AIDS Volume 2, No. 1 Winter 1994

DR. PETER DUESBERG, Ph.D., UC Berkeley Professor of Virology, National Academy of Science Member. Called everything from fool to murderer to time-waster, for noticing that HIV does not do what it is supposed to: namely, kill immune system cells. Now, there are over 400 scientists world-wide who agree with the evidence Dr. Duesberg was bold enough to publish--at much personal cost to himself and his career. But, the.fight to be heard is not over. Dr. Duesberg and others have continued to lecture, write and drive for full exposure of ALL the evidence concerning this medical/scientific boondoggle. Inside is more startling information that will add to your conviction that HIV does NOT cause AIDS. that the AIDS "tests" are flawed, and that funding stifles, not liberates, basic research.

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CHAPTER TITLES: I . Chasing Wild Geese 8 . So What is AIDS? 2. The Gnat Bacteria Hunt 9. With Therapies like this, 3. Virus Hunting Takes Over who Needs Disease? 4. A War on Cancer 10. Marching off to War 5. AIDS: The Virus Hunters Converge 6. A Fabricated Epidemic I I . Learning the Lessons 7. Dissension in the Ranks

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inoculating himself with the blood of Pedro Tocino, an HIV+. hemophiliac. This demonstration of devotion to the truth of the Hippocratic Oath he took, nearly 40 years before, was reported on the front page of every major newspaper in Spain. His appearance on Spain's most popular television show evoked a 4 to 1 response in favor of his position against the AIDS HYPOTHESIS ...y et this historic event was never mentioned in the US ... WHY?"

Dr. Willner in fact did get a mention in the Washington Post for injecting himself in Florida and on Dec. 7, 1994, he will do the stunt again, with a posse of reporters to watch and cringe. This book mentions RETHINKING AIDS, as well as Dr. Duesberg, since Bob Willner was an early signatory, and definitely outraged with what is happening to medicine. 280+ pages, lists of therapies--definitely the perfect complement to the Ellison/Duesberg tome. No index.

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WHY WE WlL WIN THE WAR ON AlDS! ..The Shock of Facing the Scientific Aegean Stables

Joel A. Schwartz

Disturbin and soberin is at least one phrase to dexribe h e long-awake% Duesberg/Ellison effort. Ye there remains hope, too. That is clear because, wkenever have the truth, ou have hope.

The readers of RETHMK&G AIDS will naturally receive this book with little hesitation, but ima ine the reader new to the scandal. Yet, in a sense, this%ook was written for that reader. Easy to follow and understand, but not holding back any punches, the book is set up for anyone to understand. That is what I mean by hope.

Yet, for the person experienced with the whole AIDS debacle, there is new information. More on that later.

The new reader will see for the first time long before he even gets to Chapter 5,( "AIDS:. the Virus Hunters Converge") exactly how revlous scientific malpractice developed and was resoked. He understands exactly how 1) SMON, 2) scurvy 3) beribee, 4 pellagra, 5). leprosy, 6) "neurosyphiiis, 7 Leg~onel 1 a pneumo hrla, the var~ous vliuses ( esp. da'users kuru). 9) {SPE, 10) hepatitis C, etc.( ~ l d s o n says to take alook at E. coli. hanta virus, flesh- eating streptococcus, rickets, Lyme disease) were all misunderstood and extloited . When it is time to examlne "HIV d~sease, one can easil conclude that it looks like just one more n u id& exag~erated biomechanism in a Ion and m a h o r o u s nnng of such things. If t i e .reader concludes with Ellison/Duesberg that such IS the case, then he 1s on solid ground, and can assert his own independence of mind. He or whe will not be forced to believe scientific fables just because the scientists say so.

Some of you have been v~ctlms before you became victors. If you knew now about HIVIAZT when ou had that terrifying "AIDS Tes probab& wouldn't have even had the test in x e 8:: place!

B oing well beyond Duesberg's su erior ubkfed In Pharmac. and Ther.. vol & pp

4%:$7?, avail thru Rethinking AIDS). the authors have anchored the actual reasons, motives, and powers behind this current medical fri ht, even

ointing the way to a solution. In the past hree years, br . Duesberg analyzed all major contradictions on the biological s ~ d e of thin s, even volunteering to suggest a cause for ABS (drug abuse, AZT). He continues to ex and on this information today. But, the ower of hy We Will Never ... etc. is that ~t highr ~ghts the current forces and ersons who are more or less behind the AIDS "e iemic"; how they use the Press to inflict the gullibfe with terror; how public disagreement b scientists is su pressed, Ignored or punished. &e know that ~ u c s i e r has been de-funded and humifated. ............................... continued on page 8

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A CLEVER THESIS, BUT LONG ON WIND AND SHORT ON FACT

Too Much Arm-Waving, Politics and a Long Way to go to 'Prove Anything

Harold I. Balz, PhD

So this is the much awaited Duesberg book on the "AIDS scandal"?

Hav~ng been a subscriber (but not signer) I have kept a close e e on the dissidents, persuaded that they have estabtished a prima acie case about the inadequacies of the H V { hy othesis. Furthermore, I. am personally appalled w ~ t g the de facto censorsh~p of Duesberg, as it affects all who are pursuing excellence in scientific research.

