Is “HIV” Really the Cause of AIDS? Are there only “a few” scientists who doubt this?
Gary Null
For the past 25 years there has been a single consistent scientific explanation for AIDS, and that is that is caused by a single retrovirus, HIV. In the aftermath since the discovery of HIV, over thirty diseases have been associated with this virus. Yet there remains no clear scientific proof to convincingly proof HIV is the ultimate cause. The AIDS community has since created a medical dogma , built upon two decades of peer-reviewed articles, that has consistently shown the scientific establishment is in disarray, confusion, and loggerheads in finding any definitive proof that there is a link between HIV and the many immunodeficiency maladies fall under the umbrella term now known as AIDS.
It is a fundamental principle of scientific objectivity to challenge the status quo of scientific dogma. Open dialogue in the medical sciences leads to the democratization of scientific discovery and truth. But sadly this has not been the case in research into HIV and AIDS. Independent research, without conflict of interests due to monetary allegiance to pharmaceutical firms and federal health agencies, that challenge the HIV-AIDS paradigm are rejected by peer-reviewed journals. Today over 3,000 dissident scientists, independent researchers and journalists, are barred from having their assessments of the dominant AIDS ideology published. Well-researched articles and studies that offer differing points of views on AIDS are not allowed anywhere, and all original research is accepted as given.
We have therefore selected a random sampling of some of these voices that accurately reflect an alternative prognosis on the prognosis of AIDS and the truth and fiction of the HIV virus.
Some of these men and women are among the finest minds in the scientific community, including Nobel Prize winners, distinguished professors at prestigious universities and specialists in virology and immunology. These same individuals after going public with their objections are consistently faced with character attacks, vilification, libel and slander by well-funded activist organizations with the sole purpose of sedating decent. By publicly going on the record stating their views they are at risk of character attacks, vilification, libel and slander. There are few other sciences than AIDS where Bertrand Russell’s warnings of an emerging scientific dictatorship holds so true today
To call this a conspiracy, a global plot of bureaucrats at the CDC, World Health Organization, numerous academic institutes funded by pharmaceutical firms and health agencies, misses the reality of the crisis on hand. The conspiracy is in faulty science and subjective interpretation of erroneous facts. It is a deception of a heavily funded industry, burdened with conflicts of interest, that masquerades hypotheses as medical truths, and then entire community of truth-deniers who hold to scientific falsehood as medical fact with religious zeal.
The AIDS industry functions very much like a despotic, authoritarian regime exerting control over medical research, the medical profession, development organizations, charitable organizations and the media to seduce the world population in the HIV myth. It has become a leviathan monster that condemns dissent and has institutionalized a posses of salaried shills to track down and condemn scientific voices who simply demand open dialogue and debate on the fundamental questions upon which the HIV-AIDS paradigm is based. Therefore it is our intention to provide an open, safe space for dialogue, an accommodation for alternative voices to be heard.
Perhaps asking for open dialogue between the opposing sides is asking for too much. Corruption and falsehood thrives in darkness and media attacks from the shadows are more successful that direct confrontation where frailties and weaknesses in deception are exposed for what they are. But we believe the American public is intelligent enough to determine the veracity of information for themselves once it is objectively placed before them without ridicule. They are intelligent enough to see past the AIDS cult’s attacks on dissidents, calling them mass murderers. After taking time to perform independent investigations, do we discover that many of the original studies on HIV and AIDS were inaccurate, biases and plagued by conflicts of interest and deserving of serious challenger. Here are some of the truth-sayers’ thoughts.
On the Efficacy of AIDS Treatment
“I think zidovudine [AZT] was never really evaluated properly and that its efficacy has never been proved, but its toxicity certainly is important. And I think it has killed a lot of people. Especially at the high doses. I personally think it not worth using alone or in combination at all.”
Continuum Oct. 2000
— Dr. Andrew Herxheimer, MD, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, UK Cochrane Centre, Oxford; edited Drug & Therapeutics Bulletin in the UK for 30 years and also helped to found the International Society of Drug Bulletins
“Yes, there is no treatment for HIV/AIDS, but today they call ARV drugs ‘HIV treatment.’ It is obvious that AIDS is becoming a political and economical disease. Political because it is controlled by the media. Economical because of pharmaceutical companies and research institutes.”
“Now [UNAIDS] are promoting Bactrim prophylaxis for developing countries. This can lead to high antibiotic resistance.”
Comment to Virusmyth
— Dr. Saleban Saleban, MD, MSc, Infectious diseases and tropical medicine. Medical coordinator of HIV/AIDS prevention and care in Rakai District, Uganda
“What we’ve seen as a result—not only of Concorde, but of recent trials in the United States—is that it’s dawning on people that the [AIDS] drugs we have are not that useful.”
Sunday Times Aug 1, 1993
— Professor Ian Weller, Middlesex Hospital, London. Chairman of the Anglo-French Concorde Study of AZT
“[AIDS] drugs that are not working in the West are being dumped in Africa.”
East African Standard, Online Edition, Sep 12, 2000
— Dr. Rheeta Moran, Senior Researcher, Salford University, UK
“…The leukoencephalopathy we describe is more severe than that described prior to the use of HAART…[In our patients] Leukoencephalopathy more probably resulted from HIV, the immune system, or antiretroviral drugs…The emergence of this condition in the post-HAART era strongly argues that potent ART [anti-retroviral therapy] plays an important role in pathogenesis.”
AIDS. 2002 May 3;16(7):1019-29
— Langford TD, et al, Aids Researchers
“…Within two weeks of starting nevirapine a 35 year old man developed low mood and had to stop working because of cognitive impairment and clouding of consciousness... Five days later, fearing that nursing staff would kill him, he leapt through a third floor window. As the temporal connection to his deterioration was unclear, nevirapine treatment was restarted. After a two week period of lucidity, he experienced a fluctuating course of impaired consciousness…and visual hallucinations. Nevirapine was withdrawn and within three weeks he was asymptomatic. In another case, a 36 year old woman experienced delusions of persecution and infestation within two weeks of starting nevirapine treatment. Command hallucinations led to an impulsive suicide attempt. In a third case, a 42 year old woman developed persecutory delusions and depressive thoughts 10 days after starting nevirapine... [Were these really delusions or were the patients in fact being persecuted by being given this drug?] The time the patients started nevirapine treatment was clearly related to the evidence of symptoms, and all cases resolved on withdrawal of nevirapine.”
BMJ. 2002 Apr 13;324:879
— Jan Wise ME, Mistry K, Reid S, Aids Researchers
“Patients treated with nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) develop a varying degree of myopathy or neuropathy after long-term therapy. Zidovudine (AZT) causes myopathy; zalcitabine (ddC), didanosine (ddl) and lamivudine (3TC) cause neuropathy; stavudine (d4T) and fialuridine (FIAU) cause neuropathy or myopathy and lactic acidosis…The myopathy is characterized by muscle wasting, myalgia, fatigue, weakness and elevation of CK. The neuropathy is painful, sensory and axonal.”
J Peripher Nerv Syst. 2001 Mar;6(1):14-20
— Dalakas MC, Aids Researcher
“All patients treated with high-dose ddC…developed a painful…peripheral neuropathy [burning or shooting pain followed by weakness and numbness], with a mean onset of 7.7 weeks, which reached severe intensity over several days...”
Neurology. 1993;43:358-62
— Berger AR, et al, Aids Researchers
“A reversible, toxic neuropathy was observed in 10 or 44 (23%) of patients enrolled in a phase I trial of ddI… [Extended follow-up]…indicated that most of the neuropathic symptoms were reversible with discontinuation or dose reduction of ddI…”
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 1992;5(1):60-4
— Kieburtz KD, et al, Aids Researchers
“Nevirapine plus efavirenz [another non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor] was associated with the highest frequency of clinical adverse events, and nevirapine once daily with significantly more hepatobilliary laboratory toxicities than efavirenz. Of 25 observed deaths, two were attributed to nevirapine.”
Lancet. 2004 Apr 17;363(9417)
— Van Leth F, et al, Aids Researchers
“HAART regimens including nevirapine are associated with faster liver fibrosis [scar tissue] progression in HIV-infected patients with chronic hepatitis C.”
AIDS. 2004 Apr 12;18(5):767-774
— Macias J, et al, Aids Researchers
“Women with CD4+ counts >250 cells/mm3, including pregnant women receiving chronic treatment for HIV infection, are at considerably higher risk (12 fold) of hepatotoxicity. Some of these events have been fatal…The greatest risk of severe and potentially fatal hepatic events…occurs in the first 6 weeks of Viramune [nevirapine] treatment. However, the risk continues after this time and patients should be monitored closely for the first 18 weeks of treatment with Viramune… In some cases hepatic injury progresses despite discontinuation of treatment.”
— Shepard KV, Boehringer Ingelheim, Feb 2004
“Twelve non-HIV-infected individuals developed severe cutaneous toxicity, including 3 with Stevens-Johnson syndrome, after 7 to 12 days of nevirapine-containing PEP regimens. Thirty non-HIV-infected individuals developed hepatotoxicity after 8 to 35 days of single-agent nevirapine …or a nevirapine-containing PEP regimen… Findings included ECOG grade 3 or 4 hepatotoxicity… fevers…skin rashes…eosinophilia…and fulminant hepatic necrosis requiring an orthotopic liver transplant...Rates of severe hepatotoxicity (grade 3 or 4) in non-HIV-infected individuals ranged from 10% (4/41) to 62% (5/8). Liver biopsy material from 2 individuals was consistent with a hypersensitivity syndrome.”
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2004 Feb 1;35(2):120-125
— Patel SM, et al, Aids Researchers
“Severe, life-threatening, and in some cases fatal, hepatotoxicity, including fulminant and cholestatic hepatitis, hepatic necrosis, and hepatic failure, has been reported in patients treated with Viramune. In some cases, patients presented with nonspecific prodromal signs or symptoms of hepatitis and progressed to hepatic failure. Patients with signs and symptoms of hepatitis must seek medical evaluation immediately and should be advised to discontinue Viramune.”
— Boehringer Ingelheim, Maker of Nevirapine [Viramune] April, 2003
“Severe, life-threatening skin reactions, including fatal cases, have occurred in patients treated with Viramune. These have included severe cases of SJS [Stevens-Johnson syndrome], TEN [Toxic Epidermal (skin) Necrosis (death)], and hypersensitivity reactions characterized by rash, constitutional findings, and organ dysfunction. Patients developing signs and symptoms of severe skin reactions or hypersensitivity reactions must discontinue Viramune as soon as possible. ”
— Boehringer Ingelheim, Maker of Nevirapine [Viramune] April, 2003
“There is a significant risk of NVP [nevirapine]-associated hepatotoxicity in pregnant women, especially those with high CD4 +cell counts…the progression to severe hepatotoxicity may be explosive in nature and not predicted by the patient’s liver enzyme level…obtained before and during NVP therapy.”
AIDS Read. 2003 Oct;13(10):459, 463-4, 468-9, 479
— Boyle BA, Aids Researcher
“13 patients that have maintained plasma virus below 50 copies/ml of plasma in the absence of antiretroviral therapy were recruited for study… [they were compared to] 19 progressors [people who developed Aids] [all of whom] were receiving antiretroviral therapy.”
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 Mar 14;97(6):2709-14
— Migueles SA, et al, Aids Researchers
“LTNPs [Long-term non-progressors] were defined as having documented HIV-1 infection for >7 years, CD4 cell counts of >600 cells/cubic mm, and no symptoms related to HIV-1 infection. With the exception of [two of nineteen LTNP] patients, no patients had ever received antiretroviral therapy.”
J Infect Dis. 1996;173:60-67
— Montefiori DC, et al, Aids Researchers
“A rash occurred in 20% of [Nevirapine-treated] patients (15/74), and was severe…requiring the cessation of treatment in four children (5%). In the other 11 children, the rash was managed with antihistamines…5 children experienced… neutropenia…adverse events related or possibly related to nevirapine…included: vomiting …diarrhea…unexplained fever… headache… dizziness… paraesthesia [hallucination]…alopecia [hair loss]…nail dystrophia…hepatomegaly [swollen liver]…muscle pain… gall bladder sludge…elevated cholesterol and triglyceride levels associated with pancreatitis… neutropenia… anaemia…leucopenia …abnormal liver functions…”
AIDS. 2003 Jul 25;17(11):1639-47
— Verweel G, et al, Aids Researchers
“30 PI[Protease Inhibitor]-treated and 20 PI-naive [untreated] children were evaluated (76% prepubertal). PI-treated children had significantly higher total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and triglycerides…viral load, CD4 cell count…were not significantly associated with serum lipids, insulin resistance or abdominal adipose tissue distribution [indicating that it is the therapy, not HIV, that is the cause of this metabolic abnormality]”
AIDS. 2003 Jun 13;17(9):1319-27
— Bitnun A, et al, Aids Researchers
“The risk [for persistent metabolic acidosis] was 4.75 times higher among those [children] taking ART (anti-retroviral therapy.)”
AIDS. 2003 Mar 28;17(5):673-677
— Chakraborty R, et al, Aids Researchers
“Drugs typically administered to prevent the transmission of HIV accounted for 25% of all the reported adverse events through maternal exposure [in the United States]…A wide spectrum of adverse events were associated with the HIV-related drugs, including 110 cases (35%) with an outcome of congenital defect or permanent disability, 103 (34%) cases involving initial or prolonged hospitalization or a life-threatening event, and 23 (7%) with death as the reported outcome. [Note that it is estimated that only 1% to 10% of adverse drug reactions are reported]”
Pediatrics. 2002 Nov;110(5):e53
— Moore TJ, et al, Aids Researchers
“…Seven of the nine patients [HIV+ women on HAART with pre-eclampsia] had unusually severe preeclampsia. [eclampsia is a serious pregnancy disorder characterized by convulsions, coma, high blood pressure, protein in the urine, accumulation of fluids and about a 25% rate of fetal mortality], 4 of the 9 had HELLP syndrome (haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets) and 3 had intrauterine deaths…”
Lancet. 2002 Oct 12;360(9340):1152-4
— Wimalasundera RC, et al, Aids Researchers
“Our study shows that cardiac dysfunction [heart problems] occurs frequently in children with HIV infection…The relative risk of death during the 5-year follow-up period in children who had cardiac impairment or CHF [congestive heart failure] was 8.5 to 14.6 times higher than in the children without these complications…The majority of patients in this study were treated with a wide variety of antiretroviral agents available between 1990 and 1996 or intravenous immunoglobulin…”
J Pediatr. 2002 Sep;141(3):327-34
— Starc TJ, et al, Aids Researchers
“We report…two HIV-1 positive women in the third trimester of pregnancy who presented with acute lactic acidosis and acute pancreatitis, respectively. One case was fatal for mother and baby. Both women had been stable on regimens containing stavudine and didanosine for at least 2 years before their acute presentations...”
Sex Transm Infect. 2002;78:58-9
— Sarner L, Fakoya A, Aids Researchers
“Potential fetal toxicity of antiretroviral prophylaxis include adverse pregnancy outcome, such as low birth weight, preterm delivery, or fetal/neonatal death, and congenital abnormalities. Possible short-term adverse effects on the woman and infant include hematologic abnormalities, liver or other organ dysfunction, rash, or serious toxicity causing death…Theoretical long-term risks of prophylaxis for the child include organ toxicity secondary to mitochondrial dysfunction, development of malignancy, or other unknown effects. For the child who becomes infected despite prophylaxis, concerns include development of antiretroviral drug resistance or an adverse effect on HIV disease course [i.e. exposure to AIDS drugs in the womb can make AIDS more likely to happen in the child].”
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2002 Jun 1;30(2):200-15
— Mofenson LM, Munderi P, Aids Researchers
“…Values for 3TC-DNA in fetal organs [from babies of pregnant monkeys given Aids drugs] were greater than or equal to values for ZDV [AZT]-DNA, indicating that the total DNA damage sustained by fetuses exposed to both drugs was at least double that observed in fetuses exposed to ZDV alone…Overall, these studies demonstrate that monkey fetuses exposed in utero to the combination ZDV plus 3TC sustain a higher level of drug-DNA incorporation and show evidence of more telomere damage than monkey fetuses exposed to ZDV [AZT] alone.”
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2002 Apr 1;29(4):323-9
— Olivero OA, et al, Aids Researchers
“149 (78%) of 192 children experienced moderate or worse toxicity while receiving initial therapy [in this trial of various combinations of 3 or 4 AIDS drugs], and 44 (23%) of 192 experienced severe or worse toxicity…The most commonly observed adverse events were skin rash…28%… nausea/vomiting …(23%)… and temperature >= 38.5C…(21%)…Administration of…treatments was permanently discontinued for children with (1) an HIV RNA copy number > 10,000 copies/ml…(17%)…(2) toxicity of medication intolerance…(7%)…or (3) other reasons, including poor adherence to the study regimen and parental request for withdrawal of the patient from the study …(15%)…”
Clin Infect Dis. 2002 Apr 1;34(7):991-1001
— Krogstad P, et al, Aids Researchers
“…17 (53%) of 32 patients [Dutch children who had not previously used protease inhibitors] experienced adverse events…The most common indinavir-related side effects were as follows: diarrhea (in 6 children), vomiting (in 6), loss of appetite (in 5), headache (in 3), abdominal pain (in 4), and hematuria (in 5) [note that diarrhea and weight loss (associated with vomiting and loss of appetite) are two of 4 symptoms needed for an AIDS diagnosis in third world countries]”
Clin Infect Dis. 2002 Apr 1;34(7):1008-16.
— Van Rossum AM, et al, Aids Researchers
“130 children were randomised [to placebo or 3 combinations of zidovudine [AZT], lamivudine and abacavir]...24 serious adverse events occurred in 18 children…1 death, one hypersensitivity reaction to abacavir, one stroke, and one vomiting [none on placebo]. Of the…grade 3 or 4 events, most frequent were neutropenia (12) and thrombocytopenia (3). 3 children in each of the NRTI groups had one or more episodes of neutropenia...6 children permanently stopped drugs after minor adverse events: vomiting, cutaneous reaction, fever…and anemia. 2 other children stopped abacavir permanently because of hypersensitivity reactions…”
Lancet. 2002 Mar 2;359:733-9
— Paediatric European Network for Treatment of AIDS (Penta)
“...Exposure to antiretrovirals was significantly associated with the risk of febrile [fever-associated] seizure: 24 of the 30 children who experienced such seizures had been exposed to antiretroviral drugs…”
Lancet. 2002 Feb 16;359:583-4
— French Perinatal Cohort Study Group
“…a 34-year-old woman with…asymptomatic HIV infection...[received] zidovudine [AZT], stavudine and efavirenz therapy before pregnancy...[once she was determined to be pregnant] antiretroviral therapy was switched to...lamivudine, stavudine and nelfinavir at 24 weeks of pregnancy...The baby was born at the 38th week... presenting with a lumbo-sacral mass compatible with a myelomeningocele [sac containing part of the spinal cord and cerebrospinal fluid caused by failure of the neural tube to close]...In animal studies, efavirenz crosses the placenta...Teratogenic [causing birth defects] effects have been observed in 3 out of 20 fetuses from efavirenz-treated cynomolgus monkeys [but teratogenic effects have also been observed with AZT].”
AIDS. 2002 Jan 25;16(2):299-300
— Fundaro C, et al, Aids Researchers
“Risk of progressing to severe immunodeficiency [abnormal CD4 cell counts] was 64% higher [in this group of HIV-positive European children, mostly with mothers involved with intravenous drugs] when receiving ART [Anti-Retroviral Therapy]…”
Pediatrics. 2001 Jul;108(1):116-22
— The European Collaborative Study
“Adverse Events in the Lamivudine-Zidovudine [AZT] Group: 124 adverse events were reported in 99 [pregnant] women… 2 women discontinued study drugs because of elevation of transaminase levels... Hemoglobin levels of less than 8 g/dL occurred in 29 women... 38 adverse events were reported related to fetal well-being in 37 pregnancies.”
JAMA. 2001 Apr 25;285(16):2083-93
— Madelbrot L, et al, Aids Researchers
“A total of 195 children were randomised to zidovudine [AZT]... Four children (three IMM, one DEF) died during the blinded phase...Grade 3 or 4 neutropenia [abnormally low neutrophil white blood cell counts] was the most frequent serious adverse event…Two children in each group had grade 4 elevations of transaminases [liver enzymes]. Significantly more children in the IMM… compared with the DEF…group stopped therapy because of an adverse event…most commonly because of neutropenia… or nausea or vomiting...Our data show that after 3 months of age, many vertically infected children have slow progression of disease, in the absence of therapy. With uncertainties about long term efficacy and toxicity, a case can be made for delaying [Anti-Retroviral Therapy] in the well asymptomatic child.”
Arch Dis Child. 2001 Mar;84(3):230-6
— Paediatric European Network for Treatment of AIDS, the PENTA 1 trial
“In considering early intervention with zidovudine [AZT], it is of particular concern that the drug may be carcinogenic or mutagenic.”
New England Journal of Medicine, 1989
— Dr. Samuel Broder, Director, U.S. National Cancer Institute
“…All patients in this cohort were prescribed [Anti-Retroviral Therapy]…70% on protease inhibitors…20% on nonnucleoside reverse transcription inhibitor–based regimens…675 patients experienced a grade 4 event [serious or life threatening]; 332 developed an AIDS event; and 272 died…The most common grade 4 events were: liver related…neutropenia… anemia… cardiovascular… pancreatitis… psychiatric… kidney-related… thrombocytopenia…and hemorrhage…the risk of death associated with these grade 4 events was very high for many events.”
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2003 Dec 1;34(4):379-86
— Reisler RB, et al, Aids Researchers
“In a major surprise about the treatment of the AIDS virus in children, the drug AZT, which is now the standard treatment, proved so ineffective...that Federal health officials have halted part of a large study involving it ahead of schedule...AZT, or zidovudine, also had unexpectedly high rates of adverse side effects in children, like bleeding and biochemical abnormalities, Federal health officials said... The children receiving AZT alone had more rapid rates of disease progression as measured by failure to grow, the appearance of any of the myriad infections that can be complications of AIDS, deterioration of neurological development and death...The findings clearly caught health officials and experts by surprise...AZT is widely considered the drug of choice in treating both H.I.V.-infected children and adults.”
“Children’s AIDS Study Finds AZT Ineffective,” New York Times, February 14, 1995
— Lawrence K. Altman, Medical Reporter, New York Times
“A total of 172 participants died, 169 while taking AZT, 3 while on placebo...The results of Concorde do not encourage the early use of AZT in symptom-free HIV-infected adults.”
Lancet 1994; 343: 871-881
— Seligmann M, Warrell DA, et al, Aids Researchers
“All patients had an insidious onset of myalgias, muscle tenderness, weakness, and severe muscle atrophy favoring the proximal muscle groups. Physical examinations revealed varying degrees of muscle weakness and grossly apparent atrophy. Weight loss due to muscle loss was uniformly noted; in one patient, the loss was a striking 18 kg. [40 pounds]…We did not observe this illness before zidovudine [AZT] was available, the disorder was seen in patients taking the drug for extended periods, and the syndrome was ameliorated after the drug was stopped.”
New England Journal of Medicine, 17 March 1988
— Bessen Laura J, et al, Aids Researchers
“These drugs can be toxic and can be directly detrimental to a natural immune response to HIV…. This effective antiviral immune response is characteristic of long-term survivors who…have not been on any therapy. …[T]he current antiviral therapies…do not bring about the results achieved by a natural host anti-HIV response. This immune response, observed in long-term survivors, maintains control of HIV replication without the need for antiviral treatment.”
Lancet. 1998 Sep 19;352:982-3.
— Levy J.A., Aids Researcher
“…We have found positive correlations between the dose of AZT administered to female CD-1 mice, the incorporation of AZT into vaginal DNA…and the aberrant expression of alpha-6 integrin toward the epithelial suprabasal strata of the vagina, a target organ for carcinogenesis in mice. These results suggest that there is an ordered progression of abnormal events leading to tumorigenesis [cancer] in vaginal epithelial tissues.”
Cancer Research, 1994
“AZT is a Genotoxic Transplacental Carcinogen in Animal Models. In newborn monkeys and mice, AZT was incorporated into DNA of many fetal tissues… AZT appears to be a moderately-strong transplacental carcinogen… [and in] adult mice, lifetime AZT administration induces vaginal tumors at a 10-20% incidence.”
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and Human Retrovirology, 1997
[Mice exposed to AZT in utero] “exhibited statistically significant, dose-dependent increases in tumor incidence and tumor multiplicity in the lungs, liver, and female reproductive organs… AZT is genotoxic in fetal mice and monkeys and is a moderately strong transplacental carcinogen in mice examined at 1 year of age… The current practice of treating HIV-positive women and their infants with high doses of AZT could increase cancer risk in the drug-exposed children when they reach young adulthood or middle age.”
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1997
— Olivero O, et al, Aids Researchers
“Burroughs Wellcome resolved this problem [of the FDA toxicologist objecting to their proposed labeling of AZT] by simply dropping the offending sentence, with the end result being every bit as obscurantist. In the [AZT] entry in Physician’s Desk Reference, written by Burroughs Wellcome, carcinogenicity is dealt with in the following way:
“‘Long-term carcinogenicity studies of zidovudine [AZT] in animals have not been completed. However, in an in vitro mammalian cell transformation assay, zidovudine was positive at concentrations of 0.5 mcg/ml and higher.’
“Well now, how many physicians would know what these findings meant? Damned few, if any. Chernov said what the findings meant: AZT is presumed to be a carcinogen! But most physicians would assume that AZT was not carcinogenic, for the simple reason that the Physician’s Desk Reference entry hadn’t said it was.”
New York Native, Oct 19, 1987
— John Lauritsen, Journalist, Harvard-educated survey research analyst. Author of the books The AIDS War; Propaganda, Profiteering and Genocide From the Medical-Industrial Complex and Poison by Prescription; The AZT Story
“I know we’ve seen some webbed fingers...but these birth defects are cosmetic and don’t interfere with life.”
Zenger’s Magazine, September 1999
— Mary Caffrey, Nurse-practitioner, Pediatric Division of the University of San Diego Medical Center, on AZT-generated birth defects
“I hope this group will generate enough critical mass to explode this dirty mountain of myth. What disturbs me most is the thought of millions of people having to suffer due to antiviral drugs (and the irony is these people are being charged also for that). Who will be held responsible for deaths of millions of people? Will the governments be held for trial along with the scientists and companies propagating this myth about AIDS being a killer disease? Will the world media own up their responsibility [for hiding] this truth and poor journalism?”
Comment to Virusmyth
— Dr. Vishal Chhabra, Psychiatrist, Bangalore, India
“Because of the complexity of this disease state, it is often difficult to differentiate between the manifestations of HIV infection [sic] and the manifestations of zidovudine (AZT). In addition, very little placebo controlled data is available to assess this difference.”
— United States Pharmacopeia’s USP DI, 1996, pages 3032-3034
“The use of antiretrovirals and PCP prophylaxis before AIDS were associated with a significantly poorer survival after AIDS [median of 16 months before death with antiretrovirals, 25 months without].”
AIDS. 1998 Jun 18;12(9):1039-1045
— Van Benthem BHB, et al, Aids Researchers
“Of recent HIV-related deaths occurring in the…University Hospitals of Cleveland…although OIs [Opportunistic Infections] constituted less than 25% of deaths in 1999, end-organ failures [which could well be caused by medication] constituted nearly half. Importantly, the median CD4 cell count among the patients who died in our clinic has risen…and about 20% of recent deaths have occurred among patients with plasma HIV RNA levels below the limit of detection.” [i.e., the drugs were a success but the patient died]
JAMA. 2000 Jul 12;284(2):223-8
— Lederman MM, Valdez H., Aids Researchers
“71% of the protease inhibitor-treated patients had hyperlipidemia compared with only 24% of the protease inhibitor-naive patients [those who didn’t take protease inhibitors]. Among the protease inhibitor-treated patients, 44% had isolated hypertriglyceridemia, 7% had type V hyperlipidemia, 37% had type IV hyperlipidemia, 36% had type IIb hyperlipidemia, and 18% had isolated hypercholesterolemia.”
