This book should be required reading. Those who are unaware of the failings of the current HIV/AIDS hypothesis are in for a big surprise. Peter Duesberg has been run out of the profession, branded with names like "loony" and "murderer", all for disputing the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. The book goes into detail about alternative causes of immunosuppression in AIDS patients. Recreational and prescribed drugs, malnutrition, and foreign proteins in hemophiliacs. The most shocking information in this book is that the majority of AIDS is actually caused by the drugs prescribed to HIV +'s!
Anyone who has been diagnosed HIV + should think twice (or perhaps three of four times) before starting anti-HIV medications. 4 stars because he doesn't go into other possible causes of AIDS, such as multiple infections,overuse of antibiotics,rectally deposited semen,corticosteroids,etc. Also there is not much in the book about alternative treatments for AIDS such as selenium. The fact remains that even if HIV does not cause AIDS, it is still a majour health problem.
June 16, 2008

Duesberg is a hero

Everyone owes it to himself/herself to read this book. You have nothing to lose but your ignorance. Everything Duesberg writes is carefully explained and supported and extensively footnoted. It's not hard to read. After 25 plus years of believing in the HIV theory of AIDS I finally saw the light. How could we all have been misled so totally for so long? HIV does NOT cause AIDS. That was a scam from the beginning. It was always all about money and prestige and government cover up and scientists going along to get along. Shouldn't we have known? Duesberg has been squelched for too long. Read this book. Buy an extra copy for a friend. It could save your life.
February 28, 2008

People can't come to terms with the enormous "conspiracy" of modern health care.

The main problem is that many average people, and the vast majority of medical related people simply cannot come to terms with the INCREASINGLY OBVIOUS CONSPIRACY that exists in the corporately controlled monopoly that we call Health Care. Accepting the obvious absolutely devastates our views / perceptions / and assumptions of the World around us. And I mean this quite literally. People won't go there psychologically, and their minds ignore, down-play or ridiculously refute any evidence proving that our so-called "health care" system is about as criminal, as diabolical, and as evil of a system that has ever existed on planet Earth. The proven central premise that sick, uncured, drugged people are huge sources of profit, while truly healthy people threaten the very existence of our better named "sickness creation and maintainance" system, demonstrates that there is NO ECONOMIC INCENTIVE TO CURE ANYTHING. Period. Unfortunately, reading publications, journals, and websites from all the groups that are economically tied to this system, will not spell it out quite like that. But are you really that naive to expect so?

The AIDS drama is very similiar to the cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and osteoporosis dramas, in that our "top, scientific medical men" (who all come through the Big Pharma controlled assembly line of medical schools) consistently misunderstand, misdiagnose, and mistreat the suffering every second of every day, while Big Pharma, Big Oil (as most drugs are petrochemicals), medical supply companies, big for-profit hospitals and clinics, the various foundations and national associations, a variety of politicians (especially Congress), and all of the doctors themselves (especially the various researchers) make enormous piles of money. All of these legally named and classified diseases (and this is crucial to monopolizing the treatment protocols) are huge cash cows to the System. Meanwhile, the common sick person not only gets little to no results in helping or "curing" (which modern medicine no longer even talks about) their afflictions, but the method of so-called "treatment" often accelerates what they already have, OR creates entirely different problems that are then treated with other drugs and dangerous procedures. And around and around we go.

Horse doctors from the 1920s were of much greater value to the common patient than the best Ivy League trained modern specialists of today. A modern MD wouldn't recognize a vitamin deficiency if it bit him on the butt, and don't even mention any conditions relating to modern food, water, and medicine toxicities (he'll just name it fibromyalgia, or ADHD, or early onset Parkinson's, or manic depression and send you on your way with 2 minutes of blither-blather and a handful of pills). Modern medical people, either knowingly or unknowingly, are simply drug pushers, misdirecting fear mongerers, and money collectors for global-wide corporations. And like with any corporate agenda, profits for shareholders are the ONLY LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY. The medical corporations have no other legal responsibility, and they simply laugh when the issues of ethics or morality are brought up.

