Del Bigtree both having hour-long interviews about RFK's book and never once bringing up HIV. I would be more worried about the people and places that should review your book and are ignoring it and question who really controls them.

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Way to stand strong, true and wise. 💪🏽❤️

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