Why HIV does not cause AIDS:
1. HIV is a very inactive retrovirus, not infecting sufficient cells to cause
disease.
2. Retroviruses do not kill the cells they invade, but depend upon them for
survival. (HIV is cultivated in immortal T4 cells in vitro for use in
research. Why then should it kill the cells in vivo?)
3. HIV is very difficult to transmit, sexually or otherwise. Not one case of
a health care worker has been documented as getting infected by a patient.
It is estimated that up to 1000 contacts must be made sexually with a person
carrying HIV for it to be transmitted. There are many cases of lovers or
husbands/wives where one is HIV+ and the other is HIV- and they have had
unprotected sex for a decade or more without transmitting the virus from one
to the other.
4. HIV does not follow any known epidemiological pattern for either a
sexually transmitted disease or any other known disease.
5. AIDS has essentially not moved outside the original high risk groups in
over a decade of the so-called "epidemic." which would indicate that it must
be something inherent in the lifestyles of those who are becoming ill.
6. HIV does not fulfill Koch's postulates. The chimpanzees inoculated with
the disease over a decade ago are still healthy.
Not all cases of AIDS are infected with HIV, etc.
7. HIV is distributed in the population according to Farr's Law, indicating
that it is a very old retrovirus. The number of HIV+ Americans has been
fixed at around 1 million. It has not proven to be pathogenic in this
population, but for some mysterious reason is supposed to become a "deadly
virus" in the high risk groups.
8. The AIDS hypothesis is ludicrous on its face. We are supposed to believe
that this tiny organism causes 29 different diseases. The theory is that
first it creates an immune deficiency and the "opportunistic" diseases
follow. However, many of the so-called indicator diseases are caused neither
by HIV nor by an impaired immune system, e.g. dementia, Kaposi's Sarcoma,
cervical cancer,
etc.
9. Infectious diseases account for only about 1% of all deaths from disease
in the advanced nations of the world. It is very unlikely that this
retrovirus could cause a "pandemic" when no other such catastrophes are
taking place. The populations of the advanced countries are living longer
and are healthier than any time in history. The HIV "epidemic" runs counter
to this trend. The last great viral outbreak was with polio.
10. Pathogens show no preference for people with different personalities. If
HIV were a pathogen, it would have migrated out of the high risk groups,
particularly the gay male population because a large portion of gay males
also cross over to have sex with the opposite sex.
11. Prostitutes have not become infected, and are not dying of AIDS,
although many of them do not use condoms.
12. In spite of a huge campaign to get gay men to wear condoms, they are not
doing it. Only a small percentage use them. If HIV were a highly infectious
pathogen and the cause of AIDS, the number of AIDS cases should be going up,
and, in fact, they are going down.
13. HIV is said to be a slow virus (i.e. a lentivirus) that only becomes
pathogenic after many years (7,10 14?). Slow viruses probably do not exist
according to Peter Duesberg. There is no mechanism in HIV to cause it to
become pathogenic after those numbers of years. The whole proposition is
absurd.
Fred Cline, San Francisco
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