The so-called "AIDS virus", HIV, may not even exist

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3. The so-called "AIDS virus", HIV, may not even exist

Biophysicist Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos and her group of researchers
at Royal Perth Hospital in Perth, Western Australia, were the very
first scientists in mentioning the fact that HIV has never been
isolated (12). For several years Papadopulos-Eleopulos and coworkers,
have been publishing papers where they have described in detail, the
scientific facts that support the assertion that the so-called AIDS
virus, HIV, may not even exist (12-14,20,30,31,47,50,61-64):


3.1. The correct procedures (31) employed for over half a century to
achieve isolation of a retrovirus are: a) to find in infected cell
cultures particles with a diameter of 100-120 nM that contain the so-
called condensed inner bodies or cores and that have surfaces studded
with projections - spikes, knobs - b) In sucrose density gradients
the particles band at a density of 1.16 gm/ml; c) At the density of
1.16 gm/ml there is nothing else but particles with the morphological
characteristics of retroviral particles; d) The particles contain
only RNA and not DNA, and the RNA consistently has the same length
[number of bases] and composition no matter how many times the
experiment is repeated; e) When the particles are introduced into
secondary cultures they are taken up by the cells, the entire RNA is
reverse transcribed into cDNA, the entire cDNA is inserted into the
cellular DNA, and the DNA is transcribed back into RNA which is then
translated into proteins; f) As a result of e the cells in the
secondary cultures release particles into the culture medium; g) The
particles released into the secondary culture medium have exactly the
same characteristics as the original particles, that is, they must
have identical morphology, band at 1.16 gm/ml and contain the same
RNA and proteins (31).


None of these procedures have been achieved in the case of HIV
(12,14,31,47).


3.2. None of the researchers who claim to have isolated HIV have
shown the presence of particles with the morphological
characteristics of retroviruses banding at 1.16 gm/ml (31).


Even the word "isolation" as used by the most noted researchers (65-
67) is incorrect and misleading since neither Montagnier, Gallo nor
Levy isolated HIV particles, particles of any other human retrovirus,
or even virus-like-particles at all (12-14,30,31,47,61,68-74).


3.3. Since no "retroviral particles" [retroviruses] have ever been
isolated from any culture (12-14,31,47,61-63,69-75), the existence of
HIV has been established indirectly: by the presence in blood
cultures of AIDS and "HIV-positive" individuals,
proteins/glycoproteins such as gp 160/150, gp120, gp41/45/40, p34/32,
p24, and p18/17, each claimed to belong to HIV; by the presence of
enzymes such as reverse transcriptase that supposedly belongs to HIV;
and by the presence of RNA or DNA fragments that supposedly belong to
HIV (12-14,31,47,61-63,69-75).


However, none of these substances have been proven to belong to HIV
at all (12-14,31,47,61-63,69-75). How can anybody prove that the
substances found in those cultures belong to a viral particle that
has never been found at 1.16 gm/ml? To prove that those substances
are part of a retrovirus named HIV, it is absolutely necessary that
the retroviral particles have been previously separated - isolated -
from everything else. This has never been done with HIV (31).


3.4. It is interesting to note that the substances listed in 6.3. are
claimed to appear exclusively when one co-cultures supposedly
infected blood with abnormal cells from leukemia patients, or from
umbilical cord lymphocytes (31). The problem is that the same
substances can be obtained from the same cultures in the absence of
the supposedly HIV-infected blood (31).


3.5. The cultures where the above substances have been found are
cultures that have been heavily stimulated with substances such as
phytohemagglutinin, IL-2, antiserum to human interferon, and other
agents (31). These culture stimulants are oxidizing agents (31,47).
The problem is that the same type of material can be observed in
stimulated cultures of lymphocytes from healthy persons (31,76).


It is interesting to note than in the presence of antioxidants, no
HIV phenomena can be observed in culture; nor can HIV substances be
found (12,64,76).


3.6. The substances listed in 6.3. are not specific to HIV at all
(31). For instance, it is currently known that reverse transcriptase
can be found associated with entities other than retroviruses,
including eukaryote cells, some animal and plant DNA viruses, and
even some introns (77).


