Preview of My Book, Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History Of AIDS: Mark Crispin Miller's Foreword
Sometimes I have to PULL a post and do a re-take
I wanted to do two things:
1. Publish Mark’s foreword.
Tell you how I feel about this book coming out again and how it will affect the Substack. I wanted to be 100% transparent. BUT—I made a mistake. I realized it was two pieces, not one. So bear with me, here is Mark’s foreword.
I’ll take down, and republish the notes about the book’s coming into being, later. Sorry for the flurry of emails. I’m trying to get this right, strike a balance.
”When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”—Hunter S. Thompson
Note: Bill Perkins sent me the text of Mark’s foreword, finding my cobbled screenshots a “dog’s dinner.” I appreciated it and replaced the screenshots with more easily readable text, here, leaving the screen shots also though, for graphics. —CF
ForewordWhen Celia Farber wrote the articles comprising this "uncensored
history of AIDS," she did not know, nor could she have imagined, that
she was also writing an essential pre-history of the catastrophic sequel
yet to come. There are, of course, already many books about the COVID
crisis, and there will certainly be many more, but any thorough
bibliography on "the coronavirus" and its myriad disastrous consequences
must include this peerless book about HIV/AIDS-a dress rehearsal for the
notional "pandemic" that premiered in January 2020 and that's still
simmering (with no end in sight).
Although it came as a big shock to We the Viewers, believing, as so
many did, the propaganda line that SARS-Co V-2 had leapt scarily from
bats to humans-"COVID-19" was a movie that we'd seen before, as this
book should make clear to those who weren't around when it first played
back in the eighties, or who were, but couldn't see its flaws (because
the media would not report them, or talk to anyone who grasped them).
Back then, as an intrepid young reporter for Spin, Farber was the only
journalist, aside from some few allies in the gay press, to dig into the
science (or "science") of AIDS and to discuss it with those fighting on
both sides of the fierce struggle over its direction. While the majority
of journalists (or "journalists") sat reverently at Dr. Fauci's feet and
parroted his terroristic line on HIV (which made NAIAD, his agency, a
fortune, and him the very "God of public health) Farber noted that the
HIV/ AIDS thesis was, in the United States, wholly based on the
bombastic say-so of Dr. Robert Gallo. Well-informed by searching
conversations with (real) scientists like Dr. Peter Duesberg, Farber
realized, and reported, that there was apparently -no evidence- that HIV
causes AIDS, whereas there was much evidence that HIV does not cause
AIDS: evidence that was ferociously suppressed, while those seeking to
pursue it - Dr. Duesberg above ail - were maliciously attacked and (as
we now say) cancelled.
Thus Farber was a lucid and courageous witness of the power-play behind
the first "scamdemic," which in many ways foretold the one that has now
largely wrecked the world. That terrifying fabrication of the sure
lethality of HIV, despite the evidence disproving it, foretold the
terrifying exaggeration of the threat posed by SARS-CoV-2, despite the
evidence that it was no more lethal than the 'flu, a mortal danger only
to the old and very sick - evidence that was also dangerous to mention
(although Dr. Fauci, early on, affirmed confusingly, that SARS-CoV-2 was
no more lethal than the 'flu).
Moreover, what made HIV so very frightening was its devilish
invisibility, since it "spread" asymptomatically, so you couldn't know
you 'had it" unless a PCR test found you "positive," in which case you
were doomed. As Farber learned from an infuriated Kary Mullis, the
inventor of PCR technology (for which he won a Nobel Prize), that test
should not be used for diagnostic purposes, yet Fauci was then using it,
strategically, to pump up the number of the doomed. Thus Fauci's HIV/
AIDS myth anticipated the mythology of COVID, whose rapid "spread" was
also undetectable except by PCR, the test itself creating COVID "cases"
by the million, out of thin air.
The terrifying "spread" of HIV was also (seemingly) affirmed by a
certain diagnostic promiscuity, as all the millions allegedly "living
with HIV/AIDS worldwide included many who just -maybe- "had it," or
looked like they did.
