A Golden Opportunity from the President of HEAL

Dear Reader,

Below find Tom DiFerdinando's thoughts on being sure that we don't miss the golden opportunity before us and make the most of Celia Farber's article in Harper's and the Lia Miller article about the controversy in the NY Times.

Please read it, send in your letters and pass it on.

Thanks,

Michael Ellner

A Rallying Call from the Executive Director of HEAL

Dear Friends,

With the publication this month of Celia Farber's Harper's Magazine
article "Out of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science"
(www.harpers.org ), and a follow-up acknowledgement in the New York
Times Monday March 13th "An Article in Harper's Ignites a Controversy
Over HIV", a real opportunity to engage the AIDS Establishment has
opened up:
New York Times article

This letter is meant as a time-dependent rallying call, reminding all
those who care about the HIV/AIDS issue - and who may be unaware of
what is presently happening - that in over twenty years, these
opportunities have been few and far between. Indeed, it's already been
over five years since President Mbeki began his summer 2000 attempt to
slow the AIDS industry's juggernaut in South Africa.

So enter Harper's magazine. Harper's has done a great service to
everyone concerned with the HIV debate: whether you're coming from the
humanitarian angle, the activist angle or the scientific angle, it has
provided us an opportunity to engage the central defenders of the AIDS
industry from inside their own ranks. The proof that they have been
rattled is in their rapid and vociferous responses to the Harper's
article, particularly in the guise of their official rebuttal "Errors
in Celia Farber's March 2006 Article in Harper's Magazine", written by
figureheads as varied as Robert Gallo, Nathan Geffen and Gregg
Gonsalves: http://www.tac.org.za/ (click "rebuttal")

Although most of our books, rebuttals, letters and articles with their
impeccable challenges to the AIDS Establishment have, over the years,
gotten swallowed up unnoticed into the HIV hysteria like a drop of
water in a tidal wave, one may well ask what it is that justifies a
renewed effort at this time. The answer is simple: although challenges
to the HIV myth at the media fringe can be well tolerated by the AIDS
Establishment, dissenting discussion from WITHIN the machinery
confuses, disorients and agitates it. Not only were the HIV/ARV
advocates clearly unsettled by the Harper's article, right now they are
sitting a little happier, having temporarily quelled their cognitive
dissonance with their rebuttal and it's "56 errors".

I am appealing here to ALL - AND I TRULY MEAN ALL - who are concerned
with the AIDS debacle and its far-reaching consequences. Whether you
are new to these "dissenting" arguments or have been instrumental in
constructing them; whether credentialed, un-credentialed, activist,
scientist, parent or simply a truly concerned citizen: we need to make
migraines out of the headaches these Establishment leaders are
presently suffering and we need to make sure their smug rebuttal comes
back to haunt them.

In practical terms, please consider writing two immediate letters if
you haven't already done so:

Firstly, send a brief (150 words or less) letter to Harper's, in
support of publication and hopeful follow-up of Celia's article "Out of
Control": letters@harpers.org

Secondly, send one to the New York Times, applauding them for their
fair-minded reporting on this controversial subject and then
encouraging them to CONTINUE to cover it: letters@nytimes.com (Please
consider to cc your letter to the publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.:
publisher@nytimes.com the reporter Lia Miller: Lia@nytimes.com the
Times Readers' Representative Byron Calame: public@nytimes.com and the
"corrections and clarifications" editor Mark Getzfred:
getzfred@nytimes.com )

I am well aware that people are busy. But I'm writing solely to
EMPHASIZE that opportunities like this one really are few and far
between. Please put in a little extra effort right now to help
intensify the charge and keep the HIV/AIDS Establishment on the run.

If you would like, please send or bcc me copies of your letters and
whether or not they got published, so that I can catalogue them for a
separate web page. You are welcome - and encouraged - to circulate this
call to any appropriate email groups or lists.

Thank you,
Tom DiFerdinando
Executive Director
HEAL, NYC
tdhealnyc@aol.com

Pdf of Harper's article

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