HIV Innocence Group Truth

Six years ago I originally set up this website to critique an organization called The HIV Innocence Group and prove that it was nothing more than a tool for Clark Baker to further the AIDS Denialist agenda via the U.S. Court System. I accomplished this goal and then some. Not only did I beat Clark Baker‘s phony attempts to silence my First Amendment Rights via the legal system through arbitration as well as in Federal Court, my attorneys also won $50K in legal fees (which Baker has never paid). My case also set a precedent in the Fifth Circuit Court.

I also exposed Clark Baker’s financier, Billionaire Robert Leppo, who I proved supported Baker to the tune of at least 1.5 Million Dollars in 5 short years.

Another unintentional but very happy result of this website is that I destroyed Baker’s HIV Innocence Group as well as his Office of Medical and Scientific Justice and saved countless lives in shutting down these dangerous organizations.

As I researched Clark Baker and his outright false claims about his supposed success with the HIV Innocence Group, I uncovered a myriad of nefarious dealings and found a man with dubious character and completely lacking in integrity and devoid of humanity.

I have relentlessly documented Mr. Baker’s very unhealthy and possibly psychotic focus on bringing down his enemies. Most notably I have documented Baker’s decade long attempt to ruin the life and career of Dr. James Murtagh. This is just one example of the many posts I have written that supports this claim.

In my research to document Baker’s demented attempts to ruin Dr. Murtagh’s life, I found a history of other people’s lives Baker also tried to ruin. And I discovered a pattern to his psychoses: Mr. Baker made countless highly derogatory websites about many people, including but not limited to: Lokesh Vuyyuru, Blake Moore, Ralph Bard, Kevin Kuritzky and James Murtagh. Some of these websites seemed to serve no purpose except as a vehicle that drove Baker’s psychotic joy. However, as time wore on, and as his websites became more sophisticated, Baker saw a chance to monetize these derogatory sites as this email clearly shows:

This new business model that Baker discusses in the email above with Mr. Pardo has worked on two occassions that I know about:

1. Baker successfully used such a website to force Kevin Kuritzky into signing a false affidavit. I previously discussed this here.

In my last post two months ago, I also reported how this false affidavit may have amounted to Witness Tampering and may wind up sending Mr. Baker to jail. I also posted the Criminal Referral by Chief Bankruptcy Judge Sheri Bluebond to the California United States Attorney.

2. Baker is now involved in another lawsuit in which he used a similar website to force another witness into possible false testimony. This lengthy Motion for Sanctions expertly details Baker’s actions in this instance. Motion for Sanctions NTG

I believe all these instances prove that Mr. Baker found a model that worked and he successfully implemented and monetized this model. In the last instance Mr. Baker may have made over $25,000.00!

It is also interesting to note that Mr. Baker knew what he was doing was wrong when he had John McNair in Australia use his name in setting up the website instead of Baker’s name. Baker admits that he is actually the owner of this site. Baker also admits what he was doing was wrong by setting up the domain to the site in Amesterdam, one of the countries he mentioned in the above email with Mr. Pardo.

All of these examples show a man with no regard for destroying the lives of his supposed enemies or even the lives of strangers, either for sport or for money.

It has been 10 months since I posted anything to this blog. There has been no need since I destroyed Clark Baker in a Texas Federal Court effectively killing his HIV Innocence Group as well as his Office of Medical and Scientific Justice. I also exposed Clark Baker’s financial ties to billionare Robert Leppo proving that Leppo funded Baker’s borderline criminal behavior to the tune of $1.5 Million Dollars over a 4 year period.

Now I can come out of semi-retirement to let the world know that Clark Baker committed Witness Tampering, a felony, in the case of Murtagh V. Baker, which I have written about previously.

Here is the Criminal Referral by Chief Bankruptcy Judge Sheri Bluebond to the California United States Attorney.

This witness tampering is based on an affidavit that I also wrote about previously.  In that post I detailed my belief that Clark Baker forced Kevin Kuritzky into signing a false affidavit by manipulation and promises of quid pro quo.  This affidavit falsely claimed that Dr. Murtagh forced Kuritzky into some very bad behavior to harass Mr. Baker.  Now, almost three years later, I am proven right as Mr. Kuritzky came forward and admitted how Mr. Baker lied, manipulated and coerced him into making a false affidavit. You can see from the Criminal Referral that I linked above, most of the deductions I made from the evidence I had in 2014 were absolutely true.

I also find this new development quite satisfying because it was not too long ago that Mr. Baker falsely accused Captain Mark Rosenow of Witness Tampering in the David Guitterez Case which also negatively impacted the Nushawn Williams Case.  I have only provided two examples from Baker’s old OMSJ site. But Baker repeatedly made these false allegations against Captain Rosenow in social media as well as in several declarations in Baker’s case against me.  As they say, Karma is a bitch!

Here is Clark Baker’s attempt to legally plead the 5th Amendment against self incrimination regrading Judge Bluebond’s Criminal Referral to the California Attorney General. Pleading the 5th is not something that people who are innocent usually do.  It was also a waste of time because the current legal action is a civil case. This is a rookie mistake and shows the desperation Baker and his legal team must be feeling at the moment.

Rulings that Judge Bluebond also leveraged against Mr. Baker include a $35,000.00 sanction.

This case has been dragging on because Mr. Baker thought he was smart by filing bankruptcy fakeruptcy eventhough his wife is worth $220 Million as I have reported before, and Baker has a personal financier in billionaire Robert Leppo.  And this little fakeruptcy may have paid off. But Mr. Baker is such an egomaniac and a horrible human being that he had to go the extra step and possibly commit Witness Tampering which will hopefully put him where he belongs; in jail.

