Gallo’s newly discovered pathogen was “partnering” with HIV, then HHV6 was the senior partner in the collaboration. I can’t help wondering if it occurred then to Gallo that if only he had not impetuously stolen Montagnier’s discovery four years earlier, he might have collected his long-sought Nobel for his own authentic discovery of a much more plausible AIDS virus. Alas, it was not to be. But Dr. Fauci had committed his agency to the HIV hypothesis. And Gallo had built his career on HIV—even if he stole it from Montagnier, says Charles Ortleb. “When Gallo began that battle with Fauci,” says
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