Business is war, and any corporate entity will do whatever is needed to exist, profit and grow, and this includes destroying competition (like the entire realm of common sense "natural" medicine), partnering up with allies (forming powerful medical monopolies), changing legal parameters (creation of the AMA and the FDA to lobby for laws and "regulations", for example), creating a mind manipulated army (which is why they build, fund, and control medical institutions), and CREATING A NEED FOR THEIR PRODUCTS in the market place (either real or imagined through various forms of propaganda). It is in this last area that this book excells in. It explains how the system creates huge markets for their products. And it will lie, cheat, steal, bribe, and ultimately kill to do so. Possibly introducing HIV into the human population, then misrepresenting what HIV is, then creating a bogus syndrome (AIDS) and linking it with shameless causality, then spreading fear like never before, then making many billions from off-the-shelf drug protocols (AZT was shelved previously because it was determined to be too toxic even for chemotherapy - which really is saying something!) is just another day at the office for these corporate pirates. Have I shattered your World yet?

The author's questioning of the causal link between HIV and AIDS is certainly needed and well done. Clearly, AZT and other drugs and conditions lead to what has been termed AIDS. Fine. But, my main issue is the author's down playing of what HIV really is, how it developed, how it got introduced into the human population, and what consequences it has in our bodies even without the toxic treatments. These concerns he blows off, which is unfortunate because they really are at the heart of the "conspiracy". For example, does the author actually believe that HIV jumped species from some Green monkeys??!!

Other brave researchers have done excellent work in showing HIVs most likely man-made beginnings (as in an agent of germ warfare created at Fort Detrick, Maryland), it's introduction into the human population in the late 1970s via bogus Hep-B vaccines in specific cities in the US and in Africa, and the intended affects on certain target populations (genocide of the gay population and black Africans mainly). And I'm unsure of why the author doesn't go down any of these paths. Too controversial even for him? Not his area of expertise? Not aware of the research? Doesn't believe in the extent of the evil agenda? Or is this author using some classic misdirection? Hard to say, but understanding the abuse this guy has taken and what he's sacrificed to get his info out, I would tend to think he's above board. Regardless, this book only tells half the story of the HIV / AIDS drama (at best), thus the 3 star rating.
February 14, 2008

HIV Does Not Cause AIDS

... That is the theme of this astounding book. In this highly persuasive piece, Dr. Peter Duesberg explains exactly why no cure for AIDS is in prospect despite more than twenty years of research and uncounted billions of dollars spent on AIDS research. (And many lives lost.) His answer is simple: AIDS is not caused by the HIV organism or any virus. Thus all attempts to "cure" the disease by killing the virus will be, and have been, uniformly unsuccessful since no virus is the cause of AIDS.

The reader is initially astonished to learn in this book he fact that no scientist has ever performed an experiment to establish a proof that HIV (or any virus) causes AIDS. Dr. Duesberg explains that Koch's Theorem, the accepted means of establishing that a specific organism causes a given disease, has never been applied to AIDS research. Attempts to do so have failed, and in fact the presence of HIV in AIDS patients who have succumbed to the disease is so low as to be nearly undetectable. Inexplicably, scientists, such as Dr. Duesberg, who question the present AIDS orthodoxy (that HIV is the cause of AIDS) have been made outcasts.

Another astounding argument that Dr. Duesberg makes convincingly is that AZT, the medication of choice for AIDS patients (endlessly drumbeated by the news media as the "treatment" for AIDS), is itself deadly dangerous. AZT is the cause of symptoms that lead to death, which symptoms are themselves indistinguishable from classic AIDS. AZT was originally intended to be used as a cancer treatment, but is so toxic to patients that it could not be used to treat cancer. In fact, AZT prevents all cells from reproducing, and a human being cannot take AZT in dosages sufficient to kill viruses and expect to live.