When Clark Baker filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against me in Texas Federal Court three years ago, he knew his case was a loser. He had just lost arbitration against me on the exact same grounds and the arbitration panel found him guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking; the equivalent of filing in bad faith.  Baker had even hired a law firm that specialized in trademark law to handle the arbitration and he still lost; so there is no way he thought he could win in court. What Baker was really doing was trying to shut me up by shutting down my website. Baker did not think I would be able to find an attorney to handle the case and I would have no option but to forfeit.

Baker lost the case and was too arrogant and stupid to stop there. He appealed and lost the appeal. After the appeal my attorneys went after him for fees but they lost as my attorney Paul Levy knew they would. Mr. Levy knew how the Fifth Circuit interpreted the term “exceptional” (as Mr. Levy explains here). But Mr. Levy also knew that the U.S. Supreme Court had recently settled the matter in a case known as Octane Fitness. Mr. Levy appealed and the appellate court reversed the fee decision, thus setting a precedent in the Fifth Circuit.

It’s ironic that it took a crooked cop and Private Investigator of questionable morals to file a bogus lawsuit that would eventually set a legal precedent that will make it harder for bullies like Clark Baker to continue their bullying behavior.  And this should be a lesson to Robert Leppo, the billionaire who continues to fund Baker, to be more critical when choosing a thug to do your dirty work. At least get one who has more brains than arrogance.

Although they are extremely happy with the decision, my attorneys thought that Baker’s fakeruptcy would preclude them from actually collecting their fees. However, there is great news on this front; there is a hearing scheduled in Los Angeles May 24, 2016 to decide if Baker has abused the bankruptcy system. It looks promising that the judge will rule against Baker and throw out his bankruptcy. (It is even feasible that Baker will see the inside of a jail cell. More on that at as it develops.)

The news of this precedent has been picked up by Bloomberg BNA as well as Techdirt, along with JDSupra Advisor and of course, the site that started me on this winning streak, Popehat.

Future cases will quote from this Precedent Setting Decision to win against other bullies like Clark Baker. It looks like Clark Baker’s prediction that the HIV Innocence Group would go down in history was accurate; it’s only fitting that history will be a shameful one.

In this post I will lay bare the financial relationship of Clark Baker/OMSJ (Office of Medical & Scientific Justice) to billionaire Robert D Leppo. I will also definitively prove the hypocrisy of Clark Baker because of this relationship and the possibly inappropriate ways these two men may have conspired. (Emphasis because I don’t want to get sued.) Lastly I will show that the leaders of ReThinking AIDS (RA) including Celia Farber, David Crowe, Elizabeth Ely, Henry Bauer, David Rasnick, Terry Michael, Christine Johnson and others were well aware of this relationship when they lied to the members of RA about the reason why OMSJ had gone out of business. They used this lie in an attempt to fraudulently obtain donations from members of RA and OMSJ sympathizers.

Clark Baker and other AIDS denialists have long claimed that anyone supporting the traditional science of HIV is being paid off by Big Pharma. Back in 2008 Clark Baker coined the term “Pharma-Slut” and in 2009 Baker wrote a lengthy post dedicated to explaining the term:

“Any individual or organization that directly OR indirectly; a) receives funding from pharmaceutical companies AND; b) uses medical or scientific diplomas, political influence, governmental or academic positions, to c) promote the marketing, sales, distribution or delivery of drugs to d) clinicians, physicians or patients.”

In the eight years since Mr. Baker started slinging that classy term around, he has accused many people, including myself, of being in the pocket of Big Pharma. The one thing Mr. Baker has never been able to produce, however, is proof to support this offensive claim. You can find many examples of Mr. Baker using the term Pharma Slut on his OMSJ website.  This post  provides one example that is so hyperbolic it defies reason:

“Seth Kalichman PhD received $17 million to blog for AIDS Inc.”

However, slinging unsupported ad-hominems about financial pay-offs against his perceived enemies is not Baker’s only strategy to deflect people from looking into his own finances. Mr. Baker also had this to say in defense of his fellow denialists:

“I must defend the good names of AIDS dissidents. We are not bad people, who in some sinister (if unspecified) way are profiting from the stands we have taken. This is the opposite of the truth. Believe me, there are no financial rewards for attacking the AIDS cash cow.” (emphasis mine)

And in the comment section of this Nature.com article Baker uses a different strategy of deflection:

“Yes Mr. Jefferys, OMSJ’s 990 proves that OMSJ doesn’t accept pharmaceutical funding like Treatment Action Group – you got me there.”

And it has been a pretty good strategy, too. You can peruse OMSJ’s 990 Tax Returns for 2012 yourself. You will only find the very basic information. Nowhere does Baker disclose where his funds come from nor does he give specific breakdowns of how the money is spent. You will never see the name of OMSJ’s billionaire benefactor, Robert Leppo.  All of Baker’s tax forms are the antithesis of transparency. Of course that is precisely why Mr. Baker chose to make OMSJ a 501(c)3; This designation has the most relaxed regulations and requirements.

Unfortunately, Baker’s strategy has come to a tragic end. Because Mr. Baker is a coward who refuses to accept responsibility for his actions, he made the huge mistake of filing bankruptcy in his lawsuit with Dr. Murtagh. Now I have the Bank of America account statements for OMSJ as well as Clark Baker’s personal statements for June 2011 through June 2015. In those 4 years, Robert D. Leppo wire transferred $1,321,500.00 into the account of OMSJ. Other deposits of unknown origins in that same time period amount to $169,017.74, for a 4 year Grand Total of: $1,490,517.74 Because of on-going legal issues I will not link to the bank statements at this time. However, at the end of this post I have supplied the dates, amounts and mode of deposit for each transaction.

