{"id":2568,"date":"2014-11-20T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2015-01-03T17:11:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T22:11:40","slug":"hpay-091-david_rasnick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/hpay-091-david_rasnick\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 91: Dr. David Rasnick Finds No Evidence That Ebola Has Ever Been Isolated in a Human Being &#8212; Does This Sound Familiar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<em>There is no objective, reliable or authentic evidence that Ebola has ever been isolated from a human being<\/em>,\u201d says biochemist David Rasnick, Ph.D. Should you believe this scientist or the well-known <a href=\"http:\/\/i.huffpost.com\/gen\/2097108\/thumbs\/o-EBOLA-VIRUS-facebook.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">picture of the yarn-like virus<\/a> said to be decimating West Africans \u2014 literally as we speak in November 2014? When the U.S. Centers for Disease Control warns of a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/emergency.cdc.gov\/socialmedia\/zombies.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Zombie Apocalypse<\/a>,\u201d it may be time to question\u00a0who is defining your reality. . . .<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been 37 years since publication of the first three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/cn7cb90c8y8rp56\/AACubKRB_T5STOdgCkirgs9ua\/Ebola%20TEM?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\">papers<\/a> claiming \u201cisolation and partial characterization\u201d of a virus alleged to cause hemorrhagic (bleeding) fever. Today, the evidence that\u00a0what they discovered came from a human being is\u00a0still unconvincing, the electron micrographs are murky and show only a single or a few particles, and the diagnostic tests are admittedly flawed.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t take our word for it. Listen and decide for yourself if what Dr. Rasnick says makes more sense than a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/phpr\/zombies_novella.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Zombie Pandemic<\/a>\u201d and widespread panic over something that notably has <i>not<\/i> spread to the West, despite being sold as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/csr\/don\/archive\/disease\/ebola\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">an \u201cepidemic\u201d since March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You <i>almost<\/i> heard it here first. Investigative reporter Jon Rappoport\u2019s November 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/03\/bombshell-scientist-finds-no-reliable-evidence-ebola-virus-ever-isolated-from-a-human-being\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBombshell\u201d article quoting Dr. Rasnick<\/a> and Dr. James Tracy\u2019s excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wQ5hyBLnXA4\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Realpolitik <\/i>Podcast with Rappoport<\/a> are both linkable from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidrasnick.com\/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\">the scientist\u2019s Web site<\/a> (see column on right side). From \u201cEbola Files,\u201d you can peek into Dr. Rasnick\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/cn7cb90c8y8rp56\/AADvavmx5GnF0zWUR_VpVFeoa?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\">personal literature search on Dropbox<\/a>, which includes\u00a0several of the scientific documents discussed here. Rappoport has put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/category\/ebola\/\" target=\"_blank\">compilation of his own articles on Ebola<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow Positive Are You\u201d previously took on the Ebola \u201cepidemic,\u201d \u201ccrisis,\u201d \u201cphenomenon,\u201d public relations campaign, what-have-you, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/2014\/10\/23\/hpay-089-helen_lauer\/\">Episode 89<\/a> with Professor Helen Lauer of the University of Ghana, and in an \u201cXTRA\u201d posting of HPAY co-host <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/2014\/10\/30\/xtra-the-infectious-myth-looks-for-ebola-and-doesnt-find-it-either\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Crowe\u2019s scientific review<\/a> on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/prn.fm\/shows\/infectious-myth\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Infectious Myth<\/a>\u201d Podcast. It was even mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/2014\/11\/12\/hpay-090-john_virapen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Episode 90<\/a> with former pharmaceutical executive John Virapen, who alleged that governments and drug companies routinely\u00a0orchestrate similar disease crises. And need we even mention that this whole mess follows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virusmyth.com\/aids\/hiv\/jrmedavoy.