Nexus - 0606 - New Times Magazine-pages

Page Content (OCR)

morphologies whose origin and role are unknown."*'*'°° A long = The origin of the "HIV" proteins and detailed study from Harvard’ revealed the identical "HIV" According to Eleopulos and her colleagues, all data presented particle in 18 out of 20 (90% of) AIDS-related lymph node to date are consistent with the "HIV" proteins being cellular. enlargements but also in 13 out of 15 (88% of) non-AIDS-related Using "HIV" antibodies as probes, "HIV" proteins have been enlargements. identified in the tissues of persistently HIV-negative, healthy indi- HIV experts claim to detect and even "isolate" HIV merely by viduals, including in blood platelet and skin cells, thymus, tonsil demonstrating "reverse transcription" in cultures. However, and brain.’ As a mark of the bewildering status of the HIV theo- although a property of retroviruses, reverse transcription is not, as ry, while HIV proteins could not be found in the placentas of 75 many HIV/AIDS experts claim, unique to retroviruses or even HIV-positive, pregnant women,’ they could be found in the pla- viruses.'*'* Well before the AIDS era, Gallo himself showed centas of 25 healthy, HIV-negative women.“ that chemically stimulated (a technique absolutely essential to That the HIV proteins are cellular is further strengthened by a "isolate HIV" from cultures) normal lymphocytes possess this recent two-part experiment. Human lymphocytes, cultured in the function.'®:'* absence of material from AIDS patients, were "purified" as they would be to obtain the "HIV" proteins. This "uninfected" material - The "HIV" proteins and antibodies served as a "mock virus" in experiments involving both "HIV" Although both Montagnier and Gallo have and "SIV" (simian [monkey] immunodeficien- never published EMs to prove the presence of cy virus, claimed similar to "HIV"). Analysis retrovirus-like particles in their "pure virus", of "mock virus" reveals qualitatively a series and Montagnier now concedes there weren't of proteins bearing the same molecular any, both groups, and all others since, claim weights as the proteins of "real" virus, strong- such material is "pure HIV". This claim is ly suggesting that the "HIV" proteins are cel- based on the fact that such material contains As a mark of the lular because the existence of HIV proteins proteins which react with antibodies present in . . demands they appear exclusively in cultures AIDS patients. However, such reasoning is bewildering status of derived from AIDS patients.” untenable. . ; ; the HIV theory, while ; In the second experiment, monkeys were Imagine a scientist who mixes two solutions . immunised on several occasions with "mock together, obtains a precipitate and then pro- HIV proteins could virus"—a procedure which subsequently pro- claims the identity and source of several reac- i tected them from a "challenge" with "real" tants. One does not need a degree in chemistry not be found in the SIV.'*:' However, immunisation is specific. to realise this is an impossibility. Nonetheless, placentas of 75 HIV- Immunisation with hepatitis vaccine does not pecans alain red aa positive, pregnant ug Matin rac rcs proteins are declared to belong to "HIV" women, they could be to material specific to the organism igh amtete TV -seste found in the placentas iM SS" "sh mtesn sash of 25 healthy, HIV- negative women. In fact, Gallo admits that, for him, an "grown" ("mock" virus) protect against antibody test is the quintessence of "HIV "real" SIV, these must be exceedingly isolation". During an interview at the similar if not identical. That is, the 1998 Geneva AIDS Conference he admit- "SIV" and, by inference, the "HIV" pro- ted: "Sometimes we had Western blot teins are all cellular. positive but we couldn't isolate the virus. So we got worried and felt we were get- ting false positives sometimes, so we added the Western blot. That's all I can tell you. It was an experimental tool genome has not been obtained from parti- when we added it, and for us it worked cles purified and proven infectious, but well 'cos we could isolate the virus when we did it.""” Actually, from the conglomerate material described above. Molecular biol- in 1984, Gallo's "false positives sometimes" were antibodies in ogists have produced possibly more information about the "HIV" 88% of AIDS patients but "virus-isolated" in 36% of AIDS genome than any other object in the Universe. Nonetheless, there