Robert D. Leppo has financially supported AIDS Denialist causes for many years. In 1999 Celia Farber wrote:

“The blitz was masterminded by Deane Collie, the executive director of the International Coalition for Medical Justice (ICMJ), and made possible by San Francisco venture capitalist Bob Leppo, who is emerging as a reluctant hero of the underground and who has contributed more than $1 million to the dissident cause.

It was Leppo who saved Duesberg from utter dissolution after the National Institutes of Health severed his federal funding as punishment for advancing a scientific hypothesis that differed from that of the establishment. Leppo’s funding enabled Duesberg to continue to function as a scientist and also gave a much-needed shot in the arm to both ICMJ and the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis.

I love Bob Leppo. In fact, in moments like this I even love capitalism. Leppo and Collie managed to meet with several members of Congress to discuss the HIV issue and plant seeds of discourse.”

In 2000 Robert Leppo purchased a building for AIDS Denialist break-off group, ACT UP San Francisco:

“Their radical pretense is undermined by the fact that conservative Republican venture capitalist, Robert Leppo, underworte the purchase of their building.”

In 2004 Robert Leppo funded the AIDS Denialist documentary The Other Side of AIDS:

“The executive producer of The Other Side of AIDS was Robert Leppo, a venture capitalist who has also funded the activities of well-known AIDS denialist Peter Duesberg.”

SNOUT reported that in 2006 Robert Leppo was actually on the RA Board of Directors via their minutes of June 11, supplied by Anthony Brink:

“Bob Leppo (the principal financier of RA) moved that RA board authorities authorize the RA foundation to make grants for a wider range of purposes, including films and video. Seconded by Charles Geschekter…

“Robert Giraldo moved that the RA foundation make grants for Brent Leung’s film based on available funds (Leppo’s money). Seconded by Christine Maggiore. Unanimous agreement…”

This background on Leppo is important for several reasons, most importantly because of his association with Clark Baker and Baker’s extensive history of criminal behavior as alleged in Dr. Murtagh’s lawsuit against Baker. These well substantiated allegations include, but are not limited to:

• Making and maintaining defamatory websites about Dr. Murtagh.
• Spoofing Dr. Murtagh’s email with fake accounts, including one purported to be me.
• Pinging Dr. Murtagh’s cell phone.
• Stalking Dr. Murtagh’s girlfriend in Atlanta.
• Serving fraudulent subpoenas.

Clark Baker maintained a  pervasive and consistent attack against Dr. Murtagh in a successful attempt to get Dr. Murtagh fired from jobs and keep him from obtaining future employment. Baker filed bankruptcy because he was about to lose a $1.4 Million Dollar judgement to Dr. Murtagh for Baker’s 10 year sustained harassment of Dr. Murtagh. It would be a stretch of the most fervent imagination to believe that Robert Leppo had no knowledge of this sustained attack on Dr. Murtagh by a man to whom he was making monthly wire transfers that some months amounted to over one hundred thousand dollars! Not only should Robert Leppo have known how his money was being spent just due to the large amount of money he was donating, but also because of his extensive history of dealing with all sorts of other AIDS Denialists and AIDS Denialist causes and organizations.

As I have reported before, this bankruptcy by Mr. Baker is not legitimate. I always thought it was odd that Leppo would abandon his little puppet. Hell, the $1.4 million judgment due to Dr. Murtagh is nothing to Leppo; he has already forked over much, much more than that in his time funding the AIDS Denial machine. And now it seems that Leppo is secretly funding Baker again. Baker is no longer represented by the court appointed bankruptcy attorney: He now has a very high priced attorney named Baruch Cohen. I know that Baker can not afford such an attorney. The other financials Baker had to disclose to the bankruptcy court show that Baker has had no income since retiring from the LAPD and the retirement pension from the LAPD that Baker has previously described as “generous” is only $3,100.00 per month. That amount leads me to wonder if Baker was being deceptive out of embarrassment or if he meant that it was generous of the LAPD to give him any pension at all after his bad behavior as a cop.

Also, Baker’s Co-Habitation Agreement is dubious as well. Baker entered into this contract with the female millionaire whom he lives with, but will not marry, in 2008; the same time he formed OMSJ and 6 years after they began their relationship. In his profile at his now defunct blog Ex Liberal In Hollywood, Baker wrote that he entered into this agreement to legally protect his meal ticket significant other. Baker wrote that he learned this lesson when he was sued for Police Brutality and fired from the LAPD. (Baker regained his employment upon appeal.)

But the timing is incredibly suspicious; as I wrote above, this agreement came 6 years after the relationship began but very quickly after Baker formed OMSJ. It’s almost as if Baker planned all the alleged criminal behavior he engaged in via OMSJ from the start. Or perhaps Baker conspired with another person or people to whom he was beholden financially to engage in his bully-behavior.

Whatever the circumstances, it is obvious that a middle-aged man with no education, no significant accomplishments and no marketable skills would need to hitch his wagon to people with assets if he wanted a comfortable future.

The other leaders of the AIDS Denialist movement, Rethinking AIDS, are also culpable in this OMSJ scam. Celia Farber first laid the false ground work in February 2015:

OMSJ is under heavy heavy fire, meanwhile, from pharma-funded lawsuits and harassment.

