A multibillion $ Quiz: Is AIDS a viral or a chemical epidemic? Peter Duesberg Lew Rockwell conference Foster City December 1-2, 2006

2 The problems with the virus- AIDS hypothesis

3 Virus-AIDS hypothesis fails to produce

4 BART poster from the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 2003

5 AIDS politics versus science and medicine

6 Three scientifically correct AIDS questions

7 Predictions of the viral AIDS

8 Paradoxically there is not one HIV- specific disease - but about 26 different ones!

9 Koch versus hunters of passenger microbes and viruses

10 Koch’s postulates Years of research may have been spent on organisms never proven to cause particular diseases. Whenever one speaks about, or hears about, a disease, one should always seek to find out if Koch's Postulates were performed. The microbe could be a passenger instead of a cause. Examples are: Leprosy bacterium / AIDS virus/ Cervical ca virus.

11 Contrary to prediction of viral AIDS: No evidence for contagiousness

12 Predictions 2 & 4: Time course of classical virus infection and immunity (measles) From: Viral Pathogenesis and Immunology, Mims & White, 1984 Note, time in days

13 Paradoxically, HIV is a fast immunogen but a very slow pathogen 100% 0 5 Weeks Years AIDS 100 % anti-HIV

14 Prediction 5: Bell-shaped viral (Flu) epidemics in US and Europe

15 Unlike conventional virus epidemics: AIDS epidemics drag on over decades Unlike AIDS, HIV is steady in the US since 1985 and thus not new!

16 Even the president of the US downgrades ability of HIV to cause AIDS

17 Answer to Q1 (Is AIDS really caused by a virus?) is NO.

18 Q2: If HIV is not the cause of AIDS, what does the AIDS virus do?

19 HIV meets all criteria of a passenger virus – exactly

20 References for HIV= passenger virus

21 Q3: Is AIDS acquired chemically?

22 Chemical AIDS

23 Predictions of chemical AIDS

24 Literature on diseases caused by recreational drugs [Duesberg & Rasnick, Genetica 104, p85-132, 1998]

25 Drug use by homosexuals with AIDS and at risk for AIDS Centers for Disease Control, JAMA 1983

26 Homosexual AIDS associated with drug use in the AIDS literature

27 Chemical risk group-specific “AIDS” diseases

28 Correlations between smoking and lung cancer in England

29 Correlations between AIDS and the consumption of heroin and cocaine in the US

30 Correlations between (a) new AIDS cases among IV drug users and (b) deaths from drug overdoses in France a)

31 Deaths from overdoses of psychoactive drugs in France, b)

32 The DNA chain-terminators and other anti-HIV medications

33 Two different “commercial” perspectives on the effects of AZT

34 Mechanism of DNA chain termination by AZT The drug was designed for cancer chemotherapy in 1964.

35 AZT = AIDS by prescription

36 A controlled study shows that either AZT or HIV- antibody kills hemophiliacs Darby SC, et al., Nature 377: (1995)

37 Diseases of HIV-free subjects treated with anti-HIV drugs

38 Anti-HIV drugs do “not decrease mortality” (Lancet in 2006)

39 Over 50% of HIV-positives treated with anti-HIV drugs die from diseases that are not attributed to HIV

40 Studies describing the liver, heart and kidney diseases, from which patients treated with anti-HIV drugs die

41 Facts versus the predictions of the virus- and chemical AIDS theories

42 END To disprove chemical AIDS: 1) Find contagious AIDS in drug free subjects. 2) Show that in two matched groups of US soldiers only HIV-positives get AIDS.