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the same template<\/a> for research, propaganda and questionable diagnoses that created\u00a0&#8220;AIDS&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rasnick mentions two books, <a href=\"http:\/\/disciplinedminds.tripod.com\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Disciplined Minds<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism\/dp\/069114589X\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Democracy Incorporated<\/i><\/a><i> <\/i>(author interviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidrasnick.com\/Wolin_Interview.html\">here<\/a>), in reference to how American citizens and professionals learn to stop thinking altogether. Ebola is a chilling example of this process, he says.<\/p>\n<p>We also mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/models-overestimate-ebola-cases-1.16279\" target=\"_blank\">a recent <i>Nature<\/i> article<\/a> on the failure of mathematical models to predict the progress of this \u201cepidemic.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lwIIMaTbR2w\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Leitner\u2019s YouTube video on Ebola<\/a> cites a CDC study showing that only 20% of those testing \u201cpositive\u201d by an alleged diagnostic test had\u00a0hemorrhagic symptoms at all, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1411680\" target=\"_blank\">a very recent article in <i>The New England Journal of Medicine<\/i><\/a>\u00a0reported only one case of hemorrhagic fever among 44 alleged Ebola patients. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/http:\/\/howpositiveareyou.com\/feed\/downloads\/\/2014\/11\/10124-HighPrevalenceAntibodiesEbolaGabon.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A study in Gabon<\/a>\u00a0discovered\u00a0high levels of false positives using an antibody-based test, and regular listeners of HPAY may be familiar with our criticisms of PCR-based testing, best known as\u00a0the \u201cviral load\u201d tests for \u201cHIV.\u201d Dr. Rasnick himself commented on this in<b> <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virusmyth.com\/aids\/hiv\/drconf.htm\" target=\"_blank\">1997<\/a><b> <\/b>and <a href=\"http:\/\/davidrasnick.com\/AIDS_Articles_files\/an%20abuse%20of%20surrogate%20markers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2003<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. David Rasnick earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from Georgia Tech in 1978. He worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 25 years, exploring enzymes called proteases and developing protease inhibitor drugs to treat tissue-destroying diseases such as cancer, emphysema and arthritis \u2013 long before drugs of this class became components of the \u201ccocktails\u201d used to treat AIDS patients. Dr. Rasnick has more recently worked alongside Dr. Peter Duesberg of the University of California-Berkeley on the aneuploidy theory of cancer pathogenesis. He is a long-time member of the Rethinking AIDS board of directors. In 2000, at the request of South African President Thabo Mbeki, he served on the Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rasnick appeared previously on HPAY, in Episodes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/2014\/03\/25\/tim005-davidrasnick-aneuploidy\/\">5<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/2011\/02\/07\/hpay032-davidrasnick\/\">32<\/a>, and on David Crowe&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/2014\/11\/19\/xtra-dr-david-rasnick-shoots-down-the-ebola-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Infectious Myth<\/a>&#8221; program on November 18, 2014. In early 2014, he testified as an expert witness for the defense in the Craig Lamar Davis criminal \u201cHIV transmission\u201d trial in Atlanta, which we reviewed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/2014\/02\/17\/hpay078-clarkbaker-craiglamaradavis\/\">Episode 78<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is no objective, reliable or authentic evidence that Ebola has ever been isolated from a human being,\u201d says Dr. Rasnick. Unbelievable? When the U.S. CDC warns of a \u201cZombie Apocalypse,\u201d it may be time to question who is defining your reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[26,20,31,17,121,242,41,842,844,847,708,12,311,843,16,130,82,11,98,85,441,863,862,544,144,340,19,14,845,13],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hpay-podcast","tag-africa","tag-aids","tag-aids-diagnosis","tag-aids-in-africa","tag-david-crowe","tag-david-rasnick","tag-duesberg","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-epidemic","tag-ebola-virus","tag-electron-microscopy","tag-elisa","tag-elizabeth-ely","tag-epidemic","tag-false-positive","tag-glaxosmithkline","tag-hiv","tag-hiv-testing","tag-hiv-tests","tag-hiv-positive","tag-isolation","tag-james-tracy","tag-jon-rappoport","tag-pcr","tag-peter-duesberg","tag-rethinking-aids","tag-statistics","tag-viral-load","tag-virus-isolation","tag-western-blot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":68,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2734,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}