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XTRA: Robert Darby on Circumcision Dec 07, 2016

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David interviews Robert Darby, a very knowledgeable opponent of circumcision.

This discussion was prompted when a doctor had his paper in opposition to one of Darby’s retracted, because the only peer reviewer turned out to be a frequent co-author. The discussion passes through the touted benefits, the rare and common harms, the anatomy and purpose of the foreskin, the changing positions of governments and health authorities around the world and, of course, its role in some religions. It is very interesting to compare male genital cutting with female genital cutting (usually called mutilation, i.e. FGM). Even when FGM is less significant than circumcision (e.g. a symbolic nick in the labia) it is still banned in most countries, yet few want to question the right to circumcise. Preventative mastectomy and tonsil removal are also compared with circumcision. One of the fundamental questions is ethical. Is it right to perform a permanent, irreversible procedure on an infant in order to obtain speculative benefits (which may not even exist), the most significant of which, will only occur when the child reaches sexual maturity?

Robert’s website on this topic is: http://historyofcircumcision.net

Episode 112: Bobby Russell Receives ‘Credible’ Threats as Lawsuit Dismissal Appeal Drags on Oct 24, 2016

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The local police are taking this seriously, and we are, too. On June 25, 2016, Bobby Russell, a legal plaintiff claiming a false-positive “HIV test,” received four or five threatening calls to his mobile phone. He says that the caller(s), while not explicitly threatening to kill him, made reference to “what you are doing.”

“How Positive Are You” co-host Elizabeth (Beth) Ely thought it best to report this event, to help ensure Bobby’s safety.

It’s been more than three years since Bobby filed suit against his University of Kentucky doctors and about two since the case was dismissed on statute of limitations grounds, that is, not filing within a year of finding harm. A decision on the appeal of that dismissal is long, and strangely, overdue.

A video of the last call, received on or about 10:15 p.m., is linked HERE. It includes the number that showed up on caller ID, and Beth placed a call to that number during this interview. It reached a recording at the U. of K.’s Bluegrass Care Clinic in Lexington, Kentucky.

Since Bobby’s friends first received reports of this “pure harassment” – and even after Beth taped this Episode in July 2016 – several new facts have emerged. They so far argue against blaming U. of K. and its “AIDS” medical services unit:

Contrary to the impression given in this interview that U. of K. was not cooperating with the investigation and possibly invoking “sovereign immunity,” Bobby has since said that it did turn over phone records after consulting its lawyers, without, he says, knowing that he was the accuser. (Sovereign immunity is currently at issue in unprosecuted sexual assaults within U.S. public universities.)
Bobby had long discontinued the Bluegrass Care Clinic’s treatments when he received a new phone number that he never gave to them, U. of K. submitted that it has no record of these calls, and he believes his phone and computer have been hacked numerous times.
Beth has found that, through various mobile-phone “apps,” it is indeed possible to fake a voice and a regional accent and even, apparently, to fake a number on caller ID.
Bobby is not suicidal, and he verified that in this interview.

His best guess is that somebody is “trying to make me look silly,” as he related separately. But still . . . .

Much is at stake in the Russell lawsuit, especially public opinion of how accurate “HIV testing” is. This is a foundational issue putting at risk literally hundreds of billions of dollars in funding to fight AIDS worldwide; put more simply, people could start questioning their test results and requesting their records for possible lawsuits. Beth expresses a hope that Bobby will stay safe now that they have “turned on the lights” in this Episode.

HPAY first interviewed Bobby Russell in its Episode 76. Co-host David Crowe talked with him on “The Infectious Myth,” posted HERE as an XTRA. Beth interviewed his Washington, D.C., lawyer, Jonathan Dailey, in Episode 71.

Episode 111: Is Your Doctor ‘Going Bare’ Without Insurance? Deirdre Gilbert-Dickson Reveals the Ghastly Horrors of Medical Malpractice Oct 19, 2016

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You trust your doctor. And if you don’t, there’s always a way to sue them, isn’t there? Well, not quite.

Deirdre Gilbert-Dickson lost her 22-year-old daughter in what she calls an incident of malpractice. Until it happens to you, you most likely have no idea what you would be up against in that situation.

