Ostrom described Dr. Fauci’s awkward denial when one caller to the show asked whether the new mystery illnesses had “anything to do with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.” Fauci stated emphatically that it did not.
“Fauci was clearly uncomfortable talking about chronic fatigue syndrome,” Ostrom reported, “and couldn’t quite figure out where to look, so his eyes darted everywhere. . . . The show ended with an angry call from a physician in the Midwest who treats AIDS patients. He demanded to know why Fauci and other health officials had not informed physicians about the cases of non-HIV ‘AIDS’ before the information appeared in Newsweek. Shouldn’t the doctors know about this before the mass media, the doctor asked sarcastically. Fauci became very defensive, asserting that it had only become clear in the last couple of weeks that the non-HIV ‘AIDS’ cases constituted a real phenomenon and, therefore, there had previously been nothing to inform the physicians of. He did not look happy at the show’s end.”100
Ostrom added this observation: “Fauci’s good on television, as long as he’s being touted as President George Bush’s hero or patted on the back for rushing toxic drugs through the approval process without adequate safety testing. But when reporters start acting like reporters, as they have since the non-HIV cases came to light, Fauci’s thin skin gets him into trouble; he becomes defensive, condescending and sarcastic.”101
King initially scheduled Peter Duesberg to appear on the same show and apparently canceled Duesberg at Dr. Fauci’s insistence.102
The Problem of HIV Without AIDS
Koch’s first postulate also requires that the suspected pathogen should only be found in sick individuals, and never in healthy individuals.
It is therefore equally frustrating for HIV-only aficionados that widespread PCR use quickly revealed hundreds of thousands of individuals with HIV and no sign of illness. Dr. Fauci initially predicted that all of these individuals would die of AIDS within two years. Later he doubled their life expectancy to four years, and then to eight. Then he stopped talking about these upcoming tragedies altogether. Today, even Dr. Fauci’s most loyal clergymen acknowledge that there are over 165,000 Americans and millions of individuals globally who carry the HIV virus without ill effect.103 According to CDC estimates, approximately one-third of HIV-positives in the United States do not know their status.104 If this is the case, Harvey Bialy points out, there should be a huge number of people dying suddenly of AIDS. This is not happening. In fact, the vast majority of those who test positive for HIV remain healthy for years. Duesberg and other critics argued that there is meager proof that people with HIV alone will not live a normal life span.105
Dr. Fauci has also taken energetic precautions to ensure that nobody study the prevalence of healthy HIV-infected people. In July 1996, Newsday reported that Dr. Fauci had suddenly aborted a $16 million, five-year study of the phenomenon midstream. According to journalist Laurie Garrett’s July 11 story in Newsday, “Key HIV Contract Is Killed: Some See Retribution at Hands of NIH Official,”106 was the largest study on HIV AIDS ever commissioned, involving research from over 100 scientists from leading institutions, including Harvard, the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (in Manhattan), Northwestern University (Chicago), Duke University (North Carolina), and the University of Alabama. One of the study’s central purposes was to examine the question that Dr. Fauci apparently didn’t want answered, why some HIV infected individuals never succumb to AIDS. The five-year contract, which began in 1994, to fund this collaboration (formerly named the Correlates of HIV Immune Protections, or CHIPS), has no parallel in US “AIDS” research. Dr. Fauci’s action effectively scuttled a year’s worth of work by about 100 independent scientists. Aaron Diamond’s Dr. David Ho told Garrett, “I’d like to see if Tony could find a contract anywhere in his portfolio that could match the productivity of this one.”107
Newsday reported that the shocking cancellation was a retaliation against a group of younger scientists among this group who had signed a report (the “Levine Report”) that criticized NIH’s policy of only funding research that supported Dr. Fauci’s HIV/AIDS orthodoxies. “This is payback time for Tony Fauci,”108 said AIDS activist Gregg Gonsalves of Treatment Action Group, the offshoot of ACT UP formed to openly receive Pharma funding. He told Newsday, “It was an act of retribution by Tony Fauci, plain and simple.”109 In reporting the incident, the New York Native quoted NIAID insiders (New York Native, July 22, 1996), complaining that Dr. Fauci had fostered a reprisal culture at NIH. They said that their boss’s favorite expression was “What goes around comes around.”110 Gonsalves called the cancellation a “vendetta” against the young scientists in the group who dared to ask for science-based funding strategies. It’s just as likely that Dr. Fauci was searching for an excuse to terminate a study that threatened the entire HIV/AIDS paradigm.
The Problem with Isolating the Virus
Koch’s second postulate is that the virus can be isolated from an ill individual and made to grow in pure culture. Highly respected scientists including éttienne de Harven argued that HIV has never been isolated or grown in pure culture. Both Montagnier and Gallo have periodically acknowledged this deficiency.111
Instigating Disease with Cultured HIV
Koch’s third postulate requires that the cultured microorganisms should cause disease when introduced into healthy individuals. Duesberg and others argue, till this day, that this proof is incomplete. In 1984, Montagnier acknowledged that: “The only way to prove that HIV causes AIDS is to show this on an animal model.”112
No one has tried injecting HIV into a healthy human being, but scientists have stuck all kinds of mice and rats and monkeys and chimpanzees, and none of them got anything resembling human AIDS. No one has yet been able to induce AIDS by inoculating a healthy experimental animal with the cultured microorganism.
“There is no animal model for AIDS,” agreed Nobel Laureate for Chemistry Walter Gilbert in 1989,113 “and where there is no animal model, you cannot establish Koch’s postulates.” This failure, by itself, said Gilbert, left such a gaping hole in Gallo’s theory that he “would not be surprised if there were another cause of AIDS and even that HIV is not involved.”114
Evolutionary biologist James Lyons-Weiler argues that genetic sequencing of infected individuals proves sexual transmission of HIV. He also points to a 1991 judicial decision against a Florida dentist, Dr. David Acer,115 who allegedly infected five patients with a contaminated drill, as definitive proof of Koch Postulate 3.116 Subsequent investigations by 60 Minutes and others raised new doubts about the Acer verdict.117
Re-Isolating the Pathogen