Deadly Deception by Dr Willner

The History of the AIDS Epidemic

excerpt from Deadly Deception

1994

HIV does not cause AIDS.... The point that everyone is missing is that all of those original papers Gallo wrote on HIV have been found fraudulent.... The HIV hypothesis was based on those papers. — Peter Duesberg

How the Lie Began

In 1980, Dr. Robert Gallo, a retrovirologist with the National Cancer Institute, discovered the first human retrovirus (HTLV-I). A retrovirus is distinguished from an ordinary virus by virtue of the fact that its RNA is converted to DNA by an enzyme called reverse transcriptase. Its replication and survival is totally dependent on the viability of the host cell. If the host cell dies, the virus is finished. Dr. Gallo knew this basic fact; however, he would soon purposely ignore this fact in order to serve his own needs by claiming that the virus was very "mysterious". Somehow it would mysteriously survive while mysteriously slaughtering T-cells by the millions (this has never been observed). He had contended in the past, but failed to prove, that the very same retrovirus (HTLV-I) caused a specific type of leukemia which was occuring in Japan. The power of position, that of being a top government official and scientist, has allowed the erroneous label of "leukemia virus" to remain intact even though it was rejected by the scientific community.

In 1981, it was proposed that an acquired immune deficiency was the basis for a new syndrome of diseases (AIDS) that appeared to be surfacing amongst promiscuous male homosexuals and intravenous drug users. Dr. David Durack, of Duke University, a recognized expert on infectious diseases and the immune system, though admitting the prevalence of drug use (particular "poppers" or amyl nitrites) and repeated multiple infections, ignored these well-known causes of immune deficiency and announced that this "truly new syndrome" must be due to "some new factor". Continuously this group of scientists has resorted to theory, not fact, as to how the AIDS virus supposedly accomplishes its dirty deeds. The words, "it is thought", are constantly used in casual conversations or in the non-scientific articles and popular magazines and books. In the scientific journals or at lectures the theory is presented as established fact although there are no facts involved. It is portrayed as an established truth and therefore is accepted as such by most scientists, including physicians. The so-called HIV virus is still referred to as a "new" virus in spite of the indisputable evidence to the contrary. Incorrectly, the virus has been characterized as "attacking" or "infiltrating" the immune system, when in reality this is impossible because it is not alive and does not invade. Retroviruses are engulfed by the cells and incorporated into the cell's life processes.

In 1983, Dr. Gallo embarked on a mission to convince his fellow scientists, in the absence of any scientific experimental proof whatsoever, that another virus he had discovered caused AIDS. At a widely publicized press conference held in Washington, D.C. on April 23, 1984, Dr. Gallo announced that he had discovered the cause of AIDS. He claimed the unearthing of a new retrovirus which he had named HTLV-III, thus inferring that it was a member of the family of retroviruses he had previously discovered. His claim was bolstered by Margaret Heckler, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, who was under great pressure to come up with some answer to the looming "epidemic". Heckler announced, "Today we add another miracle to the long honor roll of American medicine and science." She also promised that we would have a vaccine within two years, undoubtedly as a result of Dr. Gallo's grandiose urgings. That very day, Dr. Gallo filed a U.S. patent for an HIV test kit which was destined to make him very wealthy. Dr. Gallo, unquestionably very knowledgeable in retrovirology, chose to set aside the facts and became the quintessential intellectual whore. The benefits to Dr. Gallo are money and power; but the costs to humanity are suffering and countless unnecessary deaths. In contrast, street prostitutes are honest – you know what you're getting and you know the risks – and, by the way, AIDS is not one of them.