So, while I find most of .the material in this book paranold and desultory, I st111 th~nk that those valid oints it makes should be known by all. To this end, t i e non-academic reader will be rewarded for plowing through ,the Innuendo, the tedlous lmputatlon of mot~ve, and the general alr of superiority it emits. Obviously, the young Ellison wrote the book, as Dr. Duesber s style .retains the gravity of Germanized Engli+.%et, whlle there IS much to admire in his fluency and command of the material, it still would be better if the book were more balanced in its presentation o f the various im ediments to, the free exchange of Ideas within the A I ~ S communr

Now, '2 &ing said that, I do not want to dwell on the material known to all but to that material which cau ht my attention for the first time here. Furthermore. f want to go on record as resisting the persuasive inte retation-the "s in" they put on such material. ~ i n a r to conclude, fwant to express m exasperation at t&ir arrogance at suggesting that a lr this AIDS research, etc. is basically uidcd by forces determined to co-opt research anbmedicine itself!

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assuming leadershjp at the forefront o r t h ~ s Group. Mr. Ellison, it would seem, thinks that

something sinister is implied by the ve low-profile existence of the CDC's EIS dnision. x e inverts in them a. kind of child~sh zeal to find virus-driven ep~demrcs everywhere. EIS IS a storm-trooper group, he says, and have an agenda, vu., the exaggeration of any disease cluster in the range of their responsibility. . .. . .cont on page 8

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holes in a 'hole-f Gallo-lsan r l g t HN causes AlDS I only included Iwo of Ihe w m l , but k gives you an idea of thek al;m at free inquiry and their aubsaqum4 strategy.

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- IN THE MARGIN CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 r BOOK REVIEWS: Look to a uire the angry Dr. Robert .Wllneros DEADLY DECE~ION (available here for only $23.95, hardback +$3.00 priority mail--also, see special Holiday Offerl), the first professional (MD) to publicly inject himself with the 'deadly, murderous,

.... world destructing, explosive n" HIV virus--and who is planning a Dec. 7 ress conference in San Diego to do same again. d ~ n e r is a person just like you. who is one of our early subscribers and Signatories to the Group's statement. P.S..DEADLY DECEPTION, published privately about 3-4 months ago, is on its second printing. Do you realize that indust experts estimate that a second printing is probazy started after a sellout of 20,000 books?

B o o ~ s l Hidel A Type 4 Infectious Agent has been shaken out of its harmonic balance in the African Rain Forest and is it angry1 Ebola Don Francis Zaire (mentioned in detail in pfi 107-108 in Why We Wll Never Wln the War On I S) 1s loose and IS no longer categorized as a virus: it is a predator. A book called THE HOT ZONE b a Tom Clancy wannabe is the classical, First C!te in the sel!ing and [remotion of .,world eatin VIM & the publ~c ealth snake 011 peddlers. h e only solut~on IS more

CDC funding1 Set up watch stations along the nm of the Ram Forestl Vacunate now.1 You know the catechism. Deadly virus.. unimaginab cryel and t indifferent to human suffering:. needs asic

.. research.. a vacclne sur-velllan ce... hono rs... Buy this book (available here in hardback for $23.95 +$3.00 priority mail-see special offer in back). which has the endorsements of (no kidding) Stephen Kina, Achur C. Clarke, and Robert Redford. W t suentrsts Ilke Fat, who needs to inqulre further? I glve all my nghb and freedoms to the EIS and CDC, so they can save me from Ebola Fever.

INTERNECINE SQUABBLE: AS some of YOU may know, there are rumprs afloat of the denlise of this printed voice. The votce's cnme? Adverttstng the book entitled: 'Why We Will Never Win The War on AIDS.' by Bryan Ellison and Peter Duesberg.

The advertisement was supposedly unauthorized, as per Amendment ?,of the Constitution,of the United Staaten der Amerlka, so a certaln Phllip Johnson, a

hilosophical deist and Christian" informed me-- The L n e r and Publisher-;that I must now cease all publishing. I am to sit In the corner and be penttent. I must hand over our names and addresses. The Duesberg and ~ I i s o n book must be published by a Major house. I am a rat. Shut up. Now.

Of course, as I cringed and wept, the :ion- legal Dr. Duesberg, Mend and colleague to Bryan during Bryan's five (5) year stretch in Grad School. hired attorney after attorney to su press the publication by Bryan with a Minor publisher. good sources everywhere have stated that Peter got socked for $6,000.00+ to have lawyers write letter after letter threatening poor doom* grad student with everything from preliminary injunctions to confiscation of hts inventory, sales list, etc. The final blow: Dr. Duesberg, trusted advisor to Bryan and fnend for five years notified the Department that Bryan was a bad bo and the University s u b s e q u e n ~ i s ~ i u e d the p w r L h . No Masters degree, no no ~ n g

While I am no legal scholar, as is Dr. Philip Johnson, LL.D.. Boalt Law School. Honored Prof.. I do know that a restraining order or preliminary injunction is very hard to obtain d there is no convincing evidence of 'irreparable personal damage.' How can a v e r of a literary property possibly be enjoined for disposing of his property? Well, the answer is that a brilliant, microbiological mind (like Peter's) is a no-so-brilltant when receivin legal mal-advtce. His final great legal advice? For $80.000 up front, the lawyer would begin a lawsuit against Ellison. Why is this happening and what are the motives of restraining Elltson's publishing the book? Not sure, folks, because 1) as you can see on this page, this identical manusuipt is bein offered for sale, w~th minor changes, under the title of 'Inventing the AlDS Epidemic' with Peter Dueserg and Bryan Elltson (names,revened) by St. Marttn's Press--and you can order ~t herel 2) So wh kick Uryan out of school and insist he divest himself orhis ownership interest? Wh would Phil Johnson announce on the INTEJNET that INVENTING THE AlDS EPIDEMIC was not available by St. Martins Press (herein after known as 'the Press')? What the heckls going on? More inside. See 'Phil Johnson on Trial

