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Well, some people have a totally different opinion.
Mike Adams and Natural news? Could you have possibly found a worse source to base your beliefs on?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Ranger#cite_note-17
Michael Allen "Mike" Adams (born 1967 in Lawrence, Kansas), the self-described "Health Ranger", is the founder and owner of NaturalNews.
Adams is an AIDS denialist, a 9/11 truther, a birther and endorsed conspiracy theories surrounding the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as well as surrounding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[13] He has endorsed Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business, a movie about Stanislaw Burzynski. Steven Novella characterises Adams as "a dangerous conspiracy-mongering crank". Adams has also written a favorable review of the pseudoscientific film House of Numbers on NaturalNews, which is reprinted on the film's website.
And what do we know about this film that Mike Adams is so enthusiastic about?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Numbers_(2009_film)
House of Numbers is a 2009 film by Brent Leung espousing AIDS denialism, the view that Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a harmless passenger virus and does not cause Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).[1] Leung describes the film as an objective examination of the idea that HIV causes AIDS.[1] The film's claims of impartiality have been widely rejected by scientists, who dismissed the film as pseudo-science and conspiracy theory masquerading as even-handed examination. Leung has declined to discuss funding for the film except to state that funders came from "all over the world".
In the film, Leung interviews a range of scientists and AIDS denialists, most notably Christine Maggiore. At the time of filming, Maggiore was HIV-positive and appeared healthy, despite her refusal to take anti-retroviral medication, which mainstream medicine uses to slow down the rate at which HIV destroys CD4+ T-cells. As she said in the film, she refused to take the medication, or provide it for her HIV-positive daughter, because she believed HIV did not cause AIDS. Rather, she believed that the medication itself caused AIDS. Maggiore's relative health, despite years of infection, is used by the film to support the idea that anti-retrovirals are unnecessary to combat, and may themselves cause, AIDS.
Maggiore and her daughter died of various AIDS-related infections several months before the film's release. However, her death is never mentioned in the film, except in small print during the closing credits along with a claim that her death was "unrelated to HIV."
Let me guess: Your believe HIV is yet another conspiracy theory, and "House of Numbers" and Natural News have taught you what's really happening. Of course, despite that fact that the main character in the film - whose health is touted as proof that it's the anti-HIV drugs, not HIV itself, that cause AIDS - died of AIDS months before the film was released, and the film hides that inconvenient little truth, you continue to believe. And it doesn't bother you that Mike Adams continues to promote this film. If you read something on Natural News, it must be true.