The following are some of the senior scientists who maintain that AIDS in the West cannot be caused by HIV, but mainly by long-term exposure to certain drugs, both prescribed and recreational. In Africa a definition has been adopted by WHO that makes AIDS so wide that that they say it includes many ill with diseases that have nothing to do with HIV.
Their research has mostly been ignored by the media althought they include several Nobel Prize Laureates. Do these scientists deserve this? Look at what they have written, the positions they hold, and judge. Many of their papers are freely available on websites listed below.
Dr Kary Mullis - Nobel Prize Laureate , won for inventing the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), a vital tool in the study of viral particles, used for the Viral Load test. http://www.karymullis.com /
'Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo."
Dr. Etienne de Harven - Emeritus Professor of Pathology, University of Toronto . One of the world's top experts on electron microscopy.
'Dominated by the media, by pressure groups and by the interests of pharmaceutical companies, the AIDS establishment lost contact with open-minded, peer-reviewed science ... the unproven HIV/AIDS hypothesis received 100% of the research funds while all other hypotheses were ignored. '
The Perth Group . An international group of academics headed by Dr Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, Professor of Medical Physics at the Royal Perth Hospital , Australia. Other notable members of this group include Dr. Valendar Turner and Dr. John Papadimitriou. www.theperthgroup.com ii
Eleni wrote 'HIV had not been isolated from either fresh tissues or culture, which means that its existence had not been proven and this situation has not changed up to the present day...I am saddened that there are forces at work that have consistently prevented purposeful but friendly debate. To me and my group the problematic nature of the HIV theory was apparent from the very beginning. '48
Dr Peter Duesberg - Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Member of the US National Academy of Science, first to map the genetic structure of retroviruses. Recipient of the NIH's Outstanding Investigator Grant. His books include 'Infectious AIDS: Have We Been Misled? ' and 'Inventing the AIDS Viru s'. He edited 'AIDS; Virus or Drug Induced ? and in 2003 co-authored a study entitled The Chemical Basis of the Various AIDS Epidemics; Recreational Drugs, Anti-Viral Chemotherapy and Malnutrition available from his website; http://www.duesberg.com
He said of HIV; 'I'm not afraid that HIV exists, because I think retroviruses are not much to be afraid of.... HIV is just a latent, and perfectly harmless, retrovirus'.
Dr. Walter Gilbert, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, Professor of Molecular Biology, Harvard University. Winner, 1980 Nobel Prize for chemistry.
"Duesberg is absolutely correct in saying that no one has proven that AIDS is caused by the AIDS virus."
Dr. Charles L. Geshekter, Ph.D., Three-time Fulbright scholar. Professor of African History, California State University, Chico . He has served as an adviser to the U.S. State Department and several African governments.
"The scientific data do not support the view that what is being called AIDS in Africa has a viral cause. "The scandal is that long-standing ailments that are largely the product of poverty are being blamed on a sexually transmitted virus. "You're looking at what I think is going to turn out to be one of the great frauds of the late 20th century."
Dr. Rosalind Harrison, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, consultant ophthalmic surgeon for the National Health Service, UK
'Virus isolation is necessary to prove virus infection. Retrovirologists have laid down a set of criteria to distinguish spurious from genuine retroviruses. HIV does not fulfil these criteria."
Dr. Rudolf Werner, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry, University of Miami School of Medicine
"The HIV-AIDS hypothesis remains just that - a hypothesis. Many experts' predictions turned out to be false. For example, contrary to the prediction that AIDS would rapidly spread into the heterosexual population, the disease in the United States is still restricted to 85 percent males.'
Dr Gordon Stewart, - Emeritus Professor of Public Health, Glasgow University Former WHO Advisor on AIDS.
"AIDS is a behavioural disease. It is multifactorial'. "It is a scandal that the major medical journals have maintained a conspiracy of silence over any dissent from the orthodox views and official handouts."
Dr. Phillip Johnson , Senior Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley
"One does not need to be a scientific specialist to recognise a botched research job and a scientific establishment that is distorting the facts to maximise its funding."
Dr. Heinz Ludwig Sänger, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology and Virology, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Germany
"HIV cannot be responsible for AIDS. After three years of intensive critical studies of the relevant scientific literature, as an experienced virologist and molecular biologist I came to the following surprising conclusion - there is actually no single scientifically really convincing evidence for the existence of HIV. Not even once has such a retrovirus been isolated and purified by the methods of classical virology."
Dr. Richard Strohman, Emeritus Professor in Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
'We need research into possible [AIDS] causes such as drug use and behaviour, not a bankrupt hypothesis." 'My colleagues in molecular biology by and large do not read the AIDS literatu re. They're just like everybody else who has to believe what they read in the newspapers. We all have to put our faith somewhere, otherwise we don't have time.'
Dr. Harry Rubin, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, Berkeley
"Who were these people who are so much wiser, so much smarter than Luc Montagnier [the discoverer of what is now known as HIV]? He became an outlaw as soon as he started saying that HIV might not be the only cause of AIDS." iii
Dr. Serge Lang, Professor of Mathematics, Yale.