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PHILLIP JOHNSON ON TRIAL The Attempt to Censor the Ellison/Duesberg

Book by Joel A. Schwartz and Bryan J. Ellison

The road to publication for the book by Bryan Ellrson and Peter Duesber had never been an easy one. Two major utlishers in a row. Addison-Wesley and St. hartin's Press, had paid for the manuscript, then suddenly re'ected it as too controversral. Nearly twen P okers nervously refused to deal with the boo at all. Unwilling to let it die, Ellison had finally taken the initrative and arranged the books release with a smaller publisher. Now, after seven years of academic debate over the HIV hypothesis of AIDS, the process of opening thrs controversy to the publrc could begin.

Not everyone had the same idea. At 11 :05 pm Monday evenin Au ust I, a La d s etter .came in on ~lI%on's fax axachine..?'ou

must rmmedrately cease and deslst publrshrng marketing, romoting, distributin , selling, and othenvifs 8sposrn of the. @ookf," barked the threatening ietter3est an Injunction b~ sou ht to supress the book forcibly. &st astonisRrngly of all, the lawyer was representing Peter Duesberg!

Duesberg and hrs lawyer continued the threats for several weeks, demandin that Ellison pennanentlr sign away his rig%ts to protect the books content an: business affairs-in exchange for nothing. If you do not want to do qis , the book will be lost," warned Duesberg while his lawyer boasted that "You [Ellison] and Peter [Duesberg may L achieve mutual assured destruct~on of the oak, meaning that nei.ther of you will be able tq ublish any versron of the book anywhere."

!o underline the point, Duesber convrnced the University department to cut off retroactively Ellison's month1 sti end (as a graduate student), followedi by Jsmissin Ellison from the program altogether-'ust as &llison was on the verge of earnrng hrs $ h ~ degree after five years of study.

Meanwhrle, Charles Thomas, one of the founders of the Grou for the Scientific peappraisal of the H~VIAIDS Hypothesis, rlle all filed a change-of-address form for the Retiin% AIDS newsletter in an attempt to steal the return mail and revent distribution of the book (the penalty % this federal felony crime can include heavy fines and a prison sentence). Certain other members began a letter-writin cam aign to discourage book sales, and f e al tireats were soon directed against ~ e t h i n k n ~ . ~ ~ ~ ~ .

What brzarre rnfluence could have turned so many AIDS dissidents at each other's throats, and against the long-awaited book by Ellison and Duesberg?

Oddly enou h, one figure consistently found in the mi& of this growing ruckus has somehow managed to remain unruffled and unaffected. His name is virtually unknown to most members of the Group, yet he has quietly exerted a rowing influence on Duesberg and other ieab;ng drssidents. Several key HIV critics have come to depend heavily on this man's advice, even though he has never actually declared his ersonal osition on the r: HIV debate. HIS name. Phrllrp J%hnson.

Who is Phillip Johnson? A professor of law at the University of

California at Berkele and a founding member of our dissiBZ AIDS Grou Johnson epitomize: the ambi uous lawyer & the one hand , whrle on the oker hand-).

But he has developed this skill, to a refined art; wrthout ever takrng a osition, he can convince others that he Ras asserted a viewpoint, or he can drop subtle suggestions upon which others soon act. Always projecting an air of objectivity and authorrty, Johnson maintains a certain aloofness while those around him follow his "advicew--and get into trouble.

AIDS is merely one of several controversial scientific o r . political issues in whrch Johnson has rnvolved himself. Consistently, however, his efforts seem directed more to contain all such controversies as sterile debates within academic circles, rather than allowing the eneral public to discover these issues. The %ar on HIV, for example, will never be stop ed by the NIH- funded scientific community, faced as it is with its conflicts of interest. only a stem reaction by the general public, which does not appreciate paying taxes to be fooled by "experts, would end the power of the HIV dogma. Johnson, on the other hand, seems to have worked hard to p t this HIV controversy from becoming a -

ousehold issue. What are Johnson's views? What is his

agenda? No one seems 9 be qurte sure. Indeed, he is a man of astonishrng contradrctrons, who will sug est one apparent viewpoint at one time, a n f then promptly do a turnabout at hrs next opportunity.

For instance, he is an integral member of establishment a arnst which he

% d ; s i m x l f as an iconocfast. A raduate of Rarvard and of the University of Chicago, Johnson has been awarded the Jefferson E. Peyser professorship in his law department. Unlike such prestigrous but blacklisted figures as Peter Duesbere. Johnson is routinely able to write columns oFsuch controversial iopics as Darwinian evolution, AIDS, abortion, and churchlstate se aration in the Los Angeles Times, the waR Street Journal, the Atlantjc, and even such scientific journals as the Journal o Molecular Evolution. Johnson's textbook,

riminal Law: Cases, Materials, and Text J appears to be used nationwide in law schools, and has been published since 1975 in at least four editions.

