Progressive Commentary Hour - HIV Diagnostics and Drug Therapy - 03/04/13

Steve and Cheryl Nagel are the grandparents of Rico Martinez-Nagel, the son of their adopted daughter Lindsey Nagel who was adopted by their daughter Lindsey Nagel from Romania. Although testing negative for HIV in Romania, she tested positive upon arriving in the US.

In December 2012, Lindsey gave birth a son Rico. Refusing to have the child tested for HIV. As will hear from their story. The infant was eventually abducted by the state. It wasn’t for some days later when they found the child was in the hospital, being tube fed and receiving AIDS drugs including AZT

Dr. Andrew Maniotis is the science and biomedical consultant for Cures Within Reach, formerly the Goldman Partnership for Cures, and serves as a consultant for the Office of Medical and Scientific Justice in LA and the National Vaccine Information Center.   Earlier he was an assistant professor of pathology and the director of melanoma and breast cancer research at the University of Illinois Medical School in Chicago. Over the years he has held research associate positions at the University of California at Berkeley (where he received doctorate), Harvard University and Washington University School of Medicine.

Andy has been a leading scientific in the Rethinking AIDS community. He has been consulting for the Nagel family and was a consultant for the US heavyweight boxer Tom Morrison when he had tested HIV positive and was prevented from competing… later to find that Morrison was negative.

His website is andrewmaniotis.wordpress.com, where you can several free ebooks on AIDS, Cancer and Vaccines

Dr. David Rasnick is medical researcher specializing in AIDS, cancer, protease inhibitors and clinical diagnostics. He was the first scientist to synthesis peptidyl-fluoromethanes, inhibitors of cysteine proteases used to destroy tissue related to arthritis, cancer and various parasites. In 1978, he helped establish the Diagnostic chemistry group at Abbott Laboratories and was a founder of Enzyme Systems Products and Prototek.  After leaving Khepri Pharmaceuticals as a senior scientist, David, along with his colleague Dr. Peter Duesberg at the University of California at Berkeley, David further developed the aneuploidy theory of cancer, which pertains to chromosomal imbalance.  Over the years he has been a sharp critic of the current dominant AIDS hypothesis, has been a former President of the group Rethinking AIDS and was a member of the Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel of South Africa started by President Thabo Mbeki. WEBSITE:  www.DavidRasnick.com

Celia Farber is a journalist who covered the HIV wars extensively since 1987, in various magazines. Some of these writings are collected in her book: "Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS" published by Melville House Press, (now Random House) in 2006.

Activist Michael Callen called Farber "..the best AIDS journalist in the world." Her 2006 article for Harper's magazine detailing the totalitarian corruption of HIV/AIDS research was titled "Out of Control: AIDS And The Corruption of Medical Science." The attacks from the AIDS industry were predictable and fierce. In 2008 she was awarded the Semmelweis Clean Hands Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism.