Most people believe they know what causes AIDS. For a decade, scientists, government officials, physicians, journalists, public service ads, TV shows and movies have told them that AIDS is caused by a retrovirus called HIV. This virus supposedly infects and kills the “T-cells” of the immune system, leading to an inevitable, fatal immune inefficiency after an asymptomatic period that averages 10 years or so.
Most people do not know — because there has been a visual media blackout on the subject — about a long-standing scientific controversy over the cause of AIDS. -A controversy that has become increasingly heated as the official theory’s predictions have turned out to be wrong.
Leading biochemical scientists, including University of California at Berkeley retrovirus expert Peter Duesberg and Nobel Prize winner 4Walter Gilbert, have been warning for years that there is no proof that HIV causes AIDS. The warnings were met first with silence, then with ridicule and contempt.
In 1990, for example, Nature published a rare response from the HIV establishment as represented by Robin A. Weiss of the institute of Cancer Research in ‘London and Harold W. Jaffe of the US Centres for Disease Control. Weiss and Jaffe compared the doubts to people who think that bad air causes malaria.
Such displays of rage and ridicule are familiar to ‘those who question the HIV theory of AIDS. The HIV theory has been the basis of all scientific work on AIDS. If the theory is mistaken, billions of dollars have been wasted, and immense harm has been done to persons who have tested positive for antibodies to HIV and therefore have been told to expect an early and painful death. The furious reactions to the suggestion that a colossal mistake may have been made are not surprising, given that. The credibility of the biomedical establishment is at stake. It is time to think about the unthinkable, however, because there are at least three reasons for doubting the official theory that HIV causes AIDS.
(1) After spending billions of dollars, HIV researchers are still unable to explain how HIV damages the immune system, much less how to stop it. No vaccine is in sight, and the certainty about how the virus destroys the immune system has dissolved in confusion.
(2) In the absence of any agreement about how HIV causes AlDS, the only evidence that HIV does cause AIDS is correlation. The correlation is imperfect at best, however. There are many cases of people with all the symptoms of AIDS who do not have any HIV infection. There are also many cases of people who have been infected by HIV for more than a decade and show no signs of iliness.
(3) Predictions based on the HIV theory have failed spectacularly. AIDS in the US and Europe has not spread through the general population. Rather it remains almost entirely confined to the original risk groups, mainly sexually promiscuous gay men and drug abusers. The number of HIV infected Americans has remained constant for years instead of increasing rapidly as predicted which suggests that HIV is an old virus that has been with us for centuries without causing an epidemic.
Threat to Africa: HIV scientists are collapsing from overwork or confusion. The Theary is getting ever more complicated, without getting any nearer to a solution. This is a classic sign of a deteriorating scientific paradigm. Far from threatening the general heterosexual population, AIDS is confined mainly to drug and gay men in specific urban neighborhoods. But the AIDS agencies have virtually ignored the NRC report and have continued to preach the fiction that “AIDS does not discriminate.
WHO claims that the same virus is spreading rapidly in Africa and Asia, creating a vast “pandemic” that threatens to infect at least 40 million people by the year 2000, unless billions of dollars are provided for prevention to the organizations sounding the alarm. These worldwide figures, especially from Africa, are used to maintain the thesis that “everyone is at risk” in the US.
But the African figures are extremely soft, based almost entirely on “clinical diagnoses” without even inaccurate HIV testing. What this means in practice is that Africans who die of diseases that have long been common there — especially wasting disease accompanied by diarrhea — are now classified as AIDS victims.
Statistics on “African AIDS” are thus extremely manipulable, and witnesses are emerging who say that the epidemic is greatly exaggerated, if it exists at all.
