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Inventing the AIDS Virus
An eminent scientist and pioneer in the discovery of retroviruses challenges the widely accepted belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS. Peter H. Duesberg argues that HIV is merely a harmless passenger virus that does not cause AIDS. Sure to spark intense debate, this provocative book offers an original and incisive critique of the rise and fall of HIV.
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First published February 27, 1996
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December 18, 2007
This amazing book makes a good case that HIV is NOT the cause of AIDS. Duesberg is not a crank. He is a major cancer researcher, and he is supported by a number of Nobel Prize winners.
Here, for example, is the 1993 Nobel winner in chemistry, Kary Mullis: "We know that to err is human, but the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is one hell of a mistake. I say this rather strongly as a warning. Duesberg has been saying it for a long time. Read this book."
The fact that Duesberg was greeted almost entirely by ad hominem attacks rather than factual rebuttal reinforced my suspicion that the establishment has it wrong on this question. The house of cards is gonna come down before long, and when it does, Duesberg will look like a prophet.
Here, for example, is the 1993 Nobel winner in chemistry, Kary Mullis: "We know that to err is human, but the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is one hell of a mistake. I say this rather strongly as a warning. Duesberg has been saying it for a long time. Read this book."
The fact that Duesberg was greeted almost entirely by ad hominem attacks rather than factual rebuttal reinforced my suspicion that the establishment has it wrong on this question. The house of cards is gonna come down before long, and when it does, Duesberg will look like a prophet.
November 12, 2008
A solid book with solid science. If only the pro-AIDS establishment could be so truthful in their research outcomes. I, too, see Duesberg as one day being heralded as a hero. I'm hoping it's before he passes, because this murderous streak has to come to an end. There are too many people dying due to misinformation and the drug companies quest for profit over truth.
July 29, 2023
“As often in the history of science, the biggest obstacle in finding the truth is not the difficulty in obtaining data but the bias of the investigators on what data to chase and how to interpret them” (409-410).
What if scientific dissenters of consensus views were given a hearing rather than discredited and censored? Duesberg is one such voice and offers something of a warning of utmost relevance in our day. In this well documented book, Duesberg reveals the deception of the NIH, CDC, NIAID, Fauci, etc. which continues today as science becomes increasingly politicized and corrupted by funding and influence from special interest groups, industry, etc. resulting in a deluge of pseudo-science to the detriment of humanity. Will we learn the valuable lessons of this catastrophe and heed Duesberg’s warnings?
“According to the Popperian dictum, a valid scientific hypothesis can ultimately only be strengthened by the challenge of alternative views. On the other hand, ignoring charges of scientific censorship can only work to undermine the public‘s confidence not only in the prevailing scientific view but also in the entire scientific establishment” (John McDonald, as quoted by Duesberg).
At the very least, let us learn that censorship is deadly to true science and prevails only when dogma is to be preserved at the expense of genuine science.
This is a helpful and informative book challenging the official dogma surrounding HIV & AIDS. As with the historical blunders of beriberi, scurvy, pellagra, the SMON fiasco, etc. we may well be living through yet another disaster based on faulty, germ theory presuppositions. Perhaps we would do well to expand our horizons and consider malnutrition and toxicological factors more carefully before decisively implicating bacteria and viruses in disease without sufficient evidence.
What if scientific dissenters of consensus views were given a hearing rather than discredited and censored? Duesberg is one such voice and offers something of a warning of utmost relevance in our day. In this well documented book, Duesberg reveals the deception of the NIH, CDC, NIAID, Fauci, etc. which continues today as science becomes increasingly politicized and corrupted by funding and influence from special interest groups, industry, etc. resulting in a deluge of pseudo-science to the detriment of humanity. Will we learn the valuable lessons of this catastrophe and heed Duesberg’s warnings?
“According to the Popperian dictum, a valid scientific hypothesis can ultimately only be strengthened by the challenge of alternative views. On the other hand, ignoring charges of scientific censorship can only work to undermine the public‘s confidence not only in the prevailing scientific view but also in the entire scientific establishment” (John McDonald, as quoted by Duesberg).
At the very least, let us learn that censorship is deadly to true science and prevails only when dogma is to be preserved at the expense of genuine science.
