Oncogenes,Aneuploidy, and AIDS

Oncogenes, Aneuploidy, and AIDS; A scientific life life & times of Peter H. Duesberg, Is the newest offering about the Molecular Biologist, Peter H. Duesberg. Duesberg, is one of the premier dissenting scientist concerning HIV /AIDS theory. In other words he's one of the leading scientist who questions whether HIV cause AIDS. No ones has hardly heard of Duesberg in the American press, that is because the guy was been vilified in the American media and scientific circles..No one simply wants to hear the concept that HIV might NOT cause AIDS. Certainly not the Pharmacuetical companies who are cashing in millions on fighting a virus that may or may not even cause disease, certianly not some medical professionals who are prescribing toxic drugs that may be responsible for more deaths ..than the virus they are seeking to eradicate.
This new book about Duesberg written by a collegue and friend of his; Harvey Bialy, talks about Duesberg's interplay with American Medical and media circles who were determined not to listen to the guy and stop any kind of disscussion about whether HIV can even cause Disease. Bialy also talks about new areas of research that Duesberg is doing concerning diseases like Cancer, which is related to AIDS because for one, HIV disease is supposed to be a type of Cancer that destroys certain white blood cells.
Duesberg is turning Cancer theory on its head according to Bialy, in that ( if I understand this correctly) Duesberg is saying that Cancer is caused by "genetic instability", an imbalence of the chromosomes in a cell..if I understand this theory enough which I dont, but somehow it's related to HIV/AIDS,possibly attacking the idea that viruses can cause cancer. This book is kind of difficult to understand if your like me and have a modicum of knowledge concerning this field.

Duesberg did write a book that explaining his views about HIV/AIDS. The Book is called "Inventing the AIDS Virus". Duesberg has a knack for making complicated scienific medical ideas into easily understandible concepts for the layperson. That book was published around 1995-6 , in it Duesberg calls the AIDS epidemic in Africa a "hoax". This was well before the AIDS epidemic was established in Africa..and a huge threat. No wonder Duesberg and company caught the attention of South African #2 "Thabo Mbeki" ,who called a meeting of Medical scientists and Physicians who support the present HIV/AIDS theory.... and people like Peter Duesberg who arent getting the press in American media and represent an opposing opinion.

I'd like to present some of the theories Duesberg & Company presented to this medical meeting about HIV/AIDS in Durban , South Africa during a meeting there in 2000. Its Duesberg's "Anti-theory" about HIV/AIDS in a nutshell, the theories here, as of All Duesberg's theories are refuted and disavowed by modern american and foriegn medical professionals.

Caution: The powers that be dont want you to you read this!

1. Prediction: Since HIV is "the sole cause of AIDS," it must be abundant in AIDS patients based on "exactly the same criteria as for other viral diseases."

Fact: But, only antibodies against HIV are found in most patients (1-7). Therefore, "HIV infection is identified in blood by detecting antibodies, gene sequences, or viral isolation." But,HIV can only be "isolated" from rare, latently infected lymphocytes that have been cultured for weeks in vitro-away from the antibodies of the human host (8). Thus HIV behaves like a passenger virus.

2.Prediction: Since HIV is "the sole cause of AIDS," there is no AIDS in HIV-free people.

Fact: But the AIDS literature describes at least 4621 HIV-free AIDS cases,according to one survey-irrespective of, or in agreement with allowances made by the CDC (Centers for disease control) for HIV-free AIDS cases (55).

3. Prediction: The retrovirus HIV causes immunodeficiency by killing T-cells (1-3).

Fact: But, retroviruses don't kill cells because they depend on viable cells for the replication of their RNA from viral DNA intergrated into cellular DNA. Thus, T-cells infected in vitro thrive, and those patented to mass-produce HIV for the detection of HIV antibodies and diagnosis of AIDS are immortal (9-15)!

4. Prediction: With a RNA of 9 kilobases, just like Polio virus, HIV should be able to cause at most one disease, or no disease if it is passenger Virus." italics mine (22).

Fact: But, HIV is said to be" the sole cause of AIDS," or of 26 different immunodeficiency and non-immunodeficiency disease, all of which also occur without HIV (table 2). Thus there is not one HIV-specific disease, which is the defintion of a passenger virus!

5.Prediction: All viruses are most pathogenic prior to anti-viral immuntiy. Therefore, preemptive immunization with Jennerian vaccines is used to protect againt all viral diseases since 1798.

Fact: But ,AIDS is observed-by defintion-only after anti-HIV immunity is established, a positive HIV/AIDS test (23). Thus HIV cannot cause AIDS by "The same criteria" as conventional viruses.

6. Prediction: HIV needs "5-10 years" from establishing antiviral immunity to cause AIDS.

Fact; But HIV replicates in 1 day, generating over 100 new HIV's per cell (24-25). Accordingly, HIV is immunogenic, i.e. biochemically most active,within weeks after infection (26,27). Thus, based on conventional criteria "for other viral diseases," HIV should cause AIDS within weeks-if it could.

