In a rational universe, or in a functioning democracy, combatants would duke out the incendiary HIV/AIDS dispute in an open public debate in the scientific literature between the foremost establishment scientists and the best-credentialed dissenting ones. But in Tony Fauci’s authoritarian technocracy, the ruling medical cabal refuses to allow this sort of dialogue. Like Inquisition priests, HIV’s high clergy stubbornly resist the possibility that they might be wrong. From the outset, the HIV/AIDS religion has seen its survival in moral absolutism, outright discrimination, and merciless suppression of doubt.
Dr. Harvey Bialy argues that the medical establishment’s top concern is not public health, but their own reputations and perquisites. “The scientific and medical communities have a great deal of face to lose. It is not much of an exaggeration to state that when the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is finally recognized as wrong, the entire institution of science will lose the public’s trust, and science itself will experience fundamental, profound, and long-lasting changes. The ‘scientific community’ has risked its credibility by standing by the HIV theory for so long. This is why doubting the HIV hypothesis is now tantamount to doubting science itself, and this is why dissidents face excommunication.”
As Kary Mullis says in his book Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, “What people call science today is probably very similar to what was called science in 1634. Galileo was told to recant his beliefs or be excommunicated. People who refuse to accept the commandments of the AIDS establishment are basically told the same thing.”178
The quasi-religious nature of the debate is evident in the loathing and pious moralizing expressed toward Duesberg by an unnamed Berkeley scientist, interviewed by Celia Farber for her 2006 book, Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS: “He did it to himself, you know. You see, he wouldn’t give up an idea. He went at it with a hammer. He may well be 3,000 percent right, but he upset an awful lot of people. . . . Nobody believed in him because what he was doing was overturning generally held views. They felt betrayed. . . . You don’t just stand up and say everybody is wrong.”179
In her book, Science Sold Out: Does HIV Really Cause AIDS?, Rebecca Culshaw writes, “The persistence of this intellectually bankrupt theory in the public mind is attributable entirely to the campaign of fear, discrimination, and terror that has been waged aggressively by a powerful group of people whose sole motivation was and is behavior control. Yes, the money and the vast interests of the pharmaceutical industry and government-funded scientists are important, but the seeds of the HIV/AIDS hypothesis are sowed with fear. If the fear were to end, the myth would end.”180
Endnotes
1 Celia Farber, “Fatal Distraction,” SPIN (June 1992), http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/cffatal.htm
2 Steven Epstein, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism and the Politics of Knowledge (University of California Press, 1996), 144
3 The Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis, The Group (Jun 6, 1991) https://www.virusmyth.com/aids/group.htm
4 Elliott Ross, “How drug companies’ PR tactics skew the presentation of medical research,” The Guardian (May 20, 2001), https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/may/20/drug-companies-ghost-writing-journalism
5 See also, https://www.duesberg.com/about/bribepd.html
6 Celia Farber, “Fatal Distraction,” SPIN (June 1992), https://www.duesberg.com/media/cffatal.html
7 Steven Epstein, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism and the Politics of Knowledge (University of California Press, 1996), 144, https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft1s20045x&chunk.id=d0e5242&toc.depth=1&toc.id=0&brand=ucpress
8 Rethinking AIDS, "Rethinking AIDS (RA) History," Rethinking AIDS, https://rethinkingaids.com/index.php/about/ra-history
9 Rethinking AIDS, "The AIDS Industry and Media Want You to Think There Are Only a Handful of Scientists Who Doubt the HIV–AIDS Theory," Rethinking AIDS, https://web.archive.org/web/20121227201717/https://rethinkingaids.com/quotes/rethinkers.htm
10 “HIV & AIDS Fauci’s First Fraud,” Documentary, Sep 6, 2020, YouTube video, 21:08, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy3frBacd2k
11 Ibid., 1:11
12 Celia Farber, "AIDS Words from the Front," Spin Vol 10, No 4, 64 (July 1994), https://books.google.com/books?id=9Zg4PvPMtTcC&pg=PA5&dq=SPIN+-+July+1994
13 Another article in NOVA goes a bit further: “‘The process requires an astonishingly rare set of circumstances be met,’ Katzourakis says. ‘Although endogenous retroviruses make up a pretty large proportion of our genome, in terms of the number of times they’ve infiltrated our genome over the past sixty or so million years, it only comes down to about 30 or 40 distinct occasions,’ he says.” Carrie Arnold, “The Viruses That Made Us Human,” NOVA, Sept. 28, 2016, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/endogenous-retroviruses/
14 Carl Zimmer, “Ancient Viruses Are Buried in Your DNA,” NYT, (Oct. 4, 2017), https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/science/ancient-viruses-dna-genome.html
15 RFK Jr. Interview with Dr. David Rasnick (August 14, 2021)
16 Celia Farber, “The Passion of Peter Duesberg,” Barnes World Blogs (April 24, 2004), https://barnesworld.blogs.com/phdp.pdf
17 Stephen Allen, “HIV=AIDS: Fact or Fraud?” (1996), 16:40, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTxvmKHYajQ
18 Peter Duesberg, “Retroviruses as Carcinogens and Pathogens: Expectations and Reality,” Cancer Research (Mar, 1987), https://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/47/5/1199
19 “HIV & AIDS: Fauci’s First Fraud,” op. cit., 16:40
20 Charles Ortleb, Peter Duesberg and the Duesbergians: How a Brave and Brilliant Group of Scientists Challenged the AIDS Establishment and Inadvertently Exposed the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic (Charles Ortleb/Rubicon Media, 2019), 14
21 “HIV & AIDS: Fauci’s First Fraud,” op. cit., 17:51
22 “HIV & AIDS: Fauci’s First Fraud,” op. cit., 1:11:45
23 “HIV & AIDS: Fauci’s First Fraud,” op. cit., 1:12:40
24 Harvey Bialy, Oncogenes, Aneuploidy, and AIDS: A Scientific Life & Times of Peter H. Duesberg (Inst. of Biotechnology, 1994), 3
25 Ibid., 156
26 Jeanne Lenzer, “AIDS ‘Dissident’ Seeks Redemption . . . and a Cure for Cancer,” DISCOVER (May 14, 2008), https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/aids-dissident-seeks-redemption-and-a-cure-for-cancer
27 Michael Specter, “The Denialists,” The New Yorker (Mar. 4, 2007), https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/12/the-denialists
28 Chuck Kline, Media Alert, Department of Health and Human Services (Apr. 28, 1987), http://www.duesberg.com/about/hhsalert.html
29 Celia Farber, “Fatal Distraction,” op. cit.
30 Celia Farber, “The Passion of Peter Duesberg,” Barnes World Blogs (April 24, 2004), https://barnesworld.blogs.com/phdp.pdf
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid.
33 Ibid.
34 Duesberg, Inventing the AIDS Virus, 392
35 Duesberg, op. cit., 392–393
36 Bialy, op. cit., 83
37 Celia Farber, “The Passion of Peter Duesberg,” Barnesworldblogs (Dec. 4, 2004), https://barnesworld.blogs.com/phdp.pdf
38 Ibid.
39 Ibid.
40 John Maddox, “Has Duesberg a Right of Reply?” Nature (May 13, 1993), https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1038/363109a0
41 Bialy, op. cit., 84–88
42 Celia Farber, “The Passion of Peter Duesberg”
43 Ibid.
44 Ibid.