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Petition to the U.N.

From the archives of The Memory Hole

HIV=AIDS Controversy: Putting Things In Perspective

The following is a petition that was submitted to the United Nations, Geneva 1997.


A Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis

by Michael Baumgartner, Alex Russell and Michael Verney-Elliott

In 14 years, �HIV� has still not been proven to be the cause of the 29 �AIDS� defining illnesses. The �HIV� hypothesis has been unproductive and non-predictive because �AIDS� is neither an infectious epidemic nor caused by �HIV.�

To date, �HIV� has never been isolated as a unique, exogenous �retrovirus.� Dr. Robert Gallo and Prof. Luc Montagnier, the alleged co-discoverers of �HIV,� did not follow the rules and standard protocols designed for �retroviral� isolation set out in 1973 by the Pasteur Institute of France (see Sinoussi in Spectra 4, 1973): The steps for �retroviral� isolation are:

  1. Culture of putatively infected tissue,
  2. Purification of specimens by density gradient ultracentrifugation,
  3. Electro micrographs of particles exhibiting the morphological characteristics�having condensed inner bodies (cores) and knobs�and dimensions�almost spherical; in shape and in a diameter of 100 - 120 nM�of retroviral particles at the sucrose 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 points 1 to 5 are property only of putatively infected tissues and cannot be induced in control cultures.
  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 to 5.

There will never be a cure or a vaccine against �HIV� because it does not exist as a unique �exogenous lentivirus.� There is no Universal Gold Standard �HIV� test to prove �HIV� positivity. The �HIV� antibody test does not detect a �virus� but an assortment of proteins that are non-specific to the hypothetical �HIV.� In Current Medical Research and Opinion, vol. 13, no. 10, August, 1997, and Bio/Technology, June, 1993, �AIDS�-analyst and biophysicist, Dr. Eleni Eleopulos and colleagues exposed the non-specificity and unreliability of the �HIV� antibody test. Dr. Eleopulos�s critique supports the argument for the international banning of the �HIV� antibody tests.

It was admitted ten years ago that there is no such thing as a typical �HIV� isolate, therefore, there can be no Gold Standard �HIV� test because there is no Gold Standard �HIV� isolate. On each continent there are different criteria for �HIV� positivity and �AIDS� definition. All evidence of �HIV� positivity must be confirmed by pure culturing of a patient�s lymphocytes and detection of whole, cell-free viral particles; so far this has never been achieved. �HIV,� like all known �lentiviruses� is not known to be sexually transmitted: cell-free viral particles have never been found directly in semen. Therefore �HIV� is not a typically sexually transmitted entity; no �lentivirus� is. Epidemiologists claim that a degree of correlation between �HIV� and �AIDS� proves causation. However, just as correlation does not prove causation, epidemiology cannot prove etiology.

Far from defeating �AIDS,� the �HIV� hypothesis has escalated the epidemic by the global promotion of �antiviral� drugs (AZT, ddI, ddC, 3TC, etc.) which are proven to be a major cause of �AIDS� conditions. By focusing exclusively on �HIV,� researchers, counselors and doctors have failed to examine and halt the recreational drug-driven �AIDS� epidemic that has hit London, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Amsterdam as well as countries like the former Soviet Union, the Ukraine, Romania, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Korea. The �AIDS� epidemic reveals that �AIDS� would be entirely preventable and in part curable, if:

  1. AZT, protease inhibitors and all other �antiviral� drugs and �HIV� vaccines were banned,
  2. a global educational programme were instigated concerning the health risks of illicit recreational drugs,
  3. and the non-specific �HIV� antibody testing procedures (Elisa, Western blot) were to be withdrawn. Therefore patients may be treated for any �real� illnesses rather than for the being �treated� by cyto-toxic �antiviral� drugs on the outcome of an arbitrary �HIV� antibody test.

Yet there are a number of obstacles, 15 years in the making, that block the possible solution of �AIDS� based on the drug/�AIDS� hypothesis:

  1. The World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, plus thousands of �AIDS� organizations (as well as scientific reputations) focus exclusively on promoting the �HIV� hypothesis.
  2. The colossal commercial interests in �HIV� tests, with over 20 million tests per year at $50 or more in the USA alone.
  3. As well as the huge financial profits from �HIV� vaccines and anti-�HIV� drugs. Figures published in early August, 1997, of the half-yearly accounts of pharmaceutical giant Glaxo-Welcome showed the multinational�s drugs sales of AZT (Retrovir) and 3TC (Epivir) exceeded �4 billion for the half year. With vast profits like these, �anti-HIV� drug manufacturers want to hold onto the �HIV� hypothesis at all costs.
  4. The numerous negligence and malpractice law suits against the �HIV/AIDS� orthodoxy from those who were told they are destined to die based on the fraudulent �HIV� tests or whose friends/relatives died from iatrogenic-�AIDS� (�AIDS� caused by �antiviral� drugs).
  5. The prospect of a profound loss of confidence of the global community in its medical-scientific institutions once the world�s media expose the �HIV� fraud.
  6. Annually $8 billion are spent on �HIV� treatment, research and education on the unproductive �HIV� hypothesis paid for by the US taxpayer. The US Government cannot afford to admit at this late stage that they have made a tragic blunder and wasted $46 billion in 14 years. Continuum urgently request that the United Nations to instigate an enquiry into a full reappraisal of the �HIV/AIDS� hypothesis under an international, independent scientific committee.

References:
Eleni Eleopulos, et al., �Is a Western blot proof of HIV infection?�Bio/Technology, June, 1993. Peter Duesberg and David Rasnick, �The Drug-AIDS Hypothesis,� Continuum, vol. 4, no. 5, 1997.

Copyright 1997: Alex Russell, Michael Verney-Elliott, Michael Baumgartner, Continuum.

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