AIDS. 1999;13:F63-70
— Behrens, G, et al, Aids Researchers
“The drugs are imperfect.... Some people live longer, others shorter, on the drugs. About 10 percent of AIDS deaths now are due to protease inhibitor-induced heart disease...”
— R. Eisner, ABC News, June 4, 2001
“…There were 13 heart attacks among those taking protease inhibitors, compared with only two among the patients not taking the drugs—a more than fivefold increase in risk.”
— Thomas Maugh, Los Angeles Times, March 11, 2002
“Indinavir is a protease inhibitor used for treating HIV-1. The drug is lithogenic and was thought to cause a 3% incidence of kidney stones. We evaluated a cohort of patients...At 78 weeks 43.2% of patients had stones...The clinical prevalence of [kidney stones] is much greater than initially reported.”
J Urol 2000 Dec;164(6):1895-7
— Saltel E, Angel JB, Futter NG, Walsh WG, O’Rourke K, Mahoney JE, Aids Researchers
“In approximately 60% of patients who were treated with [AIDS drugs], complications such as lipodystrophy, insulin resistance, and high cholesterol and triglyceride levels developed.”
NEJM. 1998;339(16):1153-5.
— Lipshultz SE, Aids Researcher
“Hepatotoxicity [liver damage] is frequently seen in patients under HAART, and can force the withdrawal of antiviral treatment in a significant proportion of patients, occasionally resulting in fatal outcome.”
AIDS. 1998 Jul 9;12(10):1256.
— Rodriguez-Rosado R, et al, Aids Researchers
“Severe hepatotoxicity was observed in 31 (10.4%) of 298 patients...Risk of severe hepatoxicity was 5-fold higher for patients taking [the protease inhibitor] ritonavir, which accounted for half of all cases...”
JAMA. 2000 Jan 5;283(1):74-80.
— Sulkowski MS, et al, Aids Researchers
“Liver disease has become the leading cause of death among HIV patients at a Massachusetts hospital, [says] a report issued...[by] Dr. Barbara McGovern, a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine…McGovern said HIV patients who take…AIDS drugs called highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) were at particular risk because of the drug’s potential toxicity to the liver. One-third of HIV patients…have had to stop taking HAART.”
— Reuters, Nov 19, 1999
“The most common cause of death among HIV positive people (being treated with AIDS meds) is liver failure.”
— Amy Justice, Aids Researcher, 14th International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, 2002
“According to the [Amy] Justice and European EuroSIDA cohort, liver function tests are more accurate predictors of illness and death in HIV positives than viral load tests or T cell counts. Liver toxicity is a well known side effects of AIDS drug treatment. Liver damage is not blamed on HIV.”
— Medscape, Coverage of 14th International AIDS Conference, 2002
“Acute hepatitis with lactic acidosis is a life-threatening… toxic effect…of HIV-1 nucleoside-analogue treatment [later this letter notes that 80% of patients with lactate greater than 10 mmol/L die]. We report fatal portal hypertension, liver failure, and persistent mitochondrial dysfunction in a man aged 65 years with HIV-1 infection who had recovered from nucleoside-analogue [class of AIDS drug]-induced acute hepatitis and lactic acidaemia more than 18 months previously…symptom-free patients who receive nucleoside-analogue therapy should have [liver] function constantly monitored…”
Lancet. 2001 May 5;357:1412.
— Carr A, et al, Aids Researchers
“A comprehensive retrospective review of more than 10,000 adult AIDS patients participating in 21 different AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) studies [confirms]... that antiretroviral therapy is associated with a high rate of severe hepatotoxicity [liver damage], regardless of drug class or combination… NNRTI [non-nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors]-containing regimens, especially those including nevirapine and efavirenz, were particularly hard on the liver, with high rates of discontinuation.”
— Reuters Health, May 23, 2001
“There was...a striking increase in [oral] warts: three-fold for patients on antiretroviral therapy and six-fold for those on HAART...”
Lancet. 2001 May 5;357:1411-2.
— Greenspan D, et al, Aids Researchers
“…The subjects receiving protease inhibitors had a relative risk of 2.19 for osteopenia and osteoporosis…compared with the other 2 groups. Osteopenia and osteoporosis are unique metabolic complications associated with protease inhibitor[s]...”
AIDS. 2000 Mar 10;14(4):F63-7.
— Tebas P, et al, Aids Researchers
“Prior to the introduction of long-term highly active antiretroviral therapy, healthy HIV-infected adults generally had normal bone mineral density that was stable over time...The present study has confirmed previous studies that found osteopenia [loss of bone mass] to be common in HIV-infected adult males receiving antiretroviral therapy even after adjustment for age. This osteopenia may result from mitochondrial toxicity of nucleoside analogues.”
AIDS. 2001 Apr 13;15(6):703-709.
— Carr A, et al, Aids Researchers
“We describe 5 patients whose symptoms of osteonecrosis [bone disintegration] developed with viral suppression and improvement in CD4 lymphocyte counts as a result of antiretroviral therapy...We conclude that osteonecrosis… may be...a complication caused by the drugs themselves.”
Clin Inf Dis. 2000 Dec;31:1488-92.
— Monier P, McKown K, Bronze MS, Aids Researchers
“I just had a dental checkup yesterday. Damn depressing.... The dentist told me all my teeth’s enamel had been eaten up by the drugs; that I had so many cavities he was wondering how I could manage to eat and sleep; and that it was beyond his capacity to do anything. When I got out I was crying like a baby. We looked at the x-rays. I got cavities directly in the bones. He’s flabbergasted by the unexpected side effects. Has anyone heard of this shit with crix [Crixivan, a protease inhibitor], 3TC [a nucleoside analog] and d4T [a second nucleoside analog] combo?”
— C.M., hivthrivers support group, Apr 7, 2000
“Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., the No. 1 maker of cancer drugs, has strengthened the warning on its HIV drug Videx after four patients, who were taking Videx and another top-selling AIDS drug, died of pancreatitis.”
— Bloomberg News, Nov 19, 1999
“Pancreatitis occurs with a frequency of 1 to 7% with the currently recommended doses of didanosine... Our analysis demonstrated that the use of hydroxyurea was associated with an adjusted four-fold increase in the risk of pancreatitis compared with patients on didanosine alone... There was one fatal case in a patient on didanosine + stavudine + hydroxyurea.”
AIDS. 2001 Mar 30;15(5):617-20.
— Moore RD, et al, Aids Researchers
“Pancreatitis is also a well-described complication of Videx and Zerit.”
— FDA Talk Paper, Jan 5, 2001
“The most serious adverse effects of didanosine, as well as lamivudine (3TC or Epivir), stavudine (d4T or Zerit), and zalcitabine (ddC or Hivid), which are all in the same class of drugs as AZT…are dose dependent peripheral neuropathy and pancreatitis. In Phase 1 trials of didanosine pancreatitis occurred in 9% of people given doses in the range curently used, and it occurred in 27% of people given higher doses.”
— Physician’s Desk Reference, 1999
“Two popular HIV drugs may cause birth defects and should be avoided by pregnant women until more is known about their effects, German researchers said...The two drugs, both…protease inhibitors, caused abnormal eye development in baby rats. Kai Riecke and colleagues at Freie Universitat Berlin gave the two drugs, Merck’s indinavir, known as Crixivan, and Abbott Laboratories’ Norvir, or ritonavir, to pregnant rats. They had to stop the ritonavir after a week because it made the rats sick…Seven of the 236 baby rats exposed to indinavir in the womb were born missing one eye, and two of the 113 baby rats exposed to ritonavir had a missing eye…Fur and teeth also developed later than normal in some of them…”
— Reuters, Sep 28, 1999
“The study cohort included 92 HIV-1-infected and 439 uninfected children...FTT [Failure To Thrive among children of HIV-positive women] was associated with a history of pneumonia, maternal use of cocaine, crack or heroin during pregnancy, infant CD4+ T-cell count and any antiretroviral therapy by 3 months of age...Antiretroviral therapy (nonprotease inhibitor) was independently associated with FTT in our cohort...ZDV [AZT], in particular, alters mitochondrial metabolism and may have direct nutritional effects.”
Pediatrics. 2001 Dec;108(6):1287-96
— Miller TL, et al, Aids Researchers
“Next month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will release a revised set of HIV treatment guidelines that represents the culmination of a four-year-long retreat from Dr. Ho’s initial ideas about AIDS [hit-it-early, hit-it-hard doctrine]…In essence, the guidelines acknowledge that the precipitous use of protease-inhibitor-laced anti-viral cocktails may actually do more harm than good…Some AIDS treatment experts are now acknowledging that a part of the focus on early treatment may have been driven more by hype than solid science...”
— Matt Smith, SF Weekly Jan 3, 2001
“47% (545 of 1160) of patients presented with clinical and 27% (194 of 712) with laboratory adverse events probably or definitely attributed to antiretroviral treatment. Among these, 9% (47 of 545) and 16% (30 of 194), respectively, were graded as serious or severe...”
Lancet. 2001 Oct 20;358:1322-7
— Fellay J, et al, Aids Researchers
“…We’ve got to learn from what has happened here in the last 18 years and try not to repeat it, as we move into…Africa and Asia and India. I can’t overstate...how severe the problems are with the current therapies...People are dying from the effects of the therapies themselves in some cases...People are suffering from severe life-threatening complications of drugs. And a lot of them get to the point where they simply can’t use them anymore. So as we talk about bringing therapy to Africa, even if we can solve the problem and cost and infrastructure and delivery...are we doing the right thing with these drugs? Or are we unleashing another kind of epidemic over there of drug side effects as well?”
ABC Nightline with Ted Koppel. 2001 Jun 8
— Martin Delaney, Director of Project Inform, a mainstream California-based AIDS organization
“Thirty-five of 37 [children] experienced serious clinical adverse events [from AIDS drug Stavudine (d4T)]... Clinical adverse events of lesser severity that were reported by more than 20% of subjects included rhinitis (76%), cough (70%), diarrhea (68%), rash (62%), nausea and vomiting (51%), abdominal pain (43%), anorexia (41%), respiratory disorder (38%), headache (35%), pharyngitis (32%), pruritis (30%), pain (22%), peripheral neurologic symptoms (22%), and nervousness (22%).”
Pediatrics. 1995;96:247-52
— Kline MW, et al, Aids Researchers
“A total of 397 adverse events, 180 biological…and 217 clinical in nature, were reported among 238 of the 452 children in the lamivudine[3TC]- zidovudine [AZT] cohort. Altogether, 151 hematologic adverse events, defined as moderate to severe…occurred during exposure to study drugs… mostly…neutropenia (81 cases) or anemia (68 cases), leading to blood transfusion because of clinical symptoms in 9 infants (5 had mild symptoms (pallor or tachycardia) and 4 had severe symptoms (cardiac insufficiency or dyspnea) and to premature treatment discontinuation for 19 children. Of the children with hematologic [events]...Liver abnormalities…were recorded in 6 children…16 children (4%) had major birth defects, including 4 cardiac malformation cases, 4 cases of polydactyly, 3 talipes cases, and 1 case each of congenital diaphragmatic hernia, hydronephrosis, imperforate anus, genu recurvatum with a suburethral cyst, and hypospadia. 1 child each had Down syndrome, Ito nevus, and sickle cell anemia...Neurologic signs/symptoms were reported in 12 children who did not have HIV infection and had no other known infectious or genetic disease.”
JAMA. 2001 Apr 25;285(16):2083-93
— Madelbrot L, et al, Aids Researchers
“We report a case of a health care worker who experienced serious morbidity from PEP [post-exposure prophylaxis]… She received PEP with zidovudine [AZT], lamivudine, and nevirapine...The patient required an orthotopic liver transplant 35 days following initiation of PEP. Pathology of the native liver showed confluent hepatic necrosis...We think that this patient had a severe hypersensitivity reaction to nevirapine that resulted in hepatic failure...”
JAMA. 2000 Dec 6
— Sha BE, Proia LA, Kessler HA, Aids Researchers
“In contrast with anecdotal clinical observations and other studies indicating that zidovudine [AZT] favorably influences weight-growth rates, our analysis suggests the opposite...the result indicating no effect or a negative effect of zidovudine on growth should be interpreted with caution...However, our findings suggest that the widely held view that antiretroviral treatment improves growth in children with HIV disease needs further study.”
Journal of Pediatrics 1996; 128: 58-67
— Moye J, Rich KC, Kalish LA, Sheon AR, Diaz C, Cooper ER, Pitt J, Handelsman E, Aids Researchers
“…HIV dementia among those reporting any antiretroviral use (AZT, ddI, ddC, or d4T) was 97% higher than among those not using this antiretroviral therapy…the findings… seem to confirm…a neurotoxic effect of antiretroviral agents. Numerous studies have linked the use of ddI, ddC, and d4T to the development of toxic sensory neuropathies, usually in a dose-response fashion.”
Neurology 1994; 44: 1892-1900
— Bacellar H, Munoz A, Miller EN, Cohen BA, Besley D, Selnes OA, Becker JT, McArthur JC, Aids Researchers
“The use of efavirenz, a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor [NNRTI], may be limited by psychiatric symptoms that require treatment discontinuation...We report here three informative cases of patients who presented with sudden and severe neuropsychiatric symptoms during therapy with efavirenz.”
AIDS, 2001 Jun 15;15(9):1323-4
— Peyriere H, et al, Aids Researchers
“It is often difficult to distinguish adverse events possibly associated with Zidovudine [AZT] administration from underlying signs of HIV disease or intercurrent illness.”
— Physician’s Desk Reference, 1992
“…Up to one-third of patients taking the drug [AZT] for more than a year, at a dose of around 1g daily, develop myopathy. It is manifest clinically as symmetrical proximal weakness, usually preceded by and associated with myalgia, together with muscle wasting. This leads to difficulty in walking and patients may become wheelchair or bed bound.”
Neuropath. App. Neurobiol. 19:406-413. 1993
— Lane, RJM., McLean, KA, Moss, J & Woodrow, DF, Aids Researchers
“We report on the occurrence of autoimmune hyperthyroidism in three patients with AIDS after 16-22 months of taking highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). A woman…presented with progressive weight loss, asthenia, tachycardia, tremor and swollen eyelids. She had been taking indinavir, stavudine and lamivudine for 19 months...A male aged 42 years with AIDS presented with progressive weight loss, tremor, and tachycardia...The patient had been on indinavir, stavudine, and lamivudine for 16 months...A man aged 36 years with AIDS was started on ritonavir, stavudine and lamivudine in April, 1996. In February, 1998, he presented with progressive weight loss, tremor, and hypertension...”
Lancet. 1998 Dec 12;352:1907-8.
— Gilquin J, et al, Aids Researchers
“Half the people who try the [AIDS] medications do not respond to them...”
— R. Eisner, ABC News, Jun 4, 2001
“We have three reasons to question the administration of combination therapy [HAART]. The drugs do not eliminate virus-infected cells and thus cannot ‘cure.’ Long-term use of antiviral therapy, which can be toxic, may also lead to the emergence of resistant viruses. There is no evidence that early treatment has made a difference in overall disease progression.”
San Francisco Chronicle
— Levy JA, et al, Aids Researchers
“The nucleoside analogue abacavir can cause a hypersensitivity reaction (HSR) in approximately 5% of patients…A more severe reaction has also been reported within minutes to hours of rechallenge, in patients with or without a definite history of previous HSR. We report here a case of an HIV-infected man who developed an immediate, life-threatening reaction compatible with abacavir HSR upon his first documented exposure to abacavir.”
AIDS. 2004 Feb 20;18(3):578-9
— De la Rosa R, et al, Aids Researchers
“Use of protease inhibitors was strongly associated with the likelihood of having a myocardial infarction [heart attack] and correlated with diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidaemia.”
Lancet. 2002 Nov 30;360(9347)
— Holmberg SD, et al, Aids Researchers
“…The A/S/D [Abacavir/Stavudine/Didanosine] arm had a particularly poor outcome in patients with higher viral load and AIDS at baseline: 63% had to discontinue A/S/D (any drug). Side effects were more frequent in the A/S/D arm and included neuropathy 27%, suspicion of hypersensitivity 12%, and increase in lactate accompanied by systemic symptoms…The A/S/D regimen had a low efficacy and a high frequency of adverse events and cannot be recommended.”
AIDS. 2003 Sep 26;17(14):2045-2052
— Gerstoft J, Kirk O, Obel N, et al, Aids Researchers
“A total of 1064 [enfuvirtide] treatment-emergent events were reported…Just under 50% of patients experienced diarrhea and 44% reported experiencing nausea. Hyperlipidemia and neuropathy were reported in 25% and 10% of patients, respectively. Approximately 19% of patients developed rash and approximately 7% reported a general allergic reaction…The most common treatment-related adverse events were associated with the injection of enfuvirtide, with 52 patients (74.3%) experiencing at least one injection site-related adverse event…”
AIDS. 2003 Mar 28;17(5):691-698
— Lalezari JP, et al, Aids Researchers
“Our study shows that significant mitochondrial damage [mitochondria are the energy regulating units in every living cell] is present in HIV-infected patients with severe adverse effects after long-term antiretroviral treatment…”
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2002 Nov 1;31(3):299-308
— Vittecoq D, et al, Aids Researchers
“The HIV protease inhibitor ritonavir at concentrations near clinical plasma levels is able to directly cause endothelial [blood vessel lining] mitochondrial DNA damage and cell death…This study suggests that HIV protease inhibitor-mediated endothelial injury may contribute to its cardiovascular complications.”
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2002 Oct 1;22(10):1560-1566
— Zhong DS, et al, Aids Researchers
“In a short period of time we have observed three patients taking indinavir/ritonavir combined therapy who developed striking alopecia [hair loss]…In two of these patients the alopecia was severe, affecting the scalp, eyelids, eyebrows, beard, axilar [armpit] and pubic areas, and body hair. In all the patients alopecia was rapidly reversible after withdrawing drugs.”
AIDS. 2002 Aug 16;16(12):1695-6
— Ginarte M, et al, Aids Researchers
“Bacillary splenitis occurred…induced by highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)…We report a case of B. henselae infection contracted in a young HIV-positive woman…The excised spleen weighed 339 g and bore multiple nodules and abscesses.”
AIDS. 2002 Jul 5;16(10):1429-30
— Abino JF, et al, Aids Researchers
“…Patients should be warned of stavudine (Zerit, d4T) -associated LAS and the possibility of potentially lethal neuromuscular failure. If severe hyperlactatemia or motor weakness develops, the drug should be stopped immediately and appropriate supportive care (e.g., ventilation) introduced as needed. Physicians should consider monitoring the lactate levels of patients taking stavudine… particularly if symptoms such as fatigue, weight loss, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting or dyspnea develop.”
CMAJ. 2002;166(8):1067
— Wooltorton E, Aids Researcher
“[Chapters in this guide to HIV drugs are entitled Introduction, Appetite loss, Body distortions (lipodystrophy), Bone death and destruction, Cardiac concerns, Diarrhea, Fatigue, Gas and bloating, Hair loss, Headaches, Insulin resistance and diabetes, Kidney stones, Liver toxicity, Muscle aches and pains, Nausea and vomiting, Nightmares, daymares and sleeping difficulties, Pancreatitis, Peripheral neuropathy, Skin problems, Sexual difficulties, The end]”
— CATIE (Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange), A Practical Guide to HIV Drug Side Effects, 2002
“HIV...is unlikely to be eradicated even with decades of therapy. HIV therapy itself has produced an entirely new set of serious complications for HIV-infected patients including body deformities, insulin resistance, lactic acidosis, osteoporosis, neuropathy, osteonecrosis, lipid abnormalities, and cardiovascular disease. Most disconcerting is the fact that both the mechanisms of these toxicities as well as the long term consequences are unknown...Interventions may harm the host more than the virus before progression to AIDS...Are we outsmarting the virus, or once again, will the follies of our thinking be exposed?”
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Jan 8;99(1):4-6
— Havlir DV, Aids Researcher
“...HAART was associated with [greater than two times] increased risk of developing bacterial pneumonia and [a 15-fold increase in the likelihood of developing] NHL [Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma]...Perhaps the development of lymphoma is somehow triggered by the therapy itself.”
Chest. 2001 Dec;120(6):1888-93
— Wolff AJ, O’Donnell AE, Aids Researchers
“…We identified an increasing number of cases of the symptomatic lactic acidosis syndrome [elevated lactic acid levels, first presenting as nausea, vomiting or abdominal pain, and sometimes leading to liver or pancreas failure] in patients infected with HIV who had been treated with antiretrovirals…We found concurrent chemical pancreatitis [pancreas inflammation] in 6 patients and identified a clinical syndrome similar to lipoatrophy [fat wasting] that occurred as an early component of symptomatic hyperlactatemia…Early recognition and discontinuation of antiretroviral therapies are probably essential to recovery.”
Clin Infect Dis. 2001 Dec 1;33(11):1914-21
— Coghlan ME, et al, Aids Researchers
“Around 40% of the patients in our analysis experienced some change in their antiretroviral therapy during the first 40 weeks... It previously has been shown that most early changes are due to toxicity.”
JAMA. 2001 Nov 28;286(20):2560-7
— Phillips AN, et al, Aids Researchers
“Side effects [of Kaletra, a combination of the protease inhibitors Lopinavir and Ritonavir] include diarrhea, abnormal stools, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and asthenia [loss of strength]. A number of patients experienced grade 3-4 laboratory abnormalities in liver function tests, cholesterol, and triglycerides while receiving this drug combination.”
Pharmacotherapy. 2001 Nov;21(11):1352-63
— Mangum EM, Graham KK, Aids Researchers
“47% (545 of 1160) of patients presented with clinical and 27% (194 of 712) with laboratory adverse events probably or definitely attributed to antiretroviral treatment… Compared with single-PI treatment [drug combination including one type of protease inhibitor] use of dual-PI-antiretroviral treatment and three-class-antiretroviral treatment was associated with higher prevalence of adverse events…associations were identified for zidovudine [AZT], lamivudine, stavudine, didanosine, abacavir, ritonavir, saquinavir, indinavir, nelfinavir, efavirenz, and nevirapine.”
Lancet. 2001 Oct 20;358:1322-7
— Fellay J, et al, Aids Researchers
“7 HIV patients presenting LD [Lipodystrophy, all taking antiretroviral therapy] and 5 HIV non-LD controls participated in the study…Structural muscle abnormalities, mitochondrial respiratory chain dysfunction or mtDNA deletions were detected in all HIV lipodystrophic patients. The mitochondrial abnormalities found suggest that mitochondrial dysfunction could play a role in the development of antiretroviral therapy-related lipodystrophy. ”
AIDS. 2001 Sep 7;15(13):1643-51
— Zaera MG, et al, Aids Researchers
“Combination drug therapy, or the triple-drug ‘cocktail’…often provokes severe side effects… ‘These drugs are as dangerous as chemotherapy,’ warned Dr. James Kahn, UCSF associate professor of medicine…”
— Science Daily, Sep 4, 2001
“One of the major barriers to effectively treating HIV is that most people do not feel sick at the time they are offered anti-HIV medications. In fact, it is only after starting the medications that they begin to feel sick.”
Toronto Star, September 24, 1999
— Dr. Lori Swick, Pharm.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo
“[Treatment] failures are occurring right and left...They aren’t dying of traditionally defined AIDS illnesses. I don’t know what they’re dying of...but they’re just wasting and dying. While we are making good guesses, they are just guesses. We don’t know what we are doing.”
Esquire magazine, April 1999
— Dr. Michael Saag, AIDS researcher, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“The antiretroviral drugs currently licensed in the United Kingdom [June 1996] are zidovudine (azidothymidine [AZT]), zalcitabine (ddC) and didanosine (ddI). All three are nucleoside analogues...All are very toxic. Suppression of bone marrow elements can occur with any of the three, as can peripheral neuropathy [nerve damage].”
Adverse Drug Reaction Bulletin. 1996 Jun;178:675-8.
— Ellis CJ, Leung D., Aids researchers
“A decrease in mtDNA [DNA of the mitochondria; the energy regulating entities within every cell] content was found in HAART-treated HIV-infected patients with peripheral fat wasting in comparison with subjects in the control cohorts...Lipodystrophy with peripheral fat wasting following treatment with NRTI [Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor]-containing HAART is associated with a decrease in subcutaneous adipose [under the skin fat] tissue.”
AIDS. 2001;15:1801-9
— Shikuma CM, Hu N, Milne C, et al, Aids Researchers
“AZT (anti-viral AIDS medicine) has, in countless cases, brought about the inevitable and slow asphyxiation of the patient’s body cells, and death by poisoning. The doctors wrongly diagnose the fatal consequences of AZT medication as AIDS following a prior HIV infection. Treatment with AZT and allied toxic substances may be equivalent to joining a suicide squad with a time fuse.”
Continuum, July/Aug. 1996
— Dr. Alfred Hassig, MD, Professor in Immunology, University of Bern, former Director Swiss Red Cross blood banks. Advisor to WHO. President, International Society for Blood Transfusion. Chairman, Study Group for Nutrition and Immunity. Pioneer in hematology, immunology and stress-medicine.
— Dr. Heinrich Kremer, MD, Germany
— Dr. Stefan Lanka, PhD, German virologist
“You do not want to give (AZT) to anyone, but especially to a baby, which is basically a mass of replicating DNA...I have an 8-year-old daughter, and I would never give her AZT - I would leave the state or country first.”
“It's terrible to tell a practicing doctor that his therapy is killing his patients...There’s almost no way to engage orthodox physicians in this debate because they go nuts on you.”
The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon). 29 Dec 1998
— Robert De Prato, MD, US Dept. of Defense. Portland, Oregon
“The truth is that AZT, ddI, ddC, protease inhibitors and other drugs termed ‘antiretrovirals’ have not been found in any controlled studies to show proven clinical benefits for HIV/AIDS patients. The only studies published that claim positive outcome were short-term and did not have statistically significant results.”
“Even more alarming, there is plenty of evidence that these drugs have been found to cause the very symptoms they are meant to cure. Over 500 MDs and/or PhDs have signed a statement calling for a reappraisal of the causes of AIDS, and questioning whether the symptoms are being caused by HIV.”
“What is not mentioned in any textbook is that AZT has been found in five studies performed after its rushed FDA approval to be equally toxic to T-cells, the very cells whose absence is blamed on HIV. This is not surprising since T-cells are produced in the bone marrow, and all the other cells produced there are depleted by AZT. These studies are but a sample of the evidence that suggest that AZT and other ‘antiretrovirals’…are causing a variety of AIDS-like symptoms which are being blamed on HIV.”
“Another fact that raises serious questions about the possibility of HIV causing disease is that even after some $45 billion dollars of research funds, scientists cannot figure out how it supposedly destroys T-cells. This is because it does not destroy T-cells in test tubes and has never been shown to destroy them in humans, either.”
“An immunologist from Harvard Medical School summed up the problem as follows: ‘We are still very confused about the mechanisms that lead to T-cell depletion, but at least now we are confused at a higher level of understanding.’ A simpler explanation of these problems, especially after $45 billion, is that HIV does not affect T-cells, at all.”
Mercola.com, 1999
— Dr. Joseph Mercola, former Chairman of the Family Medicine department at St. Alexius Medical Center, Hoffman Estates, Illinois; served as editor of HIV Monograph by Abbott Laboratories published in 1989 and distributed to physicians nationally. Editor of www.mercola.com, one of the top 10 health websites on the internet
“Large numbers of people are being inappropriately treated with [AIDS] drugs they don’t need. And their lives are probably being shortened.”
“It [Dr. David Ho’s ‘Hit Hard, Hit Early’ theory of HIV treatment—which earned him Time Magazine’s ‘Man of the Year’ award] was just unadulterated hype. It was preposterous. It was almost like an instantaneous religion, or a cult, right after Vancouver [AIDS conference]. You were either a part of that hit-hard-hit-early religion or you were not. It split the HIV community.”