What are the chances that emergency room staff will have all the information they need? In the event of “mechanical vents” or “brain death,” what rights do the patient – or their family members – have? Whose decision is it, legally, to donate organs, along with when and how? . . . Gilbert-Dickson’s shocking answer to that last one is at 42:17. . . . And what happens if your doctor makes a serious error while “going bare” (see also HERE), that is, practicing without malpractice insurance?

“How Positive Are You” previously featured Kentucky malpractice litigant Bobby Russell (see also HERE) and Washington, D.C., attorney Jonathan Dailey, as mentioned in this Podcast. For background on how much you can trust your “HIV test,” see HPAY co-host Elizabeth (Beth) Ely’s “EDITORIAL: A Special Warning About False-Positive ‘HIV Testing’ Results.”

Our listeners may also wish to click into Dr. Paul A. Byrne’s “Truth About Organ Donation” site for more information on brain death and unauthorized organ donation. Dr. Byrne is a pediatrician, meaning, doctor for children. . . . Yes, this also happens to children.

Beth believes there’s still more to discover and verify with expert sources, but for now . . . have a happy Halloween bwahahahaha!

Deirdre Gilbert-Dickson is the author of Momma Help Me Please, a memoir of her ordeals as the mother of a girl with CHARGE syndrome, a rare condition in which internal organs have developed incompletely in the fetal stage. Her daughter’s death at the hands of emergency doctors unfamiliar with the syndrome led her to research medical malpractice rights and laws. She founded, and now directs, the National Medical Malpractice Advocacy Association in Houston.

(This interview was conducted in June 2016 but published in October 2016. Currently, as of our posting date of October 18, 2016, the NMMAA is holding its “Code Blue Conference” in Galveston, Texas.)

Episode 110: Sex and the Single Swede – Celia Farber Considers Julian Assange’s Refusal of an ‘HIV Test’ Aug 06, 2016

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In August 2010, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange refused to take an “HIV test” in Sweden at the request of two young women with whom he had had consensual sex. To avoid extradition to Sweden to face accusations under that country’s “expansive,” and expanding, rape law, Assange has been effectively imprisoned for the past four years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

“Only in the shadow of the 1980s HIV/AIDS mushroom cloud, could a broken condom be met with such hysteria, and morph into a criminal drama, involving several governments and millions of dollars,” wrote former “How Positive Are You” co-host Celia Farber. Close to the fourth anniversary of Assange’s exile, Elizabeth Ely joins Celia in her Manhattan kitchen for tea and discussion of her February 2016 New York Observer article on the sexual politics of this unusual case.

A “rock star” like Assange, in his standing up to power, is as attractive as ever to women, feminist or not. One of the two women accusing Assange, Anna Ardin, is reported to have said: “I was so proud, to get the coolest man in the world into bed, and to stay in my apartment.” What happens the morning after, when coolness becomes coldness, and disappointment sets in?

More seriously, what happens when, as in the modern Western world, political correctness rules? As in George Orwell’s novel 1984, love becomes “the most subversive thing almost that you can express.” Says Celia:

So we have a hyper-sexualized society today, and that’s what you see in the Assange saga. They’re not sexually inhibited, but they’re spiritually and emotionally inhibited, and the only thing anybody’s concerned about is protecting against this imaginary deadly virus that seems to me to be the weaponry to crush this thing that once existed between people.

With the ominous screech of sirens in the background, Celia and Beth consider the post-“HIV” climate of accusation, Orwell’s chillingly predictive novel, claims of “feminist extremism” in Swedish law and society, hysteria in an era of sexual confusion, and the paradoxical dangers of living in a risk-averse time and place.

Asks Beth: “Are we living the good life, or just the one where nothing bad happens to us?” We alone choose whether to come from a place of love or a place of fear.

Celia Farber grew up in New York City and, fortunately for this Episode, Sweden. She wants you to read Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti, 1984 by George Orwell, and The New Totalitarians by Roland Huntford. She left no word as to when the quiz will happen, and whether it will affect your grade in this course called life. Only be warned that “when and where there is sex, accusation is lying in wait.”

Beth recommends the documentary film We Steal Secrets but only if you also read Assange’s and WikiLeaks’ rebuttal.

Episode 109: It Takes a Pillage – Charles Ortel Tracks the Missing Clinton Foundation Funds, Audits and ‘AIDS’ Missions Apr 18, 2016

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The Clinton Health Access Initiative advertises its efforts to “help save the lives of millions of people living with HIV/AIDS in the developing world by dramatically scaling up antiretroviral treatment.” This is just one of many large initiatives of the Clinton Foundation. What would that even mean, “dramatically scaling up”?