Johnson refers to himself as a "Chrisfi?n" who' chayenges the notion of Danvrnian evolution. As such, he is often categorized as an evangelical member of the Reli rous Ri ht by Darwinists; indeed. various lea%ers on & Religious Right-includin creationists- adnure Johnron as a .lose. a&, while Christian fundamentalists publrsh hrs book. On the other :and, he often refers to himself vaguely as a philosophical. theist," refuses .to sta!e a clear

personal posrtron on the Darwrnlsm Issue, and attacks creationist spokesmen who make the controversy a ublic issue, while he tries tg diver! the de\ate into academic circles. Leading Darwinists even feel comfortable holding joint forums with Johnson, including a new computer bulletin board service-a degree of coo eration, that Duesberg . has never achieve$ wrth hrs own opponents rn the AIDS controversy. Johnson also makes much of his

rior work as a law clerk for Earl Warren, the tbrrner Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who led the legal drive to ban rayer and Bible reading in public schools. t e t Johnson has never claimed undergoing any conversion of political views from left to right.

In .early 199 1, Johnson moved from being an outsrde observer to takrng a drrect interest rn the AIDS debate. He has since become a close but not widely reco nized advisor to Duesberg and other leading A ~ D S dissidents,

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has participated in the founding of the Group, and has written articles on the subject rn Rethinking AlDS and elsewhere. Desprte this appearance of support, Johnson has never actual1 declared his ersonal position on the issue. bdeed, even a l e r being shown the full evrdence that HIV and AIDS do not correlate statistically, , he continued public1 to state (without evrdence) that "I am l e i with the tm ression that the correlation between HIV an! AIDS is so strong that it i: no wonde~ that so many rqearchers are convrnced rt rndrcates causation." When the infamous attack on Duesbe3 % Ascher, Winkelstein,. et al a pear in ature m March of 1993, in wh~ch Aesberg charged fabrication of data, Johnson ignored the importance of this charge and wrote to Duesberg that, even i the taper contained deliberateIyJabricate d ahla what difference would it make q t h e disputed line In the chart were omitted?" As if a fraudulent paper could still be taken seriously.

Johnson seems to prefer confinihg the AIDS debate to an academic setting, where the entire question would slowly die as billions of extra dollars are spent each year in the War on HIV. I noring the inherent cqnflicts of Interest for N~H-funded AIDS scientrsts, he has publicly retended that "AIDS researchers are on the w f o ~ e honest and dedicated, of course " and have simply continued to make mistakes? "It seems to me that the key to Peter's problem is to build su port within the scientific community for 1 s argument," Johnson told Bryan Ellison-as if such. support were even possible v e n the $25 blllron spent in the War on ~ 1 6 8 . "I see no reason why the disagreement over the role of HIV should prevent cooperation" with olitically powerful AlDS uls, wrote ~ognson on another occasion-ith advice like this, Duesberg and the rest of us would certainly be, spinning our wheels for a long, Ion time-whrle the general '

ublic remains entire& in the dark, footrn the gill., Johnson does not ,stand alone; Bavid Baltrmore, Anthony Faucr, and other generals in the War on AIDS have also repeatedly warned Duesber not to brin this debate to public attention,%ut rather to feep it a p"ate affair within scientific ranks.

Johnson's own behavior is consistent with this a parent a enda Althou h he has so gainel the conhen& of ~ues%erg and some other leading AIDS dissidents that the consider him a close ally and personal friend: other associates of Johnson have never even heard about the controversy. For example, leadin Christians in the Relrgious Ri ht, who also Aink of !ohnson as a close aiy, have expressed astonrshment to us that he never told them of the HIV debate.

A stranger in our midst If Johnson is trying to prevent the AIDS

debate from breaking out into the public realm. he would naturally by to block publication of the Ellison and Duesberg book. Though Johnson has never declared such an intention, his bizarre pattern .of behavior has certainly lent rtself to disruptrng the publ~cation process at almost every.tum.

After Add~son-Wesley first tried to rewrite and soften the book, and finally refused to

ublish it in October of 1993, Ellison and bussberg be an searching for a new ublisher. St. Martrn's bress made a modest o&r for the already-completed manuscrrpt, but refused at first to promise an editorial 'hands-off" policy or to guarantee any publicity at all. At thrs point Johnson

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HIV Tests Virtually Worthless by Christine Johnso

Does a positive HIV antibody test indicate HIV infection? Does a negative test indicate lack of infection? This information is unknown, since these tests have never, been verified by an independent method of determining HIV infection (called a gold standard).

Such a standard does not currently exist. Manufacturers of HIV antibody test kits admit this in their pack inserts --ed.]. This admission calls into question the claim (by Abbott Labs, next page) of hi h sensitivity goo%) and specificity of 9 9 . 9 2 on the HIV

LISA - - - - . -. These are the two main arameters

for test accuracy: 1) sensitivity r e g s to the extent to which the test will report positive resulp in individuals with HIV infection; 2) Speclfic~ty determ~nes the extent to whlch the test will re ort negative results in persons without ~ ~ d n f e c t i o n .

At first, when setting up the starting point for the test k~t's accuracy, the lnfect~on status of the test (control) subjects must definitely be @own. The VINS must be ~solated. Ne~ther Gallo nor test-kit manufacture? have done this.

