Aids Denial and DCMA Censorship

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So I'll start by saying this is a pretty important subject in two ways.

1) AIDS denial costs lives. There's no doubt about that - people die through the spreading of these lies. Therefore debunking any "documentaries" suggesting that AIDS doesn't exist is paramount.

2) This seems to surprise people but I'm pretty anti-censorship. I don't hide that fact and so when people try and prevent the actual science from being communicated, I get pretty angry.

So a brief summary of what I'm harping on about:

Over the past two months I have been making a series of videos critical of the documentary House of Numbers. I gave examples of how the documentary edited people mid-sentence to change the meaning of what they are saying, lied about the sequence and dates of a series of HIV tests in order to convince people that the tests are useless, and missed out vital information about the death of a little girl from AIDS related illnesses, but allowed her now deceased mother to tell people the documentary not to take their anti-viral medication. These videos are non-profit and made for educational purposes and fall well within fair use, yet over the past week, multiple DMCAs have been filed against them.

The first DMCA filed against me was from Liam Scheff who starred in part 5 of my video series. Liam believes that my videos are not protected under fair use because they are not made for educational purposes, but instead for propaganda. Over the last week, Liam has been constantly posting on my Facebook and has called me a retard, a ****, a little ***** and, of course, a paid shill. Yet at the same time believes that I have been slandering him. What is also bizarre is that even though Liam has made it clear of his intentions to drag me through the courts, at the same time he does not think I am a real person but part of Myles Power inc. Liam later went on to remove his DMCA, but by filing it in the first place he has left himself open to legal action.

As soon as part 5 was restored, it was taken immediately down by Martin Penny and the people at Knowledge Matters, who then decided to file 2 more DMCA takedowns against part 1 and 2. I want to take this time to remind people that there are multiple copies of House of Numbers uploaded to YouTube. If Martin Penny and the people at Knowledge Matters truly thought I was infringing copyright, then why are they not going after people who uploaded the entire movie? It is very clear that these people are trying to silence my criticism. For those who don’t know, Martin Penny is the Executive Producer of House of Numbers and a multimillionaire from Leeds who used to be the CEO of GHD. What’s interesting is that Martin is now a chairman at OHS Ltd – one of the leading health, safety and environmental consultancies who have worked for the NHS.

To recap, one of the chairmen for a company that advises the NHS is an AIDS denialist who is actively trying silence me.

If you think this is unacceptable can I ask that you share my story to anyone who will listen.

Thank you

Myles
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And a bit more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2014/0...ght-myles-powers-and-abuse-of-dmca-takedowns/

I hope this thread spreads the word of how ridiculous the "documentary" House of Numbers is, please spread the word, it's a worthwhile message to spread which may even save a life. Secondly, spread the word over the DCMA takedown requests. Hopefully it'll save this youtube channel but perhaps it'll add weight to the fact that YouTube's DCMA system doesn't work.

So here are the videos:
 
tis pretty sad that quacks try to silence criticism of their position and frankly it reveals how weak their position is that they're unable to respond to criticism but rather chose to try and silence critics

Ben Goldacre's book Bad Science was originally published with a chapter omitted about a vitamin pill salesman with rather dodgy views on AIDS - unfortunately these dodgy views had an actual impact on real AIDS victims in Africa

Simon Singh was sued by The British Chiropractic Association after his article in the Guardian 'Beware the Spinal tap'
 
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estebanrey said:
Who on Earth denies the existence of AIDs?

Can't see such debate here on that one.
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It's not about debating the existence of AIDS. The videos do give lots of information about AIDS testing and the resulting treatment etc. It's worth educating yourself for that alone. Sharing it would be a bonus though.
 
Meh, the stupidity of some of their view points on testing was highlighted, I only watched some of the testing part. They are using standard "get out of being sued" wording in the test leaflets which will also be on leaflets with diabetes test kits and frankly most test kits.

Effectively the more serious the condition and the more expensive it is to treat/longer it will take to treat the more certain of a diagnosis you want to be and more testing is indicated. That is standard for medical practice. If you have a basic throat issue that requires antibiotics, visual confirmation along with talking to patient is enough. No point wasting time sending out tests so they can grow a sample taken from your throat in a lab, just give the antibiotics and save the patient a week before treatment, also the downsides are tiny so little risk.

If the patient presents with diabetic symptoms and a simple blood sugar test confirms high/low blood sugar. That isn't confirmation, just an indication to test further, because treatment can be lifelong, expensive and you don't want to be taking insulin if you don't have diabetes.

Most tests have disclaimers, unless they want to pretend EVERY medical condition is fake then they have no basis in their claims. The only absolute confirmation of most things is to get a sample and view it under a microscope, many millions of people are treated through alternative testing that will have disclaimers that say they aren't ultimate proof.

The guys who made the original film are complete morons.
 
If anyone is interested is dubious AIDS claims:

http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/matthias-rath-steal-this-chapter/#more-1088

˜The answer to the AIDS epidemic is here,” he proclaimed. Anti-retroviral drugs were poisonous, and a conspiracy to kill patients and make money. “Stop AIDS Genocide by the Drugs Cartel said one headline. “Why should South Africans continue to be poisoned with AZT? There is a natural answer to AIDS.” The answer came in the form of vitamin pills. “Multivitamin treatment is more effective than any toxic AIDS drug. Multivitamins cut the risk of developing AIDS in half.”
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Tragically,Matthias Rath had taken these ideas to exactly the right place. Thabo Mbeki, the President of South Africa at the time, was well known as an “AIDS dissident”, and to international horror, while people died at the rate of one every two minutes in his country, he gave credence and support to the claims of a small band of campaigners who variously claim that AIDS does not exist, that it is not caused by HIV, that anti-retroviral medication does more harm than good, and so on.

At various times during the peak of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa their government argued that HIV is not the cause of AIDS, and that anti-retroviral drugs are not useful for patients. They refused to roll out proper treatment programmes, they refused to accept free donations of drugs, and they refused to accept grant money from the Global Fund to buy drugs. One study estimates that if the South African national government had used anti-retroviral drugs for prevention and treatment at the same rate as the Western Cape province (which defied national policy on the issue), around 171,000 new HIV infections and 343,000 deaths could have been prevented between 1999 and 2007. Another study estimates that between 2000 and 2005 there were 330,000 unnecessary deaths, 2.2 million person years lost, and 35,000 babies unnecessarily born with HIV because of the failure to implement a cheap and simple mother-to-child-transmission prevention program. Between one and three doses of an ARV drug can reduce transmission dramatically. The cost is negligible. It was not available.
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Vitamin pills are a dubious waste of money in general anyway but when there are utter utter **** like that out there promoting them as a treatment for AIDS the world is really screwed up.
 
Did a lot of research in to anti-retroviral drugs, as part of my professional qualification.

Pretty appalling that someone would try to restrict their use :mad::rolleyes:
 
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