Gallo and co-workers have claimed that the cell-free supernatants
from "infected" cultures have HIV-DNA (78,79). They forgot that by
definition retroviruses are infectious particles that contain only
RNA. When retroviruses enter a cell the RNA is reverse transcribed
into DNA, which is then integrated into cellular DNA as a provirus,
which means that "HIV DNA" will be present only in the cell and no
where else (31).


There is also ample evidence that any RNA or DNA present in the
supernatant of the cultures is there as an effect of stimulation by
polycations and oxidizing agents, rather than as an effect of the
presence of a retrovirus (31).


"HIV cloning" is likewise misleading. Without isolating a retroviral
particle containing RNA inside its core, the Cloning of
that "specific HIV-RNA" is not possible (31).


3.7. To date nobody has presented evidence that the so-called HIV
proteins or antigens [gp160/150, gp120, gp41/45/40, p34/32, p24,
p18/17], are constituents of a retrovirus particle or even retrovirus-
like particle let alone a unique retrovirus, HIV (31).


3.8. The proteins or antigens derived from stimulated cultures form
the basis for the ELISA and Western blot HIV antibody tests (31,73).
Fragments of RNA from stimulated cultures form the basis of the HIV
viral load test (31,73). This is the main reason why the current
tests used for the diagnosis of HIV are not specific for it (12-
14,31,61,62).


3.9. In the January 1997 issue of the journal Virology, two
independent groups of researchers published experiments claiming to
isolate HIV. Now and for the first time in the history of HIV, the
researchers followed the internationally accepted procedures to
isolate retroviral particles. Not surprisingly, in the sedimented
bands at 1.16 gm/ml of sucrose, where retroviruses are known to be
located, nothing was found but cellular debris. At 1.16 gm/ml there
was nothing that even looked like a retroviral particle (80-81). They
could not have isolated HIV simply because HIV was not there to be
isolated.


It has been proposed that all those substances that indicate the
existence of HIV are nothing more than non-viral material altogether,
induced by the agents to which the AIDS patients and cultures are
exposed (31). When found in people, these substances would be seen as
regular products of the stress response (82), secondary to exposure
to chemical, physical, biological, mental, and nutritional stressor
agents (48,51,57,83-87).


3.10. It is therefore possible to conclude that the entire model of
AIDS as an infectious and transmissible viral disease has its basis
on a non-existing organism. The foundation stone for the HIV-AIDS
model then, is a ghost.



4. The real meaning of being HIV-positive


4.1. Above considerations allow one to propose that the reactivity on
the ELISA, Western blot, and PCR tests is caused by multiple,
repeated, and chronic exposure to chemical, physical, biological,
mental, and nutritional stressor agents. The degree of reactivity
would be proportional to the level of exposures to immunological
stressor or oxidizing agents (12-14,20,30,31,63,88,89).


Positive results on ELISA and Western blot tests, can also be
understood as the consequence of the presence of high levels of
polyspecific antibodies, due to a state of chronic polyantigenic
stimulation (52-54). The reactivity on the three main tests for HIV -
ELISA, Western blot, and PCR or viral load - would be simply the
result of the stress response (82,88,89,91-94).


4.2. Being "HIV-positive" - reacting positive on the tests for HIV –
would then mean simply that the person has been exposed to many
antigenic and toxic challenges, i.e., to many oxidizing agents
(47,50,89). His or her immune system has been responding a lot to
these immunogenic and immunotoxic challenges (51,57,89). The immune
system of these "HIV-positive" individuals would be debilitated -
oxidized - after it has been over-stimulated and intoxicated.
Therefore, their risk for AIDS is higher than those who are "HIV-
negative" (12,13,49,51).


4.3. Undoubtedly, there is almost a perfect correlation between the
reactivity on the so-called "tests for HIV" and AIDS.


Exposure to immunological stressors makes the tests to react
positively. At the same time, the exposure to immunological stressors
or oxidizing agents is the cause of the mild to moderate levels of
immune suppression present in all non-symptomatic individuals who
react positively on the "tests for HIV." If the exposure to
immunological stressor is not stopped, and if the individual is not
disintoxicated, it is very probably that the non-symptomatic "HIV-
positive" individual will worsen his/her immune suppression, and will
develop the clinical manifestations of AIDS.


What we know as HIV has not causative role in AIDS. By the contrary,
the HIV phenomenon is one of the effects of the stress response to
multiple repeated, and chronic exposures to chemical, physical,
biological, mental, and nutritional stressor agents.

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