“People don’t realize all the myriad ways that doctors benefit from the drug companies. For example, let’s say that drug company A likes the message that Dr. C is talking about, they can give a research grant to Dr. C and because it’s listed as a ‘research grant,’ people will say, ‘Oh well, this is above board,’ when in fact it’s nothing more than a glorified under-the-table payment. Now, let’s say that you are Dr. C, and you have a $250,000 research grant from company A. What is the likelihood that you are going to say anything bad about their drugs? Zero. At best you are going to say nothing.”
“Just go to the U.S. Public Health Service web site. Under federal law they have to disclose who they have taken money from. It’s right there. Some of these doctors have taken money from 15 to 20 different companies. If 20 companies that are in the business of making money for drug treatment are giving you money, can you honestly stand up and say, ‘Don’t treat?’”
Gear Magazine March 2000
— Dr. Stephen Miles, AIDS specialist, University of California Medical Center, Los Angeles
“This is most outrageous. HIV being the cause of AIDS is a hypothesis. A hypothesis is an assumption made by scientists for discussion about their scientific problems. The public in some peculiar way have accepted the hypothesis as a proven theory.”
“The war on AIDS is being fought like ‘Vietnam’ with the media as cheerleaders. Many people are making a good living out of it, writing positive reports, no matter how negative the results are. Heads of activists groups are drawing good salaries, up to $200,000 per annum. Like ‘Vietnam,’ when casualties, side effects in this case, are mounting and the media stop cheering, the mood will change.”
“The high death rates due to AIDS in the early 1990s were due to aggressive treatments with AZT which may have activated AIDS, but the HIV industry claims the relatively lower death rates in the late 1990s were due to the efficacy of the cocktails (mainly consisting of protease inhibitors) on HIV. This is false. The relatively low death rates would not have appeared if the high death rates due to aggressive treatments with AZT had not occurred in the early 1990s. Many HIV-positive people, not treated with the cocktails, have remained healthy for more than fifteen years.”
“Of course, iatrogenic [caused by medicine] effects will be more obvious when healthy HIV-positive people are treated and become sick…The benefits may only exist in the imagination of doctors. They would feel better when they think something can be done. It is more likely that the harm is real and the benefit is zero, because HIV does not cause AIDS.”
“The HIV industry is going to recover its investment by marketing those drugs to the third world. South Africa refused to pay for those drugs with borrowed money. The HIV industry has turned its attention to China’s bulging foreign currency reserve. There are very few AIDS dissidents in China. Rumour-mongering is China’s national pastime. This makes China an easy target.”
“When they finally admit HIV does not cause AIDS, there will be violent reaction from the market, because the HIV industry has spent billions of dollars in HIV research and most of the money may not be recoverable.”
An Alternative Approach to AIDS and Related Problems: Book 2
— Dr. Ching-Chee Chan, PhD in physical chemistry, University of Manchester, UK, 1967; AIDS researcher and writer, Canada
“A study organised by the John Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health...in collaboration with the Malawi College of Medicine was intended to save children by preventing mother to child transmission of HIV (MTCT). But it was stopped prematurely after details became public, which reveal the organisers had ignored the most basic principles of research in medicine.”
“Most striking was the fact that the women were approached for the first time 4 hours prior to delivery, while in labour. Only few of them had ever been counselled or given any information on HIV and MTCT. During the 4 hours prior to delivery they were counselled and subsequently asked for consent to HIV testing. This counselling took place in an overcrowded delivery room with a complete lack of privacy. In case of a positive result, the women were than counselled for the result and got an introduction to the MTCT study, all this while in labour pain. A four-page patient information leaflet was handed out and consent for participation in the study was requested. No provision was made for longer counselling to explain this patient information to illiterate women. An important detail in a region where 55% of the women are illiterate.”
“Not less important is the fact that an unknown number of women and new-borns were treated unnecessarily without being HIV infected. The following information is given in the product information of the HIV test... ‘Positive specimens should be retested using another method and the results should be evaluated in light of the overall clinical evaluation before a diagnosis is made.’ But this advice of the manufacturer was ignored and no retest was done in order to confirm the result. Also no doctor was involved whatsoever in making any diagnosis of possible symptoms. Giving a diagnosis of an HIV infection and administering drugs without respecting the necessary procedure is a clear violation of medical conduct and would lead to immediate legal consequences in developed countries.”
“Also the patient information was quite insufficient when it came to the side effects, although it was 4 pages long. It explained the obvious but did not contain the important list of potentially severe side effects. Only two side-effects were mentioned. At first women were told they and their children could experience some pain from the needles when the blood sample are taken.”
“Then it is briefly mentioned that AZT, one of the drugs that is used can reduce the amount of blood in the child. One wonders why the women did not get the complete list of side-effects which even the companies hand out to all patients in the product information? Were the authors of the study too afraid to expose the following details: ‘Severe, life-threatening, and in some cases fatal hepatotoxicity ... Severe, life-threatening skin reactions, including fatal cases have occurred in patients treated with VIRAMUNE... Some events occurred after short-term exposure to VIRAMUNE.’”
“Furthermore reference is made in the patient information to the results of a similar study performed in Uganda. Unfortunately the following findings on side-effects is not mentioned: The occurence of clinical or laboratory abnormalities in mothers was 80% and in babies, the rate of serious adverse events was 20%.”
“No result of any diagnostic intervention done during the study, was given to the medical staff... Even HIV positive results were withheld as well as the names of the patients who got anti-retroviral therapy. Consequently doctors could not take into account any of the information of the laboratory results nor whether or not the women or the child had been given anti-retroviral drugs. Therefore any symptoms from the mother or the newborn could not be interpreted as potential side-effects of the drugs. Even in the case of one maternal death no information from the study personal could be obtained as to whether the women had been given anti-retroviral drugs or not.”
“...Unborn and new-born children belong to the weakest group of humans. Consequently they are subject to a strong reluctance concerning any medical treatment because of fears of side-effects. It is incomprehensible that most of the media is following the bandwagon led by pharmaceutical companies to give the most toxic drugs to the most vulnerable part of the population. And this is called a ‘treatment’ which will ‘save lives’. Such a discrepancy between claimed and real intervention is unseen since bloodletting was finally abandoned more than 100 years ago.”
“The other drug used in this study has recently been refused registration for this indication by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) in the US because the high incidence of side-effects but is nevertheless claimed to be safe in African mothers.”
“The study has been stopped after the concerns about the details have been voiced. Or as the matron/chief nurse of the hospital put it: ‘studies which could not be conducted in the Western World should also not have a place in Malawi, misusing the poverty and the low educational status of a part of the patients.’ The matron commented that she wondered how a credible ethical committee could approve such a study.”
“The saddest aspect in this story is the intention to save lives and to prevent harm has turned to the opposite. Women and new-borns have been declared as being HIV infected on the basis of one single unreliable test. Furthermore they have been exposed to the risk of side-effects of dangerous drugs.”
Letter to South African Medical Journal (refused publication), 2002
— Peter Safar, MD, Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Zomba Central Hospital, Malawi
— Christian Fiala, MD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Zomba Central Hospital, Malawi
“To illustrate the absurd fluidity of the HIV-AIDS construct, if the AIDS epidemic predicted by the US Surgeon General fails to explode into the general population and instead smoulders dismayingly within its original risk groups, thereby threatening the US Centers for Disease Control’s glorious funding, just change the definition of AIDS to double its case incidence by the stroke of a pen. Chuck in invasive cervical cancer in the presence of HIV antibodies to keep feminist lobbyists happy by including their occasional malady as an AIDS indicator disease to enable them to pull Federal health benefits. No matter that it’s hard to imagine what cancer has to do with immune suppression…Luc Montagnier himself notes that ‘AIDS has no typical symptoms.’ Odd that. A disease as elastic as medical vogues and funding contingencies require.”
“Around the town in which I live, Pietermaritzburg, some black children born HIV-positive are sent to die in specially established hospices. Some born sick in abject poverty fail to thrive and die, however good the care. But most don’t. Years later they languish there without hope, having missed their appointments with death…Medicine has branded these bright-eyed children carriers of a vile, filthy, deadly contagion, and they are raised to expect death. The mark they bear is like the hidden mole in the armpit detected by the inquisition — meaningless in a sane world, but during an hysterical storm, super-charged with evil. Perfectly healthy, they are raised as though leprous. Imagine growing up like that. It’s beyond pitiful.”
“…[Judge Edwin] Cameron’s breakfast introduced his new AIDS organization…[whose handout preaches ‘buying drugs is buying life’] …Cameron’s fellow drug activists claimed that ‘when people are given AZT they see the face of God!’ How right they are. On a calculus of AZT’s life-ending pharmacokinetics, on AZT you’re undoubtedly on your way to the cemetery. For the big reunion.”
“The repackaging of lethal cell-poisons like AZT as ‘antiretrovirals’ is a vast and callous pharmaceutical fraud…As for the positive immune signals a ‘short course of AZT’ can generate, poison ingestion provokes an immune reaction as the body rises to the insult. This is old hat.”
“Thrown to the wind have been all the safeguards set up to ensure that the Diethylstilbestrol and Thalidomide tragedies would never happen again. Before the hysteria of the AIDS age, women were enjoined even to avoid drinking beer during pregnancy…Has anyone here paused to question whether a growing foetus comprising rapidly dividing cells should be exposed to a random terminator of DNA chain synthesis? Apparently not. Certainly not the recipients of GlaxoWellcome’s largesse from its slush fund of millions for those who make AIDS their business in this country. Nor our doctors carrying out bold medical experiments on the foetuses of pregnant black women — whose unlucky dice gives them a positive registration to the irredeemably and hopelessly non-specific ‘HIV-antibody’ test. Of course anyone in the game crying foul, and drawing attention to the reams of literature in the medical journals about the harm caused by AZT, especially to the young, is going to find himself sent off and defunded, for keeps.”
“In…his response to my article AZT: A Medicine from Hell, top HIV honcho Des Martin floats some scary statistics about HIV infection rates — all terrific fund-raising stuff. It will come as an awkward disappointment, no doubt, to those whose careers thrive on such numbers, to be confronted with The World Health Report 1998. It records that ‘using the latest data gathered and validated by WHO,’ in 1996 South Africa had a magnificent 729 AIDS cases — of a population of 40 odd million. A few years ago our experts predicted 200,000 AIDS orphans by 1997 in KwaZulu-Natal, my province. Guess how many children were reported orphaned here in total over the period 1996/7 (car-crashes, whatever) according to our national Department of Welfare’s current Annual Statistical Report: — a whopping 971. Some epidemic!”
“…Suffice it to say that nowhere on the planet has a single prediction of AIDS exploding into and decimating the general population ever come to pass. No demographic data anywhere speak to an ‘AIDS epidemic.’ Scrutinised, AIDS statistics always turn to mush, and it’s when you home in on the ‘African AIDS’ figures that the show really turns to farce. It’s all computer modeling, premised on the creed that an HIV-positive test result predicts sickness and death after 8 years or so. Could it be that there is something wrong with the theory?”
“The public rightly yawns in reaction to Martin’s silly doomsday histrionics. We’ve noticed that the ‘experts’ are always postponing their plague with which they menace us for money and attention. And since the overwhelming majority of HIV-positive people are healthy, what is this Alice in Wonderland talk of his — this ‘HIV disease’ in the absence of any AIDS defining illness?”
“Dr. Martin states, ‘[HIV] disease is a major global health problem and is associated with a significant morbidity and mortality.’ The Harvard School of Public Health doesn’t think so. In its encyclopaedic Global Burden of Disease Study (1996)…it reports that ‘HIV currently [rates] 28th in the rankings…[in the] global pattern of disease burden.’ That’s not even close to accidental falls (14th) or suicide (17th) as causes of disability, illness and death ‘for all regions of the world.’”
“Debating AZT,” 2000
— Anthony Brink, Advocate of the High Court, Cape Town, South Africa. Author, Debating AZT and The Trouble with Nevirapine. Chairman of the Treatment Information group (www.tig.co.za).
On AIDS in Africa
“Despite the fact that AIDS was first declared and found in homosexual milieus in the USA, some ‘scientific studies’ have tried to locate the origin of AIDS in Africa. This is largely based on the false imaging of the African who is seen as somebody who cannot control him/herself sexually.”
“…This method of determining AIDS cases…leads to many abuses. Much money is spent on studying the origin of AIDS in the wrong places, but the researchers of course, are given a lot of money to make this type of research. Once more, Africans are used as objects of study and speculation. This is even more outrageous because many human and material resources are invested wrongly, instead of, for example, targeting the other immunosuppressing agents like TB, chronic malaria, malnutrition, and many other agents which have been shown to give similar symptoms to those of HIV.”
Presentation to Ecumenical Symposium Of Eastern Africa, 17-21 March 1999
— Peter Kanyandago, PhD, Professor, Anthropologist, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic Affairs, Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi, Uganda
“People think a positive test means no hope, so the children are relegated to the back wards of hospitals which have no resources and they die. They are very sick when they come to us. Usually they are depressed, withdrawn, and silent...But as a result of their care here, they put on weight, recover from their infections, and thrive. Hygiene is excellent [and] nutrition is very good; they get vitamin supplements, cod liver oil, greens every day, plenty of protein. They are really flourishing.”
Hodgkinson Neville, P. Duesberg (ed.), AIDS: Virus- or Drug-Induced? Kluwer, 1996
— Father Angelo D’Agostino, Former surgeon who founded Nyumbani, a hospice for abandoned and orphaned HIV-positive children in Kenya
“…Disobedience of tribal custom [in W. Africa] is punished by... curse death, which means certain death to the victim…For the curse to be successful, the victim has to be made aware that he or she has been cursed...When the curse becomes known, the victim’s family and friends as well as the entire community withdraw their support. The victim becomes an outsider... Feeling hopeless and helpless, the victim withdraws, thus furthering his or her isolation... Although the threat to life is not acute, the emotional strain of feeling hopeless is evident over an extended period of time...The victim remains in a state of chronic fatigue and melancholia, and...he or she simply dies…psycho-physiological forms of giving up are often seen in (Western) hospitals. Patients...told of their imminent death have been known to react by withdrawing, eating and drinking poorly, and socially isolating themselves; at times these reactions result in premature death.”
Am J Psychiatry; 1977, Dec; 134(12): 1425-1427
— KM Golden, Voodoo in Africa and the United States.
“In spite of all the misinformation and faulty data, however, the fact that medical science has got it wrong does not mean that there is no problem. To the contrary. The situation [in Africa] is more grave than medical science and AIDS activists present. But this situation is not new, nor is it the result of HIV and AIDS. Rather, it is the terrible ongoing historic reality of life-threatening immunodeficiency as the chronic condition of the poorest and least defensible. The villain is not a virus; it is poverty itself. And the cure is not medicine; it is justice. And the hysteria around AIDS clouds the issue.”
“We define the effects of immunodeficiency in terms of ‘disease’ rather than ‘deprivation,’ because we have policies to deal with the first, while we do not have the political will to deal with the latter.”
“The media are predisposed to present exotic and deadly diseases which attack humans, with science and medicine as the stalwart army trying to build an adequate defence. The public are all the more susceptible when the exotic disease not only responds to prurient sensationalism (AIDS as a sexual disease, AIDS as punishment for evil and perversion) but also bears the hallmark characteristics of mainstream prejudice regarding sexual orientation and homophobia, race, poverty, and images of the Third World.”
“It is the premise that the cause of AIDS is primarily viral, together with the social-sexual theories about the spread of the so-called ‘AIDS virus,’ which lead to a prediction of an epidemic, not the observable facts. If the theory was correct, both about the virus, and sexual transmission, the present modest numbers would be impossible. Indeed there would be no controversy, because the numbers in Canada and the United States, where diagnosis and reporting is aggressive and rigorous, would already be astronomical. In fact, they are not astronomical, they are not increasing but decreasing, and they remain insignificant in absolute and epidemiological terms. The numbers reveal none of the mathematical characteristics of an epidemic.”
The Politics of Aids, July 1994, Interpares
— Brian K. Murphy, Senior Policy Analyst with Inter Pares, the Canadian international social justice organization; Author, Transforming the World, An Open Conspiracy for Social Change, ZED Books (London and New York), 1999.
“‘1-IN-5 SOUTH AFRICANS ARE HIV-POSITIVE!’ ‘20% OF ALL SOUTH AFRICANS WILL DIE OF AIDS!’
“Figures for…HIV and AIDS in South Africa and Africa are grasped at and freely quoted ad nauseum by those who would have us believe that sub-Saharan Africa is being ravaged…by the biggest threat to ever face the continent. Presented as ‘facts,’ these figures seldom, if ever, come under serious scrutiny in the media and in the medical profession. Yet, even a slight scratch at the surface exposes a massive deception…The purpose of this article is to expose the reader to some of the critical questions that have to be asked of these misleading, if not deceitful, figures…”
“Have you ever wondered how it is that this HI-virus is able to be as discerning and selective as it is? In North America and Europe, it is able to discern and infect homosexuals…intravenous drug users, organ recipients, and recipients of blood products. In Africa, it selects people involved in heterosexual relationships for transmission, and the warning goes out that sexual promiscuity is the way in which the virus is spread. Even with my own limited understanding of viruses, this makes absolutely no sense…”
“The continent of Africa has been ravaged for many decades by all the problems that have been classically regarded as causing severe immune deficiencies…severe malnutrition, repeated infections, incompleted courses of…antibiotics, poor nutrition and sanitation, unhygienic medical conditions, abuse of various substances…Each one of these in itself has been clearly researched and documented as the cause of the destruction of the human immune system. Yet, it is these identical illnesses that are now being blamed on the HI-virus. Are we to believe that the elimination of the virus will lead to a massive decline in these historically common immune deficiency problems in Africa?”
“…The problem is that most people diagnosed as HIV+ in Africa have never been subject to a blood test, and most doctors in sub-Saharan Africa have come to list almost all forms of severe illness as AIDS. In Zambia the word that used to be used for ‘wasting sickness’ has simply been transferred for use as ‘HIV/AIDS’; therefore, where people used to have ‘wasting sickness,’ they now have ‘HIV/AIDS’! This means that any figures for HIV & AIDS in Africa are generally little more than the proverbial thumbsuck!”
“Can a virus be as discerning and selective as the HI-virus is said to be, when there is no other such virus? How can we simply throw out the African history of immune deficiencies, and reclassify most of them as AIDS at the stroke of a pen? Of what real value can the Bangui definition for AIDS in Africa really be, except to cause mass hysteria and unnecessary harm? Who’s fooling who with all these statistics based on nothing, and figures based on thumbsucks at best?”
First Aids, Figures For Africa, The Edge
— Rev. Dr. Charles de Jongh, D.Litt et Phil, D. Ed candidate (Higher Education), Lecturer in Biblical and Pastoral Studies at Baptist Theological College, Johannesburg, South Africa.
“…We’ve got to learn from what has happened here in the last 18 years and try not to repeat it, as we move into…Africa and Asia and India. I can’t overstate...how severe the problems are with the current therapies...People are dying from the effects of the therapies themselves in some cases...People are suffering from severe life-threatening complications of drugs. And a lot of them get to the point where they simply can’t use them anymore. So as we talk about bringing therapy to Africa, even if we can solve the problem and cost and infrastructure and delivery...are we doing the right thing with these drugs? Or are we unleashing another kind of epidemic over there of drug side effects as well?”
ABC Nightline with Ted Koppel. 2001 Jun 8
— Martin Delaney, Director of Project Inform, a mainstream California-based AIDS organization
“While the experts, with their statistics, would have one believe that there exists an extremely serious HIV/AIDS epidemic [in Africa], no trace of an epidemic is observable in the field. All that can be seen is a very poor, undernourished population suffering from malaria, endemic immunodeficiency and common illnesses.”
“The facts very clearly demonstrate that the endemic African immunodeficiency has nothing to do with a hypothetical ‘HIV,’ but is, rather, the result of malnutrition and its corollaries.”
“The so-called ‘HIV’ tests are unspecific; the positive results they may give are misleading and lead to the false belief in the existence of a viral epidemic. A positive test — and this applies especially to Africa — is not a sign of a specific viral infection. These so-called ‘HIV’ tests are deceptive, in that the positive results give the illusion that a precise diagnosis has been made.”
“And yet, it is these very same misleading [HIV test] results which constitute the basis of official statistics and which lead, first the experts, then the scientists, medical doctors, newspaper reporters, and finally the general public to believe that Africa is being ravaged by a specific viral infection called ‘HIV/AIDS!’ People speak of an epidemic of ‘HIV/AIDS,’ but the only thing which has the appearance of an epidemic is what I would call the ‘epidemic of tests,’ an artificial epidemic which is being actively promoted.”
“[The HIV tests] are also dangerous because they cause panic and stigmatization, they lead to the use of toxic anti-viral drugs and they draw attention away from the real sources of immune system deficiencies. Common sense and scientific reason dictate their abandonment.”
“For more than 15 years, the various scientific, medical and mass media alike have ceaselessly portrayed Africa as the continent caught in the grip of a new deadly sexually transmitted infection, and doomed to the most somber future imaginable. Yet, during this very same period, the population that was in the eye of the cyclone and received no specific treatment has continued to increase as before.”
“In 1985, the newly out ‘HIV’ tests detected the first HIV-positive individuals in precisely this same [Tanzania] border area…According to the experts, this region was doomed to be decimated, unless energetic measures were taken to combat this new deadly virus.
“Fifteen years later, we can begin to take stock of the situation. The following are official census results: For Tanzania, a regular upward curve can be observed for the period 1967 to 2002, with a [population] growth of 49% between 1988 and 2002. There is no drop in the population. For the Kagera region, we see the same upward curve, with 53% growth between 1988 and 2002.”
“…‘HIV’ tests were conducted [in Tanzania], but they led to the observation that sick children, whether ‘HIV’-positive or ‘HIV’-negative, recuperated equally well, so long as they received adequate nutrition and medical attention.”
“To state that the priority, with respect to emergency humanitarian aid, should be given to the fight against ‘HIV’ and to giving those countries the possibility of buying cheap-priced anti-viral products is just as irrational as saying to someone suffering from acute vitamin C deficiency, ‘Sir, I see that you are suffering from scurvy. You’d better go buy yourself some antibiotics and condoms.’”
December 8, 2003, address to European Parliament Conference on AIDS in Africa, Brussels
— Dr. Marc Deru, MD, Visé, Belgium
“The gross figures about African AIDS were extrapolated to heavy degrees of exaggeration from small samples, thanks to interested publicists consciously running up the score. At a time (1980-2000) when AIDS was portrayed as decimating Africa, the population was actually increasing from 378 million to 652 million. Remember as well that people don’t die of AIDS per se but of other diseases attacking individuals made vulnerable by immune deficiencies whose principal cause, universally, is not HIV but nothing more mysterious than poor living conditions. The more selective precondition of AIDS can thus be posthumously assigned, presumptively.”
AIDS Reconsidered. 2006 Oct.
— Richard Kostelanetz, MA. Fulbright Scholar. Prolific writer, musician, videographer and artist.
“Nutritional AIDS dominates the scene in South Africa today as indeed it did during Apartheid. In the middle [19]50’s and 60’s, 50 percent of black children were dead before the age of five. The causes of death were recorded as: Pneumonia, High Fever, Dehydration and intractable Diarrhea due to protein deficiency. Today, these clinical features are called AIDS. Today in South Africa, TB is the leading cause of death and morbidity amongst Africans, but this is called AIDS.”
December 8, 2003, address to European Parliament Conference on AIDS in Africa, Brussels
— Dr. Sam Mhlongo, MD, Head of the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care at the Medical University of South Africa, Johannesburg.
“Let me repeat it again: The African people have little resistance to infectious diseases because they’re poor, and they don’t get enough to eat. Rich people live longer than poor people; everyone knows that. Africa’s own fat cats who rule their nations by milking their citizens dry, don’t get AIDS. And the reason is not that they use condoms, or restrict themselves to one sexual partner. No, they simply eat well, and they have access to proper medical care.”
— Dr. Wilhelm Godschalk, PhD, Biochemist, The Hague, Netherlands. Formerly Asst. Prof., University of Virginia Medical School, Assoc. Prof., University of Puerto Rico Medical School, Senior Scientist at the Center for Energy and Environmental Research. Did research with Dr. Jesse Beams, one of the lead scientists on The Manhattan Project.
“There was a time when I imagined medical research as an idealized endeavor, carried out by scientists interested only in truth. Up close, it turns out to be much like any other human enterprise, riven with envy, ambition and the standard jockeying for position.”
“[South Africa’s] coffin makers had to be laboring hard to keep pace with growing [AIDS] demand. One newspaper account…told of a company called Affordable Coffins, purveyor of cheap cardboard caskets, which had more orders than it could fill. But the firm was barely two months old when the story ran, and two rival entrepreneurs who launched similar products a few years back had gone under.
“…So I called the real-wood [coffin] firms…‘It’s quiet,’ said Kurt Lammerding of GNG Pine Products. His competitors concurred—business was dead, so to speak.
“‘It’s a fact,’ said Mr. A. B. Schwegman of B & A Coffins. ‘If you go on what you read in the papers, we should be overwhelmed, but there’s nothing. So what’s going on? You tell me.’
“So I called a black-owned firm, Mmabatho Coffins, but it had gone out of business, along with some others I tried calling. This was getting seriously weird. The death rate had almost doubled in the past decade, according to a recent story in South Africa’s largest newspaper. ‘These aren’t projections,’ said the Sunday Times. ‘These are the facts.’ And if the facts were correct, I thought, someone somewhere had to be prospering in the coffin trade.
“…I wandered around [the carpentry workshop building] searching for coffin makers, but there were only two. Eric Borman said business was good, but he was a master craftsman who made one or two deluxe caskets a week and seemed to resent the suggestion his customers were the sort of people who died of AIDS. For that, I’d have to talk to Penny. Borman pointed, and off I went, deeper and deeper into the maze. Penny’s place was locked up and deserted. Inside, I saw unsold coffins stacked ceiling-high, and a forlorn CLOSED sign hung on a wire.
“At that moment, a forbidden thought entered my brain…For years, experts tell you that the plague is marching down the continent, coming ever closer…This has to be true, because it’s coming from experts, so you start looking for evidence. Laston, the gardener at Number 10, is suspiciously thin, and has a hacking couch that won’t go away. On the far side of the golf course, Mrs. Smith has just buried her beloved servant. Mr. Beresford’s maid has just died, too. Your cousin Lenny knows someone who owns a factory where all the workers are dying. Your newspapers are regularly predicting that the economy will surely be crippled, and schooling may soon collapse because so many teachers have died.
“But then you find yourself staring into Penny’s failed coffin workshop and you think, Jesus, maybe something is wrong here...”
“In my suburb, I can assure you, people’s brains are so addled by death propaganda that we automatically assume almost everyone who falls seriously ill or dies has AIDS, especially if they’re poor and black. But we don’t really know for sure, and nor do the sufferers themselves, because hardly anyone has been tested. ‘What’s the point?’ asks Laston, the ailing gardener. He knows there’s no cure for AIDS…Last winter, he came down with a bad cough, and everyone said it was AIDS, but it wasn’t — come summer, Laston got better. Then Stanley the bricklayer became our street’s most likely case. Stan maintained he had a heart condition, but behind his back, everyone was whispering, ‘Oh, my God, it’s AIDS.’ But was it? We had no idea. We were playing a game, driven by hysteria.”
“…If the numbers could be gotten so wrong in America, what are we to make of the infinitely more dire death spells cast upon the developing world? In 1993, Laurie Garrett wrote in her book ‘The Coming Plague’ that Thailand’s AIDS epidemic was ‘moving at super-sonic speed.’ It has stalled at just below two percent, according to UNAIDS. In 1991 All India Institute of Medical Sciences official Vulmiri Ramalingaswami said AIDS in India ‘was sitting on top of a volcano,’ but infection levels there have yet to crest one percent. The only place where the AIDS apocalypse has materialized in its full and ghastly glory is in Geneva’s [WHO’s] computer models of the African pandemic, which show millions dead and far worse coming.”