This is a helpful and informative book challenging the official dogma surrounding HIV & AIDS. As with the historical blunders of beriberi, scurvy, pellagra, the SMON fiasco, etc. we may well be living through yet another disaster based on faulty, germ theory presuppositions. Perhaps we would do well to expand our horizons and consider malnutrition and toxicological factors more carefully before decisively implicating bacteria and viruses in disease without sufficient evidence.
January 26, 2021
This book is as relevant today as it was when it was written in 1996. The AIDS scam has simply been replaced with the COVID 1984 scam and Anthony Fauci has been a lead character in both. The same shady politics, shoddy science, statistical chicanery and big pharma collusion is in play today as it was back then. Peter Duesberg provides a chilling account of what happens when an honest scientist challenges the scientific orthodoxy and how much suffering and death the medical establishment can inflict on a trusting public when such opposition is silenced. Once you read this book, you'll never trust the medical mafia again.
April 7, 2021
Powerful insights into the shenanigans of the NIC and CDC and America’s Public Health Department. Worth a read if you’re interested in medicine or science, because he brings to light how deeply personal and political it gets. Although this was written in the 90’s, and some of his topics are outdated.
March 7, 2009
Simply great.
May 13, 2009
Duesberg makes me angry.
January 2, 2022
I reserved this book through my library system, and thought, as I held this 600 + page book in my hands that I probably would not actually get through it. Well, from the very first page this book is riveting. I would give it more than 5 stars. It takes about 170 pages before it actually gets to AIDS, to set the stage of the scientific environment, mostly from the mid 1800's with the discovery of microbes, to the emergence of AIDS. The world of scientists, so smug, so sure of themselves, and so unwilling to consider possibilities other than those that they advance, mostly, erred in their pronouncements.
The government institutions - the CDC, NIH - can't wait for pandemics to appear. They constantly monitor all breakouts all the time, by their specially trained spies that emerge in all fields of medicine, science and media, that are ready to pronounce deadly fear in society to leave people begging for a vaccine. None of which, of course, actually worked. This book was published in 1996 and could have been published this year. "Science" and the institutions that work for science, have not changed an iota. They are dangerous and ineffective. Fauci, CDC, NIH and federal agencies - out Mengele on genocide. They have a worldwide stage.
As government science institutions sprang up as a result of polio research, science became a race to win the dollars to fund research. Thousands of scientists populated (and still do) scientific institutions at all levels.
I love this quote from page 65. "Yet we cannot find among them the eight modern Galileos, Plancks, Einsteins, Kochs, Pasteurs or Mendels that (these growing numbers of scientists) predict. Increasing number of scientists means many more papers being published in scientific journals, with the publish-or-perish stakes rising constantly. . . Such overgrowth in scientific ranks produces regression to the mean. Competition among large numbers of scientists for one or a few central sources of funding restricts freedom of thought and action to a mean that appeals to the majority. The scientists who is very productive, most able to sell research, and well liked FOR NOT OFFENDING HIS PEERS WITH NEW HYPOTHESES AND IDEAS is selected by his peers for funding. These peers cannot afford a nonconformist, or unpredictable thinker because every new, alternative hypothesis is a potential threat to their own line of research. . . . They act to suppress remaining dissension by the few remaining thoughtful researchers. No scientist welcomes being out-competed or having his pet idea disproved by a colleague." Dissenters "stir the enmity of powerful foes. He fears that reprisals may extend beyond him to his institution. . . In a day when almost all research institutions are highly dependent on federal funds, prudence seems to dictate silence." p. 66 Few scientists are any longer willing to question, even privately, the consensus views in any field.
