SUMMARY
The Foundation for Incurable Diseases is at present run out of the home of
Mr. Vincent Dibattista (DEE-baa-TEE-sta) and his wife. They base their
claims of AIDS cure upon the word of Dr. Marvin Antelman, who they met on
a trip to Israel. Mr. Dibattista viewed a film from Dr. Antelman which
showed protozoa being destroyed, presumably by the compound tetrasilver
tetroxide (Tetrasil). They have not personally meet with anyone who has
used Tetrasil theraputically. Due to personal circumstances they have not
done much work with the foundation, but expect to in a couple of months.
The feeling I get is that their heart is in the right place, but they are
placing an extraordinary amount of faith in this Dr. Antelman.
DETAILS
My attempts to send my query to the two e-mail addresses resulted in
undeliverable returns:
>>> RCPT To:<eellinwood@aol.com>
<<< 550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND
550 <eellinwood@aol.com>... User unknown
>>> RCPT To:<redheifer@juno.com>
<<< 554 <redheifer@juno.com>... Account is inactive
554 <redheifer@juno.com>... Service unavailable
So I called the number on the press release -
>Foundation for Incurable Diseases
>28 Overland Avenue, Cranston, RI 02910
>(401) 942-8399 voice/fax -
A woman answered the phone. When I inquired whether or not I had reached
the foundation she handed off the phone to a man who identified himself as
Vincent Dibattista. I asked about Mr. Edwin Ellinwood, the contact person
listed on the press release. Mr. Dibattista said that he was his
brother-in-law. Later in our conversation Mr. Dibattista remarked that he
knew little about computers, and that it was Mr. Ellinwood's idea to post
a press release to the internet. Mr. Dibattista did not know why both of
the e-mail addresses given by his brother-in-law were no longer active.
Mr. Dibattista is a layman when it comes to medicine (same as me). When I
asked him how Tetrasil was able to kill bad cells without harming good
cells, he admitted that did not know. After some muffled conversation
with someone off-phone (I presume it was the woman who answered my call)
he said that, as he understood it, something about the bad cells attracts
them to the Tetrasil.
At this point he talked about a film he saw which showed a protozoa being
destroyed by the Tetrasil. At least this is how it was presented to him,
since it was not possible to see in the film that Tetrasil was the active
agent. He mentioned at numerous times that Dr. Antelman held over 300
patents and was a rabbi. He believed Dr. Antelman to be trusting because
of his standing as a rabbi.
In the press release it is reported that, "In human clinical AIDS
trials...Tetrasil cured 8 of 10 terminal AIDS patients." First off, the
word "trials" is a typo. Mr. Dibattista confirmed that there had only
been one trial of Tetrasil. This trial was conducted by Dr. Antelman on
AIDS patients at a clinic in Honduros. Dr. Antelman told him that further
follow-ups can not be performed due to the devastation of Honduros by a
hurricane this year (Georges?). The clinic was destroyed and it is
anyone's guess where the patients where now assuming they survived the
storm.
Mr. Dibattista told me that he and his wife are _pro se_ littigants in a
lawsuit brought by them against the State of Rhode Island regarding a
custodial matter. Obviously, acting as your own lawyer is a big job, and
especially difficult if you have no legal training. Nonetheless, he
believes he will win a summary judgement against the state. He says he
has been approached by some big-named law firms who have offered to take
over his case on contingency. He might consider their offers if he can
get them to act as council for the foundation in exchange. Anyway, until
the judge rules on their motion for summary judgement, now scheduled to be
handed down on March 2nd, he will have no time for the foundation.
Subjectively, I found him to be genuine in tone. I believe he is
motivated by a desire to help people. Yet I'm not comfortable with the
amount of faith he has invested in Dr. Antelman. A film showing a
protozoa "exploding" proves nothing. Having 300 patents confers no gift
of healing, and patents without development capital are worth the paper
they're printed on. One clinical trial in a poor nation where follow-up
is next to impossible and details are unknown is about as valuable as no
clinical trial at all. Unless someone can figure out how to make some
tetrasilver tetroxide and give it to some AIDS patients I'm afraid we
don't have much to work with.
Jay J. Krull
(alias jjk@dnaco.net)
Kettering, Ohio
(alias jjk@dnaco.net)