“In Tanzania, AIDS doctors can increase their income just by saving the hard-currency per diems they earn while attending international conferences. Here in South Africa, entrepreneurs are piling into the AIDS business at an astonishing rate, setting up consultancies, selling herbal immune boosters and vitamin supplements, devising new insurance products, distributing condoms, staging benefits, forming theater troupes that take the AIDS prevention message into schools. A friend of mine is co-producing a slew of TV documentaries about AIDS, all for foreign markets. Another friend has got his fingers crossed, since his agency is on the shortlist to land a $6 million safe-sex ad campaign.”
“AIDS in Africa—In Search of the Truth,” Rolling Stone Magazine, Nov. 22, 2001
— Rian Malan, South African author of My Traitor’s Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe and His Conscience.
“I’ve seen no evidence of an AIDS plague anywhere in Africa. No overloaded hospitals, no sick people lying about the streets, no horror stories from locals and the epicenter of the epidemic is supposed to be in the very places in central and southern Africa where I’ve spent the most time. In fact, when I was in the Congo’s Katanga province last year, I went out of my way to visit a hospital in Lumumbashi run by a Belgian doctor to talk with someone who actually dealt with these things first hand. His opinion was that people were dying of lots of things, but not noticeably more than was ever the case.
“He thought that to whatever degree AIDS was a problem, malaria was a vastly bigger problem. He thought AIDS was 90% hysteria and 10% reality.
“Other than Mr. Mbeki, nobody I talked to in South Africa even cared about AIDS, simply because so few people even knew somebody who knew somebody who supposedly had it. People are far more concerned about crime.”
International Living Magazine, Aug, 2000
— Doug Casey, Editor, The International Speculator, Author of the #1 NY Times bestseller, Crisis Investing.
“I cannot understand how any doctor can say that HIV testing in Africa is acceptably reliable. In the developed world HIV testing consists of ELISA test followed by the Western blot test. This is because studies have shown that the ELISA test alone produces at least an 83% false positive test result rate. However, in Africa, due to lack of resources, testing usually consists of the ELISA test only. Often, HIV testing is not even performed and people are diagnosed on the basis of unspecific symptoms such as weight loss and diarrhea.”
“Antiretroviral drugs are another huge concern. Long term use is known to cause immunosuppression and side effects that are actually indistinguishable from AIDS. The pharmaceutical companies do not even attempt to deny this. Millions of people have been encouraged to put all their hope and trust in these drugs. I doubt that they are told that within 10 years time when they develop symptoms of ‘AIDS,’ no one will really know whether it is due to the HIV or due to the identical fatal side effects of the drugs.”
— Mukai Chimutengwende-Gordon, fifth-year medical student at Bristol University, England
“A patient [in Africa] is given an AIDS diagnosis when they have two major symptoms and one minor symptom. The major symptoms are weight loss, chronic diarrhea and chronic fever. The minor symptoms include coughing and generalized itching. It’s absurd when you understand how common these symptoms are in sub-Saharan Africa. To begin with, less than 50 percent of Africans have access to safe drinking water. Over 60 percent have no sanitation. Most African villages don’t have sewage systems. Human and animal excrements mix with the water supply. People drink this water and ingest infectious parasites and bacteria. As a result, dysentery is endemic.”
“When your intestines are full of infectious microbes, you’ll likely develop a fever. Your body will try to purge itself by expelling the bacteria…This is infectious diarrhea, and it’s incredibly common in Africa. Diarrhea drains …nutrients from the body. It weakens the immune system. When you have no safe water, you’ll have diarrhea chronically. When you have chronic diarrhea, you can’t help but to lose weight. At this point, you’ve fulfilled the major symptom criteria in the African [Bangui] definition for AIDS. The Bangui Definition simply re-labels symptoms of poverty as AIDS.”
“TB is very widespread in Africa. The typical symptoms are fever, weight loss and coughing. This is exactly what is required for an AIDS diagnosis. Malaria is the most widespread disease in Africa and tropical countries. The symptoms include fever, weight loss and fatigue. If you have a cough or itching, and you have malaria in Africa, you can be diagnosed with AIDS.”
“In some African countries, such as Tanzania, health authorities have decided that a patient exhibiting just one of the major symptoms — diarrhea, fever or weight loss — can be given an AIDS diagnosis.”
“This is hardly scientific. The idea that there should be a different kind of AIDS for Africans or Europeans or Americans defies the scientific definition of viral infection. A single virus doesn’t cause different diseases in different people or in different countries. A viral infection doesn’t vary so wildly so as to create pelvic cancer in women, Kaposi’s sarcoma in gay men, and tuberculosis in Africans. But this is what we’re asked to believe about HIV.”
“…In the meantime, Aids experts drive around the country in four-wheel-drive air-conditioned vehicles, if they are not saving the world from Aids in their comfortable offices or presenting their latest medical experiments on Africans at an overseas conference. The government has not only bought condoms for millions of dollars on credit, but borrows even more money from the industrialised countries in order to buy imprecise HIV tests and toxic Aids medications…a reader of the daily New Vision in Kampala wrote recently: ‘Most people die from malaria. So give us free mosquito nets instead of condoms and Aids medicaments.’”
“The Aids hysteria of the last 20 years was indeed politically correct, but led to a neglect of other far more important aspects in health care…it was also to the disadvantage of people in Africa. Innumerable western companies, NGOs, international organisations and Aids experts profited from it. HIV/Aids is indeed a new disease in this world of virtual reality and Infotainment: The celebrated discoverer of HIV later admits that he could in fact never purify the virus and the supposedly deadly disease leads to a real explosion in population growth in the so-called ‘epicentre,’ the country most heavily affected [Uganda].”
“TASO — The AIDS Support Organisation [in Uganda] claims to be independent, but they’re heavily funded by the pharmaceutical industry. They’re currently constructing buildings to prepare the ground for massive HIV testing, with this non-specific, cross-reacting test, and to distribute toxic AIDS drugs. These drugs are similar or identical to chemotherapy drugs used in cancer treatment. They work by stopping cell growth. They kill your body from the inside out. These are the most toxic drugs known to medicine, and they’re being applied to the most vulnerable part of the population — pregnant mothers, unborn children and newborns — all based on a faulty test, or no test at all, while their actual food, shelter and water needs continue to be ignored.”
“The most effective way to reduce all of these infectious diseases is to improve the standard of living and hygiene for local residents — to provide safe, clean, non-stagnant water, proper sanitation, plentiful, healthy food, treated mosquito nets, proper housing and basic medical care. This is exactly how the incidence of TB and other infectious diseases was dramatically reduced in the US and Europe. What’s astounding is that the UN is recommending just the opposite.”
“The UN’s exact recommendations: to redirect billions of dollars from health, infrastructure and rural development into AIDS — condoms, safe sex lectures and deadly pharmaceuticals. This is not what these already suffering people need to be healthy and successful. This is exactly how to propagate death, disease and poverty.”
Scheff, Aids Debate, Boston Dig
— Dr. Christian Fiala, MD, PhD, specialist in OB/Gyn, Vienna, Austria; Member of President Mbeki's AIDS Advisory Board
“It seems to me that when you’re looking for the cause of a disease, you’re looking for commonalities, not differences. AIDS in the United States is characterized by such things as severe immunosuppression and characteristic opportunistic infections like Kaposi’s sarcoma and candidiasis, whereas in Africa it’s associated with other symptoms like wasting disease. [In Africa], they’ve always had the wasting disease and the malaria. Other parasitic diseases come to mind. Having an infection with the HIV virus doesn’t predispose you to getting these diseases. People in that environment get them because they’re in the environment that exposes them to those sorts of infectious agents.”
“The virus should cause the same disease, and it clearly doesn’t in Africa. They’ve just taken all the old diseases, combined with HIV, and called it AIDS. But a lot of people in Africa just have the same diseases they’ve always had.”
Null, “AIDS: A Second Opinion” Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, June 2000
— Dr. Mark Chanley, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas
“Duesberg and Ellison’s case against HIV is bolstered by the many cases that defy the HIV-only theory. In Rwanda, for example, I learned of the case of an international prostitute who gave birth to twins. The seronegative baby died from AIDS, while the seropositive one lived. There is still a lot of rethinking to be done regarding HIV and its relationship with AIDS, and Professor Duesberg has been right to insist over the past four years that the debate should not be closed.”
“Prior to the days of Aids in Ghana, dozens of fatal diseases ranging from TB to various cancers caused a death per day, on my ward alone of 34 beds. Today, because of Aids, it seems that Africans are not allowed to die from these conditions any longer.”
“...Why do the world’s media appear to have conspired with some scientists to become so gratuitously extravagant with the untruth?”
Duesberg, “Inventing the Aids Virus”
“Where there was ‘AIDS’ there was money. A brand-new clinic, a new Mercedes parked outside, high-paying jobs...A leading African physician warned us, ‘You will never get these doctors to tell you the truth. When they get sent to these AIDS conferences around the world, the per diem they receive is equal to what they can earn in a whole year at home.’”
“If tens of thousands [of Africans] are dying from AIDS, (and Africans do not cremate their dead), where are the graves?”
Lancet, July 25, 1987
— Dr. Felix Konotey-Ahulu, MD, a Ghanaian physician at London’s Cromwell Hospital
“‘1-IN-5 SOUTH AFRICANS ARE HIV-POSITIVE!’ ‘20% OF ALL SOUTH AFRICANS WILL DIE OF AIDS!’
“Figures for…HIV and AIDS in South Africa and Africa are grasped at and freely quoted ad nauseum by those who would have us believe that sub-Saharan Africa is being ravaged…by the biggest threat to ever face the continent. Presented as ‘facts,’ these figures seldom, if ever, come under serious scrutiny in the media and in the medical profession. Yet, even a slight scratch at the surface exposes a massive deception…The purpose of this article is to expose the reader to some of the critical questions that have to be asked of these misleading, if not deceitful, figures…”
“Have you ever wondered how it is that this HI-virus is able to be as discerning and selective as it is? In North America and Europe, it is able to discern and infect homosexuals…intravenous drug users, organ recipients, and recipients of blood products. In Africa, it selects people involved in heterosexual relationships for transmission, and the warning goes out that sexual promiscuity is the way in which the virus is spread. Even with my own limited understanding of viruses, this makes absolutely no sense…”
“The continent of Africa has been ravaged for many decades by all the problems that have been classically regarded as causing severe immune deficiencies…severe malnutrition, repeated infections, incompleted courses of…antibiotics, poor nutrition and sanitation, unhygienic medical conditions, abuse of various substances…Each one of these in itself has been clearly researched and documented as the cause of the destruction of the human immune system. Yet, it is these identical illnesses that are now being blamed on the HI-virus. Are we to believe that the elimination of the virus will lead to a massive decline in these historically common immune deficiency problems in Africa?”
“…The problem is that most people diagnosed as HIV+ in Africa have never been subject to a blood test, and most doctors in sub-Saharan Africa have come to list almost all forms of severe illness as AIDS. In Zambia the word that used to be used for ‘wasting sickness’ has simply been transferred for use as ‘HIV/AIDS’; therefore, where people used to have ‘wasting sickness,’ they now have ‘HIV/AIDS’! This means that any figures for HIV & AIDS in Africa are generally little more than the proverbial thumbsuck!”
“Aggravating the entire picture, is the use of seemingly wonderful statistical projections which are no more than projections based on estimates based on nothing! To date, no proper statistical analysis of the prevalence of HIV & AIDS has been done in any African country…a proper random representative sampling of the population…which are then subject to a blood test (the credibility of which is highly dubious, producing over 50% false positives in many cases) to determine the actual prevalence of HIV & AIDS...”
“Can a virus be as discerning and selective as the HI-virus is said to be, when there is no other such virus? How can we simply throw out the African history of immune deficiencies, and reclassify most of them as AIDS at the stroke of a pen? Of what real value can the Bangui definition for AIDS in Africa really be, except to cause mass hysteria and unnecessary harm? Who’s fooling who with all these statistics based on nothing, and figures based on thumbsucks at best?”
First Aids, Figures For Africa, The Edge
— Rev. Dr. Charles de Jongh, D.Litt et Phil, D. Ed candidate (Higher Education), Lecturer in Biblical and Pastoral Studies at Baptist Theological College, Johannesburg, South Africa.
On the Clumsy Science Behind AIDS Research
“It’s not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There are no such documents.”
Spin magazine, Vol. 10 No. 4, 1994
“The HIV-causes AIDS theory is one hell of a mistake.”
Foreword, “Inventing the AIDS Virus”
“Where is the research that says HIV is the cause of AIDS? There are over 10,000 people in the world now who specialize in HIV. None has any interest in the possibility that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS because if it doesn’t, their expertise is useless.”
California Monthly, Sept. 1994
--Kary Mullis PhD-Biochemist, winner, 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for inventing the polymerase chain reaction, the basis for the HIV viral load tests.
“The HIV hypothesis of AIDS is the biggest scientific, medical blunder of the 20th century. The evidence is overwhelming that AIDS is not contagious, sexually transmitted, or caused by HIV. The physicians who know or suspect the truth are embarrassed or afraid to admit that the HIV tests are absurd and should be outlawed, and that the anti-HIV drugs are injuring and killing people.”
Mail & Guardian, Johannesburg, SA, Jan.24, 2001
“As a scientist who has studied AIDS for sixteen years, I have determined that AIDS has little to do with science and is not even primarily a medical issue. AIDS is a sociological phenomenon held together by fear, creating a kind of medical McCarthyism that has transgressed and collapsed all the rules of science, and has imposed a brew of belief and pseudoscience on a vulnerable public.”
Spin, June 1997
“Fifty percent of Americans have no sewage systems. Their drinking water mixes with animal and human waste. They have constant TB and malaria infections, the symptoms of which are diarrhea and weight loss, the very same criteria UNAIDS and the World Health Organization use to diagnose AIDS in Africa. These people need clean drinking water and treated mosquito nets [mosquitos carry malaria], not condoms and lectures and deadly pharmaceuticals forced on pregnant mothers.”
Scheff, AIDS debate, Boston Dig, 2003
“In 1990 at the San Fernando AIDS conference, [HIV co-discoverer Luc] Montagnier announced that HIV did not, after all, kill T-cells and could not be the cause of AIDS. Within hours of making this announcement, he was attacked by the very industry he’d helped to create.”
Scheff
--Dr. David Rasnick, PhD, Biochemist, protease Inhibitor Developer, University of California
“The HIV-causes-AIDS dogma is the grandest fraud that has ever been perpetrated onyoung men and women of the Western world. AIDS is a cruel deception that is maintained because so many people are making money from it. Take away this money and the entire system of mythology will collapse.”
-Sunday Times, London, 3 April 1994
“…By the most sensitive PCR and culture procedures, no9 virus can be detected in 90% of the semen samples taken from men with AIDS.”
Rethinking AIDS May 1993
“The reason that the whole shabby story of HIV is being held in place is there’s so much money riding on it. The federal government is spending about $4 billion on just this single subject, and all that$4 billion is predicated on the idea that HIV causes these diseases.”
Penthouse Magazine, April 1995
-Dr. Beverly E. Griffin, PhD, Director, Department of Virology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London
“I do not believe that HIV in and of itself, can cause AIDS.”
New York Daily News Sep 20, 1993
-Dr. Roberto Geraldo, MD, specialist in internal medicine, infectious and tropical diseases, New York. Former Chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Antioquia, Medellin, Columbia, Author, AIDS and stressors.
“The transmission of AIDS from person to person is a myth. The homosexual transmission of AIDS in Western countries, as well as the heterosexual transmission of AIDS in Africa and in other undeveloped countries, is an assumption without any scientific validation.”
--Dr. Charles Thomas, PhD, former Priofessor of Biochemistry, Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. Former chair of the Cell Biology Department, Scripps Research Institute.
“Duesberg is absolutely correct in saying that no one has proven that AIDS is caused by the AIDS virus. And he is absolutely correct that the virus cultured in the laboratory may not be the cause of AIDS.”
Hippocrates Sept./Oct. 1988
--Dr. Walter Gilbert, PhD, Professor of Molecular Biology, Harvard University. Winner, 1980 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
“Nobody wants to look at the facts about this disease. It’s the most extraordinary thing I’ve ever seen. I’ve sent countless letters to medical journals pointing out the epidemiological discrepancies and they simply ignore them. The fact is this whole heterosexual AIDS thing is a hoax.”
Spin June 1992
AIDS is a behavioral disease. It is multifactorial, brought on by several simultaneous strains on the immune system—drugs, pharmaceutical and recreational, sexually transmitted diseases, multiple viral infections.
Spin June 1992
“With the ‘discovery’ of HIV as the putative, universally infectious retrovirus and the conversion of this hypothesis into a dogma by the consensus, all dissent began to be suppressed by anonymous censorhip, which became absolute, amazingly pervasive, and apparently immune from disclosure of conflicts of interests. On many occasions, I have been asked by the BBC and other networks to talk about AIDS only to find, at the last minute, that my appearance was cancelled.”
“Colleagues and I attempting to publish have met an unholy alliance intent on rejecting any papers that offer serious criticisms of the orthodoxy. The mainstream journals and media—whenever they are presented with reasonable doubts about AIDS—close ranks like regimented clams. . . There are, naturally, vested interests involved; many bodies and individuals receive high rewards for their work within orthodox AIDS science. Underlying much of this, the pharmaceutical companies have their own obvious agenda.”
Index on Censorship, UK, Issue 3, 1999
December 8, 2003, address to European Parliament Conference on AIDS in Africa. Brussels
--Dr. Gordon Stewart, MD, Emeritus professor of Public Health, University of Glasgow. Former Consultant Physician (Epidemiology and preventative medicine) to the National Health Service.
“Over 70 conditions can lead to a [false] positive result in the Elisa test kit. Testing positive in this test could mean flu, malaria, tuberculosis, pregnancy, herpes, after-effects of hepatitis B and even tetanus vaccines. HIV is just one of possible results. It is globally known that the Elisa test is not a conclusive one to find out the HIV status. Yet government agencies use only Elisa to establish HIV positive results.”
Times of India, May 30, 2001
— Radhika D. Srivastava, Journalist, Times of India
“We come here before you today to argue against the widespread use of serologic tests for evidence of HIV infection in so-called low-risk populations. We firmly believe that widespread screening for such infection, as has been proposed for immigrants, marriage license applicants, and, at least in one state, members of the general population, is unwise; it may in fact lead to a social catastrophe.”
Testimony to US Congress. 1987 Oct.
— Dr. Stephen Pauker, MD, New England Medical Center, Boston
“People can find it hard to leave an orthodoxy unless they know what they’re going to. I’m a great believer in looking at people’s track record. The track record of the drug approach to AIDS is absolutely abysmal. The drug approach to cancer is not a great deal better, though they’ve convinced themselves it is. You look at the people who’ve done hard epidemiological work on this and they say that the battle against cancer is a, quote, qualified failure. I don’t know how many billions we’ve given them to do the job. What other group is so unaccountable in public? There is something wrong with a society that abdicates so much power to scientists who are going round in circles. If you look at the track record of these things it is very very bad. Common sense says it’s time to look in other directions.”
Continuum July/Aug 1996
— Lord Baldwin, Joint Chairman of Britain’s Parliamentary Group for Alternative and Complementary Medicine
“The hypothesis of the transmissibility of cancer that endured several decades is of historical interest as it exemplifies how an entire generation of scientists and scholars, misguided by flawed hypotheses, often commit their talents and energy, as well as human and financial resources in the unproductive pursuit of a false lead”
The War on Cancer, An Anatomy of Failure, A Blueprint for the Future
— Guy Faguet, NIH Funded Cancer Researcher for 28 years. Author of 140 peer-reviewed articles, 7 book chapters and 3 books on cancer, including The War on Cancer: An Anatomy of Failure
“AIDS is a myth generated by criminals in the CDC. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people have been killed based upon the myth. There has never been an AIDS epidemic and there is no AIDS epidemic presently. AIDS is not a transmissable disease and cannot be transmitted even by a blood transfusion. The original cases in NY and LA were homosexuals who were destroying their immune systems with recreational drugs.”
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/06/66369_comment.php
— Dr. Daniel H. Duffy, Sr., Geneva, Ohio.
“I believe that HIV is a harmless virus and that AIDS is an advanced depressed state of the immune system, a result of malnutrition (such as seen in Africa) and/or drug consumption, be it prescription or non prescription.”
Comment to Virusmyth (website)
— Anca Pop, PhD, Biochemistry, University of Bucharest, Romania. Biochemist, British Columbia, Canada.
“We challenge the accuracy of media portrayal of AIDS because we believe that racism, medical mystification, and a lack of journalistic skepticism have resulted in a misleading account of the epidemic and of the economic, social and public health problems underlying it.
“The exaggeration is due in part to the way AIDS is reported: AIDS is the only disease reported cumulatively rather than annually, with a single total for cases and deaths rather than separate figures for new cases and deaths each year. Compare cumulative totals (1982-1997) of AIDS cases and deaths for South Africa (12,825) and Uganda (53,306) with new AIDS cases for 1996: South Africa — 729, Uganda — 3,021.
“A second issue is the way estimates of people who test positive for antibodies to HIV cannot be reconciled with numbers of cases. For example, in 1987, WHO estimated that 1 million Ugandans were HIV-positive; ten years later, the cumulative case/death total was 55,000. A third issue is the way the cumulative AIDS figure is then used to dwarf other health problems when annual data reveal a different situation. Compare new cases of AIDS with tuberculosis and measles in 1996: South Africa reported 91,578 new cases of TB, 6,501 cases of measles, and 729 new cases of AIDS; Uganda reported 27,356 new cases of TB, 26,198 cases of measles, and 3,021 new cases of AIDS.”
“Malnutrition, malaria, tuberculosis, and dysentery are rife in Africa; they result in damaged immune systems and are likely to cause increasing numbers of premature deaths.”
“Claims that AIDS threatens millions of Africans make it politically acceptable to subsidize the enormously profitable multi-national pharmaceutical industry, to use the continent as a laboratory for vaccine trials…and to distribute toxic drugs such as protease inhibitors that produce grotesque side effects, severe metabolic disturbances, kidney and liver failure, diabetes, and life-threatening changes in blood chemistry. AIDS activists are insisting that pharmaceutical companies provide these drugs at discount prices even though the manufacturers admit that they do not yet know whether taking the drugs will extend life or reduce chances of getting other illnesses associated with HIV.”
Health, Drugs, and AIDS, Background Paper: Deconstructing the Health/AIDS/Drugs Debates
— Dr. Meredith Turshen, PhD, Professor of Urban Studies and Community Health, Rutgers University, New Jersey;
“Not long ago, in our own country, people were killed, tortured, imprisoned and prohibited from being quoted in private and in public because the established authority believed that their views were dangerous and discredited.
“We are now being asked to do precisely the same thing that the racist apartheid tyranny we opposed did, because, it is said, there exists a scientific view that is supported by the majority, against which dissent is prohibited.
“The scientists we are supposed to put into scientific quarantine include Nobel Prize Winners, Members of Academies of Science and Emeritus Professors of various disciplines of medicine!
“Scientists, in the name of science, are demanding that we should cooperate with them to freeze scientific discourse on HIV-AIDS at the specific point this discourse had reached in the West in 1984.
“People who otherwise would fight very hard to defend the critically important rights of freedom of thought and speech occupy, with regard to the HIV-AIDS issue, the frontline in the campaign of intellectual intimidation and terrorism which argues that the only freedom we have is to agree with what they decree to be established scientific truths.
Letter to World Leaders, April 3, 2000
— Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa. MEcon (University of Sussex, 1966), Honorary Doctorate, Rand Afrikaans University (1999), Honorary Doctorate of Laws, Glasgow Caledonian University (2000).
“Medical science as practised today is more accurately defined as a religion than a science because much of its foundations are built upon belief and faith…The selling of beliefs as proof amounts to nothing more than a religion masquerading itself as science.”
“During the middle ages doctors of the day deeply believed that midwives were witches. The result; thousands of midwives were executed. In the 1700 to 1800’s doctors then believed that as much as four-fifths of a person’s ‘bad’ blood should be drained out of the body for a simple sore throat. The result; thousands of people (among them President George Washington) bled to death during medical bloodletting sessions. For centuries the medical profession stubbornly believed that scurvy had absolutely nothing to do with diet. The result; literally millions of preventable deaths due to scurvy…The seemingly endless litany of medical crimes and arrogance is written in blood across the pages of history and yet they still expect us all to keep on believing…Do you still have faith in the church of modern medicine?”
hippocrates.com.au
— Dr. James P. Hilton, PhD, author, Burden of Proof: Surviving Cancer, AIDS and Most Other Illnesses
“I strongly believe that if indeed there is AIDS, the scourge is not as serious as people are proclaiming it. I personally think that since 1980 or thereabout when this scare crow started there should have been drastic reduction in the population of undergraduates in our universities because sexual intercourse is going on in an unprotected manner every minute in our society. If anybody emaciates and dies in Africa, I will say hunger and malnutrition are responsible and not AIDS. I can defend this position anytime.”
— Dr. ‘Ayo Adeboye, Physician, Nigeria.
“I look for the day when HIV/AIDS will be eradicated, not via toxic drugs but by informed science committed to authentic healing and not merely waging war on a mythical/overrated virus.”
Comment to Virusmyth
— Victor Pond, Project Director, MOCHA Coalition (Men Of Color Committed to Healthier Alternatives), Chicago Department of Public Health, Chicago, Illinois
“The “hiv/aids” labeling system is being used by more than 70 countries to DENY people basic human rights. The USA is at the forefront of many of these violations. People are being denied the right to political asylum, the right to freely move from country to country, people are being tested against their will. People are being denied a choice of treatments; only toxic antiretroviral therapies are free. No government, no doctors in (England), no charity, no organisations, no National Health Service is helping people have any natural alternatives to combination therapy. Patients (and me) are being denied a FREE and FAIR CHOICE.”
“‘hiv’ test kits are not used fairly or objectively; high risk group information is standardly used and this DOES affect interpretations of results; without high risk group information they would not be able to use any ‘hiv’ test kit because the results would be all over the place, unreproducable, discordant and impossible to ‘interpret,’ that’s the real reasons they NEED all this information when using these test kits…we have to stop this madness.”
Comment to Virusmyth
— James Whitehead, hiv positive 13 to 16 years, since 1987; writer and researcher for Continuum Magazine and Meditel Productions.
“AIDS stands as the epitome of pseudo-science devoid of morality, research without conscience, and a public policy driven by ego, dollar signs and genocidal neglect.”
Comment to Virusmyth
— Dr. Ted Hill, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Sandpoint, Idaho
“Anyone who isn’t skeptical of the pharmaceutical industry’s motives regarding the treatment of AIDS needs to take a long look at the harrowing stories and suppressed science poignantly pieced together in [the documentary] ‘The Other Side of AIDS.’”
— Susan Gerhard, Editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian
“With the ‘discovery’ of HIV as the putative, universally infectious retrovirus and the conversion of this hypothesis into a dogma by the consensus, all dissent began to be suppressed by anonymous censorship, which became absolute, amazingly pervasive, and apparently immune from disclosure of conflicts of interests. On many occasions, I have been asked by the BBC and other networks to talk about AIDS only to find, at the last minute, that my appearance was canceled.”
“Colleagues and I attempting to publish have met an unholy alliance intent on rejecting any papers that offer serious criticisms of the orthodoxy. The mainstream journals and media — whenever they are presented with reasonable doubts about Aids — close ranks like regimented clams … There are, naturally, vested interests involved; many bodies and individuals receive high rewards for their work within orthodox AIDS science. Underlying much of this, the pharmaceutical companies have their own obvious agenda.”
Index on Censorship, UK, Issue 3, 1999
“The first casualty of the ‘war on AIDS’ was the integrity of science. The exact moment of the crime can be pinpointed: it was the April, 1984 press conference where the then [US] Health Secretary Margaret Heckler declared that government scientist Robert C. Gallo had discovered the viral cause of AIDS. Heckler hailed the discovery as ‘yet another miracle for American medicine and science’ and a ‘victory over a dreaded disease.’ If smoke and mirror tricks are miracles, then miracle it was...Neither Gallo nor the [Pasteur] Institute proved that the virus was pathogenic. Indeed, they did not even isolate it, as the Pasteur Institute later admitted. But the spin-doctors at the National Institutes of Health had organized leading journals to endorse Secretary Heckler’s ‘miracle’ with the seal of Science. From that moment, all AIDS research and policy were based on a speculation converted to dogma by bureaucratic power.
