My reply to CathyB didn't go to MHA, so I'm reposting here in case this
is where she reads (and for any others vaguely interested in the
topic).

I reserve the right to take a while in replying to any, er, replies :o)

Bennett

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LOL Cathy.

Hello there.  I am the Nick Bennett you are talking about.  I am a long
time regular, or rather ex-regular to misc.health.aids.  I have posted
here since the summer of 1998.  Right now I'm working full-time in
medicine and my ability to track down and respond to dissident articles
is severly curtailed.  I simply don't have the time...

However, I was so riled up by Al-Bayati's report that I had to respond
somehow.  I can reveal that there is a second version of the report
which I wrote last night while on call when I discovered that the LA
coroners report was available, and I could directly compare what
Al-Bayati CLAIMED was in the report to what was really in the report.
As far as I can tell this second version is going to be hosted on
Monday or thereabouts.

If you're having trouble searching for me, you're not searching very
well...

You're better off searching for "nick bennett aids".  Or "nick bennett
duesberg" or "nick bennett perth group" or any other combination of my
name and AIDS dissidents.

I have an anti-dissident website at aidsmyth.blogspot.com

I contributed for around a year to the BMJ debate, directly addressing
and debating with the Perth Group and other dissidents.  I have
archives of all my posts there if you would like to see them.  They are
still available in the BMJ archives.

I was hounded off of Dean's World blog while trying to debate with
Harvey Bialy.

If you simply go to
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.health.aids?lnk=li and search for
"Bennett" you will find several thousand articles either written by or
referring to me.  I was a very, very prolific writer from 1998 to 2000
but slowed down during the PhD years a bit.

In answer to your specific question about why I don't use the MD, it's
because I technically don't have an MD degree.  I have bits of paper
that say I have an MB and BChir, which as others have pointed out are
the same as the American MD.  As a matter of fact, I had to pass the US
medical exams as well as the UK exams, so I could kind of claim that I
have a US MD as well.  Where I work they certainly put "MD" after my
name everywhere, no matter how hard I try to tell them otherwise...  In
England, the MD refers to a medical research degree, roughly equivalent
to the PhD.

I can readily assure you that I have never recieved any kind of
financial recompense for my "work" in arguing against the AIDS
dissidents.  I started as an irate medical student and now I'm a
practising physician with a PhD in HIV (a slightly more practical way
yo contribute to HIV and AIDS science).  My funding has come from
medical schools, charities or the State over the years.  The closest I
have come to getting anything from Big Pharma is that, on paper, my
sponsor for the PhD was AstraZeneca (who paid the clinical school, who
allocated the money at random among the students).

Some website links to help in finding out more about me.  Be warned,
the BMJ link is huge and is likely to crash internet exploder (I use
firefox).

http://aidsmyth,blogspot.com
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/326/7387/495
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.health.aids/search?q=bennett&start=90&

I've heard everything you've accussed me of before.  *shrugs*  I only
find it amusing that you really did have trouble finding out about me
in the AIDS dissident arena.  I seem to have pissed off enough people
through the years... :o)

Cheers

Bennett