Author Interview Part Three

Why did the most powerful man in publishing, Sonny Mehta, the Editor-in-Chief of Knopf, publish a book attacking you and your newspaper?
I detail the manner in which he was hoodwinked into publishing a book full of falsehoods by a disgruntled and egregiously dishonest employee of mine here.

What do you think Mehta should do about David France's book, How to Survive a Plague, which attacks your newspaper New York Native?

The France book is a pile of lies, so he should have Knopf refund money to anyone who was conned into buying the book. Insofar as the France book dishonestly trashes the New York Native, it does great harm to the HHV-6 issue, the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome issue and the CFS community. New York Native is the only place people could find out the unvarnished truth about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and HHV-6 for 8 years. If people want to know what New York Native uncovered, they need to read Truth to Power.

Your book shows how the CDC lied to the American public about the connection between HHV-6, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and AIDS. Why would a government organization tasked with protecting the public health do that?

The CDC's mistakes in judgment on those matters were made decades ago. Now their hard-earned reputation is at stake. It will be very hard for them to restore their brand if the public knows that have completely screwed up HHV-6, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and AIDS. They are more concerned now with protecting their reputation than anything else. The CDC likes to present a totally heroic image of itself, but where HHV-6, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and AIDS are concerned, the CDC is a villain. Usually in movies when someone says that the CDC has arrived on the scene everyone bows their head and lets out a dramatic sigh of relief. Anyone who reads my entire book will think that the CDC's presence in any health emergency is about as assuring as Bernie Madoff's.

You've called HHV-6, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and AIDS research the result of a corrupted hard drive created by the CDC. What do you mean by that?

Fundamental mistakes were made in the nosology of AIDS in terms of the definition of the illness. Everything that came after that--the epidemiology, the virology, the treatments--were based on a fundamental conceptual mistake. AIDS was defined politically and not scientifically. The decision to exclude Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and all the other immune disorders that are part of the real epidemic are the byproduct of the flaws in the original research. Once a scientific hard drive is corrupted, everything that is based on it is defective. The AIDS establishment is essentially engaged in trying to keep the public from seeing how corrupted that hard drive is.

Who are responsible for the CDC's corrupted hard drive?

I name the names in my book. A lot of them were relatively young white heterosexual males. You could say that AIDS is a white male heterosexual paradigm that ultimately harmed not only gays and blacks, but the whole HHV-6 and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome community. And frankly, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Millions of heterosexuals suffering from all the HHV-6 diseases are now the victims of a white male heterosexual paradigm built from bigoted forms of epidemiology which I have coined as "homodemiology" and "Afrodemiology." They are forms of epidemiology and nosology hardwired with antipathy directed at minorities. They mask prejudice as epidemiology and science.

Why have you called Anthony Fauci "the Bernie Madoff of AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome"?

He has created a virtual scientific Ponzi Scheme that has lasted for more than three decades.

Why has Fauci gotten away with what he's done for three decades?

He knows how to use power. He has created a world of what I call sociopathic science.

Fauci is in his mid 70s. Why doesn't he retire?

I think he is probably terrified that when he leaves the skeletons will come out of the closet and he will be seen for the scientific crook he is.

Has Fauci made a lot of money while covering up the truth about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

I don't know what he makes but a journalist in Washington told me he is the third highest paid member of the Federal government.

Did you ever talk to Fauci?

Yeah, I talked to him after I wrote a satirical editorial in the form of a poem which enraged him. He's a little man with very thin skin. One of my writers at New York Native was introduced to him at a conference and he refused to shake my writer's hand and just turned and walked away. A real creep. Somebody needs to do a hard-hitting documentary on Fauci and the damage he has done to science and medicine.

Among the people you blame for the CFS disaster is the CDC's Mary Guinan. What is her story?

Guinan played a curious role in both of the supposedly separate AIDS and chronic fatigue syndrome epidemics. Her surprising inability to see an obvious link between the two syndromes may be one of the important seeds of the whole HHV-6 disaster. She is mentioned in both the Shilts history of the early AIDS epidemic and Hillary Johnson’s journalistic account of the CDC’s bungling of the epidemic of facetiously-labeled chronic fatigue syndrome.

More of this interview to come shortly.

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