“This initial public execution of scientific integrity unleashed a propaganda machine that expands Heckler’s initial obvious whopper (‘victory over a dreaded disease’) into a never-ending sickness saga that extorts money and grinds millions into the muck of bad medicine.
“Scientific integrity was murdered by a brutal health fascism. The next victim was the gold standard of clinical evaluation, the double blind trial. With a perversity that spin doctors must admire, the methodology was abandoned in the name of ethics! In reality, the double blind trial had to be murdered because it placed the treatment and causality dogmas of AIDS science at grave risk of falsification. The next victim was the integrity of independent clinical judgment. Any doctor who bucked the official line placed himself at risk of retaliation. And now, in the Tyson and Emerson cases, we see that the fundamental right of informed consent and right to refuse treatment were also murdered.”
“Be informed. Withdraw your consent from the most malignant fraud ever perpetrated in the name of medicine. Be aware that the primary truth in the ‘AIDS war’ is that powerful agencies have declared war on YOU and your loved ones, regardless of your HIV status. Be aware that ‘AIDS science’ is 90% mindless repetition and 10% deeply inconsistent findings of no clinical value.”
Coming to Grips with Health Fascism, Virusmyth.net, April 1999
— Dr. Hiram Caton, PhD, Ethicist, Head of the School of Applied Ethics at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
“When AIDS patients’ bodies finally break down from the effects of these anti-viral drugs, they say, ‘Now the virus has become resistant, and the drugs have lost their effectiveness.’ What really is happening is the toxicity of the drugs builds up to a point where the patient cannot stand it anymore. And, of course, they say it was the virus — rather than the entirely inevitable and predictable toxicity of these damned drugs.”
Reappraising AIDS Feb./March 1998
“Many Americans use amphetamines, diet drugs, cocaine and designer party drugs. When you do this for years, you start getting sick. You go to the doctor, who says the first thing you need is an HIV test. You test positive because HIV tests cross-react with antibodies produced by drug use. The doctor puts you on AZT, a DNA chain terminator, which, in high doses, will finish you off in six months. I’m not talking about a one-time use of a party drug. We’re designed to consume a lot of junk, but we’re not designed to tolerate a gram of cocaine, nitrite inhalants or heroin per day, and we’re even less capable of handling AZT.”
Scheff
“This is my battle with John Maddox [editor of Nature] and with people who are actually fabricating the data [Ascher, et al in Nature, March 11, 1993]. They claim to have such a [Aids] group that had not used any drugs. When I analysed the data, it turned out that there was not a single person in their paper that was drug-free. I submitted a critique to Maddox, but his response was, I could no longer respond. I was censored.”
Spin, Sep 1993
“If the papers that Duesberg cites are not misrepresented — and it is difficult to see how hundreds of papers could be misrepresented without the AIDS establishment coming down mercilessly on his misrepresentations — then his points are indeed compelling. For example: Why is the amount of HIV present in most AIDS patients so small that PCR amplification is required to demonstrate its presence? Why is AIDS in the US and Europe not random as it is in other viral epidemics? Why would HIV take 10 – 15 years from infection to AIDS? Why is the mortality of HIV-antibody positives treated with anti-HIV drugs higher than the untreated group? These and other troubling questions are answered with impeccable logic and references. Of course, the literature could have been abused to make a point, and I’m impressed that the full text of most of the papers cited in Duesberg’s 1992 review are now available though a hyperlink (http://www.rethinkaids.info/body.cfm?id=58). Anyone interested can make judgment.
One could only hope for a detailed point-by-point response from the establishment, but very little of substance has been forthcoming. Mainly, what have come from the AIDS establishment are ex-cathedra responses such as "the evidence is overwhelming." The book reminds us that although over $100 billion has been spent on AIDS research, not a single AIDS patient has been cured — a colossal failure with tragic consequences. It explains in too-clear terms the reasons why AIDS research focuses so single-mindedly on this lone hypothesis to the exclusion of all others: egos, prestige, and money. Mainstream virologists have assumed the power of the purse, and their self-interests (sometimes financial), propel them to suppress challenges. This is not an unusual story: challenges to mainstream views are consistently suppressed by mainstream scientists who have a stake in maintaining the status quo. It's not just Semmelweis and Galileo, but is happening broadly in today's scientific arena. Only now are the granting agencies beginning to face up to this serious problem.”
Review of Oncogenes, Aneuploidy, and AIDS: A Scientific Life and Times of Peter Duesberg by Harvey Bialy http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1136852361.shtml
— Gerald H. Pollack, PhD. Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle. Author: Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life and Muscles and Molecules: Uncovering the Principles of Biological Motion
“The marketing of HIV as a killer virus causing AIDS without the need for any other factors has so distorted research and treatment that it may have caused thousands of people to suffer and die.”
Sunday Times (London) 17 May 1992
“Gallo was certainly committing open and blatant scientific fraud. But the point is not to focus on Gallo. It’s us — all of us in the scientific community, we let him get away with it…nobody would say a word against Gallo. It had a lot to do with patriotism — the idea that this great discovery was made by an American.”
“The AIDS Medical Foundation was sending out this press release saying that nobody is safe, everybody is going to get it — and all that. When I heard this, I totally freaked out. It was all just nonsense. I called them up and said, ‘Do you know what’s going to happen as a result of what you are doing? You’re going to freak out heterosexual men, you’re going to destroy relationships, marriages…you’re going to promote violence against gay men…All of which has come true.”
“I couldn’t fight Terry [AmFAR’s then public relations director] He was very determined…He knew that this heterosexual AIDS thing was a hoax, but he said have to do it to raise money. And certainly, you could argue that unless those heterosexual male politicians in Washington thought that sex could kill, they weren’t going to release any money…The money was raised to protect heterosexual men from a disease they’re not going to get anyway. So what have these hundreds of millions of research dollars given us? Nothing. AIDS education? All I see is terror and confusion. And AZT, which is a disaster.”
Spin June 1992
“Of course it’s wrong [Dr. David Ho’s math for his proposed ‘eradication’ of HIV]. Everybody knows that. It’s such way-out bullshit. The notion of ‘eradication’ is just total science fiction. Every retrovirologist knows this. The RNA of retroviruses turns into DNA and becomes part of us. It’s part of our being. You can’t ever get rid of it.”
“Yes, [Dr. David Ho] is a fraud, if a fraud means mediocre interpretations of the dynamics of T-cell changes in response to therapy. But, then, who is the fraud? Anybody is capable of having stupid ideas, but what’s unusual is getting them onto the front page of the New York Times and Time. The real villains are the journalists, in my opinion. We have traditionally depended on the press to protect us from nonsense like this — not anymore.”
Gear, March 2000
“I’m totally ashamed of the profession. We have all these potent drugs but we don’t know how to use them. If we were a sane society, we would find out. This is not evidence-based medicine. This is just a disgusting manipulation of people’s fears and desperation, all for the sake of selling drugs.”
Spin, April, 1997
“We live in a media age that loves sound bites and simple quotes. HIV is simple, whereas the multifactorial model [of AIDS] is very complex. People don’t want to take the time to understand.”
Spin, April 1991
— Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, MD, New York Physician, founder of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR)
“It is possible to suggest not only that the AIDS ‘epidemic’ is vastly overstated and overrated, but also that resources spent fighting it might better be employed on more basic, and more general, infrastructure and health needs...When medical realities collide with scaremongering and false realities, the latter too often triumph.”
“Even today, the cause for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS or HIV/AIDS) remains controversial...The virus does not seem to directly damage many cells but is thought to impede immune system function.”
“Some scientists find that other physiological insults, such as overwhelming and repeated infections from contaminated IV needles used by drug abusers and from homosexual sexual activity, overwhelm and weaken the immune system, and cause most AIDS cases.”
“On top of these controversies, the criteria for diagnosing AIDS have changed three or four times. And each time the criteria change, the number of people qualifying for the diagnosis increases.”
“In the past, a person might have HIV antibodies and tuberculosis; nowadays, this counts as HIV/AIDS, as do dozens of other combinations of signs and symptoms. These changing criteria result in higher numbers of people being diagnosed with AIDS with each change in the criteria, creating an epidemic of diagnostic ‘grade inflation.’”
“In Africa, poverty, distance and isolation make accurate, continent-wide diagnosis and statistics impossible. As a result, most health and population statistics are estimates or guesses, often driven by political and cultural agendas and always driven by the need to generate more outside funding from wealthier regions of the world. Thus, the severity of just about everything gets ‘oversold.’ This is especially true for AIDS...”
“AIDS information is also difficult to assess because the definition of AIDS is different in Africa. Indeed, blood test results don’t even figure in the official diagnostic criteria. ”It’s all done on ‘points’ defined at the ‘AIDS in Africa’ meeting in Bangui in October 1985...the meeting participants concluded that AIDS in Africa could be diagnosed without a blood test by scoring 12 points out of a possible total of 50, based on symptoms and signs alone. ”People having the first three (10 percent weight lost, protracted asthenia [weakness] and repeated attacks of fever for more than a month) have already racked up a score of 11. A cough scores two more points, and ‘the diagnosis of AIDS is established.’”
“Many other non-specific signs are worth points, such as diarrhea, lung disease, signs consistent with herpes virus infections, generalized lymph node enlargement and ‘neurological signs.’ In other words, many Africans diagnosed with AIDS would not carry the diagnosis in the developed world. And many people have these qualifying symptoms from the many other diseases prevalent in poor regions.”
“But if it is impossible to determine the extent of the epidemic, it should be easy to tell whether AIDS has, as predicted, ‘decimated’ sub-Saharan Africa. Clearly, this has not happened. Sub-Saharan Africa’s population is estimated to have increased by 73 percent over the last two decades, to 752 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau’s 2005 World Population Data Sheet at http://www.prb.org/pdf05/05WorldDataSheet_Eng.pdf)...”
“In another analysis, South Africa’s population continues to grow at a rate most consistent with ‘no AIDS’ projections. In other words, predictions based on the hypothesis that AIDS kills have not come true.”
“But even if these population estimates are way off, one implication is clear. Committing resources to fight a non-existent epidemic makes no sense, except to those making a living off the funds generated by the scares. Resources fighting phantom epidemics can’t be used to improve basic sanitation and nutrition, the foundations of health.”
“In sum, it is quite possible that fighting AIDS as the scaremongers desire would kill and sicken more people than AIDS treatment would save.”
Jewish World Review, Nov. 18, 2005
— Michael Arnold Glueck, MD, Harvard University, Medical Writer.
— Robert J. Cihak, MD, Harvard University, Past President, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and a Discovery Institute Senior Fellow
“Despite the fact we’re told HIV is forever here are drug addicts who gave up drugs, started to live a more healthy lifestyle and their antibody tests reverted to negative. And their T4s returned to normal. And most telling of all, they were alive twenty years later to tell the tale. The tragedy is that these HIV tests were introduced in the total absence of proof of their specificity. This is the trouble with this so-called AIDS science. Another mystery—what is considered HIV positive depends on where and by whom the test is done. So if you’re positive in New York City [or Thailand or Africa] just get on a plane and come to Australia. You might no longer be positive.”
“I’d say don’t have a test. Don’t spread HIV testing.”
Continuum, Winter 1997
— Dr. Valendar Turner, MD, Royal Perth Hospital, University of Western Australia
“I am suspect about everything involved in this AIDS epidemic, because if HIV causes anything, it certainly causes fund-raisers. It sells stocks. It supports dances. It sells condoms. And it keeps the AIDS establishment going.”
Penthouse Dec. 1995
— Dr. Frank Buianouckas, PhD, Professor of Mathematics, City University of New York
“The cause of AIDS is multifactorial. HIV is neither necessary nor sufficient.”
Sunday Times (London) 3 April 1994
— Dr. Lawrence Bradford, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology, Benedictine College, Kansas
“A kind of collective insanity over HIV and AIDS has gripped leaders of the scientific and medical profession. They have stopped behaving as scientists, and instead are working as propagandists, trying desperately to keep alive a failed theory.”
Sunday Times (London), May 1, 1994
“Recently there’s been more and more work published by the mainstream acknowledging this fact that the whole idea of the virus killing of the T cells hasn’t been acknowledged by experimental work.”
“There are a good number of scientists who argue that these treatments are the cause of AIDS because there is no known mechanism by which this purported virus could be doing the damage that’s attributed to it. A steady diet of chemotherapy is a perfectly rational description of why some AIDS patients suffer from terrible muscle wasting and debilitating diseases.”
Aids, a Second Opinion
“1) HIV particles have never been demonstrated by electron microscopy in the blood stream of AIDS patients allegedly presenting with high ‘viral load.’
“2) Alleged HIV isolations have been reported, based on the identification of molecular ‘markers.’ These markers are of physical, biological or genetic nature. Their HIV specificity could never be rigorously demonstrated because such demonstration would have necessitated HIV purification that has never been achieved.
“3) Serological tests for so-called ‘HIV seropositivity,’ being based on the same non specific markers, also lack specificity and do not demonstrate any HIV infectious process.
“4) Public credulity is abused by the constant publication of HIV images that all derive from electron microscopy of laboratory cell cultures, and never derive directly from AIDS patients.”
“In view of these major uncertainties concerning HIV isolation directly from AIDS patients, priorities should be drastically revised. Suspending all HIV sero-testing, and suspending administration of anti-retroviral toxic medications should make budgets available to combat malnutrition, extend drinking water distribution, and improve hygiene and sanitation for the African people.”
December 8, 2003, address to European Parliament Conference on AIDS in Africa, Brussels
“The role played by international pharma companies is more than dubious. In fact, it’s close to pharmaceutical genocide. Improving the control of tropical infectious diseases is a complex endeavour. Instead, AIDS is a single culprit with great profitability.”
May 2002, Times of India
— Dr. Etienne de Harven, MD, Emeritus Professor of Pathology, University of Toronto (1981-1993). Professor of Cell Biology, Cornell Graduate School of Medical Science (1968-1981). Associate Professor (1964-1968). Assistant Professor, Pathology. Université Libre de Bruxells (1956-1962). Belgian Air Force Medical Corps (1953-1956). Author of over 100 peer-reviewed medical papers on virology, cancer, immunology and electron microscopy.
“Time and again those of us who are ‘AIDS dissidents’ have been dismayed and disgusted by the falsehoods, distortions, and omissions in AIDS coverage…I maintain further that the salient characteristics of war coverage are also those of AIDS coverage, namely: censorship (self-imposed, official, and in-between), hysteria, the use of black propaganda, the fabrication of ‘atrocity stories,’ and garden variety incompetence.”
New York Native 12 August 1991
“Ryan White died on 8 April 1990. The causes of his death and the nature of his illness were the targets of censorship…Ryan did not die of ‘AIDS’ but rather of hemophilia aggravated by Factor VIII concentrate and AZT poisoning. Craig Schoonmaker, founder of Homosexuals Intransigent, told me he had heard over the radio and on television that Ryan White had been admitted to the hospital with uncontrolled internal bleeding. We followed the print media closely for several days, but could not find a single mention of bleeding. Then Ryan died, and not a single reference to bleeding could be found in the Associated Press, New York Times, or Washington Post obituaries. However, the Times story contained this curious passage: ‘Ryan, a hemophiliac who contracted the virus through a blood transfusion, died of complications of AIDS in Riley Hospital for Children, said Dr. Martin Kleiman, the youth’s physician. He would not elaborate.’
“What this indicates is that censors intervened to prevent the print media and Ryan’s doctor from mentioning bleeding. Bryan Ellison…contacted the Hemophilia Foundation of Indiana. The people there knew Ryan White very well, and confirmed that hemophilia itself was his major health problem and the cause of his death.”
“I have talked to a number of people, and have heard of many more, who looked healthy, felt healthy, and were leading active and productive lives—and were told by their doctors that they ought to be sick on the basis of their T-cell counts or their HIV status. It is appalling that those who ought to be healers are instead programming healthy people to get sick. A malign form of voodoo is being practiced in this country by the priests of Modern Medicine.”
“The HIV-antibody tests are not only highly inaccurate, but biased as well. A man in California went to a clinic, identified himself as gay, and took the HlV-antibody test; results: positive. Then he went to another clinic, identified himself as a heterosexual, and took the same test; results: negative.”
“The AIDS epidemic is an epidemic of lies, through which hundreds of thousands of people have died and are dying unnecessarily, billions of dollars have gone down the drain, the Public Health Service has disgraced itself, and Science has plunged into whoredom.”
“The AIDS War,” 1993
— John Lauritsen, Journalist, Harvard-educated survey research analyst. Author of the books The AIDS War; Propaganda, Profiteering and Genocide From the Medical-Industrial Complex and Poison by Prescription; The AZT Story
“Before Ryan White there was me. Same doctors, same hospital… [They told me to] take AZT... I said no to the doctors and I am alive. I have been black-balled by the press which made a hero out of White.”
“Some people have said that the virus does exist but it’s a harmless one. You’ll test positive for it, but it won’t cause any harm. I’m inclined to believe that. Because I’m not sick. It hasn’t hurt me, and it hasn’t hurt my [HIV+] brothers, and it hasn’t hurt my [HIV+] uncles. And it hasn’t hurt their kids, and it hasn’t hurt their wives.”
“And by the way, I smoke and drink... It’s not like I’m a health nut, or I take any extraordinary measures to protect my health.”
Valley Advocate, August 6, 1998
— Robert Bryant, Hemophiliac (from a family of hemophiliacs), Indiana. HIV+ for 20 years
“These are truly dark times for science. The take home message from the recent Barcelona AIDS conference is that incompetent AIDS scientists and even more incompetent medical reporters are wasting lives and money while creating sanctions against medical breakthroughs by refusing to listen to anyone who questions their conclusion that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS.”
“[Anthony] Fauci is one of the US Government’s major architects of the myth that HIV has been proven to be the cause of AIDS and that stopping HIV will save lives…a myth that has become so entrenched in medicine’s conventional wisdom that to question it is tantamount [to] treason.”
“There are not sufficient enough data to understand the properties of HIV because the scientific literature is nothing more than opinions, poorly conducted studies and reviews of poorly conducted studies.”
“In a letter to the [U.S.] Department of Health and Human Services last year, I suggested that their position that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS is substantially based on scientists studying complex mixtures of biological fluids with unknown numbers of regulatory genes and concluding that one big structural gene, HIV, is causing the syndrome. This is medical incompetence at its worst.”
Red Flags Weekly debate, July 22, 2002
“U.S. government funded AIDS research has become a jobs program for scientists who lack the courage and resources to challenge conventional scientific wisdom.”
“For a Federal employee to sign such a document [The Durban Declaration]…is an abuse of power. It is using your government position — in Fauci’s case, a high government position — to, in effect, bully anyone who disagrees with you. I consider this to be a violation of scientific ethics. The scientific method is based, at least partially, on debate. To call for the end to a debate is unscientific; to do so with the power of the US government behind you is unethical.”
“By throwing the weight of the US government behind the Durban Declaration, those who signed have established an international policy that salaries, funding, prestige, scholarly communication, promotion, awards and prizes will not be granted to individuals who challenge the official position that HIV alone causes AIDS. This creates government sanctions against anyone who wants to freely investigate the actual relationship (if any) between HIV and AIDS. This is unethical.”
“I seriously doubt that Fauci or any Health and Human Services employee or government grant recipient would like to debate me on HIV/AIDS online, but I would welcome such a debate.”
Red Flags Weekly debate, April 1, 2002
— Dr. Howard Urnovitz, PhD, Microbiologist and Immunologist, Science Director, Chronic Illness Research Foundation, co-founder and CEO, Chronix Biomedical. Dr. Urnovitz’s team developed the only FDA-licensed urine-based diagnostic test for antibodies to HIV.
“These are truly dark times for science. The take home message from the recent Barcelona AIDS conference is that incompetent AIDS scientists and even more incompetent medical reporters are wasting lives and money while creating sanctions against medical breakthroughs by refusing to listen to anyone who questions their conclusion that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS.”
“[Anthony] Fauci is one of the US Government’s major architects of the myth that HIV has been proven to be the cause of AIDS and that stopping HIV will save lives…a myth that has become so entrenched in medicine’s conventional wisdom that to question it is tantamount [to] treason.”
“There are not sufficient enough data to understand the properties of HIV because the scientific literature is nothing more than opinions, poorly conducted studies and reviews of poorly conducted studies.”
“In a letter to the [U.S.] Department of Health and Human Services last year, I suggested that their position that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS is substantially based on scientists studying complex mixtures of biological fluids with unknown numbers of regulatory genes and concluding that one big structural gene, HIV, is causing the syndrome. This is medical incompetence at its worst.”
Red Flags Weekly debate, July 22, 2002
“U.S. government funded AIDS research has become a jobs program for scientists who lack the courage and resources to challenge conventional scientific wisdom.”
“For a Federal employee to sign such a document [The Durban Declaration]…is an abuse of power. It is using your government position — in Fauci’s case, a high government position — to, in effect, bully anyone who disagrees with you. I consider this to be a violation of scientific ethics. The scientific method is based, at least partially, on debate. To call for the end to a debate is unscientific; to do so with the power of the US government behind you is unethical.”
“By throwing the weight of the US government behind the Durban Declaration, those who signed have established an international policy that salaries, funding, prestige, scholarly communication, promotion, awards and prizes will not be granted to individuals who challenge the official position that HIV alone causes AIDS. This creates government sanctions against anyone who wants to freely investigate the actual relationship (if any) between HIV and AIDS. This is unethical.”
“I seriously doubt that Fauci or any Health and Human Services employee or government grant recipient would like to debate me on HIV/AIDS online, but I would welcome such a debate.”
Red Flags Weekly debate, April 1, 2002
— Dr. Howard Urnovitz, PhD, Microbiologist and Immunologist, Science Director, Chronic Illness Research Foundation, co-founder and CEO, Chronix Biomedical. Dr. Urnovitz’s team developed the only FDA-licensed urine-based diagnostic test for antibodies to HIV.
“I believe many of my colleagues neither question individuals at the governmental level, nor those from large centers of research, nor those from the pharmaceutical companies. We write exactly in the way that we are told, even knowing that this or that is not true. There is a lack of common sense in understanding subjects and problems. For example, in Luc Montagnier’s book, he explains that there are people who develop AIDS who are HIV-negative, who die from AIDS. However, journalists do not care about this contradiction. A similar thing happens with discrepancies between Gallo and Montagnier regarding the origin of AIDS, discrepancies which are published, but nobody says a word. Similarly with information from the CDC; they replied to me that viral load is improper for diagnosing HIV infection, yet nobody calls them on this, most journalists do not question it, they just report that viral load diagnoses HIV infection.”
“In the future, we journalists should not compromise ourselves in seeking truth and should not let those who feel that they are the keepers of truth manipulate us in the way that they are doing now. We must no longer believe in an AIDS virus that supposedly has magic powers, that mutates, that every time they use a new antiretroviral the virus uses its magic powers to resist.”
Alternative AIDS Conference, Barcelona, 2000
— Hector Lozada, Reporter for the newspaper El Bravo, Matamoros, Mexico
“I drew my own blood and put it into two ampules. One of them I sent under my own name to get tested for HIV antibodies, the other I sent under the name of one of my HIV positive patients for viral load testing to the same lab.[The results:] My blood was negative under my own name, but the blood that was sent in under my patient’s name had a viral load of 1800.”
from a censored series of newspaper articles that journalists Michael Leitner and Jan-Philipp Hein wrote for a prominent German newspaper in 2000
— Dr. Juliane Sacher, MD, Frankfurt, Germany
“[Dr. Jariwalla] carried out experiments on [HIV] growing in cells in the laboratory and showing that there were as much as a 99 per cent suppression of the development of the virus in the cells when you had high, large amounts of Vitamin C in the medium—amounts that you could achieve in the bloodstream by giving a large oral intake. This result was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”
“…It is much cheaper, of course, to take fifty grams a day [of Vitamin C], that’s only a dollar a day, two cents a gram, $365 dollars a year. AZT used to cost about $10,000 dollars per person. Vitamin C costs very little in comparison with AZT.”
“Long before Dr. Jariwalla did this work, I had written to the president of Wellcome, the manufacturer of AZT, saying that we had some evidence that high dose vitamin C helped to control the disease and perhaps if it were given along with AZT it would be more effective than AZT alone. For one thing, we know with other chemotherapeutic agents, that high dose vitamin C helps control the side effects.
“I got no answer.”
Nutrition Science News, April 1996
— Dr. Linus Pauling, PhD, Chemist, two-time winner of the Nobel Prize
“The convergence between UNICEF’s intentions and the pharmaceutical companies’ interests is no coincidence. It is well known that the UN is facing a severe resource crunch following the failure of member countries to contribute funds and has solicited contributions from the private sector. UNICEF and UNAIDS are both heavily funded by pharmaceutical companies. The survival and sustainability of UN organizations has thus become inextricably linked with the interests of their ‘holding companies.’ By taking on the task of administering AZT drugs to pregnant women, knowing fully well their damaging effects on both mother and child, UNICEF has made it clear that it is no longer dedicated to the service of the needy, but rather to the service of those that can fund its own survival.”
“And what is the role of all the ‘gender-sensitive’ womens’ organizations who will be implementators (and beneficiaries) of this UNICEF endeavor?
“Why are they not protesting against — instead of participating in — such a program? Is it because no foreign funding is available for such a protest? Is it because they see their role of serving people as a poor second to their own need for staying in business?”
“The most obvious ‘achievement’ of HIV/AIDS prevention and control measures has been to create an ‘AIDS scare,’ as borne out by media reports such as the following:
“In a village in Kerala when a whole family committed suicide out of fear of ostracism when the head of the family found he was infected with HIV.
“In a village in Bengal the village priest’s family was thrown out of the village when it was found out that their son, a casual laborer in Bombay, was HIV positive.
“In Tamil Nadu, within a week of UNAIDS declaring it as a ‘successful state’ a suspected case of HIV was burnt alive in the street.
“In Haryana, an entire village was ostracized when medical community, without benefit of recommended tests, declared a villager to be suffering from AIDS.
“In AIIMS — India’s premier medical institute — recently an ‘HIV suspect’ was denied treatment. He died. And his HIV tests turned out to be negative.
“For about a decade now we have been evolving into one of the largest research laboratories and a guinea pig farm for experimenting with dubious [Aids] drugs. Obviously, this is not happening without the knowledge — even connivance — of concerned authorities.”
HIV/AIDS Industry: Agenda Behind the Epidemic, JACK India
— Gita Dewan Verma;
— Anju Singh;
— Dr. Ute Schumann
“No figure on any disease is reliable and often officials in the health ministry take advantage of this to support policies they wish to promote.”
“The irresponsible game with the lives and identities of the mostly disadvantaged people (prostitutes, migrant labourers, truck drivers and others) is evident from Miller’s statements who, as an expert in his position, is not convincing enough about his ignorance of hiv/aids estimates. The WHO, Geneva, too stands exposed in its servitude to pharmaceutical companies.”
Letter to the editor, Outlook Magazine, India, Feb., 2002
— Dr. Ute Schumann, Health consultant to the European Union with several years experience in Indian health services
On the Lack of Evidence that HIV causes AIDS
“The work of researchers at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH)…provides extensive medical evidence to indicate that AIDS in the industrialized world is caused by: 1) illicit drug use and alcohol abuse and 2) by the extensive use of medications (especially glucocorticoids) to treat the illnesses resulting from the abuse of these drugs. It also gives evidence that AIDS in Africa is caused by malnutrition and starvation. In contrast, their extensive summary of AIDS does not provide any evidence that HIV can kill immune cells. Neither are they able to explain the causes of the symptoms found in patients diagnosed with AIDS.”
“…at least 77% of 2,349 patients who participated in these [AZT] studies were HIV-negative prior to their treatment with AZT. The findings of these studies falsify the HIV-hypothesis; in 77% of patients, AIDS was caused by agent/s or process other than HIV.”
