Inventing the AIDS Virus: The Truth Behind the Biggest Medical Miscalculation of Our Time [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Duesberg carefully and clearly sets out the standards for defining infectious diseases, and explains how the HIV-AIDS money machine at CDC and NIH failed to follow basic and long accepted criteria when blaming AIDS on a virus. Further, Duesberg lays out the foundation for his belief that AIDS is caused by drug abuse (including therpaies like AZT, ddI, & ddC). Lastly, Duesberg details the persecution endured by the HIV-AIDS establishment, funded by our tax dollars.

This is a very readable book. Hard to put down. Read it with an open mind, and the truth will be clear.

From the first chapter: "our leading scientists and policymakers cannot demonstrate that their efforts have saved a single life." Who benefits from testing and "treating" the "high risk" communities who are, more likely, dying from the "treatment" that is *not* saving their lives? "AIDS itself has not yet affected larger numbers of women nor has it entered the heterosexual population outside of drug addicts: nine out of ten AIDS patients is still male, and more than 95 percent still fall into the same risk categories: homosexual (men), heroin addicts, or, in a few cases, hemophiliacs. All other sexually transmitted diseases are equally distributed between the sexes. AIDS has not exploded into the heterosexual population, as do all other sexually transmitted diseases. Yet, the cry rings out for all pregnant women (especially women of color) to be tested, to receive treatment *even if they are not sick*, to transmit AZT to their unborn children, *to save their lives." This, while expectant mothers will be arrested if they take cocaine or drink alcohol, and will be lectured if they take so much as an aspirin. What is wrong with this picture?

David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center of New York, recently gave the key to long-term survival with HIV: "None had received antiretroviral therapy." The chilling news is that instead of preventing AIDS, the drugs help to bring it on. The mortality of AZT recipients is 25 percent higher than that of those in untreated control groups. The drug, originally developed for cancer chemotherapy, efficiently destroys the immune system and causes symptoms largely indistinguishable from "AIDS" itself. Even the AIDS establishment is admitting the problems with AZT today.

The anger pointed at Duesberg is easily understood as he uncovers much of the dirty politics behind the American scientific establishment: something that can only ring very familiar bells as the beginning of the epidemic and the confusion around "who discovered the virus," come to mind, and the press conference that *announced* the cause of the "epidemic" as Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler was ushered, quickly and quietly, out of the country. Freedom of speech and scientific inquiry have gone the way of the wind as patients are expected to "trust their doctors" and maintain their drug regimen regardless of the horrendous side effects.

We have lost our power of choice. Duesberg insists that "AIDS," if it exists at all, is not contagious and that it is not spread by sexual contact. In whose benefit is it to control the sexual behavior and the reproductive capacity of others through terror?

Duesberg *has* offered to inject himself with the virus. His stand has cost him a great deal that he could have maintained by marching to the tune of the AIDS establishment. Whistle blowers do not fare well in this society, but they are very important and very necessary.

How quickly we forget the important questions: why is it that the partner of AIDS patient Rock Hudson, the wife and 8 year old daughter of Arthur Ashe, as well as the husband of the late AIDS patient Elizabeth Glasser are HIV and AIDS-free? Why is it that Magic Johnson seems to be doing so well? He won't talk about it, but while Arthur Ashe was on the medical regimen, Magic Johnson dropped it...and seems to be doing just fine.

Duesberg makes a clear and meticulous case for the correlation of recreational drug use with the breakdown of the immune system that leads to the opportunistic infections associated with AIDS. He also is very clear that whatever is going on in Africa is another story entirely, and quite explainable by sloppy science and big money interests. The current debate in Africa (that is not making the news) threatens to expose the racist rationale behind the push of "anti-AIDS" drugs in South Africa. I can only admire a national leader that would question the agenda of the multi-national pharmaceutical corporations.

It's a big book, and too thorough to reproduce in a review. I can only suggest a careful reading.

One more point, though, that will open your eyes as it did mine: Much money is being funneled to community agencies and medical treatment centers in the name of Ryan White, the young Indiana teenager who became a national poster boy for the symbol of heroic battling against AIDS after his school expelled him as a threat to the other students. Although the news media portrayed the death as the tragic end to White's long fight with AIDS, the doctor never publicly confirmed that the death certificate actually attributed the cause of death to AIDS.

"A phone call to the Indiana Hemophilia Foundation to check the details generated a very different story. A foundation representative directly familiar with White's case was asked of what specific AIDS diseases Ryan White had died. Only internal bleeding and hemorrhaging, liver failure, and collapse of other physiological systems were listed. These conditions interestingly happen to match the classical description of hemophilia, none being listed as peculiar to the AIDS condition, but the representative did not seem to know that. It was then acknowledged that White's hemophilia condition was more severe than the average, requiring him to take clotting factor every day near the end (extremely high risk, according to Duesberg, for immune suppression). On top of all that, White had taken AZT, the former toxic cancer chemotherapy now prescribed as AIDS treatment. Hemophiliacs, needless to say, are particularly vulnerable to the internal ulcerations induced by such chemotherapy. Thus, only media hype transformed White's death from a severe case of hemophilia, exacerbated by AZT, into AIDS."

Don't take my word for it. Read this book. I read it twice. And I'm sure I'll read it again.