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	Peter Duesberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter H. Duesberg (born December 2, 1936 in Germany) is an award-winning professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
		Peter Duesberg argues that retroviruses like HIV must be harmless to survive, because after reverse transcription from RNA to DNA, they depend on cell division to replicate (their normal mode of propagation is from mother to child).
		Before Duesberg questioned HIV's role in AIDS and the scientific establishment effectively cut off all of his research funding[2], the "co-discoverer" of HIV, Robert Gallo, said in an introduction of Peter Duesberg in 1984, "At NIH, Peter Duesberg is sometimes known as the battling bulldog.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Duesberg (1712 words)

	Duesberg hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Duesberg hypothesis is the claim that chemicals from recreational and pharmaceutical drug use, and not HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), is the primary cause of AIDS.
		Duesberg supposes that a major component of the present day 'drug craze' that wasn't present in the 60's is the use of 'poppers' aka amyl nitrite and butyl nitrite, inhaled by mostly gay men to enhance their sexual experiences.
		If the Duesberg hypothesis is right, one wonders why AIDS kills so many otherwise healthy adults in Africa at the same time that health has improved among the children and the elderly, who are normally the most vulnerable to poor sanitation and malnutrition, and least vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duesberg_hypothesis (3041 words)

	The Daily Californian
		In a peer-reviewed article published in the March 21 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Duesberg argues that aneuploidy is the cause of cancer and mutations are correlated with the disease; the prevailing view in the scientific community is that mutations are the cause of malignancies and aneuploidy is a correlation.
		Duesberg said while aneuploidy - the addition or deletion of entire assembly lines - is known to be present in all cancers, "cancer-causing" mutations have not been demonstrated to be in all malignancies.
		Duesberg said while it is clear that the number of chromosomes in a cell has an effect on the way the cell functions, the way that mutations work has not yet been determined.
	www.dailycal.org /article.php?id=2215 (1657 words)

	The AIDS Heretic Who Won't Die (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1987, Duesberg stated that the major obstacle to his accepting the HIV hypothesis was not the lack of epidemiological evidence, but the dearth of information as to how the virus could possibly cause AIDS, given its lack of "biochemical activity" and the low amount of the virus present in the blood.
		Duesberg hangs on to it virtually alone, content with far weaker correlations than we have for HIV; thus, in support of his drug hypothesis, Duesberg cites a British study that found only 78% of the AIDS patients studied had used nitrite inhalants in any quantity.
		Duesberg, to be sure, claims that "the death rate in the AZT group was 25 percent higher than in the control group" (330 1), but he misinterprets the numbers to reach this conclusion.
	www.libertysoft.com /liberty/reviews/55crow.html (4409 words)

	The AIDS Heresies (270K)(Steve Harris)
		Duesberg's objections were that the study had not controlled carefully enough for drug use between HIV-positive and HIV- negative groups in the study, but Duesberg did not address the obvious question of why such considerable controlling for drug use as _was_ done, had absolutely no effect on differential AIDS risk seen.
		Duesberg, for instance, is unable to believe that any disease which confines itself relatively rigidly to classes of susceptible people, can qualify as a genuine communicable disease caused (in any sense) by a treatable microbe.
		Nor does Duesberg believe in slow viruses at all, in the sense that he does not believe that any virus is capable of causing general infection or fatality years later in an organism which had been healthy prior to the initial viral infection (Duesberg, pp 209, 233).
	yarchive.net /med/aids_heresies.html (19777 words)

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		Duesberg argues that HIV is not the cause of AIDS and that the drug AZT speeds, rather than slows, the depletion of the immune system.
		But Duesberg said at a recent meeting in London organized by a group known as the Steering Committee Against AZT Malpractice (SCAM), that he refused to accept the group's conclusion, and continued to insist that his own interpretations are sound.
		Duesberg claims that it is difficult to recover from helper T lymphocytes, whose attrition for many patients indicates the onset of overt AIDS, virus particles that might plausibly infect others.
	www.aidsinfobbs.org /qanda/9 (3265 words)

	The Drug-AIDS Hypothesis Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		My personal experience of Duesberg is that he has always obeyed this precept, whilst the vast majority of so-called AIDS experts’ have consistently and wilfully presented only the specious arguments which seem to support their frequently illogical theories, sometimes deliberately obfuscating or suppressing contradictory evidence.
		Duesberg gives a perfect example of this scientific chicanery, citing a paper published by Nature purporting to show AIDS in non-drug-using patients which, in fact, showed nothing of the kind, and all the patients in the study had in fact used recreational drugs.
		Duesberg’s hypothesis is testable – studies of heavy drug users, using HIV positive and negative controls, should reveal identical immune deficiencies, disease incidence and early mortality.
	www.garynull.com /Documents/Continuum/DrugAIDSHypothesisIntro.htm (1337 words)