“A large study conducted by Fawzi, et al in Tanzania demonstrates that the immune system damage observed in 1,075 HIV-infected women was reversed by providing these women with a balanced diet. Providing a balanced diet to malnourished children reversed immune system damage. According to Chevalier, et al., the size of the thymus increased from 20% of normal in malnourished children to 107% of normal following nine weeks of proper feeding.”
Resolution of AIDS in HIV Positive Patients: A Clinical Study of Non-HIV Causes and Treatments for AIDS Illnesses
— Dr. Lisa M. Hosbein, MD;
— Dr. M.A. Al-Bayati, PhD
“After years of research…today one is obligated to question even the fundamental assumption of a viral cause of AIDS.”
“The vision that HIV would represent the decisive cause of this very broad spectrum of diseases, each viral contamination involving ‘an incurable deadly disease,’ is completely called into question thanks to the contribution of new research.”
“Meanwhile, this point of view had prevailed so that AIDS becomes ‘the disease of anguish par excellence.’ Indeed even Hiv positive people in good health are invaded of a flood of anguish, depression and feelings of social exclusion. New research in psychoneuro-immunology shows scientifically that such a massive influence, exerted by psychosocial overload, could bring about an extremely detrimental effect on the human immune system.”
“The relation of causality between the infection by virus HIV and the symptoms of AIDS, however, despite all the research, remains of hypothetical nature.”
“On the contrary there is research which goes against a decisive causality of HIV with regard to AIDS; for example: the concentrations of virus are often remarkably low in all the vital liquids analyzed…the incapacity of HIV to destroy by itself the immune cells, the observations made that frequently an immunodeficiency can already be proven even before HIV infection, and especially the growing reports of patients who present the typical symptoms of AIDS without any attack by HIV.”
“For years, one could bring back cases of AIDS with negative HIV tests. This fact was particularly true of Kaposi’s Sarcoma.”
“From the depression, loneliness, the anguish, one frequently leads to a fall of the T4 lymphocytes which are of capital importance for the efficiency of the immunizing apparatus.”
“Just like isolation, the depression and the anguish carry damage to biological defenses, the interest carried in the world, the joy and the love that reinvigorates the immune system.”
The dogma of HIV in AIDS, Das Goetheanum, Nov. 22, 1992
— Dr. Danielle Lemann, MD; Langnau, Switzerland
— Dr. H. Albonico, MD; Langnau, Switzerland
“There is simply no proof that HIV causes AIDS — at most, it seems to play only an opportunistic role. The only thing scientists have to call HIV are protein and gene strands — they haven’t even isolated a virus at all. It’s like the squatters who are blamed for a building’s decay after thieves have already ransacked it. The erosion of the competency of our immune systems has much more to do with it, through multifactorial causes like toxins, stress and poor nutrition.”
12 Jan 1997 Sunday Times
“To rattle off that HIV is the cause is, in the light of current research and debate, to simply admit to the powerful conditioning that we all have been subjected to…We are so fixated with HIV as the enemy that we have lost sight of the processes at work which might offer a genuine solution to the AIDS problem. Scientific mythology has taken the place of fact, and because we are so ingrained with the idea of enemies, HIV makes a lot of sense…I’ll leave it to those more qualified than I to show just how HIV has developed in mythological stature in the last ten years. As did the Devil or the Russian menace not too long back.”
“We have, what I sense to be, this century’s major scientific debacle.”
Noumenon, Winter 1995
— Dr. Kriben Pillay, PhD, University of Durban-Westville, South Africa
“The whole HIV causes AIDS hypothesis could be completely wrong hence the need for a rethinking.”
— Winstone Zulu, Lusaka, Zambia, AIDS activist, consultant to WHO and UNAIDS.
“The entire issue of HIV and AIDS needs to be resolved in a more scientific and humane manner than the current ‘economics driven, tailored science’ approach.”
Comment to Virusmyth
— Dr. Ramesh S. Chouhan, PhD, MBBS, FICMCH, Himabindu Foundation, Bangalore, India
“I do feel what we see here in point of fact is repeated insults to the immune system. The original theory about poppers, amyl nitrate, was excluded! First people suspected it, then they excluded it. And I thought, ‘Why are they so quickly excluding this?’”
“I do think that drugs play their role in weakening the immune system in some way that also is related to what appeared to be such a sudden emergence of AIDS in the early 1980s.”
“Poppers were coming into the [gay] scene at that very moment when the bars suddenly went wild. Men were staying up all night, and drinking…I’ve always felt that gay men were pushing the limits of the human body throughout that period, also keeping thin and trim…eating very little and drinking a lot. I would see this manic lifestyle. And now we hear more and more — people used to whisper this — how they would get gonorrhea or whatever they might get, and they would go get penicillin month after month after month. These infections were signs that something was going wrong in their bodies. Now women seem to have this instinct for preservation. You have an infection? Wow, pull back, conserve the body, save the body…Go slow… And I notice men don’t seem to have that. There was this wild, wild scene. It was like the Masque of the Red Death, and the wild party scene in that play, it was very much like that.”
“I have felt very directly the irrationality of AIDS activists, at one of my first appearances. The most insane and vicious and intolerant people I have ever met in my life are AIDS activists. I came into direct confrontations with them. If I would be speaking, sometimes lecturing, these people would pop up and be screaming, I mean screaming at me, OK? The way they controlled the discourse, their arrogance —[they] believed that they had the truth, and anyone who tried to have a different view of AIDS, or the origins of AIDS, or anything like that, that we should not be permitted to speak.”
“…The scientific discussion on AIDS has been very much crippled by this kind of intimidation, so that truly neutral and rational scientists have stayed away from this entire area. You want to talk about counterproductive? People have fled this field of research, because there’s no way to conduct yourself in a dispassionate scientific manner in it because of its overpoliticisation. The attitude is: it’s due to homophobia. The reason why there was not enough money? Homophobia! Excuse me? This was a brand new disease. What are they talking about?”
“It was like, ‘Me, me, me! We demand, we demand! We want an entire rearrangement of the apportionment of money for other diseases! Now! This minute! Us! We, we! … If you don’t listen to us immediately then you are homophobic, you are this, you are that.’ All that did was, yes there was more money, but the investigation of this disease was very much held back by the flight from it of truly, it seems to me, talented scientists, the most talented scientists, the ones, especially later, the ones who would have been most likely to come up with working theories, working hypotheses, they have fled. Any rational people would flee from the craziness.”
Continuum, July/Aug 1996
“The American major media have effectively suppressed long-standing questions about whether the AIDS test is reliable or whether an HIV virus in fact exists at all.”
Salon Magazine, October 28, 1997
— Dr. Camille Paglia, PhD, Professor of Humanities at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Author, Sexual Personae, Sex, Art and American Culture and Vamps and Tramps
“Current HIV markers have proven to be inaccurate and inconclusive (Elisa false positives). What is required is a total re-evaluation and definition of the AIDS progression markers, and treatments should be designed at combating AIDS rather than HIV, which no-one as yet clearly understands.”
— Jacques Siegfried (Zigi) Visser President -- AIDS Research Foundation of South Africa.
“I know about this controversy since 1995. At that period I was already convinced that HIV was not a cause of AIDS at all. But observing the ferocity of the reactions of people and especially of the medical profession when I tried to explain a different view from their own, I stopped talking about it.”
“HIV is not responsible for AIDS, which is essentially drug induced, caused by different ‘insults’ to the immune system and dramatically by the stupid anti-HIV treatment. Thousands of HIV+ persons are progressively dying now, with the heroic encouragement of the scientific, political and medical professions. It’s unacceptable.”
Comment to Virusmyth
— Dr. Eric Gaumont, PhD, Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, France
“There is NO SUCH THING as the HIV virus. If there was, don’t you think that the multi-billion dollar AIDS industry would have produced a sample of it by now? Something that actually replicates in human tissue? But hey, prove me wrong: Cite the scientific papers showing isolation and replication of the virus.”
BBC News World Edition (online), 11 Nov 2003
“HIV is an illusion.”
— Toby Gettins, Theoretical Physicist, UK. Former researcher, University of Exeter
“there is no Virus which causes Aids...”
Comment to Virusmyth
— Dr. Emmy Wasirwa, MD, Kampala, Uganda
“African Aids statistics in most cases are based on a single Elisa test. The tests are administered even on pregnant women despite the warning on the Elisa test kit that pregnancy registers a false antibody positive.”
East African Standard, Online Edition, Sep 12, 2000
— Dr. Kevin Corbett, PhD, Independent Research, London, UK.
“I am entirely persuaded that recreational and toxic anti-HIV drugs as well as malnutrition can all undermine the immune system to produce immune deficiency syndromes.”
Does HIV cause AIDS? Is AIDS a single disease? Do anti-viral drugs really help? Dr. Mae-Wan Ho investigates
— Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, PhD, Geneticist and Biophysicist, Open University, London, UK. Director, Institute of Science in Society; Author and activist. Awarded the Chan Kai Ming Prize for Biological Sciences (HK) 1964; Fellow of the National Genetics Foundation (USA) 1971-1974; Vida Sana Award (Spain) 1998
“I’m a doctor that has questioned HIV/AIDS since the late 1980’s. No doctor (MD) has ever been able to answer the probing questions I have presented, other than giving me the same generic answers that the western media has choked down the throat of America and the World. Everyone has the quick answer with nothing to back anything up. I became fed-up with the murder of innocent human beings years ago and finally within the last few years, I have taken steps to expose this LIE!”
Comment to Virusmyth
— Dr. Erik C. Manos, DDS, Denver, Colorado
“…All these horrors, in fact, had their source in the irresponsible exaggeration of the AIDS danger promoted by the public health authorities and state radio and television. Which exaggeration, in its turn, rested on two basic distortions of the facts:
“First it consisted in proclamations that AIDS threatened the general population, while it was obvious the disease remained nearly exclusively limited to one small fraction of some very defined risk groups (intravenous, homosexual drug addicts, transfusion recipients). And still today, in Europe and the United States, this situation has not changed substantially, despite the diagnostic acrobatics and statistics with which they have tried to counterfeit it, while in Africa and other countries of the Third World the spread of the disease is, as we shall see, an obvious statistical artifact, attributable to the classification of pathologies that have always been endemic in those populations under the new name ‘AIDS.’”
“…The real motivation of this psychological terrorism was openly recognized…an employee of the Centers for Disease Control of Atlanta declared to the Los Angeles Times, with an honesty inconceivable for our ‘experts’: ‘If AIDS had not been seen as a threatening syndrome for the general population, the money [for research] would never have arrived.’”
“…The second distortion of the facts consisted in introducing the seropositive ones as people ‘condemned to die.’ Between the drug addicts and the former drug addicts, this terroristic assertion pushed many to continue and to resume the practice of drug addiction.”
“In 1986 the public health authorities announced that there were 200,000 HIV positive people in Italy, that their numbers would double in 10 months and their median survival would be 18 months.
“If those figures that terrorized the public had been true, today in Italy 26,000,000 men would be dead from AIDS and all Italians would be seropositive and condemned to death. Vice versa, in spite of our ‘super experts,’ the seropositive ones today have diminished to 100,000 and the men dead from AIDS are very few, in spite of the always generous inclusion of new pathologies in the AIDS diagnosis and the lack of valid therapies. This does not even amount to 0.3% of the projections.”
— Professor Luigi De Marchi, clinical and social psychologist, president of the Italian Society of Political Psychology. Co-author of Aids, la grande truffa (AIDS, the great swindle)
“We have no data in relation to the documentation that shows that HIV has been isolated as causative of AIDS.”
Continuum, Winter 1997/8
— Antonio Entiste, Secretary of the Medical Research Council of Spain
“Does HIV play a role in AIDS? It might, but after spending $22 billion on AIDS research, there is still not scientific proof that it does. A number of scientists, including myself, think that HIV may possibly play a role in AIDS as an opportunistic infection. But, does HIV cause AIDS? Absolutely no!”
“In AIDS, prescription and recreational drugs, including antibiotics, AZT, cocaine, heroin, and nitrite inhalants, are critical contributors to toxic overload. Combine antigenic overload with toxic overload, poor nutrition, lack of exercise, erratic sleep patterns, and chronic stress, and you have a recipe for serious immune suppression.”
“AIDS is a many factored disease caused by a combination of inappropriate lifestyle, toxic overload, antigenic overload, poor diets, chronic stress, and common medical treatments with health-damaging drugs like antibiotics. All the above conspire in a cascade of events to cause what we call AIDS. The same factors that contribute to AIDS contribute to other immune dysfunction diseases as well.”
“Most physicians still believe in the outmoded concept that germs cause disease, so they try to kill the germs. The need to rebuild immune competence never occurs to them… Often, the final blow to immune competence is delivered by our physicians. Modern Medicine subjects us to a variety of procedures and medications, such as vaccinations and antibiotics, which damage our immune defense and repair systems.”
The Slant [Marin County], May 1995
— Raymond Francis, MSc, MIT
“Based on all of the scientific information that I have reviewed there appears to be no sufficient evidence that supports the notion that HIV is the root cause of the symptoms observed in people with AIDS. In fact the data clearly indicate that HIV alone if present in humans does nothing.”
Comment to Virusmyth
— Muslim Shahid, Inorganic chemist, research and development scientist, Houston, Texas
“…HIV-1 alone, therefore, does not cause AIDS. It involves a multiplicity of co-factors, specifically anything that either depletes serum selenium levels or depresses the immune system enough to permit viral replication. Manipulating the ‘selenium-CD4 T cell tailspin’ by adding this trace element to fertilizers and food stuffs opens new avenues for both prevention and treatment.”
“So where does all this disagreement leave us? It demonstrates just how illogical the conventional wisdom is. How is it possible to freely admit that it is still not clear, after some 20 years of research, how HIV causes AIDS, yet to simultaneously argue, as the Durban Declaration does, that ‘HIV is the sole cause of AIDS.’ Simply put, if the 5,018 people who signed the Durban Declaration do not know how HIV causes AIDS they cannot possibly be certain that no co-factor(s) is involved. What competent detective would argue that while they had no idea how the victim died, they were certain that their prime suspect had no accomplice(s)?”
— Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Author, What Really Causes Aids.
“AIDS is caused by suppression or weakening of the body’s autoimmune system. This can be caused by heavy metal toxicity, including lead toxicity and other free radical generating chemicals such as benzene, talc and silicone lubricants, free radical generating sexual lubricants, drug and alcohol abuse and prolonged use of toxic or free radical generating medication such as AZT, medication for haemophiliacs, Cox-2 drugs, TCDD, DDT, PCBs, Remicade, Enbrel, drugs used in chemotherapy etc in which case if the body’s production of antioxidant enzymes is low and suffers from low levels of other antioxidants in the blood, its free radical scavenging activity drops and the immune system is open for suppression through oxidative stress and free radical damage and becomes open to opportunistic infections. When free radicals damage cell walls, in particular the walls of T4 cells, viruses including the ‘HIV-virus’ enters these cells and destroys them. Otherwise, the so called ‘HIV-virus’ is practically harmless or non-pathogenic and is not proven to directly cause any immunosuppressive effect.”
“What should amaze most is the total departure from scientific protocol and international standards required, including those established by the Pasteur Institute to prove that a virus causes a specific disease.”
January 19, 2005
— Beldeu Singh, MSc Physical Anthropology, Malaysia. Columnist for the website www.independent-media.tv
“With public health officials and politicians thrashing out who should be tested for HIV, the accuracy of the test itself has been nearly ignored. A study last month by Congress’ Office of Technology Assessment found that HIV tests can be very inaccurate indeed. For groups at very low risk — people who don’t use IV drugs or have sex with gay or bisexual men — 9 in 10 positive findings are called false positives, indicating infection where none exists.”
— US News & World Report, Nov 23, 1987
“A happily married couple wants to live in Singapore for three years. Before they get their permission to stay they have to do an AIDS test. The husband tests positive with an AIDS test which has a 97% sensitivity and a 98% specificity (it will not be discussed here to what ‘gold standard’ these two refer). How big is the chance that this man is truly positive? Should he start treatment immediately?
“Before this man had the test it may be assumed that the probability that he is HIV infected is only 1 in 10,000, or 0.01% (he was married to his wife for more than 15 years and never has slept with other men or women, nor does he take drugs).
“Imagine 1,000,000 men like him. In this population 100 will be HIV positive (1 in 10,000 or 100 in 1,000,000). From the 100 HIV positive men the test will detect 97 (sensitivity). From the remaining 999,900 HIV negative men, however, the test will detect 98% as truly negative (specificity) and 2% as positive, which is 19,998 persons. If all the 1,000,000 would have been tested in total there would be 20,095 positive test results of which only 97 are truly positive. This means that the probability that the man in question is really positive is 0.48% (97 of 20,095). In other words, the PPV (positive predictive value) is only 0.48%.”
Continuum, Summer/Autumn, 2001
— Dr. Klazien Matter-Walstra, PhD, former manager, laboratory for immunocytochemical cancer diagnosis for exfoliative cytology, Institute of Pathology in Bern, Switzerland. Presently teaches evidence based medicine at Mediscope.
“It’s been a year where there’s been a painful reassessment of all the assumptions that have been the foundation of AIDS science during the past decade. People have been forced to admit uncertainties they were unwilling to admit before. That’s what’s so momentous about 1994. One, we are reversing the entire clinical trials program. Two, we are reversing the point of view that we know the cause of immunodeficiency. Three, we’re reversing the entire vaccine strategy. Four, we are reversing the notion that you need to focus on HIV. Now people are arguing strongly that you need to focus on the immune system, not the virus.”
Spin, Dec 1994
— Dr. Richard Horton, MD, North American editor of the medical journal, The Lancet
“…We identified a group of 6 subjects who had been infected through a single common [blood] donor… Throughout follow-up (range 6.8-10.1 years after infection), 5 of the recipients and the donor (last follow-up 10.2 years after infection of the first recipient) remained clinically free of symptoms, with normal CD4 cell counts…1 infected recipient (who had received extensive immunsuppressive treatment [medicine] for systemic lupus erthematosus) developed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and died… The donor…has never received antiretroviral therapy, nor any prophylactic treatment for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia… Recipients A-E had no signs or symptoms of HIV-1 disease during follow-up of 6.8 to 10.1 years… No recipient has been given antiretroviral therapy or prophylaxis against P carinii pneumonia.”
Lancet. 1992 Oct 10;340(8824):863-7
— Learmont J, et al, Aids Researchers
“30 PI[Protease Inhibitor]-treated and 20 PI-naive [untreated] children were evaluated (76% prepubertal). PI-treated children had significantly higher total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and triglycerides…viral load, CD4 cell count…were not significantly associated with serum lipids, insulin resistance or abdominal adipose tissue distribution [indicating that it is the therapy, not HIV, that is the cause of this metabolic abnormality]”
AIDS. 2003 Jun 13;17(9):1319-27
— Bitnun A, et al, Aids Researchers
“There are many factors involved in the AIDS epidemic, the greatest of which is extreme poverty... Throughout the third world, just getting clean drinking water is a huge problem...You cannot blame everything on a simple virus.”
The Digital Collegian - Penn State University, Jan 28, 2003
— Albert G. Mosley, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
“AIDS heretics who doubt that the HIV virus causes the disorder find themselves shut out and shouted down by establishment medical scientists. Why? Because the medical establishment is wedded to the HIV theory, drawing heavy government subsidies they would lose if that theory were ever abandoned.”
Sobran’s, April 20, 2000
— Joseph Sobran, Syndicated columnist, author
“Either someone is infected by the 'virus' or they are not, and if different test give different results, and the results of these tests, as we know, have to take into account supposed risk factors, then that allows for an abject lack of objectivity that renders these tests unscientific.
“The whole point about HIV testing is that it is designed to assign a 'status' to certain individuals as a result of their supposed 'risk factors', and is therefore entirely unobjective and based on prejudice and not science.
British Medical Journal Rapid Response
— Rod McGregor, MD, Clinician, London, UK
“I have medical training but work as a journalist… I have seen many people die as soon as they start intense AZT cocktail treatment… our president [Mbeki] has been ridiculed for what I believe might be correct thinking. There is something that always puzzles me and that is that if AIDS…had really taken hold would we not see huge exponential growth, bodies in the streets, villages decimated? I also believe that while working in the sudan, I got so many illnesses that had I had an AIDS test I would have tested positive. Doctors have been wrong on so many things, why not this?”
Comment to Virusmyth.net
— Lin Sampson, Journalist, Sunday Times, Cape Town, South Africa
“…The HIV supporters…seem to regard the HIV hypothesis as an ‘eternal and immutable’ truth…By contrast, those who cast doubt on the HIV hypothesis are shown to conform to the more openly evolving and critical view of true science. Likewise, when Bronowski says, ‘the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer,’ then again we can see which group comes closest to any trace of impertinence as opposed to those who slavishly adhere to the established theory.”
BMJ Rapid Response, 26 November 2003
— Peter Morrell, MPhil, Lecturer, Hon. Research Associate, History of Medicine, Staffordshire University, UK, co-author, Environmental Science textbook
“The HIV/AIDS myth is the most devastating scientific fraud in the history of mankind. The toll in ruined lives is incalculable. When will the scientific and political communities muster the courage to squarely face the truth?”
Comment to Virusmyth
— Eugene Watson, Manufacturer of Scientific Instruments. Economic Development Consultant, University of Wyoming. USA.
“Diagnosis of HIV infection is based almost entirely on detection of antibodies to HIV, but there can be misleading cross-reactions between HIV-1 antigens and antibodies formed against other antigens, and these may lead to false-positive reactions. Thus, it may be impossible to relate an antibody response specifically to HIV-1 infection.”
“Interpretation of Western blots is subjective… these tests have never been submitted to… rigorous evalulations and perfomance assessments under routine laboratory conditions…”
Med Int. 1988;56:2334-9
— Dr. Philip Mortimer, Director of the Virus Reference Laboratory of the Public Health Laboratory Service, London, UK
“Compared with the Abbott [antibody] assay, the Vironostika [antibody] assay had a sensitivity of 98% and a specificity of 94.7% [showing how one test that has never been properly validated is used to ‘validate’ another similar test, by showing that most of the time they produce the same result]”
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2002 Apr 15;29(5):531-535
— Gouws E, et al, Aids Researchers
“False-positive ELISA [antibody] test results can be caused by alloantibodies resulting from transfusions, transplantation, or pregnancy, autoimmune disorders, malignancies, alcoholic liver disease, or for reasons that are unclear... The WB [Western Blot antibody test]…yields an unacceptably high percentage of indeterminate results.”
Arch Fam Med. 2000 Sep/Oct;9:924-9
— Doran TI , Parra E, Aids Researchers
“One infant dying of histologically confirmed HIV encepalopathy was repeatedly seronegative.”
Eur J Pediatr. 1992;151:442-8
— Kind C, et al, Aids Researchers
“There are many African studies reporting HIV-positive children with HIV-negative mothers.”
Int J STD AIDS 2002;13:657–666
— Gisselquist D, Rothenberg R, Potterat J, Drucker EM, Aids Researchers
“For HIV infection, there is no independent, unequivocal way of identifying a group of individuals who are all assuredly infected or uninfected.”
JAMA. 1987;258:1757-62.
— Cleary PD, et al, Aids Researchers
“Alloimmune mice...were shown to make antibodies against gp120 and p24 of HIV, and mice of [two] autoimmune strains...made antibodies against gp120. This is surprising because the mice were not exposed to HIV. [i.e. HIV proteins are found in uninfected mice!!]”
Science. 1991 Sep 6;253:1138-40
— Kion TA, Hoffmann GW, Aids Researchers
“The understanding of the pathogenesis of AIDS has probably suffered seriously from two major shortcomings. First, HIV has been wrongly...assumed to be cytopathic [cell-harming] in vivo [in humans]…there is no convincing evidence that HIV is cytopathic in vivo.”
Curr Opin Immunol. 1995;7:462-70
— Zinkernagel R, Aids Researcher
“The most likely value of the probability of infection within 25.8 months for this group of 36 sexual partners is zero…The absence of seropositivity in any of the 36 sexual partners included in this study indicates that heterosexual transmission in this group with no additional risk factor is uncommon.”
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1988
— Brettler DB, Forsberg AD, Levine PH, Andrews CA, Baker S, Sullivan JL, Aids researchers
“There are serious problems with AIDS and HIV statistics as created by WHO and UNAIDS that make them completely unreliable.”
“TB can trigger a false positive with the HIV test…does this not affect international AIDS statistics as they are dependent on HIV test results?”
“Pregnancy can trigger false positives…does this not affect international AIDS statistics that are almost completely dependent on HIV tests of blood of pregnant women?”
“In Africa, many poor countries have little medicine…and if AIDS is diagnosed they do not ‘waste’ their precious stocks of medicines on the ‘AIDS’ patient suspected to be ‘concurrently suffering from’ TB or dysentery or malaria or SLIM. How then does one resist the potentially resistible mortality for those Africans who are wrongly diagnosed with AIDS?”
“…Official government bodies…could only account for about 7% of the total 28 million deaths WHO and UNAIDS declared had occurred through AIDS…Russia could account for only 5%…India only 2%, and China only 1%. What is going on at WHO and UNAIDS, who or what is responsible for such gross inaccuracies?”
“If WHO and UNAIDS figures are so inaccurate, and create unnecessary fear amongst poor communities that should have other priorities for spending the little assets they hold, would that not play into the hands of unscrupulous drug companies that wish to extend HIV testing into these poor countries and acquire those assets through the purchase of very toxic drugs that would be given to poverty stricken people, especially pregnant women and their children, who would know no better — drugs such as Nevirapine, banned in the USA but already being delivered to Africa by drug companies and that could be foisted on unsuspecting mothers who have false positive HIV tests or ‘flawed’ Bangui diagnoses?”
“AIDS modelling has declared South African universities rampant with infection with 1 in 4 undergraduates expected to die of AIDS within 10 years. Real samples suggest an on-campus prevalence about 1.1%. South African banks tested 29,000 staff for HIV as models suggested 12% rates. Real tests showed about 3%. Prisons test infections for HIV and the rate in Grahamstown jail was only 2-4%, with only 2 deaths from AIDS in 7 years. Recorded prison rates are about 2.3% yet the media has reported estimates of as much as 60%.”
“The World Bank claimed African teachers to be dying of AIDS faster than being replaced and the BBC reported that 1 in 7 (14%) of Malawian teachers would die in 2002. Bennell, a Health Policy Analyst, found the all causes death rate amongst teachers in Malawi to be under 3%. In Botswana figures appear to be 3 times lower than estimates and in Zimbabwe 4 times lower.”
“If UNAIDS and WHO are so incredibly wrong, why do they persist in the apparent deception—and could it have anything to do with their allegiance to international pharmaceutical giants and ‘AIDS industry’ bodies?”
“350 million Africans get malaria each year but do not appear to have the right to anti-malarial treatment. 2 million get TB annually yet AIDS spending is 90 times higher than TB spending and there is little left over for treating pneumonias, cancers, parasitics, bacterials or diabetes. What scientific or political justification could there be for this?”
BMJ Rapid Response, 21 December 2003
— Dr. John P. Heptonstall, MD, Leeds, UK
“The AIDS virus is probably little more than another ‘opportunistic’ infection of an already destroyed immune system — at the most a ‘co-factor’ which may possibly give rise to AIDS when combined with other factors. This is already known to be true for PCP. The pneumocystis carinii is found in more than 95 percent of healthy persons and is life-threatening only in the individual with a defective immune system.”
[The idea of HIV being lethal is] “. . . so absurd that deliberate deception of the public may be suspected.”
“[HIV] will never affect otherwise healthy persons, heterosexual or homosexual. All suggestions to the contrary are motivated by the desire to frighten the public.”
The Aids Mirage, 1995
— Dr. Harris L. Coulter, PhD, author, homeopathic physician
“…We observed [falsely reactive Hiv tests in] a large proportion of individuals who had either lived or worked on dairy farms…and frequently drank unpasteurized cows’ milk [ed. note—this makes one wonder whether lactobacteria from yogurt or other fermented dairy products might cause a false positive]...Undefined autoimmune phenomena [such as multiple pregnancies], bovine exposure, or cross-reactivity with other human retroviruses could be possible causes for consistently [false] reactive HIV immunologic assays.”
