THE FAUCI FILES, 3( 43): Dr. Clerici Responds to The Failed ART
Rationale
March 17, 2000
To illustrate the importance of the Clerici et al study (AIDS, 1/28/00),
as well as the failure of the corporate activists to deal with the
facts, science and issues, the following post stands on its own merit.
W. Fred Shaw, Editor
THE FAUCI FILES
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:57:06 GMT, in <8arapv$h7$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,
a paid announcement from Pharmaceutical Corporate Activist
Richard Jefferys of the AIDS Treatment Drug Network
<richard at atdn.org>:
>The issue is that you're deliberately
>misrepresenting Clerici's study in support of
>your own agenda.
Let me share Dr. Clerici's response (personal communication)
to the central issue regarding the failed rationale for using the
HAART drugs (as set forth in THE FAUCI FILES, 3( 38)):
"Mago,
From AIDS (Clerici et al, 1/28/00):
"We wanted to show that, despite being highly
effective on reducing HIV viral load, HAART
does not necessarily augment the immune response."
Response to Clerici: Yes, but the scientific rationale for
using HAART was to reconstitute the immune response by
decreasing viral load thus allowing CD4s to increase
and be potent weapons--once again--against HIV and
other pathogens..
Answer from Clerici: "... this is exactly the point; you got
exactly at the core of the matter: the assumption that the
immune system would automatically have been reconstituted
once that the virus is suppressed by HAART does not
hold true."
Everyone can clearly see that Dr. Clerici and I agree on the
central theme -- the failed rationale for using HAART, which I
originally posted in the conclusion of THE FAUCI FILES, 3( 38):
"To conclude this point-counterpoint analysis, it is essential
to re-examine the scientific rationale for Dr. Fauci's
ART "standard of care", which originally focused on
these drugs as potent weapons that would facilitate
the reconstitution of the immune response through the
decrease of the viral load, which, in turn, would
result in increases of the CD4+ T-cell count."
"While Clerici et al, Pantaleo et al and others have
recently revealed that "HAART (ART) does not necessarily
augment the immune response", then this can no longer be
a rationale for using HAART when the immune responses
required to control opportunistic infections and neoplasms
are not only NOT being augmented, but to the contrary --
these immune responses (e.g. including the flu and candida
antigens, Clerici et al, AIDS, 1/28/00) are being directly
suppressed and harmed by ART!"
Once again, I thank Richard Jefferys and his pharmaceutical
corporate sponsors for their help in illustrating their false
health claims and drug marketing agenda for the Anti-Retroviral
Therapy (HAART) drugs.
W. Fred Shaw, Editor
THE FAUCI FILES
