Below are the topics in today’s newsletter.
Inspirational quote from Thich Nhat Hanh
Family-run Business and Musical selections are combined - introducing musicians Andrea and Adam Melia – ready for a performance in your neighborhood
Humor of the week – Baby Talk
Community building –The Fairfax City Holiday Craft Show is on November 20th and 21st at Fairfax High School.
Research of the week –Can HIV be transmitted the way they told me in college? Survey says “not really”. And RFK Jr’s book and documentary about Anthony Fauci finally addresses some of the many failings of HIV-AIDS theory.
Yours truly, one moment at a time.
Matt Irwin
Inspirational quote from Thich Nhat Hanh
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others: you just need to accept yourself.
I attended a four day mindfulness retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh in the 1980’s and the lessons have stayed with me since then. He died 9 months ago, in January 2022, but his teachings will continue for at least a few centuries :-)
Family Run Business and Music of the week: Introducing Andrea and Adam Melia, creators of “Nashville Presents”.
I am blessed to have the children of this gifted musical duo in my practice and I have had to resist asking for their autographs. Because Andrea is in charge of the children, she only appears by special request these days, and Adam is extremely busy doing well over 30 performances per month - yes, that is more than one per day! Being a full time professional musician keeps you hopping, just ask BB King and Dizzy Gillespie.
Adam and Andrea provide live music as featured artists at private events, and also as background music for dinner hours, birthday parties, wineries, and other social get-togethers. Here is the information Andrea shared with me about their music company.
Nashville Standard Presents: Adam and Andrea Melia own Nashville Standard Presents, a small music production company that provides live entertainment for a variety of private events, and active adult senior living facilities. Specializing in the great American music from the first half of the 20th century, they also provide a lecture series and storytelling services. Find out more at www.nashvillestandardpresents.com
Below are two of the numbers they have recorded together, and right after the audio files are links to Youtube videos for the same musical numbers.
Bandwagon:
The Best Thing that Ever Happened
Humor of the week – Baby Talk
Community Building: Fairfax City Holiday and Craft Show.
If you missed the Fall Festival in Fairfax city, it’s not too late. The Fairfax City Holiday Craft Show is on November 20th and 21st at Fairfax High School. Keith Kadish will be there with handcrafted wooden items and please let me know if you plan to attend so I can send more information. https://oldtownfairfax.org/event/fairfax-city-holiday-craft-show/
Research summary of the week: Can HIV be transmitted sexually?
The most thorough study ever done found that it was not transmitted that way, but the genie of infectious beliefs was already blasted out of the bottle by Fauci 13 years before the first high quality study was published.
RFK Jr is the first person I have seen among covid rethinkers who actually looked carefully at the many research studies questioning HIV beliefs. He wrote about some of the issues in his book, “The Real Anthony Fauci” and it is also featured in the movie by the same name (see links in References section below). When you look at actual research, instead of listening to anecdotes and propaganda sound bites, you may just be amazed.
The study described below had an incredible finding which punctures quite a hole in the "hiv science" balloon: the best available study of heterosexual transmission of HIV actually found that it could not be transmitted that way. This was published in a major journal in 1997, well after the dogma and group-belief system in sexual infection had become entrenched. This dogma had created and funded many careers, making it especially hard for people to backtrack. Instead, “experts” went for censorship and banishment of people who spoke out about this and many other major inconsistencies. Sadly, major media outlets and most of the public chose to go along. Sound familiar :-) ?
Here are some direct quotes from the study, with discussion from Dr Matt. The first quote is in the body of the paper, in the section describing “Prospective Results”.
"We followed 175 HIV-discordant couples over time, for a total of approximately 282 couple-years of follow-up (table 3). ... The longest duration of follow-up was 12 visits (6 years). We observed no seroconversions after entry into the study."
(Padian et al, page 354).
In other words, not even one partner tested hiv-positive despite "282 couple-years" of follow-up. These were couples engaging in normal ‘marital relations’, and they documented that only 54% of them used condoms for the first half of the recruitment period, which increased to 79% in the last half of the recruitment period, so "safe sex" fails to explain the findings.
In the study abstract and in the discussion section at the end they state that the risk of transmission per sexual contact is "0.0009" for male to female, which is about one in 1000. They also state that this was "eight times more efficient" than for female to male transmission, meaning you would need 8000 episodes of intercourse, on average, to transmit the virus from an infected female to a male!