They are trying to crush Clark. He can crush right back if he has the money. He needs lawyers to fight back against a barrage of bogus lawsuits.

By July all hands were on-deck perpetuating a rumor they knew to be completely false. The perpetuation of this lie lead to two separate money begs for OMSJ, although one was disguised as being for the defense of David Gutierrez.

Although both requests were unsuccessful, they still amounted to fraud because the requests were made with deception and withholding of information. Why would Clark Baker need money when he has his own, personal billionaire funding his bad behavior and paying for his attorneys? Not to mention the fact that the lawsuits Baker faced were being presented to the public in a less than truthful manner and had nothing to do with a coordinated attack by Big Pharma:

1. The lawsuit against me was initiated by Baker himself.
2. The lawsuit with Dr. Murtagh was about Baker’s alleged criminal activity and defamation against Dr. Murtagh and had nothing to do with HIV or Pharma.

Lastly, it is extremely hypocritical for Baker to have accused his enemies of being financially beholden to Big Pharma without one iota of proof, while Baker himself was completely on the dole doing a billionaires’ bidding. In future posts I will show how much of the money Baker received from Mr. Leppo was spent in dubious ways; limousines, airlines, fancy dinners and fancy hotels just to name a few. None of which is how a true 501(c)3 Charity should be spending money.

And for Baker to say that AIDS dissidents are not “profiting from the stands we have taken” and “there are no financial rewards for attacking the AIDS cash cow” was always dubious at best. Many denialists have profited from AIDS and Big Pharma including, but not limited to: David Rasnick, Matthias Rath, David Steele, Rodney Richards, Anthony Liversidge and Nancy Turner Banks, as well as Robert Leppo, himself. But now that I have hard proof of this as presented in this post, the argument that AIDS Dissidents are just well meaning people, fighting the good fight, is destroyed. You’re Welcome!

Wire Transfers from Robert D. Leppo to OMSJ June 2011 through June 2015

6.23.11 $9,500.00

7.26.11 $9,500.00

9.01.11 $9,500.00

9.21.11 $9,500.00

10.26.11 $9,500.00

11.23.11 $9,500.00

12.19.11 $9,500.00

1.30.12 $9,500.00

2.29.12 $9,500.00

3.30.12 $9,500.00

4.24.12 $9,500.00

5.14.12 $5,000.00

5.24.12 $9,500.00

6.19.12 $9,500.00

6.19.12 $10.500.00

7.02.12 $10,000.00

7.23.12 $25,000.00

7.25.12 $75,000.00

8.09.12 $40,000.00

9.10.12 $40,000.00

10.02.12 $40,000.00

11.05.12 $40,000.00

12.04.12 $40,000.00

1.07.13 $45,000.00

2.06.13 $40,000.00

3.05.13 $40,000.00

4.09.13 $40,000.00

5.07.13 $40,000.00

6.10.13 $40,000.00

7.10.13 $40,000.00

8.13.13 $25,000.00

9.19.13 $25,000.00

10.22.13 $25,000.00

11.26.13 $25,000.00

12.16.13 $25,000.00

12.17.13 $15,000.00

1.16.14 $25,000.00

2.24.14 $25,000.00

3.26.14 $25,000.00

4.25.14 $25,000.00

5.28.14 $25,000.00

6.16.14 $25,000.00

7.01.14 $25,000.00

7.28.14 $25,000.00

8.27.14 $25,000.00

9.24.14 $10,000.00

10.03.14 $25,000.00

10.23.14 $10,000.00

11.20.14 $10,000.00

12.23.14 $10,000.00

1.23.15 $10,000.00

2.23.15 $10,000.00

3.17.15 $14,000.00

3.24.15 $10,000.00

4.01.15 $5,000.00

4.22.15 $36,000.00

4.24.15 $7,500.00

5.15.15 $20,000.00

5.20.15 $15,000.00

5.26.15 $30,000.00

Total: $1,321,500.00

Other deposits, all of unknown source:

9.23 & 9.26 ATM Deposits of $15K each

12.5.11 ATM Deposit of $2,500.00

12.27.11 ATM Deposit of $600.00

4.2.12 PayPal $500.00

4.6.12 ATM Deposit $5,000.00

4.18.12 ATMD Deposit $304.43

10.12.12 $5,000.00 In-bank deposit

11.14.12 $20,000.00 Paypal

12.31.12 $30,000.00 In-bank deposit

1.4.13 $1,000.00 & 1.28.13 $1,700.00 ATM Deposits

2.01.13 $10,000.00 & 2.04.13 $1,500.00 & 2.11.13 $6,577.81 All ATM Deposits

4.04.13 $11,250.00 ATM Deposit

7.01.13 $6,271.00 In-bank deposit

10.21.13 $10,000.00 Paypal

11.06.13 $3,000.00 ATM Deposit

12.04.14 $5,000.00 ATM Deposit

1.9.15 $4,825.00 Paypal

2.26.15 $3,688.50 ATM Deposit

3.2.15 $3,500.00 Paypal

4.27.15 $2,500.00 Paypal

5.11.15 $1,000.00 Paypal

6.1.15 $2,000.00 ATM & 6.8.15 $1,301.00 ATM

Total: $169,017.74

Grand Total Deposits to OMSJ in 4 Year Period: $1,490,517.74

The past several years have brought many documentaries about Sceintology as well as books by previous Scientologists. They all tell the same tale about Scientology and show it to be a cult. One thing that is very disturbing is “The Church’s” penchant for trying to destroy the lives of former Scientologists who turn away from “The Church” and tell the truth. They call these former members “SP’s” or “Suppresive Persons”.

