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Summary: A Breakthrough Book
Review: "AIDS: A Second Opinion", by Gary Null is a riveting read. It was good to know that in this world of major medical mistakes, a misdiagnosed health condition can take on a gigantic worldwide public relations myth but that Gary Null has had the courage, along with a small group of respected scientists, to boldly write the facts. Now, we are finally one step closer to solving the mystery of a dreaded weakened body condition.
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Summary: AIDS: A second opinion- It's More about the Facts
Review: AIDS: A Second opinion is, in MY opinion, the most revealing, and singly most valuable source book in its field. As a health care professional I have witnessed people with AIDS not only improving their lives after applying the principles outlined in this book, but more importantly, empowering themselves for the first time to stand up for their privacy and to challenge the destructive rituals of an industry designed to perpetuate itself at the cost of human dignity and lives. What really works in this book is the fact that it is well researched, detail oreinted, makes good sense and is easy to follow. It encompasses the economics and politics as well as practical science and natural approaches to healing the immune system. I can say without any hesitation that it's about time we considered what truly helps people with AIDS, even if the answers lie outside of our circle of the proverbial scientific "known" that we try to fiercely to protect with a righteous defensiveness. I praise Gary Null and James Feast for the courage to publish the first renaissance approach to this socially charged "disease". I am humbled by this book's richness and content and highly recommend it as one of the best nonfiction reads of the year.
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Summary: AIDS: A second opinion- It's More about the Facts
Review: AIDS: A Second opinion is, in MY opinion, the most revealing, and singly most valuable source book in its field. As a health care professional I have witnessed people with AIDS not only improving their lives after applying the principles outlined in this book, but more importantly, empowering themselves for the first time to stand up for their privacy and to challenge the destructive rituals of an industry designed to perpetuate itself at the cost of human dignity and lives. What really works in this book is the fact that it is well researched, detail oreinted, makes good sense and is easy to follow. It encompasses the economics and politics as well as practical science and natural approaches to healing the immune system. I can say without any hesitation that it's about time we considered what truly helps people with AIDS, even if the answers lie outside of our circle of the proverbial scientific "known" that we try to fiercely to protect with a righteous defensiveness. I praise Gary Null and James Feast for the courage to publish the first renaissance approach to this socially charged "disease". I am humbled by this book's richness and content and highly recommend it as one of the best nonfiction reads of the year.
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Summary: Comprehensive discussion of alternative theories on AIDS
Review: AIDS: A Second Opinion provides a good overview of the controversies and differing opinions surrounding AIDS. (There is a general lack of scientific proof for much of what we think we know about AIDS. For example no one has isolated HIV from everything else in a white bloodcell.) Null focuses on science more than social factors but does address social factors by analyzing how they can unconsciously influence scientific thinking.
For me this book's greatest strength was in not having one specific theory to press. For example Duesberg, a prestigious scientist who writes often about our lack of evidence that HIV can cause AIDS, has the view point that AIDS is caused primarily by drug use. Much of what Duesberg publishes on AIDS is concerned with supporting this theory. Null on the other hand presents evidence and what we know about the various theories on AIDS and gives a general overview. He discussed our lack of knowledge about HIV and the lack of evidence for it causing AIDS, but later assumes the viewpoint that HIV causes AIDS to discuss co-factors and theories about where AIDS may have come from.
Among the subjects Null touches on: does HIV cause AIDS?, effects of long term drug use on the immune system, toxicity of AZT, theories on the origin of AIDS (including discussion of government manufactured disease), HIV vaccine feasibility, trends in vaccine research and alternative therapies. Basically the information presented is comprehensive and frequently not kosher. Null gives reliable references for what he is saying and refers to scientific journals where appropriate. He also tells the reader when he thinks that a theory is a bit over the top and if the theory has not been tested or is not testable (as with a comparison of AIDS and mass hysteria). He includes some theories including conspiracy theories for the sake of being comprehensive.
As I said Null extensively references his work. This is a scholaly book and might be slow for some people because of the way it is written. It is also long. Amazon has it listed as 400 pages but my copy is 618 pages long (and then some with the appendixes. For me it was a fast read and very interesting, but maybe not a fast read for everyone.
AIDS: A Second Opinion is an excellent resource for those who want a better understanding of the disease.
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Summary: HIV=AIDS? Where, oh, WHERE is the proof? Anyone?
