I felt it necessary to post any threat to human life articles in this blog since Saving the Planet involves everything in it, not only the geographic aspects but also the demographic aspects which constitutes - humanity.
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US Army researchers accused of giving positive spin to a
vaccine trial that was predicted to fail because the
strategy is wrong. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
Another AIDS vaccine failure given a positive spin
A large clinical trial of an AIDS vaccine carried out by the
US Army and its collaborators in Thailand showed that the
vaccine offered protection against HIV infections by about a
third. The announcement, made at press conferences on 24
September 2009, raised hopes that a positive AIDS vaccine
will finally become available.
But since then, two published accounts have dashed these
hopes. Researchers given confidential briefings on the trial
data, revealed that the results were weaker than even the
modest success claimed [1]. In particular, when the results
were analyzed according to protocol – when only those who
got all six vaccine shots at the right time and were
followed up to the end of the trial were included - no
statistically significant protection was found.
The public announcement was based on the result obtained by
including every participant in the trial. Anthony Fauci,
director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases defended the announcement, and rejected the
accusation of a cover-up.
As reported by Jon Cohen in Science magazine [2], of those
who had received any doses of the two vaccines used in
combination, 51 had infections, compared to the 74 that
became infected in the placebo group. This difference
represented an efficacy of 31.2 percent, statistically
significant at 4 percent probability. When only the
participants in both groups that had rigorously followed the
protocol were included, the efficacy was reduced to 26
percent, and the difference between vaccine and placebo
groups was not statistically significant.
Researchers were critical of the way the announcement was
made to the press. One leading HIV/AIDS investigator, who,
like others, wished to remain anonymous, told Cohen [2]:”The
press conference was not a scholarly, rigorously honest
presentation. It doesn’t meet the standards that have been
set for other trials, and it doesn’t fully present the
borderline results. It is wrong.”
Read the rest of this report here
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/firstPositiveAIDSVaccine.php
Or read other articles about HIV and AIDS here
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/HIVandAIDS.php
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