I'm so relieved that my lower back pain from the previous week has let up that I wanted to share the exercises that seemed to do the trick. In about a day and a half, the pain was almost gone completely after being pretty severe.

I was under the delusion that my new workout routine of running almost every day since the new year, working up to four miles at a time, had solved any remaining back problems from years gone by.

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Updated Thursday, May 10, 2:40 pm

As you may know by now, my dad has been diagnosed with Clostridium Difficile infection, which is a bacterial infection of the colon. I wanted to get an update out on the blog for family and friends to be able to understand better what's going on.

For over a month, he had a longstanding appointment at the Boise VA Hospital for Friday, April 27. In preparation for the appointment, he had some bloodwork done. The results of the bloodwork as well as his weak condition at the visit encouraged them to keep him overnight for some more testing.

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One of the things I find fascinating about the HIV/AIDS controversy is the sociological implications. How could such a massive biomedical establishment go so terribly wrong that it could convict the wrong virus of AIDS? Worse, how could the mistake be perpetuated by so many participants, for so many years, with so many billions of dollars of funding?

Dr. Peter Duesberg, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at UC Berkeley, builds a credible, well-documented case of how this could happen. No crackpot, Duesberg is a published, ground-breaking cancer researcher and virologist. In his book "Inventing the AIDS Virus" he starts with the history of early breakthroughs, like those that effectively won the wars on polio and malaria, and ends up where we're at now with numerous viruses being blamed for non-contagious diseases (not just AIDS). That's right, the mainstream theory right now (think test kit and vaccine sales) is that non-contagious cancer is caused by contagious viruses. Yeah, right.

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Why would someone like me write about a subject like the connection between AIDS and HIV (or lack of one)? Simple. I find it fascinating.

I'm naturally skeptical of conspiracy theories. I think Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of JFK, as did Jack Ruby in the murder of Oswald. I believe NASA actually landed on the moon in 1967, and I believe UFOs make great fiction, but have better explanations than alien life forms.

But I also believe that the theory that HIV causes AIDS was accepted by scientists, politicians, and the pharmaceutical industry way too fast, and with little or no scientific evidence. This is not some crackpot theory, but a serious scientific discussion taking place. You may not be hearing it in the mainstream media, but it's definitely echoing through the halls of science right now.

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