This is the same tactic that ReThinking AIDS has taken over the years and is still happening today. And it happens in several ways.

The first way is very subversive and spits on the graves of their dead. Many times when current AIDS Denialists die, those still alive begin to make very public assumptions about the illicit drug use of their own dead. They will go to any length to make it appear as if their death was from anything except HIV; even disparaging their own. You can peruse this list of Dead Denialists at AIDSTruth.org for yourself and do your own research. I would suggest starting with: Mark Griffiths, Huw Christie Williams, David Pasquerilli and Jody Wells.

The most recent example I could find of RA and other living Denialists accusing dead dissidents of recreational drugs causing their death is that of Emery Taylor. If you look at some of the comments on this blog post, especially by Elizabeth Ely, you will see examples of such heinous victim blaming.

Another tactic of RA and the living denialists is to blame ARV’s on the death of current denialists. I was contacted by the longtime boyfriend of Rex Poindexter, John Boucher, back when I wrote a previous blog, Dissidents4Dumbees. Rex was featured prominently in the AIDS Denial propaganda cult film, The Other Side of AIDS. John told me how angry he and Rex were at Maggiore and others because they all turned their backs on him because he turned to ARV’s while on his death bed in the hospital. John told me specifically that Maggiore herself told Rex to not take ARV’s while he was dying in the hospital. You can read a beautiful tribute to Rex by John here.

RA and other living denialists also blamed ARV’s for the death of Karri Stokely, despite the fact that Ms. Stokely died over four years after stopping ARV’s. Although the living denialists used Ms. Stokely as a martyr, her husband and children have not upheld the martyrdom for their deceased spouse and mother. That speaks volumes to me. Just as the husband and only living child of Christine Maggiore, Robin and Charlie Scovill, have chosen to not carry the torch of martyrdom of Christine.

A third example of how RA likes to destroy the lives of those who have had the audacity to leave RA is happening currently. David Crowe, President (and horcrux) of ReThinking AIDS is using the facebook page of RA to attack the character of John Strangis. What is most distressing about this attack is that Crowe is doing it on a closed facebook page; Mr. Strangis has no way of directly defending himself.

It is equally distressing to me that Crowe is being extremely hypocritical in his character assassination of Mr. Strangis.  David Crowe starts the discussion with a childish taunt about a blog post Mr. Strangis made on his personal site about volunteers for a new HIV medication. Crowe whines:

David Crowe

February 3 at 5:57pm · Calgary, AB, Canada

Come help John Strangis make a difference…to BMS’s bottom line. You too can be a guinea pig…No experience needed, just misplaced trust and naivety.

On February 4th, Crowe says:

David CroweIt’s important to comment on this.

Then, one day later on February 5th, after Mr. Strangis replied to Crowe via video on Strangis’ own site (since Crowe will not allow Strangis to defend himself directly on RA facebook page) Crowe cowardly backtracks thusly:

David CroweI think it’s worth posting, but not worth responding to…

There are 3 characteristics common to AIDS Denialists that have continually fascinated, frustrated and frightened me about them:

1. Irrational Intellectual Arrogance
2. Complete lack of Self Awareness
3. Extreme Hypocrisy

This post is going to focus on the last two and was brought about by a ridiculous comment by Elizabeth Ely on the facebook page for her How Positive Are You? podcast. It seems that Ms. Ely has decided there is one conspiracy theory that is too crazy, even for her. This particular idea is so crazy that Ms. Ely does not want it to ever be mentioned in the same breath as her pet AIDS Denial theory because it might tarnish the brand.

Q: What could possibly be so “out there” that even Ms. Ely does not believe it?

A: That the earth is flat.

Here is her comment:

Elizabeth Ely

January 19 at 1:37pm

Ms. Ely goes on to chastise a reader who believes the Flat Earth Theory and demands this reader not discuss his crazy belief while also discussing AIDS because it might “confuse our message on AIDS, providing an opportunity to discredit the whole thing…”

Ms. Ely goes on to provide further advice while using herself as an example:

“And seriously, I have some pretty wild views on some things too. I base those views on some good information and reasoning. I am never bringing that to the AIDS discussion. Then people might feel they must reject the AIDS information if they are not willing to also look into those other things.”

I would have to agree with Ms. Ely that she does indeed “have some pretty wild views on some things too.”  Ely does not believe in the existence of HIV, HepC or any virus, actually. She also said in a recent interview with World Beyond Belief, “the idea that cancer spreads in the body is complete baloney.”  Ely also believes that climate change is a hoax, vaccines cause autism, that GMOs are bad and who knows what else. Ms. Ely needs to realize and accept that most people who believe in one crazy conspiracy theory ascribe to many others as well. She can’t pick and chose what nuts she lies down with and it’s hypocritical for her to arbitrarily chastise her fellow nuts for discussing their other crazy beliefs in conjunction with her equally crazy HIV belief.

It should also be noted that in Ely’s first statement above  where she claims that the Flat Earth Theory is being propagated by “PR geniuses…to prove that we are all a bunch of nuts.”  This statement is also a baseless conspiracy theory as well as proof that Ely is paranoid. The truth is, the Flat Earth Theory is being propagated and supported by the very people with whom Ms. Ely just gave a 2 hour interview; The World Beyond Belief. This is from their website and was published on July 18, 2015:

The focus of this WBB surrounds elements of the NWO that would be greatly hampered if the Flat Earth theory was proven and subsequently accepted as true by a certain amount of the population. Beginning with a quick review of some of the major deceptions of the 20th century, it is noted that many of these tricks are still actively deceiving much of the population up to the current time. The Ball Earth theory comes equipped with an epistemology that involves not trusting one’s 5 senses and seeing only authority (science) as the absolute last word on everything. This authority is eventually transferred to the mainstream media, Hollywood and the most sophisticated mass deception mechanism in the world known as NASA. Since the control matrix is Satanic in basis and structure WBB explores how this fits with the Flat Earth model – to find out that IT DOESN’T.

