New Fake HIV Test to Target Poor (Updated with Response from Quest Diagnostics Requesting Correction)Editors Note: We are moving this topic to our Forum in an effort to invite both sides to continue this discussion. You can view the updated article by Clark Baker, including the demand for correction HERE Halloween what better time for pharmaceutical companies to create a new HIV test that doesnt detect HIV but generates fear and profits? The Daily Mail (UK), Fox News and other agencies report that scientists at Imperial College in London have developed a new HIV test that is 10 times more sensitive and a fraction of the cost of current methods. The test uses nanotechnology to give a result that can be seen with the naked eye by turning a sample red or blue. Research leader Molly Stevens, said: Our approach affords for improved sensitivity, does not require sophisticated instrumentation and it is ten times cheaper We would be able to detect infection even in those cases where previous methods, such as the saliva test, were rendering a false negative because the viral load was too low to be detected, Stevens said, after the research was published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. A closer look at the report reveals a critical flaw: The fact that dozens if not HUNDREDS of co-factors unrelated to HIV produce common proteins like P24, which means that this new test detects a protein produced by millions of healthy people who are not at any risk of ever becoming infected with HIV. So like almost all other HIV tests on the market today, healthy people and incompetent clinicians who use this test without reading the package insert will be fooled into believing that they are infected with HIV when their blood simply contains a commonly found protein that doesnt prove that HIV can be found in their blood. This strategy would seem implausibleexcept that since 2009 the pharmaceutical industry has paid $10 billion to settle thousands of criminal and civil complaints related to the illegal marketing of drugs that kill or injure 2-4 million Americans, ANNUALLY paying millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes to clinicians that unnecessarily prescribe deadly drugs to healthy patients. The leading US HIV testing laboratories Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp have paid millions of dollars in fines for fraud and using testing devices that the FDA has never approved to diagnose HIV. This test isjust more of the same. For more information about HIV tests that do not detect HIV, see also: Clark Baker is the director of the Office of Medical and Scientific Justice (OMSJ). The OMSJ is a public benefit non-profit organization dedicated to exposing medical and scientific corruption with the support of attorneys, physicians, researchers and investigative journalists. Read more here: http://www.omsj.org/about 