Transfusion. 1988;28:412
— Dock NL, et al, Aids Researchers
“The HIV-causes-AIDS dogma is the grandest fraud that has ever been perpetrated on young men and women of the Western world. AIDS is a cruel deception that is maintained because so many people are making money from it. Take away this money and the entire system of mythology will collapse.”
Sunday Times, London, 3 April 1994
“The reason that the whole shabby story of HIV is being held in place is there’s so much money riding on it. The federal government is spending about $4 billion on just this single subject, and all that $4 billion is predicated on the idea that HIV causes these diseases. If HIV does not cause these diseases, then that money is being wasted. And I believe it is being wasted. But the people who are the recipients of that money don’t want it to stop.”
Penthouse Magazine, April 1995
“I do not believe that HIV, in and of itself, can cause AIDS.”
New York Daily News Sep 20, 1993
“The transmission of AIDS from person to person is a myth. The homosexual transmission of AIDS in Western countries, as well as the heterosexual transmission of AIDS in Africa and in other underdeveloped countries, is an assumption without any scientific validation.”
Virusmyth.net, Sep. 2000
“Duesberg is absolutely correct in saying that no one has proven that AIDS is caused by the AIDS virus. And he is absolutely correct that the virus cultured in the laboratory may not be the cause of AIDS.”
Hippocrates Sept./Oct. 1988
— Dr. Walter Gilbert, PhD, Professor of Molecular Biology, Harvard University. Winner, 1980 Nobel Prize for chemistry
“Nobody wants to look at the facts about this disease. It’s the most extraordinary thing I’ve ever seen. I’ve sent countless letters to medical journals pointing out the epidemiological discrepancies and they simply ignore them. The fact is, this whole heterosexual AIDS thing is a hoax.”
Spin June 1992
“I am well convinced HIV is harmless.”
Sunday Times (London) 3 April 1994
“I stopped going to AIDS meetings several years ago — I could no longer stand the stress of restraining myself from getting up and shouting, ‘Rubbish!’”
“From the outset I was never convinced that HIV had a role to play in AIDS, since the so-called evidence was unacceptable to me. However, I learned to keep my views to myself for a long time until I realized that there were many other ‘dissidents’ and doubters out there.”
“None of these investigators isolate actual viruses or viral genomes; all they do is add some primers to a PCR mixture and pretend that the printout represents HIV genomes. None of this has been proven, and furthermore the PCR technique was never conceived as a quantitative measure of anything. In view of this we should always qualify our usage of the term ‘viral load,’ otherwise we fall into the trap of subscribing to their hypothetical nonsense.”
“I do not believe there is an AIDS epidemic in Africa or Asia. People there are still dying from the combined effects of chronic infectious diseases plus malnutrition, poverty, and other factors, just as they always have.”
Virusmyth.net
— Dr. James Hudson, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada
“There are too many shortcomings in the theory that HIV causes all signs of AIDS. We are seeing people HIV-infected for 9, 10, 12 years or more, and they are still in good shape, their immune system is still good. It is unlikely that these people will come down with AIDS later.”
“HIV is neither necessary nor sufficient to cause AIDS.”
VI Int’l AIDS Conference, Jun 24 1990
“AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.... I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.”
“Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he’s condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.”
“We did not purify [isolate] ... We saw some particles but they did not have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses ... They were very different ... What we did not have, as I have always recognized it, is that it was truly the cause of AIDS.”
Interview with Djamel Tahi-1997
— Dr. Luc Montagnier, Virologist, co-discoverer of HIV, Pasteur Institute, Paris
“[Luc] Montagnier said clearly what he meant. HIV is a necessary but not, without the cofactor, a sufficient cause of AIDS.”
Nature 1992, 357:189
— John Maddox, Editor, Nature Magazine
“In 1994, (HIV co-discoverer) Robert Gallo quietly admitted that Kaposi’s Sarcoma (KS) — the major AIDS defining illness in gay men — could not be caused by HIV. But this was never reported in the mainstream press. Gallo told the audience of scientists and activists at the ‘94 NIDA meeting that HIV couldn’t cause KS and that he’d never even found it in T-cells, which HIV is supposed to kill. He said, ‘I don’t know if I made this point clear, but I think that everybody here knows — we never found HIV DNA in the tumor cells of KS. And, in fact, we’ve never found HIV DNA in T-cells. So in other words, we’ve never seen the role of HIV as transforming [cancer-causing] in any way.’”
“This was in complete opposition to everything Gallo had ever said about HIV or AIDS. But very few people paid attention to his retraction. The CDC ignored it, and continues to tell people KS is an AIDS disease. When Gallo was asked what, if not HIV, caused KS, he said, ‘The nitrites [poppers] could be the primary factor’ because ‘mutagenesis is the most important thing.’ It’s a very embarrassing situation for the AIDS establishment, and they’ve kept it quiet. One of the two hallmark diseases of AIDS is now clearly understood to be totally unrelated to AIDS or HIV.”
AIDS Debate, Boston Dig, 2003
— Liam Scheff, Journalist who exposed the forced drugging of orphans at the New York ‘Incarnation Children’s Center’
“[The evidence is] overwhelming that [Kaposi’s Sarcoma] is not caused by HIV.”
Spin, Nov 1994
— Dr. Marcus Conant, Clinical Professor of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco
“Evidence is rapidly accumulating that the original theory of HIV is not correct.”
Sunday Times (London) 3 April 1994
— Dr. Steven Jonas, MD, Professor of Preventive Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook
“Look, the same virus wouldn’t cause Kaposi’s sarcoma in homosexuals, pneumonia in transplant recipients and ‘slim disease’ in Africa. The HIV theory doesn’t make sense. But we have a totally totalitarian science environment today. You have to become a government contractor to do research. And if you don’t concur with the government — with HIV, with Gallo — you don’t get any money. The fringes are growing, but the majority of researchers are conformists. We have a million PhD’s in this country, and they can’t all be Einsteins. Most of them are just good soldiers; they’ll do as they’re told.”
GQ Nov 1993
“HIV is just a latent, and perfectly harmless, retrovirus that most but not all AIDS patients happen to carry. To say that HIV is the cause of AIDS is to cast aside everything we know about retroviruses...The HIV theory is inconsistent, paradoxical, and absurd...”
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, June 2000
“Peter Duesberg knows more about retroviruses than any man alive.”
Spin, June 1992
“I think that if HIV is not being expressed and not reforming virus and replicating, the virus is a dud and won’t be causing the disease...”
Spin, Oct 1994
— Dr. Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of HIV
“For the past 20 plus years, like most other hospital based physicians working inside mainstream medicine, I accepted the HIV/AIDS hypothesis without question. The idea that HIV infected and killed T cells and therefore wiped out the immune system causing opportunistic infection was accepted by every one else, so I had no reason to question it. My major concern was avoiding a needle puncture from a patient whose HIV status was unknown. In retrospect, I admit I was vaguely aware of questions, but I didn’t know what those questions were or who posed them.”
“A few months ago, while surfing the internet for news, I came across a Google video entitled,” HIV/AIDS, Fact or Fraud?”, containing interviews with Dr. Peter Duesberg and Dr. Charles Thomas. The information seemed credible and sparked my curiosity, so I ordered the book, “Inventing the Aids Virus” by Peter Duesberg, as well as books by Farber, Bialy and Lauritson, and emailed Dr. Duesberg for more information. He quickly replied with a collection of more recent articles along with a sample of his appealing sense of humor. After weighing the arguments and style of the proponents of the two sides, I came away impressed with what seemed the higher moral and ethical standards of the AIDS rethinkers; their obviously much higher, scientific standards, and their inescapable, common sense credibility.”
“I have previously discussed Figure 3 of Rodriguez et al. (JAMA, Sept. 27, 2006), which shows an extremely poor, bordering on zero, correlation between CD4 cell numbers and HIV viral load. Today, I take a closer look at Figure 2 of the same article, which is reproduced below.
“There are 5 bar graphs showing median CD4 cell loss per year for each of 5 HIV viral load subgroups. Each chart shows a Gaussian distribution of the data. I have rearranged the parts of the figure to make it obvious that the location of the center bar for each of the five Gaussian distribution charts fall on a very straight line that screams: HIV is not the cause AIDS.
“The caption below the figure reads: ‘…to emphasize the slight increase in CD4 cell decline with increasing plasma HIV RNA levels’.
“The caption is misleading. There is no slight increase in CD4 decline. There is only a very negligible or no increase with increasing HIV load.
“If one wanted to present results showing that increasing HIV viral load numbers do not lead to the loss of CD4 cells (sometimes called AIDS), I cannot think of a better visual demonstration.
“W. Keith Henry MD in a JAMA editorial on p.1523 of the same issue writes: ‘These findings provide support to those who favor non-virological mechanisms as predominant causes of CD4 cell loss.’
“He also writes: ‘The seemingly useful practice of combining CD4 cell count and plasma HIV RNA levels to assess individual prognosis or response to HAART needs to be re-examined’...‘[the] sustainability of the current paradigm (anti-retroviral combo drugs) is at best questionable.’
“After 20+ years of HIV/AIDS research, JAMA finally agrees with Peter Duesberg.”
Barnesworld Blog http://barnesworld.blogs.com/
— Dr. Jeffrey Dach, MD, Medical Director of TrueMedMD. Board certified in interventional radiology and a member of the Board of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. He retired from radiology in 2004, and is currently in private practice focusing on bio-identical hormone treatment.
“The case for a link between HIV and AIDS is not proven. I would like the ‘orthodox’ scientists to acknowledge that in Africa there are 29 or 30 diseases which may mimic AIDS, which are related to poverty. But they will not accept that because poverty does not make them big money but HIV makes them money. I would like them to acknowledge that most Africans who are said to be positive, if they were to move from Africa to Europe, to America or Australia, most of them, probably 80% would be negative…If we dissidents had only one hundredth of the funds that the orthodox view has, the orthodox view would probably be dead in less than a year.”
New African May, July-Aug. 2000
“I find it astonishing that with HIV/Aids you’re not allowed to ask questions, and the so-called dissident group is not allowed any publicity at all. I’m really concerned about the lack of democratic tendencies in the science establishments in South Africa.”
ANC Daily News Briefing, 22 March 2000
“In 1988 the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) convened a meeting in Washington, DC, which had the obvious purpose of silencing Peter Duesberg. A lot of questions occurred that I thought needed discussion. When I raised those questions at the meeting, I got the response you might expect from a bunch of fundamentalists confronted with someone who questioned the virgin birth. For example, Anthony Fauci [Director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases] interrupted me at one point, in a rage, saying how could anyone doubt the compelling role of HIV, when there was this HIV-infected baby, who had never been exposed to other viruses, bacteria or drugs, and developed AIDS. Well, I had no answer. If I did, I couldn’t get up, he was so mad. Well, I later learned that the mother of that baby was an intravenous drug user who had all sorts of health and nutritional problems.”
“One of the things I want to point out is the tricky business of naming a virus. Naming something HIV, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Avian Leukosis Virus, Avian Myelocytosis Virus — all of those names fix in the minds of those who use them, or work with them, that this is the proof.”
“…So I realized then I was dealing with a self-fulfilling prophecy. If there are HIV antibodies when you have Kaposi’s, then it’s AIDS, and if no antibodies…then it’s not AIDS, just Kaposi’s. No wonder there’s such a strong association between the virus and AIDS, if the diagnosis is based on the presence of the virus...”
Yale Scientific Vol. 68, 1994
“Who were these people who are so much wiser, so much smarter than Luc Montagnier? He became an outlaw as soon as he started saying that HIV might not be the only cause of AIDS.”
“The minute someone suggests that the orthodoxy might be wrong, the establishment starts to call him crazy or a quack. One week you’re a great scientist; the next week, you’re a jerk. Science has become the new church of America and is closing off all room for creative, productive dissent.”
Miami Herald, Dec 23, 1990
— Dr. Harry Rubin, DVM, Professor of Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
“AIDS is a government-defined disease. The CDC and government-funded investigators accept as fact the supposition that ‘HIV causes AIDS and is sexually transmitted.’ This is not to be questioned. But this HIV-AIDS model does not jibe with the true facts of the matter. Only 1 in 1000 unprotected sexual contacts transmits HIV, and only 1 in 275 US citizens has antibodies to this virus. Consequently, the average uninfected person would need to have 275,000 random unprotected sexual contacts to acquire sexually transmitted HIV.”
“Another fact: According to this model, HIV triggers immunodeficiency…by getting into and killing T cells. T cells in the laboratory that are infected with HIV, however, don’t die. Laboratories grow HIV-infected T cells in test tubes, where they thrive, to produce the large quantities of the virus, which is used to detect antibodies to HIV in a person’s blood. This virus infects only 1 in every 500 T cells and is extremely hard to find in a person’s body. What one sees are the antibodies to the virus in the blood.”
“The HIV-AIDS model is untenable. The twenty-plus diseases the government defines as ‘AIDS’ (when antibodies to HIV are also present) are caused, instead, by immunosuppressive heavy-duty recreational drug use, antiretroviral drugs, and receptive anal intercourse. The elusive HIV, when present, simply goes along for the ride, lodged in a small minority of the body’s T cells. It is a passenger on the AIDS airplane, not its pilot.”
Letter to Virusmyth.net
“in 1987 Duesberg ran afoul of the establishment. He published a paper in Cancer Research titled "Retroviruses as Carcinogens and Pathogens: Expectations and Reality," followed a year later by one in Science, "HIV is Not the Cause of AIDS." Thereafter, Duesberg was subjected to the punishment now accorded modern-day heretics. The NIH ceased giving him grants (the NIH and other federal and state funding sources have rejected his last 21 consecutive research grant applications), colleagues labeled him "irresponsible and pernicious" (David Baltimore) and his work "absolute and total nonsense" (Robert Gallo), and graduate students at Berkeley were advised not to study with Duesberg if they wanted to go on and have a successful career in biology. He was branded a "rebel," a "maverick," an "iconoclast," and by one writer, in an article in Science in 1988 titled "A Rebel Without a Cause of AIDS," a "gadfly." Blocked from receiving grants, he obtained private funds to maintain his laboratory at UC Berkeley, and he now spends part of each year doing research in Germany. His principle work on HIV/AIDS is “Inventing the AIDS Virus”, published in 1996. In this book, and in other papers he has written on the subject, Duesberg systematically dismantles, piece by piece, the germ theory of AIDS. This theory/hypothesis has two parts: 1) HIV causes AIDS, and 2) HIV is sexually transmitted.
“When Duesberg’s work on HIV/AIDS and cancer is finally recognized and accepted, it will cause a revolution in science. Over the last 50 years government-sponsored and industry-sponsored research programs have come to dominate scientific research. A totalitarian system now exists where only scientists that adhere to the prevailing orthodoxy can receive funds to conduct research. Not only will the government not fund studies on alternative hypotheses for AIDS and cancer, but this stricture applies to other areas of inquiry.”
A Modern-Day Copernicus: Peter H. Duesberg http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller18.html
— Dr. Donald W. Miller Jr., MD (Harvard, 1965), BMS (Dartmouth, 1963), Professor of Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine. Author of The Practice of Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (1977), co-author of Atlas of Cardiac Surgery (1983, Japanese version 1985), author of Heart in Hand (1999).
“HIV does not cause AIDS. There is no scientific evidence that HIV can kill infected T4 cells. The true problem is that the leaders of the HIV hypothesis have been ignoring important medical facts and are blindly attributing AIDS to the HIV virus. It is very sad and frustrating to know that the AIDS establishment are giving highly toxic drugs such as AZT to pregnant women even with studies that show the depression in the immune system can be reversed by nutrition. Prescribing anti-viral drugs to AIDS patients is like putting gasoline on a fire.”
Virusmyth.net, 2 May 2001
“…the results of the studies described above clearly show that the reductions in CD4+ T cell counts in homosexual patients have resulted from their treatment with glucocorticoid and not as the result of their HIV-infection. These studies provided clinical proof that HIV is a harmless virus and the HIV tests are worthless.”
BMJ RR, 5 February 2004
— Dr. Mohammad Ali Al-Bayati, PhD, Toxicologist and Pathologist, California. Author, Get all the facts: HIV does not cause AIDS.
“Dr. Al-Bayati convincingly demonstrates that the convergence of several factors other than HIV represent the true causes of AIDS.”
Virusmyth.net, 2 May 2001
“The HIV hypothesis, a staunchly defended thesis among its proponents, assumes that AIDS is caused by an infectious retrovirus. The declaration that the chosen virus was indeed the cause of AIDS was accompanied by the naming of this virus as the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Given this name, the HIV hypothesis suddenly became a self-fulfilling proposition and a classical example of the logical fallacy of affirming the consequent.”
Foreword, “Get all the facts: HIV does not cause AIDS,” June 1999
— Dr. Otto Raabe, PhD, Professor and Director, Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Health, University of California, Davis
“I received my PhD in 2002 for my work constructing mathematical models of HIV infection, a field of study I entered in 1996.”
“My work as a mathematical biologist has been built in large part on the paradigm that HIV causes AIDS, and I have since come to realize that there is good evidence that the entire basis for this theory is wrong. AIDS, it seems, is not a disease so much as a sociopolitical construct that few people understand and even fewer question...”
“Why have we as a society been so quick to accept a theory for which so little solid evidence exists? Why do we take proclamations by government institutions like the NIH and the CDC, via newscasters and talk show hosts, entirely on faith? The average citizen has no idea how weak the connection really is between HIV and AIDS, and this is the manner in which scientifically insupportable phrases like ‘the AIDS virus’ or ‘an AIDS test’ have become part of the common vernacular despite no evidence for their accuracy.”
“Over the past ten years, my attitude toward HIV and AIDS has undergone a dramatic shift. This shift was catalyzed by the work I did as a graduate student, analyzing mathematical models of HIV and the immune system. As a mathematician, I found virtually every model I studied to be unrealistic. The biological assumptions on which the models were based varied from author to author, and this made no sense to me...”
“Enough is enough, and I can no longer in any capacity continue to support the paradigm on which my entire career has been built.”
“…But few people know that the criteria for a positive WB [Western Blot HIV test] vary from country to country and even from lab to lab. Put bluntly, a person’s HIV status could well change depending on the testing venue. It is also possible to test ‘WB indeterminate,’ which translates to any one of ‘uninfected,’ ‘possibly infected,’ or even, absurdly, ‘partly infected’ under the current interpretation. This conundrum is confounded by the fact that the proteins comprising the different reactive ‘bands’ on the WB test are all claimed to be specific to HIV, raising the question of how a truly uninfected individual could possess antibodies to even one ‘HIV-specific’ protein.”
“I have come to sincerely believe that these HIV tests do immeasurably more harm than good, due to their astounding lack of specificity and standardization...I cannot buy the idea that any individual needs to have a diagnostic HIV test. A negative test may not be accurate (whatever that means), but a positive one can create utter havoc and destruction in a person’s life – all for a virus that most likely does absolutely nothing. I do not feel it is going too far to say that these tests ought to be banned for diagnostic purposes.”
“The real victims in this mess are those whose lives are turned upside-down by the stigma of an HIV diagnosis…People have lost their jobs, been denied entry into the Armed Forces, been refused residency in and even entry into some countries, even been charged with assault or murder for having consensual sex; babies have been taken from their mothers and had toxic medications forced down their throats. There is no precedent for this type of behavior, as it is all in the name of a completely unproven, fundamentally flawed hypothesis, on the basis of highly suspect, indirect tests for supposed infection with an allegedly deadly virus – a virus that has never been observed to do much of anything.”
“Suffice it to say that the HIV hypothesis of AIDS has offered nothing but predictions – of its spread, of the availability of a vaccine, of a forthcoming animal model, and so on – that have not materialized, and it has not saved a single life.”
“After ten years involved in the academic side of HIV research, as well as in the academic world at large, I truly believe that the blame for the universal, unconditional, faith-based acceptance of such a flawed theory falls squarely on the shoulders of those among us who have actively endorsed a completely unproven hypothesis in the interests of furthering our careers…”
“For over twenty years, the general public has been greatly misled and ill-informed. As someone who has been raised by parents who taught me from a young age never to believe anything just because ‘everyone else accepts it to be true,’ I can no longer just sit by and do nothing, thereby contributing to this craziness. And the craziness has gone on long enough. As humans – as honest academics and scientists – the only thing we can do is allow the truth to come to light.”
Why I Quit HIV http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/culshaw1.html
— Rebecca Veronica Culshaw, PhD. Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas at Tyler. Advisor, Journal of Biological Systems. Studied and published mathematical models of HIV infection for 10 years.
“Every mathematician knows that by changing the definition of something, you can change the entire truth about that thing. Rebecca Culshaw describes how the HIV = AIDS ‘orthodoxists’ have abused this idea. As in a shell game, they keep moving the definitions around, so that anything can be true and everyone will be confused. The abuse of science that has been documented here is itself very frightening. But when we learn that the standard treatment for HIV-positives – antiviral therapy – will substantially increase their risk of dying, it’s even scarier.”
Editorial review at Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Science-Sold-Out-Really-Cause/dp/1556436424/sr=11-1/qid=1167496016/ref=sr_11_1/002-5936051-6572869
— Dan Fendel, B.A. (summa cum laude) Harvard University, PhD, Yale; Professor of Mathematics, San Francisco State University; Primary author, Foundations of Higher Mathematics: Exploration and Proof.
“An intrinsic cytopathic [cell-harming] effect of the virus is no longer credible.”
Nature, 12 Jan 1995
“...HIV is behaving more and more like a virus, without frills or special effects.”
— Dr. Simon Wain-Hobson, Pasteur Institute, Paris
“HIV=AIDS=DEATH is a gross error. The medical community is providing deadly drugs to positive HIV patients, that will cause certain death to them. Then, the myth will be played on, with the doctor reporting that they died from AIDS, not from the complications of these deadly drugs. The madness must stop.”
“I personally have lost too many friends who did not become ill and die until they began their regimen of anti-HIV medicines.”
“You start out with a testing system that is riddled with false positives, then you treat them with lethal medications which impair the immune system, and then say ha ha you have an immune damaging disease called AIDS...”
Virusmyth webboard
— Dr. Craig Michael Uhl, MD, former U.S. Navy physician, California
“I’m not saying that it is impossible for unprotected vaginal intercourse to transmit HIV from a positive to a healthy adult negative partner. Anything’s possible. It’s possible to be struck by lightning. But the two risks share an analogous probability, effectively zero. If healthy, HIV-negative Americans want to worry about unprotected vaginal intercourse, they should worry about the drive over to their encounters. If their partners have never injected drugs or received rectal intercourse or blood therapy, they are more likely to be killed in an automobile accident on the ride over than they are to become HIV-positive.”
“The data show that frequency of receptive anal intercourse with an HIV-positive man and frequency of drug-injecting correlates with seroconversion. But frequency of unprotected vaginal intercourse with an HIV-positive person does not correlate with seroconversion, so that activity does not qualify as a risk factor. Everybody thinks that unprotected vaginal intercourse with an HIV-positive person will put you at risk for becoming HIV positive yourself. But this just isn’t the case.”
“It is not so easy to get all people who inject drugs or who participate in rectal intercourse to admit to these activities. Research and experience have shown us that people lie often and for many reasons, and that the content of these lies includes the IV [drug] and anal intercourse risk factors for HIV transmission. Such lying is one of the factors contributing to an inflated estimate of vaginal HIV transmission. A total liar rate of 5% is more than adequate to account for all the cases of HIV transmission and AIDS which are classified as heterosexual.”
“HIV researchers who publish these papers do not seem to be serious about accurately accounting for anal intercourse and drug injecting. The very studies that claim to document vaginal transmission show that coitus frequency does not correlate with seroconversion, but that frequency of receptive anal intercourse does.”
“In some special cases, and this may be true for HIV [tests], most of the positive results you get are false. So you run the risk of creating more heart attacks from false positives than identifying people who really are positive.”
“The gross exaggeration of AIDS risk to healthy, non-IVDU heterosexuals is not only psychologically damaging, but also constitutes unethical behavior on the part of many public health officials, journalists, and others.”
Reappraising AIDS; Sex at Risk: Lifetime Number of Partners, Frequency of Intercourse, and the Low AIDS Risk of Vaginal Intercourse (1997); Archives of Sexual Behavior 1995
— Dr. Stuart Brody, PhD, Adjunct Research Associate Professor of Medical Psychology, University of Tubingen, Germany. Author, Sex at Risk
“Despite the fact we’re told HIV is forever here are drug addicts who gave up drugs, started to live a more healthy lifestyle and their antibody tests reverted to negative. And their T4s returned to normal. And most telling of all, they were alive twenty years later to tell the tale. The tragedy is that these HIV tests were introduced in the total absence of proof of their specificity. This is the trouble with this so-called AIDS science. Another mystery—what is considered HIV positive depends on where and by whom the test is done. So if you’re positive in New York City [or Thailand or Africa] just get on a plane and come to Australia. You might no longer be positive.”
“I’d say don’t have a test. Don’t spread HIV testing.”
Continuum, Winter 1997
— Dr. Valendar Turner, MD, Royal Perth Hospital, University of Western Australia
“A wrong turning was taken in 1970, which has not only impeded progress in cancer research but has led to the retrovirus/HIV equals AIDS concept, which according to a number of investigators is a total misconception. Their doubts are basically concerned with the haste with which certain valid important observations were adopted by the retroviral cause without due cognisance being taken of alternative explanations and that this state of affairs has been very considerably compounded by the use of uncontrolled techniques.”
“The latter seem to have occurred because biochemists, who in my experience usually have a poor understanding of microorganisms as living creatures and have a tendency to regard bacteria as laboratory tools - for example, as bags of enzymes or as culture media for the propagation of designer plasmids - and believe that biochemical techniques are all that is necessary for the identification and isolation of viruses. Frequently medically trained individuals regard micro-organisms as basically potential pathogens and all too often, where AIDS research is concerned, they have adopted the same techniques employed by the biochemists.”
“The result of this simplistic approach is that it has been accompanied by the virtual abandonment of that sine qua non for a properly trained microbiologist, the microscope, and in the case of filterable forms of bacteria and viruses this means the electron-microscope. Without these aids and the controls that they offer, it has become apparent that what have passed as preparations of pure virions have in fact been contaminated not only with filterable forms of bacteria but also with cellular materials derived from the tissue-cultures in which the viruses have been cultured.”
Preface to “AIDS, Cancer and Arthritis – A New Perspective”
— Phyllis Pease, DSc, PhD, Former Senior Lecturer in Medical Microbiology, University of Birmingham, UK. Visiting researcher at University of Toulouse, France. Author AIDS, Cancer and Arthritis: A New Perspective (2005), L-Forms, Episomes and Autoimmune Disease (1965) and 70 papers on possible bacterial roles in immunopathology and related topics.
“We find the paucity of evidence published in standard peer-reviewed primary scientific journals that leads to the conclusion that “HIV causes AIDS” appalling. No amount of moralizing censorship, rhetorical tricks, consensus of opinion, pulling rank, obfuscation, ad hominem attacks or blustering newspaper editorials changes this fact. The conflation “HIV-AIDS” may be good marketing but is it science? No. Yet certainly the political and economic implications of the term “HIV-AIDS” are staggering.”
Review of Harvey Bialy’s “Oncogenes, Aneuploidy and AIDS” on Amazon.com
“What is an HIV/AIDS denier? Or HIV/AIDS denialist? Peter Duesberg is a fine scientist, I have read his book and examined some of the scientific papers upon which it is based. From the CDC (Center for Disease Control) in Atlanta I have requested the scientific papers that prove the causal relationship between the HIV retrovirus and the IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME commonly known as AIDS. They have never sent even references to the peer-reviewed primary scientific literature that establishes the causal relationship because they can’t. Such papers do not exist.
I have seen all four of the films made by Colman Jones and colleagues in Toronto. Film #3 in the series is most telling. Although no strong evidence exists for any simple causal relationship what is clear is that the HIV claim is erroneous by the standards of microbiology and virology.