In conclusion, Ms. Ely is once again demonstrating her lack of self awareness as to her own level of crazy beliefs as well as her hypocrisy for denouncing others for their beliefs and telling them in what capacity they can discuss those beliefs.

Lastly, here is a partial list of the craziness that the people at World Beyond Belief espouse: (You may have to google many of these as they are waaaaayyyy out there.)

Elizabeth Ely and David Crowe are using their How Positive Are You podcast to shill for Viral Forensics. They are even trying to scam a referral fee for a “service” that does not require a referral. I’ll discuss that in more detail in another post when I deconstruct the actual podcast with David Rasnick.  For this post I want to take a look at a post by Ms. Ely ahead of the actual podcast on the importance of accuracy in testing.

Ms. Ely cleverly called her post an “editorial” which is nothing more than a person’s opinion. However, after crafting a caring, nurturing tone in her opening paragraph, Ms. Ely immediately assumed an air of authority on the subject. This propensity for those lacking in any scientific discipline to assume such authority is both frustrating and humorous to me. Being a trained and certified Medical Laboratory Scientist who actually does diagnostic testing on a daily basis, I find it difficult to imagine the amount of hubris and arrogance Ms. Ely must possess to speak with supposed authority on this subject. After receiving a B.S. in Biology I then spent another year in MT school, 8 to 5 Monday thru Friday. I then spent six months training in an actual hospital laboratory after which I had to pass a very strict test that took several hours. Now I am required to perform 12 hours of continuing education every year to maintain my certification. Ms. Ely calls herself an “Alternative Health Journalist” but her contently page leaves much to be desired in any journalistic field.

Let’s get to Ms. Ely’s actual post. I first want to reiterate something I have discussed many times: In the context of any scientific discussion, citations to supporting evidence, especially in the form of peer reviewed literature, are paramount. I recently documented how Mr. Rasnick’s own White Paper for Viral Forensics is woefully deficient in this area. Ms. Ely’s “editorial” suffers in much the same way; Her citations are simply circular logic that track back to other AIDS denialists’ articles which themselves have no supporting documentation OR her citations prove exactly the opposite of what she is trying to prove.

I. Sciencey-Sounding Shit

“The commercially available tests for “HIV positivity” or “viral load” have never been validated to the presence of live, infectious virus in human blood.”

WOW! That sounds impressive. But when you stop to consider the statement you realize that it is totally lacking in substance. It also makes zero sense. Furthermore, Ms. Ely has no knowledge of how these tests were designed, engineered or validated. To make such a bold statement would require at least a somewhat detailed explanation along with a link to a valid, verifiable source.

Not only is the statement lacking substance, it is also not true. Dr. Peter Duesberg, a once respected virologist and the Father of AIDS Denial has publicly stated that HIV has been isolated and validated by the most rigorous methods modern science has to offer:

HIV exists, and has been properly identified as a unique retrovirus on the grounds that (i) it has been isolated – even from its own virion structure – in the form of an infectious, molecularly cloned HIV DNA that is able to induce the synthesis of a reverse transcriptase containing virion, and (ii) that HIV-specific, viral DNA can be identified only in infected, but not in uninfected human cells. I will base my case for the isolation of HIV on the most rigorous method available to date, ie. molecular cloning of infectious HIV DNA, rather than only on the much less stringent, traditional “rules for isolation of a retrovirus … discussed at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, in 1973” that were stated criteria of isolation in the Continuum”s Missing virus reward (Continuum, 1996) . Indeed I will show that molecular cloning of infectious HIV DNA exceeds the criteria of the old “Pasteur rules”.

Ms. Ely’s next sentence is equally clueless:

“The accepted procedures of microbiology would require culturing cells from live persons and then looking for evidence of “HIV” in them under an electron microscope…”

Again, Ms. Ely is not only wrong on this matter, she offers no source to support her erroneous statement. Furthermore, this “accepted procedure” is not what Viral Forensics offers either. Viral Forensics simply looks at whole blood neither cultured nor amplified.  As I have shown before, Dr. Hans Gelderbloom, the Father of Electron Microscopy has stated that viewing whole blood with EM is not adequate nor sufficient for finding HIV in whole blood:

Historically, electron microscopy has served as an effective method to identify viral agents of infection. However, the use of electron microscopy as a diagnostic tool is limited by its requirement for a high concentration of particles in the clinical sample. The limit of detection for diagnosis of a virus by electron microscopy is widely accepted as 10^6 -10^8 particles/ml.1 For HIV-1 patients, a “high” viral load may range from 10^4 – 10^6 HIV RNA copies/ml. Because each HIV particle carries 2 copies of the viral genome, 1×10^6 copies/ml would translate to 5×10^5 particles/ml, placing, in many instances, the positive detection of virus outside of the detection limit of electron microscopy. Another consideration is that although HIV can be transmitted through blood and blood products, the viral burden in an infected individual is found primarily in the lymphatic tissue, not in the blood (HIV in the blood may represent just 2% of the total viral burden). Finally, the detection of HIV in blood by electron microscopy may be further complicated by the structural pleomorphism the virus displays.

