After Earth Day - Rethinking AIDS on 23 April

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The HIV-Aids Titanic hits its own iceberg

Rethinking AIDS Day is the 23rd of April. Just one day after Earth Day, celebrated on 22 April to promote the need for reexamining our relationship with the environment, Rethinking AIDS Day prompts us to critically examine the widely held idea that the immune weakness we see in AIDS is caused by an infective virus.

According to HEAL, "Rethinking AIDS Day (RAD) is April 23rd to remember (not celebrate) the anniversary of the infamous Gallo/Heckler news conference announcing the 'probable' cause of AIDS had been discovered. By the time the science was published and found wanting, it was too late."

RethinkingAIDS has a call to action which goes into more detail about that botched announcement of "the cause" of AIDS:

At an international press conference on April 23, 1984, Dr. Robert Gallo, a federally funded cancer researcher, announced that he had discovered "the probable cause of AIDS," a new virus which would later be given the name HIV. The world media accepted the discovery of HIV as the cause of AIDS as a matter of fact although no proof was presented that day or anytime thereafter. Now, twenty four years and $500 billion later, there is still no scientific evidence that Gallo ever isolated HIV from any of the AIDS patients he had studied, and there is still no published paper from any other scientist anywhere in the world demonstrating the direct purification of HIV from any human being.

They also have an evolving page of initiatives: List of Events. Wearing a black ribbon (instead of the red one) is one of the ideas of how you can make that day your own.

Anyone with a computer, an internet connection and some basic skills of finding information can confirm for themselves that the theory that tells us that HIV=AIDS=ILLNESS AND DEATH is full of holes. A number of articles on this site point out such holes, among them:

HIV-Aids: A Tragic Error

Why I Quit HIV - Is AIDS Myth Falling Apart?

Alternatives to AZT in Aids Patients

World AIDS Day 2004 - What happened to Koch's Postulates?

HIV Test Bogus - Based on Circular Reasoning

Seeing a great number of holes in the official theory, the question arises: What really does cause AIDS? Dr Harold Foster answers that question from the viewpoint of epidemiological geology, saying that those with certain mineral deficiencies - especially of selenium - are at risk. The book What Really Causes AIDS? is a free download from his site.

There is more information on nutrient deficiencies and aberrated biochemical pathways as a possible cause of AIDS in Glutathione Peroxidase - Selenium, Aminoacids Overcome AIDS.

Beldeu Singh, a Malaysian researcher and writer, argues that AIDS is really a consequence of our lifestyle. Nothing to do with a virus, as much as the medical establishment wishes to promote that cause. The dogma that HIV causes Aids which in turn causes death is like the Titanic and it going to sink just like the ship after it hit the iceberg.

The real culprit, says Singh, is our infatuation with drugs, medical and non, but especially those based on the benzene molecule. Our use of chemicals to treat both emotional and physical problems is to blame. Unfortunately, this use of chemicals is sustained and promoted by a multi-billion dollar industry that has the ear of health authorities world wide. In his article, Singh illustrates the mechanism that is behind this common immune weakness.

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HIV-AIDS TITANIC HITS ITS OWN ITS OWN ICEBERG
by Beldeu Singh
editing by Sepp

By 1984, the proponents of HIV-causes-AIDS claimed that they had "isolated" a new virus called the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It was said to be a retrovirus with an enzyme, reverse transcriptase [RT]. It is also said to be an enveloped virus although no one has seen its "budding process" under the electron microscope. It was stated to be the "probable cause of AIDS" but soon came to be accepted as the causative agent of AIDS (Gallo RC, Montagnier L. The discovery of HIV as the cause of AIDS, New Engl J Med 2003;349:2283–5). It was made out to be a virulent pathogen that attacked the immune system (ie its white blood cells) and impaired it and later destroyed it, leading to the establishment of opportunistic infections.

The spread of the "virus", as an epidemic, however defies this possibility altogether.

This point is well put forth by Dr. Robert Root-Bernstein. Female prostitutes often have 200-300 sexual partners per year and are therefore assumed to have much higher rates of exposure to HIV and AIDS than the vast majority of heterosexuals. Many AIDS researchers assumed that female prostitutes would be the vectors (or means of transmission) of HIV and AIDS to the heterosexual community based on the fact that a single HIV-infected intravenous drug user or bisexual man could infect one female prostitute, who in turn could infect dozens or perhaps even hundreds of non-drug using heterosexual men. These men could, in turn, infect their other sexual partners, and an explosion of HIV and AIDS could occur among people without any obvious risk for AIDS. Paradoxically, no heterosexual epidemic has occurred and no evidence of female prostitutes transmitting HIV or AIDS into the heterosexual community exists for any Western nation.

Transmission almost always seems to be drug related. In fact, sexual acquisition of HIV and AIDS among female prostitutes themselves is almost unknown in the absence of concomitant intravenous drug use. Cell-free viral particles have never been found directly in semen. In ‘American Journal of Epidemiology’ (Vol. 146, No.4), Nancy S. Padian et al reported:

“We estimate that HIV infectivity for male-to-female transmission is low, approximately 0.0009 per contact, and that infectivity for female-to-male transmission is even lower.”

The HIV-causes-AIDS hypothesis was devised to explain observations and to make predictions. Its predictions on how it would spread failed that hypothesis. The first problem of researchers was due to the fact that they decided that they had indeed found an new virus in their supernatant solutions instead of isolating it through the process of reinfection of healthy cells and purifying it. Secondly, they decided that the particles in their supernatant were highly infective, that they targeted and killed T4 cells of the blood immune system.

Let's look at the other claims of the HIV hypothesis that were proposed to explain the following three observations:

1. A decrease in a specific cell type, T4 lymphocytes

2. Opportunistic infections (OI), and

3. The high frequency of a malignancy, Kaposi's sarcoma (KS).

What defied the pathogenic cause of AIDS is that no other infectious agent causes such a diverse number of diseases.

It was further hypothesized that HIV causes the syndrome indirectly ... and then the titanic hit its iceberg. What is this indirect cause mechanism? The original idea was that HIV as a causative agent kills the T4 cells and consequently a decrease in T4 cells (immune deficiency) leads to the appearance of the actual diseases which constitute the clinical syndrome. The decrease in T4 cells was stated to be the key factor of impairment of the immune system caused by the "HIV infection" and the diagnosis of AIDS, a theory which proved unfounded.

But AIDS studies run into other serious problems. Most researchers who use the HIV test kits do not read the disclaimer on these test kits - that they cannot be used to diagnose AIDS. At one time it was said that these kits tested for HIV antibodies and at other times they said that the tests were for viral-specific proteins! Researchers generally fail to realize that many of these studies are flawed because the so-called HIV was never isolated in accordance with the established steps in virology that require its purification and ability to reinfect healthy cells and to recover the virus from these infected cells.

What Gallo has obtained and uses in his patented HIV test, is only a supernatant that he has used to infect T4 cells which however do not die upon his infecting them! Finally, he talks about a p24 protein in his supernatant that has never been purified and never proven to be a HIV-specific protein. So, naturally, to make matters worse, many non-AIDS people test positive on these test kits giving a very large number of false positives.

Virus-like particles

So far, only "virus particles" or "virus-like particles" have been noted or demonstrated. The presence of budding virus-like particles in human lymphoid cells used for HIV cultivation (VIIth International Conference on AIDS; 1991; Florence: O'Hara CJ, Groopman JE, Federman M, The ultrastructural and immunohistochemical demonstration of viral particles in lymph nodes from human immunodeficiency virus-related and non-human immunodeficiency virus-related lymphadenopa