"The HIV
establishment and its journalist allies have replied to various specific
criticisms of the HIV theory without taking them seriously. They have never
provided an authoritative paper that undertakes to prove that HIV really is the
cause of AIDS.... After ten years of failure, it is time to take a second
look."
-Charles A. Thomas, Jr., Kary B. Mullis,
and Phillip E. Johnson
(qtd. in Atwan)
A homosexual male exits the HIV/AIDS testing center
with a pale and sick look on his face. He has just been told that he is HIV
positive. Due to the statement that is taken as fact in the media, "HIV
causes AIDS," he takes his being HIV positive as a death sentence. This
happens every day in the United States and the reaction is virtually the same
across the board.
In an article called "What Causes AIDS?
It's an Open Question," a trio of doctors of scientists, Charles A.
Thomas, Kary B. Mullis and Phillip E. Johnson, try to prove that HIV is not the
cause of AIDS and that there is another cause of AIDS out there somewhere, but
the scientific community continues to ignore the possibility (Thomas-1995). It
has been proven that HIV does have something to do with causing AIDS. The
majority of AIDS patients that also have HIV cannot be ignored. HIV is however
not the only cause of AIDS. This is proven by the thousands of AIDS victims
that do not have HIV. It is widely assumed by nearly everyone in the world that
HIV is the only cause of AIDS. It is puzzling, however, that this is believed,
because there has never been any solid evidence to say that this is true and
there has not been a single paper written that proves that this is true.
Scientists need to stop basing all of their research on something that may not
be valid in the first place. They need to find proof that HIV is the only cause
of AIDS before they can research a way to prevent it. Dr. Charles Thomas,
molecular biologist and former Harvard and Johns Hopkins professor says,
"I feel that for scientists to remain silent in the face of all this doubt
is tantamount to criminal negligence" (Thomas-1994).
It is widely known that, before looking for a
cure for a disease or virus, in this case, it should be solidly proven that the
disease or virus is doing all of the damage that is trying to be evaded. There
has never been any research or experiments done to show that HIV is the only
cause of AIDS. The only evidence that is offered is correlation. In an article
by biochemist Charles A. Thomas, Jr., who is the president of the Helicon
Foundation in San Diego and secretary of the Group for the Scientific
Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis; Kary B. Mullis, who won the 1993 Nobel
Prize in chemistry for inventing the "polymerase chain reaction"
technique for detecting DNA, which is used to search for fragments of HIV in
AIDS patients; and Phillip E. Johnson, who is the Jefferson E. Peyser Professor
of Law at the University of California, Berkeley (qtd. in Atwan):
The correlation
is imperfect at best, however. There are many cases of persons with all the
symptoms of AIDS who do not have any HIV infection. There are also many cases
of persons who have been infected by HIV for more than a decade and show no
signs of illness (qtd. in Atwan).
Despite all of this evidence, there are no
scientists stopping their research to prove that HIV is the only cause of AIDS,
and instead of responding to the argument against the HIV/AIDS hypothesis,
scientists are ignoring it. Before scientists go any further in looking for a
cure for HIV or AIDS, they need to prove that HIV is the only cause of AIDS in
the first place. If HIV is not the only cause of AIDS, billions of tax dollars,
years of research, and millions of lives may have been wasted, because pompous
scientists have refused to admit that they were wrong. Why is it that
scientists continue to ignore this argument? It's not as if all of these
doctors and scientists are trying to disprove the fact that smoking causes lung
cancer. Even with lung cancer, there is more than one possible cause. All that
this side of the argument wants is evidence that what we are spending so much
time and money on is true.
One might ask just why there is reason to
believe that HIV isn't the only cause of AIDS. So far, it has been shown that
there is no evidence that HIV is the only cause of AIDS, but there is a large
amount of evidence showing that HIV is not the only cause of AIDS. According to
the scientific community, HIV breaks down the immune system, and when combined
with a disease, such as tuberculosis, becomes AIDS. Without the immune system
to fight off tuberculosis, the victim dies.
According to Dr. Peter Duesberg, who is the
professor of molecular biology at the University of California at Berkely, and
one of the world's experts on retroviruses, which, according to the scientific
community, is what HIV is, "Every
virus I've ever seen gets its job done by killing a cell at a time and when it
has killed enough, you get sick. HIV is said to be responsible for the loss of T-cells,
which are the immune system. Now, in every AIDS patient studied so far, there
is never more than, on average, one in 1,000 cells infected by HIV"
(Guccione). If such little effect is done by HIV, and AIDS still exists, there
must be some other cause.