	Amazon.com: Inventing the AIDS Virus: Books: Peter H. Duesberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Duesberg, himself a virologist, stoutly maintains that HIV cannot cause AIDS because it fails to meet the rules by which a virus is implicated as disease-causing.
		Duesberg's own theory is that AIDS is linked to the use of immunity-suppressing illicit drugs (such as crack and ``poppers''), and he urges investigation along these lines.
		Duesberg's dissent prompted another doctrine: people, especially credible scientists, who contest the doctrine are `irresponsible' renegades who must be isolated and their reputations destroyed, lest they confuse public.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0895263998?v=glance (3314 words)

	ftp://ftp.skeptic.com/pub/skeptic/03.2.harris-aids http://www.skeptic.com/03.2.harris-aids
		Since Duesberg's original challenge, which has been the cause of much formal debate in the literature7, a number of scientists, physicians, and lay persons have taken up the cause for a "re-appraisal" of the idea that HIV is the major causal factor, or even one of the major causal factors, in AIDS.
		Duesberg, for instance,5 has insisted upon retaining the early 1980's observation that a CD4+/CD8+ lymphocyte count ratio of less than 1.0 is often seen in AIDS, and he has decided that such a ratio, even in the absence of opportunistic infection, is synonymous with AIDS (p.
		Duesberg argues that a disease which restricts itself to classes of people in America, but not in Africa, cannot be explained by a micro-organism.
	www.skepticfiles.org /skmag/32harris.htm (11752 words)

	Al-Bayati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The HIV hypothesis, a staunchly defended thesis among its proponents, assumes that AIDS is caused by an infectious retrovirus.
		Duesberg's carefully reasoned arguments seem to have met with rejection and derision among the proponents of the HIV hypothesis and developers of anti-HIV drugs and treatment modalities.
		Duesberg's attempts to obtain funds to do toxicological studies of chemical agents, such as recreational drugs, that might explain the AIDS epidemic,were repeatedly rejected.
	www.think-fitness.de /html/al-bayati.html (783 words)

	Duesberg hypothesis - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Duesberg hypothesis states that AIDS is not caused by the HIV virus.
		The current consensus in the scientific community is that the hypothesis has been refuted by the huge mass of available evidence, showing that Koch's postulates have been fulfilled by HIV, that virus numbers in the blood correlate with disease progression and that a plausible mechanism for HIV's action has been proposed.
		Duesberg's supporters continue to believe and espouse their theory, which was viable at the time it was introduced in the 1980s, but is no longer considered so by most researchers.
	www.questionz.net /AIDS/Duesberg_hypothesis.html (326 words)

	The Body: The HIV-AIDS Debate Is Over
		A decade ago, when a highly regarded molecular virologist named Peter Duesberg first suggested that AIDS was caused not by HIV but by a combination of recreational drugs, hyperstimulation of the immune system, and possibly even antiretroviral drugs themselves (7), the scientific community felt obliged to respond to Duesberg's hypothesis.
		In the end, Duesberg's alternative explanation for the AIDS epidemic was little more than an indictment of a certain kind of gay lifestyle, one that is popularly perceived as consecrated to casual sex and equally casual drug-taking (16).
		As such, his hypothesis was but a variant of the mean-spirited fundamentalist belief that people with AIDS are victims of their own vices.
	www.thebody.com /hivnews/newsline/feb97/editor.html (3105 words)

	HIV & AIDS - Foreign-Protein-Mediated Immunodeficiency in Hemophiliacs With and Without HIV
		This hypothesis postulates that all AIDS is caused by the retrovirus HIV, and thus an infectious epidemic.
		The prediction of the HIV hypothesis, that the distribution of immunodeficiency and non-immunodeficiency diseases among hemophiliacs is the same as in the rest of the American AIDS population, is not confirmed.
		By contrast, the foreign-protein hypothesis predicts that immunodeficiency is a function of the lifetime dose of transfusions received, and not dependent on HIV or antibodies against HIV.
	www.virusmyth.net /aids/data/pdhemogen.htm (12674 words)

	Does HIV cause AIDS?
		Duesberg and the CDC agree that HIV is a retrovirus, a virus that has RNA as its genetic material rather than DNA.
		Duesberg's (unproven but reasonable) hypothesis is that long term drug use will undermine the immune system.
		Duesberg expounds his drug-AIDS hypothesis in his article, The Role of Drugs in the Origin of AIDS, and at his own website.
	pages.prodigy.net /johnhunter2/hivaids.htm (2214 words)

	Revolt Against the HIV Doctrine, Hammer, ProutWorld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Professor Duesberg and his associates, however, claim that HIV is no invincible killer of men, but is on the contrary—harmless, as weak and innoncent as a newborn lamb.
		According to Duesberg, AZT is neither a cure for AIDS nor a drug that prolongs the life of AIDS patients: It itself is a cause of AIDS, and is lethal rather than life-giving.
		It is from the same group, to repeat, that Duesberg says the ten-year "incubation period" of AIDS and the 100 percent HIV-to-AIDS progression rate was calculated and said to be "relevant for the population as a whole".
	proutworld.prout.org /features/hiv.htm (8825 words)

