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Susie, age 9 - 13 Dec 2005 18:18 GMT
While Bennett's ego is once again in charge of
his pharma motives here, it is worth mentioning
that his "scholarships" to Cambridge were paid
by the usual suspects: the British pharmaceutical
companies we know so well.

Motive is always the deciding factor here, and
from his beginning here, Bennett was known for
ignoring the embarassing scientific truth and
pushing the pharmaceutical agenda.

susie
Texas Smoke - 14 Dec 2005 03:49 GMT
What exactly is the pharmaceutical agenda?  You keep referring to it in your
posts but I'm not sure what you mean by that.

> While Bennett's ego is once again in charge of
> his pharma motives here, it is worth mentioning
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>
> susie
Death - 14 Dec 2005 04:20 GMT
"Texas Smoke" <texas_smoke69_1999@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> What exactly is the pharmaceutical agenda?  You keep referring to it in your
> posts but I'm not sure what you mean by that.

you know, making money. such a disgusting idea.
next thing you know they will hire people to make more meds.
those people will buy shoes. the cobbler will buy bread, the baker
will build a house. damn when will this ever end? bastards.
montygram - 14 Dec 2005 08:50 GMT
It's the same thing with the "cholesterol-lowering drugs," which raise
your cancer and bleeding stroke risk substantially, possibly damage
your liver, etc.

Here again, it's oxidation that is the issue.  Even an AHA spokesman,
Dr. Richard Stein, recently said explicitly that only oxidized
cholesterol is dangerous, and that being the case, there is no reason
to take such drugs, when you can avoid oxidized cholesterol by wise
dietary choices.

But, as our good friend "Death" tell us, the  cobbler needs some bread.
So just remember that when you are dying of cancer or your liver is
shot.  I'd rather go shoeless, personally.
Death - 14 Dec 2005 15:24 GMT
"montygram" <nazztrader@lycos.com> wrote in message

> But, as our good friend "Death" tell us, the  cobbler needs some bread.
>  So just remember that when you are dying of cancer or your liver is
> shot.  I'd rather go shoeless, personally.

But you get up every morning brush your teeth and put on shoes.
Before you go to bed you take off those shoes and brush your teeth.

I would suggest you look up fluoride before you throw your shoes away

"Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation?"

Fluoride: The Hidden Poison in the National Organic Standards

Is Fluoride Really As Safe As You Are Told?
Freud, Fraud, And Fluoride
http://www.mercola.com/2002/feb/6/fluoride_safety2.htm

Fluorine is a Deadly Poison
http://www.bragg.com/fact_sheets/fluoride_03.html

floride,flouride poison,floride,flouride poison,floride,flouride poison
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

By James Donahue
http://www.viewzone.com/fluoride.html

I was a child when fluoride, a by-produce from the manufacture of atomic bombs, was first
introduced to the American people.

Nobody told us where fluoride came from. All we knew is that it was a newly discovered chemical
that would make our teeth extra hard and ward off cavities. When a free fluoride clinic was set
up one summer in our school, all the kids in town lined up to have the bitter tasting stuff
rubbed on their teeth.

We were pretty gullible in those days. The period immediately following World War II was a time
of scientific advancement. After the inventions of nylon, rayon, plastic and other marvelous
products that replaced fabrics, rubber and steel during the war years, people were lulled into
the belief that those balding men in white laboratory jackets could solve all of the problems
of the world. The belief was so strong that we blindly accepted whatever a "scientist" told us.
Nobody dreamed that we might be victims of fraud.

My father was part of the magic. He worked as a chemical engineer for a factory that made a
variety of products out of wheat and corn starch (including the brain-killing excitotoxin
monosodium glutamate). He provided well and I consequently made regular visits to a dentist
every summer. I knew well the agony of the dentist drill. It was nothing like the advanced
water-cooled high-speed equipment used by modern dentists. Repairing a cavity doomed us to what
seemed like hours of white-knuckle torture under the glaring lights of the dental chair, while
a man with plastic rimmed glasses and bad breath bored his way through teeth (and bone?). Once
the drilling was done, the dentist filled the hole he made with a hot metallic material that
burned when it went in, and left a bad taste in your mouth.

We had a mom-and-pop grocery store in our neighborhood where kids could buy penny candy and a
package of gum for a nickel. I made a lot of visits to that candy store.

Even though my mother made sure that I brushed my teeth daily, somehow I don't remember linking
the candy I was eating to all of the cavities. When fluoride was introduced, it seemed like a
child's dream come true.

I was disappointed, of course. I had just as many cavities in my teeth the following year.

When they started dumping fluoride in the local water supply, and adding it to the ingredients
in our toothpaste, I thought that would surely solve my problem. It seemed reasonable to think
that I didn't get a heavy enough dose of fluoride when I attended the free clinic. After all,
if a little bit of fluoride was good for my teeth, it made sense that a lot more fluoride would
be even better.

But alas, after years of drinking, scrubbing and consuming fluoride-laced products, we now
learn that we've been scammed. This chemical is found to be totally ineffective in preventing
tooth decay. Not only that, it seems to be directly linked to a variety of medical problems
ranging from discolored teeth to bone disease and cancer.
In short, fluoride is a poison.

This is not news to the medical world. The Journal of the American Medical Association and the
New England Journal of Medicine have both reported greater incidence of hip fractures in
fluoridated areas. The National Institute of Environmental and Health Services has linked
fluoridation with cancer.

A book by Dr. John Yiamouyiannis, titled "Fluoride, The Aging Factor," shows that the drug
causes a premature aging process. He notes that in areas where fluoride is consumed in the
drinking water, there are higher rates of bone disorders (skeletal fluorosis, osteoporosis and
arthritic pain) and people suffer from brown decaying teeth.

"Fluoride is a poison!" Yiamouyiannis warns." The 1984 issue of Clinical Toxicology of
Commercial Products lists fluoride as more poisonous than lead and just slightly less poisonous
than arsenic. It has been used as a pesticide for mice, rats and other small pests. A 10-pound
infant could be killed by 1/100 of an ounce and a 100-pound adult could be killed by 1/10 of an
ounce of fluoride. The Akron Regional Poison Center indicates that a 7-ounce tube of toothpaste
contains 199 mg. of fluoride, more than enough to kill a 25-pound child."

Yiamouyiannis writes that the acceleration of the aging process by fluoride occurs at the
bio-chemical level by causing enzyme inhibition, collagen breakdown, genetic damage and
disruption of the immune system.

"Fluoride interacts with the bonds which maintain the normal shape of proteins," he continues.
"With distorted protein, the immune system attacks it's own protein, the body's own tissue."
The visual and physical effects from prolonged exposure to fluoride include nausea, bloody
vomit, faintness, stomach cramps, tremors, constipation, aching bones, stiffness, skin rash,
weight loss and brown or black discoloration of the teeth.

The horror in this story is that fluoride was known as a deadly poison from the start. But if
this was true, why would the U. S. government promote the sale of it to its own people, and
later people all over the world? Would you believe the answer to this question is money?
There is compelling evidence that the program of water fluoridation began as a massive effort
to cover up bad publicity from one of the most toxic materials to emerge from the government's
secret nuclear weapons program. The idea was that if fluoride could be presented to the country
as beneficial, then no one could sue the government for being harmed by it.

An article by Dr. Jackie Alan Giuliano in "Healing Our World" noted that reporters Joel
Griffiths and Chris Bryson discovered the truth about fluoride while researching hundreds of
declassified documents about the Manhattan Project, America's secret atomic bomb development
program.

They found that fluoride as a key chemical in atomic bomb production. Millions of tons were
used during the Cold War period to manufacture high-grade uranium and plutonium.

"Fluoride was the top chemical hazard of the U.S. nuclear weapons program, not only for
workers, but for those living in nearby communities as well," Giuliano wrote.

"The documents show that the first U.S. lawsuits levied against the atomic weapons program were
over fluoride poisoning, not radiation damage. The documents reveal that the U.S. government
secretly ordered atomic bomb scientists to create "evidence useful in litigation" against
defense contractors who were being accused of injuring citizens with fluoride."

This secret work to head-off government lawsuits lead to a multi-billion dollar industry that
has been poisoning our water supplies, our toothpaste, and our bodies ever since. Believe this
or not, fluoride tablets are even available for children.

To escape the harmful effects of fluoride, Yiamouyiannis suggests that you seek non-fluoride
toothpaste (but you may have to go to health stores to find it), and drink bottled water. Even
using tap water to cook may expose you to fluoride.

Now that the truth about fluoride is out, why haven't towns and toothpaste companies stopped
dumping this terrible poison in our water and toothpaste supplies? Don't expect that to happen.
Remember, I said this is a multi-billion dollar industry. Nobody shuts down a money machine
like that without a fight.

We each have been given the right to utilize the logic that God has given us.
Susie, age 9 - 14 Dec 2005 14:44 GMT
> What exactly is the pharmaceutical agenda?  You keep referring to it in
> your posts but I'm not sure what you mean by that.

Does selling drugs work better for you?

susie
SuperSport - 14 Dec 2005 14:01 GMT
Thanks for posting this Susie.

