A good summary...( the elusive HIV virus... )

[Guest guest]

A third truth told at the DDP meeting is this: HIV is not the cause

of AIDS. Sounds outrageous? Read " The chemical bases of the various

AIDS epidemics: recreational drugs, anti-viral chemotherapy and

malnutrition " (2003), by Duesberg, Claus Koehnlein, and

Rasnick; and " The AIDS dilemma: drug diseases blamed on a passenger

virus " (1998), by Duesberg and Rasnick. Read these studies with an

open mind and I think you will agree that this shocking statement

will very likely prove to be true. Drs. Duesberg and Rasnick are

both professors of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of

California, Berkeley. (Dr. Duesberg isolated the first cancer gene

in his work with retroviruses.) Dr. Rasnick gave the talk on this

subject at the meeting in Phoenix.

AIDS is a government-identified and defined disease. Twenty-three

years ago the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that a

growing number of male homosexuals and intravenous (IV) drug users

were experiencing a mysterious epidemic of diseases, which included

several odd types of pneumonia, a rare malignant tumor called

Kaposi's sarcoma, lymphoma, dementia, tuberculosis, weight loss

(anorexia), fever, diarrhea, etc. Officials at the CDC called the

epidemic " AIDS " (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), which this

agency now defines as comprising 26 different diseases. From 1981–

2001 AIDS has afflicted 800,000 people in the US, 250,000 in Europe,

and (?) 1,000,000 in Africa. In this country, it strikes young male

homosexuals (66% of all AIDS cases), male and female IV drug users

(32% of all AIDS cases, 75% of them male), hemophiliacs and other

transfusion recipients (1%), and children borne to drug-addicted

mothers (1%).

In 1984, government researchers proposed that a sexually

transmittable virus ( " AIDS-virus " ), now called HIV (human

immunodeficiency virus), is the cause of AIDS. In the US and Europe,

a person must have a positive HIV test (antibodies to the virus) to

be diagnosed as having AIDS, along with one of the AIDS-defined

diseases, or, since 1993, a low T cell count (T cells are one of the

types of cells that make up our immune system) in an otherwise

healthy person with no diseases. But people in Africa can be

diagnosed as having AIDS without needing to have an HIV test, based

on a ruling by the World Health Organization. Anyone in Africa who

gets pneumonia, for example, is classified as having " AIDS. "

Over the last 20 years the US government has carried out a program

to eradicate the HIV virus that has engaged the efforts of more than

100,000 government-funded doctors and scientists and has cost the US

taxpayer to date more than $100 billion. There is growing evidence,

however, that the premise upon which this program is founded is

wrong.

The establishment view that " HIV causes AIDS and is sexually

transmitted " is flawed. This hypothesis fails to account for 17

important facts about the HIV virus and AIDS, which, as Drs.

Duesberg and Rasnick have shown, casts serious doubt on the validity

of this hypothesis. One of these 17 facts is this: Only 1 in 1000

unprotected sexual contacts transmits HIV, and since only 1 in 275

US citizens has antibodies to this virus, the average uninfected

person would need to have 275,000 random unprotected " sexual

contacts " to get HIV. Another fact: According to the HIV-AIDS

hypothesis, HIV causes immunodeficiency by killing T cells; but T

cells grown in test tubes that are infected with HIV don't die. They

thrive and produce the large quantities of HIV virus that

laboratories need to detect antibodies to this virus in a person's

blood. The actual virus (not just antibodies to it) is extremely

hard to find inside a person's body. It infects less than 1 in every

500 T cells. For these and other reasons, there is a growing body of

evidence that makes the HIV-AIDS hypothesis untenable. In people

with AIDS-defining diseases and HIV, it would appear that the

elusive HIV virus just goes along for the ride, seated in some of

the body's T cells. This retrovirus is not the pilot of the AIDS

airplane.

If HIV is not the cause of AIDS, then what is? Dr. Rasnick presented

strong evidence in support of the hypothesis that AIDS is caused by

three things, singly or in combination: 1) long-term recreational

drug use (cocaine, heroin, nitrite inhalants, and amphetamines); 2)

the anti-viral drugs (DNA chain terminators, like AZT, and protease

inhibitors) that doctors prescribe to people who are HIV positive;

and 3) especially in Africa, malnutrition (and lack of drinkable

water). The noninfectious chemical bases for AIDS is supported by a

lot of important data, facts like this one: HIV-positive people

treated with anti-viral drugs have an annual mortality rate of 6.6–

8.7 %, compared with an annual mortality of 1.4 % in HIV-positive

people who refuse treatment with anti-viral drugs.

When asked what the best book to read on this subject was, Dr.

Rasnick said it is Inventing the AIDS Virus, by Duesberg, with

a Forward by Kary Mullis. (Dr. Mullis won the Nobel Prize in 1993

for his invention of the Polymerase Chain Reaction for copying

fragments of DNA.)