Earn £ 1000.- cash. Just find the scientific evidence for the isolation of the AIDS virus. RETHINKING AIDS HOMEPAGE MISSING VIRUS T h e J o d y W e l l s M e m o r i a l P r i z e MISSING VIRUS! £ 1000 Reward Blind romantics still believe HIV causes AIDS. But if 'HIV' has never been isolated, what is AIDS? Never isolated? You bet! A cash prize of £ 1000 is offered to the first person finding one scien- tific paper establishing actual isolation of HIV. If you or a friendly 'AIDS expert' can prove isolation, £ 1000 is yours. In cash. In public. Interested? Pledge the money to your favourite AIDS charity, why not? We bet you'll be surprised to discover the truth. c o n t i n u u m CHANGING THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT AIDS The Rules of Isolation The rules for isolation of a retrovirus were thoroughly discussed at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, in 1973, and are the logical minimum requirements for establishing the independent existence of HIV. They are: 1.Culture of putatively infected tissue. 2. Purification of specimens by density gradient ultracentrifugation. 3. Electron micrographs of particles exhibiting the morfological characteristics and dimensions (100-120nm) of retroviral particles at the sucrose (or percoll) density of 1.16 gm/ml and containing nothing else, not even particles of other morphologies or dimensions. 4. Proof that the particles contain reverse transcriptase. 5. Analysis of the particles' proteins and RNA and proof that these are unique. 6. Proof that 1-5 are a property only of putatively infected tissues and can not be induced in control cultures. These are identical cultures, that is, tissues obtained from matched, unhealthy subjects and cultured under identical conditions differing only in that they are not putatively infected with a retrovirus. 7. Proof that the particles are infectious, that is when PURE particles are introduced into an uninfected culture or animal, the identical particle is obtained as shown by repeating steps 1-5. First Respons to Continuum Award (May '96) Edward King, editor of UK's National AIDS Manual and writer for the Pink Paper, published the first respons in NAM's Treatment Update. Here you find King's article, and here the reply published in Continuum. Duesberg Claims Continuum Reward (July/Aug. '96) Prof. Peter Duesberg believes HIV exists and has been isolated, here his claim for the Continuum Award. Here a respons (long) by the researchers from Perth, here the bare essentials of the paper, and here a review of the paper. Here another reply by Dr. Stefan Lanka. Debate Continues (Feb./March '97) Prof. Duesberg responded to the reply of the Australians and Dr. Lanka, here you find it. Here a second reply by the research team, and here second one by Dr. Lanka. First Pictures of "Pure HIV" (March '97) Two historic papers in the leading science journal Virology in March this year provide astonishing new data on the purification and isolation of HIV. For the first time in the history of AIDS, elusive electron microscope images of 'HIV' collected or 'banded' at the official density required for retroviruses, 1.16 gm/ml, have been published, by a research group in Germany. The electronmicrographs disclose "major contaminants" in "pure HIV". HIV expert Hans Gelderblom of Berlin's Robert Koch Institute, whose photos of non-banded 'HIV' material have been the industrial benchmark since 1987, co-authored the first paper which describes the contamination as "an excess of vesicles" - particles of cellular proteins, that may contain DNA or RNA. In a consecutive paper, a US research team from the AIDS Vaccine Programme in Maryland reveal carefully, "It is unknown how these cellular proteins associate with the virus" and warn, "The presence of microvesicles in purified retroviruses has practical implications": both teams discuss the resulting nonspecifity of HIV tests, all of which are based on early unchecked "purified HIV". In an historic admission that it has never been established which proteins constitute 'HIV', the US scientists conclude, "The development of various purification strategies to separate microvesicles from HIV-particles ... will greatly enhance our ability to identify virion-associated cellular proteins." The imaging step in attempts at retroviral isolation was deemed essential when isolation procedure was discussed and decided at the Pasteur Institute, Paris in 1972, but it has never been published before in the 13-year history of 'HIV'. (Continuum autumn 1997) Here some more pictures. Go here for some further comment on these publications. Interview Prof. Montagnier (July '97) The French journalist Djamel Tahi interviewed Dr. Luc Montagnier, the discoverer of HIV, about the isolation of the virus. Although he believes he isolated HIV, Montagnier confirms he could not purify the virus. Go here for the interview, and here for some comments by the Perth Group. (Continuum winter 1997) More Money to Earn (Aug. '98) In addition to the Continuum Award organizations all around the world offer money for the evidence of the existence of HIV. One can already collect over $ 25.000 by providing this evidence. Go here for more information and additional terms. (page in Spanish!) Professor Questions Isolation (Oct. '98) Dr. Etienne de Harven is emeritus Professor of Pathology, University of Toronto. He worked in electron microscopy (EM) primarily on the ultrastructure of retroviruses throughout his professional career of 25 years at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York and 13 years at the University of Toronto. In 1956 he was the first to report on the EM of the Friend virus in murine (mouse) leukemia, and in 1960, to coin the word "budding" to describe steps of virus assembly on cell surfaces. He delivered a speech at the 12th World AIDS Conference in Geneva at the session "HIV-testing: Open Questions about Specificity". Here you will find the letter and photo he sent to Continuum. Here an article by him published in Continuum. LinkExchange Member CONTROVERSY MISSING VIRUS THE GROUP WHISTLE BLOWERS CENSORSHIP BOOKSHELF FRONT NEWS FORUMS FIND FRAME ON