Duesberg makes a persuasive case that the US Federal Government, through the Center for Disease Control, has utterly centralized AIDS research by controlling almost all funding for it, with the result that the research is hopelessly politicized. As one wag put it, centralized planning for research works no better than the centralized economic planning which brought about the demise of the old Soviet Union. In any case, no cure for AIDS is in prospect after countless billions have been spent, and many lives lost. Further, AIDS has distinguished itself by stubbornly refusing to expand beyond its original risk groups--drug users, gay men, and hemophiliacs receiving regular transfusions. Although many predictions have been made that AIDS would quickly become a disease afflicting countless non-drug using heterosexuals, nothing of the sort has happened. In fact, AIDS has been relatively stable in its prevalence since its existence was first announced in the 1980s, with most or all of its increase consisting of a widening of the definition of AIDS. This redefining of certain traditional diseases by now classifying them as "AIDS" explains the so-called epidemic of the disease in Africa. Here, Dr. Duesberg is very persuasive.

Dr. Duesberg offers an alternative hypothesis for the cause of AIDS. He notes that since World War II there has not been a major epidemic in modern industrialized countries excluding AIDS. There is one health problem that has mushroomed, however--recreational drug use. Dr. Duesberg makes a convincing case that the characteristics and incidence of AIDS correlates very closely to the demographics of recreational drug use. The reader can judge for him or her self. I am soundly persuaded.

Orthodox AIDS scientists, politicians, journalists, and activists have desperately sought to marginalize Peter Duesberg and the growing group of scientists who agree with him. "The science is settled" they say. Dissent from the orthodox theory of AIDS is a moral, not a scientific issue, they say. (Come to think of it, where else have we heard this argument lately?)

In practice, the phrases "the science is settled" or "there is a consensus" is media code for the media's announced intent to favor one side, and deny coverage to the other, in a given controversy.

In point of fact, Dr. Duesberg is convincing that the news media have badly let the public down by failing to explain the problems and contradictions inherent in the "HIV-Causes-AIDS" orthodoxy. Why do we believe that this theory is correct when it fails to fulfill Koch's Theorem? The media should be asking this question. Instead, it has meekly fallen into line.

I predict that this book is destined to one day be heralded as a seminal work. Duesberg makes a strong case that the science of virology has run amok, aided by the US Federal Government, powerful drug companies, and misguided activists who want to be told a "magic bullet" cure is the key to solving the AIDS problem. This is a disturbing work that will shake the most skeptical reader's confidence in scientific orthodoxy. And make no mistake, a shake-up is overdue and vital.
January 01, 2008

Duesberg is right about both AIDS and the politics of science

Contrary to popular belief, Peter Duesberg is not a quack. In fact, he is a widely acknowledged expert on retroviruses such as HIV. His credentials are impecable: he is a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Nevertheless, Dusberg is regarded by the uninformed as a quack because he has dared to scientifically investigate whether the retrovirus HIV actually causes the complex of diseases known as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) -- which has widely been asserted without proof -- and has had the courage to report that research shows the answer is that HIV is not the cause of AIDS.

In this excellent book Prof. Duesberg discusses in detail, but in a highly readable manner, both the retrovirus HIV and the syndome AIDS and shows that they are not the same things. In fact, AIDS is not itself a single disease but, rather, is a complex of more than 20 separate diseases. The one commonality of the diseases in the AIDS syndrome is not HIV infection but the fact that they rarely infect people with healthy immune systems. In general, people who acquire any of the AIDS diseases have deficient immune systems. In poor countries, especially in Africa where the incidence of AIDS is high, immune deficiency is mainly due to severe malnutrition. In the developed world, including the U.S., immune deficiency is often caused by deleterious lifestyle behavior, including drug use. A person whose immune system is severely weakened is then vulnerable to the diseases in the AIDS complex. Immune-deficient people often also catch HIV which is why HIV and AIDS often -- but definitely not always -- are found together. However, HIV can also occur in people who do not suffer from AIDS and never will. A positive test for HIV antibodies merely means that at some time a person has been infected with HIV, not that they are infected with HIV now or that they have or ever will have AIDS.

Another point which Prof. Duesberg covers in this book is that modern science has become highly politicized, and that disagreement with current scientific dogma is strongly discouraged and often punished by inability to publish in recognized scientific journals. This is one reason why Duesberg has difficulty presenting his case to the public. As a scientist with 44 years experience at a major research institution, I regret to confirm that science has indeed become politicized and dogmatic. Please read this book if you want to know the truth about AIDS and modern medical politics.
July 24, 2007

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