Strangely enough, the Foundation never received a charter for that purpose. It was established solely to preserve Bill Clinton’s presidential legacy – mainly, by supporting the Clinton presidential library. In his book Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World, Clinton talks about attending the 2002 Barcelona AIDS conference, where Nelson Mandela and other world leaders asked him to combat AIDS. And yet as Ortel points out, the Foundation’s filings for 2002 do not reflect this mission change.

This is just one of many concerns we discuss in this Episode, including what might be happening to those hapless “HIV/AIDS” patients in rural areas of the Third World.

Nor do other filings lend any accountability to the Foundation’s finances. “The Clinton Foundation has never produced a compliant audit,” he says. “The documents that have been submitted are fake audits, they are not audits.” When comparing outlays to donations, Ortel has found discrepancies of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Ortel’s articles and downloadable reports at his own Web site and at Breitbart.com, mentions at World News Daily, as well as Peter Schweizer’s book Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Clinton Rich, detail serious legal and ethical concerns. Schweizer goes so far as to suggest, in example after example, coincidences in which business deals enriching Bill’s friends have benefited from Hillary Clinton’s voting and policy decisions as a U.S. Senator and, from 2009 to 2013, U.S. Secretary of State.

Regarding AIDS treatment in rural areas of the Third World, we note the potential for abuses ranging from false diagnoses to simply handing out drugs without adequate medical followup.

We know full well that our political bias might be on display by covering this topic just days before a critical vote on Hillary Clinton’s possible presidency in the New York Democratic primary. However, we, “How Positive Are You” co-hosts Elizabeth Ely and (Canadian) David Crowe, have decided to look under the hood at the Clinton Foundation because the evidence of serious legal issues is too obvious. And spreading AIDS treatment and medicines around the world without accountability risks lives.

As an example of the fraud behind calls to lower drug prices, “Dirty Medicine” by Katherine Eban at Fortune magazine recounts how faked quality control and effectiveness trials at Indian generic drug maker Ranbaxy when it supplied the Clinton Foundation with cheap drugs resulted in a $500 million fine in 2013. (World News Daily also covered the story.) We note the “Mobile Health Services” van the company unveiled in 2011 to patrol rural areas and provide medical services to mothers and children in India – including HIV/AIDS treatment, which requires extensive followup and monitoring.

Ortel speaks strongly. He concluded over a year ago that, “this is a highly suspect, in my view criminal enterprise masquerading as a public charity.” It operates as “Robin Hood in reverse” to take from those of modest means and enrich wealthy friends of the Clintons – perhaps even the Clintons themselves, although that is more difficult to trace. “It just reeks of fraud.”

States generally enforce their laws governing nonprofit organizations. But when it comes to the Clinton Foundation, there is no effective enforcement. Even The New York Times seems to have conveniently – for the Clintons – lost its 2013 article, “Unease at Clinton Foundation over Finances and Ambitions.”

Charles Ortel is a New York-based investor and opinion writer who began his career as an investment banker in 1980. After arranging numerous business transactions and serving as a director or trustee for many entities, he retired in 2002 to take the lead in raising his children. Returning to work in 2007, Ortel is one of the few who predicted the global financial and geopolitical crisis, and the likelihood that deficit spending and suppressing interest rates would only compound forces underlying international turmoil. A graduate of Horace Mann School, Yale and Harvard Business School, Ortel is currently preparing to launch a suite of new businesses catering to clients who care about managing their wealth, savoring America’s exceptional promise, and giving wisely to charities. As an expert on complex audits, he states that he has testified in major cases involving contested takeover battles.

August 19, 2016: NEWS UPDATE: Bill Clinton Resigns, or Intends to, from Board of ‘AIDS’-Fighting ‘Clinton Global Initiative’ as Corruption Concerns Grow

Listen to: Ortel’s August 17 interview on PRN’s “Leid Stories.”

Updates, September 2016:

XTRA: Charles Ortel Busts More Clinton Pretenses, Such as Generic Drugs, on ‘The Infectious Myth’

News Update: Ortel Report on Clinton-Related Charities Blasts Legal and Financial Frauds Behind ‘AIDS’ Work Worldwide

Episode 108: Waking Up to the Truth, with New AIDS Rethinker George Borrelli Mar 20, 2016

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When confronted with new facts, why do we take so long to change our minds? George Borrelli never imagined a different view of “AIDS” science existed until he stumbled on it while researching alternative cancer theories and treatments.