The CDC has a history of making incorrect medical decisions, and doubling down on them, announcing their "science" cannot be abridged, and shutting out new research and differing views. Most of the what the CDC does is cover its errors, and for not allowing other potential good therapies or scientific perspectives to come to light or even be imagined. Their intractable connection of HIV to AIDS and the war on AIDS, sounds a lot like today: unambiguous findings, scientifically conclusive, no room for alternative hypotheses, drugs tested need not rely on proper controls, ANY ACTIONS TO SLOW THE VIRUS WERE CONSIDERED JUSTIFIABLE, EVEN IF THEY CAUSED HYSTERIA, OR IMPINGED ON CIVIL LIBERTIES. P. 369 - 5 major steps to establish a separate line of public health authority - protects from interference. All public health functions in country under CDC control - all sorts of commissions, push educational programs in schools, bypass resistance from parents, communities, etc. - propaganda machine, epidemic of the century,
mobilizing the nation in a war - if not believe stigmatized with labels, CDC as activist and not researcher, squashed those who suggested lifestyle choices caused the problem, communications media joined in pushing the propaganda - hold on the media to push fear. WHO to push quarantine, mass immunization, restrictions on mass gatherings and travel, save the HIV hypothesis from embarrassing public relations disasters to create illusion of spread, pumping up numbers of cases, doctors intimidated to conceal true statistics. Doctors aware of the HIV=AIDS hypothesis has major problems, but no one want to put their head above the parapet. (387) MEDIA CENSORSHIP, calling other viewpoints irresponsible and pernicious, not based on facts. (389) FAUCI declared Duesberg's ideas were nonsense and complaining that his views received too much publicity - journalists will find access to scientists will diminish if they publish differing views. (389)Articles are first flagged by the NIH. Remains silent to discourage further interest in alternate views. Heightened controversy could backfire on the NIH attracting attention rather than discouraging media interest. (391) Refused to interview Deusberg, or pulled pre-recorded interviews and not aired (Fauci in the background calling media to stop it - AIDS thought control) Censorship in professional literature and papers not considered that suggest HIV not cause of AIDS even though no factual errors or flaws, grants removed denied, dared to question AIDS (one of the pioneers of modern retrovirology) . Top researchers question orthodox views in science as "nonscientific comments powerfully onhow completely science has been turned upside down since it had become totally dependent on funding by NIH. p. 399
AZT drug trials were unblinded from the start. Patients quickly experienced terrible side effects. It was announced that the drug was too good to finish the trials, it should be available to everyone. Intense political pressure to approve an AIDS drug forced the FDA to take shortcuts. It was a drug, brought out from the cupboard, previously rejected because of its toxicity, pushed by very influential virus researchers. Having so many well-connected medical scientists helped swing the political balance in favor of AZT. There was hardly a medical institution left in the country that was not involved and that could have offered an independent second opinion. When so many AZT test subjects died, the it was shrugged it off, suggesting that the miraculous effects somehow wore off after a few months. p. 337
Another drug, without a controlled study or comparing effects to placebo in matched groups. ddl. It can cause fatal damage to the pancreas, and destroy nerves throughout the body. On an experimental basis, doctors began giving ddl to thousands of AIDS patients who could not tolerate AZT. Hundreds of unexplained deaths occurred among these patients, but the FDA managed to quell growing concerns. . 325
Years and years of uncareful studies and administering this awful drug to patients with or without AIDS symptoms, it was found in the mid 1990s that AZT was extremely toxic, actually caused symptoms associated with AIDS infection, and more responsible for the death of patients than the disease itself. "It was not as good a drug as we thought it was." (When it takes 8-10 years to determine this, when will the experts decide that the covid "jab" is not as good a drug as they thought it was?) p. 330-331 "Tony Fauci, you killed our friends." p. 333 AZT was a war on people - pushed by all health agencies combined with manufacturer.
"AZT, known for decades as a failed and toxic cancer chemotherapy, was resurrected for political reasons and rushed through the FDA's fast track approval. One experiment after another, despite flaws, has confirmed the drug's toxicity in humans. The virus hunters bring tremendous political and financial momentum behind each of their projects." p. 335 " With 270,000 dead from AIDS and millions more infected with HIV, you [Fauci] should not be honored at a dinner. He should be put before a firing squad." p. 333 (How did Fauci remain in his position with this, now 40 years later, carrying out the same kinds of damage, when many others heading the studies resigned?)
The government institutions - the CDC, NIH - can't wait for pandemics to appear. They constantly monitor all breakouts all the time, by their specially trained spies that emerge in all fields of medicine, science and media, that are ready to pronounce deadly fear in society to leave people begging for a vaccine. None of which, of course, actually worked. This book was published in 1996 and could have been published this year. "Science" and the institutions that work for science, have not changed an iota. They are dangerous and ineffective. Fauci, CDC, NIH and federal agencies - out Mengele on genocide. They have a worldwide stage.
