Episode 101: Former AIDS Healthcare Foundation Employee Jack Carrel Says It Awarded ‘Kickbacks’ to Keep Patients In-House for Testing, Treatment and Drugs
Even the mainstream AIDS media are abuzz over this one. Three former employees of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) are acting under the federal Whistleblower Act to sue this largest U.S. AIDS medical services provider. At issue is an alleged kickback scheme for patient referrals estimated at $20 million per year.
AHF president Michael Weinstein has answered with the everybody-does-it defense. The rest of the AIDS industry is calling for his head, as it has for the past half-year over his criticism of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). Weinsten has further self-nominated himself as “czar” to police safe sex in the porn industry.
Comments (2)Episode 100: The Best of ‘How Positive Are You,’ on its 100th Episode
Tragic stories and grateful rants, long-time nonprogressors, the death of artist Keith Haring, words from two-time heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Morrison, defending orphans and babies, the end of “HIV criminalization,” whether to go on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), deconstructing how “HIV testing” actually works, provocative science, pharmaceutical corruption, a confrontation with a TV episode’s medical advisor, feedback from our audience both grateful and hostile, debunking the entire Ebola epidemic from the lab to the streets of West Africa, and remembering our dear friend and co-founder Christine Maggiore – whew! – you’ve heard it all on “How Positive Are You.” If you haven’t, catch up with our library on our Program Index page. Or you can save some time with this helpful retrospective of the first seven years of our groundbreaking Podcast.
Write us at info@howpositiveareyou with your own memories and reflections. We’d love to hear from you. Continue reading »
Comment (0)Episode 92: Terry Michael Traces Anthony Fauci’s 30 Years at NIAID as the ‘J. Edgar Hoover of Public Health’
Episode 92: Terry Michael Traces Anthony Fauci's 30 Years at NIAID as the 'J. Edgar Hoover of Public Health' [ 1 h 03 min 02 s | 28.86 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1412)As director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci controls the direction of AIDS research, the bestowing of funds, and the propaganda of fear and “scientific opportunity” (profit). And he’s been there 30 years this month. Washington, D.C., journalist and former “How Positive Are You” co-host Terry Michael returns to survey the accountability-free “Cult of Tony” and its far-reaching influence on AIDS research and treatment. “If there is one great threat to public health in the world, I’ll have to lay that at the doorstep of Tony Fauci,” he says. Continue reading »
Comments (7)Episode 87: Journalist Terry Michael on What Every Gay Man Should Know About Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
Is there a pill to prevent “HIV”? Is Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) the answer we’ve been looking for, all these years? Your intrepid team here at “How Positive Are You” is on the case, with Washington, D.C., journalist Terry Michael. Unlike other gay pundits and “leaders,” Michael has read the studies, done the math — and documented the corruption [report updated November 22, 2014] at the highest levels of U.S. corporations and government. So, after hitting the books, he told HPAY co-hosts David Crowe and Elizabeth Ely what he found. You decide.
Comments (4)Episode 33: Film Maker Joan Shenton
Joan Shenton is an award-winning British television producer whose company, Meditel Productions, has produced over 150 programs for network television. In 1987, she produced the first documentary challenging the science behind the HIV=AIDS hypothesis, “AIDS: The Unheard Voices”, which won the Royal Television Society Award for Journalism. She then produced three more documentaries: “The AIDS Catch”, “AZT – Cause for Concern”, and “AIDS and Africa”. She is currently creating a new documentary, “Positively False: Birth of a Heresy“, soon to be released in 2011. Joan is best known for her book, “Positively False: Exposing the Myths Around HIV and AIDS”, which can be found on Amazon.com, Alibris.com, and other online resources. In this hour-long conversation, David, Terry and Joan explore a range of fascinating topics centered around the rethinking AIDS movement, and the fierce resistance it encounters worldwide.
Comments (4)Episode 32: Dr. David Rasnick
David Rasnick is a PhD biochemist and a long time critic of the HIV=AIDS dogma. He is a member of the board of Rethinking AIDS and was responsible for initiating its revitalization in 2005/6. He graduated from Georgia Tech with his PhD in 1978 based on research into proteases and his career was based on working with these enzymes. This gives him a unique insight into the drugs known as protease inhibitors introduced in the mid-1990s and a part of most HAART (Highly Active Antiretrovial Therapy) ‘cocktails’.
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