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'''David William Rasnick''' (born 1948) is a [[chemist]] and [[biologist]] known for his work in the area of [[AIDS denialism|HIV/AIDS denial]].
'''David William Rasnick''' (born 1948) is a [[chemist]] and [[biologist]] known for his work in the area of Chromosomal imbalance of Cancer and [[Retrovirus|Retrovirus Research]] including AIDS.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Chromosomal-Imbalance-Theory-Cancer-Carcinogenesis/dp/1578087376|title=The Chromosomal Imbalance Theory of Cancer: The Autocatalyzed Progression of Aneuploidy is Carcinogenesis|last=Rasnick|first=David|date=2011-12-20|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9781578087372|edition=1 edition|location=Enfield, NH Boca Raton, FL|language=English}}</ref>


==Education and views==
== Education and body of work ==
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David Rasnick received a [[Ph.D.]] in [[chemistry]] from [[Georgia Institute of Technology|Georgia Tech]] in 1978; his thesis was entitled "Affinity Labeling of Metalloendoproteases."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/affinity-labeling-of-metalloendoproteases/oclc/638449874&referer=brief_results | title=Affinity labeling of metalloendoproteases | date=1978 | accessdate=28 October 2013 | author=Rasnick, David William |format=electronic thesis or dissertation}}</ref> In a 1998 interview, he stated that he had studied [[protease]]s and their [[Protease inhibitor (biology)|inhibitors]] for twenty years.<ref name="Zenger's">{{cite news |last=Conlan |first=Mark |url=http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/mcinterviewdr.htm |title=Interview David Rasnick: A real scientist |work=Zenger's |year=1998 |accessdate=2007-03-07 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208105556/http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/mcinterviewdr.htm |archivedate=2007-02-08 |df= }}</ref> According to [[PubMed]], Rasnick has contributed to 35 scientific papers on protease-related research and other topics,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&cmd=search&term=rasnick+d|title=PubMed search for David Rasnick|accessdate=2017-03-30}}</ref> and has also written a book about the [[aneuploidy]] theory of cancer.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VTClFDDkyV0C | title=The Chromosomal Imbalance Theory of Cancer: The Autocatalyzed Progression of Aneuploidy is Carcinogenesis | publisher=[[CRC Press]] | author=Rasnick, David William | year=2011}}</ref>
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David Rasnick received a [[Ph.D.]] in [[chemistry]] from [[Georgia Institute of Technology|Georgia Tech]] in 1978; his thesis was entitled "Affinity labeling of metalloendoproteases."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/affinity-labeling-of-metalloendoproteases/oclc/638449874&referer=brief_results | title=Affinity labeling of metalloendoproteases | date=1978 | accessdate=28 October 2013 | author=Rasnick, David William |format=electronic thesis or dissertation}}</ref> In a 1998 interview, he stated that he had studied [[protease]]s and their [[Protease inhibitor (biology)|inhibitors]] for twenty years.<ref name="Zenger's">{{cite news |last=Conlan |first=Mark |url=http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/mcinterviewdr.htm |title=Interview David Rasnick: A real scientist |work=Zenger's |year=1998 |accessdate=2007-03-07 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208105556/http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/mcinterviewdr.htm |archivedate=2007-02-08 |df= }}</ref> According to [[PubMed]], Rasnick has contributed to 35 scientific papers on protease-related research and other topics,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&cmd=search&term=rasnick+d|title=PubMed search for David Rasnick|accessdate=2017-03-30}}</ref> and has also written a book about the [[aneuploidy]] theory of cancer.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VTClFDDkyV0C | title=The Chromosomal Imbalance Theory of Cancer: The Autocatalyzed Progression of Aneuploidy is Carcinogenesis | publisher=[[CRC Press]] | author=Rasnick, David William | year=2011}}</ref>


Rasnick is best known for his views regarding [[AIDS denialism|HIV/AIDS denial]]. His claim that HIV is not the main cause of AIDS puts him at odds with the scientific community. Regarding his level of expertise on HIV/AIDS, Rasnick states that his own research on rat proteases did not involve HIV/AIDS: "my own research...had nothing to do with AIDS." <ref name="Zenger's"/>
Rasnick is also known for his work area of Chromosomal imbalance of Cancer and [[Retrovirus|Retrovirus Research]] such as HIV. As “a man who had been working on proteases his entire professional life” Rasnick “challenged the assertion that mutations in HIV were responsible for the long-term failure of the protease inhibitor.”<ref name="Zenger's"/>