Margaret Heckler very quickly awarded the lucrative contract for AZT to Burroughs-Wellcome Pharmaceutical Company before the first scientific paper ever appeared in any U.S. journal. AZT was a drug in search of a disease. It had been sitting on the shelves of the National Institutes of Health since the 1960's. It was an experimental drug that had failed as a cancer remedy and had been declared too toxic to use. Retrovirology had gained importance because of Nixon's "War on Cancer" and the belief that a retrovirus might be the cause of cancer in humans. This approach seemed logical at the time, because retroviruses typically prompted cells to multiply – a characteristic of the cancer process. This is directly opposite to the cell destruction that normally occurs in viral infections. Not only did that war fail, AZT failed, and retrovirologists came up empty-handed after twenty years of intense and arduous research. Alas, a whole group of scientists without a reason d'etre! As you would expect, in 1986, The International Committee of Retrovirologists named HIV the cause of AIDS. By giving credence to the hypothesis in the absence of proof, they became party to the conspiracy. It is just what one would expect when frustrated unsuccessful foxes are left to guard the hen house.

Adding to Dr. Gallo's blatant disregard for all established scientific requirements for validation of his claims, it was eventually discovered that HTLV-III was a retrovirus that had been sent to Dr. Gallo more than a year before by Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. On several occasions, Montagnier had sent samples of the virus he had isolated in the blood of some AIDS patients for Gallo's evaluation. A scandal erupted and a battle ensued over the credit for the discovery and the rights to the patents. It took the intervention of the French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac and U.S. President Ronald Reagan in order to reach an agreement that resulted in the sharing of the proceeds and the credit for the discovery (recently challenged again by the French after Gallo admitted he may have made a mistake). It is truly characteristic of scoundrels to quarrel over the spoils of fraud.

It is important to point out from the beginning that the acronymn AIDS represents the official and scientific designation of the "disease", ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME, which is discussed, examined and critiqued in this book. The inevitable conclusions which a growing number of many prominent scientists have reached, and, which I am sure, you will also, is that AIDS fits neither the definition of a disease, nor of a syndrome. It is merely the lumping together of an ever-increasing number of diseases and symptoms, 25 at the last count (depending on the source), in order to fraudulently create the impression that an epidemic exists.

Keep in mind that Gallo and his cohorts have been getting away with the most elementary and unscientific ploy one could imagine. They have avoided performing scientific controlled studies that would be universally accepted as proof. Such studies would unmask their fraud. They have instead relied on fear, intimidation, sensationalism, greed, ambition, envy and the need for recognition. In this way they have coerced and stupefied an army of followers into believing what, in the past, would have been laughed at, or dismissed as coincidence and/or "anecdotal". HIV has been made the scapegoat for incompetence, and a gateway to the lifestyle of the rich, famous and powerful, for unscrupulous, immoral and incompetent scoundrels. The blitzkrieg of misinformation has obliterated from consideration even the most elementary knowledge, logic and evidence in research and disease.

We have known for more than half a century that we co-exist with many bacteria and viruses. We are well aware that potentially deadly organisms reside within us at all times, waiting only for the balance of health to be tipped in favor of "disease". Streptococcus, tuberculosis, and Pneumocystis carinii, the most common "components" of AIDS, are but a fraction of the infectious organisms that the majority of us live with constantly. Pneumocystis carinii are present in the lungs of virtually every individual on the surface of our planet. Yet, precious few of us ever get the disease they cause: pneumocystis pneumonia. This is just one of the most obvious examples of the basic and pervasive flaws in the guiding premises of "modern" medicine.

Consider, for the moment, the following questions:

When the great flu of 1919 took the lives of millions of people in the United States, Why didn't the entire population succumb?

When the great bubonic plague destroyed one-third of the population of Europe, Why didn't the other two-thirds die also?

Why didn't everyone die?

The answer:

When an epidemic destroys its susceptible population, it ceases to exist. In other words, it is the inability of the individual's immune system that determines the degree to which an individual "falls ill" or whether or not he becomes ill at all. As Pasteur is purported to have exclaimed on his deathbed, "It is not the organism; it is the terrain!" If this were not true, then everyone, in the examples cited above, would have gotten the plague or the flu and all would have died. In fact, the first disease on earth would have been the last! The deceivers of infamy have succeeded in creating a chain of events that have destroyed logic and common sense, and in their place, established the following "Commandments" for science, government, the press and the public:

The Ten Commandments of Fraud

Coincidence is proof of cause and effect.
Circumstantial evidence is direct evidence.
One example proves the rule.
One guess supported by another guess creates a fact.
Saying it is so, makes it so.
Don't confuse the issue with facts.
Proof is unncessary and should be avoided.
Lie, lie, lie, and they'll believe it.
Silence, ignore and suppress the truth.
Replace reason with dogma, fraud and blindfolded fear.

