The following requirements are a few of the scientific protocols that
are necessary but in the case for an infectious agent in the causation
of AIDS have been ignored. Standard rules of science demand
"observation."

The Rules of Isolation

The rules for isolation of a retrovirus were thoroughly discussed at
the Pasteur Institute, Paris, in 1973, and are the logical minimum
requirements for establishing the independent existence of HIV. They
are:

1. Culture of putatively infected tissue.

2. Purification of specimens by density gradient ultracentrifugation.

3. Electron micrographs of particles exhibiting the morphological
characteristics and dimensions (100-120nm) of retroviral particles at
the sucrose (or percoll) density of 1.16 gm/ml and containing nothing
else, not even particles of other morphologies or dimensions.

4. Proof that the particles contain reverse transcriptase.

5. Analysis of the particles' proteins and RNA and proof that these are
unique.

6. Proof that 1-5 are a property only of putatively infected tissues
and can not be induced in control cultures. These are identical
cultures, that is, tissues obtained from matched, unhealthy subjects
and cultured under identical conditions differing only in that they are
not putatively infected with a retrovirus.

7. Proof that the particles are infectious, that is when PURE particles
are introduced into an uninfected culture or animal, the identical
particle is obtained as shown by repeating steps 1-5.

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Koch's postulates define the steps required to establish a
microorganism as the cause of a disease:

(a) it must be found in all cases of the disease;

(b) it must be isolated from the host and grown in pure culture;

(c) it must reproduce the original disease when introduced into a
susceptible host;

(d) it must be found present in the experimental host so infected.

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AIDS does not meet the classic epidemiological criteria of an
infectious disease:

1. Infectious diseases do not discriminate between sexes. The first
epidemiological law of viral and microbial diseases holds that men and
women are affected equally, because no virus or microbe discriminates
between the sexes. This law applies to all known infectious diseases
affecting large populations.

2. Farr's law: Infectious diseases spread exponentially. Early in the
last century the British epidemiologist William Farr first recognized
the seasonal rise and fall of microbial epidemics. A new infectious
disease rapidly explodes in a population - just as rapidly as microbes
are transmitted from person to person. Then it declines within months
because it is stopped by the elimination of susceptible victims either
by death or more often by natural immunization.