World AIDS Day: AIDS Incorporated?

We were thinking about writing a feature here about World AIDS Day – what it means and why it’s important. But you could check that out here, here, here and here.

But instead we invited ScallyDanDan – a visual artist from Manchester to offer an alternative view for World AIDS Day.

Is the current AIDS situation working?

As I write this it is World AIDS Day. Like most gay men, we’ve all been touched by the effects of this vicious disease, either individually or through people we know and love. When a disease has such clear destructive effects, emotions are so high and views about it so rigidly carved; it can be dangerous to radically challenge the ‘official line’ about the causes and propagation of it.

Although few of us question the root of the official line, and it’s singular repetition of sticking to ‘the one story’ which suits the needs of the pharmaceutical cartels, the funding agencies and the organisations which rely on that funding, who in turn regurgitate the same story.

Whilst this disease is ravaging the lives of millions, lets not forget it has also created a whole industry which a few at the top are getting very rich from, perhaps these people don’t want a cure?

I for one do.

But how is this possible though when scientists with dissident views to the consensus, including Nobel Prize holders, are systemically gagged. How are new breakthroughs possible when all major medical journals, refuse to publish work that challenges the hypothesis that HIV is the probable cause of AIDS. How can dialogue continue when scientists that do not accept the official story have their funding cut and they cannot operate a laboratory, and as a consequence their credibility is jeopardised?