AZT and pregnancy

[tangent]

following in Celts footsteps...

I have little more than scanned these articles at my cousins place over christmass break - been meaning to get a copy, but no time...

in the magazine: "Mothering - the natural family living magazine" p45 -> p75, Sep/Oct 2001

p42: Safe and sound underground: HIV possitive women birthing outside the system
p58: Molecular miscarriage: is the HIV theory a tragic mistake?
p54/55 is breast still best? (AZT)
p66/67 poisoning our babies - the lethal dangers of AZT

in general they were talking about studies where 100% of the test group that was HIV positive and took AZT got full blown AIDS while 100% of the test group that that was HIV possitive and didn't take AZT didn't get full blown AIDS... also bad things happening to the kids. I approached the articals w/ quite a bit of scepticism but gave that point of view more credence when I saw how heavily referenced these articals were PAGES of references! many from medical journals - the lancet showed up alot...

so, anyone have any thoughts on this? I haven't had the time to really look into it, so can't say I have an opinion one way ot the other - yet, beyond that there seems to be a credible case against AZT.

[Craig]

Tangent,
I know your stirring and I havent seen the specific articles you are talking about. My own practice is when these claims are made in the lay literature is to pull the references and see what they actually say - 95% of the time it is a misrepresentation / selective quotation of what has really been said - mind you medical literature is guilty of that on occasions :smile:.

From my point of view, actions speak louder than words - if I get a high risk needlestick at work tonight - Ill start triple therapy (including AZT) without a second thought.

Mindyou while we are on the topic - I cannot help but stir alittle myself - one of the immunologists I work with dosnt believe in the AIDS/HIV link - doesnt even believe HIV exists. I thought he was a nutter to start with - but you only need to talk to him for a few minutes to realise (a) he believes what he is saying with a passion and (b) he can refute every argument I could come up with - and I consider myself pretty well read on the topic. I was unaware that the virus itself has never been imaged - bits of protein that it is claimed are part of it have been - but never an intact viron. Certainly food for thought.

cheers

Craig (putting away his wooden spoon)