AIDS Filter 800

The world is filled with some strange people. And it seems that the US Military isn't immune to their infiltration. Take, for example, Brian Ladd. He served 12 years in the Army. Good for him. It was during his basic training for the Army that he began having dreams. Including one that involved But, he's recently been making some really bizarre statements which he's been publishing on his web site. He claims to be the "World's most accurate psychic of our time" and that more than 4,000 of his dreams have come true.

He claims to have started having these dreams during his Army basic training. In one particular dream, he says that "Secret Police" from the future were trying to kill him because of the dreams he was about to have. As far as I can tell, this guy actually thinks these things are real. But, come on Mr. Ladd. We all have dreams--sometimes even really bizarre ones--that doesn't mean that they're true.

(He also blames the US Government for some DNS and DOS attacks on his web server. I guess he thinks he's trying to be silenced.)

Anyway, back on February 21, 2007, he dreamt up what I guess is called the AIDS Filter 800. And I really do mean "dreamt". It came to him in a dream. He woke up and wrote down what it was. He says of the fake device, "This is a cure for AIDS using this formula and a blood filter made from a type of sand...also says that the human liver cells will re-grow themselves, basically making a new liver."

I'm not really sure what to make of this... this.... thing. He mentions a "formula" but I can't identify anything in his bad drawing that resembles any type of formula.

It looks to me like it's just a sand-filled reverse osmosis water filter for blood. Who in their right mind is going to filter their blood through sand? How is the sand supposed to remove HIV from the blood stream? This makes absolutely no sense.

He also seems to not know that HIV is found in more places in the body than just the blood stream. It tends to "hide out" in places such as lymph nodes and other body tissues. So filtering blood through anything ain't gonna to squat! Hell! It's already been tried; remember that thing a number of years ago that involved removing the blood from a person, heating it to kill the virus and then cooling and returning the blood to the body? Well, that didn't work either.

But, he did get one thing right; the liver does regenerate.

(The drawing for the AIDS Filter 800 came from Brian's web site.)

Blood-letting

Throw that Time Machine into reverse! "Out with the old, in with the new!!" We're going to ancient Greece!!!!!

Back through Dr. Salk's time! Back through tuberculosis patients kept in Mammoth Cave! Back through the discovery of ether as an anesthetic! Back! BACK! Back beyond the discovery of the human skeleton! Back beyond the Middle Ages!! Back beyond Mary and Joseph in the barn!! Back all the way to 400 BCE.

Ah! Greece!! The time of Zeus and Hera! The time of Aphrodite and Hermes! The time of a whole bunch of bad information!

Look over there! The catapult has just been invented! There goes Socrates philosophising away! He doesn't know that next year he'll be killed by drinking hemlock. Poor fellow!

There's Hippocrates slicing open a vein in a guy to let out the bad blood; just like our buddy, Ashok T. Jaisinghani, thinks will cure AIDS. You'll remember Mr. Jiggywithit from the earlier post on Vitamin K.

This time, Mr. Jocularity is even offering a reward of 50,000 rupees to any doctor who can prove that blood-letting won't help AIDS at all! 50,000!!! That sounds like a lot, doesn't it! I bet I could buy a whole car with that!

After a quick trip to the calculator with today's exchange rate in hand, I discover that 50,000 rupees--that Oh-so-big-sounding number!--is really only about $1,100. Crap! I was hoping for a new car.....

Regarding this pittance of a reward, Mr. Jamababa says that "Only crazy persons would attempt to prove the impossible." Something tells me that Mr. Jiggerofwhiskeytoomany knows a lot about crazy people. You know... Being crazy enough to think that blood-letting will cure any infection, much less AIDS.

Mr. Jaundice goes on to complain about "multi-national companies" making money off of the "ignorant and panic-stricken AIDS patients" of India. And, while Mr. Jamminhandin here isn't asking for any money for his really, really bad advice he still is hurting people. The very same panic-stricken people he's trying to protect.

Finally, a person with HIV/AIDS has many, many frequent and regular blood tests. After all those trips to the phlebotomist; after all that blood is removed on a regular basis; after all of those little vials of blood are taken you would think--if blood-letting did anything--that somone, somewhere, at sometime would have been healed of AIDS.

