Pretty amazing that the LA Times would publish such an article in 1990! I wonder what happened to the person who wrote it, and if the Times published some "damage control" soon afterwards. It's also amazing that more HIV/AIDS researchers didn't pick up on this obvious clue that something was seriously flawed with the whole HIV causes AIDS paradigm, considering KS was viewed as a hallmark manifestation of HIV/AIDS throughout the '80's. Shows how deeply entrenched the dogma was.
KS was not considered rare in Uganda (See Root Bernstein's book pg. 305). Let's put this article in context: the Ryan White Act passed in August 1990, and it allocated local funding on the basis of the burden from the beginning of the epidemic. Even though KS-AIDS was ready to fall apart in January 1990, if they backed out all the AIDS-by-KS diagnosis made, places like San Francisco would lose millions in funding - even in 1990, 90% of SF's 'AIDS' diagnostics were done without HIV tests and 40% were on the basis of KS. Harry Haverkos showed KS had nothing to do with AIDS as early as 1985 and he was eased out. BUT - KS is .... PHOTOGENIC.
One of the more interesting observations is Root Bernstein's that diagnosis of mycosis fungoides started to skyrocked in San Francisco after 1981. It's a cancer that looks like KS but is unrelated. What happened is people heard about KS on the TV or in the paper, and then looked at their skin, and then saw splotches that were always there, so had them checked out. It's a bit like the "I lost my taste therefore covid is new psyop. You always lose your sense of taste when you have a cold - people started noticing it when they started checking for it.
Interesting that the article states one of the types of KS is the iatrogenic type, but 3 of the 4 cases were on some type of chemotherapy and the 4th was being treated for lymphoma, which I assume was also chemotherapy. All were elderly and had been diagnosed with leukemia/lymphoma for a number of years prior, so to my medically uneducated mind it seems like all had the iatrogenic type
Pretty amazing that the LA Times would publish such an article in 1990! I wonder what happened to the person who wrote it, and if the Times published some "damage control" soon afterwards. It's also amazing that more HIV/AIDS researchers didn't pick up on this obvious clue that something was seriously flawed with the whole HIV causes AIDS paradigm, considering KS was viewed as a hallmark manifestation of HIV/AIDS throughout the '80's. Shows how deeply entrenched the dogma was.
It seems that Kaposi’s sarcoma was long considered a crucial indicator disease of AIDS cases in the US and Europe.
Can someone explain why KS cases were so rare and unusual in Uganda, Tanzania, Congo and other African countries?
KS was not considered rare in Uganda (See Root Bernstein's book pg. 305). Let's put this article in context: the Ryan White Act passed in August 1990, and it allocated local funding on the basis of the burden from the beginning of the epidemic. Even though KS-AIDS was ready to fall apart in January 1990, if they backed out all the AIDS-by-KS diagnosis made, places like San Francisco would lose millions in funding - even in 1990, 90% of SF's 'AIDS' diagnostics were done without HIV tests and 40% were on the basis of KS. Harry Haverkos showed KS had nothing to do with AIDS as early as 1985 and he was eased out. BUT - KS is .... PHOTOGENIC.
One of the more interesting observations is Root Bernstein's that diagnosis of mycosis fungoides started to skyrocked in San Francisco after 1981. It's a cancer that looks like KS but is unrelated. What happened is people heard about KS on the TV or in the paper, and then looked at their skin, and then saw splotches that were always there, so had them checked out. It's a bit like the "I lost my taste therefore covid is new psyop. You always lose your sense of taste when you have a cold - people started noticing it when they started checking for it.
Is there any medical/scientific journal that is promoting an honest debate on this topic? I’ve given up with the NEJM.
Interesting that the article states one of the types of KS is the iatrogenic type, but 3 of the 4 cases were on some type of chemotherapy and the 4th was being treated for lymphoma, which I assume was also chemotherapy. All were elderly and had been diagnosed with leukemia/lymphoma for a number of years prior, so to my medically uneducated mind it seems like all had the iatrogenic type