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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, abbreviated AIDS or Aids) was the name given in 1982 by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to the syndrome originally known as Gay related immune deficiency (GRID) (MMWR 1982, Kher 2003). The first official cases were reported in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report in June and July of 1981 (MMWR 1981a, MMWR 1981b). At a US press conference on 23 April 1984, the retrovirus HTLV-III was declared the "probable cause of AIDS". [1] Within two years, this retrovirus was re-named the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and was accepted by the worldwide scientific and medical community as the cause of AIDS (Coffin 1986, Shilts 1987).

Since 1984, virtually all funding for AIDS research and treatment has been predicated on the hypothesis that HIV is the cause of AIDS, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary (Papadopulos-Eleopulos 1995, Duesberg 1996a, Duesberg, Koehnlein & Rasnick 2003). This hypothesis has not only failed to make accurate predictions and failed to provide plausible explanations for observed data, it has also resulted in inaccurate diagnoses, [2] psychological terror, toxic treatments, infringement of civil liberties, [3] and a squandering of public funds (Duesberg 1996a, Lauritsen 2004).

A group of AIDS dissidents now openly questions the validity of the current mainstream approach to AIDS, based on HIV causation. While there are fundamental disagreements among dissidents regarding the true nature of both HIV and AIDS, [4] all are in agreement that HIV could not be the underlying cause of the ever-changing collection of diseases that are called "AIDS".

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  1. ↑  This announcement was made before the appropriate scientific papers (Gallo 1984, Popovic 1984, Sarngadharan 1984, Schupbach 1984) were published and able to be read and critiqued by the scientific community. In this way, the usual scientific process was subverted (Duesberg 1996b).
  2. ↑  The manufacturers of the ELISA and Western blot antibody tests, as well as the "viral load" test, clearly state that these tests cannot be used to diagnose HIV infection. (Irwin 2001, Giraldo & de Harven 2006)
  3. ↑  In California, a woman is seeking damages against her husband for not disclosing that he had sex with men before their marriage, despite the fact that he was healthy and had not tested HIV positive at the time of their marriage. The woman's lawyer has argued that limiting liability to those who knew they were ill "would reward the intentionally or recklessly ignorant." (Egelko 2006)
  4. ↑  Not all dissenters agree on the underlying causes of AIDS-defining diseases (Mullis 1996), and there is even disagreement over the ontological status of HIV (Papadopulos-Eleopulos 1999).
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  1. ↑ Coffin, John, et al, 1986. "What to Call the AIDS Virus?" PubMed, Nature, 1 May 1986; 321(6065): 10.
  2. ↑ Duesberg, Peter H., 1996a. "How Much Longer Can We Afford the AIDS Virus Monopoly?", in AIDS: Virus or Drug Induced, Genetica, 1996; 241-270.
  3. ↑ Ibid, (VI: The HIV/AIDS hypothesis is costly, unproductive and harmful).
  4. ↑ Duesberg, Peter H., 1996b. Inventing the AIDS Virus, Regnery, Washington, D.C. (ISBN 0895263998), pp. 157-159.
  5. ↑ Duesberg, Peter H., Claus Koehnlein, and David Rasnick, 2003. "The chemical bases of the various AIDS epidemics: recreational drugs, anti-viral chemotherapy and malnutrition" PubMed", Journal of Biosciences 2003 Jun; 28(4): 383-412.
  6. ↑ Egelko, Bob, 2006. "Thorny legal issues in case of HIV in marriage", San Francisco Chronicle, 4 April 2006.
  7. ↑ Gallo, R. C., et al, 1984. "Frequent detection and isolation of cytopathic retroviruses (HTLV-III) from patients with AIDS and at risk for AIDS." PubMed, Science, 4 May 1984; 224(4648): 500-503.
  8. ↑ Giraldo, Roberto and Etienne de Harven, 2006. "HIV Tests Cannot Diagnose HIV Infection, Section 2: Pharmaceutical companies acknowledge that HIV tests are not specific for HIV.
  9. ↑ Irwin, Matt, 2001. "Questions on HIV Antibody Tests".
  10. ↑ Kher, Unmesh, 2003. "July 27, 1982: A Name for the Plague", Time, 31 March 2003.
  11. ↑ Lauritsen, John, 2004. "AIDS: A Death Cult", Gay and Lesbian Humanist, Winter 2003-2004.
  12. ↑ MMWR, 1981a. "Pneumocystis pneumonia — Los Angeles." PubMed, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 5 June 1981; 30(21): 250-2.
  13. ↑ MMWR, 1981b. "Kaposi's sarcoma and Pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men — New York City and California" PubMed, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 3 July 1981; 30(25): 305-8.
  14. ↑ MMWR, 1982. "Update on acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) — United States" PubMed, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 24 September 1982; 31(37): 507-8, 513-4.
  15. ↑ Mullis, Kary, 1996. Foreword to Inventing the AIDS Virus, Regnery, Washington, D.C. (ISBN 0895263998).
  16. ↑ Papadopulos-Eleopulos, Eleni, et al, 1995. "A critical analysis of the HIV-T4-cell-AIDS hypothesis" PubMed", Genetica, 1995; 95(1-3): 5-24.
  17. ↑ Papadopulos-Eleopulos, Eleni, et al, 1999. "The Last Debate", Reappraising AIDS, December 1999.
  18. ↑ Popovic, M., et al, 1984. "Detection, isolation, and continuous production of cytopathic retroviruses (HTLV-III) from patients with AIDS and pre-AIDS." PubMed, Science, 4 May 1984; 224(4648): 497-500.
  19. ↑ Sarngadharan, M. G., et al, 1984. "Antibodies reactive with human T-lymphotropic retroviruses (HTLV-III) in the serum of patients with AIDS." PubMed Science, 4 May 1984; 224(4648): 506-508.
  20. ↑ Schupbach, J., et al, 1984. "Serological analysis of a subgroup of human T-lymphotropic retroviruses (HTLV-III) associated with AIDS" PubMed Science, 4 May 1984; 224(4648): 503-505.
  21. ↑ Shilts, Randy, 1987. And the Band Played On: People, Politics, and the AIDS Epidemic, Saint Martin's Press, (ISBN 0613298721).
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