Fauci has also received payments from pharma companies.

And all we find is the obvious stuff. No telling how many
behind-the-scenes things are going on.

Bennett is the same guy that got kicked off of Dean's blog for failing
to be honest about his email exchange with Peter Duesberg. At least that
was one of the factor's that got him booted.

Bennett, like Noble and Brian Foley, also got torched by the Perth group
on BMJ's forum......

" We know that to err is human, but the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is one hell
of a mistake"
Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate and inventor of Polymerase Chain
Reaction.
Susie, age 9 - 14 Dec 2005 14:56 GMT
> Thanks for posting this Susie.
>
> Fauci has also received payments from pharma companies.

As Director of NIH/NIAID, Fauci's first patent was for IL-2. He
ran the IL-2 trials and the AIDS patients died, thus a success was
declared and his patent sailed right through the US Patent Office.
Millions of taxpayer dollars diddled away, thousands harmed and
Fauci is still in power.

God Bless Dr. Fauci and God Bless any bureaucrat who can
do that and stay in power for some 25+ years!

Care to guess where the buck stops for the bird flu?

You got it ... Dr. Fauci! So you'd better bless him too!

> Bennett is the same guy that got kicked off of Dean's blog for failing
> to be honest about his email exchange with Peter Duesberg. At least that
> was one of the factor's that got him booted.
>
> Bennett, like Noble and Brian Foley, also got torched by the Perth group
> on BMJ's forum......

Bennett's dishonesty on this newsgroup was evident from the very
first day of his pharmaceutical employment and his admitted
scholarships to Cambridge etc. But I have to give him credit
for actually ADMITTING his indebtedness to the drug companies.

So God Bless Bennett AND Dr. Fauci.

susie
SuperSport - 14 Dec 2005 15:36 GMT
Susie-

Thanks for the bit about IL-2...I had read something about that not long
ago.

I saw fauci on '60 Minutes" a couple of weeks ago about the 'Bird
Flu".....his comments were unbelievable. First he was not very keen on
responding to the reporter about the chance of it 'mutating' and causing
massive deaths in people.

I think sooner or later this whole virology act will turn into 'the boy
that cried wolf'...

We have been through the faux HIV/AIDS thing, SARS, Westnile, and now
Birdflu.

Sooner or later, even the dimmest of people will realize 99% of all this
is a total scam.....

" We know that to err is human, but the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is one hell
of a mistake"
Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate and inventor of Polymerase Chain
Reaction.
SuperSport - 14 Dec 2005 15:53 GMT
Just a note about toothpastes with flouride...

easy to circumvent all of that, just make your own paste of 3% H2O2 and
baking soda....cheap, clean, safe, and keeps the pearly whites white (as
I smile big).

Same with mouthwash. No need for those expensive green liquers that are
everywhere....just use H2O2 to gargle and spit.

" We know that to err is human, but the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is one hell
of a mistake"
Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate and inventor of Polymerase Chain
Reaction.
Gary Stein - 14 Dec 2005 16:19 GMT
> Susie-
>
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
> Sooner or later, even the dimmest of people will realize 99% of all this
> is a total scam.....

So supersport is the seasonal flu a total scam????

Is smallpox a total scam?????

Is HPV a total scam????

Is Legionnaires disease a total scam????

What evidence to you have that SARS and Westnile are "total scams"? I am
sure the families of those who have died or become ill from both would be
greatly interested in the facts that prove they did not.

Gary Stein
Susie, age 9 - 14 Dec 2005 17:26 GMT
>> Sooner or later, even the dimmest of people will realize 99% of all this
>> is a total scam.....
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
> Is Legionnaires disease a total scam????

It is always interesting when the PharmaCops use legitimate
diseases or treatments to legitimize their illegitimate diseases
and/or sham treatments.

Sheesh, that's what a quack would do...

susie
Gary Stein - 14 Dec 2005 16:14 GMT
>> Thanks for posting this Susie.
>>
[quoted text clipped - 24 lines]
> scholarships to Cambridge etc. But I have to give him credit
> for actually ADMITTING his indebtedness to the drug companies.

Frod is a pro at taking snippets of fact completely out of context and
making them sound sinister. Bennett explained that a portion of his graduate
education funding was from a pharmaceutical company. However that money was
donated to the educational institution with no conditions set on it's
disbursement. The University staff was completely free to choose any student
they felt deserving of financial support to receive funds from that source
and the pharmaceutical company had no influence over there choices.

Nor has Bennett ever been directly or indirectly employed by any
pharmaceutical company, just to set the record straight. Frod has a
conspiracy fixation that causes him to see vast world wide cabals of evil
pharmaceutical companies and universities and individual scientists all
working in concert to perpetuate a massive plot to kill the peoples of the
world with deadly medications and the so called "HIV AIDS myth" that his
faith insists exists. Even when such luminaries of dissident folklore as
Prof Duesberg provides a paper that shows HIV has indeed been isolated in a
way that exceeds the requirements of the Perthies so called "Gold Standard"
of viral isolation.

Gary Stein
GMCarter - 14 Dec 2005 22:34 GMT
snip
>Frod is a pro at taking snippets of fact completely out of context and
>making them sound sinister.

She gave Miss Rove, the turdflower, lessons, I hear.
Susie, age 9 - 16 Dec 2005 01:56 GMT
> snip
>>Frod is a pro at taking snippets of fact completely out of context and
>>making them sound sinister.
>
> She gave Miss Rove

Aside from the personal attacks by the PharmApologists,
the most interesting thing about this Bennett thread is the
fact that Bennett hasn't entered it.

susie
GMCarter - 16 Dec 2005 11:43 GMT
>Aside from the personal attacks by the PharmApologists,
>the most interesting thing about this Bennett thread is the
>fact that Bennett hasn't entered it.

LOL...why bother?
Susie, age 9 - 16 Dec 2005 16:17 GMT
>>Aside from the personal attacks by the PharmApologists,
>>the most interesting thing about this Bennett thread is the
>>fact that Bennett hasn't entered it.
>
> LOL...why bother?

because this thread is about HIM.

LOL !

susie
GMCarter - 16 Dec 2005 19:04 GMT
>>>Aside from the personal attacks by the PharmApologists,
>>>the most interesting thing about this Bennett thread is the
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>
>because this thread is about HIM.

LOL--inadequate reasoning, as ever.
How's that DNCB? Are you soaking in it, Madge?
Susie, age 9 - 16 Dec 2005 21:43 GMT
>>>>Aside from the personal attacks by the PharmApologists,
>>>>the most interesting thing about this Bennett thread is the
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>
> LOL--inadequate reasoning, as ever.

As irrational as always, George Mary-Bob.

susie
GMCarter - 16 Dec 2005 23:52 GMT
>As irrational as always, George Mary-Bob.

DNCB is irrational?
Susie, age 9 - 21 Dec 2005 05:35 GMT
>>As irrational as always, George Mary-Bob.
>
> DNCB is irrational?

Are you still selling DNCB through your New York
Buyer's Club shell organization?

susie
GMCarter - 21 Dec 2005 10:57 GMT
>>>As irrational as always, George Mary-Bob.
>>
>> DNCB is irrational?
>
>Are you still selling DNCB through your New York
>Buyer's Club shell organization?

You mean you don't KNOW???

Wow, Fred....get out of the tub quick!
Gary Stein - 14 Dec 2005 16:04 GMT
> Thanks for posting this Susie.
>
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> Bennett, like Noble and Brian Foley, also got torched by the Perth group
> on BMJ's forum......

In your world of faith based science maybe, but in the real world the
Perthies utterly failed to support there claims during the BMJ forum debate.

Gary Stein
Susie, age 9 - 14 Dec 2005 17:35 GMT
>> Thanks for posting this Susie.
>>
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
> Perthies utterly failed to support there claims during the BMJ forum
> debate.

Gary Stein's "real world" began when he was saved by antiviral
protease inhibitor "cocktails" ten years ago, and upon his salvation,
he thus descended upon this and every other hiv-related newsgroup
to pronounce his newly-found reason for living.

As a prominent member of the PharmaTaliban and AIDS Thought
Police, Mr. Stein has remained here to set all of us straight, sorta
like an alcoholic evangelical from Hell.

And so ... God Bless Gary Stein!

susie
Bennett - 15 Dec 2005 03:16 GMT
> Bennett is the same guy that got kicked off of Dean's blog for failing
> to be honest about his email exchange with Peter Duesberg. At least that
> was one of the factor's that got him booted.

LOL!

I left Dean's World (let's face it, he certainly doesn't live in the
real one...) after he accused me of lying about Duesberg.  Unlike
several other orthodox posters, Dean didn't actually stoop so low as to
ban me from contributing to the blog.

The simple fact is that WHEN I POSTED that Duesberg hadn't written back
to me, he hadn't.

Dean asked Duesberg AFTER he HAD gotten back to me, as I point out on
Dean's blog a day later.  That little fact (something I like to call
"the truth") has been glossed over in favour of something altogether
more juicy.

I left because Bialy was acting like a loon and Dean wasn't going to
understand the science if it was hammered into his head with a gilsen
pipette.  I pick my battles.