7. Prediction: "Most people with HIV infection show signs of AIDS within 5-10 years"-the justification for prophylaxis of AIDS with the DNA chain terminator AZT (Section 4).

Fact: But, of "34.3 million....with HIV worldwide" only 1.4% (=471,457 [ obtained by subtracting the cumulative total of 1999 from that of 2000]) developed AIDS in 2000 (28). Likewise, in 1985, only 1.2% of the 1 million US citizens with HIV developed AIDS (29,30). Since an annual incidence of 1.2-1.4% of all 26 AIDS defining diseases combined is no more than the normal mortality in the U.S and Europe ( life expectancy of 75 years), HIV must be a passenger virus.

8. Prediction: A vaccine against HIV should ("is hoped" to) prevent AIDS-the reason why AIDS researchers try to develop an AIDS vaccine since 1984 (31).

Fact: But, despite enormous efforts there is no such vaccine to this day (31). Moreover,since AIDS occurs by defintion only in the presence of natural antibodies against HIV (section 3) , and since natural antibodies are so effective that no HIV is detectable in AIDS patients (see table 4.1), even the hopes for a vaccine are irrational.

9. Prediction HIV, like other viruses, survives by transmission from host to host, which is said to be mediated "through sexual contact."

Fact: But, only 1 in 1000 unprotected sexual contacts transmits HIV (32-34) , and only 1 of 275 US citizens is HIV-infected (29,30) (Fig. 1b). Therefore, an average un-infected US citizen needs 275,000 random "sexual contacts" to get infected and spread HIV-an unlikely basis for an epidemic!

10. Prediction: "AIDS spreads by infection" of HIV.

Fact: But ,contrary to the spread of AIDS, there is no "spread" of HIV in the US. In the US HIV infections have remained constant at 1 million from 1995 (29) until now (30) 2000-1 (see also The Durban Declaration and fig, 1b). by contrast, AIDS has increased from 1981 until 1992 and has declined ever since ( fig. 1a). in the US possibly.

11. Prediction: Many of the 3 million people who annually recieve blood transfusions in the US for life-threatening disease (51), should have developed AIDS from HIV-infected blood donors prior to the elimination of HIV from the blood supply in 1985.

Fact: But there was no increase in AIDS-defining diseases in HIV-positive transfusion recipients in AIDS era (52), and no AIDS-defining Kaposi's sarcoma has ever been observed in millions of transfusuion recipients (53).

12.Prediction: Doctors are at high risk to contract AIDS from patients, HIV researchers from virus preparations, wives of HIV-positive hemophiliacs from husbands, and prostitutes from clients-particularly,since there is no HIV vaccine.

Fact: But, in peer-reviewed literature there is not one doctor or nurse who has ever contracted AIDS ( not just HIV) from the over 816,000 AIDS patients recorded in the U.S in 22 years (30). Not one of the over ten thousand of HIV researchers has contracted AIDS. Wives of hemophiliacs don't get AIDS (35). And there is no AIDS-epidemic in prostitutes (36-38). Thus AIDS is not contagious (39,40).

13. Prediction: Viral AIDS-like all viral/microbial epidemics in the past-should spread randomly in a population.

Fact:But, in the US and Europe AIDS is restricted since 1981 to two main risk froups, intravenous drug users, of which80% are males, and male homosexual drug users (Sections 1 and 4).

14. Prediction: A viral AIDS epidemic should form a classical,bell-shaped chronological curve ( 41-43) , rising exponentially via natural immunity, within months ( see fig. 3a).

Fact: AIDS has been increasing slowly since 1981 for 12 years and is now declining since 1993 in the U.S (fig. 1a), just like a lifestyle epidemic, as for example lung cancer from smoking (fig. 3b)

15. Prediction: AIDS should be a pediatric epidemic now,because HIV is transmitted "from mother to infant" at rates of 25-50% (44-49), and because "34.3 million people worldwide" were already infected in 2000. To reduce the high maternal transmission rate HIV-antibody-positive mothers are treated with AZT for up to 6 months prior to birth (section 4).

Fact: But, less than 1% of AIDS in the US and Europe is pediatric (30,50). Thus HIV must be a passenger virus in newborns.

16. Prediction: " HIV recognizes no social, political or geographic borders"- just like all other viruses.

Fact: But, the presumably HIV-caused AIDS epidemics of Africa and of the US and Europe differ both clinically and epidemiologically (Section 1, Table 2). The US/European epidemic is highly nonrandom, 80% male and restricted to abnormal risk groups, whereas the African epidemic is random.

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Its surprising that you don't hear much about this material since the last decade since the AIDS epidemic in the US. There seems to be a pattern of blocking the dissemination of this material in the American media , and suppression of scientists with views like Peter Duesberg who proposes these ideas. That is unfortunate for the many people around the world who are taking toxic medicines to destroy a virus which may be harmless, and believe there are going to die from a harmless virus. To them Peter Duesberg may be a messenger of hope.

Duesberg may certainly have a chip on his shoulder, but possibly also one of those rare scientists , along with being a first rate scientist, also a touch of compassion and caring that is just rare and refreshing.