When I saw the glowing review of George Miklos, a colleague and a fiercely honest scientist, of Harvey Bialy’s book on the scientific life of Peter Duesberg I bought and read Harvey’s book. I have also read Celia Farber’s superb article in the Lewis Lapham “swansong” issue of Harper’s magazine, last March, I believe. Rebecca Culshaw’s paper on why she quit AIDS statistical research and Dr. Charles Geshekter’s unpublished manuscript about African AIDS, accepted by the editor and then rejected both substantiated my reluctance to accept the glib “HIV/AIDS” term. I found all of these readings far more convincing than any literature purported to show a HIV-AIDS causal connection.
I heard a talk by a “medical scientist” from the Harvard Medical School at a meeting at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island from a supposed expert who attempts to design an HIV vaccine. He claimed the HIV virus mutates a billion times in 48 hours. It became clear that the HIV virus has no clear identity. The HIV tests, often positive for pregnant women, that [have standards that] vary significantly in the US, Europe and Australia are particularly disturbing. My son-in-law, James di Properzio spent several months researching this story for the Common Review (the Great Books Foundation in Chicago). His findings were consistent with Celia Farber’s and after encouragement from the editor the board reviewed and rejected his draft.
”Science is the search for truth” said David Bohm, “whether we like it [the truth] or not. From my readings, discussions with knowledgeable scientists close to the story, I simply conclude, as does Kary Mullis, the Nobel Laureate who wrote a foreword to Duesberg’s classic work, that there is no evidence that ‘HIV causes AIDS’.”
New AIDS Review http://newaidsreview.com/
— Lynn Margulis, PhD, Biologist, Distinguished Professor of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Originated the Endosymbiotic Theory for the origin of eukaryotic cells in 1966, which was ridiculed for years by the scientific establishment until proven in the 1980s. Recipient of the National Medal of Science (1999). Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983. Author of over 130 scientific works and the books, Origin of Eukaryotic Cells, Early Life, Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation: Speciation and Morphogenesis, Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution, The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change and many others. The Library of Congress started to permanently archive all of her papers in 1998.
“Contrary to popular belief, Peter Duesberg is not a quack. In fact, he is a widely acknowledged expert on retroviruses such as HIV. His credentials are impeccable: he is a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Nevertheless, Dusberg is regarded by the uninformed as a quack because he has dared to scientifically investigate whether the retrovirus HIV actually causes the complex of diseases known as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) – which has widely been asserted without proof – and has had the courage to report that research shows the answer is that HIV is not the cause of AIDS.”
“In this excellent book Prof. Duesberg discusses in detail, but in a highly readable manner, both the retrovirus HIV and the syndrome AIDS and shows that they are not the same things. In fact, AIDS is not itself a single disease but, rather, is a complex of more than 20 separate diseases. The one commonality of the diseases in the AIDS syndrome is not HIV infection but the fact that they rarely infect people with healthy immune systems. In general, people who acquire any of the AIDS diseases have deficient immune systems. In poor countries, especially in Africa where the incidence of AIDS is high, immune deficiency is mainly due to severe malnutrition. In the developed world, including the U.S., immune deficiency is often caused by deleterious lifestyle behavior, including drug use. A person whose immune system is severely weakened is then vulnerable to the diseases in the AIDS complex. Immune-deficient people often also catch HIV which is why HIV and AIDS often – but definitely not always – are found together. However, HIV can also occur in people who do not suffer from AIDS and never will. A positive test for HIV antibodies merely means that at some time a person has been infected with HIV, not that they are infected with HIV now or that they have or ever will have AIDS.”
“Another point which Prof. Duesberg covers in this book is that modern science has become highly politicized, and that disagreement with current scientific dogma is strongly discouraged and often punished by inability to publish in recognized scientific journals. This is one reason why Duesberg has difficulty presenting his case to the public. As a scientist with 44 years experience at a major research institution, I regret to confirm that science has indeed become politicized and dogmatic. Please read this book if you want to know the truth about AIDS and modern medical politics.”
Amazon review of Dr. Peter Duesberg’s “Inventing the AIDS Virus”. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0895264706/sr=1-1/qid=1190563608/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_top/103-8968320-1007811?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books&qid=1190563608&sr=1-1#customerReviews
— David R. Schryer, PhD. Research chemist. Former researcher at NASA’s Langley Research Center. Co-developer of a catalyst for use in a space-based laser that uses carbon dioxide to help generate its beam. Author of Heterogeneous Atmospheric Chemistry and Crystallite orientation in molded graphites. Co-author of Man's impact on the troposphere: lectures in tropospheric chemistry. Hampton, Virginia.
‘You might look healthy now, but if you test positive on the HIV antibody test, your immune system is already beginning to crumble…as the virus in you eats away at your life force. You will be ‘infected,’ and there is no way to…become uninfected’…You must take great care not to infect others…You are…an ‘untouchable.’ You cannot under any circumstances engage in sexual intercourse unless people are protected from you…you cannot even breastfeed your own children since you might also infect them. A slow, painful, inexorable decline, and an agonizing loss of dignity awaits you, and only with death will the curse be lifted.’
“When such a curse is laid, what is the risk of a self-fulfilling prophecy? …the risk is significant...Virtually every claim ever made about HIV has been repeatedly contradicted. Usually, these contradictions have not been countered by other studies…Instead, the authors…either minimize their findings, or ask pointed questions that gather dust in medical libraries around the world.”
“…Many of the symptoms of AIDS are either directly caused, or made much worse, by the severe, chronic psychological stress, social isolation, and negative beliefs created by the diagnosis.”
“The [HIV] diagnosis itself can bring about a self-fulfilling prophecy because of the powerful negative beliefs it creates. Stress, social isolation, and negative beliefs can create the same type of immunodeficiency that is commonly blamed on HIV.”
“Both scientific and popular literature have exaggerated the significance of the number of women with AIDS, and of the epidemiological danger of sex for women. Variations on the theme ‘women are the fastest growing risk-group for AIDS’ appear virtually everywhere, in the scientific no less than the popular press. Sometimes these statements are literal untruths; at other times they merely insinuate untruths in their equivocation between rates of disease and rates-of-change in population-specific disease rates. For example, the medical journal The Lancet asserted in a 1993 article that ‘Women are the fastest growing group with HIV infection in the USA.’ But the basis for this claim is obscure. Estimates of the prevalence of HIV infection are well-known to be unreliable, and have been continually revised downwards.”
“For all the same reasons that other people lie to doctors about stigmatized activities, such as male-male sex, women with AIDS lie about use of injected drugs. It therefore seems highly likely to us that a substantial number of the reported cases of heterosexual transmission in the partners of injecting drug users, in particular, are themselves injecting drug users.”
“The policy of supporting the spread of AIDS hysteria among those not at significant risk causes more suffering to those who are at significant risk. The vast majority of women are simply not at risk for HIV/AIDS. Women are dying of AIDS, but it is not because of heterosexual or lesbian sex. Rather, AIDS disproportionately affects those women who inject drugs, and thereby largely suffer other diseases, poverty, and malnutrition. It is to these women that a just expenditure of public health care funding would go for both education and treatment—education primarily of the risks of IV drug use, not of sex, and treatment of the health problems characteristic of IDUs, male or female.”
“Second, women who are not at great risk for AIDS are also harmed by the current AIDS response. Many women who aren’t at risk of AIDS inevitably, each time they have sexual encounters, think of AIDS. Anxiety, depression, hundreds of thousands—probably millions—of unnecessary HIV-tests, and broken relationships are the results of such campaigns.”
Women And Aids: The Ethics Of Exaggerated Harm
— Dr. Udo Schüklenk, Head of the Division of Bioethics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;
— Dr. David Mertz, University of Massachusetts;
— Mary Ann Sushinsky, University of Massachusetts, Dept. of Philosophy
“What the HIV orthodoxy do not seem to comprehend is that Koch’s Postulates cannot be fulfilled by stitching together a series of unrelated cases and asserting that case 1 fulfilled postulate 1, case 2 fulfilled postulate 2 and case 3 fulfilled postulate 3. The Koch postulates must be satisified as a unity. This means that one must isolate and purify the supposed cause from every case of the disease. HIV fails this for AIDS. The purified agent must be injected into a suitable animal host and shown to induce the disease. This has never been done, and in the only animal model, that of the Chimpanzee, HIV causes no disease at all. From the new diseased host, the cause must then be isolated once more and the procedure repeated. Again, this has not been done.”
“It’s not even really a mathematical model. In my opinion, it’s mathematical junk. [Dr. David Ho’s explanation of how HIV “furiously replicates”] Ho’s equations predict that over the course of 10 years, an HIV-positive person will produce more particles of HIV than there are atoms in the universe. There is no way you could make that much virus.”
Gear, March 2000
“[AIDS scientists] seem blissfully unaware of the prediction that their own results give. They probably have not bothered to look at tedious questions like ‘do our results correspond with what we observe in patients?’ But these groups actually manage to do a lot worse. Neither group compared the rate of T4 cells generated in the HIV positive patients with HIV negative controls!”
“We have to ask fundamental questions here. Does what Ho and Shaw say actually make any sense? Are their experimental techniques sound? Do their conclusions follow from their results? Is their mathematical analysis sound? My conclusion will be that this new work is about as convincing as a giraffe trying to sneak into a polar bears only picnic by wearing sunglasses.”
“…Yet HIV ‘science’ has declined so far that these elementary questions are addressed neither by the research groups themselves, nor the referees at Nature whose job it is to critique the papers before publication. Is nobody at Nature bothered by the fact that neither paper contains any hard data which can be independently analysed? And Wei, et al. use a technique for measuring viral load known as branched DNA (bDNA), yet their data for bDNA does not appear in the paper. The reader is given absolutely no explanation of how this assay of viral load is supposed to be carried out and no indication of how reliable it is.”
“…But nobody in the HIV research community is at all bothered by this. They seem to have learned like the mad hatter to believe six impossible things before breakfast and so one more makes no difference. One gets a remarkable sense of being disassociated from the real world when entering the realm of AIDS research. Am I mad or are they?”
AIDS: Virus- or Drug Induced? Kluwer, 1996, pp. 127-130
— Mark Craddock, PhD, Senior Research Associate, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
“...Koch's postulates are failed at every turn. The only way to believe that HIV causes AIDS is to either have insufficient knowledge to think for oneself or to have a vested, financial and/or ego interest in the theory being true...”
“So what about the presence of the HIV virus in many people with AIDS? It seems far more likely to me that this virus is a so-called ‘passenger virus,’ in other words just going along for the ride.”
“...It is well- acknowledged that the HIV virus is cleared quickly out of the body. The mechanism by which it is cleared is through the production of an antibody, which is specific for the virus. What can be found in an ‘HIV positive’ individual is this antibody, not the virus itself. The virus itself is undetectable, and this is explained away by the AIDS establishment as a ‘latency’ period. How does a virus which is not present do progressive damage to an immune system?”
“While it may be true that the retroviruses have the ability to cause the cell to produce more viruses, if those viruses are causing no problem, it is just not relevant. It may even be that, at the end-stage of AIDS, there is a sudden increase in HIV virus particles. However, this does not mean that HIV is causing the final collapse of the immune system, but vice-versa: the final collapse of the immune system allows large numbers of HIV particles to exist.”
“No one yet has proposed a reasonable mechanism by which the HIV virus might actually damage cells, and in all likelihood it is as harmless as the other retroviruses. Nevertheless, if the immune system eventually decompensates from multiple toxic exposures, it is easy to blame a virus which is going along for the ride. It also fits the allopathic paradigm of one disease, one cause.”
“Multiple contributory factors causing one disease is too complex and unpredictable for the allopathic paradigm to accommodate. Likewise, multiple contributory treatments for a disease process are thought not to be ‘scientific,’ even if they work.”
“The Psychosocial Impact of the HIV Hypothesis. This has changed lives. It has caused depression and lethargy. Many productive citizens have given up and are waiting to die. Some have committed suicide in despair and anticipation of a future of suffering and certain death from AIDS. Many relationships have been smashed asunder by the knowledge that someone is ‘HIV positive.’ The toll in psychological suffering is impossible to calculate, but it must be staggering.”
— Ron Kennedy, MD, Santa Rosa, California
“Epidemiological data does not support the predictions made in 1984 that the conditions labelled aids were caused by a new specific retrovirus, transmissible by sexual intercourse, inevitably fatal and spreading uncontrollably in the general population, culminating in a global pandemic. Independent epidemiological research together with the passage of time has since shown that this hypothesis and the ensuing predictions are wrong.”
“If the international establishment, which propagates the belief that ‘hiv’ is the cause of the conditions called aids as if it were a scientific fact and as if ‘hiv’ had been isolated, were to continue to ignore all the data telling otherwise, it would abuse vulnerable human beings as experimental subjects, in violation of guideline 1 of the International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects, which says: ‘...the investigator must obtain the informed consent of the prospective subject...’, describing ‘informed consent’ as ‘given by a competent individual who has received the necessary information and has adequately understood the information’; and would therefore expose itself to legal action on the grounds of these and other human rights violations.”
“IFAS suggests when referring to ‘hiv’, to do so as ‘the alleged retro-virus suggested to cause aids.’ Do not encourage any more damage due to insufficient scientific conclusions and always point out the conclusions drawn by a panel of independent scientists as outlined above, referring to ‘hiv’ no longer as an entity — and where possible in lower case letters not to emphasize the dogma — and in quotation marks since its existence and therefore its causative role in the illnesses associated as Aids is not proven, even after 15 years of hypothesised science and billions of dollars spent.”
Open letter from the secretary general of IFAS, 1998
— Michael Baumgartner, Secretary General, International Forum for Accessible Science (IFAS)
“Back in the mid 1980s I had serious reservations about the existence of a relationship between HIV (or, indeed, any causative organism) and AIDS.
“In the late 1980s I accepted the link between HIV and AIDS but rejected the theory, popular among the medical and nursing professions, politicians, journalists, insurance companies keen to find an excuse to increase their premiums, drug companies desperate to sell their latest AIDS related product, and just about every other scaremongering half wit eager to jump on the 'AIDS is the biggest plague to hit mankind' bandwagon that AIDS was a sexual transmitted disease which was likely to wipe out a large proportion of the western world.
“I argued that AIDS should be regarded as a blood related disorder, rather than a sexually transmitted disease, and that because of this it was primarily a disease that threatened homosexuals and drug addicts rather than heterosexuals. I didn't say that these were the only groups who would develop AIDS but that they would probably be the main sufferers.
“The evidence shows I was right about that but I now strongly suspect that I was wrong even to accept that there was (or is) a link between HIV and AIDS.
“The huge AIDS industry, now employing thousands of scientists, hundreds of thousands of administrators and paramedics and vast armies of sanctimonious fund raisers - as well as burning up billions of dollars of taxpayers money which could have been much better spent on something useful - is now too committed to the notion that HIV causes AIDS even to admit that it might be false. But false it very probably is.
“There have been around 400,000 AIDS patients in the last ten years. (The ground rules for defining an AIDS patients have constantly been changing in order to keep the number of AIDS victims as high as possible and, therefore, try to justify the expenditure involved.)
“Those 400,000 patients have been treated by around 5,000,000 AIDS researchers and specialist AIDS medical workers. If the amount of effort and money spent on AIDS had been spent on teaching people how to avoid heart disease millions of lives could have been saved and heart disease would now be something of a rarity among men and women under the age of 70. Since the early 1990s most of the under employed AIDS experts have kept themselves busy doing their best to maintain the AIDS myth - the myth which has paid their unjustified and unjustifiable salaries. The AIDS industry - like the global cancer industry - is now predominantly composed of individuals whose primary concern is their own financial survival. The needs of patients - and the community at large - take a poor second place.
“Despite the money that has been spent, and the countless number of animals who have been sacrificed (in the US 1,500 chimpanzees which were bred for AIDS research and which, it is now recognised, have no useful function in the AIDS research industry, are kept alive in cages at an annual cost of something like $7,300,000), the AIDS industry has yet to make just one of the many promised breakthroughs or save any human lives. And that failure is probably due to the fact that scientists have based their research work on a premise with about as much supporting evidence behind it as the theory that the earth is flat.
“AIDS was first noted in 1981 in the US. At the time it was described as GRID (Gay Related Immune Deficiency) because it only seemed to affect gay men. And it seemed most prevalent among promiscuous gay men. One early survey showed that the first 100 men with the disease had had, on average, no less than 1,120 sexual partners each. (Though how they each remembered the precise figure I can't imagine.)
“None of the diseases associated with GRID were new. Some had previously occurred in drug addicts. And some observers wondered if the new syndrome had developed among these gay men because of their promiscuous, drug taking lifestyle.
“But at the same time as doctors had identified the existence of what they thought was a new syndrome scientists had developed a technique to classify and count different types of lymphocytes - white blood cells - and researchers noticed that some GRID patients had low numbers of particular types of white blood cell. It was, therefore, assumed that GRID was infectious and caused by some sort of organism. And thus the AIDS syndrome was born. AIDS was never a new disease but merely an artificial syndrome consisting of several already existing diseases.
“Surprisingly, it was upon this fragile theory that the whole AIDS industry has been built.
“Naturally, everyone wanted to find the organism responsible for causing AIDS. When HIV was allegedly identified it was given this dubious honour, despite the fact that it was originally isolated in no more than around a third of AIDS patients. (Even today most AIDS patients do not have an HIV infection.)
“The strange fact is that despite the billions that have been spent on research the world is still waiting for someone to prove that AIDS really does exist. There is not and never has been any solid research linking HIV to AIDS - let alone proving that HIV causes AIDS.
“So, the big question now may appear to be 'What causes AIDS?'
“But, in fact, I suspect that in truth that isn't the big question at all.
“In reality, I suspect that the big question is: 'Does AIDS actually exist?'
“And I suspect that the answer is that it doesn't.
“As I have already pointed out AIDS is a syndrome which does not consist of any new symptoms or diseases.
“And in order to justify the huge expenditure of time and money on research into finding a cure many of those involved in helping to maintain the AIDS industry have for years been busily changing the rules about the way that AIDS is defined. These days if you die of influenza or tuberculosis there is a good chance that you will be included in the AIDS statistics. (Including TB victims in the AIDS statistics is one of the ways in which the alleged AIDS plague in Africa has been created. This type of 'bending' of the statistics is nothing new. When the authorities wanted to give the impression that smallpox had been conquered by the vaccination programme they attributed many deaths caused by smallpox to chickenpox - even though chickenpox is very rarely a fatal disease.)
“I suspect that the immune system breakdown which, in 'developed' countries usually leads to a diagnosis of AIDS, is probably a result of any one of a number of factors.
“The use of illicit and recreational drugs has been offered as one explanation but I suspect that the over use of prescription drugs (including, I fear, some of those which may be recommended for the 'treatment' of AIDS) is probably just as significant.
“Nutritional deficiencies, constant stress and a steady exposure to carcinogenic chemicals all probably help to explain why AIDS (and other immune system problems) are now so commonplace.
“The AIDS syndrome is still commonest among gay men, drug users and haemophiliacs - many of whom are probably exposed to drug use of one sort or another. The available evidence - such as it is - supports my hypothesis as well as any other.
“It is my view that the best treatment for AIDS is a powerful immune system reinforcement programme - similar to the one I recommend for avoiding and treating cancer and for avoiding and treating infectious diseases.
“There is no doubt that the original predictions for AIDS have all been proved utterly wrong.
“In the 1980s a spokesman for the British Medical Association warned that by 1991 every family in Britain would be touched by AIDS and attacked me viciously when I quoted evidence supporting a less scary point of view. Other medical establishment groups jumped on the 'AIDS is going to kill us all so give us lots of money to try and find a cure' bandwagon and the official line was defended with unprecedented ferocity and an astonishing amount of self righteous, sanctimonious venom.
“The World Health Organization forecast that 100 million people might be infected by the year 1990 and the Royal College of Nursing in the UK forecast that one in fifty people in Britain would have the disease by the early 1990s. As far as I know none of these groups have apologised for their absurd scaremongering and none have provided an explanation for the size of their error.
“In addition numerous organisations and individuals have, when applying for grants, made dramatic promises of 'miracle breakthroughs' and 'wonder vaccines' perhaps because they know that the bigger the promise the larger the grant will probably be.
“I have explained how and why AIDS became so fashionable in my book Betrayal of Trust. I believe that gay pressure groups (working to make sure that AIDS did not become established as a 'gay' disease') were responsible for the initial development of the 'plague' myth. And that AIDS was then turned into a major scare through the efforts of insurance companies (eager to find an excuse to put up premiums), drug companies (keen to sell new products), doctors (keen to help drug companies), researchers (eager to get their hands on the vast amounts of money being raised by volunteers), religious groups (desperate to exploit an opportunity to suppress sexual activity outside marriage) and politicians (eager, as always, to leap on an opportunity to frighten the voters - since when voters are frightened it is much easier to introduce new, repressive legislation).
“I stand by that account.
“But it is now my considered view that the disease we know as AIDS probably doesn't exist and has never existed.
“AIDS is a unique invention of the late 20th century: a plague disease that never was and a warning to us all to ignore politicians and the drug company dominated medical establishment.
“AIDS is a new and, in my view, misleading name for an increasing number of separate identifiable diseases. It is as though a group of doctors had decided that all children suffering from measles, mumps or diptheria should in future be described as suffering from Child's Disease. And then, when the incidence of measles, mumps and diptheria fell, the doctors, in order to make Child's Disease fulfil the prophecies made for it and to justify the vast amounts of money spent on it, added new diseases to the list. So, as Child's Disease might grow to include whooping cough and chickenpox, so AIDS has grown and now, for example, patients with tuberculosis can be included in the AIDS statistics. Where is the medical or scientific logic in any of this? Just what is the point? And who benefits? (As Lenin once pointed out, if you understand who benefits then you will know why.)
“Perhaps the most worrying thing about AIDS is my suspicion that the hypothesis I have expressed here will never even be acknowledged or discussed by AIDS experts, by people working in the AIDS industry or by the mainstream media.
“AIDS has become a sacred disease. To question the motives of those involved in the search for a vaccine or a cure, or the treatment of alleged AIDS patients, is politically incorrect and utterly unacceptable.
“My hypothesis fits all the known facts and can explain everything that has happened over the last two decades. But if this hypothesis goes unnoticed nothing much will have changed and the AIDS industry will be following a long established pattern based on a mixture of hypocrisy, expediency and commercial need.
“Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s I was vilified for daring to point out that all the available scientific evidence showed that AIDS was not going to be the plague that killed us all.
“However, the AIDS industry quickly learned that the best way to silence opposition is to ignore it. That they have done consistently throughout the 90s. And that is what I expect them to continue to do. The silence will hide the truth.”
Dr. Vernon Coleman’s Health Letter http://www.vernoncoleman.com/aids.htm
— Vernon Coleman, MD, D.Sc., Hon. Professor of Holistic Medical Sciences at the Open International University, Sri Lanka. Author of the bestsellers Bodypower, Mrs. Caldicot's Cabbage War, How To Stop Your Doctor Killing You and over 90 other books that have been translated into 23 languages. Author of over 5,000 articles in leading British publications. Former editor, British Clinical Journal. Awarded the Yellow Emperor's Certificate of Excellence as Physician of the Millenium by the Medical Alternativa Institute (2000)
“That AIDS is caused by a sexually transmitted virus named HIV is anchored in the minds of most people, including scientists, as firmly as the fact that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. No wonder, given that the phrase ‘HIV, the virus that causes AIDS’ is repeated like a mantra by the media and the medical establishment. And yet, there are many reasonable, even compelling scientific arguments against this theory and the treatments and policies derived from it. These arguments have been published in lay publications as well as in peer-reviewed scientific journals since 1987, but the AIDS mainstream remains in complete denial.
“Mainstream AIDS researchers, bureaucrats and so-called educators generally act like this challenge does not exist, and when they are forced to comment on it, they usually dismiss it using ridicule, ad-hominem attacks, appeals to scientific majoritarianism and empty claims that these kinds of ideas have been disproved long ago. They often justify their actions with the political argument that debate would confuse the public and the political decision makers.
“Gallo’s original Science papers, a relevant section of which is reproduced here, claimed ‘isolation’ of HIV only in 30.2% of adult AIDS cases with Kaposi's sarcoma, and 47.6% of adult AIDS cases with opportunistic infection. This is the evidence based on which Gallo, with the blessings of Reagan's Secretary of Health and Human Services, Margaret Heckler, told the world press on April 23th, 1984 (two weeks before publication of the Science papers), that he had found the ‘probable cause of AIDS’!
“The word ‘probable’ was forgotten within days, ‘HIV positivity’, as measured by Gallo's own test, was incorporated into the AIDS definition and research into all other possible causes of AIDS ceased. Everyone was happy -- gay activists had their politically correct equal opportunity killer that would surely strike heterosexuals any time now, scientists like Gallo had billions of research funding coming their way and people with AIDS or at risk for AIDS had new hope that this new nightmare would soon be over. No one cared that Gallo had made an end run around the scientific method. Results were already accepted as true when they had not been discussed, critiqued or independently replicated. No such process was possible anymore in the ‘foregone conclusion’ atmosphere created by Gallo’s succesful PR stunt and the official imprimatur given to his alleged discovery by the US government.
“20 years after Gallo’s claim to have discovered a new virus that causes AIDS, and despite $100 billion in research thrown in that direction, conventional AIDS thinking still cannot explain how HIV supposedly kills CD4 helper cells, meaning that the foundational assumption of the HIV theory of AIDS is still unproven. An article titled ‘HIV-1 Pathogenesis’ by Mario Stevenson, a professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (Nature Medicine, July 2003, ‘20 Years of HIV Science’) makes the following admissions:
‘Despite considerable advances in HIV science in the past 20 years, the reason why HIV-1 infection is pathogenic is still debated.’
‘Since the recognition of this syndrome in 1981, considerable efforts have gone into identifying the mechanism by which HIV-1 causes disease and two major hypotheses have been forwarded.’
“A translation of these statements into plain English would read like the following. ‘The media did a really good job creating the impression that we know what we’re doing. We still can’t prove that HIV destroys the immune system. We have some guesses, but despite a herculean, 20-year research effort, we haven't been able to substantiate them. We still have no proof that HIV infection causes any pathology whatsoever.”
“There is evidence that so-called HIV tests are unspecific and therefore have some value in predicting disease and for screening blood supplies; however, they do not prove infection with a deadly sexually transmitted virus.
“‘HIV’ tests are said to be extremely accurate not because they have been calibrated against a ‘gold standard’ test (which does not exist), but simply because they have been designed by purely empirical means to react positive to the blood of most people who have been diagnosed with AIDS (who are all presumed to have HIV), and negative to the blood of most people who do not have AIDS (and are therefore presumed not to have HIV). The result [was] unspecific tests that react to a wide variety of medical conditions which were present in the early AIDS victims (but still manage to contradict each other). Put differently, so-called HIV tests are more likely to be empirical ‘at-risk for AIDS’ tests, making the epidemiological correlation between testing ‘HIV positive’ and subsequent risk of developing AIDS a tautology. To say that this correlation proves that HIV causes AIDS is circular reasoning. Test that were designed based on the assumption that people with AIDS have ‘HIV’ cannot then be said to prove this assumption. Test makers admit in their own literature that ‘there is no recognized standard for establishing the presence or absence of HIV-1 antibody in human blood’.
“Nowadays, the practice of treating healthy people who tested ‘HIV positive’ with chemotherapy that causes AIDS-defining diseases has made the relationship between a positive test and development of AIDS a self-fulfilling prophecy for those who elect to undergo drug treatment.
“The unwavering belief of mainstream AIDS doctors in the life-prolonging effects of drugs that destroy the bone marrow, the liver and the digestive tract is all the more astounding given that protease inhibitors were approved by FDA solely based on David Ho’s now completely discredited ‘hit hard, hit early’ theory. It was universally acknowledged even by mainstream researchers in the mid-1990s that these drugs are way too toxic for long-term use. People were meant to undergo high-intensity chemotherapy for a limited time period to eradicate HIV infection completely, then go off the drugs. This rationale collapsed years ago, but instead of discontinuing use of this failed therapy, the AIDS industry is putting HIV positive people on HAART indefinitely.
— Rochus Börner, PhD, Mathematics, Arizona State University. Science writer