Thew starting point is the that all AIDS patients are infected an- random blood donors are not infected. Then, the s ecificity and sensitivi are calculated baselon these %ith this in hand, the tests are having excellent performance and measure the presence (or absence) of HIV. (see example below)

Due to lack of a old sfandqd we still do not know the levels O ~ H I V lnfect~on m any population. High levels of HIV antibody positlvl in AIDS atients are ex lained by the simple get that alfrisk oups & i c a n s even must be included as welfnormally cany high burdens of multiple, potentially cross-reacting microbes.

The above discussion covers only a summary of on of the man different ways that the numerous flaws of ida anti bod testln are hidden or obscured. A lengthy anayysis oBthis to ic can be found in my pa er: "When 98999% Isn't Good Enough. . & aking a Bad Test Look Good." available through RETHINKING AIDS for $ I 0.00 1

Need more conversation~material Christine Johnson can be Faxedkailed at (310 392-2 177. Mailin address is: Christine Johnson P.O. Box 2424, Gnice, CA 90294-2424

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;te ed in, contacting Re ne Gateway Ju!!shers to arrange a ,cons oger. Re nery rffered nearly as much money as di% St. Martin's, plus a handsome package of guaranteed promotion for the book.

But as soon as Ell~son be an to consider h e Regnery offer seriously, loinson suddenly ;hanged hls,mind. For no apparent reason, iohnson lnsmsted strongly that the authors choose St. Martin's after all. Regney meanwhile warned the authors that St. Martins would probably reverse mtself and refuse to publish the book later on, .but Duesberg so trusted Johnson that he, too, lnslsted on the St. Martin's deal. Ellison relented, and Regnery's offer was re'ected.

As ndicted, in April 1994 the Chairman and CEB of St. Marttn s, Thomas McCorrnack, did chan e his pind. .Out of the blue, he overrode 5 1 s senmor edmtor and demanded a second editonal process to soften the book.

At a time when Ellmson and Duesbera needed to present a united front in the renewed ne otiations with St. Martin's, Johnson sudidcnly step fi in to commynicate with McCormack. 8 1 m m g to be *'a. frie:d of Peter Duesberg and of Bryan Elllson, Johnson wrote an unauthorized letter .to St.. Martin's- attacking Ellison for ho ld ln~ h ~ s Johnson told McCormack to stand #I% don't ive up.- If Bryan refuses to see reasop he wifi be settmng himself up for a disaster." ' Naturally, the letter helped frighten Duesberg into caving in, and be an drmving a wedge between Duesber and Alison. The letter also seemed to pmvo&e McCormack Into mak~ng even stron er demands and recommending that Ellison an% Duesber pay back their advance mone and take the took elsewhere. By May, S t dartin's openly refused to work with the authors an longer, over Ellison's protests.

Now tlat both the Regnery and St. Martin's deals were dead, someone (Johnson?) convinced Duesberg that he needed to seize full and ermanent control of the book from Ellison. !n early June, Duqherg hired an attorney to demand that Elllson sign over control of the book, in exchange for nothing at all. How did Duesberg choose the attorney, or even think of such a course of action? In our personal experience with him, Duesberg rarely makes legal decisions without consulting Johnson.

To increase the pressure on Ellison, Duesberg had the biolog department cut off his monthly stipend, rollowed by having Ellison dismissed from raduate school with no degree at all-despite &vt yearspf work, three sc~entific papers, and havmn wrltten the entire book. We have recently 8scovered that the department did not cany out these actions until receiving a strong second opinior\,favoring the action-from Phillip Johnson! But when communicatin with Ellison at that same time, Johnson carefhly pretended to be neutral and interested on1 in he1 ing Ellison. Johnson hsdY atreat! been tryin a pin Ellmson's mfldence &r some time. kn a fa~led attem t to selze control of the Rethinking AIDS newsitter. Johnson .called up Ellison sevml weeks carher. Clalmlng to speak on behalf of the Group, Johnson samd that Ellison had been chosen to re lace Jim Trabulse as editor, without ~raEu~se ' s knowledy plthoygh Trabulse IS also the publisher A ternatlng between flatte and stem authority, Johnson tried to talk Xlison Into slowly and qu~etly pushing Trabulse aside. What if Trabulse doesn't agree, protested Ellison? Don't worry, sa!d Johnson, we can take care of hmm. Ellison rejected the "offer."

Later, in tryin4 to re- ain Ellison's confidence after hms sti en% had been terminated, Johnson feigneBi norance of the situation and tried to brlbe la son with $200. Again, Ellison refused.

By July, Ellison had finall decided. to publish his bqok thmu h a smalLr publmshmng company. This took Bhnson completely by surprise, causing him to dro his normally charming veneer. He fired of! an an ry and threatening letter to Trabulse, demaniing an immediate sto to the book's distribution throu h ~ e t h i n E ' n ~ AIDS Despite h a ersonal knowfedge to the contrary, Johnson grslenly and falsely declared that "Ellison unilaterally refused to coo~erate with the editors rat St. Martin's] &d effectively

ublic?$on." Johnson also accused ~/Eo"n"~t? &in unethical and unlawful'' for arranging the %ookfs publicat~on, and demanded that Trabulse h p d over the Rethinking AIDS mailing list.

