Science Sold Out: Does HIV Really Cause AIDS?

by Rebecca Culshaw

There are many well-established scientific reasons that the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is highly doubtful. In Science Sold Out , Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system. It is rare that a researcher who has received funding to study HIV ever expresses any doubt in the paradigm, and an even rarer event still when she abandons the field altogether. This book focuses on the changing definition of AIDS and the flaws in all HIV testing. In a much broader sense, it explains how the current, government-based structure of scientific research has corrupted science as the search for truth. It offers not only scientific reasons for HIV/AIDS being untenable, but also sociological explanations as to how the theory was accepted by the media and the world so quickly. In particular, this book offers a scathing criticism of the outrageous discriminatory measures that have been leveled at HIV-positives from the inception.

Genres: Science

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 2, 2007

Reviews

[Sally · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brings up many problems in AIDS/HIV research and science that are not talked about, or actively ridiculed, in the media. It's good to raise issues instead of having a monolithic dogma, especially when there is so much self-interest (espeically financial) on the "respectable" side. Worth reading even if you don't agree with the author's points.

[Hermonta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very short book, almost pamphlet length by a Mathematician who did her PhD in modeling HIV. I would put it with Serious Adverse Events as an nice intro to the question of whether or not one should believe that HIV really causes Aids. She finally just became fed up that the numbers just could not be made to work. 1)The mortality rate of those on Anti Viral drugs due to testing positive for HIV being several times higher than those who have tested positive for HIV and it was left untreated. 2)People in the US have tested positive to HIV at the same rate since testing began in the early 80s. Yet the number of people with AIDS has not been consistent.

The most interesting fact to me, was that rapidity with which scientific papers went out of date. The author coming from a math background was used to being able to cite a paper 2-3 years old and be taken as being current. In the HIV research world, you can't get such work published because research that old is considered out of date. Yet those in the mainstream will talk about the overwhelming evidence that HIV causes AIDS by pointing to the tens of thousands of papers published on the subject (Most of them beyond the 2-3 year window).

It is a short read that is not super technical that I recommend highly.

[Tori · Rating 2 out of 5]

Made it about half way through this one. I was once again distracted by other books. Her arguments are interesting, but some of the points she made seem way off... Just because someone has a PhD doesn't mean you should always believe them, especially if their PhD is in mathematics and they are trying to write about virology and immunology. I trust the scientists who actually work with the virus over one who just goes around looking at numbers or trying to model the virus.

[Thepythoniccow · Rating 4 out of 5]

Written in a casual style, by someone who seems to have a good heart and excellent mind. Not the first book to discredit the official story on AIDS, but one of the more enjoyable to read, most recent and quite perceptive.