The authors state in the abstract that there were "no new infections" since the start of the study - which would mean a rate of zero, just like the quote above from the “Prospective Results” section, not even 1 in 1000 or 1 in 8000. So how did they come up with the 1000 and 8000 numbers? They had retrospective “Cross sectional results" looking backwards on a small minority of couples where both partners were already positive at the start of the study, and came up with their estimate based on this retrospective analysis. This means that they assumed that one partner transmitted it to the other, and they have detailed analyses of the things that they think increased the risk of this assumed transmission. One of these is IV drug use, and I plan to address the IV drug use issue in a later newsletter. Suffice to say that when a proper study was done, it also revealed major flaws suggesting a different reason for someone testing positive for HIV antibodies after using IV drugs, rather than infectious viruses.
At this point a person like me, who was terrorized in 1986 in college by an "HIV education team" of guest lecturers in a class on Mental Health, may start to wonder what exactly is going on. The most amazing thing, in hindsight, is that the researchers did not appear to question the dogma that an HIV-positive test meant you would kill people through sexual contact. They also did not consider how harmful it is to terrify people in this way, a fear that was generally expanded to any kind of contact with people diagnosed as HIV-positive. When I encounter people diagnosed HIV positive I always ask if I can give them a hug 😊.
The study was published in 1997, 15 years after the sexual infection dogma had been adopted and promulgated. It was way too late for turning back in people whose careers and belief systems, like Anthony Fauci, were built on it. The general public also has a natural group-based faith in "public health science" and prefers not to hear about its mistakes, especially such colossal ones, so Fauci and others got away with classic propaganda-based censorship. Terms like “hiv-deniers” and other labels were placed on people, even when the people in question were some of the most respected scientists in the world and included Nobel prize winners.
I learned about this in 1995 when I saw an interview on PBS of Peter Duesberg by Tony Brown. However, it was in medical school starting in 1997 that I had access and time to do real research reviews. After a few hundred hours of journal searches in my medical school library, I concluded that anyone with an immune system producing lots of antibodies is likely to test positive on the HIV antibody tests. This includes people with lymphomas, autoimmune diseases, exaggerated responses to vaccines, a history of many childhood illnesses (such as people in Africa) and sometimes just random people, without needing any special risk. Even if the antibodies are specific to a virus, don't antibodies indicate that you have immunity to the microbe in question, as Duesberg pointed out many times, rather than being infected with it? He argued that the idea of diagnosing someone as infected using an antibody test was flawed from its inception, and needed a rigorous proof which no one even attempted - it was “science by press release”.
In "The Real Anthony Fauci" movie, the main discussion of HIV starts around minute 60 (see link in References section). Researchers like Kary Mullis and Peter Duesberg finally get some credit for their courage to state the obvious, as well as journalists like Celia Farber, but they focus on only one reason some of the people diagnosed hiv-positive became ill and died.
Although it is easy to blame others for our suffering and distress, we allow these fears in, we adopt them, and often seem loathe to let them go. Here is another quote from Thich Nhat Hanh discussing how we create our own suffering.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Suffering is not the same as pain, grief, anger, or sadness. Although these are usually difficult and challenging experiences, suffering is not necessary a part of them. When experienced fully they lose most of their power. Speaking of creating our own suffering, I need to take some deep breaths because my heart starts beating dangerously fast when I dive too deep into the world of “super-viruses”.
References
The Real Anthony Fauci: The Movie https://www.therealanthonyfaucimovie.com/viewing/
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. (2022) By Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Published by Skyhorse and distributed by Simon & Schuster.
Padian N, Shiboski S, Glass S, Vittinghoff E (1997). Heterosexual Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Northern California: Results from a Ten-year Study, American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 146, Issue 4, 15 August 1997, Pages 350–357, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009276
Thanks for your thoughtful response. What evidence can you offer that it is a sexually transmitted illness? A study of "sero-discordant" couples with one person becoming positive would at least give some evidence. However, Padian et al is the longest, largest, and best controlled study I am aware of.
Another key piece of evidence is from the CDC itself - the number of HIV positive people in the United States has been steady with no significant increase or decrease ever since they started measuring it back in the 1980's. Infectious illnesses do not behave that way, especially if it is a new infectious illness as HIV and AIDS were claimed to be. A good discussion of some of these many holes in standard non-scientific beliefs about HIV is in the video link below: The interview starts around 2:00, with Rebecca Culshaw Smith who has a PhD in mathematical modelling of HIV. During her PhD research she found irreconcilable problems between the standard narrative and what research actually shows - just as with the HIV study from Padian et al that I describe in my newsletter.
https://www.brighteon.com/1fa17ee3-a81b-47d6-805d-9d41d133b000?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Maybe repeated sexual encounter with the positive person can lead to infection not just once but over a period of time, other wise how do we have 38 millions of people living with HIV, mostly having had unprotected sex?