“This really rocked a belief that I thought was so solid that it could not possibly be wrong,” says the retired engineer. “It was such a fundamental belief. I really didn’t want to accept the possibility that what everyone is saying could possibly be false.”

How did Borrelli come to change his long-held beliefs about AIDS and health, and what would it take to inspire others to question what they hear – whether they are “HIV positive” or not? Indeed, the consequences affect everyone. Borelli reveals to “How Positive Are You” co-host Elizabeth Ely:

His many hours spent studying complex scientific papers;
The realization that the logic is really quite simple, as “[i]t doesn’t take a whole lot of knowledge to know that if your immunity is depressed, you can catch an AIDS-defined, or any kind of, disease”;
Problems with non-specific antibody testing and the tragic absurdity of “viral load” measurements (including Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis, who has stated that viral load tests misuse the PCR technology he invented);
AIDS drugs as toxic “chemotherapy”; and
How he got past his doubts following the deaths of several notable AIDS rethinkers, leading Beth to reveal what is known about how they actually died.

“They’re in the dark, . . . looking for the wrong virus, and then they’re trying to kill the wrong thing with the wrong medicine, and then they’re using the wrong measurement tool [viral load],” Borrelli concludes. “This is a serious problem. It’s cost us billions of dollars. It’s cost us hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of lives worldwide. Why is no one coming forward? Why aren’t [Congressmen] reading [the data]?”

George Borrelli developed a questioning, analytical mind over a long and successful technical and management career in the defense industry. He has applied that discipline to reading nearly a dozen books and studying hundreds of scientific articles on health and medicine. As a lifetime martial artist, he teaches weekly in his own schools and conducts self-defense seminars in government, businesses, and martial arts studios. His interest in martial arts as a spiritual practice has led him to explore healing, including energy healing as a Reiki master, and to speak at local churches and organizations. He lives and works with his wife on a small horse ranch in Colorado.

LINKS:

Borrelli’s interest in the topic caught our attention on the Amazon customer reviews page for Joan Shenton’s new edition of the book Positively False: Exposing the Myths Around HIV and Aids – 16^th Anniversary Edition. (We interview Shenton in Episodes 33 and 72. Her organization’s very useful Web site is here.)

“Whistleblower” and former AIDS Healthcare Foundation Jack Carrell’s admission on our Podcast that the AHF targets poor urban populations and racial minorities for testing to raise the proportion of HIV-positive test results obtained, as mentioned in this discussion, appears in Episode 101.

“There is no test for this; that’s where I come out on it,” says Beth. Not exactly; a “blood analysis” service is expected to open soon. In responding to a “feedback” e-mail on one listener’s distressing loss of privacy after testing HIV positive, Beth mentioned this company, Viral Forensics. Those interested in this “second opinion” on their HIV status may e-mail this startup biotech company at howpositiveareyou@viralforensics.com for more information.

Regarding our dead friends in this movement, we invite others to look into the other possible reasons for their deaths – other than refusing or stopping treatment with toxic drugs. HPAY co-founder Christine Maggiore confronted a medical consultant involved in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode that misrepresented Christine’s life in Episode 11. Christine’s autopsy is mentioned here. Joe Stokely recalled the struggles of late wife Karri Stokely in Episode 67, and her own video, mentioned here, is viewable here. We interviewed Gos Blank (a/k/a Charles Rich) in Episode 45 and posted a notice of his death as of November 3, 2013. We have not yet given Greek journalist Maria Pappagiannidou’s story, but her courage was honored in a “Greek Woman of the Year” award in 2006.

Their departures have left big holes in our hearts, but we acknowledge that deaths happen among those following mainstream approaches as well. Many rethinkers/dissidents have long histories of damaging treatments.

Episode 107: Alistair Mackinnon Overcame ‘Hepatitis C’ by Healing His Liver Feb 05, 2016

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Hepatitis C is yet another disease based on tests for antibodies and genetic material — not actual virus. Alistair Mackinnon survived the nightmare of toxic interferon and Ribavirin treatments. He now shares with “How Positive Are You” co-hosts David Crowe and Elizabeth Ely his journey of healing his liver naturally.