As government science institutions sprang up as a result of polio research, science became a race to win the dollars to fund research. Thousands of scientists populated (and still do) scientific institutions at all levels.
I love this quote from page 65. "Yet we cannot find among them the eight modern Galileos, Plancks, Einsteins, Kochs, Pasteurs or Mendels that (these growing numbers of scientists) predict. Increasing number of scientists means many more papers being published in scientific journals, with the publish-or-perish stakes rising constantly. . . Such overgrowth in scientific ranks produces regression to the mean. Competition among large numbers of scientists for one or a few central sources of funding restricts freedom of thought and action to a mean that appeals to the majority. The scientists who is very productive, most able to sell research, and well liked FOR NOT OFFENDING HIS PEERS WITH NEW HYPOTHESES AND IDEAS is selected by his peers for funding. These peers cannot afford a nonconformist, or unpredictable thinker because every new, alternative hypothesis is a potential threat to their own line of research. . . . They act to suppress remaining dissension by the few remaining thoughtful researchers. No scientist welcomes being out-competed or having his pet idea disproved by a colleague." Dissenters "stir the enmity of powerful foes. He fears that reprisals may extend beyond him to his institution. . . In a day when almost all research institutions are highly dependent on federal funds, prudence seems to dictate silence." p. 66 Few scientists are any longer willing to question, even privately, the consensus views in any field.
The CDC has a history of making incorrect medical decisions, and doubling down on them, announcing their "science" cannot be abridged, and shutting out new research and differing views. Most of the what the CDC does is cover its errors, and for not allowing other potential good therapies or scientific perspectives to come to light or even be imagined. Their intractable connection of HIV to AIDS and the war on AIDS, sounds a lot like today: unambiguous findings, scientifically conclusive, no room for alternative hypotheses, drugs tested need not rely on proper controls, ANY ACTIONS TO SLOW THE VIRUS WERE CONSIDERED JUSTIFIABLE, EVEN IF THEY CAUSED HYSTERIA, OR IMPINGED ON CIVIL LIBERTIES. P. 369 - 5 major steps to establish a separate line of public health authority - protects from interference. All public health functions in country under CDC control - all sorts of commissions, push educational programs in schools, bypass resistance from parents, communities, etc. - propaganda machine, epidemic of the century,
mobilizing the nation in a war - if not believe stigmatized with labels, CDC as activist and not researcher, squashed those who suggested lifestyle choices caused the problem, communications media joined in pushing the propaganda - hold on the media to push fear. WHO to push quarantine, mass immunization, restrictions on mass gatherings and travel, save the HIV hypothesis from embarrassing public relations disasters to create illusion of spread, pumping up numbers of cases, doctors intimidated to conceal true statistics. Doctors aware of the HIV=AIDS hypothesis has major problems, but no one want to put their head above the parapet. (387) MEDIA CENSORSHIP, calling other viewpoints irresponsible and pernicious, not based on facts. (389) FAUCI declared Duesberg's ideas were nonsense and complaining that his views received too much publicity - journalists will find access to scientists will diminish if they publish differing views. (389)Articles are first flagged by the NIH. Remains silent to discourage further interest in alternate views. Heightened controversy could backfire on the NIH attracting attention rather than discouraging media interest. (391) Refused to interview Deusberg, or pulled pre-recorded interviews and not aired (Fauci in the background calling media to stop it - AIDS thought control) Censorship in professional literature and papers not considered that suggest HIV not cause of AIDS even though no factual errors or flaws, grants removed denied, dared to question AIDS (one of the pioneers of modern retrovirology) . Top researchers question orthodox views in science as "nonscientific comments powerfully onhow completely science has been turned upside down since it had become totally dependent on funding by NIH. p. 399
AZT drug trials were unblinded from the start. Patients quickly experienced terrible side effects. It was announced that the drug was too good to finish the trials, it should be available to everyone. Intense political pressure to approve an AIDS drug forced the FDA to take shortcuts. It was a drug, brought out from the cupboard, previously rejected because of its toxicity, pushed by very influential virus researchers. Having so many well-connected medical scientists helped swing the political balance in favor of AZT. There was hardly a medical institution left in the country that was not involved and that could have offered an independent second opinion. When so many AZT test subjects died, the it was shrugged it off, suggesting that the miraculous effects somehow wore off after a few months. p. 337
Another drug, without a controlled study or comparing effects to placebo in matched groups. ddl. It can cause fatal damage to the pancreas, and destroy nerves throughout the body. On an experimental basis, doctors began giving ddl to thousands of AIDS patients who could not tolerate AZT. Hundreds of unexplained deaths occurred among these patients, but the FDA managed to quell growing concerns. . 325
Years and years of uncareful studies and administering this awful drug to patients with or without AIDS symptoms, it was found in the mid 1990s that AZT was extremely toxic, actually caused symptoms associated with AIDS infection, and more responsible for the death of patients than the disease itself. "It was not as good a drug as we thought it was." (When it takes 8-10 years to determine this, when will the experts decide that the covid "jab" is not as good a drug as they thought it was?) p. 330-331 "Tony Fauci, you killed our friends." p. 333 AZT was a war on people - pushed by all health agencies combined with manufacturer.
