Celia Farber, the author of the controversial 2006 Harpers magazine article, 'Out of Control: AIDS and the corruption of medical science', has filed a libel suit against three prominent commentators who support the AIDS orthdoxy. Her article attracted a lot of attention, and Robert Gallo lent his name to a document called 'Errors in Celia Farber's March 2006 article in Harpers Magazine', listing what they claimed were 56 specific errors. This was extensively rebutted and documented by Rethinking AIDS and others.

When Celia Farber and Peter Duesberg were given 'Clean Hands' awards by the Semmelweiss society the attacks on Celia Farber were stepped up into what amounted to a smear campaign against her. This led to an investigation by former LAPD police officer and private investigator Clark Baker at the request of the Semmelweiss society. He said, "After having investigated thousands of crimes and arrested hundreds of criminal gang members and other assorted predators, I know a criminal enterprise when I see one.  HIV/AIDS makes Enron look like a neighborhood poker game."

So now, in an action that she described as 'taking back the neighbourhood', Celia Farber has filed for libel against some of the perpetrators. We await this with interest, because if it is decided in court that the claims made against her were libellous, then it seriously weakens the scientific criticisms of her article and undermines others who associated their names with those criticisms, such as prominent spokesman for the AIDS orthodoxy Dr John Moore and a driving force behind the ironically-named AIDSTruth.com, and also Dr Robert Gallo.

The Archer report on Haemophiliacs allegedly infected with HIV (available here), as expected, completely misses the point. It clings to the notion that haemophiliacs actually were infected with HIV, and were not being made ill by the staggeringly impure Factor VIII itself before AZT came out, and were then slaughtered almost wholesale when given AZT in doses that now nobody disputes to be cumulatively lethal. In response, HEAL London, The Immunity Resource Foundation and Alex Verney-Elliot have responded to it with the following letter:

AN URGENT RESPONSE TO: THE ARCHER ENQUIRY

On NHS Supplied Contaminated Blood and Blood Products

27^th February 2009

To The Secretary of State for Health: The Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP,
Department of Health,
Richmond House,
79 Whitehall
London SW1A 2NS

Dear Alan Johnson,