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November 14, 2023 - May 11, 2024
Former epidemiological director of WHO, Professor James Chin, in his 2006 book, The AIDS Pandemic: The Collision of Epidemiology and Political Correctness, admits unambiguously that the AIDS case figures for developing countries were massively manipulated in order to maintain the flow of billions of dollars.46
“The African epidemic looks suspiciously nothing like the American and European epidemic, and closer inspection reveals it likely that this African epidemic is pure fabrication.”48
WHO maintains twelve different descriptions of AIDS, depending on national boundaries.
Many US AIDS sufferers can become “cured” by crossing the border into Canada. No other disease is so subject to this sort of nationalism.
Scientists were shocked to learn for the first time that Gallo had found faint traces of HIV in only twenty-six of the seventy-two AIDS patients whose blood he examined. That weak conclusion was Gallo’s only basis for claiming that HIV might cause AIDS.
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A year earlier, Dr. Luc Montagnier also had only suggested—in his May 1983 paper in Science—that his claimed virus “may be involved in several pathological syndromes, including AIDS.”52 Montagnier, a brilliant scientist known for his integrity, had found evidence of HIV in the lymph nodes of 72 percent of the forty-four AIDS patients he tested. Montagnier always remained tentative about claiming the weak correlation as proof. As early as 1992, Montagnier told Nature that “HIV is a necessary but not, without the cofactor, a sufficient cause of AIDS.”53 As we shall see, Montagnier’s later
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Dr. Fauci has since routinely claimed that HIV was “proven definitively to be the cause of AIDS by Bob Gallo here when he was at NIH.”55 But critics argue that evidence in Gallo’s article is far too anemic to support Dr. Fauci’s characterization.
In September 1989, Dr. Fauci broadcast an angry threat about journalists who dared to give a platform to Peter Duesberg.
Journalists who have made too many mistakes or who are sloppy are going to find that their access to scientists may diminish.”56
Dr. Fauci must have understood that his reliance on blood tests alone was likely to yield highly dubious results capable of dramatically overstating the spread of HIV.57
All this new equipment made science expensive—too expensive to perform without financial support from Big Pharma and Big Government.
Finance dictated the direction of research and—too often—warped its conclusions.
Harvard’s Jim Watson, who won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for discovering the molecular structure of DNA, fretted that the “gold rush” mentality was likely to “scare off the sensible and leave the field to a combination of charlatans and fools.”58
“HIV has never been isolated, for which reason its nucleic acids cannot be used in PCR virus load test as the standard for giving evidence of HIV”70 (“Misdiagnosis of HIV infections by HIV-1 viral load testing: a case series,” a 1999 paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine).71
A September 6, 1992 Newsweek article94 by Geoffrey Cowley asked “AIDS or Chronic Fatigue?” Though Cowley took some heat for the article, he was merely voicing the quiet suspicion among many of Dr. Fauci’s own PIs that “non-HIV AIDS” was actually CFS, and that CFS was simply another name for AIDS when it occurred in heterosexuals who tested negative for HIV. “As more cases come to light,” Cowley observed, “it’s becoming clear that the newly defined syndrome has as much in common with CFS as it does with AIDS.”95
PubMed: The NIH official peer-review archives]
Koch’s first postulate also requires that the suspected pathogen should only be found in sick individuals, and never in healthy individuals.
The Problem with Isolating the Virus Koch’s second postulate is that the virus can be isolated from an ill individual and made to grow in pure culture. Highly respected scientists including Éttienne de Harven argued that HIV has never been isolated or grown in pure culture. Both Montagnier and Gallo have periodically acknowledged this deficiency.111
No one has tried injecting HIV into a healthy human being, but scientists have stuck all kinds of mice and rats and monkeys and chimpanzees, and none of them got anything resembling human AIDS.
It is especially baffling that AIDS does not spread to prostitutes except those who use intravenous drugs.135,136
In 2002, Dr. Bruce Evatt, CDC’s director of the Division of Hematology, lamented that the CDC went to the public with statements for which there was “almost no evidence. We did not have proof it was a contagious agent.”140
Kary Mullis’s Dancing Naked in the Mind Field.
Dr. Fauci’s strategy has been to exercise his frightening capacity to silence dissent and mangle reputations. History may credit him as the progenitor—even the inventor—of cancel culture.
