AIDS: A Second Opinion

by Gary Null

In this first book to bring both establishment and dissenting views of the AIDS crisis into one volume, Gary Null unravels the halftruths that many argue have marred the study of this disease from the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583220623
• ISBN13: 9781583220627
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Physician Finds Merit

Gary Null's AIDS: A Second Opinion is a book that I could not put down. I found it to be the most comprehensive, insightful, provocative, and disturbing book on AIDS that I have ever read. And as someone who has counseled numerous patients with AIDS, I found that it offered valuable insights into the politics and controversies surrounding this condition. (I should mention that I am not coming from "the fringe," but am a graduate of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, an assistant clinical professor of neurology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the author of more than 50 articles published in peer-reviewed medical journals. So I read the book with the critical eye of one who has been immersed in the mainstream medical world.)Null and co-author James Feast do us a service in giving voice to the point of view of AIDS dissidents such as Nobel laureates Drs. Mullis and Gilbert, as well as Professors Strohman and Rasnick, and the many others cited in the book. One has to wonder, why hasn't their collective challenge to the "HIV equals AIDS equals death" paradigm been given more publicity? These are credentialed people, and there certainly is, as this book shows, reasonableness to their claims. I myself have had three patients with advanced AIDS and substantially debilitated health who then undertook various natural protocols and improved their overall immune function significantly. So why wouldn't I want to explore alternative approaches to this condition? Why wouldn't I want to review as many scientific references as possible that support these approaches? I am happy to have a book on hand that goes beyond the party line of those who run the war on AIDS, looks at alternative perspectives, and provides extensive documentation to support them.Furthermore, I plan to make this book required reading for all of the persons I counsel with AIDS-defining illnesses. And I would recommend it to every concerned and conscientious physician, nurse, and public health advocate in the country.

AIDS: A second opinion- It's More about the Facts

AIDS: A Second opinion is, in MY opinion, the most revealing, and singly most valuable source book in its field. As a health care professional I have witnessed people with AIDS not only improving their lives after applying the principles outlined in this book, but more importantly, empowering themselves for the first time to stand up for their privacy and to challenge the destructive rituals of an industry designed to perpetuate itself at the cost of human dignity and lives. What really works in this book is the fact that it is well researched, detail oreinted, makes good sense and is easy to follow. It encompasses the economics and politics as well as practical science and natural approaches to healing the immune system. I can say without any hesitation that it's about time we considered what truly helps people with AIDS, even if the answers lie outside of our circle of the proverbial scientific "known" that we try to fiercely to protect with a righteous defensiveness. I praise Gary Null and James Feast for the courage to publish the first renaissance approach to this socially charged "disease". I am humbled by this book's richness and content and highly recommend it as one of the best nonfiction reads of the year.

HIV=AIDS? Where, oh, WHERE is the proof? Anyone?

Before you get an AIDS test, before you take AZT, before you let your doctor tell you you're gonna die -- read this. You'll be shocked and angered by the politics at work behind this tragedy.When I heard of this issue I thought like most -- "Pshh! 2 or 3 conspiracy kooks!" Gary Null has interviewed over 5,000 scientists, researchers, journalists, including many Nobel Prize winners, who've been shut out of the mainstream media to compile this book. He goes through systematically, using nothing but facts, and traces the beginnings of AIDS, how it's being misdiagnosed, how pharmaceutical companies have suppressed dissent, how the corporate media has towed the line, and interviews people who've had AIDS are now alive and well through natural means."It's such an emotional thing, people get personally committed to what really is a body of evidence that can be analyzed by lots of people...BUT NO ONE CAN WRITE A REVIEW OF IT THAT SAYS 'HIV IS THE CAUSE OF AIDS because of this..." If a post-doc were to write a review of their literature that showed without much doubt that HIV is the cause of AIDS he'd be famous. Now there's 100,000 people out there who've had this opportunity, [15] years have passed, we've been waiting for this star post-doctorate fellow to distinguish himself forever and get a lifelong grant...but he hasn't shown up! No one has bothered to write a definitive review." --Kary Mullis, Phd, Biochemist, Nobel Prize 1993, inventor of polymerase chain reactor (PCR) technology used in testing diseases.

Truth needs a champion . Gary Null is the man.

Provocative as always, once again Gary Null gathers a stunning list of experts and research to challenge an existing paradigm. Far from endorsing the accepted view of AIDS as an infectious disease caused by HIV he calls into question the science behind the discovery of HIV, the validity of AIDS statistics, and, no suprise here, the remedies offered by the biomedical establishment. Challenging the use of AZT and other highly toxic drugs which destroy the immune system, he offers instead treatments to bolster the immune system and to treat the whole person. This is a fine book, one that deserves to be widely read and discussed. The biomedical community, with billions to be made, should be challenged at every turn. Thank God we've got Gary Null.