What bullshit. You can get AIDS/HIV through straight sex, and theres even a small possibility of getting it with unprotected oral sex, although that chance is really small. Do you really think that everyone in Africa is having anal sex or something? Undoubtedly it has been used by right-wing anti-sex people, but the whole point is having SAFE sex, not no sex which is what anti-sex people want (before marriage).

This author is obviously homophobic too, that quote by Rohm is competely irrelevant. Its hardly shocking that a NAZI believes in fear, and that he was gay was a closely guarded secret that only the upper echelons of the Nazi regime knew about

And that National Research thing (if its real) - in case you haven't realised but basically all campaigns use techniques like that. Charity appeals, warnings about smoking, warnings about drunk driving, warnings about sexual diseases - they all play on fear, pity, etc (I'm not saying thats negative btw, its just a technique).

In public the charity will say they are just trying to show people what its like for the starving in the Third World, the health people will say they're trying to educate people about drunk driving, smoking etc - which they are - but perhaps in private they use more explicit language about the techniques they use.

The logic of shock campaigns is that people need to realise 'that could be me crashing that car/getting that sexual disease/getting cancer' and be shocked into not doing it. A campaign is hardly going to say 'but remember, only 1 in 10,000 people get this problem, don't worry too much about it' because that will have no effect and everyone will continue doing it.

Oh and in case you haven't realised the right originally labelled this a gay disease, God's punishment for being gay, and assured all hetros they wouldn't get it.

Top 100 AIDS Science Inconsistencies




All of the observations below can be substantiated by independent research. How long can the HIV=AIDS=Death dogma be maintained in the face of so many scientific cracks?

