I got a hold of an interesting article, one which I will summarize briefly. Don't necessarily take it as the gospel truth; even I don't know quite what to think about it. I'm posting this only to provoke a serious discussion.
There is a minority of scientists who challenge the prevalent theory that HIV causes AIDS. These scientists have existed since the early 1980s, having never believed the HIV / AIDS connection theory, crafted by U.S. government cancer virologist, Richard Gallo. This theory, summed up, says that the retrovirus, HIV, causes AIDS by systematically attacking and destroying the human immune system. Death results from opportunistic infections that result from not having an immune system.
However, some equally prominent researchers--Dr. Peter Duesberg, a chemist and retroviral expert who discovered the oncogene (cancer gene) and isolated the retroviral genome in 1970; Dr. David Rasnick, a protease specialist and a 20-year AIDS researcher; and Dr. Rodney Richards, a chemist who designed the first HIV tests from Gallo's HIV cell line--have some widely differing and highly controversial opinions to the contrary.
Here is a summary of their opinions--which I must reemphasize, are not necessarily my own:
--Retroviruses, of which HIV is part of, are not toxic to cells. In 50 years of research, no retrovirus has ever been shown to kill cells or cause disease, except under special laboratory conditions. Retroviruses are RNA strands that can be passed between mother and child, but are not sexually transmitted, no matter how many lab animals mated. Babies, however, have the same retroviruses as their mothers. Retroviruses are simply naturally occurring, innocuous viruses that are in everyone.
--HIV has never been found in human blood; only an enzyme called "reverse transcriptase." While it is a sign of possible retroviral activity, it is also found in many other microbes, cellular components, and processes, including umbilical cells and forced replication in laboratory environments. It was under a forced replication environment that "reverse transcriptase" was associated with HIV and AIDS, but no virus was found.
--Gallo used a T-cell line to grow HIV--despite belief that HIV is supposed to kill T-cells. These cell lines are nicknamed "immortal cell lines," because HIV never kills them. To date, no researcher has demonstrated how HIV kills T-cells.
--The FDA has never approved a test for HIV detection, despite the existence of several to diagnose the disease. However, medical literature lists at least 60 different conditions that can register positive on the HIV-test, including candidas (naturally-occurring fungi in the human body), arthritis, parasites, malaria, liver conditions, alcoholism, drug abuse, flue, herpes, syphilis, other STDs and pregnancy. Different races have differently occurring antibodies, with blacks having a nine times greater chance of testing positive than whites and a 33% greater chance than Asians.
--AIDS is diagnosed if you have an AIDS-indicator disease like salmonella, tuberculosis, pneumonia, herpes, or a yeast infection, and you test HIV positive. You are then treated with AIDS drugs. If you have these diseases and test negative, you are treated with drugs to treat the specific diseases.
--In 1993, the CDC expanded the AIDS definition to include people who are not sick at all and have a one time T-cell count of less than 200. By 1997, 2/3 of all AIDS cases were in otherwise healthy people.
--AIDS in Africa is caused by rampantly poor living conditions. Fifty percent of Africans have no sewage systems, and their drinking water mixes with animal and human waste. Tuberculosis and malaria are rampant, with the symptoms being diarrhea and weight loss--the same criteria to diagnose AIDS.
--AIDS drugs are the cause of death of many patients. 94% of AIDS-related deaths in the U.S. have occurred after the introduction of AZT and the #1 cause of death for AIDS patients, according to the University of Pittsburgh, is liver failure, a side effect of the new protease inhibitors. The rest die, due to their "opportunistic infections" not being treated.
--In 1994, Gallo quietly announced that the major AIDS defining illness in gay men--the skin cancer, Kaposi's Sarcoma--was not caused by HIV, but was likely caused by amyl nitrate "poppers," a popular and legal drug used as a muscle relaxant during anal sex. (Most interestingly, in the last year or two, poppers have been suspected to be connected to AIDS under the theory that it suppresses the immune system, leaving one open to sexual transmission of HIV infection.) Gallo also amended his AIDS beliefs that it is not a death sentence. He believes that one can live with HIV "for 30 years until you die of old age," as long as you live a healthy lifestyle and avoid immune-compromising substances.
Okay, like I said, I don't know what to think of this. Maybe it's the ravings of madmen or maybe they're right. I don't know. What they do make is a fairly interesting case--assuming that their opinions are, indeed, factually correct.
What I find personally disturbing from my own studies has to deal with fungal / candida infections, which, indeed, do occur primarily in immune-compromised individuals. However, that "immune-compromise" is not necessarily the result of an infection, but due to high stress and overproduction of the adrenal stress hormone, cortisol. Correct the stress and cortisol problems and the fungal infections can clear up naturally. However, if these problems are not treated at all, with only toxic HIV drugs given, then it is certainly plausible that these people are perhaps dying from their untreated infections, which are not going to be affected by HIV drugs.