>Bennett, like Noble and Brian Foley, also got torched by the Perth group
>on BMJ's forum......

The PG never did admit that they lied about Montagnier, despite quotes
from the literature to that effect.  They also extrapolated from a
single data point about the predictive value of viral load.  They also
proved themselves (by failing to read the literature) that AZT
effective in preventing HIV replication in their own critical analysis
of AZT.  They also state that HIV requires stimulated cells in culture,
and then cite papers that use unstimulated cells to grow HIV.  They
state that AZT is inactive against HIV and then cite papers where AZT
inhibits the growth of HIV.  They argue that factor VIII when present
at 100% of normal levels is healthy, whereas factor VIII when present
at 1% of normal levels in treated hemophiliacs is somehow
immunosupressive (and provide no believeable biological mechanism to
support their claims).

I could continue to go on - these are a selection from 3 or 4 of the
last posts I made in rebuttal to the PG on the BMJ forum.

If you believe that to be their success, then I have a bridge to sell
you.  The only thing the PG did well was deny and obfuscate (you may
notice that when a topic was sufficiently covered so as to show they
were lying, they dropped it like a hot potato...)

I started at the BMJ forum thinking the PG were simply misguided.  I
left pretty convinced that they were deliberately lying.  They showed
absolutely no ability to learn or retain the science.

Cheers

Bennett
SuperSport - 15 Dec 2005 05:14 GMT
Bennett-

You wrote to Dean , according to Dean, that Duesberg's reply(s) to you
were insignificant....and this is why he contacted Duesberg.

You deliberately lied to Dean.

Why don't you post your entire email exchange with Peter Duesberg in
this thread???? Not bits and pieces but the whole exchange.

You write about HIV as though it has been isolated from a person's sera.
Where has it ever been isolated according to the Perth group's
satisfaction?
 
As you are aware so called HIV supposedly destroys CD-4 lymphocytes.
This supposedly leads to the development of AIDS. For HIV to be the
cause of the loss of CD-4 cells it must be present in each and every
case of people with low CD-4 counts. If "HIV" is not present in each and
every person exhibiting low cd-4 counts than the  HIV as sole cause of
AIDS hypothesis must be abandoned as the cause of low cd-4 counts
because it does not satisfy Koch's Postulates. Something other than
"HIV" must be killing off these cells, correct?

While I have your attention can you please explain why it is that when
people use the cocktails and other drugs to raise these cd-4's in the
prescence of so called HIV infection why is it that they die anyway?

Can you explain how "HIV" can possibly be so deadly (given that it
actually exists) when CDC figures from 2 years ago show that out of an
estimated 1.2 million 'infected' Americans only 18,000 achieved
mortality?

What exactly is the mechanism that this "HIV" uses to kill cd-4's?

Cheers back atcha,

Michael

" We know that to err is human, but the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is one hell
of a mistake"
Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate and inventor of Polymerase Chain
Reaction.
montygram - 15 Dec 2005 05:48 GMT
I tell people about tooth decay and toothpaste, and oral health in
general as a microcosm of overall health or "disease."  Toothpaste is
an oxidizing agent, some worse than others.  Your teeth will be fine
without them, though not necessarily very white.  I never use
toothpaste, but instead pick out whatever is stuck.  I eat at least a
little yogurt with each meal and I drink white tea.  My teeth are not
white, but my breath is never bad, and I don't have any tooth decay
problems.

It's as simple as the periodic table.  Some elements steal electrons
and cause dysfunction in vital biomolecules, while some donate
electrons and are usually beneficial, though in the diet you get both,
as in salt.  In food, highly unsaturated oils act as "electron
stealers," while things like blueberries, dark chocolate, or white tea
act as donors.  Though too much donation could be a problem too, that's
usually the case only if one takes massive amounts of certain
supplements, whereas the highly unsaturated oils are real bad news.

Some toothpastes can be very strong oxidizers, and some oral surgeons
predict an "epidemic" of oral cancer in the next 10 years or so.  Sound
familiar?
This is the basic, underlying mechanism of "AIDS" and the "chronic
diseases," with very few exceptions.

For some basic information, go here:
http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/topicreview/bp/ch10/group7.html
GMCarter - 15 Dec 2005 09:56 GMT
>I tell people about tooth decay and toothpaste, and oral health in
>general as a microcosm of overall health or "disease."  

Undoubtedly faling to brush your teeth is the cause of AIDS.

Glad we got THAT one figured out. (Gosh, does a neem twig count?)
Brian Mailman - 15 Dec 2005 17:03 GMT
> Undoubtedly faling to brush your teeth is the cause of AIDS.

Actually, I've read failure to brush your teeth is a prophylactic
against exposure to the virus via receptive oral sex.  It is recommended
NOT to brush/floss 30 minutes before engaging in it.

B/
GMCarter - 15 Dec 2005 23:01 GMT
>> Undoubtedly faling to brush your teeth is the cause of AIDS.
>
>Actually, I've read failure to brush your teeth is a prophylactic
>against exposure to the virus via receptive oral sex.  It is recommended
>NOT to brush/floss 30 minutes before engaging in it.

How dare you interject seriousness into my levity!
Cad!!
Brian Mailman - 16 Dec 2005 05:25 GMT
>>> Undoubtedly faling to brush your teeth is the cause of AIDS.
>>
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> How dare you interject seriousness into my levity!
> Cad!!

I'll try not to let that happen again.

B/
montygram - 16 Dec 2005 09:23 GMT
At one of the link's Bennet provided was the following statement: "As
the available T cell repertoire is reduced to the point where HIV can
no longer be controlled, the infection becomes overwhelming. It is at
this stage that AIDS usually occurs. [4] "

This is a key point: if the "HIV infection" is overwhelming, there
should be no problem taking an EM showing abundant virus, yet this has
never been done.  You can cite studies, but if they are flawed, it just
shows that you are not in touch with the scientific reality - it makes
you "look stupid," not "smart."

Another passage: "All the above leads to: selective loss of activated
(useful) T cells [4], cytokine skewing through chronic activation [34,
35], premature immune system aging [32] (seen in other viral
infections), gradual decline in immune repertoire [33] and eventual
thymic exhaustion [28, 29]."

This is what happens in any "chronic disease" and "aging," and the
"pathogens" are basically microscopic vultures, not an underlying
cause.  In the early twentieth century, "heart disease" in the USA was
very rare.  Then, food became almost entirely stripped of natural
antioxidants ("processed food") and the food acted as an "oxidising
agent," which then provided the conditions for "bad bacteria," which is
all around us, but only becomes "bad" under certain biochemical
conditions.  On sciencedaily.com a couple of months ago there was a
report that a common bacterium can become "deadly" after gut surgery,
but that without those biochemical conditions, it did no harm.  More
than a few scientists have speculated that "heart disease" is cause by
bacteria, but they just don't understand the process, just like the
"HIV/AIDS exeperts."  Actually, if this did not occur, those
"pathogens" would no longer exist, because this is how they get passed
from one person to another, allowing their species to survive.

As I've said before, I'm willing to volunteer for a version of the
"Duesberg Challenge," though Bennett can only infect me with "molecular
clones" (of cellular debris) or something equally harmless or
nonexistant.  He tries to "explain away," rather than explain, and I
have never found such a person to be worth listening to among all the
professors and "experts" I have known fairly well (dozens, at least).
The Perth Group, by contrast, looks at every last detail and explains
exactly what is known in an critically rigorous way.

Another passage: "if HIV antibodies are so useless, and co-factors so
important, why do cohort members in a prospective, untreated population
only develop AIDS or declines in CD4 T cells if they (and only after)
they seroconvert...?"  The PG explained this: "seroconversion" is
actually the body ripping itself up on the cellular level.  This can be
due to any number of stressors.  If people like Bennett had followed
the scientific method, subjecting animals to all kinds of stressors the
first American "AIDS" patients were exposed to, we would have a much
better idea of what the reality is.  This "rebuttal" of his is a rather
poor performance.  If I were him, I would do what the others do, and
simply not say anything.  No reason to put your foot in your mouth when
you can just walk away and pick up your pay check.

The scientific reality of "chronic diseases" such as "AIDS" is now
largely known, though the "bug hunters" are in a scientific "la-la
land," and will never come round to the impotence of the "pathogens"
when not stimulated or stressed in particular ways.  Here is one good
explanation of one of those way:

Med Hypotheses. 2003 Jan;60(1):69-83.

Are lipid peroxidation processes induced by changes in the cell wall
structure and how are these processes connected with diseases?

Spiteller G.