Drinking Water (Shaken, Not Stirred)

Yes, you read that correctly. Drinking water can cure AIDS. The water is prepared by shaking it in a bottle. It is then ingested.

Who knew!? Who knew that by shaking your little Crystal Geyser, Evian, or even your Perrier bottles before drinking the water you could cure a horrible viral condition like AIDS. Oh, and herpes, hepatitis, Epstein Barr, and even cytomegalovirus (CMV). So, since CMV Retinitis can cause one to go blind, all you have to do to restore your vision and stop CMV Retintits from progressing is shake your water bottle. To stop hepatitis from destroying your liver, drink water! To rid your body of shingles (i.e., herpes zoster) shake that water bottle!!

"Shake shake shake! Shake shake shake! Shake your water! Shake your water!"

About midway down http://cure4all.info/cure4aids/HyperBloodOxygenation.html(which deals with, among other bullshit, drinking diluted hydrogen peroxide) it states in the "Hydrogen Peroxide in Nature" segment "By just shaking a bottle of water vigorously for a while you can tuck enough extra oxygen into it to form detectable amounts of H₂O₂ [hydrogen peroxide], improving its purity, flavor and vitality."

(I wonder if you can jus' go get on a trampoline after drinking a quart of water that you forgot to shake.... Or, if a martini is good enough...)

Water is necessary for life. One can live for days and days without food but only a short while without water. As I'm sure you know, the human body is comprised mostly of water. (And, having juiced my first carrots in my juicer the other day, carrots contain a surprising amount of water, too. But I digress.) And while simply shaking your bottle of water before drinking it may form some H₂O₂ in the bottle, it won't get a chance to interact with HIV in the blood stream since there's no blood in the stomach. (Unless there's something else horribly wrong. Then, you should go to the ER...) Yeah, I know there are some nutrients that are passed into the blood stream through the stomach lining but where are the studies about H₂O₂ passing, unchanged, into the blood? And, if oxygen is released when the H₂O₂ hits "pathogens" in the stomach, why isn't it jus' burped out?

All I can see that this would do is give you gas; and that web site gave it to me bad... >URP!<

The ParaZapper™

Ya know, I'm not a doctor like Dr. Hulda Clark here but I can't see how any doctor would think that HIV or AIDS might be caused by parasites. (Yeah, I know, a virus is a type of parasite.) But that nut-ball theory is exactly what's suggested on Dr. Clark's web site. (On another web site, a Dr. Clark claims no affiliation with that site. But who knows who the hell to believe??) And--surprise of surprises!--wonder of wonders!!--Dr. Clark has invented just the device to help kill those evil non-existant parasites causing one's HIV infection--The ParaZapper™!!! You can buy it directly from her! (Available now for a limited time. Time limited by the FDA slapping a fine on her ass!) Oh, and she David Etheredge, the owner of the ParaZapper™, of course, refers those with advanced AIDS to buy the most expensive, uh, "device" on the web site.

And she's trademarked "ParaZapper™" so she owns the name. Which means another revenue stream if she decides to sue someone for mentioning the ParaZapper™ without mentioning who owns it. So, ParaZapper™ is a trademark of Dr. Clark. Don't use it unless you want to give Dr. Clark even more money. (See correction below)

Doctors are supposed to heal; that's theoretically why they chose that profession. But Dr. Clark professes to know a cure for HIV and AIDS which doesn't exist. She, too, is preying on people who are desperate for an answer--a cure--where there is none. She should be ashamed of herself.

(The Zapper was mentioned in passing in the HIV/AIDS:1 chat room on Yahoo! by a member who has 70 CD4+ cells and a viral load of 80,000. He wasn't taking meds because he didn't want to possibly develop resistance since he may be leaving the US to live in Africa and didn't want to start taking meds in the US and then discover those meds weren't available in Africa. (I asked, "Which is worse? The possibility of resistance or death?") He wanted to know if The Zapper was any good. He was told that The Zapper was Bullshit. And it is.)

CORRECTION (8/1/05): ParaZapper™ is a trademark of Para Systems and Devices, LLC. I regret the error but the ParaZapper™ is still bullshit. Para Systems claims no affiliation with http://www.parazapper.com/ even though their sites are essentially identical.

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(Dr. Clark's unattractive picture taken from www.bestzapper.com/WhoIsDrClark.htm.)