	Where Duesberg failed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I think that these sort of assertions miss the point completely, and are probably highly inappropriate in the case of figures such as Mullis and Duesberg, who seem to be really bright people, at least formerly at the cutting edge of their disciplines.
		Duesberg's "Chemical AIDS hypothesis" Prof Duesberg is said to have asserted that "the 'chemical AIDS hypothesis', and not HIV, explains all aspects of AIDS in the USA, Europe and Africa".
		Duesberg for providing us with an opportunity to explore the nature of science, and see how badly one can go off the rails if one concentrates on "proof of causation" rather than "falsification".
	www.anaesthetist.com /icu/infect/virus/dues2.htm (4530 words)

	Is HIV The Primary Cause of AIDS in Southern Africa?
		Peter Duesberg, professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, has proposed and proven an alternate hypothesis for the onset of AIDS which is counter to the mainstream of AIDS research and treatment.
		Duesberg hypothesizes that HIV is merely a marker (and an unreliable one at that) for immunodeficiency syndrome: a virus, like many others, which opportunistically infects people whose immune system has been ravaged by AIDS.
		Duesberg hypothesizes that the AIDS epidemic is actually a huge epidemic of ill health worldwide that is being blamed on HIV.
	www.cure.co.za /HIV-AIDS.htm (1189 words)

	Does HIV cause AIDS? An updated response to Duesberg's theories.
		Peter H. Duesberg recently published that HIV and AIDS may well be correlated, but stated that HIV is not the cause of AIDS.
		Duesberg bases his hypothesis on the fact that HIV fulfills neither Koch's classic postulates nor several more of his own postulates for viral pathogenesis.
		Following the summary of individual pathogenic mechanisms of HIV infection, the separate points of Duesberg's hypothesis are discussed in detail.
	www.aegis.com /aidsline/1991/may/M9150456.html (441 words)

	HIV & AIDS - Responding to "Duesberg and the New View of HIV"
		Since the HIV-AIDS hypothesis makes many assumptions that are paradoxical, if not bewildering, for pre-HIV virologists, and since the new studies do not clearly define the HIV hypothesis, we shall first state the hypothesis and then explain why, in light of these "new" studies, it remains paradoxical.
		There is only one consistent hypothesis to reconcile the bewildering ranges of HIV titers in Ho's and Shaw's patients, that the role of the virus in AIDS-HIV is a passenger virus, rather than the cause of AIDS.
		However, the hypothesis that HIV is a passenger virus provides a consistent explanation for the unpredictable time intervals between HIV infection and AIDS.
	www.virusmyth.net /aids/data/pdwei.htm (3300 words)

	HIV-AIDS Hypothesis Challenged: South African Epidemiologic Experiments To Begin [Free Republic]
		Duesberg speculates, for example, (in his book "Inventing the AIDS Virus")that, in the past, much of the insanity diagnosed as paresis, a symptom of tertiary syphillis, may actually have been due to mercury poisoning.
		Duesberg thinks that "poppers" (actually contact with the liquid) alone are the cause of the Kaposi's sarcoma.
		Duesberg speculates, for example, (in his book "Inventing the AIDS Virus") that, in the past, much of the insanity diagnosed as paresis, a symptom of tertiary syphillis, may actually have been due to mercury poisoning.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3aecd0da42d1.htm (4930 words)

	HIV & AIDS - The AIDS Catch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It infects it with great difficulty, this is because it's very hard to pick up from somebody, and once it infects, it spreads mildly, or poorly into a few T cells, and B cells, lymphocites and occasionally then during that original spread before the immune system responds to it, may cause a glandular fever.
		PETER DUESBERG: "AIDS is primarily not an infectious disease, as it's thought of, it's primarily a result of, I suspect of intoxication.
		One of Peter Duesberg's greatest concerns is the fact that HIV positive people with and without symptoms are being prescribed the highly toxic drug AZT which can cause bone marrow depletion and symptoms identical to AIDS itself.
	allchars.polder.net /aids/data/jscatch.htm (5507 words)

	What Really Happened in SA
		Duesberg mapped the genetic structure of retroviruses, and was widely regarded as one of the leading retrovirologists in the world at the time of his first critique.
		It was two days of 'You're wrong and I'm right.'" In a separate meeting, it was decided that Duesberg and Bialy, under the auspices of the CDC and the South African government, will design epidemiological studies that will put the HIV hypothesis to a test (16 years after its birth).
		Duesberg and Gayle were joking and being flirty, and before long nobody knew if the joke was real or not.
	www.purewatergazette.net /farber.htm (3634 words)

	HIV & AIDS - AIDS; Truth Is Bustin' Out All Over (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1992 a CNN crew came to the lab, filmed Duesberg, and again said they would run a whole segment on all the scientists who were opposing the HIV hypothesis.
		Duesberg dissected the most fundamental premise of the AIDS construct, that all of the 29 (at last count) AIDS-indicator diseases are caused by a condition of "immune deficiency" caused by HIV infection.
		Peter Duesberg then jumped into the fray, saying that the Ascher-Winkelstein study, which allegedly refuted the drugs-AIDS hypothesis, was incredibly irresponsible and dangerous-for it appeared to recommend the use of drugs.
	allchars.polder.net /aids/data/jlaaas.htm (11937 words)

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