Læknaneminn - 01.04.1997, Blaðsíða 92

Peter Duesberg and David Rasnick
tribution; not just the information that leads to judg-
ment in one particular direction or another.
The easiest way to explain this idea is to contrast it,
for example, with advertising. Last night I heard that
Wesson oil doesn’t soak through food. Well, that’s true.
It’s not dishonest; but the thing I’m talking about is not
just a matter of not being dishonest, it’s a matter of sci-
entific integrity, which is another level. The fact that
should be added to that advertising statement is that no
oil soaks through food, if operated at a certain temper-
ature. If operated at another temperature, they all will
— including Wesson oil...
We’ve learned from experience that the truth will
come out. Other experimenters will repeat your exper-
iment and find out whether you were wrong or right.
Nature’s phenomena will agree or they’ll disagree with
your theory. And, although you may gain some tem-
porary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good
reputation as a scientist if you haven’t tried to be very
careful in this kind of work. And it’s this type of
integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is
missing to a large extent in much of the research in cult
science. ...
But this long history of learning how not to fool our-
selves - of having utter scientific integrity - is, I’m
sorry to say, something that we haven’t specifically
included in any particular course that I know of. We
just hope you’ve caught on by osmosis. ... And this is
our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scien-
tists, and I think to laymen. 2
2. WHY HIV-AIDS SCIENCE
CANNOT SUCCEED
2.1. The American/European AIDS epidemic. The
AIDS epidemic in America and Europe is defined as a
significant increase, since 1981, of 30 previously
known diseases (Table 1) affecting mostly 25 to 44 year
old men and some (10%) women 3-7. In America these
cases have shot up from negligible numbers in this age
group in the 1970s to annually about 50,000 to 75,000
patients now 3 (Fig. 1). Because Kaposi’s sarcoma rose
from an almost non-existent background of about 50
cases per year in 1981 8,9 to thousands of almost exclu-
sively male homosexual cases annually now, it has
become the signal disease of AIDS 3. It is for this rea-
son that the new epidemic has been accepted as a new
Fig. 1. Non-correlation Between HIV and
AIDS in the US
disease, “HIV disease”, in numerous publications 5.
In fact, AIDS in America and Europe is a new epidem-
ic of old diseases that primarily affects 25 to 44 year old
males.
2.2. The war on AIDS. By any measure the war on
AIDS has been a complete failure. Since 1981, over
500,000 Americans and over 150,000 Europeans 10
have developed AIDS, and the US taxpayer alone has
paid over $45 billion for AIDS research and treatment,
but no vaccine, no cure, and no effective prevention
has been developed, and not a single AIDS patient has
been saved 7'11,12. This war has been fought in the
name of the hypothesis that the Acquired
Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is infectious,
and that the infectious agent is a sexually transmitted
virus, that has been named Human Immunodeficiency
Virus(HIV) 5'13'14.
The HIV-AIDS hypothesis was announced in April
1984 at an international press conference in
Washington by the Secretary of Health and Human
Services (HHS) and the National Institues of Health
(NIH) researcher Robert Gallo - even before it had
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