HIV and AIDS

I was fortunate enough to come across a Kary Mullis autobiography titled "Dancing Naked in the Mind Field". It was a short (157 page) read but very interesting. I'm going to say more about in subsequent posts but for the moment I'll focus on what he had to say about the link between HIV and AIDS. 

Kary Mullis is the inventor of the PCR test that is all the rage now in the battle against the invisible monster of Covid-19. He received the Nobel Prize for this discovery in 1993 but had developed the technique about ten years earlier. In the mid-1980s, this test was being used to identify HIV in blood samples. 

He writes:

When I first heard in 1984 that Luc Montagnier of France’s Pasteur Institute and Robert Gallo of America’s National Institutes of Health had independently discovered that the retrovirus HIV—Human Immunodeficiency Virus—caused AIDS, I accepted it as just another scientific fact. It was a little out of my field of biochemistry, and these men were specialists in retroviruses.

Four years later I was working as a consultant at Specialty Labs in Santa Monica. Specialty was trying to develop a means of using PCR to detect retroviruses in the thousands of blood donations received per day by the Red Cross. I was writing a report on our progress for the project sponsor, and I began by stating, “HIV is the probable cause of AIDS.”

I asked a virologist at Specialty where I could find the reference for HIV being the cause of AIDS.

“You don’t need a reference,” he told me. “Everybody knows it.”

“I’d like to quote a reference.” I felt a little funny about not knowing the source of such an important discovery. Everyone else seemed to.

Thus began his doubts about the link between HIV and AIDS. He never found a reference. He goes on:

I was hesitant to write “HIV is the probable cause of AIDS” until I found published evidence that would support it. Mine was the most minimal statement possible. In my grant request I wasn’t trying to say that it absolutely did cause AIDS, I was just trying to say that it was likely to cause it for some known reasons. Tens of thousands of scientists and researchers were spending billions of dollars a year doing research based on this idea. The reason had to be there somewhere, otherwise these people would not have allowed their research to settle into one narrow channel of investigation.

I lectured about PCR at innumerable meetings. Always there were people there talking about HIV. I asked them how it was that we knew that HIV was the cause of AIDS. Everyone said something. Everyone had the answer at home in the office in some drawer. They all knew and they would send me the papers as soon as they got back. But I never got any papers. Nobody ever sent me the news about how AIDS was caused by HIV.

 Kary goes on to compare the then current situation with conditions in the time of Galileo:

In 1634 Galileo was sentenced to house arrest for the last eight years of his life for writing that the Earth is not the center of the universe but rather moves around the sun. Because he insisted that scientific statements should not be a matter of religious faith, he was accused of heresy. Years from now, people looking back at us will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find the leaders who excommunicated Galileo. Science as it is practiced today in the world is largely not science at all. What people call science 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. “If you don’t accept what we say, you’re out.”

Cut to 2021 and it's pretty much the same situation. Exchange HIV for Covid-19. Anybody in the medical establishment today faces the same problem regarding Covid-19. “If you don’t accept what we say, you’re out.” Shifting back to HIV however, the question that Kary Mullis was often asked was: "If HIV isn’t the cause of AIDS, then what is?” He replied:

The answer to that is that I don’t know the answer to that ... Knowing that there is no evidence that HIV causes it does not make me an authority on what does. It is indisputable that if an individual has extremely close contacts with a lot of people, the number of infectious organisms that this individual’s immune system is going to have to deal with will be high. If a person has three hundred sexual contacts a year—with people who themselves are each having three hundred contacts a year—that’s ninety thousand times more opportunity for infections than a person involved in an exclusive relationship.

The obvious counter to this is to ask what about those people who received HIV via a blood transfusion? These people had not necessarily been sexually promiscuous and certainly not in the case where a mother passed it on her baby at birth. The following video gives the conventional view of how HIV and AIDS are linked:

As the video explains, HIV is what is called a retrovirus and Kary Mullis says this about them in his book:

We live with an uncountable number of retroviruses. They’re everywhere—and they probably have been here as long as the human race. We have them in our genome. We get some of them from our mothers in the form of new viruses—infectious viral particles that can move from mother to foetus. We get others from both parents along with our genes. We have resident sequences in our genome that are retroviral. That means that we can and do make our own retroviral particles some of the time. Some of them may look like HIV. No one has shown that they’ve ever killed anyone before.

There’s got to be a purpose for them; a sizeable fraction of our genome is comprised of human endogenous retroviral sequences. There are those who claim that we carry useless DNA, but they’re wrong. If there is something in our genes, there’s a reason for it. We don’t let things grow on us. I have tried to put irrelevant gene sequences into things as simple as bacteria. If it doesn’t serve some purpose, the bacteria get rid of it right away. I assume that my body is at least as smart as bacteria when it comes to things like DNA.

HIV didn’t suddenly pop out of the rain forest or Haiti. It just popped into Bob Gallo’s hands at a time when he needed a new career. It has been here all along.

Once you stop looking for it only on the streets of big cities, you notice that it is thinly distributed everywhere.

If HIV has been here all along and it can be passed from mother to child, wouldn’t it make sense to test for the antibodies in the mothers of anyone who is positive to HIV, especially if that individual is not showing any signs of disease?

