Goat Serum

(Since the below post was written and posted I've come to realize that both Precious and Rocky Thomas do in fact exist and aren't figments of someone's imagination. I considered removing potentially snide and rude comments I made about both of them but didn't want to appear to "rewriting history" so the thinly veiled jabs stay in the post. I still, however, do not believe that this "Goat Serum Cure" is in any way whatsoever helpful--may in fact be harmful--to someone living with HIV or AIDS. October 13, 2009)

Also known as BB:7075. Or maybe even peHRG 214. More on those later.

The cure for AIDS for this month/week/whatever was "discovered" (i.e., made up out of the blue) by asshole and general practitioner Dr. Gary R. Davis of Tulsa, Oklahoma. (But maybe it wasn't. More on that later.)

Back in December 1992, Dr. Davis apparently shouted a command to the heavens, "If you're God, then act like God!" That night, he had a dream. (Cue mysterious music.) In this dream, he was naked in a barn with a goat. (Cut it with the music!) What kind of goat is never mentioned. That's unfortunate. What's more unfortunate is why was he dreaming about being naked with a goat in a barn. That's just kinda creepy.

Regardless, he stuck a dream-needle into the dream-goat in the dream-barn and drew some of the dream-goat's dream-blood. When he awoke, he realized that he knew all sorts of stuff about HIV he didn't before. Like, for example, what he told his family, "Did you know that a goat cannot contract HIV?"

(No fucking shit, Sherlock! It's called HUMAN Immunodeficiency Virus for a reason.)

Then, much later, and as reported by one Forres McGraw (who claims to be a reporter for the Greenwich Village Gazette), precious 7-year-old Precious Thomas had AIDS, was being seen by doctors at the National Institutes of Health and had a Viral Load of 118,119 (which seems a bit too precise, by the way). But, after using Dr. Davis' bullshit Goat Serum (I guess retrieved by squeezing a part of the goat that might get you arrested and charged by the Humane Society), precious Precious' precious viral load went preciously to "ZERO [sic]". (Never mind that viral load tests aren't fucking accurate to anything less than 50 (or maybe 25, I'm not sure); that's why it's called "undetectable".)

Here's the story. In 1995, Dr. Davis "developed" his treatment, one year later, he applied to the FDA to perform a clinical trial with his Goat Juice. While apparently initially approved, that approval was revoked.

Meanwhile, back in Bethesda, MD, Rocky Thomas, Precious' precious unfortunately-named mother, was apparently comforting Precious who was "in the hospital". Whatever that means. Heck, if you step inside the doors of a hospital, you are "in the hospital". Regardless, Ms. Thomas "vowed" to do whatever it took to help her daughter. Admirable; but in this case stupid.

Mrs. Thomas apparently recalled a news story on Dr. Davis' "treatment" and flew off to Tulsa to meet with him. According to the story, Dr. Davis was "barred" by the FDA from administering his "treatment". So, he apparently cancelled all his remaining appointments for the day and spent "much of his afternoon" with the Thomases.

So, standing by her vow, Rocky broke the law and stole a vial of the Goat Serum and administered it to her daughter. Afterwhich, precious Precious was "cured" of her awful HIV infection.

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This story has so many problems it's amazing. But let me touch on a few.

First, an undetectable viral load is NOT cured! Sheesh! I would think even a GP (General Practitioner) would know this!

Second, this Rocky Thomas twit could have done some horrible things to the daughter she claimed to love so much by using an unproven and utterly untested "serum" on her! If this Rocky Thomas exists, I would love to see her prosecuted for child endangerment!

Not only that, Rocky Thomas admittedly broke the law by stealing the serum! This possibly fictional woman is a danger!! (One wonders if this "Mrs. Thomas" is the one who stole the goat serum from a "holding facility" in North Carolina as referenced on an FDA Web page warning persons not to use the Goat Serum at all....)

And the author of the "article", Mr. McGraw, attempts to twist the denial of the clinical trial by the FDA into some sort of racially-based discrimination! He states, "Why is the brilliant work of an African American General Practitioner being suppressed?" What an asshole!! Not everything "bad" that happens to an African American is because of his or her skin color! Fuck you, Mr. McGraw!

And, I found absolutely no references to Mr. McGraw's articles nor to this Precious Thomas on the web site for the Greenwich Village Gazette. (To be fair, I'm not sure how far back the Greenwich Village Gazette keeps articles. And, Mr. McGraw could have been summarily canned, booted, fired, kicked to the curb or otherwise dismissed from his duties after writing his article.)

