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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 31
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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AIDS Inc. -- Part 3
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There was such a response to the previous CN (CN 7.23) on the
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banning in the United States of the book *Why We Will Never Win
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the War on AIDS* by Bryan Ellison and Peter Duesberg, that I
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thought I would re-post the following. It is my synopsis of Jon
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Rappoport's book, *AIDS Inc.* Because Rappoport covers Dr.
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Duesberg's challenge to official AIDS dogma, they may be banning
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his book next! (Or, late breaking, thanks to Rep. Schumer and his
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proposed H.R. 2580 -- outlawing discussion of what he calls
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"baseless conspiracy theories" -- they may be banning Conspiracy
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Nation!)
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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[...continued...]
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The average researcher will tell you it has been proven that HIV
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causes AIDS. The apparent correlation between the new disease of
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AIDS and the new virus, HIV, is a compelling image. "But the
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truth is, a new disease-condition has not demonstrably sprung up
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all over the world. Hundreds of causes for immune-system collapse
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and ensuing infection, the so-called AIDS pattern, already exist.
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There is nothing magical about the ideas of AIDS. It is merely
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immune-collapse followed by opportunistic infection."
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"In an effort to defend a viral AIDS scenario, in which AIDS has
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mainly been confined to IV drug users and male homosexuals...
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researchers have attempted to discover odd routes of viral
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transmission... [i.e.] anal sex among gays which because of
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bleeding leads to semen-blood transmission; and sharing of
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needles among junkies."
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But according to the author, this effort is misguided. Among the
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reasons he gives are:
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1) No virus selects lopsidedly the cultural groups it will reside
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in.
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2) Heterosexuals have been practicing anal sex for centuries.
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3) Semen to blood transmission, which has been attributed to anal
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sex as the reason HIV spreads, is also a fact in hetero vaginal
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sex.
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If HIV were "causing a single disease-entity called AIDS, two
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circumstances in America would have conspired to send AIDS widely
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beyond the current risk-groups... [1970s era bisexual swing
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clubs, which were prevalent in New York at that time,] played
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host to every sex act imaginable and a consequent exchange of
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bodily fluids among men and women. A perfect situation for viral
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spread into the hetero community. [By and large,] it didn't
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happen."
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"Today [1988] out of the 55,000 reported AIDS cases in the U.S.,
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91% are men, and 9% are women... Such preference [for men over
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women] is unheard of."
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During the 1970s, "gay men from cities and towns all over America
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visited and vacationed in San Francisco, New York, and L.A., the
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centers of diagnosed AIDS cases in the U.S. They visited gay
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bathhouses and had sex. Carrying home with them the HIV virus,
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they would have spread AIDS into many, many towns and cities of
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the U.S. This did not occur..."
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"Trying to confirm that HIV causes AIDS by showing it spreads in
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culturally prejudiced fashion, through odd routes, in very
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limited fashion, is absurd."
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"It isn't really surprising that the AIDS research establishment
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in America is arrogant, when you look at the thesis about AIDS
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which they have built. Their arrogance is hiding an extremely
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weak brand of science..."
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The author declares that AIDS is only an artificial label tagged
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onto a condition that already existed before the "discovery" of
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AIDS. "We've known about fifteen or twenty medical reasons and
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hundreds of environmental causes for immune-deficiency, and we've
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known about them for decades."
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What is especially shocking is that the establishment AIDS
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scenario "is not only scientifically absurd, it also keeps help
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for dying and ill people, true help, from taking place. It keeps
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prevention from taking place. So the AIDS theory isn't just
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stupid, it's vicious."
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There are many different infections and diseases, all lumped
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together under the heading of "AIDS." The one thing that had
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seemed to tie together this plenum was the HIV virus. But "it is
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much more probable that what is being called AIDS, in most cases,
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is the far end of an arc of immunosuppression, which takes some
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time to build up in a person."
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"From various factors, the immunosuppression gains in influence,
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and then, long after the person should have reversed his habits,
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or should have been fed, or should have been taken from a field
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where he was working in the presence of pesticides, etc., he
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becomes really sick, and *then* maybe he sees a doctor. The
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doctor looks at his opportunistic infection, clucks, [and]
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pronounces AIDS."
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The patient's symptoms are first seen when he finally decides to
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go see a doctor -- at the end of the arc of immunosuppression.
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"All attention is focused there. It is named AIDS, it is
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packaged, and what is concealed is the long approach that led to
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this moment. Prevention and reversal would have been much easier
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during that earlier period."
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The author speaks of what he calls the myth of pneumocystis
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carinii pneumonia as a primary so-called AIDS symptom. The myth
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is that 1) pneumocystis was extremely rare before AIDS and 2) if
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two people have pneumocystis, they both developed it from the
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same cause. According to the author, "This is preposterous."
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"The pneumocystis protozoa is found in 70-85% of healthy people.
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It causes no harm. It is one of those germs which establish an
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easy relationship with the host. However, when immunosuppression
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becomes severe enough, it can come to the fore."