But who needs to listen to actual experts in their field like Dr. Duesberg or Dr. Gelderbloom when you have an actual Alternative Health Journalist?

II. Commercial Tests are not Sufficient for Diagnosis of HIV

“Further, all commercially available “HIV tests” and “viral load” assays are packaged with warnings that they are not sufficient to diagnose HIV infection or any known disease without also considering clinical symptoms.”  (bolding mine)

Let’s first consider what I put in bold. That is just a silly statement. Testing and symptom presentation go hand-in-hand. A patient that presents with vomiting and chills will get a plethora of tests and questions from the doctor because those symptoms could be a myriad of illnesses. You wouldn’t want to go to an ER with a week long persistent headache and the doctor to immediately schedule a brain surgery. How about a little common sense.

Ms. Ely’s main goal here is simple obfuscation about the reliability of the tests. If you click on the link to the word “warnings” you will be directed to a page with several package inserts for HIV tests. This is a favorite gambit of the AIDS Denialists; create the false illusion that even the test manufacturers admit their tests are fatally flawed.

Let’s discuss a few things about these inserts:

1. Each insert should be viewed as giving the reader the facts. If you are an AIDS Denialist trying to misinform, you can do as Ms. Ely does and make a blanket statement to obfuscate the truth and mislead and scare the reader. The truth is, the inserts state how the tests should be used; responsibly, taking into account symptoms and advising repeating of positive results and if still positive, further testing with different modalities. In other words, responsibly.
2. The tests themselves state how highly accurate the tests are. Here is one example from the simplest test on the list: “OraQuick test will produce one false positive result out of about every 5,000 tests in uninfected individuals.”
3. Not all the tests state they are not intended for diagnosis. The tests for diagnosis state there should be confirmation testing. The tests that explicitly state they are not for diagnosis NOR confirmation are those tests that are strictly for following disease progression and prognosis.

III. The old “cross reactivity” trope

“They (clinicians, doctors, healthcare workers) also never, to our knowledge, warn patients of the cross-reactions documented in mainstream, peer-reviewed scientific papers.”

Again, this is just a scare tactic. In fact, as Ms. Ely admits, these cross-reactions are well documented by a plethora of “mainstream, peer-reviewed scientific papers”. Even the previous link to the package inserts states this on many of those inserts. What Ms. Ely wants the reader to think is that these cross-reactions happen every time and not the rare occurrence that the peer reviewed papers prove them to be. That is also what duplicate testing and confirmation tests are for. No doctor, clinician or health care worker would ever tell a person that their tests are definitive and they should not nor could not seek a second or even third opinion.

IV. The situation is getting worse…NOT!

This is the most ridiculous, misleading and completely false statement Ms. Ely makes:

“The situation may be getting even worse, as the CDC announced in April 2014 that testing is not even required for a diagnosis of “HIV infection.” It is also widely – yet quietly – acknowledged that the Western blot, long used to “verify” an initial ELISA test, is problematic and no longer considered a useful confirmatory test.”

Ms. Ely’s first outrageous statement that “testing is not even required…” is complete non-sense and her link simply circles back to an AIDS Denialist podcast that is not true. Once again Ms. Ely thinks she can get away with making an outrageous statement and not link to a legitimate, verifiable source. As for her next statement that WB “is problematic and no longer considered a useful confirmatory test” is both false and misleading and demands further explanation as well as citations to legitimate, verifiable sources. The truth is, the WB is still used but newer, more appropriate supplemental tests are suggested such as Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests. The fact is, HIV testing is now in it’s Fourth Generation of testing and includes combination Antigen/Antibody tests. Also, each generation of testing is improved upon and HIV testing is definitely some of the most accurate testing there is.

In conclusion, Ms. Ely has no education or experience in this field and her title of “Alternative Health Journalist” is circumspect at best. Furthermore, Ms. Ely has proven over the years that she has chosen to believe that HIV tests are fraudulent and worthless and her only agenda is to deceive the general public based on nothing more than her emotionally informed belief.

Nothing makes me happier than when AIDS Denialists discuss science and show just how pathetically ignorant they really are. The latest entry is by Elizabeth Ely at the How Positive Are You? facebook page where she tries to explain to someone the procedure and technology of the latest AIDS Denialist scam, Viral Forensics. I guess that is what she is attempting to do. I don’t have the ability to translate her rambling non-sense.

 Elizabeth Ely It’s a service that leaves the AIDS debate behind. They examine those usual “particles resembling HIV” in a sample done by the usual, contaminating methods. That’s what “HIV” looks like. Then they examine the patient’s blood just as it is, basically. If they find “particles resembling HIV,” okey-dokey. If they don’t, well I guess you’re not “infected.” No matter what kind of “viral load” you just got. 

The discussion came about when Ms. Ely promised a new HPAY? podcast with David Rasnick of Viral Forensics. She promised to post it in the next few days and when she does, I will deconstruct the crazy as best I can. I am giddy with anticipation!

The fakeruptcy depositions that Clark Baker has been sitting through should be considered the Gold Standard for how to commit perjury. Not only is Mr. Baker misrepresenting the facts, or at least the ones that supposedly don’t elude his recollection, and throwing all his one-time supporters under the bus, he is also making a huge fool out of himself. Once the transcripts are cleared for posting I will have plenty of material that would embarrass Mr. Baker: if he had a shred of integrity, that is. But for now I will give you a little taste.