Finally, there is a lot of information on the internet about this Goat Serum. It's called BB:7075 by Dr. Davis. And, a quick search on "BB:7075 HIV" yields an interesting page at the Ghana AIDS Commission's web site. And that page is really where this bullshit Goat Juice really crashes and burns.

Most notably:

"The Commission further stated that no pre-clinical studies have been conducted on BB: 7075 with respect to HIV 1 Virus." (Remember precious Precious from earlier? If she was infected in the US, chances are that she has HIV 1 and the fucking Goat Juice has NEVER BEEN TESTED ON HER STRAIN OF THE VIRUS!!

And, I leave you with this lengthy-ish bombshell from near the end of the Ghana AIDS Commission's web site:

Contrary to the above [claims that Dr. Davis discovered or invented BB:7075], further search about BB:7075 on the internet and particularly on the [United States Food and Drug Administration] website, seems to suggest that Dr Davis is not the inventor of peHRG 214 [the name possibly given to the serum in a US clinical trial] as there is no documentation on the product except those placed on the internet by Dr. Davis himself. Drug development should generate substantial date. To date, Dr. Davis has not been able to provide any scientific date on his product."

What an asshole this Dr. Davis is!

(The references for the dream above came from Eightball Magazine and The Quiet Hour. Never let it be said that I don't publish my sources...)

Yellow Dock Root

Ran across this one somehow on a site called (I think) HaitiCentral.com. And, naturally, all information from Haiti is good and reliable medical advice. Of course!

Well, according to a user, "Satin silk", "Yellow Dock Infusion cures AIDS." No research is provided. No facts. No nothin'. Just the word of a "Cherokee Herbalist". This Satin Silk joker also says to simply munch on wheat grass if one doesn't have a juicer. Oh, yippee. Sign me up. I wanna look like a fuckin' cow munchin' on my lawn. Or the lawnmower man from the Stephen King story of the same name. (Not the movie; the movie, while decent, had little to do with the story...) Afterall, the Unnamed Cherokee Herbalist and a (ooooh!) Medicine Woman have cured lots of people by using Yellow Dock Infusion along with Wheat Grass Juice.

The "Satin Silk" twit tells ya to just go out and dig up some Yellow Dock, chop its roots into bits and make a strong tea out of it. At about an ounce per pint of water. (No, no research to back up the dosage.) And finishes with "I hope this is helpful to anybody who has a friend who has AIDS." Gee. How nice. Thanks.

Ok, so I Googled "Yellow Dock" and came up with the scientific name, rumex crispus. Which, when Googled yielded a site run by the USDA in among all the annoying sites hawking herbs for medicinal uses. (Yippee!!! Actuall, real information!!!) Well, sort of anyway. The site which came up from the USDA on rumex crispus was for curly dock--not yellow dock. But, when searching for yellow dock on the USDA site, nothin' popped up. So, I'm going to assume that the fuckin' herbalists are all wrong.

Look. Going around and digging up plants and then making a tea out of its crushed roots can have dangerous effects. If you happen to dig up the wrong plant, you could poison yourself. Digging up the plant in the wrong spot can be illegal. It's just fucking stupid.

On the other hand, since yellow dock is on the noxious weed list for some US states and is not native to the United States, go ahead and dig it up. (If it's not native, how the fuck does a "Cherokee Herbalist" know squat about it???) Just don't think that drinking an "infusion" of its chopped roots and munching on wheat grass like a cow is going to do squat for HIV infection or AIDS.

Tetrasilver Tetroxide

Someone asked me in a comment to one of the posts on this blog to "review" Tetrasilver Tetroxide and to find out if it cures AIDS or not.

The short answer: No, it does not. There is no known cure for HIV nor for AIDS. If an actual cure for HIV or for AIDS had been found it would have been all over CNN for several days and it simply wouldn't be a secret.

The longer answer follows.

I Googled for "tetrasilver tetroxide AIDS" and came up with several sites. Some touting it as a cure and others debunking it. One of the sites debunking it's HIV-Curative properites was www.thebody.com, a site I respect highly. They are a repository of common-sense and good medical information in terms that one doesn't need a degree in Medicine nor science to understand. [commercial over]

A Dr. Pierone (who *does* have a Medical Degree) addresses tetrasilver tetroxide says to "Stay away from the stuff like the plague." I'd have to agree. It's just another in a long line of bullshit.