Lehrstuhl Organische Chemie, Universitatsstrasse 30, Bayreuth, Germany.
gerhard.spiteller@uni-bayreuth.de

Apparently nature uses the unique sensitivity of polyunsaturated fatty
acids (PUFAs) versus oxygen to generate chemical signals if the surface
of a cell is influenced by an outside or inside event; for instance the
attack of microorganisms, proliferation, aging or by treatment of
isolated cells with surfactants. It seems that mammalian and plant
cells respond equally to such changes in their structures by
transformation of polyunsaturated fatty acids localized in the
phospholipid layer of the cell wall to lipidhydroperoxides (LOOHs).
These lipid peroxidation (LPO) processes involve all PUFAs, not only
arachidonic acid.Slight physiological changes of the cell wall for
instance by proliferation seem to activate enzymes, e.g.,
phospholipases and lipoxygenases (LOX). When an outside impact (for
instance by attack of microorganisms) exceeds a certain level LOX
commit suicide and liberate iron ions. These start a nonenzymatic LPO.
Enzymatic and nonenzymatic LPO distinguish fundamentally which has not
been recognized in the past. In the enzymatic LPO processes peroxyl
radicals generated as intermediates cannot leave the enzyme complex. In
contrast in a nonenzymatic LPO process peroxyl radicals are not
trapped. They attack nearly any kind of biological molecules, for
instance proteins. Thus only the amount of an outside impact decides if
proliferation, apoptosis, or necrosis is started.Some evidence
indicates that cancer might be the consequence of a low response of
cells to induce apoptotic LPO processes. In contrast to high level of
LPO processes induces diseases combined with inflammation, for instance
rheumatic arthritis. After consumption of food rich in linoleic acid
its LPO products become increased in low density lipoprotein (LDL).
This LDL is able to enter endothelial cells and damage cells from
inside, long before an inflammatory response is detectable.

Once vital biomolecules are destroyed or rendered dysfunctional in this
way, a cascade of events occurs, leading to the "pathogens" appearing
to be the "cause."  The specific "disease" depends upon the stressor.
The long-term cigarette smoker who eats a "typical Western diet" will
be at a considerably greater risk for developing lung cancer, as most
will admit these days.  There is no secret here.  Thousands of good
studies/experiments have been done.  The evidence is clear now.  The
Perth Group has done an excellent job of explaining the "HIV/AIDS"
version of this "modern "chronic disease" phenomenon.
Gary Stein - 16 Dec 2005 18:58 GMT
> At one of the link's Bennet provided was the following statement: "As
> the available T cell repertoire is reduced to the point where HIV can
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> shows that you are not in touch with the scientific reality - it makes
> you "look stupid," not "smart."

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Gary Stein
Susie, age 9 - 16 Dec 2005 01:59 GMT
>>I tell people about tooth decay and toothpaste, and oral health in
>>general as a microcosm of overall health or "disease."
>
> Undoubtedly faling to brush your teeth is the cause of AIDS.

And all this time George Mary-Bob thought toothpaste was
something to hold condoms on...

susie
Bennett - 16 Dec 2005 02:17 GMT
> Bennett-
>
> You wrote to Dean , according to Dean, that Duesberg's reply(s) to you
> were insignificant....and this is why he contacted Duesberg.

I actually said that Duesberg hadn't replied to me after nearly a week!
I granted the caveat that he may have been too busy.  I get the
impression that he was, from what he wrote back.

Here is the permalink:
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1105628771.shtml#21487

Note the time: 6:17 pm, feb first 2004.

Dean then went ahead and posted this crap:

http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1107851531.shtml

Note the time: Feb 8th, around 4:30 pm.

which occurred after Duesberg had, of course, replied to me.  His email
to me (which is the one Dean posts on his site) is timed/dated Feb 8th
1:59am.  Since I complained on Feb first and Duesberg didn't reply for
a full week (until Feb 8th) I did not lie when I said that Duesberg
wasn't replying to me.

I did point this out to Dean, and the world in general:

http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1107851531.shtml#22207

Duh.

I freely admitted that we were conversing back and forth here:

http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1106733235.shtml#22163

And of course I post all of my emails to Duesberg on Dean's site (as
supplied in the second link above.

> You deliberately lied to Dean.

I did not lie, Dean simply jumps to conclusions on minimal information
- which is why he believes HIV doesn't cause AIDS.

> Why don't you post your entire email exchange with Peter Duesberg in
> this thread???? Not bits and pieces but the whole exchange.

I've already posted the entirety of MY side of the exchange online.  I
do not feel comfortable with posting Duesberg's emails without his
explicit permission, since they were written from one person to another
as private correspondance.  I do have them archived (as I try with all
my dissident correspondance).

> You write about HIV as though it has been isolated from a person's sera.
> Where has it ever been isolated according to the Perth group's
> satisfaction?

Never - the PG are never satisfied.  They admit that since HIV kills
cells and creates debris their purification method can NEVER isolated
HIV.  HAH!  What an amazing piece of logic.  When confronted with
alternative, better methods of purification, they throw hissy fits and
change the subject.

> As you are aware so called HIV supposedly destroys CD-4 lymphocytes.
> This supposedly leads to the development of AIDS. For HIV to be the
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> because it does not satisfy Koch's Postulates. Something other than
> "HIV" must be killing off these cells, correct?

You are aware that Koch himself knew that his postulates were flawed?
They did not apply to leprosy until the 1960's (!) and at the time he
thought of them viruses were not even known about.

Low CD4 counts are found in AIDS - they can also be found in other
situations which are clearly not AIDS, and in these situations you
can't possibly expect HIV to be involved.  You're setting up a Strawman
Argument.

HIV is the only common factor in blood-borne and sexually transmitted
acquired low CD4 counts.  Other possibilities (lifestyle, drugs,
clotting factors) are not, and by your own argument cannot cause AIDS
either.

> While I have your attention can you please explain why it is that when
> people use the cocktails and other drugs to raise these cd-4's in the
> prescence of so called HIV infection why is it that they die anyway?

Everyone dies.  People with untreated HIV infection tend to lose their
CD4 T cells.  People with treated HIV infection tend to not lose their
CD4 T cells.  If they start to lose their CD4 T cells you can see that
the virus has acquired mutations that correlate with the drugs they are
on (resistance mutations).  Change the drugs, the CD4 counts recover.
If you start to run out of drugs...you're out of luck.

Some unfortunately will die from other things anyway.  Some really
unfortunate people will die from the chronic side effects of the very
medications intended to help them (eg protease inhibitors leading to
lipid abnormalities and cardiovascular disease).  Overall, annual
mortality is greatly improved.

> Can you explain how "HIV" can possibly be so deadly (given that it
> actually exists) when CDC figures from 2 years ago show that out of an
> estimated 1.2 million 'infected' Americans only 18,000 achieved
> mortality?

Without going into the details I can imagine that some will die _with_
HIV rather than _from_ HIV.  Many of those treated who would otherwise
have died will not.  Many of those who don't yet know they are infected
are in the asymptomatic phase and are (obviously) not yet at serious
risk of dying anyway.  I could spend my time working into the wee hours
working out all the details...but on the other hand so can you!

> What exactly is the mechanism that this "HIV" uses to kill cd-4's?

You really want to know?

http://aidsmyth.blogspot.com/2004/10/latest-bmj-rebuttal.html

> Cheers back atcha,

No problem.

Cheers

Bennett
SuperSport - 17 Dec 2005 01:13 GMT
Never - the PG are never satisfied. They admit that since HIV kills
cells and creates debris their purification method can NEVER isolated
HIV. HAH! What an amazing piece of logic. When confronted with
alternative, better methods of purification, they throw hissy fits and
change the subject.

Better Methods of isolation? Is density gradient ultracentrifugation
still used in science?

I can not speak for PG, but I have never seen them admit that HIV kills
cells. Is this a typo on your part??
     >
     > As you are aware so called HIV supposedly destroys CD-4
lymphocytes.
     > This supposedly leads to the development of AIDS. For HIV to be
the
     > cause of the loss of CD-4 cells it must be present in each and
every
     > case of people with low CD-4 counts. If "HIV" is not present in
each and
     > every person exhibiting low cd-4 counts than the HIV as sole
cause of
     > AIDS hypothesis must be abandoned as the cause of low cd-4
counts
     > because it does not satisfy Koch's Postulates. Something other
than
     > "HIV" must be killing off these cells, correct?

You are aware that Koch himself knew that his postulates were flawed?
They did not apply to leprosy until the 1960's (!) and at the time he
thought of them viruses were not even known about.

If Koch's Postulates are flawed in regards to HIV science then why does
the CDC adamantly contend that HIV fullfills Koch's Postulates? It is
interesting to me that you are basically insinuating that the HIV/AIDS
hypothsis does not satisfy Koch's Postuates when the CDC says the
opposite.

Low CD4 counts are found in AIDS - they can also be found in other
situations which are clearly not AIDS, and in these situations you
can't possibly expect HIV to be involved. You're setting up a Strawman
Argument.

HIV is the only common factor in blood-borne and sexually transmitted
acquired low CD4 counts. Other possibilities (lifestyle, drugs,
clotting factors) are not, and by your own argument cannot cause AIDS
either.

     >
     > While I have your attention can you please explain why it is
that when
     > people use the cocktails and other drugs to raise these cd-4's
in the
     > prescence of so called HIV infection why is it that they die
anyway?

Everyone dies. People with untreated HIV infection tend to lose their
CD4 T cells. People with treated HIV infection tend to not lose their
CD4 T cells. If they start to lose their CD4 T cells you can see that
the virus has acquired mutations that correlate with the drugs they are
on (resistance mutations). Change the drugs, the CD4 counts recover.
If you start to run out of drugs...you're out of luck.

