Please accept my condolence about Shelton’s passing. I too have lost friends to AIDS, however, you and I differ about what killed them. Neither you nor I know exactly what led to the untimely passing of either Christine Maggiore or Shelton, though we have our own ideas.

Please don’t assume that AIDS rethinkers are “denialists”. Most of us do not deny the reality of AIDS. I worked as a home health aid for PWAs in 1995 and witnessed up close the pain involved as well as the beauty of letting go and dying with peace.

Why are you so sure that Christine died from AIDS? She lived at least 17 years after initially testing poz, then negative, then indeterminate, then poz, then neg, then….. For many years, the AIDS establishment accused her of lying about her status. She never did meds, but in her last year, she suffered enormous stress as she endured public ridicule and scorn, and horrendously unfair portrayals in the media, such as the grossly inaccurate depiction of her on the Law and Order episode in Nov. of 2008.

Did you know that she had undertaken a radical cleanse and detox protocol which left her extremely weak and unable to eat in the weeks before becoming diagnosed with baceterial (not AIDS) pnemonia? It was obviously ill advised or not conducted with proper care, and that may have been a mistake on her and her detox specialist’s part. However, it is not unheard of for a highly stressed. older, and malnourished person to succumb to bacterial pnuemonia. There is no evidence she died of PCP. She was under medical supervision and had not been diagnosed with PCP.

Shelton may not have died from AIDS either, but from the direct toxic effects of AIDS meds. I dont know. Either way, dont you think it is odd that your friend supposedly died from HIV at the young age of 31, despite being on HAART , and Christine died at the age of 52, after at least 17 years of avoiding the AIDS meds?

So there is no intention to upset anyone, especially not someone as innocent as you are.

And I’d still say that you are not following it close enough… but perhaps this is not the best time for attempting to open your mind about that.

But I’m afraid you got a false image about those “horrendous websites”, and the denialists are not “denialists” either actually. I suppose you never did a very thorough research on the “Rethinking AIDS” subject and perhaps you never will, but please don’t just attack people you don’t know and proclaim websites you don’t visit, no matter what mood you’re in. They’re not disrespecting your friend anyway. They’re just being aware of what’s going on in this world.

Peace…