UPDATE 2: The ParaZapper™

After a long and thoughtful evening, Mr. Etheredge has posted to the blog again. Again, my comments are in blue and bold.

Well Bryan, I am glad that you were able to fix one of your errors. I am also glad that our several thousand customers a year do not agree with you. (You're glad of that because your deceit is lining your pockets.)

Really, how can you say that [something is bullshit] about something that you have not tried? And you seem to do that a lot about a lot of things. It looks like your are representing the pharmaceutical companies because they are afraid of these products. Again, we have thousands of very happy customers. (I am not representing anybody other than me. You, on the other hand, are trying to get money from people who are desperate for a cure where none exisits. Test tube results don't always translate to real-world results. If you were anything remotely resembling a scientist you would know that. However, I'm getting the feeling you're one of those annoying marketing assholes.

And, if pharmaceutical companies are afraid of your bullshit like you say they are, why is that? Because of money? Please tell me how your selling your bullshit ParaZapper™ is *any* different from that?

Also, anecdotal stories are *not* proof. If you want to play the numbers game try this on for size: You may have thousands of happy customers but how many tens- and hundreds of thousands are happy with pharmaceuticals?)

As a matter of fact, on a university campus right close to you, there are several of our ParaZappers available for free use by HIV infected individuals. (Yeah? Which one? Why don't you say which one?)

I am told by the department head that the units are in high demand. We also sell a lot in your area to those who can afford their own after trying the free usage units. (Names; I want names! Cold hard facts, bubba! I want numbers! Who is the department head? Which department? C'mon! Stop being so evasive!)

You mentioned that we suggested our most expensive model for AIDS and HIV. It is refreshing to see the pharmaceutical companies charging aspirin prices for their AIDs medications. And so far, these medications work so well that ( heck, what are they having? 5-6 percent success? ). (Again, how is your charging a lot of money for your bullshit *any* different than what you're accusing them of doing!? The difference I see is that they have independantly verified proof that has been peer-reveiewed and you don't. Mainly because your bullshit simply doesn't work.

And, what do you define as a "success"? A verifiable and continued reduction in Viral Load? [Success rate: nearly 100% for pharmaceuticals] Absolute cure? [Success rate: 0% across the board because there is no cure for HIV nor AIDS.] Simply feeling better with no objective evidence whatsoever? [Success rate: Who knows?])

Also, We do not sell or promote Colloidial Silver, but I have heard of amazing results coming out of the University there. (Again, which university?? Colloidial Silver is bullshit. It didn't work in the 1980's and it doesn't work now.)

Regardless of what you may believe, ParaZapper works, and so does Colloidial Silver! (What do you define as "works"? Does your bullshit ParaZapper™ shoot the body with electricity? Sure; I have no doubt that it does. Does it do anything to viruses? No. If you think it does then maybe you can describe for me and everybody else how the electricity knows to differentiate between a normal body cell and a virus cell. Also, please describe, in detail, how it knows to only zap the harmful bacteria and not the good bacteria?)

So the next time you want to blast some product that you do not know sh-t about, think of this. If you bought a product that did not work, what would you do? First, get your money back. Second complain to the Better Business Bureau, Third complain to the FTC, and fourth, sue!.

1) We rarely are asked for a refund but always give it provided that terms are met. (And what are those terms? That it's returned the day after it's shipped unused and unopened and untouched by human hands? C'mon. If you *really* stood behind your bullshit product, you'd not have such a qualifier as "provided that terms are met.")

2) We have never had a complaint against us at the Better Business Bureau. (Are you a member of the Better Business Bureau? I don't see a single reference on your site about it, so I assume no; you're not. And, the BBB only registers complaints against its members. Your argument here is moot.)

3) We have never had a complaint filed against us at the FTC. (Perhaps your customers don't know they can complain to the FTC. Or, perhaps, the FTC doesn't have enough complaints on your product to bother with. Again, a moot point, bubba. Also, it would be the FDA that would be concerned about you since you're promoting cures that don't exist.)

4) We have never been threatened with a lawsuit. (That you know about. I'm sure lots of people threaten a lawsuit that the defendant knows nothing about.)

You might consider that a person who presents false information may end up hurting those who follow their suggestions. Some may die because you gave them uninformed thoughts! (The only one between us offering a false sense of hope is you. YOU are helping to let people DIE because YOU tell them that you have a cure when none exists. Don't go trying to get on your high moral horse with me, scum bag.)

