Re: Where is the proof that the Hepatitis C (HCV) virus really exists? (same goes for HIV, the aids retrovirus)

How scientific or medical is this??? "Probably". Other than that let's assume this "probably" is fact then does it matter. That ""endogenous retrovirus" -- a creation of the body's own genetic material that looks and functions partly like a virus" can also be named HIV, or name it something different. It is a disease and and too many died from it (whatever the name you want to call it). PS I am pissed about not being able to see Freddy Mercury live :(



For HIV and also HCV:

"The main proponents of this view are Australian researcher Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos and her colleagues, who argue that HIV has never been isolated according to the Pasteur Institute criteria of 1973, and therefore it's probably what's called an "endogenous retrovirus" -- a creation of the body's own genetic material that looks and functions partly like a virus, but is not an infection because it comes from the body's own cells.