Review: Before you get an AIDS test, before you take AZT, before you let your doctor tell you you're gonna die -- read this. You'll be shocked and angered by the politics at work behind this tragedy.When I heard of this issue I thought like most -- "Pshh! 2 or 3 conspiracy kooks!" Gary Null has interviewed over 5,000 scientists, researchers, journalists, including many Nobel Prize winners, who've been shut out of the mainstream media to compile this book. He goes through systematically, using nothing but facts, and traces the beginnings of AIDS, how it's being misdiagnosed, how pharmaceutical companies have suppressed dissent, how the corporate media has towed the line, and interviews people who've had AIDS are now alive and well through natural means. "It's such an emotional thing, people get personally committed to what really is a body of evidence that can be analyzed by lots of people...BUT NO ONE CAN WRITE A REVIEW OF IT THAT SAYS 'HIV IS THE CAUSE OF AIDS because of this..." If a post-doc were to write a review of their literature that showed without much doubt that HIV is the cause of AIDS he'd be famous. Now there's 100,000 people out there who've had this opportunity, [15] years have passed, we've been waiting for this star post-doctorate fellow to distinguish himself forever and get a lifelong grant...but he hasn't shown up! No one has bothered to write a definitive review." --Kary Mullis, Phd,
Biochemist, Nobel Prize 1993, inventor of polymerase chain reactor (PCR) technology used in testing diseases.
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Summary: Wake up call
Review: Dr. Null's most recent public service, AIDS: A Second Opinion, is an impressive book for many reasons. This book discusses ideas that have been marginalized about AIDS and HIV, that could have great bearing on the lives of many AIDS sufferers. The evidence that Dr. Null presents has totally convinced me that the theories about AIDS and HIV need at least to be re-examined, because there are most certainly grave errors in our current beliefs and practice. The people he quotes and cites are accomplished, reputable individuals - why would they risk their status, unless these possibilites were serious ones? (For example, Nobel prize winner Kary Mullis). Some things Dr. Null addresses: the reason the AIDS hypothesis is so widely accepted is that so many people, doctors, scientists, politicians, whoever, simply take what they are told and run with it. Do you think 99% of the people who advocate the AIDS hypothesis have done ANY research on it? These dissenters (weren't Galileo, Copernicus, Socrates dissenters too?) HAVE done the research, loads of it, and they see something wrong. In this book, Dr. Null shows us this reality. Those who can't admit that the AIDS hypothesis has some serious inconsistencies and contradictions are probably acting to defend their egos (would you want to admit that 20 years of your thinking was WRONG?), or are defending their funding. This book not only demonstrates this, but provides alternative theories, and better approaches for AIDS victims. I commend Dr. Null for his integrity and scholarship.
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Summary: Objective, hard science
Review: Extremely well written document on a powerful alternative theory on AIDS. I hope the orthodoxy can swallow this medicine and take hold of this information from an objective viewpoint without any hidden agendas forced upon them by pharmaceutical companies. Unfortunately, that probably won't be the case. It's refreshing to see some people taking a stand for the truth in science. Great work!
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Summary: Physician Finds Merit
Review: Gary Null's AIDS: A Second Opinion is a book that I could not put down. I found it to be the most comprehensive, insightful, provocative, and disturbing book on AIDS that I have ever read. And as someone who has counseled numerous patients with AIDS, I found that it offered valuable insights into the politics and controversies surrounding this condition. (I should mention that I am not coming from "the fringe," but am a graduate of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, an assistant clinical professor of neurology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the author of more than 50 articles published in peer-reviewed medical journals. So I read the book with the critical eye of one who has been immersed in the mainstream medical world.) Null and co-author James Feast do us a service in giving voice to the point of view of AIDS dissidents such as Nobel laureates Drs. Mullis and Gilbert, as well as Professors Strohman and Rasnick, and the many others cited in the book. One has to wonder, why hasn't their collective challenge to the "HIV equals AIDS equals death" paradigm been given more publicity? These are credentialed people, and there certainly is, as this book shows, reasonableness to their claims. I myself have had three patients with advanced AIDS and substantially debilitated health who then undertook various natural protocols and improved their overall immune function significantly. So why wouldn't I want to explore alternative approaches to this condition? Why wouldn't I want to review as many scientific references as possible that support these approaches? I am happy to have a book on hand that goes beyond the party line of those who run the war on AIDS, looks at alternative perspectives, and provides extensive documentation to support them. Furthermore, I plan to make this book required reading for all of the persons I counsel with AIDS-defining illnesses. And I would recommend it to every concerned and conscientious physician, nurse, and public health advocate in the country.
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Summary: HE IS RIGHT!
Review: I lost so many friends to "aids" in the seventies I can't count. Gary is right. There is no plague. There was behavior that caused a crash in the immune system. Some died of "hiv" some just died. Anyone who lived then knows that. Work as hard at being well as you worked at being bad, don't be confined by labels and empower yourself. GN's research, shining thought processes, and care for all of us is, and has been, an inspiration.
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Summary: The Best Book on the Subject
Review: I lost so many friends to "aids" in the seventies I can't count. Gary is right. There is no plague. There was behavior that caused a crash in the immune system. Some died of "hiv" some just died. Anyone who lived then knows that. Work as hard at being well as you worked at being bad, don't be confined by labels and empower yourself. GN's research, shining thought processes, and care for all of us is, and has been, an inspiration.
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