"AZT, known for decades as a failed and toxic cancer chemotherapy, was resurrected for political reasons and rushed through the FDA's fast track approval. One experiment after another, despite flaws, has confirmed the drug's toxicity in humans. The virus hunters bring tremendous political and financial momentum behind each of their projects." p. 335 " With 270,000 dead from AIDS and millions more infected with HIV, you [Fauci] should not be honored at a dinner. He should be put before a firing squad." p. 333 (How did Fauci remain in his position with this, now 40 years later, carrying out the same kinds of damage, when many others heading the studies resigned?)
February 2, 2020
Inutilmente utile.
Utile per studenti universitari per imparare ad affinare la mentalità critica. Quando si studia per diventare ricercatori confrontarsi con questi testi è fondamentale. L'ho letto subito dopo la laurea (1998), appena iniziato il PhD perché volevo su quali basi poggiassero le perplessità dell'autore che non era un personaggio qualunque ma uno scienziato affermato (altrimenti non lo avrei nemmeno degnato perché di fuffaroli che parlano del nulla ne abbiamo fin troppi come ben insegna Capanna che parla di OGM).
L'ho affrontato come avrei fatto con un saggio o un articolo scientifico cioè valutando le prove a carico della tesi e le controprove non citate. Segnavo tutti i punti su cui dovevo riflettere, quelli facilmente spiegabili e quelli le cui critiche dell'autore erano del tutto smantellabili. Alla fine del libro soppesando le prove a carico e a discarico, il giudizio è del tutto negativo circa la non sussistenza delle obiezioni sollevate dall'autore: ricordo a tutti che ipotizzava come agente causale un micoplasma invece di un virus (importante perché non si trattava di discutere l'AIDS ma quale fosse l'agente causale).
Sono passati anni da quella lettura e le sue tesi sono state definitivamente accantonate. Questo è il bello della Scienza: le parole stanno a zero se non verifichi le ipotesi validandole con prove non attaccabili. Certo ho buttato via un po di tempo ma è stato come leggere un libro di SF, anche se meno credibile.
Il problema di questi testi ancora oggi circolanti è che mancando di una prefazione aggiornata, la persona non del campo che lo leggesse sedimenterebbe idee totalmente infondate basate sul nulla ... .
Utile per studenti universitari per imparare ad affinare la mentalità critica. Quando si studia per diventare ricercatori confrontarsi con questi testi è fondamentale. L'ho letto subito dopo la laurea (1998), appena iniziato il PhD perché volevo su quali basi poggiassero le perplessità dell'autore che non era un personaggio qualunque ma uno scienziato affermato (altrimenti non lo avrei nemmeno degnato perché di fuffaroli che parlano del nulla ne abbiamo fin troppi come ben insegna Capanna che parla di OGM).
L'ho affrontato come avrei fatto con un saggio o un articolo scientifico cioè valutando le prove a carico della tesi e le controprove non citate. Segnavo tutti i punti su cui dovevo riflettere, quelli facilmente spiegabili e quelli le cui critiche dell'autore erano del tutto smantellabili. Alla fine del libro soppesando le prove a carico e a discarico, il giudizio è del tutto negativo circa la non sussistenza delle obiezioni sollevate dall'autore: ricordo a tutti che ipotizzava come agente causale un micoplasma invece di un virus (importante perché non si trattava di discutere l'AIDS ma quale fosse l'agente causale).