People with treated HIV infection and restored cd-4 counts die of ARC's
in many cases. This concludes that AIDS is most likely NOT a t-cell
deficiency.

Some unfortunately will die from other things anyway. Some really
unfortunate people will die from the chronic side effects of the very
medications intended to help them (eg protease inhibitors leading to
lipid abnormalities and cardiovascular disease). Overall, annual
mortality is greatly improved.

Not according to the most rigorous of AIDS trials, which was Concorde.

     >
     > Can you explain how "HIV" can possibly be so deadly (given that
it
     > actually exists) when CDC figures from 2 years ago show that out
of an
     > estimated 1.2 million 'infected' Americans only 18,000 achieved
     > mortality?

Without going into the details I can imagine that some will die _with_
HIV rather than _from_ HIV. Many of those treated who would otherwise
have died will not. Many of those who don't yet know they are infected
are in the asymptomatic phase and are (obviously) not yet at serious
risk of dying anyway. I could spend my time working into the wee hours
working out all the details...but on the other hand so can you!

     >
     > What exactly is the mechanism that this "HIV" uses to kill
cd-4's?
     >

You really want to know?

http://aidsmyth.blogspot.com/2004/10/latest-bmj-rebuttal.html

Is it impossible for cd-4 cells to be converted into cd-8 cells?

     >

AIDS was first constructed in the early 1980's as a t-cell deficiency.
That, and only that, is the symptom associated with 'having HIV'.  The
cause, according to the orthodox, is HIV, the effect is a cd-4
deficeincy.

At the International AIDS Conference circa 1992 in Amsterdam at least
one physician, who was followed later by many, presented cases of HIV
negative AIDS. The CDC, instead of reinvestigating the 'cause of AIDS',
instead covered this up by naming this "new" entity idiopathic t-cell
lymphocytopenia, or ICL.

Subsequent testing of cd-4 cells has revealed that having a low cd-4
count is not that abnormal in people outside of the "HIV" 'risk groups'.
This, of course, is ICL.

Now then, if cd-4 cells are the barometer of health in the HIV inflicted
and the most toxic drugs in medicine are given to these people to
restore their immune counts, why are people with ICL not given drugs to
bring up their cd-4 counts? Afterall.....they are in death's grasp
aren't they??

Now, according to the CDC the "HIV as sole cause of AIDS" hypothesis
fullfills Koch's Postulates.

How can this possibly be so when the symptom of HIV infection-low cd-4
counts-is found in so many HIV negative (by antibody and genetic
testing) people?

Since low cd-4 counts can be found in many people in the abscence of
"HIV" the HIV as sole cause of AIDS hypothesis fails Koch's Postulate
number one (epidemielogical association).

The HIV/AIDS hypothsis fails Koch's Postulate number three in that when
"HIV" is transfered into chimps the chimps do not develop AIDS.

And why is it that  persons labeled HIV positive, with low cd-4 counts,
do not die of each and every possible infectious bug out there-even the
common cold? Afterall, the immune system has supposedly been destroyed.

Cheers Back Atcha,

Michael

" We know that to err is human, but the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is one hell
of a mistake"
Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate and inventor of Polymerase Chain
Reaction.
montygram - 17 Dec 2005 06:45 GMT
"You can see the photograph described above at the following URL
http://www.denniskunkel.com/product_info.php?products_id=85"

Yes, anyone who is not blind can see it, but what is the point.  For
all anyone knows, if cells are manipulated in a certain way you could
also get such a picture from someone who is young and in "perfect
health."  This is a demonstation of nothing.  It may have the
characteristics of retroviruses, but that is all that can be said
(where are the "knobs?").  We don't know if cells are being damaged or
destroyed and we don't know how many are being destroyed (assuming some
are).  If "HIV" exists and is deadly in a direct way, it should not be
a problem to take an EM like the one at the following link from the
blood or tissues of someone dying of "HIV/AIDS:"

http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/news/edhlettercont.htm

Furthermore, if such an EM was produced, it should not be possible to
produce a similar one in patients dying of various "chronic diseases"
but who are "HIV negative."

In science, the burden is on those who make the claim to provide the
irrefutable demonstration, if they want their claim to become a
"scientific theory" at some point.  In "HIV/AIDS science," by contrast,
those who make the claims act as if the burden is on anyone who
disagrees with them and supplies ample and compelling evidence and
criticisms of their claims.

To see the first EMs claiming to show "HIV," go here:

http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/news/edhlettercont.htm

The point they make at this site is:

"...(March '97)

Two historic papers in the leading science journal Virology in March
this year provide astonishing new data on the purification and
isolation of HIV. For the first time in the history of AIDS, elusive
electron microscope images of 'HIV' collected or 'banded' at the
official density required for retroviruses, 1.16 gm/ml, have been
published, by a research group in Germany. The electronmicrographs
disclose "major contaminants" in "pure HIV".

HIV expert Hans Gelderblom of Berlin's Robert Koch Institute, whose
photos of non-banded 'HIV' material have been the industrial benchmark
since 1987, co-authored the first paper which describes the
contamination as "an excess of vesicles" - particles of cellular
proteins, that may contain DNA or RNA. In a consecutive paper, a US
research team from the AIDS Vaccine Programme in Maryland reveal
carefully, "It is unknown how these cellular proteins associate with
the virus" and warn, "The presence of microvesicles in purified
retroviruses has practical implications": both teams discuss the
resulting nonspecifity of HIV tests, all of which are based on early
unchecked "purified HIV".

In an historic admission that it has never been established which
proteins constitute 'HIV', the US scientists conclude, "The development
of various purification strategies to separate microvesicles from
HIV-particles ... will greatly enhance our ability to identify
virion-associated cellular proteins." The imaging step in attempts at
retroviral isolation was deemed essential when isolation procedure was
discussed and decided at the Pasteur Institute, Paris in 1972, but it
has never been published before in the 13-year history of 'HIV'.
(Continuum autumn 1997)
Gary Stein - 17 Dec 2005 22:58 GMT
> "You can see the photograph described above at the following URL
> http://www.denniskunkel.com/product_info.php?products_id=85"
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> a problem to take an EM like the one at the following link from the
> blood or tissues of someone dying of "HIV/AIDS:"

The photo was from Human lymph tissue so yes it was from someone with
HIV/AIDS what part of that do you not understand? The knobs are buds if you
had even a small clue about HIV you would have recognized that simple fact.

Gary Stein
Bennett - 27 Dec 2005 03:26 GMT
> Better Methods of isolation? Is density gradient ultracentrifugation
> still used in science?

Yep, both as sucrose gradients and as Optiprep gradients.  If you use
both you get highly purified HIV, and this seems to be the standard
these days.

> I can not speak for PG, but I have never seen them admit that HIV kills
> cells. Is this a typo on your part??

Nope.  As I said on the BMJ debate...

"The Perth Group do indeed acknowledge its toxic effect: in their
article "ISOLATED FACTS ABOUT HIV - A REPLY" on their website they say
that:

"...unlike all other retroviruses, HIV is said to kill cells. Thus,
unlike the supernatants (cell free culture fluids) from other
retroviral
cultures, in "HIV" cultures one would expect to find subcellar
material,
at least "cellular fragments", microsomes from disrupted cells and
"membraneous vesicles which may enclose other cellular constituents
including nucleic acids""

If one would expect to find subcellular material, they why do they
insist on using techniques that are inadequate for removing such
material.  I don't recall the PG ever replying to this point.

> If Koch's Postulates are flawed in regards to HIV science then why does
> the CDC adamantly contend that HIV fullfills Koch's Postulates?

LOL.  It seems we can't win.  Either we get blasted for saying HIV
fulfillls them, or we get blasted for rewriting them.  HIV fits the
spirit of Koch's postulates, just not the letter.

It is
> interesting to me that you are basically insinuating that the HIV/AIDS
> hypothsis does not satisfy Koch's Postuates when the CDC says the
> opposite.

No, I'm saying (not insinuating) that Koch's Posutulates are a strawman
argument to hold against HIV if you follow them to the letter.  And I'm
also pointing out that they are far from the holy grail of microbiology
that the dissidents make them out to be...

> People with treated HIV infection and restored cd-4 counts die of ARC's
> in many cases. This concludes that AIDS is most likely NOT a t-cell
> deficiency.

AIDS certainly is a T cell deficiency, and a CD4 T cell deficiency to
boot.  The blood work shows that and is indisputable.

> Not according to the most rigorous of AIDS trials, which was Concorde.

LOL!  Concorde was reanalysed and taken out of context by the
dissidents.  For starters it refers to AZT monotherapy, secondly it
showed short term benefits in mortality, and thirdly the argument that
there was more mortality in the "AZT" group was that most everyone had
been or was on AZT by the end of the study because it was a cross-over
study.

Concorde is old data anyway - look at anything from the Swiss HIV Study
Cohort to get a better picture, especially of the HAART era.

> Is it impossible for cd-4 cells to be converted into cd-8 cells?