1. AIDS occurs in the absense of HIV (65, 87), a new medical definition (Idiopathic CD4+ T-cell lymphocytopenia) was therefore created.
2. HIV does not satisfy Koch's postulates, the criteria that must be met in order to prove that a microbe causes a disease (90)
3. Anti-HIV drugs, including protease inhibitors, destroy T-cells (4-10)
4. Septrin (also called Septra, Bactrim, Co-trimoxazole) and anti-HIV drugs destroy mitochondria (11,12)
5. The PCP (Pneumocystis Carinii pneumonia) fungus becomes resistant to Septrin (12)
6. Recreational drugs (heroin, poppers, crystal met, ecstasy, cocaine) reduce CD4 cell numbers (13-18, 58, 66-68)
7. HIV positive patients recover after they stop taking drugs (58)
8. Recreational drugs cause AIDS-defining diseases (see table 7 of 58)
9. Anti-HIV drugs cause AIDS-defining diseases (58)
10. Anti-HIV drugs inhibit human enzymes (11)
11. HIV positive Africans in dire poverty in Uganda and no access to anti-HIV drugs lived as long as HIV positives in the West who took anti-HIV drugs (33)
12. There are no comparative studies of survival in HIV negatives and combo-free HIV positive heterosexuals with no other risk factors.
13. Only 38% of healthy long-term positives had ever used AZT or other nuleoside analogs compared with 94% of progressors (80)
14. Decreases in AIDS cases preceded the introduction of new drug treatments (Dec 1995) by three full years (see fig. 6 of 106)
15. Anti-HIV drugs have anti-microbial effects (49, 50, 10)
16. The introduction of AZT did not cause a decline in the AIDS death rate (105)
17. In the only long term trial of AZT (The Concorde study) 172 participants died, 169 while taking AZT, 3 while on placebo (51)
18. Nucleoside analog drugs suppress/destroy the bone marrow where all immune system cells are born (26, 32, 111)
19. HIV+ children born to AZT treated mothers had a higher probability of developing severe disease or severe immunsuppression (53)
20. "Drug holidays" recover immune responses
21. AZT caused the same transient increase in CD4 count in HIV negatives as in HIV positives (55)
22. There are no controlled studies showing that AIDS occurs in the absense of all other possible non-HIV causal factors.
23. Long-living, healthy, drug-free HIV positives are mostly ignored by AIDS researchers
24. Apart from the early (fraudulent) AZT studies and the Concorde study no efficacy studies compare drugs with placebo
25. There are well documented, non-HIV causes for every AIDS disease
26. The incidence of AIDS-defining diseases among Western non-drug users has not been shown to exceed national backgrounds (58)
27. Early AIDS coincided with the cumulative effects of unprecedented, intense use of volatile nitrite (poppers) as a aphrodisiac marketed almost exclusively to homosexuals (102)
28. AIDS can be treated effectively without anti-HIV drugs (39-42, 112)
29. On average viral load overestimates infectious HIV by a factor of 60,000 (21)
30. Even a PCR method that can detect 1 infected cell in 100000 found very little HIV DNA in HIV positives (23)
31. HIV could not be cultured from people with a detectable viral load (19, 21)
32. HIV has never been properly isolated (20)
33. After many billions of dollars of research effort over 20 years, HIV scientists still cannot explain how HIV causes AIDS.
34. After many billions of dollars of research effort over 20 years there is no vaccine and no cure, there are only toxic drugs
35. There was no increase in HIV seroprevalence outside risk groups in the UK despite record STD rates and teenage pregnancy rates (25)
36. HIV DNA was found to be constant from the time of seroconversion but CD4 count continually went down (29)
37. CD4 count goes down and viral load goes up while on the anti-HIV drugs.
38. AZT is hardly triphosphorylated by the body so it cannot possibly have an anti-HIV effect (30)
39. AZT has no effect on HIV DNA but makes viral load (HIV RNA) go down (31)
40. Research throughout the 1970s showed that retroviruses do not kill cells.
41. The probability of heterosexual transmission of HIV was found to be very low (1 in a 1000 for male to female and 8 times less likely for female to male) (34)
42. HIV antibody tests can give repeated false positives and seroreversions can occur (95-100, 114-116)
43. HIV tests are sensitive to non-specific antibody binding
44. HIV tests involve an arbitrary dilution factor, everyone tests positive (because of non-specific antibody binding) if their serum is undiluted (104)
45. All the proteins used in the HIV test are associated with retroviral genes that are found naturally (endogenous) in all humans (72)
46. Endogenous retroviruses can generate immune responses in humans (73, 74)
47. None of the HIV proteins tested for have been proven to belong to HIV (75)
48. There are over 60 different conditions, including pregnancy, that have been known to generate false positives on the HIV test (91)
49. The Elisa, Western Blot and PCR tests for HIV all carry disclaimers nullifying their detection of HIV
50. The criteria for HIV-positivity used in the antibody tests varies between countries and between organisations within a country and can produce indeterminate (neither positive or negative) results (75, 109) The Western Blot HIV test, widely regarded as the most accurate, is not used in England and Wales because it is regarded as inaccurate.
51. The viral load PCR primers were found to be non-specific for "HIV" genetic sequences (35)
52. The viral load test gives false negatives (36)
53. The viral load test gives false positives (36, 113)
54. The viral load test has low reproducibility (36-38)
55. Direct measurements showed no correlation between viral load and CD4 count (43)
56. Many conditions cause reduced CD4 counts (86)
57. CD4 counts between 200 and 300 have been observed in healthy HIV negatives (87)
58. There are no studies comparing CD4 cell variations in combo-free HIV positives (with no risk factors) and HIV negatives.
59. According to the AIDS establishment, a heterosexual AIDS "epidemic" of African origin started off in the West as a homosexual "epidemic"
60. In 1985 HIV incidence in Southern Africa was confined to homosexuals who had been to the US and those who had had sex with them (88, 89).
61. The USA was found to be the world's most sexually promiscuous nation (27)
62. Condoms (made from polyisoprene) have holes in much larger than HIV (28, 110)
63. Reducing STD incidence in Africa did not reduce the rate of HIV seroconversion* (101)
64. Only a minute proportion of Africans have actually been tested for HIV, seroprevalence estimates are derived from extrapolations based on unrepresentative samples from maternity clinics.
65. In Africa a single positive ELISA test or even a single "rapid" (saliva/urine) test is considered proof of HIV infection, "proof" in the developed world requires a series of tests
66. HIV seroprevalence was found to be much lower in South African prisons than in the general population (1)
67. The vast majority of African "AIDS patients" tested HIV negative (44, 45)
68. In "AIDS ravaged" Zambia since 1980 the population has increased and even the rate of increase in population has increased! (46)
69. In "AIDS ravaged" South Africa many coffin makers are either doing a slack trade or have gone out of business (47)
70. The total number of AIDS cases in Africa consists almost entirely of estimated cases rather than known, registered cases (54)
71. PCP is the typical AIDS defining disease in Western adults but it is almost entirely confined to young children in Africa (2,3)
72. There is no Western heterosexual AIDS epidemic
73. IVDUs who consistently used a clean needle exchange program were 10.2 to 22.9 times MORE likely to test HIV positive than non-users (48)
74. Non-human primates "progress" to AIDS (SAIDS) much quicker than humans do (107)
75. SIV does not cause SAIDS in wild primate populations (108)
76. SIV seroprevalence is too low in wild primate populations to account for SIV resistance in these populations (22)
77. SIV seroprevalence in captive SIV naÔve primate populations was found to be very low (22)
78. Until the early 1930s many thousands of European men received transplants from chimpanzees and did not get AIDS (62)
79. Uganda study showed HIV-positivity did not indicate a new cause of disease, only decreased mortality in HIV negatives (52)
80. One thousand medical staff a year accidentally contract hepatitis from needles yet by 1998 there were no documented cases of surgeons or emergency medical technicians/paramedics getting AIDS, or even HIV, from occupational exposure (58, Table 16 of 106)
81. All AIDS patients have lowered levels of glutathione, the major water soluble intracellular antioxidant (59, 60)
82. The antioxidant N-acetyl cysteine inhibits "HIV replication" (61)
83. Reactive oxygen species are implicated in the induction of HIV expression and cell death (40)
84. Treatment with oxidising, mitogenic*** agents is necessary for HIV "isolation" from cell culture (56, 57)
85. Significant HIV replication was found to follow rather than precede AIDS defining disease (94)
86. Low T-cell counts were shown to occur before HIV seroconversion and to predict seroconversion (92, 93)
87. HIV-like genetic sequences have been found in the HIV negative human genome (63)
88. Epitopes** of HIV regulatory proteins tat, rev and nef are expressed in normal human tissue (71, 116)
89. Toxic intracellular stresses can create novel genetic sequences (64)
90. HIV showed over 40% variation in an essential gene (protease) sequence within a single subtype (103)
91. Foreign protein transfusions were found to be immune suppressive (79, 81, 84, 85)
92. Hemophiliacs can have hypergammaglobulinaemia which can cause false HIV positive test results (69)
93. Up to 99.9% of HIV genomes in plasma may be defective (70)
94. Mortality in hemophiliacs began to increase in exactly the same year they began taking AZT (81, 82)
95. The AIDS risk of hemophiliacs on AZT was 4.5 times higher, and mortality 2.4 times higher, than untreated controls (83)
96. Infectious HIV (a delicate virus) does not survive the Factor VIII preparation process (76-78)
97. HIV theorists have made incorrect predictions throughout the HIV era.
98. Corticosteroids and endogenous cortisol suppress cellular immune responses and cortisol destroys immature T-cells (24)
99. Effective cellular immunity relies upon nitric oxide gas defence, see for example Eur. J. Immunol. 2002, 32(5):1455-63
100. AIDS spreads non-exponentially, unlike infectious disease (58)