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Some researchers "have pointed out that severe malnutrition can
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underlie pneumocystis. As mentioned earlier, some full-time
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junkies and alcoholics are known for their inability to pay for,
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or their chronic disinterest in food. Today were, say, an
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alcoholic to develop pneumocystis the diagnosis would be AIDS,
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HIV, and the whole ball of wax -- not (correctly) pneumocystis
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stemming from alcohol and malnutrition."
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"Pneumocystis pneumonia has moved into new populations since
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1977, but people have been dying of it, because of malnutrition,
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since World War Two. In fact, following the War, epidemics were
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seen in Europe, mainly in infants."
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The author decries the fact that the multifactorial model for
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AIDS has been largely ignored by the medical establishment.
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"Although there is a long list of a) disease, b) malnutritive and
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c) chemical factors which can make the immunosuppressive bed in
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which pneumocystis will turn virulent, the CDC [Center for
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Disease Control] has severely ignored these factors, instead
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pushing HIV into the limelight as the 'new' agent."
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"A good example of AIDS-related research which has not floated to
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the top of the NIH [National Institute of Health] research ladder
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is a paper by Peter Walzer et al, in the December 1984 *Infection
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and Immunity*. Walzer explores the possibility, in rats, that
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antibiotics can increase the disposition toward pneumocystis."
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Walzer states, "Rats that were administered corticosteroids, a
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low-protein diet, and tetracycline spontaneously developed P.
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carinii pneumonia within ca. 8 weeks through a mechanism of
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reactivation of latent infection."
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"In the U.S. gay community, malnutrition, abuse of tetracycline
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and corticosteroids are frequently found as partners."
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Peter Duesberg is a molecular biologist at the University of
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California at Berkeley. He was also a key researcher during the
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war on cancer. In that capacity, he worked closely with people
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who are now top AIDS investigators, including Robert Gallo, the
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co-discoverer of HIV.
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"Duesberg asserts that HIV is not the cause of AIDS."
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"To understand the import of that conviction, one has to
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understand that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have
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taken in several hundred million dollars in a quest to cure AIDS.
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That money, the committment to a cure, all hang on the one
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breakthrough the medical research establishment claims: The
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discovery of the AIDS virus, HIV."
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What follows are excerpts of several interviews with Professor
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Duesberg:
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INTERVIEWER: In your paper, *Retroviruses as Carcinogens and
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Pathogens: Expectation and Reality*, you say, "It is concluded
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that AIDS virus is not sufficient to cause AIDS and that there is
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no evidence, besides its presence in a latent form, that it is
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necessary for AIDS." In other words, although the HIV virus is
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present in a proportion of AIDS patients, Gallo and others have
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not proved that it causes the disease.
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DUESBERG: Many AIDS patients have the herpes virus too, but no
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one is saying herpes causes AIDS.
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INTERVIEWER: At the top of the AIDS research establishment, there
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is a great deal of politics, at least in the sense that you have
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to claim you have a major discovery like HIV and a cure on the
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way, in order to justify millions of research dollars. That could
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warp your scientific attitude.
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DUESBERG: It's very hard to talk to a person who has a contract
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with a drug company in his pocket. How do you know that he's
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telling you the truth? Times have changed. This is high-stakes
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science, financially........
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......Koch and Pasteur, when they considered under what
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conditions a germ could cause disease, couldn't, of course, know
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anything about our present level of magnification. They would
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never have been able to see HIV. Koch was looking at somebody who
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was *loaded* with tuberculosis. Pasteur was looking at somebody
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who was *loaded* with rabies virus. What researchers today can do
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is great detective work (finding retroviruses), but it's
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clinically absurd. But that's all they can do. That's their
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skill. So they have to believe they're finding the cause of
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disease.
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INTERVIEWER: So you're saying, in amendment to Koch's postulates,
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that a virus must be biochemically active.
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DUESBERG: Yes. It must be infecting more cells than the host can
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spare. Every month, half of your T-cells are new. So the HIV
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virus would have to infect a couple percent of them every day. It
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doesn't.
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INTERVIEWER: In the July 6 *New York Native*, you said the
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following about the drug, AZT: "...AZT is a poison. It is
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cytotoxic. I think that giving it to people with AIDS is highly
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irresponsible... the drug is only going to hurt you."
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DUESBERG: That's right. And now they are giving it to people with
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no symptoms.
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INTERVIEWER: AZT is a very sinister aspect of AIDS. That needs to
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be repeated.
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DUESBERG: I think AZT is the most sinister aspect of this whole
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business. They're killing growing (normal) cells. That's what
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they're doing. That's very serious business.......
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......NIH is like a military place, you know. In its attitude.
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They look at me, I'm from Berkeley, so they think I'm different.
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Free speech, all that. I work at a university, I speak my mind.
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At NIH, if you start asking questions in public about these
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viruses, you're out of a job.
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INTERVIEWER: When they are alone, these researchers, do you think
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they express their doubts?
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DUESBERG: Sure. They have questions. They just don't want the
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public to know about these doubts.
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[...to be continued...]
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