As a legal expert, Johnson has been su risin ly eager to seize the reins of a book anTnew8etter that are not his-without any discernible motive. In the end, he has only succeeded in ending the long friendship between Duesberg and Ellison, at no cost to himself. Acting as a "friend" from within our ranks, Johnson has caused more dama e to our movement than Robert Gallo himself

Were it not for the current publication of the book, it might not have reached the

ublic for several years. While this mi ht suit !ohnson's Bpparent a enda, it woukd help block publmc knowlec$e of the suppressed HIV controvers an could prevent the political backld'that would break the hold of the AIDS establishment.

Fortunately, the book is reaching more people every day. Durin the first four months of publication, the t o o k has already won more supporters for the Duesberg view than the efforts of Duesberg, Ellison, and the Group comblned over the This is exciting news & y t t k r %%

right about what causes ! dvice to avoid sexual ! safe sex if you are going

Johnson. Duesber had b this time hired a second

attorney to tfkeatenkllison with a lawsuit and an injunction against publishing the book, unless he would slgn over control to Duesberg. When Ellison dlrectly asked the attorney whether he knew Johnson personally, or had been recommended to Duesberg by Johnson, the attorney dodged the question. Would Duesber have ursued such a reckless legal fight wikout ~oinson's support? Such would seem out of character for Duesberg.

Johnson has since posted a libelous Etatement on the Internet the computer information su erhighway"). (1. hough never

elected b the lundreds of members of the Group, %hnson claimed to speak on our collective behalf. Despite having been notified of the facts by Ellison and others, Johnson brazenly lied about the collapse of the St. Martin's Press deal, and angrily denounced the book.

Notes:

' Brad Bunnin, Letter to Bryan Ellison, 7-31-94. Peter Duesberg. Letter to Bryan Ellison, 8-19-94 ' Brad Bunnin, Lener to Bryan Ellison, 8-18-94. Phillip E. Johnson. Donurii, (rut Tiid, Regnery Gateway. Washington. DC, 1991, p. 14. ' lbid.. p. 14.

Phillip E. Johnson, Letter to Various Persons. 6-1 1-92. ' Phillip E. Johnson, Lener to Peter Duesberg, 4-21-93. ' Phillip E. Johnson, "AIDS and the dog that didn't bark," Insight, 2-14-94, p. 26.

Phillip E. Johnson, Lener to Bryan Ellison. 3-19-91. '' Phillip E. Johnson, Memo to various participants in the AIDS debate. 10-22-92.

' I Phillip E. Johnson. Lmer to Thomas McCormack, 4- 19-94. Caroline M. Kane, Later to Dean Joseph Ccrny. 8-26- 94.

l 3 Phillip E. Johnson. Letter to James Trabulse. 7-29-94.

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.- DR. BALZ, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

I cannot speak for him, but 1 personally am glad that a low-profile network of specially trained and funded public medicine experts are watchful for our collective health. In my native Australia, people everywhere are grateful to the public health officials for warning us of the growing dangers of ultraviolet health risks, owing to the ozone hole. Yet, before such officials finally had to disclose that this risk was indeed serious enough to warrant public exposure, they had the common decency to establish the of the scientific evidence.

In other . words, we yginl. low- profile persons investigatin8 susp!c~ous clusters of "biological events. Most, if not all, such events are merely limited in scope and range. To allow such events to become the front-page rist for terrifyin the public would be not ofIy unacceptable, %ut utt would encourage a press already too sensation- prone to track the activities of the surveillance wherever they went, and Impute to their p m i n s and goings invcsfl ation of grave cnses. flo impute to the EIS or any other public health agency, a desire to sensationalize a peculiar cluster for the urpose of. grabbing headlines to induce

eberal funding or to drive terrified citizens into the arms of a venal and greedy medlcal establishment is to libel such devoted public servants. 1 am not, as you Americans say, "buying it."

That aside, the work of the NIH and CDC are also .subject to the authors' sneers. These agencies clearly have fulfilled their mandates, CDC especially doing so with a budget in modern terms equivalent to that of a dogcatcher. NIH, truly, suffers from mismanagerient, loss of vision, and severe turf wars. The Gallo debacle illustrates that to all our shame. Still, with a little

the ield per dollar in si n%% !lt!Ek YOU& increase dramaticalk to the general benefit of every person, both here and abroad. Yet, again we see Ellison and Duesberg making unsupported statements such as :

The NIH has continued to experience an ever-growin budget. In an era with no serious inkctious disease in !he world, the otherwise healthy populatron has regained its fear of contagion.

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No serious infectious diseases? What about AIDS?

In the latter cha ters es eciall Chapter 8, the cause of A I ~ S i; adiressed: albert unconvincin ly. Duesbergls well- publicized linking of drug abuse with AlDS is persuasive, but hardl conclusive. Even if the circularity of the KIDS definition were eliminated, such statements that

Injection drug . addicts and male homosexuals, and the children of drug- in'ectin mothers, have contnbuted 94 h 01 all A ~ D S patients. m u ? the correlatron of heavy drug abuse wrth AlDS is far better than between HIV and AIDS ... pg. 180

prove nothin even though such a parent correlations ifould be studied and Funded. Indeed, I reiterate: I stron ly believe that even ersons such as ~ u e % e r ~ should be funded: not mar inalized merely because he sees things outsi%e the main view. -,

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It is my opinion, even having read this book, thou h, that such modestly bud eted research will $inally prove what real ~h researchers have been saying all along: jn'ection dru abuse only ~ncreases the risk for . ~ l b infection, and weakens the health consistent with abuse. But I believe that drug abuse is not the "cause of AIDS," even if 94% of the cases of AIDS, with or wlthout HIV present, are drug abusers.

