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Volume 17: Number 1: Article 6
AIDS: Scientific or Viral Catastrophe?
Neville Hodgkinson, Nuneham Park, Nuneham Courtenay, Oxford OX44
9PG, UK
Scientists have not been able to ascertain how HIV causes AIDS, despite
more than $100 billion spent on AIDS research and treatment by US taxpayers
alone. Predictions about the course of the epidemic have proved inaccurate.
While millions are said to be infected and dying in Africa, AIDS deaths
have fallen in Europe and the USA and now total fewer than 250 a year
in the UK, which has a population of nearly 60 million. Claims that
cocktails of antiviral drugs are responsible for a decline in Western
AIDS are unsupported by clear evidence. On the contrary, the US Government
has reversed a policy of "hit hard, hit early" in HIV-positive people,
citing "unexpected toxicities" from the drugs. The HIV theory of AIDS
causation has fulfilled certain social and public health needs, but
the scientific community has not acknowledged or addressed serious flaws
in AIDS theory and medical practice, in particular a failure to validate
"HIV" diagnostic tests against isolation of virus. Genetic and chemical
signals produced by disordered immune cells may have been misinterpreted
as evidence of the presence of a lethal virus. There is vast overdiagnosis
of AIDS and "HIV disease" in Africa and other countries where malnutrition
and grossly impoverished living circumstances, with associated infections,
are the real killers. The harmful consequences of these mistakes and
omissions are increasing now that the World Health Organization and
the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), convinced of
an African pandemic, are urging finance ministers of African countries
to devote more domestic funds to HIV/AIDS activities. On the other hand,
if debt relief and other emergency aid for which UNAIDS is also campaigning
are used appropriately, enormous relief of human suffering will be possible.
A reasoned response from the scientific community to the full range
of evidence challenging the HIV theory is overdue.
Keywords: HIV, AIDS, HIV test, poverty, Africa, virus isolation
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AIDS: Scientific or Viral Catastrophe?
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