CORRECTION, March 25, 2016: The original introductory portion of this Episode was confusing and contradictory as to AIDS dissidents’ view of “hepatitis C” testing and whether liver problems should be treated. Our position is that, even though we warn against believing “HCV” tests, we do not advise anyone to ignore signs of liver toxicity, and we provide here a natural alternative for treating the liver. This is potentially life-saving information, and we regret any misunderstanding. We have revised the introduction today, to clarify this.

Mackinnon rests his protocol for liver health on his own research into the healing properties of Umlingo Wamangcolosi, a recipe invented by South African nurse and healer Tine van der Maas and improved on by others. We interviewed van der Maas in Episode 66 of August 2013. UPDATE, March 21, 2016: Mackinnon’s “Protocol for Liver Health” is published HERE.

UPDATE, February 13, 2016: David posted excerpts from the scientific literature on HCV/hepatitis C to his preview-able research page for his upcoming book, The Infectious Myth.

The tests for the hepatitis C “virus” are as flawed as the “HIV tests.” Viral Forensics plans to offer electron microscopy blood analysis to validate — or not — your test results. E-mail VF confidentially for details once the lab begins to take samples.

Alistair Mackinnon became an HIV and “hepatitis C” rethinker, or dissident, only after doing research for a post-graduate dissertation on hepatitis C at University of the West of Scotland in 2009. Before that, he had kept to the mainstream view on AIDS and hepatitis C, having himself tested positive for the alleged hepatitis C virus, HCV, in 1992. In the U.S. in the 1990s, he worked as an outdoor adventure therapist in drug and alcohol rehabilitation before “going inside” to do residential work with gang members on the south side of Chicago. He currently resides back in his native Scotland, where he is active in the Scottish independence movement and has been a leader in preserving an 1892 law that created a system of community farming. He also serves on a community council and a local drugs-and-alcohol forum.

Episode 106: Dr. Wil Schweigert Explains How to Heal Your Whole Body with Help from Chiropractic Dec 29, 2015

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People often see a chiropractor when they have injuries — but can chiropractic treat immune issues? You bet it can! Dr. Wil Schweigert says, “Health is an inside job.” Chiropractic works as part of a total health program by restoring the brain-body connection. “Dr. Wil” talks to “How Positive Are You” co-host Elizabeth Ely about how even HIV patients can benefit from this century-old but misunderstood therapy.

“Health is an inside job,” says Dr. Wil. When it comes to health, “it’s not the one thing, it’s the everything.”

Practicing in New York City as “Dr. Wil Chiropractic,” Dr. Wil Schweigert “loves making health and happiness possible.” He received his doctorate in chiropractic in 1989 from New York College of Chiropractic and is licensed to practice in the states of New York and Virginia. Dr. Wil is a diplomate of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners and certified in Chiropractic Biophysics. He has taken many hours beyond the state requirements for continuing education – courses in orthopedics, x-ray, neurology, nutrition, and pediatrics. Dr. Wil has been retained as a wellness consultant for corporations and government agencies including Hyatt Hotels, Aetna Healthcare, AT&T, and the U.S. Geological Survey. In 2007, he was a featured speaker in a panel discussion titled “Creating Wellness” sponsored by New York State Assemblywoman Ginny Fields.

How might Dr. Wil and other chiropractors in your area help you? What can chiropractic offer in the way of healing, way beyond its traditional image of fixing injuries?

Episode 105: Save the Celebrities! Charlie Sheen, Prisoners of Hollywood, and ‘Limited Hangouts’ – Awakening from ‘AIDS’ and Other Fantasies Dec 07, 2015

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Before taking Charlie Sheen any more seriously than we already have, let’s peek behind the curtain at the real Hollywood. How much can you trust what any leading actor, musician or other famous person tells you – about “AIDS” or anything else?

“How Positive Are You” co-host Elizabeth Ely asked Paul Marko, Ph.D., to show her the way around Tinseltown. The deceptions he reveals are depressing, but the “awakening” of ordinary, non-famous people to what is going on inspires hope. Join us for a lively and uncommon discussion of truth, conspiracies* (gasp!) and Joni Mitchell lyrics.

*That anything like a “conspiracy” exists is just a rumor, and people and institutions in power might just as likely be well meaning and transparent. Or not. . . .