Picture a kid in the heartland of America. His lifelong goal has been to join the Air Force when he graduates and become a jet pilot. He’s never used drugs and he’s had the same sweet girlfriend, whom he plans to marry, all through high school. Unbeknownst to him, or anyone else, he also has antibodies to HIV, which he inherited from his mother, who is still alive, when he was in her womb.

He’s a healthy kid, it doesn’t bother him in any way, but when he is routinely tested for HIV by the Air Force, his hopes and dreams are destroyed. Not only is he barred from the Air Force, but he has a death sentence over his head.

The CDC has defined AIDS as one of more than thirty diseases accompanied by a positive result on a test that detects antibodies to HIV. But those same diseases are not defined as AIDS cases when the antibodies are not detected. 

If an HIV-positive woman develops uterine cancer, for example, she is considered to have AIDS. If she is not HIV-positive, she simply has uterine cancer. An HIV-positive man with tuberculosis has AIDS; if he tests negative he simply has tuberculosis. If he lives in Kenya or Colombia, where the test for HIV antibodies is too expensive, he is simply presumed to have the antibodies and therefore AIDS, and therefore he can be treated in the World Health Organization’s clinic.

It’s the only medical help available in some places. And it’s free, because the countries that support the WHO are worried about AIDS. From the point of view of spreading medical facilities into areas where poor people live, AIDS has been a boon. We don’t poison them with AZT like we do our own people because it’s too expensive. We supply dressings for the machete cut on their left knee and call it AIDS.

The CDC continues to add new diseases to the grand AIDS definition. The CDC has virtually doctored the books to make it appear as if the disease continues to spread. In 1993, for example, the CDC enormously broadened its AIDS definition. This was happily accepted by county health authorities, who receive $2,500 from the feds per year under the Ryan White Act for every reported AIDS case.

What I've highlighted in bold seems to be the crux of the matter and is worth repeating:

The CDC has defined AIDS as one of more than thirty diseases accompanied by a positive result on a test that detects antibodies to HIV. But those same diseases are not defined as AIDS cases when the antibodies are not detected.

The CDC continues to add new diseases to the grand AIDS definition. In the video linked to in this post, it's stated that HIV has a latency period of up to eight years. Anybody who has tested positive for HIV and who dies of one of the thirty certain diseases during that time is said to have died of AIDS. This is no different to the situation at the moment where someone who dies of some illness, after having being tested positive for Covid-19, is said to have died from the virus. It all comes down to how deaths are recorded.

The other issue is the anti-retroviral drugs like AZT that are used to treat HIV. I came across an interesting article about Magic Johnson who was diagnosed with HIV in 1991. He apparently has been taking these drugs for many years which is given as the reason for his continued survival:

The answer to Johnson's survival is far from "magic." According to reports, he takes the same kinds of drugs that are available to other HIV patients in the developed world, and increasingly in impoverished nations in Africa and Asia, where the disease still runs rampant. Many people have lived with HIV even longer than Johnson.

"There is nothing unique about Magic," said Spencer Lieb, senior epidemiologist and HIV/AIDS research coordinator for the Florida Consortium for HIV/AIDS Research. "There are still people alive and kicking and doing very well 20 and 30 years after infection." [Does Circumcision Prevent HIV?]

Lieb said that in the state of Florida alone, hundreds of patients have hung on since becoming infected with HIV in the early 1980s, when the first confirmed AIDS cases turned up in the United States. But Johnson and these people are still in the minority: According to research and estimates by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1.2 million Americans have HIV, and 20 percent of them are undiagnosed. Approximately 50,000 people become infected each year, and more than 18,000 die annually.

Hmmm, "research and estimates by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention". Intriguingly, the article goes on to say this:

Yet even without modern drugs, in rare instances an HIV-positive person can manage on their own to keep AIDS at bay. These "long-term nonprogressors" or "elite controllers," estimated at as few as one in 500, have lived for decades with HIV, despite not being on antiretroviral therapy.

So about 0.02% are "long-term nonprogressors" or "elite controllers" if we believe these statistics. The remaining 99.98% go on to die if they don't get treatment. Some "victims" have chosen not to accept this death sentence. Christine Maggiore was one such person. She wrote a best-selling book called "What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?" after being diagnosed with HIV in 1992. She died at age 52 in 2008 with what Wikipedia described as AIDS-like symptoms but more controversially her three year old daughter died of pneumonia after having been breastfed as an infant.

There is a video from around 2002 on BitChute in which Christine Maggiore makes an appearance along with Kary Mullis and Peter Duesberg. In his autobiography, Kary Mullis says that it was after listening to a radio interview featuring Peter Duesberg that he understood why there was no evidence supporting the link between HIV and AIDS. The term for people who refuse to accept the link is AIDS denialist. Peter Duesberg is still alive and aged 84 at the time of this post.

I've managed to locate a copy of Peter Duesberg's 1996 "Inventing The AIDS Virus" with a foreward by Kary Mullis. It should be an informative read. AIDS denialism is branded as pseudoscience and yet the views of distinguished scientists like Mullis and Duesberg are an embarrassment to the scientific establishment.