Among the most outspoken dissidents of the HIV orthodoxy are biologist Eleni Papadopulos and physician Val Turner of the Australian Perth Group.129 Papadopulos and Turner believe the particles Gallo identified as HIV are not even retroviruses, but rather are a class of cellular debris generated entirely from within the human body. Even Luc Montagnier admitted in an interview with the journal Continuum in 1997 that after “Roman effort,” with electron micrographs of the cell culture, with which HIV was said to have been detected, no particles were visible with “morphology typical of retroviruses.”130
A British-German research team in 2006 proudly reported that, finally, “the structure of the world’s most deadly virus has been decoded” and that they had succeeded in photographing HIV in a “3-D quality never achieved before.” But after independent scientists inspected the team’s paper, they found that the images depicted appear to be a series of nondescript clumps of debris ranging wildly in sizes and shapes. The study was funded by Wellcome Trust, that has had from its inception, a collaborative relationship with the pharmaceutical industry, including Burroughs Wellcome, the pharmaceutical giant that makes multibillion-dollar revenues from AIDS medications like Combivir, Trizivir, and of course AZT.131 The Wellcome Trust is a kind of hybridized British version of NIAID and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It largely funds studies that tend to promote profit taking by British pharmaceutical companies.
Does Fauci’s Hypothesis Fail Farr’s Law?
William Farr was the British microbiologist who designed the accepted method for predicting the spread of a new virus across a naive population. Farr declared that every “new” viral epidemic follows the same intractable laws, spreading exponentially within weeks at most, after the first infection—and then declining exponentially as it runs out of new uninfected persons. He declared that the rigid symmetrical rise and fall of death rates was so predictable as to be intractable law: “The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is inference.”
New infectious disease epidemics can virtually all be reliably plotted in a predictable bell curve resembling, in appearance, Farr’s graph from London’s 1849 cholera epidemic (below).
The Predictable Spread of Infectious Disease with Farr’s Law
Scientists who accepted Dr. Fauci’s hypothesis that HIV was a new virus were initially confident they could accurately predict a catastrophic spread in a naive human population. But all those predictions were wrong. At the end of each year, HIV’s disappointing performance in imposing mortalities forced CDC to revise its estimates precipitously downward. Instead of a steep rise in infections, CDC’s annual estimates of how many Americans are infected with HIV between 1986 and 2019 has remained fairly constant at approximately one million.132 HIV did not spread or kill at anywhere near the rate expected of a newly introduced sexually transmitted virus.
The growth of HIV in Africa and the West does not follow the laws that have governed population-wide viral pandemic transmission throughout history. Since 1984, HIV has followed a steady monotonic point trajectory spreading from twenty-nine million in 1998 to forty-nine million in 2008. In Africa and elsewhere, the graph of AIDS has been a gradual steady slope following population growth almost perfectly country by country, without any of the widely predicted decreases in population.
Report on the mortality of cholera in England, 1848-49.
Source: WellcomeCollection.org (Free to use under a CC-BY 4.0 license.)
The Spread of AIDS in the United States Post-1985
Dr. Rebecca Culshaw, a mathematical biologist and former AIDS researcher, went from unquestioning believer to converted heretic. The initial irony that captured her attention was the paradox of the preventive curve. It is, she observes, “indisputable fact that neither AIDS nor HIV have spread like they were predicted to. The predicted heterosexual AIDS explosion never happened, and even to mention this prediction now is almost taboo, as it is clearly an embarrassment to the AIDS establishment if HIV has not spread at all but rather it has remained constant in the population since its detection.”133
In Western countries, AIDS has never broken away from its original core pool of homosexual men and drug addicts. That limit defies the pattern of every infectious and sexually transmitted disease throughout history. By definition, there can be no viral disease that does not break out of risk groups (poppers-consuming gays and those addicted to and frequently using hard drugs). This is especially true for HIV, because, as Dr. Fauci’s acolytes claim, this is supposed to be “the most infectious virus that has ever existed.” Assuming that is true, it is baffling that the virus did not frquently spread to women through sexual contact and did not affect all people all over the world equally.134 It is especially baffling that AIDS does not spread to prostitutes except those who use intravenous drugs.135,136
The fact that AIDS does not obey the accepted rules that have reliably governed every other plague known to mankind is, Duesberg says, just more evidence that HIV is “an innocent bystander or a passenger virus.”137
Enforced Consensus in a Sea of Dissenting Voices
The press long ago stopped reporting voices of dissent, but you now know, those voices are real. “It’s like dying in outer space,” Ortleb told me. “No one can hear you scream.” But before questioning the orthodoxy became career suicide, some of the world’s most prestigious scientists expressed such skepticism. It’s worth revisiting some of these voices.
“We do not yet know how HIV causes AIDS,” Dr. John Coffin of Tufts University, a member of the international committee that named the virus, told the delegates to the Sixth International Conference on AIDS in June, 1990.138
Dr. Shyh-Ching Lo, director of AIDS Pathology at the United States Armed Forces Institute of Pathology from 1986 through 2008, insisted that HIV could not be the sole cause of AIDS.139
In 2002, Dr. Bruce Evatt, CDC’s director of the Division of Hematology, lamented that the CDC went to the public with statements for which there was “almost no evidence. We did not have proof it was a contagious agent.”140
In September of 2004, Reinhard Kurth, former director of the Robert Koch Institute (one of the pillars of mainstream AIDS research), conceded in Der Spiegel: “We don’t exactly know how HIV causes disease.”141
In 1987, physiologist and MacArthur grant winner Robert Root-Bernstein told ABC correspondent John Hockenberry that he does not believe that HIV is necessarily the cause or the sole cause of “AIDS”: “I’ve had people tell me bluntly that, ‘I agree totally with your viewpoint that there are probably other things involved, that HIV can’t cause AIDS by itself, that maybe you can get AIDS in the absence of HIV, but I’m not going to risk my million dollars of funding by saying that.’”142