"The hypotheses that HIV is a harmless virus and that drugs cause AIDS defining diseases are compatible with all the evidence I know." "I regard as scandalous the continued ostracism of people and points of view which go against the orthodoxy on HIV'
Dr. Heinrich Broder Medical director of the Federal Clinics for Juvenile and Young Adult Drug Offenders for five German counties, including Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg.
"The collective virus obsession enables 'HIV'/AIDS medicine to operate in a lawless sphere without responsibility for the often fatal consequences.
Dr. Bernard Forscher, former editor of the US Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"The HIV hypothesis ranks with the 'bad air' theory for malaria and the 'bacterial infection' theory of beriberi and pellagra [caused by nutritional deficiencies]. It is a hoax that became a scam."
Dr. Arthur Gottlieb, MD, Chairperson of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University School of Medicine -the first to report the Los Angeles AIDS epidemic in 1981
"The viewpoint has been so firm that HIV is the only cause and will result in disease in every patient, that anyone who challenges that is regarded as 'politically incorrect.' I don't think - as a matter of public policy - we gain by that, because it limits debate and discussion and focuses drug development on attacking the virus rather than attempting to correct the disorder of the immune system, which is central to the disease."
Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, MD, New York Physician, founder of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) , he was one of the first to report the AIDS epidemic in New York.
"The marketing of HIV as a killer virus causing AIDS without the need for any other factors has so distorted research and treatment that it may have caused thousands of people to suffer and die."
"Gallo was certainly committing open and blatant scientific fraud. But the point is not to focus on Gallo. It's us - all of us in the scientific community, we let him get away with it... 'The notion of 'eradication' [of HIV] is just total science fiction. Every retrovirologist knows this. The RNA of retroviruses turns into DNA and becomes part of us. It's part of our being. You can't ever get rid of it."
Harvey Bialy, PhD, author of Oncogenes, Aneuploidy and Aids: A Scientific Life and Times of Peter H. Duesberg , resident scholar at the Institue of Biotechnology, National University of Mexico and founding scientific editor of Nature Biotechnology .
"HIV/AIDS [is] the biggest medical mistake and fraud of the past 500 years."
Dr. Rodney Richards, Ph.D., Biochemist, Founding scientist for the biotech company Amgen . Collaborated with Abbott Laboratories in developing HIV tests.
'To date, no researcher has demonstrated how HIV kills T-cells. It's just a theory that keeps money flowing into the pharmaceutical approach to treating AIDS."
Dr. Robert Root-Bernstein - Associate Professor of Physiology, Michigan State University.
Author of the book 'Rethinking AIDS; The tragic cost of premature consensus' .
"No evidence of female prostitutes transmitting HIV or AIDS into the heterosexual community exists for any Western nation. Acquisition of HIV by men from female prostitutes is almost always drug related.."
Dr Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD, Professor of Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine
"The HIV-AIDS model is untenable. The twenty-plus diseases the government defines as 'AIDS' are caused, instead, by immunosuppressive heavy-duty recreational drug use, antiretroviral drugs, and receptive anal intercourse. The elusive HIV, when present, simply goes along for the ride, lodged in a small minority of the body's T cells. It is a passenger on the AIDS airplane, not its pilot."
On Antiretroviral drugs
Dr. Andrew Herxheimer, MD, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, UK Cochrane Centre, Oxford; edited Drug & Therapeutics Bulletin in the UK for 30 years.
'I think zidovudine [AZT] was never really evaluated properly and that its efficacy has never been proved, but its toxicity certainly is important. And I think it has killed a lot of people. Especially at the high doses. I personally think it not worth using alone or in combination at all."
Dr. Joseph Mercola, former Chairman of the Family Medicine department at St. Alexius Medical Center, Illinois; served as editor of HIV Monograph by Abbott Laboratories
"What is not mentioned in any textbook is that AZT has been found in five studies performed after its rushed FDA approval to be equally toxic to T-cells, the very cells whose absence is blamed on HIV. This is not surprising since T-cells are produced in the bone marrow, and all the other cells produced there are depleted by AZT. These studies are but a sample of the evidence that suggest that AZT and other 'antiretrovirals'...are causing a variety of AIDS-like symptoms which are being blamed on HIV."
Dr. Rodney Richards, Ph.D., Biochemist, Founding scientist for the biotech company Amgen. Collaborated with Abbott Laboratories in developing HIV tests.
'To date, no researcher has demonstrated how HIV kills T-cells. It's just a theory that keeps money flowing into the pharmaceutical approach to treating AIDS." "The medical literature lists at least 60 different conditions that can register positive on the HIV-test. These conditions include candidas, arthritis, parasites, malaria, liver conditions, alcoholism, drug abuse, flu, herpes, syphilis, other STDs and pregnancy."
Dr. Alfred Hassig - Emeritus Professor of Immunology, University of Bern. Former Head of the Swiss Blood Transfusion Service and President of the Board of Trustees of the International Society of Blood Transfusion
"AZT (anti-viral AIDS medicine) has, in countless cases, brought about the inevitable and slow asphyxiation of the patient's body cells, and death by poisoning. The doctors wrongly diagnose the fatal consequences of AZT medication as AIDS.'