News this weekend: AIDSMap Out of Money?; John Moore on RFK Jr
The charity website based out of the U.K., aidsmap, which was established in 1987 with a vision of building a world where “HIV is no longer a threat to health or happiness,” is shutting down this year due to “challenges in securing funding.” I’m a little late reacting to this article that was written in July 2024, but I do think it’s notable that this well-known “HIV” charity has run out of funding. Here’s the article if you care to read it:
Aidsmap is also known as NAMaidsmap; NAM stands for “national AIDS manual” and was the organization publishing AIDSMap and it was the first to close in 2024 after facing a “funding crisis.” Their closing statement is quite odd:
NAM was founded by volunteers at London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard in 1987, at a time when there was no effective treatment for HIV, when AIDS hysteria was widespread and there was very little reliable information. The National AIDS Manual, then a ringbound folder, swiftly became an important, evidence-based, reference point for professionals as well as people diagnosed with HIV and AIDS. aidsmap has remained a source for accurate and reliable HIV information over the years, covering key scientific events and making information about treatment, prevention and support accessible to wider audiences. aidsmap has supported people with HIV to access and engage with healthcare and the lifesaving medication that is now available; we have advocated for PrEP and have been a key player in endorsing and disseminating the knowledge that effective HIV treatment means no risk of sexual transmission (aka UequalsU).
As you may know, the HIV sector faces numerous challenges and uncertainties. With broader access to prevention and treatment, and more widely accessible information, it has become increasingly difficult for us to secure funding amidst rising costs.
That last sentence is really weird to me. The folks at AIDSMap announce “with a heavy heart” that they’re closing; yet the stated reason for “difficulty securing funding” is that treatment and prevention, as well as information, are more accessible than ever—you’d think they’d be shutting down triumphantly stating that “their work here is done.” (This foreshadows the next topic nicely.) Could it be that as 2030, that magical year in which the AIDS activists hope to see “the end of ‘HIV’,” rapidly approaches and “HIV” prevalence stubbornly barely budges, there might be some giving up involved here? Just a thought.
Moving to news stateside, Dr. John Moore, professor of medicine at Cornell, who used to help run the website AIDSTruth, which shut down in 2015 because they believed that they had well and truly rebutted the HIV AIDS skeptics permanently and there was no longer a need for the website’s existence, is back with this piece in The Philanthropic Inquirer, about RFK Jr and questions that senators must ask him during confirmation hearings. Given that Moore is an absolute ruthless bulldog when it comes to the HIV AIDS story, it’s no surprise that “HIV” made the list. Here’s the piece:
6 questions medical experts want RFK Jr. to address during his Senate confirmation hearings
This piece was co-written with a Jonathan Howard; here are the six questions:
On the 2019 Samoan measles tragedy—This is referring to a 2019 outbreak of measles in Samoa, following a trip in which Kennedy advised against measles vaccination. I won’t comment on this except to say it sounds cherry-picked—just because B follows A doesn’t imply causation—but maybe I’m wrong.
On the “red Covid” death toll—This refers to the phenomenon in which residents of so-called “red counties” were more likely to die of Covid than those in “blue counties,” presumably because Republicans are less likely to get vaccinated. However, there are other factors at play here, including the fact that residents of “red counties” are typically more rural, poorer, with less access to health care in general, and often, having excess comorbidities compared with their urban counterparts.
On a “future avian influenza pandemic”—oh COME ON, now. They’ve been trying to sell us “bird flu” since before I had kids. No one is buying what you’re selling. Moving on.
On promoting raw milk—Shouldn’t people have the option to consume it? Am I missing something here?
On removing fluoride from water—Hasn’t dental care advanced to the point that fluoride in the water is, at best, redundant? They claim that it is “indisputable that fluoride protects children’s teeth from decay.” Okay, but it’s not only children consuming tap water. I don’t understand how this is even an issue worth discussing at this point. Finally, we have the grand finale:
Here’s the quote: “Mr. Kennedy: In your 2021 book, The Real Anthony Fauci, you cite the long-discredited AIDS denialist Peter Duesberg as saying that “heavy recreational drug use in gay men and drug addicts was the real cause of immune deficiency” among AIDS victims of the 1980s and 1990s. You also asserted that HIV/AIDS was a medical conspiracy. Do you still believe that HIV does not cause AIDS? And if so, do you think HIV-infected people should no longer receive lifesaving antiretroviral drugs?”
As discussed in my previous post, this is going to be interesting to see how Kennedy answers this if asked, since he claims that in his book he said “HIV” causes AIDS, but also that it’s neither necessary nor sufficient for AIDS. That, sir, is what we call a contradiction. Also, note the tone of the very last question—“do you think HIV-infected people should no longer receive lifesaving antiretroviral drugs?” Ah yes, there we are again with the “lifesaving drugs” line—perhaps if it is repeated enough times, people might forget the massive toxicities of these drugs as evidenced by the Truvada disaster and the AZT tragedy. There’s no room for nuance with these people; not only treatment but prevention as well are now basically approached with a “one size fits all” approach—“retention in care” on toxic drugs for life. This is the AIDS establishment’s model of treatment success: it doesn’t matter if you experience severe anemia, osteoporosis, kidney or liver failure, or cognitive issues, so long as you stay undetectable (or, in the case of PrEP, stay negative). That’s all collateral damage, worth the sacrifice at the altar of laboratory results.
If I were in charge of asking Mr. Kennedy questions about AIDS and the drugs used to treat it, I would take a slightly different approach. Just for starters: “Mr. Kennedy, what do you think of the fact that because every vaccine trial for ‘HIV’ has failed, drug companies and AIDS activist organizations are now prescribing powerful antiretrovirals to ‘HIV’-negative individuals? Are you aware of the 26,000+ victims of Truvada, some of whom have been permanently disabled or even died as a result? Is it time to re-examine the PrEP ‘HIV’ prevention strategy? Why are we putting perfectly healthy individuals on toxic chemotherapeutic medications to avoid a condition that, if contracted, would only be treated by administering the same toxic chemotherapeutic medications?”
That’s just a start, but it’s a promising one. What questions would you ask Kennedy, if you were a senator and had the chance to do so?
Funny how the question about raw milk is lumped in with measles, covid, HIV etc. Here in Houston there was a segment recently on one of the local channels warning of the dangers of drinking raw milk, that bird flu was detected in raw milk (?somewhere). My only guess is, with raw milk sales on the rise, that they are trying to discourage the consumption of a very healthy food. Not going to work with me, I've been drinking it for over 10 years, and not going to stop anytime soon.
Wow, they're defending water fluoridation? Reading these 6 'questions' just drives home the point the kind of la-la land the HIV protagonists live in.