Harvard Nobel Prize–winning molecular biologist Walter Gilbert told Hockenberry, “The major thing that concerns me, like calling HIV the cause of AIDS, is that we do not have a proof of causation. That’s our major reason for being concerned.”143 Gilbert also said the problem with the HIV theory is the argument that “all cases of AIDS are associated with the virus and there is an inference made that all people with the virus will ultimately come down with AIDS. That’s of course, not known to be a fact.”
South Africa’s pioneering AIDS researcher and physician, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, chimed in: “The harm in the whole notion of the speculation being presented as fact is that if the speculation proved to be true, that means that research on whatever is truly going on has been neglected and this, of course, with a disease like AIDS, can be translated into the loss of tens of thousands of lives.”144
Says prominent New York AIDS doctor Michael Lange, assistant head of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology at St. Luke’s Hospital: “We’ve lost . . . years in AIDS drug development . . . because of the Gallo/Essex/Haseltine axis boycotting other ideas.”145
This chapter has outlined a meager skeletal description of just a few of the most common critiques of the hypothesis Dr. Fauci defends at all costs. Interested readers may find much more eloquent and thorough investigations in a number of books by various authors. Perhaps the best of these is mathematician Rebecca Culshaw’s Science Sold Out. Culshaw was an AIDS researcher who slowly became disillusioned by the gaping chasms in the HIV/AIDS hypothesis, and by government corruption in maintaining the orthodoxy. Her book offers a sociological explanation as to how the theory was anointed by the media and scientific community. Other important books are Duesberg’s Inventing the AIDS Virus, Lauritsen’s book The AIDS War, Osler’s Web by Hillary Johnson, and Harvey Bialy’s Oncogenes, Aneuploidy, and AIDS. I also recommend “The Deconstruction of the AIDS” article by Yale mathematician Serge Lang, and an insightful chapter titled “Fear and Lawyers in Los Angeles” in Kary Mullis’s Dancing Naked in the Mind Field.
Instead of civilly debating these dissidents and writers and common-sense questions posed by Duesberg and other critics, Dr. Fauci’s strategy has been to exercise his frightening capacity to silence dissent and mangle reputations. History may credit him as the progenitor—even the inventor—of cancel culture.
My purpose here is not to take sides, much less to resolve disputes that have so far defied resolution for decades. Rather, I’m sharing something few people have been allowed to know: That there is a dispute, and that Tony Fauci has not allowed study that might resolve it. My hope is to chronicle Tony Fauci’s role as high priest of an orthodoxy that today supports a multibillion-dollar global enterprise. Over the years, Dr. Fauci has deflected and evaded scientific debate and transformed theories into quasireligious dogma, punishing and silencing dissent the way the Inquisition punished heresy. America’s Doctor has never given the American taxpayers—or AIDS sufferers, 53 percent of whom are, in the United States, people of color—proof that AZT or its successive antivirals provide beneficial impacts on mortality. It seems fair, if not dangerous, to ask for that proof.
Endnotes
1 Mark J. Perry, “Michael Crichton explains why there is ‘no such thing as consensus science,’” AEI (Dec. 15, 2019), https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/michael-crichton-explains-why-there-isno-such-thing-as-consensus-science/#:~:text=Science%2C%20on%20the%20contrary%2C%20requires,In%20science%20consensus%20is%20irrelevant.&text=There%20is%20no%20such%20thing%20as%20consensus%20science
2 Charles Ortleb, “The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-Up,” Rubicon Media, 2018, 356.
3 Natalie Angier, “SCIENTIST AT WORK: Anthony S. Fauci; Consummate Politician On the AIDS Front,” NYT (Feb 15, 1994), https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/15/science/scientist-at-work-anthony-s-fauci-consummate-politician-on-the-aids-front.html
4 Celia Farber, “The Passion of Peter Duesberg,” barnesworld (Dec. 4, 2004), https://barnesworld.blogs.com/phdp.pdf
5 Peter H. Duesberg, “Retroviruses as Carcinogens and Pathogens: Expectations and Reality,” Cancer Research (Mar 1, 1987), http://www.duesberg.com/papers/ch1.html
6 Peter H. Duesberg, Inventing the AIDS Virus (Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1996), 191
7 Luc Montagnier et al., “Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS),” SCIENCE (May, 1983), https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Isolation-of-a-T-lymphotropic-retrovirus-from-a-at-Barre%CC%81-Sinoussi-Chermann/7872732fd9c2e2bc5102408b477a8fd7adbe633f
8 John Crewdson, Science Fictions: A Scientific Mystery, a Massive Cover-Up, and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo (Little, Brown and Co., 2003)
9 Seth Roberts, “What AIDS Researcher Dr. Robert Gallo Did in Pursuit of the Nobel Prize,” SPY, (June 1990), http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/srlabrat.htm
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid.
12 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Press Conference, Secretary Margaret Heckler (Apr 23, 1984), https://www.globalhealthchronicles.org/files/original/77248e9815176de4b40ffee97f4d855f.pdf
13 Crewdson, op. cit.,17
14 Ibid., 22
15 Roberts, op. cit. “What AIDS Researcher Dr. Robert Gallo Did”
16 David Remnick, “Robert Gallo Goes to War,” Washington Post, Aug. 9, 1987, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1987/08/09/robert-gallo-goes-to-war/224985a7-50f0-4526-acd5-91dedbbdc944/
17 Crewdson, op. cit., 29–32
18 Roberts, op. cit. “What AIDS Researcher Dr. Robert Gallo Did”
19 Anthony Liversidge, Interview Robert Gallo, SPIN, (Mar. 1989), https://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/alinterviewrg2.htm
20 Roberts, op. cit. “What AIDS Researcher Dr. Robert Gallo Did”
21 Robert Gallo et al., “Frequent detection and isolation of cytopathic retroviruses (HTLV-III) from patients with AIDS and at risk for AIDS,” Science, May 4, 1984, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6200936/
22 Roberts, op. cit. “What AIDS Researcher Dr. Robert Gallo Did”
23 Ibid.
24 Peter D. Weinberg, Jennie Hounshell et al.,“Legal, Financial, and Public Health Consequences of HIV Contamination of Blood and Blood Products in the 1980s and 1990s,” Medicine and Public Issues (Feb. 19, 2002), https://sci-hub.do/10.7326/0003-4819-136-4-200202190-00011
25 Jon Cohen, “HHS: Gallo Guilty of Misconduct,” Science (Jan 8, 1993), https://www.sciencemag.org/site/feature/data/aids2002/pdfs/259-5092-168.pdf
26 Paul Kefalides, “Apathy, Outrage Accompany Leak of Unofficial Report On Gallo Case,” The Scientist (Apr. 2, 1995), https://www.the-scientist.com/news/apathy-outrage-accompany-leak-of-unofficial-report-on-gallo-case-58571
27 John Crewdson, “Science Under the Microscope,” Chicago Tribune (Nov. 19, 1989), https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-11-19-8903130823-story.html
28 Kerry Mullis, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field (Vintage Books, 1998), 178
29 Terry Michaels, Down the HIV Rabbit Hole (Unpublished Manuscript, 2017), 3
30 “HIV & AIDS Fauci’s First Fraud,” Documentary, YouTube video (Sept 6, 2020), 12:32, https://youtu.be/YVjcq3m3JNo
31 Hillary Johnson, Osler’s Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic (Crown Publishers, 1996), 250