In a brazen move to explain away the anomaly of AIDS without HIV, Dr. Fauci declared that the unexplained AIDS cases represented a new disease. To avoid suspicion that his “new disease” was, after all, CFS, Dr. Fauci labeled his discovery “idiopathic CD4+ lymphocytopenia,” or “ICL.” In this tongue-twister, “idiopathic” means “of unknown source.” It might also have been Dr. Fauci’s ironic play on the word “idiot.” But such was his wizardry that everyone just swallowed it without questions. The press meekly nodded at his circular reasoning like religious zealots jotting down the words of an
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