Before you decide to take CS for HIV, know what some experts are saying about HIV(not a virus):
Subject: Neville Hodgkinson in South Africa > The Sunday Independent, Johannesburg, published the following article > in their "Inside Story" section of the main newspaper on 9 July 2000: > > Headline: "Some observers are critical of HIV theory and they have a > right to be heard" > > By Neville Hodgkinson > > The huge flaws in the HIV theory go deeper than questions over the > extent to which HIV is the cause of Aids, or the toxicity or > effectiveness of drugs directed against the virus. Astonishingly, they > challenge the very existence of the virus itself - and thus, the > validity of the HIV test - as well as the multibillion-dollar industry > producing pharmaceutical interventions for Aids. > > Some of the scientists contributing to President Thabo Mbeki's Aids > Advisory Panel have been trying for more than a decade to demonstrate > these flaws to the scientific community. No one would listen. None of > the mainstream journals would publish their work. There was no > discussion. > > From the beginning, powerful political, social and commercial forces > shaped Aids science, and the possibility that the HIV theory might be > fundamentally wrong soon became scientifically unthinkable. > > This is one reason why Mbeki has incurred such incomprehension and > criticism. Few of the doctors and scientists who signed last week's > pro-HIV Durban Declaration know of the criticism to which the HIV theory > has been subjected. There has been an information blackout by leading > scientific journals such as Nature, which helped organise the > declaration. > > While scientists are pressing for a reappraisal of the HIV theory, the > most comprehensive critique has been developed by a group of scientists > based in Perth, Australia. Two members of the group, Eleni Papadopulos- > Eleopulos, a medical physicist, and Dr Val Turner, an emergency > physician, were in Johannesburg last week to give evidence to the > advisory panel. They received support from scientists in other fields > of expertise, including epidemiology, virus isolation and HIV diagnosis. > It was on the basis of this evidence that the panel agreed to research > the validity of the HIV test. > > This is what the Perth group says: > > · Cells of the immune system can become over-stimulated as a result of a > variety of biological assaults. When this happens, they produce > biochemical signals that HIV theorists have misinterpreted as evidence > for the presence of a new virus. > > · Triggers for this reaction include exposure to infections, especially > in malnourished people whose immunity is already compromised; heavy > exposure to blood and blood products and other body fluids, including > semen; and heavy drug use. > > · The body produces antibodies in response to this reaction, but these > antibodies are to products of the disordered cells, not to a viral > invader. > > · Poor people in Africa and elsewhere are especially at risk of testing > positive for these antibodies, but this is not because of the spread of > a sexually transmitted virus. It is because they are more at risk of > being exposed to long-established infections, particularly tuberculosis, > that trigger a positive result with the HIV test. > > · People who test positive are at increased risk of becoming ill, and of > dying if no action is taken over the true cause of their illness. > However, this is not because they are infected with a lethal virus. If > the conditions that caused them to test positive are changed, they are > likely to stay well. > > · The HIV test is useful in screening blood, because it helps exclude > donations from carriers of TB and other disorders. But it is tragically > misleading to tell individuals who test positive that they have HIV. > > · Claims that the tests are accurate in diagnosing the presence of HIV > are unfounded. The tests have never been validated by showing that the > virus is present in those who test positive, and not in those who test > negative. The method used has simply been to show that people in > Western "risk groups" for Aids are much more likely to test positive > than healthy people. The Perth group agrees that this association is > present, but says it does nothing to prove HIV as the cause. > > · The test could not be validated by showing the presence of HIV, > because no such virus has ever been isolated from patients, according to > previously accepted standards. > > · When immune cells are heavily stimulated in the laboratory, they can > produce particles and other products of the genes in the cells. From > these, viral tests have been developed, but the same criticism > applies: they have never been validated against isolation of purified > HIV. > > In the rush to come first with a viral cause of Aids, scientists > mistakenly inferred the presence of a unique, new, sexually transmitted > microbe, and have wrongly scared the living daylights out of us ever > since. > > In the earlier years of Aids, when American, French and British > scientists introduced the HIV concept and the test and treatment, the > perception that there was a public health emergency made it hard for > dissenting views to be expressed. Today, the silence owes as much to > embarrassment, and the power of commercial interests, as to any > altruistic motives. > > Millions are said to have died of Aids in Africa, while in Britain, a > nation of 60 million people, cases amount to about 16,000 since the > epidemic began in the early 1980s, and are falling: the total this year > is 300. Anti-viral drugs have nothing to do with this difference, > contrary to the claims in the Durban Declaration. There is not a single > long-term study showing the drugs save lives. On the contrary, there is > evidence that the anti-viral approach kills. Recognition of this fact, > along with increasing awareness of the flaws in the HIV theory, is a > factor contributing to the falling death rate in Europe. > > South Africa has been told that a 10th of its people are infected with > HIV, and that about half of all its 15-year-olds will die of Aids. The > government is surely entitled to listen to previously ignored scientists > who believe these predictions stem from use of an invalid diagnostic > test, for a virus that has never been proved to exist. > > # # # > > Neville Hodgkinson, formerly medical and science correspondent of the > London Sunday Times, is the author of AIDS: The Failure of Contemporary > Science (Fourth Estate, London, 1996). 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