Over the years, Dr. Fauci has deflected and evaded scientific debate and transformed theories into quasireligious dogma, punishing and silencing dissent the way the Inquisition punished heresy. America’s Doctor has never given the American taxpayers—or AIDS sufferers, 53 percent of whom are, in the United States, people of color—proof that AZT or its successive antivirals provide beneficial impacts on mortality. It seems fair, if not dangerous, to ask for that proof.
It is widely believed by the general public that a retrovirus called HIV causes a group of diseases called AIDS. Many biomedical scientists now question this hypothesis. We propose a thorough reappraisal of the existing evidence for and against this hypothesis, to be conducted by a suitable independent group. We further propose that the critical epidemiological studies be devised and undertaken.2,3
Every research scientist was aware of the Nobel committee’s bias toward breakthroughs that boosted Pharma’s profit potentials.
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Such scathing rebuffs infuriated Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis. In 2004, he said,
lives have been totally ruined on the basis of some flimsy little statement made by a guy who’s known to be a crook in lots of other ways. He lied about a whole lot of other stuff. Why are we trusting him? If he was a witness in a courtroom, we wouldn’t trust his testimony. We’ve caught him in too many lies. [We] don’t trust him anymore.”52
Among Dr. Fauci’s skeptics were numerous Nobel laureates, including geneticist Barbara McClintock and chemist Walter Gilbert, who added their voices to the chorus complaining about the lack of scientific proof supporting the HIV/AIDS hypothesis, and the inability or unwillingness of health officials to answer fundamental questions.
Mullis, one of the most significant Nobel laureates of the twentieth century, died in 2019. “People keep asking me,” he explained in 1994, “‘You mean you don’t believe that HIV causes AIDS?’ And I say, ‘Whether I believe it or not is irrelevant! I have no scientific evidence for it!’55 If there is proof that HIV is the cause of AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There is no such document.”56
Duesberg’s most surprising convert was Luc Montagnier, the man who first discovered the virus.
“HIV might be benign.”58 Montagnier was the father of the AIDS theory.
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“Science costs money and he who dispenses the money can control the science.”
Duesberg and many who have followed him offered evidence that heavy recreational drug use in gay men and drug addicts was the real cause of immune deficiency among the first generation of AIDS sufferers. They argued that the initial signals of AIDS, Kaposi’s sarcoma and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), were both strongly linked to amyl nitrite—“poppers”—a popular drug among promiscuous gays.63
ubiquitous
On average, the early AIDS patients had been on at least three antibiotics courses in the year preceding diagnosis.64
The medical literature attests to the ravaging effects of heroin, morphine, speed, cocaine, and other injected drugs on the immune system: “From as early as 1909 evidence has accumulated that addiction to psychoactive drugs leads to immune suppression (clinical autoimmunity), similar to AIDS.”67
How can AIDS be so evidently new, when viruses and homosexuality are as old as history?70 Recreational drugs, according to Durack, should be considered as causes: “They are widely used in the large cities where most of these cases have occurred. Perhaps as suggested one or more of these recreational drugs is an immunosuppressive agent.” Durack observed that, other than drug-using homosexuals, the only patients with AIDS symptoms were “junkies.”71
Lauritsen and many leading medical researchers and government health officials concluded early in the epidemic that poppers were the lead culprit. Chemists developed amyl nitrite as a vasodilator in the 1850s and began, in the 1960s, packaging it in glass ampules that doctors would pop open under the noses of unconscious patients to reanimate them. That same mechanism that prompted reanimation provided the relaxation of the anal musculature and a powerful rush that made poppers the reigning sex drug.
Researchers believe poppers to be the direct cause of Kaposi’s sarcoma, a rare form of skin cancer that afflicts the nose, throat, lungs, and skin.77 Kaposi’s sarcoma was the initial indicator disease of AIDS, but it was also common in gay men who were not infected with HIV.
Poppers can severely damage the immune system, genes, lungs, liver, heart, or the brain; they can produce neural damage similar to that of multiple sclerosis, can have carcinogenic effects, and can lead to “sudden sniffing death.”78
Prior to Gallo’s announcement, CDC had targeted poppers as the likely culprit for AIDS.