Before you go out and blast products and people, find out the real truth. Talk to actual customers who have used the products which you obviously have not. (Again, anecdotal stories are not proof. Show me some actual peer-reviewed studies and publications in qualified medical journals that your bullshit ParaZapper™ does what you say it will and I will consider removing your crap from the web site. Until then, it stays.)

If ParaZapper did not work, then why would customers call and order more for other family members? (Anecdotal at best.)

Lastly Bryan, while you can mislead others out there who have not tried ParaZapper, you can not mislead our customers because they at least know the truth. Over 50 percent of our new customers come from seeing the results that someone else had. (Mislead? *I'm* misleading people!? How is pointing out that there is no cure for HIV and AIDS misleading people? How is calling your fucking bullshit on the carpet for the bullshit that it is misleading?)

ParaZapper is only one of over 50 companies that manufacture and sell parasite zappers. (And that makes it better some how? That makes you somehow immune to ridicule?)

It is estimated that between 50 thousand and 100 thousand units are sold a year and doubling every year. (Which is it? 50,000 or 100,000. That's a big difference. So, it's doubling every year, eh? If it doubled every year, every person on the planet would have one within 17 years of the first 50,000-unit year. Can you forward your sales figures which bear-up your outlandish statement? Didn't think so....)

Oh! and one last question. If our product is so bad, why do our customers not put up pages like this? (Maybe because they were embarrased to be taken in so completely by your bullshit. And, how do you know that your customers haven't put up a page like this? How do you know that I'm *not* one of your customers? Have you checked and asked each and every one of your 10,000-or so customers? Didn't think so.)

Mr. Etheredge, unless you provide cold, hard facts or an article in JAMA (or another qualified peer-reviewed medical journal) in any reply, comment, or post, this is the end of the conversation.

Shining a Light (or Two) on Your Torso

This is a photograph of a person having her (or his, I'm not really sure) Assemblage Point realigned using the Lux IV. According to Whale Medical's Very Badly Designed Web Page, "With all serious illness its location will almost always be found in an adverse position. In the case of serious misalignment, if the patient's Assemblage Point location is not moved back to a central location, the chances of recovery are drastically reduced - regardless of medication or therapies undertaken."

"What is this Assemblage Point bullshit?" you ask. It's a point just to the right of your breast bone. In women, it's higher than men. And, if that Assemblage Point shifts down.... well, you'd better get ready to die.

According to Jon Whale and his web site:

This is a dangerous, uncomfortable and distressing location indicated by very low mental and physical energy with acute psychological instability and physiological disturbances. Frontal brain energy will be low impairing the functions of the endocrine glands and organs. From this location it is virtually impossible to recover without realignment of the Assemblage Point. As the Assemblage Point's rear location or pivot point drops down from the shoulder blade area, muscular coordination becomes affected.

With this location, serious psychiatric or physical illness will often be present such as auto immune disease syndrome (A.I.D.S.), cancer, meningitis, cerebral thrombosis, apoplexy, clinical depression, post natal depression, myalgic encephalomyelitis (M.E. syndrome) and multiple sclerosis (M.S. syndrome).

Pay no attention to the fact they got the meaning of AIDS completely wrong (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome). Besides, I bet you thought AIDS was caused by HIV, didn't you? Bet you didn't know that it was caused by a shift in your Assemblage Point. I bet you didn't even know you had an Assemblage Point. See? I'm just here to educate!

So, to realign your Assemblage Point, you need to use the Lux IV. Which just shines colored light onto your body. They have all sorts of infrared pictures of "patients" after treatment showing greater warmth in the area "treated" with light. Nevermind that the light itself is probably causing the warm skin. Such obvious truths mean nothing to Mr. Whale!

Regardless, the light that Mr. Wacko uses is filtered through crystals, gems, and colored gels. Why? I don't know. I suppose to make it pretty. And to give the impression that something is actually happening when it really isn't.

Note to Jon Whale: AIDS is caused by HIV and can't be helped--in any way--by shining light on a person's body. No matter how many purty colors of light are used.

(The highly clinical photograph earlier in this post was taken from http://www.whalemedical.com/ap1.html and then cropped.)

UPDATE: The ParaZapper™

One David Etheredge has taken me to task on his bullshit ParaZapper™. Reproduced here is his comment on my ParaZapper™ post. I make my comments in Bold and Blue:

Dear lacking in knowlege and intelligence, (That's a good way to make friends.)

