{"id":911,"date":"2011-02-24T21:26:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T03:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2016-01-24T19:57:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T00:57:10","slug":"hpay033-joan-shenton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/hpay033-joan-shenton\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 33: Film Maker Joan Shenton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Shenton is an award-winning British television producer whose company, Meditel Productions, has produced over 150 programs for network television. In 1987, she produced the first documentary challenging the science behind the HIV=AIDS hypothesis, &#8220;AIDS: The Unheard Voices&#8221;, which won the Royal Television Society Award for Journalism. She then produced three more documentaries: &#8220;The AIDS Catch&#8221;, &#8220;AZT &#8211; Cause for Concern&#8221;, and &#8220;AIDS and Africa&#8221;. She is currently creating a new documentary, &#8220;<a title=\"Positively False: Birth of a Heresy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.positivelyfalsemovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Positively False: Birth of a Heresy<\/a>&#8220;, soon to be released in 2011. Joan is best known for her book, &#8220;Positively False: Exposing the Myths Around HIV and AIDS&#8221;, which can be found on Amazon.com, Alibris.com, and other online resources. In this hour-long conversation, David, Terry and Joan explore a range of fascinating topics centered around the rethinking AIDS movement, and the fierce resistance it encounters worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Joan&#8217;s wonderful videos, and other historical video material, can be explored at her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.immunity.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Immune Resource Foundation website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE, January 2016: Joan&#8217;s films are now available on YouTube! \u00a0<\/strong>Immunity Resource Foundation Web site editor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.immunity.org.uk\/positive-hell-now-free-to-watch-in-addition-to-positively-false\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mohammed Aziz writes<\/a> as of January 14 that Joan Shenton and Andi Reiss&#8217; Meditel film production company granted YouTube channel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC_33JRmECd2PghhPzKYfTMg\" target=\"_blank\">Question Everything<\/a>\u00a0permission to upload both\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q-iccGpFto8\" target=\"_blank\">Positively False<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Positive Hell (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JZ3n6icJIXA\" target=\"_blank\">English\/Spanish version<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bNGIqrVB9ao\" target=\"_blank\">French-subtitled version<\/a>), which it has done. We see a lot of other AIDS-dissident documentaries on the channel, including the acclaimed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BwgmzbnckII\" target=\"_blank\">House of Numbers<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/2014\/03\/01\/hpay079-anne-sono\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Sono<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r5aaKovPxOs\" target=\"_blank\">I Won&#8217;t Go Quietly<\/a>,\u00a0so head on over there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The\u00a016th Anniversary edition of Joan&#8217;s book,\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.positivelyfalsebook.com\" target=\"_blank\">Positively False: Exposing the Myths Around HIV and AIDS<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0has received at least one\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/R2ROEH1L8ZHI4S\/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B00QE80HNW&amp;channel=detail-glance&amp;nodeID=283155&amp;store=books#wasThisHelpful\" target=\"_blank\">very favorable review<\/a>\u00a0on Amazon. Congratulations, Joan! (We note that &#8220;KindleUnlimited&#8221; customers get the Kindle edition free. <\/em>Free.<em>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Shenton is an award-winning British television producer whose company, Meditel Productions, has produced over 150 programs for network television. In 1987, she produced the first documentary challenging the science behind the HIV=AIDS hypothesis, &#8220;AIDS: The Unheard Voices&#8221;, which won the Royal Television Society Award for Journalism. She then produced three more documentaries: &#8220;The AIDS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[192,189,200,63,185,187,190,194,121,130,11,183,225,193,184,196,191,195,144,181,202,197,28,186,199,188,102,77,105,201,198],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hpay-podcast","tag-afghanistan","tag-anne-blumenthal","tag-anthony-fauci","tag-azt","tag-bbc","tag-burroughs-wellcome","tag-carl-leone","tag-christian-fiala","tag-david-crowe","tag-glaxosmithkline","tag-hiv-testing","tag-jad-adams","tag-joan-shenton","tag-malnourishment","tag-michael-verney-elliott","tag-montreal-gazette","tag-mrc","tag-neville-hodgkinson","tag-peter-duesberg","tag-prep","tag-protease-inhibitors","tag-ra-2011","tag-russia","tag-sky-news","tag-smon","tag-terrence-higgins-trust","tag-test-and-treat","tag-tommy-morrison","tag-washington-dc","tag-washington-times","tag-world-aids-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3394,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/3394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}