{"id":109638,"date":"2014-03-17T14:57:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T14:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/?p=5789"},"modified":"2014-03-17T14:57:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T14:57:52","slug":"disease-hoax-disease-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/disease-hoax-disease-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Disease hoax, disease game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disease hoax, disease game<\/span><\/p>\n

by Jon Rappoport<\/span><\/p>\n

March 17, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n

www.nomorefakenews.com<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

At Gilead Sciences, they’re popping champagne corks. They’ve got a blockbuster drug, a once in a lifetime winner, Sovaldi. As FiercePharma reports<\/a><\/span><\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWith a revolutionary approach to hepatitis C and a price tag of $84,000 per 12-week treatment course, analysts expected big sales from Gilead’s Sovaldi. Some even forecast it would reach $9 billion or more by 2017, at which level it would surpass Pfizer’s Lipitor to take the crown for biggest-selling drug of all time. But none expected the exponential growth the drug is posting right now…\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A drug for hepatitis C. What a drug, what a price. $84,000 for 12 weeks of treatment.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So…what is hepatitis C?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Back in the day, there was one US mainstream reporter who wrote unflinchingly about medical matters. The late Nick Regush, at ABC News. He had serious questions about hepatitis C. In his weekly column, he wrote:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cConsider this a challenge in progress. This scientific adventure raises the question of whether the hepatitis C virus, blamed for a major silent epidemic of liver disease and even cancer, actually exists. That\u2019s right. You read this correctly: I am raising a question that may disturb scientists and hepatitis C patients alike. But I\u2019m raising it anyway because it is vital to do so in the interests of public health. I\u2019m issuing a challenge to the scientific community to present me with the published, peer-reviewed scientific evidence that such a virus actually exists\u2013 namely that it has been properly isolated, according to accepted, fundamental principles of virology.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If the medical community decides a particular disease exists, then they are also saying there is a particular germ that causes it. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Regush was challenging the medical community to offer proof that the hepatitis C virus exists.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Regush pulled no punches: \u201c<\/span><\/span>Thus far, I should tell you, I\u2019m underwhelmed by the evidence for the existence of such a virus… I\u2019ve decided to offer those who believe the science supporting the virus is adequate the opportunity to educate me on the subject…You can do this by providing me with key references for proof that hepatitis C virus is real and not some meaningless biotech concoction posing as a real virus. I plan to ignore any speculative theories, pole-vaults in reaching conclusions and the usual harangues from the medical and scientific community about the stupidity and irresponsibility of journalists.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Regush provides background: \u201cIn 1987, a scientific research team went on the hunt for a virus to explain liver disease linked to what was then called non-A non-B hepatitis. The team, including scientists from the CDC, Chiron Corp. and others, claimed to have detected HCV [hepatitis C virus].\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Then Regush applies the real daggers:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut to this day, no one has ever been able to isolate such a virus in an intact form, nor has anyone been able to grow it in a culture. And no one has been able to fish out such a virus, purify it (meaning separate it from a cell), inject it into an animal and cause hepatitis. No one has ever been able to document, according to basic long-held standards of virology, that such a proposed virus is infectious. No one.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the beginning, the researchers presumed too much in making their claim. They began by injecting blood from hepatitis patients into chimps. In half of the animals, they noted signs of infection in the form of a biological marker of hepatitis called alanine aminotransferase. The injected blood, however, did not cause hepatitis [disease]. That should have been a big red flag. The marker they detected may have had nothing to do with a virus. In any case, the scientists began fishing in liver tissue to find one.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat they found, with the use of high-tech amplification tools, was essentially a small piece of genetic information (encoded in ribonucleic acid, or RNA). On the basis of tests to reconstruct pieces of what they believed was a virus, they presumed that this bit of RNA was foreign and viral \u2013 even though they had no basic evidence that their ‘catch’ behaved like a virus. [And they could take pictures of this unidentified material with an electron microscope and publish them, calling them ‘the hepatitis C virus.’]
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\u201cBut never mind. Just clone the pieces of genetic information; work out the genetic sequences; using indirect methods, generate proteins presumably coming from a virus\u2019s genetic code; create an antibody test against this genetic information; test many patients who turn out to be positive against this genetic information \u2013 and lo and behold, you have an epidemic.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Regush challenged researchers to come forward and debate him, publicly, on the question of whether the hepatitis C virus actually exists. To my knowledge, no one did. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, Regush received a flood of letters from hepatitis C patients and groups. Many of these letters attacked him, and he even received death threats.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But, no problem. Hepatitis C and its virus exist merely because the medical cartel says they do, and they just keep driving their steamroller over doubts and questions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And Sovaldi, the latest and greatest drug for treating hepatitis C, is a $$ blockbuster for the ages.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Invent a disease for which there is no convincing proof, label it with a name, develop a drug to treat it, and make billions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, there are millions of people with liver problems. But that in itself is no proof that the hepatitis C virus exists.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jon Rappoport<\/span><\/p>\n

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at <\/span>www.nomorefakenews.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Filed under: FDA<\/a>, Medical Fraud<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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