Sono passati anni da quella lettura e le sue tesi sono state definitivamente accantonate. Questo è il bello della Scienza: le parole stanno a zero se non verifichi le ipotesi validandole con prove non attaccabili. Certo ho buttato via un po di tempo ma è stato come leggere un libro di SF, anche se meno credibile.
Il problema di questi testi ancora oggi circolanti è che mancando di una prefazione aggiornata, la persona non del campo che lo leggesse sedimenterebbe idee totalmente infondate basate sul nulla ... .
March 7, 2020
"Ce livre est la pire des machine de guerre dont le but n'est en rien de protéger le faible et l'innocent. Son auteur dont la perversité a depuis longtemps atteint sont comble, n'est autre que le chantre du déni le plus meurtrier et le plus abjecte du nouveau millénaire. Lire ce livre n'est en rien comparable a lire un "Mein Kampf" dont la portée semble éteinte, c'est bien pire encore. C'est à vomir de scepticisme incongru. Voici peut-être une prochaine victime pour l'entarteur fou ou peut-être faudra-t-il inventer un crime d'orgueil."
That's what I thought, four-five years ago. Obviously, today, I know I was wrong. But you wouldn't know how much, I was wrong.
That's what I thought, four-five years ago. Obviously, today, I know I was wrong. But you wouldn't know how much, I was wrong.
August 20, 2009
I thought it was sort of awesome at the time... now I think it's very unconvincing, and the sort of misinformation that people die from (e.g. HIV denial in South Africa)
July 9, 2014
Incredibly powerful. Your views on HIV and AIDS cannot remain after reading this book. Despite being published in 1996, just about everything it says is valid today.
October 18, 2017
AIDS denialist falsehoods from a crook who should be in jail.
January 9, 2022
Well written and documented, this is a must-read, not only to understand AIDS, but also because of its parallels to the current Covid situation.
May 1, 2024
I had heard through the years what I thought was a theory that HIV exists but is not really the cause of AIDS. As I aged and thought about things differently, and especially after the years 2020 through 2022 I decided to search out this book and am I glad I did. I encourage others to do the same as you will not look at The Pandemic Years the same again. This book was published in 1996, written by the brilliant scientist Peter Duesberg. You will learn how the medical community (CDC, NIH, etc) has changed over the years to virus hunters and how that systemic way of thinking has tainted research and promoted too close relationships between government and the drug companies, how in order to get grants scientists must toe the party line. Once I read this, I saw clearly why The Pandemic Years occurred the way they did. You will learn that vaccines did not save mankind, but better hygiene, sewage treatment, and better nutrition occurred right around the time that vaccines began being developed. I understand the author is in advanced years, but were he to update the book, I'd suggest the title to be Inventing the AIDS and COVID Virus. The similarites between the two events is remarkable. Remdesivir vs. AZT comes to mind. Fascinating reading.
March 5, 2025
This book was written in 1996 and I expected a lot of outdated information, but found it to be totally relevant. The same good-ole-boy, insestuous pharma/CDC/NIH relationships that are present now were present then. 'The Science' that is controlling studies, funding, and official dogma now, was controlling pure scientific research then. At least one name is persistent throughout the decades. It is tragic that this could not get traction before so much time has passed. Other associated reading: The Real AIDS Epidemic- R. Cutshaw, Blind Spots-M. Makary. More technical testing, etc. (Real AIDS Epidemic) with increasing logical gaps in the theory cost careers now, and then. I look at this story through dual lenses--that of a freshly-minted, idealistic MD with absolute trust in 'science' provided by the authorities vs. a wizened, post-covid medical skeptic. This seems to be too far gone with too much money spent, and too powerful a support structure.
July 6, 2023
AIDS
- Select a group of individuals who are being affected by a series of diseases (homosexuals, drug addicts, 90% men)
- Blame it on a virus called HIV (1984 press conference declaring HIV causes AIDS x Robert Gallo) without mediating peer-review.
