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Synopsis
Despite enormous efforts, over 100,000 papers and over $22 billion spent by the US taxpayer alone, the HIV-AIDS hypothesis has failed to produce any public health benefits, no vaccine, no effective drug, no prevention, no cure, not a single life saved. Is the science system to be blamed? Has science failed to reveal the truth about AIDS?
In AIDS: Virus or Drug Induced?, two dozen scientists, scholars and journalists have investigated the status quo of AIDS research. Most of them have questioned the HIV-AIDS hypothesis before, but have since been censored, and sociologically excluded from AIDS research, politics and journalism. Here they are united for the first time to put on trial the HIV-AIDS hypothesis.
There are those who acquit HIV entirely. Others who make a case for HIV as a necessary, but not a sufficient cause of AIDS. And one medical scientist who, together with the huge AIDS literature, defends the hypothesis that HIV is sufficient to cause AIDS.
The book convincingly reveals that the scientific method could very well find a solution to AIDS, but only if ideas can be exchanged freely and if the HIV monopoly can be broken. AIDS: Virus or Drug Induced? illustrates that the solution to AIDS could be as close as one of several, very testable and very affordable alternatives to the unproductive HIV-AIDS hypothesis.
John A. Robinson
After a shaky beginning where some unfortunate comparisons are made between our current jury system and the conduct of science, this book recovers rapidly and provides, in somewhat shocking detail, the basis for a growing body of tenable contradictions to prevailing AIDS/HIV dogma. Although one will not come away convinced that the alternative in the title is a final answer, this monograph should be depressing reading for most of the scientific community. The evidence is there: politicization of AIDS has damaged the time-honored scientific method of openness, rational discussion, interpretation of data, and exploration of testable hypotheses in an unbiased fashion. This book should appeal to scientists in general, because there are implications broader than the AIDS/HIV context. The methods by which the AIDS elite, including high-ranking scientific bureaucrats in several government agencies, journalists, and even an editor, has acted to protect the orthodoxy is compelling reading. In contrast, a small but pesky group of respected scientists and journalists are simply asking where is the proof? and proposing testable alternatives. It has been apparent to many from different walks of life that there is indeed something unsettling about the current absolutist philosophy that HIV, acting by itself, is able to produce the AIDS syndrome. To many, it seems difficult to understand the resistance for at least the consideration of etiologic co-factors operative in the highly disparate risk groups involved. These are not minor issues to be resolved but have implications in the strategy of combating this scourge. This book is worthwhile reading if for nothing more than to gain a perspective onwhat can happen when science is politicized. It is critical that all concerned understand this and begin reexamining the implications of the prevailing AIDS orthodoxy; if for nothing else, to get new and possibly more viable solutions on the table. This book is recommended to all contrarians.