The repeated use of these commandments by the conspirators prompted T. C. Fry to comment in his book, The Great AIDS Hoax, "...the presence of what they call HIV in the disease [AIDS] is no more proof of cause than the presence of flies in garbage proves that the flies are the cause of garbage." There could be an exception however, if you consider that the "AIDS Gang": Robert Gallo, Anthony Fauci, William Haseltine, Max Essex, James Curran, Flossie Wong-Staal, Dani Bolognesi, Margaret Fischl, Margaret Heckler, et al., are the flies; then indeed, the garbage was created by them!

A Glimmer of Light

Character assassination in response to challenge is tacit evidence of an indefensible position. — Robert Willner

In 1987, the light of truth had begun to pierce their facade. For these conspirators, it was the harbinger of their downfall (if justice prevails). It began when Dr. Peter Duesberg, an international authority on retroviruses, published an article in Cancer Research which shook the very foundations of the HIV/AIDS theory. Many scientists were stunned by his position, but impressed by its truth. Others were relieved that someone had the courage to finally speak up. The powerbrokers and vested interests counter-attacked, not with scientific argument and fact, but with name-calling, character assassination, vitriolic insinuations, denigration, and political and economic reprisal. Their actions and their words only verified their guilt. Then, in February 1989, Dr. Duesberg submitted a masterful comprehensive analysis to The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This prestigious group has ignored this document and taken no action. In the political and scientific worlds, this is usually the safest way of covering your assets. If you are eventually found out, you can always claim that there wasn't convincing evidence. Meanwhile, millions have died!

During the past four years, the classical AIDS combination of characteristic featrues has been reported in individuals who tested negative for HIV, and the number is growing steadily. Of course, the charlatans were quick to "hypothesize" that there must be another "virus" causing it, lest their gambit be discovered. Still another attempt to divert attention from the most important and obvious, scientifically established causes – DRUGS.

They concede now that the virus can't do it alone; that the "co-factors" are necessary. However, we have known that the "co-factors" have caused immunodeficiency for many decades, by themselves, long before HIV was discovered. It is HIV that is not necessary for AIDS.

How Could They Get Away With This Incredible Fraud?

How could this happen? Surely, it's not possible that a fraud of this magnitude could ever escape the scrutiny of the thousands of scientists throughout the world who have been researching the many avenues of investigation into this "modern day plague". It all began with the retrovirologists whose area of expertise is so arcane that most scientists in other fields are quite unfamiliar with it. I, myself, read with complete acceptance the early articles in the medical journals, newspapers, and popular magazines. Who could doubt the declarations of the powerful and influential governmental departments, agencies, and scientific enclaves? Although the many claims made for the virus did not sit easily with me, it was several years before I, almost instinctively, began to doubt what I was reading. I guess it was because of two and a half decades of practicing medicine, that the gradual exposure to the failures and inconsistencies of establishment medicine and its resistance to deviation from the mandated dogmatic approach to disease, I learned to question the pabulum I had been trained to digest.

At first it was the insane, irrational, and contradictory therapy that I could not accept. But then, when I attended a dinner at which Dr. Margaret Fischl described her infamous "double-blind" study on AZT, the first drug presented for the treatment of AIDS, I knew something foul was going on. Finally, when I travelled to a meeting in Los Angeles during February 1989, dealing with alternative approaches to AIDS, at which I heard Dr. Peter Duesberg speak, I ultimately questioned the validity of the disease itself. I had finally become educated about retroviruses by the most knowledgeable man in the field. Until that time, I had been presented theory as fact. Like the rest of my colleagues, I assumed that what I had been taught was proven and therefore believed it to be true. The truth became apparent: AIDS was all supposition, theory, pseudo-scientific, and a scam. Because it was all based on less-than-scientific papers, the most fragile type of circumstantial evidence and self-serving hypotheses, HIV had been indicted, convicted and "sentenced" falsely of a "crime" it could not possibly have committed. What about the retrovirologists themselves? How could they have been fooled? In an article written for the magazine The Truth Seeker (September/October 1989), Dr. Duesberg explained the reasons:

