Ask yourself why, in all of western medical history, why was normal protocol broken and HIV announced at a press conference rather than through peer reviewed channels.
Originally Posted by Mr. Bill
You make it sound like nothing of import was ever announced at a press conference. There have been hundreds of thousands of peer-reviewed studies and the evidence that HIV causes AIDS is overwhelming and incontrovertible. And in any event, you are wrong. The research was in the publishing process. It had been peer reviewed. Reagan's HHS Secretary Margaret Heckler claimed the announcement was made because of the "urgency to identify the agent causing AIDS." (Seth C. Kalichman, "Denying AIDS", 2009). At that same press conference, she also suggested that a cure was two years away. People make mistakes.
Ask why thousands of people who have tested positive are still living and healthy 20-25 years later, while those who took the AZT and antiretroviral cocktails died a short while afterwards.
Originally Posted by Mr. Bill
Tell that to Ken Anderlini, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Sophie Brassard, Maria Papagiannidou, Ronnie Burk, Boyd Graves, Sandi Lenfestey, Jack Levine, Peter Mokaba, Karri Stokely, and Christine Maggiore and her two-year-old daughter Eliza-Jane Scovill. All of them denied that HIV causes AIDS (except Eliza-Jane, who couldn't deny anything). All of them died of AIDS.
Some people do live a long time with AIDS, even without taking any medicine. They are referred to as "long-term non-progressors." Comedian Mike diStefano was one such person. He died last year of a heart attack. So what? People have all kinds of different reactions to disease. Some people die from cancer. Some people live well past the time their doctors gave them.
Ask why Robert Gallo (press conference announcement) stole the work of another HIV researcher and was charged with fraud for changing the data to fit his agenda.
Originally Posted by Mr. Bill
That is nothing but obfuscation. In a process as complex and interconnected as international medical research, you can find lots of instances of procedural mistakes. That's why we have peer review. One man's fraud (if it even is fraud) does not invalidate the work of hundreds of thousands of other researchers. And, the scientist from whom Gallo supposedly stole the research (see below) asked that Gallo be included in the 2008 Nobel Prize for the discovery. They even co-wrote an article in Nature explaining the timeline and praising each others' work.
Ask why there are no specific or reliable tests to detect HIV.
Originally Posted by Mr. Bill
"Diagnosis of infection using antibody testing is one of the best established concepts in medicine. Examples include the diagnosis of viral hepatitis, rubella, and many other infectious diseases. Antibody testing for these diseases has never been questioned. HIV antibody tests exceed the performance of most other infectious disease tests in both sensitivity and specificity. Recent HIV antibody tests have sensitivity and specificity in excess of 98% and are therefore extremely reliable." (Canadian AIDS Society, "HIV Causes Aids", May, 2001)
Ask why Luc Montier, the original discoverer of the HIV virus, said from the beginning that his lab didn't find anything significant and who also now says that HIV can be cleared from the body simply by changing your diet to improve your immune system.
Originally Posted by Mr. Bill
His name was Luc Montagnier, not Montier. Montagnier shared the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his work in identifying HIV.
Montagnier never denied that HIV causes AIDS. This was exposed as a lie perpetrated by filmmaker Brent Leung. You can read the transcript
here. And his
Nobel acceptance speech makes it totally clear that he believes this to be true.
Ask why the CDC announced it no longer considers HIV a threat to society.
Originally Posted by Mr. Bill
You'll have to back up that claim, because it seems ridiculous. But I would totally understand them saying that it was a manageable threat, because the drugs to control HIV work so well. And because in countries where HIV testing is done regularly, the AIDS epidemic has slowed or stopped. Meanwhile in Africa and Asia, where HIV/AIDS denial is still widespread, the disease is spreading just as fast as ever.
Read that again: Where HIV testing is in effect, AIDS does not spread. That one fact is pretty incontrovertible. If HIV does not cause AIDS, why is it that when we inform people about the risks of HIV and we use medicines to lower viral loads in already infected people, the spread of AIDS
stops?
Ask why courts, when challenged on the science behind HIV, are quietly dropping and reversing charges against people charged with HIV crimes.
Originally Posted by Mr. Bill
You are claiming that the courts are upholding decisions based on evidence that HIV does not cause AIDS? I thought your argument was that the government is covering up the HIV/AIDS connection because it wants to support Big Pharma? Why would the courts drop or reverse charges when, as you claim, the government wants this to be the accepted truth?
Look, every one of your claims can be shown to be false or irrelevant. There are always going to be people who believe in fringe theories. Some people think homeopathy is real. Some people think vaccines cause autism. People believe in candling, rolfing, iridology, facilitated communication, and zenreiki. It's all bullshit.