Finally, while on the subject of drugs, Ellison and Duesber seem to have leapt off the hard ground otevidence to the thin air of conclusion when they postulate that AZT is somehow equivalent with AIDS! Clearly, such a view is foolish, and avoids the clinical picture. The need early on for such a medicine was vast and met--albeit inade uately. The Concorde Study proves that earl %opes were much too broad. However, AZf is not somg kind of "poison," "toxic chemotherapy," indiscriminate antibiotic." AZT does not "develop lymphoma" or create "massive blood cell loss. These reckless statements are only certified b a handful of inde endent researchers, all orwhom Ellison and bucrberg do NOT apply their usual brand of suspic~ous paranoia to.

Finally, to paraphrase the last sentence of this interesting and important, but seriously flawed book, misguided scientific outsiders will in fact meet thelr long overdue udgment. This tdudgment is simply that

h a b e r g should e glven a p l ~ e to express his views wrthin his own spec~alty, but the bitterness of the past eight 'years h a s to be dro ped, so that he ma regain his objectivity, a n 8 heal the s t t among research retrovirologists. As t!r the younger Ellison. he is obviously a brilliant oun man with a real future ahead of him. if i e wi l contain his enthusiasm for seeing.de motives in honest but humanly flawed scientific research.

Harold I. Balz, , PhD, MD visiting Prof o Biomedical Eth~cs. Queensland College

I NSW, holds the patterson Chair at Kanias State Medical College I

NEVER WIN THE WAR ON

h t - , ~ r n ~ p t k W l a h ~ - tbla 'deadly rp lddc ' la (0 ehm#c...

Bryan J. Ellison and

Peter H. Duesbeq

-JOEL ~CHWARTZ, COHITNUED FROM PAGE 1

Even a suspicious fracture has been instigate between him and Ellison,friends and co-worker for five years!) costing Ellison his sti nd an hrs graduate student status. Quashing Fssent b, any means to glow the 'f-h " to cpntinue I considered frur play in thls $6 billion/yea business.

The revelation of how EIS and CD promote "prevention and cures" may be a bi exaggerated. I do not know.lf m own researc is an example I admit that have heavil depended on them for data I will be mor cuatious and skeptical in the future.

Yet, d what Ellison and pUeskr claim is true about CDC/EIS and lt is heavl! 6 document4 no doubt about at then there I still another dimension to $is "medical roblem: It threatens the very foundation of ou

ibcnies its press freedoms, and the n individal to be free hmn medici&i::t2 temnsm. What I mean by that statement is tha these large bmaucracies grow to accumulat their. own wer bases, unconfined b publi oplnlon. X e n they ar, and this boo{ show how often they do en; WE pay. If they have a agenda (the book su est in the stronges possible terns that EIY& do have an agenda then how do we take the bone back from th dog?

H m are some uestions that the boo d i w answer, but m$ I) Can the cumn s i t y e n be qulttly reversed, so that th scientific establishmen! can "save face?". 2) 1 not number 1, can this control over sclentifi research be broken or disabled sufficiently so a to allow both free inquiry and fair peer review ( knowfrom sad personal ex rience just how pee review is heavily tainted all so* of conflic of interest, both commercial and academic); 3 what can the citizen do to defan CDC/EISR\IIH? 'These agencies have outlive their usefblness, if indeed they ever had any. Bu am 1 to s nd the remainder of my adult lif hearing g u t new horrors and .terrors to p-~ health, all supported by susprcrous scientifi "evidence" having no recourse, even Itigation How can we, asgersons who disagree ,WIL LI nonsense, arsert UR authority over this out-of control propaganda without being forced t annear as "dissidents." "Duesberg's followers, hapersons in "denial?!

- And what is going to happen to thos

brave and sacrificial (not all voluntary!) persons like the authors, who instigated these question innocently enou at first and now face censure dismissal, ridicui, and d i u e m e n t ? If thi is the light of the scientists, who s@nd on th facts, t e n what would the ust unlshment o those scientists be who gobble qu%lic funds an defend fantastic interpretations . .

The questron. answers itself. If o haven't done so, buy this book before they xn some way to take it off the shelves. The ossi has it, five-twne, that the book wfil b unavailable by Spring!

~ c h w a r h has been wodcing successfully with Duesberg and Ellison since 1991 to publicize the information on the whole HIV/AIDS story.

i The HOT ZONE (R. Preston, Random House, $24.00 + 3.00 SH) is the quasi-docu-drama I derived from the serialization in the New Yorker. i It reads like a Tom Clancy novel, and is "a terrifying true story" about Ebola h i r e . This book pants over gory detail , hymns medical

j detectives, calls for vaccines, and all over a virus I immortalized by Don Francis. who gave us the I AlDS public health program ! Definitely read-- Ed.

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THE READERS Say: Who is the Proper Target? IVDA's and promiscuous homosexuals are clearly indulging in potentially dangerous

Dear RETHINKING: To: The Group ... etc. behavior. Dr. Mullis claims that they can't be A friend of minc, upon seeing the A~~ News I first became aware of your organization one grouped because IVDA's do not get Kaposi's. show ~ i ~ h ~ l i ~ ~ segment featuring some of year ago, shortly after I learned I was HIV+. I But surely if gays habitually take in different our best and brightest dissidents, said: am writing to offer thanks for information I substances it is hardly surprising that they may they didn't really explain what causes it." needed to leam and to ask "Who do I sue?" experience different pathology.