"After a frustrating 20-year-long search for a human cancer virus, the club [the retrovirologists] was craving for some clinical relevance for the retrovirus and hence, happily adopted HIV – the AIDS virus – as the cause of AIDS." He went on to explain the impact of the powerful promotion that made the AIDS hypothesis "instant national dogma". The billions of dollars in funding, the economic interests of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and the tremendous notoriety from the press which was too much to resist. In wondering why only a handful of scientists questioned the AIDS hypothesis, he cited, "...the conformist pressures on scientists, particularly young, untenured scientists, in the age of biotechnology. Their conceptual obedience to the establishment is maintained by controlled access to grants, journals, and positions, and rewarded by meeting engagements, personal prizes, consultantships, stocks and co-ownership in companies."

The National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Food and Drug Administration have all seriously jeopardized their credibility and motives by their active participation or silence in the face of such an obvious fraud. In view of the fact that it is hard to believe that individuals at that level are that stupid (although anything is possible), one must assume that incredible government pressure was brought to bear. The most obvious and usual pressures are funding, perks, and the fear of dismissal. Take your choice: incompetence or corruption.

Duesberg is a good example of what can happen to one of the most respected scientists in the field. He is world-renowned, an elected member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, and recipient of the distinguished NIH "Outstanding Investigator Grant" (only 23 in the country). He also discovered the genes which cause cancer (oncogenes), and was recommended for a Nobel Prize. He is an international authority on retroviruses, and a Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of California at Berkeley. It is rumored that his $350,000 research grant was to be terminated last year, and his appeal is to be judged by a committee that includes Gallo's mistress, Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal; and Dr. Dani Bolognesi, now a wealthy patent-holder on HIV tests. These individuals have the ability to rob us of great talent.

Intimidation has been unrelenting and vicious. Duesberg wrote that he had been "...labelled a bigot for considering [the] daily administration of psychoactive and immunosuppressive chemicals more likely to be the cause of AIDS than a chronically dormant and almost chemically undetectable retrovirus. The nation's leading AIDS researcher accused me of being an advocate of promiscuity [to paraphrase it politely] for questioning the viral etiology of AIDS." Could it be that our scientists were more interested in fostering Puritan values than in presenting scientific truth? The facts will speak for themselves.

Instead of answering the sea of questions that shook the very foundations of the AIDS hypothesis, the vested establishment insulted their opponents, barred debate, and even cancelled a White House meeting, refusing to participate in order to demonstrate the "insanity" of even questioning HIV and AIDS. Their criminal arrogance is an affront to all of humanity. Initially, Gallo and his co-conspirators could have possibly been exonerated on the basis of ignorance and stupidity. However, to block open scientific discussion, to use political and economic power to silence opposing points of view, and to suppress or ignore basic scientific fact and logic, is irrefutable evidence of their criminal intent.

To be pious while blaspheming another is merely a reflection of one's own character. — Robert Willner

Although an impressive cadre of well-known scientists has formed the "Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis", which was started by Dr. Charles A. Thomas, Jr., a Harvard biologist, it is necessary that there be an outcry from the public demanding an investigation. Several Congressmen have taken interest in this matter; amongst them are William Dannemyer and Ron Dellums. Send a copy of this book to your Senator and Congressman. Their names and addresses are available at your local library or through your newspaper. These courageous, honorable and incorruptible scientists have earned, and need, your support!

When you have finished reading the evidence, I am convinced that you will feel relieved in knowing that we are not all doomed to die AIDS, unless, of course, we all start taking AZT based on Gallo's scam and his fraudulent followers. If you are HIV positive, there is one thing you can be sure of: your body has successfully defended intself against an insignificant virus. So read on, and if you agree with the evidence, I ask you to pick up your pen and shout through the mails:

I'VE HAD IT!

I WON'T BE DECEIVED ANYMORE!

INDICT THE PERPETRATORS!