Of all things, besides being a complete idiot, you are a complete liar. (No, you are the liar, you nit-wit. Lying implies deceit or intent to deceive. I made a simple error in who owns the trademark to ParaZapper™; which, by the way, is still bullshit no matter who owns the trademark. I in no way intended to deceive who owned the trademark. You, however, *are* intending to deceive with your bullshit.)

First, Dr. Clark Does not own, have any interest in, or any involvement with ParaZapper!

I am the owner of the trademark ParaZapper and I am the design engineer who creates all of the products owned by the company Para Systems and Devices, LLC. These are based on her design but are improvements beyond. (Fair enough. However, you really should learn how to make complete sentences before you go blasting away at people.)

None of the ParaZapper sites are Dr. Clarks and she does not get any money or any thing else from us except an occasional letter thanking her for her efforts. (So, she gives away her books on her fake cures for all diseases? She has no vested interest in trying to get people to electrocute themselves to abate their cancer?)

Additionally, Dr. Clarks zapper is free to build yourself and there are published schematics all over the internet for various models.

While we do offer our products as available for HIV and AIDS infected individuals we do not offer them as a cure. We also have a money back guarantee. (Oh, come now. Don't insult my intelligence. You say that HIV and AIDS may be caused by parasites and, all over your web site, you also say that your ParaZapper™ kills the parasites that make one ill. How can you keep that information completely insulated from each other? C'mon!)

We also do not suggest that anyone use the ParaZapper in place of any medication. (Nice way to cover your ass in the event you get sued by anybody who's harmed by your bullshit. You must sleep really, really well at night.)

For your information, ParaZapper is being tested at a major US university and does show a reduction of viral load in many but not all cases. (Yeah, yeah. Which "major US university"? Yale? Certainly not. MIT? Doubtful. College of CowFart, Alabama? Probably. Who's doing the testing? What department? What's the person's name? What's their specialty? When did they start testing? When do they expect to finish?)

As for the individual who told the Yahoo chat room visitor that ParaZapper was BS, which model did that well advised person buy and use that made him such an authority? (I'm *extremely* pleased that you recognize that the person who says your ParaZapper™ is bullshit was well-advised! Now, if you could just stop saying that your bullshit device will actually help people... Naw, that might cut into your revenue stream....)

Mr. Etheredge, thank you for your comments. You have allowed the world (Or at least the readers of this blog) to see what kind of asshole you really are. And, next time you want to go galavanting around the internet and calling people liars, you should probably look yourself in the mirror before you go throwing stones in your glass house.

While the ParaZapper™ is still bullshit, I have corrected the original ParaZapper™ post to reflect who actually owns the trademark.

The Beck Protocol (Part 1; Microcurrent Blood Therapy)

The Beck Protocol comes in four apparently arbitrary parts. (Since there is no known cure for AIDS, almost all of this bullshit is arbitrary.)

The four parts are:

1. Microcurrent therapy for cleansing the blood
2. Magnetic pulsing for tissue electrification
3. Drinking ionic/colloidal silver
4. Drinking freshly ozonated water

Which means, of course, putting metal into your body and then shocking yourself. And that just seems plain stupid. Regardless, I'll take on Part 1 today and the remaining parts probably over the next three days.

So, on with "Microcurrent therapy for cleansing the blood"!! Whatever the fuck that means.

Walking hand in hand with the ParaZapper™ (ParaZapper™ is a trademark of ParaDevices, Inc. and it's also bullshit; So much so that as of August 2006, the FDA has shut down ParaDevices' operation of selling "zappers".) Bob Beck has decided that sticking a couple of electrodes on yer wrist will electrify the blood and kill stuff. Including viruses such as HIV.

What I want to know is how the electricity knows to only kill the virus cells and not any of the good cells. But that would require actual research and useless crap like that. Regardless, if you want to know how to electrocute yourself with the Beck Protocol, you'll have to buy the book on how to make one of the bullshit devices.

And, be sure to read the testimonials. This part really pisses me off. They say on that testimonial page that the government (which government? The Internet Government??) has decided that testimonials are misleading. No!? REALLY?? That's about the only good thing these fuckers have to say. If you want to read these false and misleading, non-scientific, non-proof providing testimonials, you'll have to buy the book because, as these fuckers at The Beck Protocol say, "you make a conscious choice as to whether you want to be exposed to testimonials."

They out and out fucking DODGE putting anything real on their fuckin' site! And, if you want to see what they have to even suggest, you'll have to give them your hard-earned cash to read a bullshit-filled book. FUCK! Just another bunch of mother fuckers trying to rip cash out or your wallet!