- In the presence of HIV, 30 pre-existing diseases become symptoms of AIDS
- Begin treatment with AZT which depresses the immune system and causes the same symptoms as AIDS. Most patients die after a few months or years.
COVID
- Select a series of individuals who are mostly affected by the same ailments (flu)
- Invent a virus using a computer program and use a rigged lab test to misdiagnose it (PCR). In the presence of a positive, all flu symptoms become covid symptoms.
- Begin iatrogenic treatment (ventilators, no autopsies) and immunization with mRNA vaccines that cause more damage to the population.
- Select a group of individuals who are being affected by a series of diseases (homosexuals, drug addicts, 90% men)
- Blame it on a virus called HIV (1984 press conference declaring HIV causes AIDS x Robert Gallo) without mediating peer-review.
- In the presence of HIV, 30 pre-existing diseases become symptoms of AIDS
- Begin treatment with AZT which depresses the immune system and causes the same symptoms as AIDS. Most patients die after a few months or years.
COVID
- Select a series of individuals who are mostly affected by the same ailments (flu)
- Invent a virus using a computer program and use a rigged lab test to misdiagnose it (PCR). In the presence of a positive, all flu symptoms become covid symptoms.
- Begin iatrogenic treatment (ventilators, no autopsies) and immunization with mRNA vaccines that cause more damage to the population.
September 15, 2020
I’m sure there are many who want to burn/ban this book, which is why I’m giving it 4/5 and not 3/5.
The first half of the book was solid and great. I loved the examples he used of instances where viruses and other suspected pathogens were blamed for diseases that were not of an infectious nature. He also teaches you about Koch’s postulates and other famous experiences in microbiology.
Then he goes on to list multiple instances where the establishment can very quickly polarize into group think that goes against the scientific method and how popularizing science has become something akin to news reporting. All very good
Second half is boring.. anecdotal evidence and melodrama about his life.
That’s it
Would recommend for undergrad microbiology students
The first half of the book was solid and great. I loved the examples he used of instances where viruses and other suspected pathogens were blamed for diseases that were not of an infectious nature. He also teaches you about Koch’s postulates and other famous experiences in microbiology.
Then he goes on to list multiple instances where the establishment can very quickly polarize into group think that goes against the scientific method and how popularizing science has become something akin to news reporting. All very good
Second half is boring.. anecdotal evidence and melodrama about his life.
That’s it
Would recommend for undergrad microbiology students
August 16, 2021
An absolute must read in 2021, a stark reminder of the issues in Germ Theory and the behaviour of Microbe Hunters and their "science". This book will also introduce you to our friend Anthony Fauci and his skills as a censor.
May 31, 2024
Interesting question on why no more research regarding poppers/drugs and AZT, and their contribution to aids. Author feels a little butthurt but this is a good overall explanation of how aids was/wasn’t studied in the beginning years.
August 18, 2017
Well written, but like a lawyer's plea has guile, ignorance and skill
May 20, 2023
Questioning Fauci before questioning Fauci was the cool thing to do.
Want to read
January 10, 2025Rogan Gibson
July 21, 2025
One of the best nonfiction books I've read in years. Duesberg is a hero of science & prophet w/o honor.
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October 4, 2023I'm not going to pretend this isn't one of the most fascinating books I've ever read.
Whether Duesberg is right or not of course is a separate question.
Whether Duesberg is right or not of course is a separate question.
January 21, 2022
Per certi versi andrebbe letto proprio in questo momento per dare un peso alla presunta controinformazione. La lettura attuale fa anche abbastanza sorridere per gli evidenti errori che vengono negati o minimizzati. Non so comunque se il finale noto valga il tempo di lettura.
December 11, 2008
Dr. Peter Duesberg claims that HIV does not cause AIDS. Instead, he says that AIDS is caused by chemical factors and malnutrition. HIV is a harmless passenger retrovirus. The author is hard to dismiss since he is a professor of molecular and cellular biology at UC Berkley, was inducted to the National Academy of Sciences, is an expert in retrovirus research, and was one of the first scientists to discover cancer genes.
March 9, 2008
the introductory chapters are very interesting. after that it is more of a rant.
Currently reading
August 6, 2008A must read for anyone who has HIV/AIDS
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