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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCharlie Sheen and the Danger of False Cures
Charlie Sheen's misadventure with a false cure for HIV/AIDShttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article/charlie-sheen-and-the-danger-of-false-cures/
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Perhaps this is why there was far less media frenzy and social mourning after the November 2015 announcement by actor Charlie Sheen that he was HIV-positive. Most assumed HAART would save Sheen's life, not his tiger blood and Adonis DNA that he boasted about during his highly publicized 2011 meltdown following his dismissal from the hit TV series Two and a Half Men.
What a surprise, then, to see featured on the popular HBO series Real Time with Bill Maher on January 29, 2016, one Dr. Samir Chachoua, who told Maher and his more than four million viewers that he cured Sheen of HIV through his own drug cocktail of milk from arthritic goats. The treatment is based on Chachoua's nemesis theory that for every disease there is an antidisease organism capable of destroying it and restoring health. Goat milk infected with caprine arthritis encephalitis virus, Chachoua says, is HIV's nemesis. When Sheen went to see him in Mexico (Chachoua is not licensed to practice medicine in the U.S.), very soon after treatment Sheen's liver tests allegedly returned to normal levels.
Chachoua also boasted that he had eradicated HIV from the small African island nation of Comoros, and when Maher asked him why he wasn't better known, he said that his cure was buried by the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after he sent clinicians there his vaccine for testing.
Not likely. According to Sheen's doctor, University of California, Los Angeles, professor Robert Huizenga, Sheen went on the HAART cocktail in July 2011 after his diagnosis, and by December of that year his viral load was undetectable. (Undetectable does not mean cured; the virus can be hiding in the body.) Four years later, in search of a permanent cure, Sheen visited Chachoua, who credited his goat-milk nemesis for Sheen's undetectable HIV load. Sheen went off the antiretroviral medications, and his HIV levels shot back up. Fortunately for him, Sheen came to his senses and started taking his antiretroviral medications.
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Scam artists are not harmless, and WTF is it with Maher and his willingness to let them advertise on his show?
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Charlie Sheen and the Danger of False Cures (Original Post)
HuckleB
Jul 2016
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dembotoz
(16,806 posts)1. and put the gnc stores out of business?
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)3. Unfortunately, that's probably not much of a likelihood.
mopinko
(70,113 posts)2. how many people did he infect
when he thought he was cured?
what an idiot.
and yeah, bill, come on. we know you love all things anti-establishment, but really. use your common sense.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)4. That's a very good question.
Hmm.