The only evidence that the supporters of the
HIV/AIDS hypothesis have is correlation. The correlation is that the majority
of AIDS victims also have HIV. Unless all victims of AIDS also have HIV, it is
impossible for HIV to be the only cause of AIDS. The correlation that they
offer as evidence does not even seem to begin to prove that HIV is the only
cause of AIDS. According to Duesberg:
"There are a
million Americans with HIV who are totally healthy. There are six million
Africans according to the World Health Organization who have HIV; 129,000 had
AIDS by the end of last year, that means five million, eight hundred and so
many thousand had no AIDS. Half a million Europeans have HIV and 60,000 have
AIDS. So there are millions and millions of people on this planet who have [HIV
but] no AIDS-why don't seven-and-a-half million get autoimmune disease if HIV
is the cause of an autoimmune disease?" (Guccione)
If HIV is doing
so little to affect the immune system and plays such a small part in creating
AIDS, there has to be some other cause.
The interviewer in this particular article then
stated, "Well, the establishment says that everybody with HIV will develop
AIDS and it's just a matter of time" (Guccione). Duesberg replies:
"In the last
ten years this has happened in America to about 20 percent of people with HIV,
250,000 [including deaths to date] out of a million. But the people who are
dying from AIDS are hardly ever your all-American friends of 20 to 40 years of
age: Virtually all heterosexual Americans and Europeans who had AIDS are
intravenous drug users. And the homosexuals who get AIDS had hundreds if not
thousands of sexual contacts. That is not achieved with your conventional
testosterone. It is achieved with chemicals. Those are the risk groups, they
inhale poppers, they use amphetamines, they take Quaaludes, they take amyl
nitrite, they take cocaine as aphrodisiacs." (Guccione)
There are many more people that are out to
prove that HIV is not the only cause of AIDS. According to Thomas, Mullis and
Johnson:
There are at
least three reasons for doubting the official theory that HIV causes AIDS.
First, after spending billions of dollars, HIV researchers are still unable to
explain how HIV, a conventional retrovirus with a very simple genetic
organization, damages the immune system, much less how to stop it.... Second,
in the absence of any agreement about how HIV causes AIDS, the only evidence
that HIV does cause AIDS is correlation.... Third, predictions based on the HIV
theory have failed spectacularly.... The number of HIV infected Americans has
remained constant for years instead of increasing rapidly as predicted, which
suggests that HIV is an old virus that has been with us for centuries without
causing an epidemic (qtd. in Atwan).
All of these
statistics are working against the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. It is startling to
believe that the scientific community could be so stubborn to still believe
that HIV is the only cause of AIDS. Not only do they still believe this, but they
have still not set out to prove it.
The only argument that I have seen that set out
to prove that HIV is the only cause of AIDS had almost no solid evidence, and
the only worthwhile part of the whole paper compared not believing that HIV
causes AIDS to not believing that smoking can lead to lung cancer. It offered
the correlation of 90% of lung cancer victims being smokers (Harris). That
still leaves 10% of lung cancer that is not caused by smoking. Even in lung
cancer, with an overwhelming number of victims being smokers, there has to be a
second cause. With AIDS, the majority of patients also have HIV, but there are
still thousands of AIDS patients that don't have HIV (Thomas-1994). That means
that something else must have caused their AIDS. Before the scientific
community goes any further in finding a cure for HIV, AIDS or how to prevent
them, they have to find out what the other causes of AIDS are. There are
billions of people around the world that are uneducated as to what all of the
causes of AIDS are and how to prevent all forms of AIDS.
Scientists have hardly even acknowledged that
there is an argument against the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. The fact is that until
this argument is disproven, or until the scientific community changes their
hypothesis, this argument is not simply going to go away. There is too much
support for it. There are thousands of doctors, everyday people, and scientists
that believe that there is a strong argument against the HIV/AIDS hypothesis.
They believe that the scientific community, before directing their research at
finding a cure for HIV or AIDS, needs to direct their research at finding what
all of the causes of AIDS are in the first place.
The problem working against this argument is
that it has almost no support in the televised media. The reason for this is
that ever since Robert Gallo, the originator of the HIV/AIDS hypothesis
announced that HIV causes AIDS, it has been assumed to be true and has been
assumed that contracting HIV is the only way to get AIDS (Thomas-1994). The
media and the scientific community thinks that it is completely absurd to think
otherwise.
The media and the scientific community need to
realize that they probably are (or at least could be) wrong about the HIV/AIDS
hypothesis. If they find out the truth about what all of the causes of AIDS
are, they will then be able to direct their research at a possible cure for
AIDS that has eluded the scientific community for years.
Works Cited
Guccione, Bob,
Jr. "AIDS: Words from the Front." Spin Sept. 1993.
Harris, Stephen
B., M.D. "The AIDS Heresies." 1994. Online Posting. Address:
http://www.skeptic.com/03.2.harris-aids.html.
Thomas, Charles
A., M.D. "Rethinking AIDS Home Page." April 1994. Online posting from
Penthouse magazine.
Thomas, Charles
A., M.D., Jr, Kary B. Mullis and Phillip E. Johnson. "What Causes AIDS?
It's an Open Question." Reason. Atwan, Robert. Our Times. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press,
1995.
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