On the harrowing UNAIDS statistics released in 1987, Farber notes that
they "represent the organization's estimate of the number of people
presumed to be infected with HIV" - a clear precursor to the millions
stricken (presumably) with "presumed COVID-19." HIV's ever-spiking toll,
or relentless "spread," was inflated further by the frequent
misdiagnosis of deaths from other illnesses as "AIDS deaths," as Farber
found in Africa, where she went in search of evidence that AIDS was
wiping out the continent, as asserted, with neo-colonial zeal, by the
AIDS-industrial complex. In a Ugandan village overrun by heavily funded
western AIDS-fighters, Farber learned that the people there now called
all deaths-from malaria or any other illness-"AIDS deaths." (AIDS "is a
formula for everything here," one villager said wearily.)
That African phenomenon foretold the global plague of bogus diagnoses,
whereby deaths caused by 'flu, pneumonia, heart attack, and even
motorcycle accidents were written up as "COVID deaths" - as were
countless others who had "tested positive" but clearly died of other
co-morbidities.
So much for the terroristic fakery (some might say wizardry) behind the
two "scamdemics."
What of the social, cultural, and medical effects of all that fear back
then ? Fauci brought the fear to a high boil by inventing what he called
the "heterosexual spread" of AIDS - a myth without a shred of evidence
behind it.
Yet it was, at once, hysterically affirmed as "scientific" truth by the
relentless fear-pornographers of "our free press," who thereby helped
make sexual union seem as dangerous as chain-smoking or Russian
roulette, so that people now refrained from passionate encounters,
eyeing potential partners warily, and refusing to embrace without the
latex armor of "safe sex." That new fear in the sexual realm foretold
the universal madness of mask mandates and "social distancing," whereby
millions now avoided not just casual sex, but one another, on the
crackpot premise that society itself is dangerous. And yet there was -
and is - a consequence of Fauci's devilry far more grave than that
misanthropic creed of "staying safe." As Farber tried to tell the world
back then, the purpose of the HIV/AIDS propaganda drive was not to save
gay lives, or any lives. On the contrary, the purpose of arousing, and
maintaining, all that panic over HIV was to make people desperate to
take AZT - a "cure" far deadlier than that "virus", and one that slowly
killed some 300,OO0 gay men, including Rudolf Nureyev, Keith Haring,
Freddie Mercury, and others whose death-agonies were misreported
mawkishly as -caused by AIDS-. If Farber's reportage had received the
hearing it deserved and moved other journalists [...missing text...].
Celia Farber's work is journalism at its best: solid, lucid, and
humane, attacking wrongs that few dare touch, and thereby helping right
them, and doing so with uncommon literary grace (and flashes of a
devastating humor). For this she should have won professional rewards
and been exalted as a journalistic luminary. And yet, so mighty are the
figures whose wrongdoing she exposed, and so corrupt is journalism in
their world, that Farber was not hailed but trashed for her
accomplishment, while Fauci is a multimillionaire, and widely deemed a
saint, despite the evil he has done. With "Serious Adverse Events"
now back in print, it should be possible, at last, to remedy that dual
injustice.”
MARK CRISPIN MILLER,
New York City, December 2022
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I'm going to get the book and read it myself instead of just reading a few short excerpts in RFK, Jr.'s book on Fauci. Mark Crispin Miller wrote the perfect foreword. He's become an indispensable writer with his Covid reports.
Good luck with the re-issue! The book ought to have even more interest today.
Celia ~ just read your email, and am crying ... messy, 'ugly' (as they say), good, cleansing tears. Thank you for your candor in the email. There's a lot I want to say but much of it will have to wait. For now, I am thrilled knowing that your book will arrive direct from Chelsea Green sometime in late March or early April. I am delighted to be one of many allies in promoting your book before and after it is published. I am glad you are alive to see this re-issue, and I am sorry that some of your colleagues aren't (I'm sure they're aware of it, nonetheless). Thank you for staying golden in such a dark time. Lots of love, much appreciation, and congratulations.