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- From: quilty@PHILOS.umass.edu (Lulu of the lotus-eaters)
- Subject: HIV/AIDS Link -- recent information sought
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.135230.15599@cs.ucla.edu>
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 00:24:41 -0500
- Approved: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
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- I have followed the work of Duesberg and others who have questioned
- the causative, or sole causative, relation between HIV and AIDS
- (including, apparently, AIDS discoverer Montagnier). I have seen more
- recent information, especially on this groups, which shows a detection
- of HIV in a much higher percentage of T-cells than the .01% detected
- in earlier studies, using more sensitive detection techniques.
- Nonetheless, it still seems that HIV is not claimed to be
- *chemically active* in these larger number of cells (or else new
- detection techniques would not be necessary), which seems to continue
- a legitimate question of the sole causative link (given that a virus
- should presumably have to *do something* to have an effect on a host).
-
- I would be interested in anyone having any information on the reaction
- of Duesberg, or others questioning the HIV/AIDS link, to the newly
- shown higher level of t-cell infection, and the relation of this to a
- potential causative relation between HIV and AIDS. I am not, however
- particularly interested in anything which simply reiterates the
- somewhat dogmatic acceptance of an HIV/AIDS link which has
- characterized Gallo and most of the medical AIDS-establishment.
- As is surely evident, I am not a biologist, nor in any related
- scientific field. I am merely an intelligent, and moderately
- well-informed, lay-person. If anyone could email me information on
- this topic -- or citations for recent reading -- I would appreciate it.
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