Retroviral HIV and AIDS

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Parts 1-3 are a bit conspiracy theory oriented. 4-7 are more interesting.

 

HIV: The Greatest Medical Hoax of Our Time part 1

part 2

part 3

part 4

part 5

part 6

part 7

 

Points this video asserts:

Electron microscope images of HIV virus

Isolation of HIV (I found this to be slightly undertoned which is inappropriate for such discussion about monads)

Indigenous retrovirus (or is that Endogenous?)

Western blot tests for antibodies (not viruses or RNA) -- antibodies found in many people with specific diseases

Western blot is a test with a sensitivity

Western blot test is different in different countries

 

 

"Do not use this kit as the sole basis of diagnosis of HIV-1 infection." (Epitope, Inc. HIV Test - Western Blot)

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NY Times article (I will cut it down some for you):

 

 

Dr. Robert Gallo, the American co-discoverer of the virus that causes AIDS and the subject of a Federal inquiry in connection with that discovery, is being investigated once again, Federal officials say, this time on charges of perjury and PATENT FRAUD.

 

At issue is the patent covering the test for detecting the human immunodeficiency virus, ...

 

They are asking whether statements by Dr. Gallo in the patent application for the virus test were knowingly false, especially the assertion that his work in developing the test owed very little to the French team. ...

 

Dr. Gallo vehemently denies any wrongdoing. He states he did not know about certain actions of Dr. Popovic, who is accused of falsifying data, ...

 

The new inquiries have begun at a time when a longstanding Federal investigation of Dr. Gallo's original discovery is nearing its end. The investigation, which bears directly on events cited in the patent application, was prompted by an article by John Crewdson that appeared in The Chicago Tribune in 1989. The report of the Federal investigation, which was conducted by the Office of Scientific Integrity of the National Institutes of Health, has been through various drafts.

 

Although Dr. Gallo is not accused of misconduct in the latest draft, Dr. Popovic is, and the conclusions are far from flattering to either scientist.

 

The draft report says that in several instances Dr. Gallo failed to assure that facts in a May 1984 research paper were true, ...

 

The report found numerous discrepancies between the Gallo team's laboratory records and the results claimed in the 1984 paper, ... the report's investigative team was unanimous in its opinion that Dr. Popovic had committed scientific misconduct.

 

The discrepancies, in the investigators' view, stemmed from "misrepresentations or falsifications of the actual methodology and data," and could not have been due merely to honest mistakes or honest differences in judgment.

 

Dr. Popovic's lawyer, Barbara Mishkin, disputed the charges of misconduct. She said that when he arrived in the United States in the early 1980's as a refugee from Czechoslovakia, he was uncertain of the standards of note-keeping and accuracy that might be demanded of him. ...

 

The report's investigators, initially led by Suzanne Hadley of the Office of Scientific Integrity, said there were numerous false statements in the 1984 Science paper, including several about the growth of H.I.V. in the lab, ...

 

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At this point I a have to

 

***STOP***

 

The article is focusing on patents surrounding the discovery of HTLV-III (III as opposed to HTLV-I or HTLV-II).

 

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HTLV-1 (use the wikipedia if you like)

 

gene map human T-cell leukemia virus (I and II) receptor (or HTLV-1) at 17q21-q23

 

"Furthermore, Hinrichs et al. (1987) found that transgenic mice expressing the tat gene of HTLV-1 develop a syndrome resembling neurofibromatosis (162200), a disorder that has been localized to human chromosome 17cen-q21. The only other retroviral receptor molecule unequivocally identified was the CD4 leukocyte antigen which is used by HIV viruses involved in AIDS. HTLV-1 is etiologically associated with adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma and tropical spastic paraparesis (see 159580), while HTLV-2 is associated with T-cell hairy cell leukemia (HCL) (Rosenblatt et al., 1986). Ratner et al. (1990) described the cases of an adult black brother and sister who developed adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma resulting from infection from HTLV-1. Both had lived almost exclusively in the area of St. Louis, Missouri." - OMIM 143090

 

17cen-q21

If there is chromosomal linkage we should see the NFS and the HTLV-1 sharing a common epidemiology. It is only logical to make the connection 17cen-q21 <> 17q22-q22.

 

 

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So here is the $64k question:

 

Is leukemia a sexually transmitted disease? When was the last time you heard of a bad case of cancer going around? Is leukemia a retrovirus?

 

HTLV was the first retrovirus discovered in 1977. It is also associated with lymphoma. Are all of these viruses as well?

 

If there is any difference -- any doubt -- there should be data available for each and every one:

Virus YES / Virus NO