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Some scientists are questioning the human immunodeficiency virus' (HIV) actual role in causing AIDS since no actual proof has been found on its effect on the human immune system. The HIV virus's pathological activity has yet to be defined and its spread in the population has defied predictions.See the full content of this document
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What causes AIDS? It's an open question.
Most Americans believe they know what causes AIDS. For a decade, scientists, government officials, physicians, journalists, public-service ads, TV shows, and movies have told them that AIDS is caused by a retrovirus called HIV. This virus supposedly infects and kills the "T-cells" of the immune system, leading to an inevitably fatal immune deficiency after an asymptomatic period that averages 10 years or so. Most Americans do not know--because there has been a virtual media blackout on the subject--about a longstanding scientific controversy over the cause of AIDS, a controversy that has become increasingly heated as the official theory's predictions have turned out to be wrong.
Leading biochemical scientists, including University of California at Berkeley retrovirus expert Peter Duesberg and Nobel Prize winner Walter Gilbert, have been warning for years that there is no proof that HIV causes AIDS. The warnings were met first with silence, then with ridicule and contempt. In 1990, for example, Nature published a rare response from the HIV establishment, as represented by Robin A. Weiss of the Institute of Cancer Research in London and Harold W. Jaffe of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Weiss and Jaffe compared the doubters to pe...See the full content of this document
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