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& REVIEWS in vaccines to treat the scourge—stems from B oO Oo 4 Ss ff their erroneous belief in the germ theory of u ease and their confusion of HIV/AIDS hypoth- work: they are illogical, unfair, discriminato- esis with fact. In Caton's view, modern med- ty, hypocritical, expensive, impossible to ical practice has to be reckoned as a cause of enforce, and counterproductive. The so-called _ illness. wn Mawal dena an work: they are illogical, unfair, discriminato- ty, hypocritical, expensive, impossible to enforce, and counterproductive. The so-called war on illegal drugs only promotes more crime, makes criminals of drug users, and reaps enormous profits for those pulling the strings. Those who think they're not affected by any of this should consider how civil liber- ties of all citizens have been eroded by hysteri- cal, ineffective anti-drugs campaigns. Dr Coleman is part of a growing ground- swell of opinion, that abolishing drug control laws, or at least decriminalising illegal drug use, will not necessarily result in an increase in illegal drugtaking. This is a courageous book full of explosive facts that seriously challenge the myths and mistakes surrounding the war on drugs. DRUGS MYTH WHY THE DRUG WARS MUST STOP i rs VERNON COLEMAN _— THE AIDS MIRAGE by Hiram Caton Published by University of New South Wales Press Ltd (1994), Sydney, NSW, Australia ISBN 0-86840-342-3 (62pp pb) Price: AUD$5.00 + $1.50 p&h (+ $5.50 o/s airmail); NZ$5.00 + p&h; USD$5.00 + p&h Available: Australia—UNSW Press Ltd, Kensington NSW 2052, ph (02) 398 8900, fax (02) 398 3408; NZ—Biramo Books Ltd, PO Box 14-640, Panmure, Auckland 6; USA—ISBS Inc., Portland, Oregon, ph (503) 287 3093, fax (503) 280 8832. This is an incisive booklet from Hiram Caton who heads the School of Applied Ethics at Griffith University, Brisbane. As a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Biology, Caton is a passionate participant in ongoing consultation on community health policy. Hiram Caton is scathing in his criticism of the health authorities, particularly the "AIDS mandarins", who engineer a malaise of “acquired helplessness" in the public mind, and Tesort to aggressive tactics to prevent health consumers having a say in policy discussion. Furthermore, the management systems they have in place have immobilised the govern- ment's capacity to review AIDS thinking and programs in the light of new evidence about the ‘epidemic’. As Caton sees it, the promotion of an AIDS viral epidemic as dogma has infected the entire AIDS management systems: not only has the doctrine been integrated into professional and personal self-images, but evidence of mistakes over causality, diagnosis, transmission, testing, therapies has been disbelieved, ignored or kept from the public. Reputations—and billions of dollars—are at stake. Caton submits that the AIDS mandarins' full- blown faith in the viral epidemic dogma—and SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS by Allen H. Greenfield Published by IIlumiNet Press (1994% USA ISBN 1-881532-04-6 (128pp pb) Price: AUD$20.00; STG£7.95; USD$9.95 Available: Australia—Sydney Esoteric Bookshop (see ad on page 70); UK— Counter Productions, PO Box 556, London, SES ORL; USA—IIlumiNet Press, PO Box 2808, Lilburn, Georgia 30226, ph (404) 279 2745, 1 800 680 4638. Veteran UFO researcher Allen Greenfield has amassed startling evidence that proves the link between UFOs and the occult. The use of ciphers and symbols as hidden communication tools has been common to secret societies and magical traditions through the ages. Only those who were initiated into particular levels in the mystery schools were able to decode the meanings of these ciphers, which were replaced as each symbol was solved. What Greenfield has established is that ufolo- gy is full of examples of "UFOnauts" them- selves using this cipher system when they give contactees their names, names of home planets and other key words. Similar sorts of key words were reportedly given to trance medium channels during the late 19th/early 20th centu- ry spiritual revival. Allen Greenfield discovered a way to apply the cipher to ufology, for help in analysing 2°75 VERNON COLEMAN FEBRUARY ~- MARCH 1995