I don't know. This definitely is as about as "radical" and "controversial" as it gets, so I would certainly be interested in your opinions.
Melon
There is a minority of scientists who challenge the prevalent theory that HIV causes AIDS. These scientists have existed since the early 1980s, having never believed the HIV / AIDS connection theory, crafted by U.S. government cancer virologist, Richard Gallo. This theory, summed up, says that the retrovirus, HIV, causes AIDS by systematically attacking and destroying the human immune system. Death results from opportunistic infections that result from not having an immune system.
However, some equally prominent researchers--Dr. Peter Duesberg, a chemist and retroviral expert who discovered the oncogene (cancer gene) and isolated the retroviral genome in 1970; Dr. David Rasnick, a protease specialist and a 20-year AIDS researcher; and Dr. Rodney Richards, a chemist who designed the first HIV tests from Gallo's HIV cell line--have some widely differing and highly controversial opinions to the contrary.
Here is a summary of their opinions--which I must reemphasize, are not necessarily my own:
--Retroviruses, of which HIV is part of, are not toxic to cells. In 50 years of research, no retrovirus has ever been shown to kill cells or cause disease, except under special laboratory conditions. Retroviruses are RNA strands that can be passed between mother and child, but are not sexually transmitted, no matter how many lab animals mated. Babies, however, have the same retroviruses as their mothers. Retroviruses are simply naturally occurring, innocuous viruses that are in everyone.
--HIV has never been found in human blood; only an enzyme called "reverse transcriptase." While it is a sign of possible retroviral activity, it is also found in many other microbes, cellular components, and processes, including umbilical cells and forced replication in laboratory environments. It was under a forced replication environment that "reverse transcriptase" was associated with HIV and AIDS, but no virus was found.
--Gallo used a T-cell line to grow HIV--despite belief that HIV is supposed to kill T-cells. These cell lines are nicknamed "immortal cell lines," because HIV never kills them. To date, no researcher has demonstrated how HIV kills T-cells.
--The FDA has never approved a test for HIV detection, despite the existence of several to diagnose the disease. However, medical literature lists at least 60 different conditions that can register positive on the HIV-test, including candidas (naturally-occurring fungi in the human body), arthritis, parasites, malaria, liver conditions, alcoholism, drug abuse, flue, herpes, syphilis, other STDs and pregnancy. Different races have differently occurring antibodies, with blacks having a nine times greater chance of testing positive than whites and a 33% greater chance than Asians.
--AIDS is diagnosed if you have an AIDS-indicator disease like salmonella, tuberculosis, pneumonia, herpes, or a yeast infection, and you test HIV positive. You are then treated with AIDS drugs. If you have these diseases and test negative, you are treated with drugs to treat the specific diseases.
--In 1993, the CDC expanded the AIDS definition to include people who are not sick at all and have a one time T-cell count of less than 200. By 1997, 2/3 of all AIDS cases were in otherwise healthy people.
--AIDS in Africa is caused by rampantly poor living conditions. Fifty percent of Africans have no sewage systems, and their drinking water mixes with animal and human waste. Tuberculosis and malaria are rampant, with the symptoms being diarrhea and weight loss--the same criteria to diagnose AIDS.
--AIDS drugs are the cause of death of many patients. 94% of AIDS-related deaths in the U.S. have occurred after the introduction of AZT and the #1 cause of death for AIDS patients, according to the University of Pittsburgh, is liver failure, a side effect of the new protease inhibitors. The rest die, due to their "opportunistic infections" not being treated.
--In 1994, Gallo quietly announced that the major AIDS defining illness in gay men--the skin cancer, Kaposi's Sarcoma--was not caused by HIV, but was likely caused by amyl nitrate "poppers," a popular and legal drug used as a muscle relaxant during anal sex. (Most interestingly, in the last year or two, poppers have been suspected to be connected to AIDS under the theory that it suppresses the immune system, leaving one open to sexual transmission of HIV infection.) Gallo also amended his AIDS beliefs that it is not a death sentence. He believes that one can live with HIV "for 30 years until you die of old age," as long as you live a healthy lifestyle and avoid immune-compromising substances.
Okay, like I said, I don't know what to think of this. Maybe it's the ravings of madmen or maybe they're right. I don't know. What they do make is a fairly interesting case--assuming that their opinions are, indeed, factually correct.
What I find personally disturbing from my own studies has to deal with fungal / candida infections, which, indeed, do occur primarily in immune-compromised individuals. However, that "immune-compromise" is not necessarily the result of an infection, but due to high stress and overproduction of the adrenal stress hormone, cortisol. Correct the stress and cortisol problems and the fungal infections can clear up naturally. However, if these problems are not treated at all, with only toxic HIV drugs given, then it is certainly plausible that these people are perhaps dying from their untreated infections, which are not going to be affected by HIV drugs.
I don't know. This definitely is as about as "radical" and "controversial" as it gets, so I would certainly be interested in your opinions.
Melon