In March 2005 Rasnick was hired by [[Matthias Rath]] of the Rath Foundation in [[South Africa]], responsible to set up a medical lab capable of antiretroviral analysis. The Rath Foundation worked with government and non-governmental organizations until mid-2006 to promote natural approaches to health and disease to demonstrate that proper diet supplemented with vitamins and micronutrients could reverse the course of AIDS-defining diseases in chronically poor, malnourished South Africans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.davidrasnick.com/Home_files/Rasnick%20CV%20webpage.pdf|title=Curriculum Vitae|author=Rasnick, David|date=2012|work=Davidrasnick.com|accessdate=28 October 2013}}</ref> The Rath Foundation and its named employees including Rasnick, became the subject of a lawsuit by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in South Africa. In June, 2008, the South African Cape High Court ruled against the Rath Foundation and its employees including Rasnick in absentia declaring the trials illegal and prohibiting the publication of false advertisements for vitamins.<ref>[http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAWCHC/2008/34.html ''Treatment Action Campaign and Another v Rath and Others'' (12156/05)] [2008] [[ZAWCHC]] 34; [2008] 4 All SA 360 (C) (13 June 2008)</ref>
However, his observations, based on his understanding of retroviruses and collaboration with AIDS denialist [[Peter Duesberg]], that retroviruses are not sexually transmissible and have never been shown to cause disease, are distressing to the mainstream scientific community, who for this reason refuse to engage with him. His position that AIDS is not caused by HIV and is not an infectious disease is very much a minority view. He claims that the consequences for the medical and political establishments of admitting that they have wasted a quarter of a trillion dollars prevents any open debate around the issue.<ref>{{YouTube|jw_PJPqVk0o}}</ref>


David Rasnick served as visiting scholar at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] from 1996 to 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tac.org.za/news/tac-electronic-newsletter-26/|title=TAC Electronic Newsletter – TAC – Treatment Action Campaign|website=tac.org.za|language=en-ZA|access-date=2017-09-17}}</ref>
Rasnick has proposed that HIV testing be completely outlawed, because it has no standard baseline to objectively describe its result. As the insert in the test acknowledges this to be the case, and as a positive or negative is influenced by a variety of external factors, it serves no useful purpose. Furthermore, it instils fear into those diagnosed. He acknowledges that there is a link between a positive test and a diagnosis of AIDS, but sees this as a priori true, insofar as the diagnosis depends upon a positive HIV test.{{Citation needed|date=November 2016}}

==Work with Rath Foundation==

Rasnick has worked with [[Matthias Rath]] in [[South Africa]], where they have emphasized the purported risks of [[antiretroviral]] therapy and urged HIV/AIDS patients to use vitamin and nutritional supplements instead.

Rasnick and the Rath Foundation became the subject of a lawsuit by the [[Treatment Action Campaign]] (TAC) in [[South Africa]]. The lawsuit was brought as a result of clinical trials conducted by Rasnick and the Rath Foundation which were not approved by the appropriate authorities in South Africa and did not undergo any [[medical ethics|ethical review]]. The trials involved recruiting poor black South Africans with HIV, instructing them not to take effective [[HAART|antiretrovirals]], and providing them instead with vitamin supplements.<!-- Court documents regarding TAC's lawsuit are online at http://www.tac.org.za/rath.html.--> These trials resulted in at least five deaths known to TAC, and possibly up to twelve.

In June, 2008, the South African [[Cape High Court]] ruled against Rasnick and other defendants associated with the Rath Foundation,<ref>[http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAWCHC/2008/34.html ''Treatment Action Campaign and Another v Rath and Others'' (12156/05)] [2008] [[ZAWCHC]] 34; [2008] 4 All SA 360 (C) (13 June 2008)</ref> declaring their vitamin trials illegal and prohibiting the publication of false advertisements for vitamins. The Court also stated that health authorities in South Africa have an obligation to investigate and stop illegal activities of Rasnick and the Rath Foundation.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200806130819.html|title=South Africa: It's all over for Rath|work=Health-e|publisher=All Africa|date=2008-06-13|accessdate=2008-06-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7453449.stm|title=S Africa bans AIDS vitamin trials|work=[[BBC]]|date=2008-06-13|accessdate=2008-06-16}}</ref>