I responded angrily and with newfound 1 am a healthy male, age 43. I've never done As Mullis points out, there is not a shred of authority: uw is no He was IV drugs or poppers or had homosexual sex, epidemiological or virological evidence that was finally liberated. THERE IS NO "IT!" or received a blood transfusion. Very rarely an innocoous retrovirus could be implicated.

did I take antibiotics. He appeals to common sense.The Duesberg The paradigmatic shift that we are engaged in hypothesis seems sensible. If, as Mullis had to do with redefining the conceptual After testing HIV+, I've had 3 CBC +3 protests, evidence is indeed lacking here as framework in a fundamental way. Our SMAC. All results were within normal well, that can be excused for the present by detractors, and even some of our allies, have parameters. ... TB, syphilis, hepatitis tests all the lack of funding-a refuge hardly available been programmed to seek a for the HIVIAIDS hypothesis. simplistic answer, an "it," to SOUND BITES

AAAS (American Keep up the good work-- rep'ace This Items Assodation for the session was Frmcis Trueman the yuvs of hunting lo described by Mr. Ellison. "It" must be a "bug."

When AIDS becomes a fraudulent diagnostic formula used to relabel and regroup existing diseases, "it" evapO.tcr. We are left with different people 'groups

people in Poor for various reasons. Prof. Duesberg correctly points out that drug use of sustained intensity over long periods sets the stage for many mfections. Dr. Mullis properly reminds us of rnfectional overload ... There need not be one answer because we aren't represent. I would now like to dealing with one thing. negative. My T4 was 750. I've never taken know more and I fully support the work of the

AZT or anything else, despite it being strongly Group. The thlng--"itw--is a corrupt machine brought recommended by several MD AIDS forth by an unholy marriage of Left and Right. Many Thanks, Julia Ann O'sullivan, NY "AIDS" would quickly subside if this monster could be exposed and destroyed. The stress of being told I had a fatal virus that The TIMES AsImmed?

would kill me in ten years was overwhelming, When 1 was diagnosed with "AIDS," my almost too much to deal with, but 1 did. 1 The important fact about the survival of HIV father retained an artist to create a stained educated myself and am now aware of the positive hemophiliacs is not even mentioned glass window for his church, where he serves greed, lies and corruption, along with the in the NY TIMES Aug. 3 stor)': that 60% of as a vestryman. ~t was a young Saint George well-intentioned misinformation. Mullis, the 11 1 men did not develop AIDS in the ten slaying a fanciful dragon. The metaphor was Duesberg, Root-Bernstein convinced me I d o Years (7-13) after testing positive. The obvious: the dragon was A I D S - ~ - H I V . . . " ~ ~ , ~ not have a fatal virus and now I want headline that 18% "may stay free of AIDS for

VENGEANCE! Who or what is the proper 25 years" is based on "a mathematical modelw- Had he been true to h ~ s conservative roots, and target? - statistical sleight of hand--which the TIMES had I found the clear-headed libertarian should be ashamed for having'featured. When mindset that now guides me, we both would The HIV Hoax must be exploded!! will the newspaper finally recognize the seven have seen that the dragon--the "itv--wasn't a year suppression of AIDS dissidents like phony disease caused by a harmless retrovirus; N ~ m e Wthheld by Request, f'hoenix Professor Peter Duesberg by the CDC, rather we would have seen that the monster is American scientific publications, and big government, with its tentacles of Really, Kar~-.* NATURE, and bring these ideas accurately overfunded science and social engineering. and completely to public attention so informed The dragon disguises as "compassion," Dear Sirs--- discussion can finally begin? For example, is wearing the colors of both sides of the aisle, Kary Mullis makes some interesting the award of millions of dollars to "HIV- but it kills observations in (the) recent interview, but I infected hemophiliacs, " a medically very ill

really must protest his facile conclusion that group, (news story, Aug. 3) valid, or the Death to the genocidal beast! AIDS-related diseases among homosexuals product of hysteria?

and IV drug users are purely a function of Cordially, G. Steven Rose their "gregarious" nature. Surely, society is Nafhan Lehrman, NY

replete with gregarious sub-cultures who don't have compromised immune systems!

scheduled to provide a forum for AIDS. Three weeks before the conference, the p m s exploded with stories about the upmar among establishment scientists when they learned the AAAS would be hosting this event. The session's orqanizer, Charles Geshekter, was pressured ~nto 'balancing thtt p.rese~tion. by adding speakers representing the * a n t of v w , In addeon to the original eleven so-called dissenters first uled.

Despite the flurry of press interest before the event, the press all but ignored the a d ~ a l speakers after the event. Most reporters limited their stories to Duesberg; then, they went on to quote the speakers fronting the scientific establishment.

Since RETHINKING AlDS is offering the tapes from this meeting six one hour tapes of the whole thing or two one-hour tapes of highlig f k, $65.00 and $20.00 respectively-Ed.] this review will touch on interesting high points inadequately covered b the mainstream press.

In his inWuctory remarks. &ties Geshekter of the Department of History at Cal-State, Chico, alluded to the unpleasantness he had experienced as organizer of the meeting. He referred to AlDS as the 'most important biemedical controversy of the late twentieth century." [continued next issue ...I

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