HIV=AIDS Controversy: Putting Things In PerspectiveThe following is a petition that was submitted to the United Nations, Geneva 1997. A Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesisby 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:
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:
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:
References: Copyright 1997: Alex Russell, Michael Verney-Elliott, Michael Baumgartner, Continuum. ✳ ✳ ✳ |