Gallo and Dr. Fauci originally claimed that HIV causes immunodeficiency by killing CD4+ T-cells. But even the most faithful acolytes no longer believe that HIV kills T-cells in any way. Instead, they make what might seem to an outsider like a desperate pitch, that HIV primes T-cells to commit mass suicide at some later date. Dr. Fauci’s followers have advanced this “Jim Jones” hypothesis to explain the lack of evidence for any cell-killing mechanism that can be attributed to HIV. Duesberg laughs at this explanation: “No virus has ever behaved that way.” “There are many shortcomings in the
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