Earn � 1000.- cash. Just find the scientific evidence for the
isolation of the AIDS virus.
RETHINKING AIDS HOMEPAGE
MISSING VIRUS
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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.
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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.
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