Pretty much, yes.  The decision is made at the level of the thymus
maturation process.  There have been reports of some proteins such as
HIV gp120 inducing the expression of CD4 on CD8 T cells.  Whether this
turns them into true CD4 T cells (i.e. helper cells, rather than killer
cells) I do not know.

> AIDS was first constructed in the early 1980's as a t-cell deficiency.
> That, and only that, is the symptom associated with 'having HIV'.  The
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> instead covered this up by naming this "new" entity idiopathic t-cell
> lymphocytopenia, or ICL.

There are several clear differences between AIDS and ICL - these have
been outlined here many times.  ICL doesn't progress whereas HIV
infection clearly does (the CD4 count drops year on year).  ICL also
doesn't typically result in a fatal immune deficiency, and can resolve.

> Subsequent testing of cd-4 cells has revealed that having a low cd-4
> count is not that abnormal in people outside of the "HIV" 'risk groups'.
> This, of course, is ICL.

It is pretty abnormal ;-)

> Now then, if cd-4 cells are the barometer of health in the HIV inflicted
> and the most toxic drugs in medicine are given to these people to
> restore their immune counts, why are people with ICL not given drugs to
> bring up their cd-4 counts? Afterall.....they are in death's grasp
> aren't they??

Nope.  And what would you target?  Giving HAART clearly restores short
and long-term CD4 T cell counts and restores lost immune responses.

> Now, according to the CDC the "HIV as sole cause of AIDS" hypothesis
> fullfills Koch's Postulates.
>
> How can this possibly be so when the symptom of HIV infection-low cd-4
> counts-is found in so many HIV negative (by antibody and genetic
> testing) people?

You're confusing an entity (ICL) with a disease (AIDS).  You can get a
low red cell count by iron deficiency, vitamin B 12 deficiency, folate
deficiency and simple blood loss.  That doesn't mean that iron
deficiency doesn't cause anemia...

> Since low cd-4 counts can be found in many people in the abscence of
> "HIV" the HIV as sole cause of AIDS hypothesis fails Koch's Postulate
> number one (epidemielogical association).
>
> The HIV/AIDS hypothsis fails Koch's Postulate number three in that when
> "HIV" is transfered into chimps the chimps do not develop AIDS.

This is most likely because it CAME from chimps.  They react
differently to HIV than we do, with a more moderated immune response.
There are several other similar viruses in various monkey species.  In
their own species they too are harmless...but if you switch species
over, then they develop AIDS.  It seems to me that harmless SIV from
chimps became fatal HIV in humans.  Similarly influenza gives humans a
respiratory infection which can kill, whereas in most birds it's a
harmless gut infection.

> And why is it that  persons labeled HIV positive, with low cd-4 counts,
> do not die of each and every possible infectious bug out there-even the
> common cold? Afterall, the immune system has supposedly been destroyed.

There are multiple levels of immune protection - even in healthy
people, the immune response appears too late to account for the
clearance of most infections.  NK cells, interferon and other innate
immune mechanisms are responsible for the initial control of viral
infections and the clearance of most of it.  Studies using animals
without T cells show that you can get away without a strong T cell
response a lot of the time, but if you lose the innate responses you're
really screwed as you don't live long enough to mount an immune
response.  This is what happens in ebola infection, as it happens.

Cheers

Bennett
Gary Stein - 16 Dec 2005 18:47 GMT
> Bennett-
>
[quoted text clipped - 18 lines]
> because it does not satisfy Koch's Postulates. Something other than
> "HIV" must be killing off these cells, correct?

EVIDENCE THAT HIV CAUSES AIDS
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/evidhiv.htm

HIV fulfills Koch's postulates as the cause of AIDS.

Among many criteria used over the years to prove the link between putative
pathogenic (disease-causing) agents and disease, perhaps the most-cited are
Koch's postulates, developed in the late 19th century. Koch's postulates
have been variously interpreted by many scientists, and modifications have
been suggested to accommodate new technologies, particularly with regard to
viruses (Harden. Pubbl Stn Zool Napoli [II] 1992;14:249; O'Brien, Goedert.
Curr Opin Immunol 1996;8:613). However, the basic tenets remain the same,
and for more than a century Koch's postulates, as listed below, have served
as the litmus test for determining the cause of any epidemic disease:

Epidemiological association: the suspected cause must be strongly associated
with the disease.
Isolation: the suspected pathogen can be isolated - and propagated - outside
the host.
Transmission pathogenesis: transfer of the suspected pathogen to an
uninfected host, man or animal, produces the disease in that host.

With regard to postulate #1, numerous studies from around the world show
that virtually all AIDS patients are HIV-seropositive; that is they carry
antibodies that indicate HIV infection. With regard to postulate #2, modern
culture techniques have allowed the isolation of HIV in virtually all AIDS
patients, as well as in almost all HIV-seropositive individuals with both
early- and late-stage disease. In addition, the polymerase chain (PCR) and
other sophisticated molecular techniques have enabled researchers to
document the presence of HIV genes in virtually all patients with AIDS, as
well as in individuals in earlier stages of HIV disease.

Postulate #3 has been fulfilled in tragic incidents involving three
laboratory workers with no other risk factors who have developed AIDS or
severe immunosuppression after accidental exposure to concentrated, cloned
HIV in the laboratory. In all three cases, HIV was isolated from the
infected individual, sequenced and shown to be the infecting strain of
virus. In another tragic incident, transmission of HIV from a Florida
dentist to six patients has been documented by genetic analyses of virus
isolated from both the dentist and the patients. The dentist and three of
the patients developed AIDS and died, and at least one of the other patients
has developed AIDS. Five of the patients had no HIV risk factors other than
multiple visits to the dentist for invasive procedures (O'Brien, Goedert.
Curr Opin Immunol 1996;8:613; O'Brien, 1997; Ciesielski et al. Ann Intern
Med 1994;121:886).

In addition, through December 1999, the CDC had received reports of 56
health care workers in the United States with documented, occupationally
acquired HIV infection, of whom 25 have developed AIDS in the absence of
other risk factors. The development of AIDS following known HIV
seroconversion also has been repeatedly observed in pediatric and adult
blood transfusion cases, in mother-to-child transmission, and in studies of
hemophilia, injection-drug use and sexual transmission in which
seroconversion can be documented using serial blood samples (CDC. HIV AIDS
Surveillance Report 1999;11[2]:1; AIDS Knowledge Base, 1999). For example,
in a 10-year study in the Netherlands, researchers followed 11 children who
had become infected with HIV as neonates by small aliquots of plasma from a
single HIV-infected donor. During the 10-year period, eight of the children
died of AIDS. Of the remaining three children, all showed a progressive
decline in cellular immunity, and two of the three had symptoms probably
related to HIV infection (van den Berg et al. Acta Paediatr 1994;83:17).

Koch's postulates also have been fulfilled in animal models of human AIDS.
Chimpanzees experimentally infected with HIV have developed severe
immunosuppression and AIDS. In severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mice
given a human immune system, HIV produces similar patterns of cell killing
and pathogenesis as seen in people. HIV-2, a less virulent variant of HIV
which causes AIDS in people, also causes an AIDS-like syndrome in baboons.
More than a dozen strains of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a close
cousin of HIV, cause AIDS in Asian macaques. In addition, chimeric viruses
known as SHIVs, which contain an SIV backbone with various HIV genes in
place of the corresponding SIV genes, cause AIDS in macaques. Further
strengthening the association of these viruses with AIDS, researchers have
shown that SIV/SHIVs isolated from animals with AIDS cause AIDS when
transmitted to uninfected animals (O'Neil et al. J Infect Dis 2000;182:1051;
Aldrovandi et al. Nature 1993;363:732; Liska et al. AIDS Res Hum
Retroviruses 1999;15:445; Locher et al. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1998;22:523;
Hirsch et al. Virus Res 1994;32:183; Joag et al. J Virol 1996;70:3189).

KOCH'S POSTULATES FULFILLED
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/hivaids/12.htm

Recent developments in HIV research provide some of the strongest evidence
for the causative role of HIV in AIDS and fulfill the classical postulates
for disease causation developed by Henle and Koch in the 19th century
(Koch's postulates reviewed in Evans, 1976, 1989a; Harden, 1992). Koch's
postulates have been variously interpreted by many scientists over the
years. One scientist who asserts that HIV does not cause AIDS has set forth
the following interpretation of the postulates for proving the causal
relationship between a microorganism and a specific disease (Duesberg,
1987):

The microorganism must be found in all cases of the disease.
It must be isolated from the host and grown in pure culture.
It must reproduce the original disease when introduced into a susceptible
host.
It must be found in the experimental host so infected.

Recent developments in HIV/AIDS research have shown that HIV fulfills these
criteria as the cause of AIDS.

1) The development of DNA PCR has enabled researchers to document the
presence of cell-associated proviral HIV in virtually all patients with
AIDS, as well as in individuals in earlier stages of HIV disease (Kwok et
al., 1987; Wages et al., 1991; Bagasra et al., 1992; Bruisten et al., 1992;
Petru et al., 1992; Hammer et al., 1993). RNA PCR has been used to detect
cell-free and/or cell-associated viral RNA in patients at all stages of HIV
disease (Ottmann et al., 1991; Schnittman et al., 1991; Aoki-Sei, 1992;
Michael et al., 1992; Piatak et al., 1993) (Table 3).