Mr. Baker has claimed on many occasions that Electron Microscopy is the Gold Standard for HIV and other viruses. Mr. Baker has made that claim in regards to the HIV Innocence Group. He and his co-conspirator David Rasnick in Viral Forensics have made it the anchor of that impotent “business”. In David Rasnick’s White Paper for Viral Forensics he states:

In contrast to these tests, Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) has been the “gold standard” for viral detection and characterization since the 1930s.

The first commercial TEM was not developed until 1939. So Rasnick is not only lying when he says that EM is the gold standard, he is definitely lying when he gives it a definitive time period. But I will not deconstruct that bit of bullshit just yet. Let me first tell you what Mr. Baker said during his deposition:

Page 24 Baker is being asked about EM. Baker had said it was the “gold standard”.

Q: And on what basis do you refer to it as the “gold standard”?

A: A history of virology established a long time ago, long before I was born, that EM is the gold standard.

Baker was born around 1955. EM was first used about 1940 to visualize virus. And it was in 1948 that EM could distinguish features between small pox and chicken pox. And it was 1952 when Polio virus was first seen by EM. So in other words, EM was not the “gold standard” long before Baker was born. Actually, EM is still not considered the gold standard. A fact that Baker finally admits during the deposition by Dr. Murtagh’s brilliant attorney:

Q: What organization has deemed it the gold standard? Yeah, let’s start with that.

A: I–I don’t think any organization deems it the gold standard for diagnostic purposes.

Q: OK, so you’re referring to it as the gold standard for forensic purposes?

A: For our purposes.

Q: And your purposes are forensic purposes?

A: Yes. And to gather evidence for court cases.

Q: And what organization deemed it the gold standard for forensic purposes.

A: Well, so far, none that I — that I know of.

That singular answer, “for our purposes” says it all. And that purpose is just to scam people. They first tried to scam attorneys, judges and juries in HIV criminalization cases. They hoped if they scammed enough people in the court system, that would spill over and influence the general public. They are continuing their public scam with Viral Forensics.

For several years Clark Baker and his co-conspirators have been screaming that Electron Microscopy is the supposed Gold Standard of HIV.

There is only one gold-standard tool used for observing HIV — an electron microscope — but EM is completely off-limits to the public and has never been approved by the FDA to test for HIV.

Side note: What does Baker mean by EM being “completely off-limits to the public…”? Perhaps he is using hyperbole, but it makes absolutely no sense. Most of what Baker writes is just non-sense when you devote even one brain cell to his blatherings. In fact, EM is not off limits to the general public. EM is used in many hospitals for diagnostic purposes in those instances where it is appropriate.

Clark Baker even made EM a lynch pin in the defense of several of his clients with the HIV Innocence Group. Baker wrote the following in a post about the Nushawn Williams Case:

“OMSJ experts contend that, as the ‘gold standard’, EM is the only reliable method that can identify the presence of the virus.”

As I wrote when discussing the Williams Case, Mr. Baker and his so-called experts cannot just arbitrarily bestow EM with the crown of the Gold Standard.

When an adroit attorney challenged his baseless assertions in a military case and got the EM results thrown out, Clark Baker screamed about prosecutorial misconduct. Clark Baker (via OMSJ) even helped to fund an embarrassing “research” paper on EM by Andrew Maniotis. (The previous link does not have the paper, but this is the current working link to that abysmal research paper. Enjoy the crazy.)

That is just a small sampling of the many, many times that Baker and his cronies have made the false and baseless claim that EM is the Gold Standard. Thanks to this deposition Clark Baker has admitted that he and his partners in crime just made it up and acknowledges that no person nor entity ever proved nor even said that Electron Microscope is the Gold Standard for viewing any virus.

Now Clark Baker, David Rasnick, David Steele and David Crowe are once again lying to the general public about EM being the Gold Standard and are charging $1,500.00 for a blood test to challenge a valid diagnosis of HIV, HPV, HCV and other virus for which there are proven treatments. And what could possibly be their motivation for such duplicity? The only end game here is to sew doubt in the minds of people who may have a potentially life threatening virus and get them to stop taking their medication. Hell they did that to Kari Stokely and look how well that turned out for her.

A little over two months ago I reported that Clark Baker had filed bankruptcy. As I said then, Baker felt this was a smart strategy to stop the impending avalanche of hefty financial judgments against him. Unfortunately for Mr. Baker, this was the worst thing that he could have possibly done. And now Mr. Baker is feeling the pressure.

Last Friday Dr. Murtagh’s attorneys began the first of many depositions against Mr. Baker and many of his cronies. You see, bankruptcy court allows Baker’s creditors much leeway and many options to get to the bottom of this fakeruptcy. Baker has sat through one deposition as the CEO of OMSJ that lasted 8 hours and he is scheduled to sit for another one this Thursday representing himself. Next week Carol Dunn, Baker’s “wife”, will be subjected to the same scenario. It will not be long before Robert Leppo, the multi-millionaire who financed OMSJ to the tune of $1.4 Million dollars since 2009, will be forced to account for his actions. This is just the start of the heat and Baker is feeling it.

Baker testified that he has been forced to retire because Mr. Leppo cut off the money train and Baker appears to be obviously bitter. Baker’s retirement fund is paltry, even by non-LA standards, and Baker is not ready to curb his exuberant lifestyle that was financed by Mr. Leppo. It’s getting ugly and Baker has adjusted his loyalty to cover his own ass.

If you have been even a small part of Baker’s operations you might want to consider coming forward now and save yourself. Contact me via comment (that I will not publish) and I can get you in touch with the winning team. I’m speaking directly to you, Mr. Leppo. Do the right thing and set the record straight.