Finding the Truth About HIV and AIDS

Harvey Bialy
October, 2005

Of all the accusations that have been leveled against my friend, Peter Duesberg, over the many years he has been challenging conventional wisdom in cancer genetics and ‘deadly’ disease etiology, the one that is most frequently heard in scientific circles, and one that is impossible to counter except by extended debate, either at a scientific forum or in the journals (something that for some reason has never occurred) is that “Peter abuses the literature”. Either he cites so many papers that no one can read them all, or (much worse) he misquotes and draws inferences that are not appropriate from the data in the papers he cites. The latter, as I said, has been a damning accusation, impossible to refute – until now.

In 1992, Duesberg published an extensive and updated review in Pharmacology & Therapeutics (55: 201-277):

duesberg.com/papers/ch62.html

describing the state of HIV/AIDS research at the time. The article is typical of Duesberg’s reasoning and contains the usual number of abundant citations.

Between 1994 and 1996, thanks to the generous financial support of Seth Ian Goldberg, MD, I was able to compile a CD that contains the complete text of this monograph, with hyperlinks to approximately 85% of the hundreds of references.

I would now like to make it widely available to all serious scientists as the ultimate tool for deciding, for themselves, the questions of what the literature actually says, and what proper inferences may be drawn from the data in the scientific papers.

Also available is the NIH/NIAID Official  website  from 1995:

bialystocker.net/files/NIHONAID.PDF

that represents the orthodox, scientific community’s position on HIV/AIDS at the time of Duesberg’s monograph on the CD.

Whether the HIV/AIDS hypothesis rests on ever-changing quicksand or solid scientific bases is another contentious issue that has been bandied back and forth but never resolved. I think that a careful comparison between this ten-year old NIH document and the one currently available is useful in the resolution of this conundrum as well.

The CD is being offered under the auspices of The Virtual Library of Biotechnology for the Americas (www.ibt.unam.mx/virtual.cgi). To obtain a copy click here. For just a sample, click here. For those with slightly more advanced computer skills, a 100% free BitTorrent stream of the CD is available at www.deanesmay.com/posts/1129083829.shtml.