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Peter Duesberg and David Rasnick
4) Although only 1 in 1,000 T-cells is ever infected
by HIV, and HIV like all other retroviruses 26 does not
kill infected cells, most AIDS padents lose T-celIs n-2i;'
3032. If HIV were responsible for immunodeficiency it
would act like a single bullet that kills 1000 sol-
diers.
5) Although dementia, weight loss and Kaposis sar-
coma are not consequences of, and frequently not even
associated with immunodeficiency, they are blaimed on
the immunodeficiency virus, HIV 14-25-26 (Table 1).
6) AIDS appears, if at all, typically only 10 years after
HIV infection 14'33'34. But HIV, multiplying over 100-
fold every 1-2 days, has the capacity to produce 10 ^
viruses in 2 weeks — enough to infect every cell in the
human body. If HIV could cause AIDS, AIDS should
appear within 2 weeks after infection >118'25'31'32'35.
7) Although pathogenic viruses cause the same dis-
ease in all people, Kaposi’s sarcoma occurs almost
exclusively in male homosexuals n'25'36. If HlVcould
cause Kaposi’s sarcoma, transfusion recipients, like the
15,000 HlV-positive American hemophiliacs or the 3
million Americans who annually receive blood transfu-
sions 26, should have this cancer. But paradoxically, no
Kaposi’s sarcoma has ever been transmitted by transfu-
sion 7'23'24'37.
8) Although HIV is widespread in American
/European hemophiliacs the mortality of hemophiliacs
has decreased (until 1987, when most started receiving
AZT) 23-24-38 , that of male homosexuals has increased
3, and that of intravenous drug users39'41 and sub-
Saharan Africans42 has stayed about the same since
HIV has been diagnosed in these groups. If HIV were
the cause of AIDS the mortality of all infected groups
should have increased.
9) HIV is claimed to be sexually transmitted in spite
of the fact it takes, on average, 1000 unprotected sexu-
al contacts to contract the virus 43,44. Therefore, HIV
depends for its survival on perinatal transmission,
which is 25 to 50% efficient 26,45 — just like all other ani-
mal and human retroviruses of its kind 26,46. It foliows
that HIV is biologically not a sexually transmitted virus.
10) Although HIV is claimed to be fatal, it is not
possible that either a perinatally or even a sexually
transmitted microbe could be fatally pathogenic. Such
a microbe would exterminate itself together with its
host within a few generations.
11) Although HIV is postulated to cause 30 AIDS
diseases, it meets all four classical standards of a harm-
less passenger virus 18:
(a) The time of infection by the passenger is irrele-
vant to the onset of a disease, if one occurs. This
applies exactly to HIV and AIDS; hence the arbitrary
assertion that HIV takes on average 10 years to cause
AIDS (see6.).
(b) The passenger virus can be either active or pas-
sive, either rare or abundant during any disease. This
also applies exactly to HIV and AIDS, although abun-
dant HIV in AIDS is extremely rare 31,47.
(c) The passenger virus can be entirely absent during
any disease. This also applies exactly to HIV and
AIDS; hence HlV-free AIDS 48 (see 6.8.).
(d) If the passenger virus is activated by a failing
immune system, but does not cause opportunistic dis-
ease symptoms of its own, it is a harmless passenger.
Indeed, there is no report in the literature that AIDS
patients are clinically distinguishable from each other
based on the presence of HIV or on its activity 31,47.
Likewise, all other conventional retroviruses (without
non-essential genes) do not contribute a disease symp-
tom when they are activated in immunosuppressed or
congenitally infected animals 46. By contrast, herpes
virus HHV-6 49 or cytomegalovirus are passengers that
may impart specific pathogenic properties to an
immunodeficient patient 50.
Since HIV meets all these criteria with regard to
AIDS to the letter, it is a harmless passenger virus.
2.4. Conclusions. Instead of explaining the “facts”
about AIDS, the HIV hypothesis generates numerous
paradoxes and contradictions. Since there are no para-
doxes in science, only bad hypotheses, the HIV
hypothesis must be flawed. A flawed hypothesis also
explains the failure of the war on AIDS. Even the best
and most expensive science cannot produce results in
the name of a flawed hypothesis. Therefore, indepen-
dent hypotheses must be found to solve AIDS 35. The
search for a plausible cause of AIDS quickly leads to
the only new health risk that has affected America and
Europe since World War II, the drug epidemic.
3. THE AMERICAN/EUROPEAN
DRUG EPIDEMIC
3.1. Chronology of the drug epidemic in America.
During and after the Vietnam war, in the 1970s, the
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