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The drug-AIDS hypothesis *
TABLE 1
AIDS-defining diseases in the U. S. in 1995 1
Immunodeficiencies (in %) Non-immunodeficiencies(in %)
pneumonia 33 candidiasis 14 tuberculosis2 10 cytomegalovirus 7 toxoplasmosis 4 herpesvirus 4 diarrhea 2 wasting/weight loss 13 Kaposis sarcoma 6 dementia 3 lymphoma 2
total 74 26
1 The data are Jrom the Centers for Disease Control (HTV/AIDS Survei/lance Report, 1995) 2 including other mycobacterial infectiotis
appeared in any American scientific publication "•15.
For the Iast twelve years the HIV hypothesis has been
international dogma and the basis of all AIDS research
and therapy t 5. s. 9,12, u. 16 _
According to the HIV-AIDS hypothesis HIV causes
a bewildering list of 30 previously known diseases, but
oddly, on average only 10 years after it is neutralized by
antiviral immunity 4'5'14. The 30 AIDS defming dis-
eases include microbial or immunodeficiency diseases
such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, candidiasis (yeast
infection), diarrhea, but also classical non-immunode-
ftciency diseases such as Kaposi’s sarcoma, dementia,
weight loss and lymphoma, which are nevertheless all
thought to be consequences of viral immunodeficiency
and called AIDS when antibody against HIV is present
5’17 (Table 1). For example, tuberculosis is now diag-
nosed as AIDS in the presence of antibody against
HIV; in the absence of the antibody, it is still diagnosed
as tuberculosis.
2.3. AIDS facts incompatible with the HIV-AIDS
hypothesis. Even a brief survey of the facts of AIDS
shows that the proponents of the HIV hypothesis have
not followed Feynman’s advice, to “ put down all the
facts that disagree with it”:
1) Although AIDS is postulated to be a new infec-
tious epidemic, it fails all epidemiological standards of
infectious disease 18:
(a) Infectious diseases spread equally between the
sexes - but AIDS does not. Nine out of 10 American
AIDS patients are males 3.
(b) The recipient has the same disease as the donor —
but not in AIDS. After a contact with a Kaposis sar-
coma patient a person may develop dementia or diar-
rhea or pneumonia or no disease at all 15.
(c) According to Farr’s law of epidemiology, a new
infectious disease spreads exponentially in an uninfect-
ed population 20, like a seasonal flu - but American
and European AIDS lingers in fringe groups, spreading
slowly, but non-exponentially, over years 21 (see Fig 1).
Numerous facts confirm that AIDS is not infectious.
Although there is no anti-HIV vaccine nor any effec-
tive anti-viral drug, the professional literature has yet to
describe the first doctor (except for a few undocu-
mented, anecdotal claims 16) who has contracted
AIDS from the over 500,000 American 3 and over
150,000 European 10 AIDS patients. The wives of
15,000 HlV-positive American hemophiliacs have also
not developed AIDS, although HIV is said to be sexu-
ally transmitted 22‘24. Except for a few undocumented,
anecdotal claims, not even one of tens of thousands of
HIV scientists has contracted AIDS from exposure to
HIV since 1984 "•16'25. Chimpanzees are as suscepti-
ble to HIV as humans, but none of over 150 animals
inoculated with HIV since 1983 has developed AIDS
26. Even the American Centers of Disease Control
(CDC) now admits that it “may be difficult to identi-
fy [AIDS from contact infection] because most persons
with AIDS have had contact with many different peo-
ple. In particular, drug users and homosexual and
bisexual men may have had contact with hundreds of
partners that they did not know very well.” 11.
2) Although viruses are not selective, AIDS in
America and Europe is restricted, over 95%, to fringe
groups with life-threatening health risks other than the
hypothetical risk, HIV 3'26. These risks include the
intravenous drugs taken by a third of American AIDS
patients, and the many illicit sexual and mental stimu-
lants, and the highly toxic anti-HIV drugs taken by
male homosexuals who make up over 60% of the
American AIDS patients (see 3. and 4.). The remain-
der are typical diseases of hemophiliacs and transfusion
recipients, that fall into the AIDS definition but repre-
sent the normal incidence of these diseases in these
groups under the new name, AIDS 3.7.12.14.26-28 _
3) Although HIV is a long-established virus in the
US - because the number of carriers has remained
completely stable since its discovery 25-26’2’ (Farr’s law)
— AIDS is a new epidemic in America (see Fig 1).
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1. tbl. 1997, 50. árg.