2) Improvements in co-culture techniques have allowed the isolation of HIV
in virtually all AIDS patients, as well as in almost all seropositive
individuals with both early- and late-stage disease (Coombs et al., 1989;
Schnittman et al., 1989; Ho et al., 1989; Jackson et al., 1990).

1-4) All four postulates have been fulfilled in three laboratory workers
with no other risk factors who have developed AIDS or severe
immunosuppression after accidental exposure to concentrated HIVIIIB in the
laboratory (Blattner et al., 1993; Reitz et al., 1994; Cohen, 1994c). Two
patients were infected in 1985 and one in 1991. All three have shown marked
CD4+ T cell depletion, and two have CD4+ T cell counts that have dropped
below 200/mm3 of blood. One of these latter individuals developed PCP, an
AIDS indicator disease, 68 months after showing evidence of infection and
did not receive antiretroviral drugs until 83 months after the infection. In
all three cases, HIVIIIB was isolated from the infected individual,
sequenced, and shown to be the original infecting strain of virus.

In addition, as of Dec. 31, 1994, CDC had received reports of 42 health care
workers in the United States with documented, occupationally acquired HIV
infection, of whom 17 have developed AIDS in the absence of other risk
factors (CDC, 1995a). These individuals all had evidence of HIV
seroconversion following a discrete percutaneous or mucocutaneous exposure
to blood, body fluids or other clinical laboratory specimens containing HIV.

The development of AIDS following known HIV seroconversion also has been
repeatedly observed in pediatric and adult blood transfusion cases (Ward et
al., 1989; Ashton et al., 1994), in mother-to-child transmission (European
Collaborative Study, 1991, 1992; Turner et al., 1993; Blanche et al., 1994),
and in studies of hemophilia, injection drug use, and sexual transmission in
which the time of seroconversion can be documented using serial blood
samples (Goedert et al., 1989; Rezza et al., 1989; Biggar, 1990; Alcabes et
al., 1993a,b; Giesecke et al., 1990; Buchbinder et al., 1994; Sabin et al.,
1993).

In many such cases, infection is followed by an acute retroviral syndrome,
which further strengthens the chronological association between HIV and AIDS
(Pedersen et al., 1989, 1993; Schechter et al., 1990; Tindall and Cooper,
1991; Keet et al., 1993; Sinicco et al., 1993; Bachmeyer et al., 1993;
Lindback et al., 1994).

Gary Stein
Susie, age 9 - 16 Dec 2005 22:02 GMT
>> Bennett-
>>
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>> Why don't you post your entire email exchange with Peter Duesberg in
>> this thread???? Not bits and pieces but the whole exchange.

We're waiting...

>> You write about HIV as though it has been isolated from a person's sera.
>> Where has it ever been isolated according to the Perth group's
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>> because it does not satisfy Koch's Postulates. Something other than
>> "HIV" must be killing off these cells, correct?

Yes, that would be Tregs.

> EVIDENCE THAT HIV CAUSES AIDS
> http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/evidhiv.htm
>
> HIV fulfills Koch's postulates as the cause of AIDS.

Nope.

> Among many criteria used over the years to prove the link between putative
> pathogenic (disease-causing) agents and disease, perhaps the most-cited
[quoted text clipped - 17 lines]
> that virtually all AIDS patients are HIV-seropositive; that is they carry
> antibodies that indicate HIV infection.

"Virtually all"?

When someone has smallpox, do they say that "virtually all" people
with smallpox have the smallpox virus?

I don't think so.

> With regard to postulate #2, modern culture techniques have allowed the
> isolation of HIV in virtually all AIDS patients, as well as in almost all
> HIV-seropositive individuals

"Virtually all"? "Almost all"? When someone has rabies, do they say
that rabies can be isolated from "almost all" patients?

I don't think so.

> with both early- and late-stage disease. In addition, the polymerase chain
> (PCR) and other sophisticated molecular techniques have enabled
> researchers to document the presence of HIV genes in virtually all
> patients with AIDS, as well as in individuals in earlier stages of HIV
> disease.

"Virtually all", once again.

> Postulate #3 has been fulfilled in tragic incidents involving three
> laboratory workers with no other risk factors who have developed AIDS or
> severe immunosuppression after accidental exposure to concentrated, cloned
> HIV in the laboratory.

When they say "after", what do they mean?

2 weeks?

6 months?

12 years?

25 years?

Wanna bet they ALL TREATED with antivirals?

> In all three cases, HIV was isolated from the infected individual,
> sequenced and shown to be the infecting strain of virus. In another tragic
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> the dentist for invasive procedures (O'Brien, Goedert. Curr Opin Immunol
> 1996;8:613; O'Brien, 1997; Ciesielski et al. Ann Intern Med 1994;121:886).

All of the patients shared ANOTHER UNMENTIONED common risk factor:

                                        T-R-E-A-T-M-E-N-T

> In addition, through December 1999, the CDC had received reports of 56
> health care workers in the United States with documented, occupationally
> acquired HIV infection, of whom 25 have developed AIDS in the absence of
> other risk factors.

But not the COMMON risk factor we know so well:

                                        T-R-E-A-T-M-E-N-T

> The development of AIDS following known HIV seroconversion also has been
> repeatedly observed in pediatric and adult blood transfusion cases, in
> mother-to-child transmission, and in studies of hemophilia, injection-drug
> use and sexual transmission in which seroconversion can be documented
> using serial blood samples (CDC. HIV AIDS Surveillance Report
> 1999;11[2]:1; AIDS Knowledge Base, 1999).

What is left out of this analysis is the FACT that ONLY 50% of those
who received HIV-infected clotting factor for hemophilia became "infected".

If you inject live smallpox in the unvaccinated, 100% will be infected,
not a mere 50%.

> For example, in a 10-year study in the Netherlands, researchers followed
> 11 children who had become infected with HIV as neonates by small aliquots
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> had symptoms probably related to HIV infection (van den Berg et al. Acta
> Paediatr 1994;83:17).

Again, ALL the cases had an UNDISCLOSED commonality: TREATMENT!

> Koch's postulates also have been fulfilled in animal models of human AIDS.

Animals don't get "human AIDS".

> Chimpanzees experimentally infected with HIV have developed severe
> immunosuppression and AIDS.

And these chimpanzees were subjected to MANY other factors
and stressors besides HIV to elicit the expected "illness".  The
"researchers" conducting these experiments should be in jail
for what they did to those poor animals.

As to the rest...

Why bother? ... I'll just snip the rest of Mr. Stein's Junk Science.

susie
wilyretrovirus - 16 Dec 2005 22:30 GMT
All of the patients shared ANOTHER UNMENTIONED common risk factor:

             T-R-E-A-T-M-E-N-T

But not the COMMON risk factor we know so well:

             T-R-E-A-T-M-E-N-T

Brilliant, Susie.

Hope you don't mind me cheering you on.
Gary Stein - 17 Dec 2005 00:01 GMT
> All of the patients shared ANOTHER UNMENTIONED common risk factor:
>
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>
> Brilliant, Susie.

Not even close, what evidence does frod provide to prove his contention,
none as useual.......

Gary Stein
SuperSport - 18 Dec 2005 00:15 GMT
Gary Stein wrote-

"EVIDENCE THAT HIV CAUSES AIDS
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/evidhiv.htm"

Mr. Stein, you posted a document that supposedly 'proves' HIV causes
AIDS that does not have an author's name attached to it. With good
reason too I might add....

Mr. Stein, even if "HIV" exists as the NIH says it does it can not be
the cause of AIDS. AIDS is a t-cell deficeincy-that is the 'disease'. It
is well known in medical science that t-cell defeicincy exists without a
trace of 'HIV' or non specific antibodies associated with "HIV".

Thus it fails Koch's Postulates, and logical thinking as well.

Michael

" We know that to err is human, but the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is one hell
of a mistake"
Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate and inventor of Polymerase Chain
Reaction.
Chris Noble - 18 Dec 2005 01:10 GMT
> Gary Stein wrote-
>
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
>
> Michael

Mr. Sport, even if "cigarettes" exist as the NIH says they do they can
not be the cause of lung cancer.  It
is well known in medical science that lung cancer exists without a
trace of 'cigarettes' or non specific smoke associated with
"cigarettes".

Thus it fails Koch's Postulates, and logical thinking as well.

Chris

"...at the far end of the path, under a fir tree, there was something
glowing. I pointed my flashlight at it anyhow. It only made it whiter
where the beam landed. It seemed to be a raccoon. I wasn't frightened.

Later, I wondered if it could have been a hologram, projected from God

knows where."
"The raccoon spoke. 'Good evening, doctor,' it said. I said
something back, I don't remember what, probably, 'Hello.' The
next thing I remember, it was early in the morning. I was walking
along
a road uphill from my house."

Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate and inventor of Polymerase Chain
Reaction.
wilyretrovirus - 18 Dec 2005 01:43 GMT
"...at the far end of the path, under a fir tree, there was something
glowing. I pointed my flashlight at it anyhow. It only made it whiter
where the beam landed. It seemed to be a raccoon. I wasn't frightened.

Later, I wondered if it could have been a hologram, projected from God
knows where."

"The raccoon spoke. 'Good evening, doctor,' it said. I said something
back, I don't remember what, probably, 'Hello.' The next thing I remember,
it was early in the morning. I was walking along road uphill from my
house."

Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate and inventor of Polymerase Chain
Reaction.

That's some funny sh.t, Chris.  And I don't doubt Kary Mullis said it.
He's definitely a character.
Does this somehow prove that HIV causes AIDS?  If it does, I'd like to see
the rationale.
Chris Noble - 18 Dec 2005 02:22 GMT
> "...at the far end of the path, under a fir tree, there was something
> glowing. I pointed my flashlight at it anyhow. It only made it whiter
[quoted text clipped - 15 lines]
> Does this somehow prove that HIV causes AIDS?  If it does, I'd like to see
> the rationale.

If Kary Mullis says " We know that to err is human, but the HIV/AIDS
hypothesis is one hell  of a mistake" does this somehow prove that HIV
does not cause AIDS? Of course not.

Should we believe what he says just because he is a Nobel Laureate? Of
course not or else we would have to accept that he really talked to a
glowing raccoon.

Michael gives nothing other than the authority of Kary Mullis to
support the assertion that the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is a big mistake.
This is an argument from authority.

Do the words have more authority if Kary Mullis said them than if you
or Michael said them? No.
Should we believe them just because Kary Mullis uttered them? No.

Chris Noble
wilyretrovirus - 18 Dec 2005 02:42 GMT
wilyretrovirus wrote:
> "...at the far end of the path, under a fir tree, there was something
> glowing. I pointed my flashlight at it anyhow. It only made it whiter
[quoted text clipped - 15 lines]
> Does this somehow prove that HIV causes AIDS?  If it does, I'd like to see
> the rationale.

If Kary Mullis says " We know that to err is human, but the HIV/AIDS
hypothesis is one hell  of a mistake" does this somehow prove that HIV
does not cause AIDS? Of course not.

Should we believe what he says just because he is a Nobel Laureate? Of
course not or else we would have to accept that he really talked to a
glowing raccoon.

Michael gives nothing other than the authority of Kary Mullis to
support the assertion that the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is a big mistake.
This is an argument from authority.

Do the words have more authority if Kary Mullis said them than if you
or Michael said them? No.
Should we believe them just because Kary Mullis uttered them? No.

Chris Noble

Waaaah-boooo, Chris.

If Michael wants to use that quote, it's up to him.  And your welcome to
use the glowing raccoon quote (makes me laugh every time I read it).
Chris Noble - 18 Dec 2005 02:46 GMT
> wilyretrovirus wrote:
> > "...at the far end of the path, under a fir tree, there was something
[quoted text clipped - 38 lines]
>
> Waaaah-boooo, Chris.

Brilliant response.

> If Michael wants to use that quote, it's up to him.  And your welcome to
> use the glowing raccoon quote (makes me laugh every time I read it).

Why resort to argument from authority at all?

Chris Noble
wilyretrovirus - 18 Dec 2005 03:02 GMT
"Why resort to argument from authority at all?"

Chris Noble

Sounds like you consider Mullis to be an authority..."glowing raccoons" or
not.
Chris Noble - 18 Dec 2005 03:19 GMT
> "Why resort to argument from authority at all?"
>
> Chris Noble
>
> Sounds like you consider Mullis to be an authority..."glowing raccoons" or
> not.

I am not making arguments from authority. Michael was. The point is who
Michael considers to be an authority.

When he put wrote "Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate and inventor of
Polymerase Chain
Reaction." he was making an argument from authority.

This raises the question of why Michael considers Kary Mullis to be an
authority and not the 11 Nobel laureates that signed the Durban
Declaration?

I personally think that Project Steve was a much better response to the
fallacy of "look how big my list is" than the Durban Declaration.

http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/articles/3541_project_steve_2_16_2003.asp

Chris Noble
wilyretrovirus - 18 Dec 2005 03:39 GMT
I am not making arguments from authority. Michael was. The point is who
Michael considers to be an authority.

When he put wrote "Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate and inventor of
Polymerase Chain
Reaction." he was making an argument from authority.

Chris,
maybe Michael should chime in on this and let us know whether his views on
Kary Mullis.  

Until then, you're quite convincing as someone who sees Mullis as an
authority.  
SuperSport - 19 Dec 2005 17:41 GMT
Sure, I will post my  opinion about Kary Mullis.

Mullis is considered to be a maverick, but that usually is the label
applied when someone breaks from the established ranks of a volitale and
political subject.

It isn't the worst scientist who dissents. As anyone in science will
tell you, there is nothing wrong with questioning a hypothesis or
theory. If the hypothesis is correct, it will endure the questioning.

It is the hallmark of a flawed hypothesis in that it generates
paradoxes. And the HIV/AIDS hypothesis has certainly done that.

I respect and admire Dr. Mullis for many reasons. He invented PCR which
is one of the most valueable inventions of the last century.

Dr. Mullis , according to the foreword he wrote in Peter Duesberg's book
"Inventing the AIDS Virus" whenever he attended a scientific conference
and the topic of HIV/AIDS came up he frequently asked the presenter
where the reference is for the statement "HIV is the cause of AIDS".

No one had a reference. And neither did Luc Montegneir. And no one does
today. Well, save for that piece that Gary Stein and other orthodox
believers refer to that doesn't even have an author's name attached to
it (LMAO!). And it certainly doesn't prove anything at all.

I think that means there is a serious problem with all this HIV stuff.
And it takes guts for someone, even a Nobel winner, to stand up to the
mindless beaurocracy that runs AIDS.

Quote-

Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with
consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the
contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which
means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the
real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is
reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great
precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing
as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's
science, it isn't consensus. Period.

(Michael Chrichton)

Wise words that the HIV Pundits should consider.

Michael



" We know that to err is human, but the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is one hell
of a mistake"
Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate and inventor of Polymerase Chain
Reaction.
wilyretrovirus - 18 Dec 2005 03:42 GMT
I am not making arguments from authority. Michael was. The point is who
Michael considers to be an authority.

When he put wrote "Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate and inventor of
Polymerase Chain
Reaction." he was making an argument from authority.

Chris,
maybe Michael should chime in on this and let us know  his views on Kary
Mullis.  

Until then, you're quite convincing as someone who sees Mullis as an
authority.
Chris Noble - 18 Dec 2005 04:22 GMT
> I am not making arguments from authority. Michael was. The point is who
> Michael considers to be an authority.
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> Until then, you're quite convincing as someone who sees Mullis as an
> authority.

The logical fallacy "Argument from Authority" does not mean that the
person in question has any legitimate authority. Often, for example
when the Perth Group are presented as experts on retroviral isolation,
they are anything but authorities. Kary Mullis is not an expert in
epidemiology or virology. He may however be an authority on glowing
raccoons.

Regardless of whether the person in question actually has expertise in
the area it is still a logical fallacy.

Chris Noble
Iconoclaster - 18 Dec 2005 01:56 GMT
>"Mr. Sport, even if "cigarettes" exist as the NIH says they do they can
not be the cause of lung cancer.  It is well known in medical science that
lung cancer exists without a trace of 'cigarettes' or non specific smoke
associated with "cigarettes"."

Baloney, Mr. Noble, and you know it.  Lung cancer can have many causes,
and cigarette smoking may be one of them.  But the outlandish claim the
"HIV" and "HIV" alone is the cause of AIDS does not hold water.  We all
know (I hope) that immunosuppression (including CD4+ lymphocytopenia) can
have many causes.  So why keep harping on a virus belonging to the most
unlikely class of viruses to have that effect, as the sole cause?
Especially since there is no confirmed instance of  isolation of this
mythical virus.

Fact: People experience depression of CD4+ cells.
Second fact (not necessarily related): People suffer from opportunistic
diseases, and some die.

Why the hell twist things around just to fit the hypothesis that there's a
virus causing these facts?
All other things equal, the simplest explanation is the best (Occam's
razor)
Chris Noble - 18 Dec 2005 02:43 GMT
> >"Mr. Sport, even if "cigarettes" exist as the NIH says they do they can
> not be the cause of lung cancer.  It is well known in medical science that
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> know (I hope) that immunosuppression (including CD4+ lymphocytopenia) can
> have many causes.

You have just contradicted yourself. Nobody is claiming that HIV is the
sole cause of all immunosuppression. This is just a silly rhetorical
trick.

> So why keep harping on a virus belonging to the most
> unlikely class of viruses to have that effect, as the sole cause?

You mean the same class that includes FIV, BIV and SIV?

> Especially since there is no confirmed instance of  isolation of this
> mythical virus.

There has been no confirmed intance of the isolation of any human
pathogenic virus. Just ask your friend Stefan Lanka.

> Fact: People experience depression of CD4+ cells.
> Second fact (not necessarily rela