==University affiliation claims==

David Rasnick has claimed to be a visiting scholar at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], and his website states that he was a visiting scholar from 1996 to 2005 in [[Peter Duesberg]]'s lab.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.davidrasnick.com/Home_files/Rasnick%20CV%20webpage.pdf | title=Curriculum Vitae | work=Davidrasnick.com | date=2012 | accessdate=28 October 2013 | author=Rasnick, David}}</ref> However, in response to a 2006 editorial in which Rasnick claimed affiliation with the university, the chairman of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley wrote:

{{Quotation|I understand David Rasnick claimed an affiliation with our department in an article. David Rasnick has no affiliation with the University of California, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. One should obviously be concerned that someone who misrepresents his own affiliation might also misrepresent data and arguments in other areas.|sign=|source=}}

David Rasnick responded:

{{Quotation|Visiting scholar status with UC Berkeley had been terminated, without my knowledge, in 2005, after I had moved to SA. I now list my affiliation as Senior Researcher for the Dr Rath Health Foundation.

Critics of Aids orthodoxy must be as pristine as possible. Otherwise we are subject to attack instead of addressing our arguments, as evidenced by Professor Harland's comments.|sign=|source=}}


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 14:47, 17 September 2017

David Rasnick
Born1948 (age 75–76)
Alma materGeorgia Institute of Technology
Known forCancer, Aneuploidy and Retrovirus Research including AIDS
Scientific career
ThesisAffinity labeling of metalloendoproteases (1978)

David William Rasnick (born 1948) is a chemist and biologist known for his work in the area of Chromosomal imbalance of Cancer and Retrovirus Research including AIDS.[1]

Education and body of work

David Rasnick received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Georgia Tech in 1978; his thesis was entitled "Affinity Labeling of Metalloendoproteases."[2] In a 1998 interview, he stated that he had studied proteases and their inhibitors for twenty years.[3] According to PubMed, Rasnick has contributed to 35 scientific papers on protease-related research and other topics,[4] and has also written a book about the aneuploidy theory of cancer.[5]

Rasnick is also known for his work area of Chromosomal imbalance of Cancer and Retrovirus Research such as HIV. As “a man who had been working on proteases his entire professional life” Rasnick “challenged the assertion that mutations in HIV were responsible for the long-term failure of the protease inhibitor.”[3]

In March 2005 Rasnick was hired by Matthias Rath of the Rath Foundation in South Africa, responsible to set up a medical lab capable of antiretroviral analysis. The Rath Foundation worked with government and non-governmental organizations until mid-2006 to promote natural approaches to health and disease to demonstrate that proper diet supplemented with vitamins and micronutrients could reverse the course of AIDS-defining diseases in chronically poor, malnourished South Africans.[6] The Rath Foundation and its named employees including Rasnick, became the subject of a lawsuit by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in South Africa. In June, 2008, the South African Cape High Court ruled against the Rath Foundation and its employees including Rasnick in absentia declaring the trials illegal and prohibiting the publication of false advertisements for vitamins.[7]

David Rasnick served as visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley from 1996 to 2005.[8]

References

  1. ^ Rasnick, David (2011-12-20). The Chromosomal Imbalance Theory of Cancer: The Autocatalyzed Progression of Aneuploidy is Carcinogenesis (1 edition ed.). Enfield, NH Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ISBN 9781578087372. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)
  2. ^ Rasnick, David William (1978). "Affinity labeling of metalloendoproteases" (electronic thesis or dissertation). Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  3. ^ a b Conlan, Mark (1998). "Interview David Rasnick: A real scientist". Zenger's. Archived from the original on 2007-02-08. Retrieved 2007-03-07. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ "PubMed search for David Rasnick". Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  5. ^ Rasnick, David William (2011). The Chromosomal Imbalance Theory of Cancer: The Autocatalyzed Progression of Aneuploidy is Carcinogenesis. CRC Press.
  6. ^ Rasnick, David (2012). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Davidrasnick.com. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  7. ^ Treatment Action Campaign and Another v Rath and Others (12156/05) [2008] ZAWCHC 34; [2008] 4 All SA 360 (C) (13 June 2008)
  8. ^ "TAC Electronic Newsletter – TAC – Treatment Action Campaign". tac.org.za. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
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