"Jay J. Krull" wrote:
> Hello folks. Here is a report of what I've uncovered so far.
>
> 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 the e-mail addresses given by his brother-in-law were no longer active.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)
>
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