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Footnotes

*Conversion from HIV negative to HIV positive
**Epitopes are part of a molecule against which antibodies are made
***Stimulates cell division

John Kirkham :  kirkhamjohn@hotmail.com
Website :  http://www.geocities.com/pharmharm

Answer me this. If 'AIDS really is a sexually transmitted syndrome (common cause -'HIV'- for old existing diseases) then why is there almost no 'AIDS' in Japan. Total cases in twenty years amount to only 7,500 or 375 a year.

The Japanese are the number one sex tourists to Thailand (Source: TAT - Tourist Authority of Thailand).

The Japanese are the largest overseas tourists visiting Nevada Brothels and even have regular bus trips to them (Sourse: Penthouse Magazine)

The Japanese travel MORE then almost any other nation.

The Japanese have a past culture that accepted homosexuality (even Samari 'swung' both ways) and have a larger than average gay community.

Japan has a booming sex trade (estimated at $13 billion annually (Source: - 17/03/03 -- San Francisco Chronicle)

Numerous surveys demonstrate that 'most men and women in their 20s do not use condoms'. (Source: 17/03/03 -- San Francisco Chronicle)

The Japanese are only different from other Asian cultures in that they have NO real poverty.

Have you considered that poverty NOT sex is the real cause of immune suppression?


NOTE: - By comparison, Cambodia, whose population is less than a tenth of Japan's, had 170,000 people living with HIV or AIDS as of the end of 2001, according to United Nations estimates. SOURCE. Reuters 19 Sept 2003 ( http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/T130295.htm).

* 'Living with HIV/AIDS' simply means that they meet the WHO/CDC Bengui definition which also fits EVERY epidemic disease in poor countries.


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The 10-year Padian study (1997) observed sexually active
couples in which one partner was HIV positive. The result: in 10 years, not
one uninfected partner contracted HIV, even though all participants admitted
to having sex without condoms. The study states, 'We followed up 175
HIV-discordant couples over time, for a total of approximately 282
couple-years of follow up. The longest duration of follow-up was 12 visits
(6 years). We observed no seroconversion [infection] after entry into the
study." In the three-year Stewart study (1985) not one male partner of
HIV-positive women contracted HIV. Prostitution is not even listed as an HIV
risk category by the CDC, because of the extremely low incidence of HIV
transmission to clients who have no other risk factors (i.e. drug abuse).

These findings bolster the hypothesis of some AIDS scientists that chronic
malnutrition and other environmental factors, and not a sexually-transmitted
virus, are the causes of weakened immunity in people diagnosed with one of
the nearly 30 AIDS-defining diseases (which vary from country to country).

There is a lot of crap on the web about HIV/AIDS, it is all very confusing. For basic information to cut through the crap I would suggest checking out the wikipedia
entry.