The day before the Sheen TV drama about being “HIV positive,” the “HIV tests” didn’t detect live, electron-microscopy-viewable virus. After his confession, they still don’t. It’s time to see the fraud, plain and simple. What is Sheen really hiding that might be worse than being “infected” with shame and a “deadly virus”? What is Hollywood in general really up to?

Asking these questions, we might just awaken.

“One of the components in the awakening is that you realize that you’ve been deceived and that, damn it, you don’t want to be deceived anymore, so you start doing research,” says Dr. Marko. “And when you hear something like this – TV is a mind-control device – you dive in and find out.”

And then what? Do you become a dark, brooding conspiracy nut? Will you never again watch the evening news without screaming at the TV like a crazed drunk?

Fear not! Beth points the way to safety, community and, dare we say, pleasure in joining the awakened. “We have better beer, better sex and better conversations over here,” she says. (To tap into even more optimism, listen to Episode 95 with Jon Rappoport.)

No one has ever witnessed a virus eating an immune system. Once you “get” that, . . .

You might need some new friends. Former corporate organizational psychologist Dr. Marko and his wife, Mindy Urken Marko, have created the “Pine Cone Utopia” blog and YouTube channel, along with the “World Beyond Belief” Podcast, to support the community of the awakened. On these pages, you can share your ideas and get over the idea that you’re crazy for seeing through the – by now – tired, predictable and “cartoonish” version of reality in the major media.

In the course of this discussion, Dr. Marko drops a few links, worth checking out:

Corey Feldman’s video alleging widespread pedophilia in Hollywood, possibly indulged in by Charlie Sheen;
Marko’s own book, Belief Magic;
The “TV in Three Minutes” video the Markos put together;
Their two videos on the fake Ebola epidemic of 2014, here and here, and you might as well check out HPAY’s own contribution to the topic as Episodes 89 and 91;
The book The Fourth Turning, summarized here, where terms like “Prophet generation” (i.e., Baby Boomers) come from;
YouTube videos by Alan Watt on the mind-controlling manipulations of TV technology (not Alan Watts, although those are fun, too);
The Julia Roberts perfume commercial discussed here, as a portion of this video but viewable separately here;
For hippies and wannabes, David McGowan’s Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon, on Joni Mitchell and the rest of the Laurel Canyon group in the 1960s; and
Hollywood, Health and Society, a division of the Normal Lear Center at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism that makes sure the official lines on public health and climate change are the only ones that get shown on TV. (HPAY Co-founder Christine Maggiore confronted a Law & Order: Special Victims Unit medical advisor on Christine’s own depiction as a character on that show, in Episode 11.)

And actually, HIV-positive sex without disclosure is no longer a felony, as we reported in March 2015 after the Gutierrez military court decision. [There may be an update to this based on the Gutierrez re-sentencing. Stay tuned.]

Episode 104: Five Questions About Charlie Sheen Nov 22, 2015

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Actor Charlie Sheen revealed his HIV status this week. The last time we checked, having sex while positive was no longer a felony, drugs and alcohol caused false positives, and kissing on TV didn’t transmit “HIV.” Why do the media assume otherwise?

“How Positive Are You” co-host Elizabeth Ely looks at the Sheen revelations from a new angle by asking a different set of questions.

Alleging he had been blackmailed for several years, Sheen appeared on the Today show apologizing for the over-the-top lifestyle that led to his firing from sitcom Two and a Half Men nearly five years ago. Not much about the ensuing news coverage makes any sense, scientifically or otherwise:

Lawyers point out the felony Sheen risks being charged with for having sex without disclosing his test result, yet the Gutierrez court decision effectively reduced these to misdemeanors many months ago;
“HIV tests” are still not validated back to a gold standard of finding virus under an electron microscope (a service which will soon be available);
Sheen says he paid up to $10 million to blackmailers, and these might lead him to accept highly paid drug-endorsement contracts to offset his losses (echoes of former basketball star Earvin “Magic” Johnson);
Too much of this story echoes the Rock Hudson drama of 1984-85, with blackmail, hard drinking and drugging, and speculation about spreading HIV to a TV co-star;
He claims he is taking AIDS drugs, but this fact is not verified; furthermore, “undetectable” blood levels of HIV are under illogical, inaccurate “viral load” testing;
His physician isn’t an infectious disease specialist but rather a publicity-seeking reality-TV doctor; and
Sheen is a well-known questioner of received wisdom on other topics, for instance, the events of September 11, 2001 – why not this one?

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