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Inventing the AIDS Virus INVENTING THE AIDS VIRUS Dr. Peter Duesberg REGNERY PUBLISHING, INC. Washington, D.C. Copyright © 1996 by Peter Duesberg and Bryan J. Ellison The original manuscript for Inventing the AIDS Virus was co-authored by Peter H. Duesberg and Bryan J. Ellison. Mr. Ellison did not participate in the final editing of the book or the prepa ration of the appendices. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Inventing the AIDS virus / Peter H. Duesberg. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-89526-399-8 1. AIDS (Disease)-Etiology. 2. HIV infections. 3. HIV (Viruses). I. Title. RC607.A26D84 1995 616.97'92071-dc20 95-25754 Published in the United States by Regnery Publishing, Inc. An Eagle Publishing Company One Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20001 Distributed to the trade by National Book Network 4720-A Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 Printed on acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America 109876543 Text design by Dori Miller Books are available in quantity for promotional or premium use. Write to Director of Special Sales, Regnery Publishing, Inc., One Massachusetts Avenue, NW; Washington, DC 20001, for information on discounts and terms or call (202) 216-0600; Contents Publisher's Preface Vll Acknowledgments IX Foreword by Kary B. Mullis Xl ONE Losing the War on AIDS 3 TWO The Great Bacteria Hunt 31 THREE Virus Hunting Takes Over 61 FOUR Virologists in the War on Cancer 89 FIVE AIDS: The Virus Hunters Converge 131 SIX A Fabricated Epidemic 169 SEVEN Dissension in the Ranks 219 EIGHT So What Is AIDS? 255 NINE With Therapies Like This, Who Needs Disease? 299 TEN Marching Off to War 361 ELEVEN Proving the Drug-AIDS Hypothesis, the Solution to AIDS 409 TWELVE The AIDS Debate Breaks the Wall of Silence 435 APPENDIX A Foreign-Protein-Mediated Immunodeficiency in Hemophiliacs With and Without HIV 465 APPENDIXB AIDS Acquired by Drug Consumption and Other Noncontagious Risk Factors 505 vi • Contents APPENDIX C The HIV Gap in National AIDS Statistics APPENDIX D ~~The Duesberg Phenomenon": Duesberg and Other Voices Notes Index Publisher's Preface A s ONE REVIEWER SAID, "At last! This is the book every AIDS watcher has been awaiting, in which the most prominent and persistent critic of HIV as the cause of AIDS presents his case most exhaustively and popularly." The book you are about to read has been a long time in com ing. Why? It is at once enormously controversial and impeccably documented. It comes from a scientist and writer of great ability and courage. It will cause, we believe, a firestorm of yet undeter mined proportions in both the scientific and lay communities. And it is, I think I am safe in saying, about the most difficult book that the Regnery Company has published in nearly 50 years in the business. If Duesberg is right in what he says about AIDS, and we think he is, he documents one of the great science scandals of the cen tury. AIDS is the first political disease, the disease that consumes more government research money, more press time, and indeed probably more heartache-much of it unnecessary-than any other. Duesberg tells us why. Regnery is the third publisher to have contracted to publish Inventing the AIDS Virus. Addison Wesley initially announced the book in 1993. St. Martin's signed it in January 1994 and subse quently assigned its contract to us in January 1995. We announced it, initially, in the fall of 1995 and finally published it in February 1996. Bryan Ellison, Duesberg's former research assistant and original co-author, became disenchanted with Duesberg's and his publisher's viii • Publisher's Preface insistence on careful documentation and self-published his own ver sion under the title Why We Will Never Win the War on AIDS in 1994. We sued Ellison for breach of contract and copyright viola tion and, after a two-week federal court jury trial, were awarded a six-figure verdict and an injunction against Ellison's edition. Inventing the AIDS Virus has been edited by at least five edi tors, has been agonized over by the publishers of three major pub lishing firms, and concurrently praised and damned by countless critics. We anticipate that the prepublication controversy may be just a precursor of what is to follow. In our tradition of presenting to the public provocative books, we are proud to be Peter Duesberg's publisher. Acknowledgments I AM GRATEFUL TO all the dissidents against the HIV-AIDS hypothesis-whether scientists, journalists, or public-spirited citizens-who have decided that the truth is more important than the comfort of compromise. Many people around the world, too numerous to mention, have kept me abreast of the latest develop ments in the AIDS epidemic or have helped inform the public at risk of their own careers and social status. This debate over AIDS has only flourished because of their courage and integrity. For providing me with all manner of information for the back ground and content of this book, I especially thank Harvey Bialy, science editor of Biorrechnology in New York; Fred Cline of San Francisco; Michael Ellner of HEAL in New York; Hector Gilde meister of Meditel Productions, Ltd., in London, England; Harry Haverkos of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Rockville, Maryland; Phillip Johnson of the University of California at Berke ley (for information as well as critical advice); Abraham Karpas of the University of Cambridge; Serge Lang of Yale University; John Lauritsen of New York; Ruhong Li of the University of California at Berkeley; Ilse Lass of Berlin; Charles Ortleb of the New York Native; Ingrid Radke, librarian at the University of California at Berkeley; Harry Rubin of the University of California at Berkeley; David Schryer of Hampton, Virginia; Joan Shenton of Meditel Pro ductions, Ltd., in London, England; Richard Strohman of the Uni versity of California at Berkeley; Etsuro Totsuka of London; Michael Verney-Elliott of Meditel Productions, Ltd., in London, England; and Bernhard Witkop of the National Institutes of Health. x • Acknowledgments I am also indebted to those people who not only provided crit ical information, but who also consented to be interviewed for, or quoted in, this book. This book would not have succeeded without the well-timed advice and experience of my literary agent, Linda Chester, and of Laurie Fox, who patiently worked through the minefield of pub lishing negotiations. I am particularly grateful to Patrick Miller for his final editing of the book. I thank Judith Lopez, Rosy Paterson, and Russell Schoch for their thorough review and comments, which contributed most to strengthening the final manuscript. I thank the Council for Tobacco Research, New York; the Foundation for the Advancement in Cancer Therapy, New York; a foundation from New York that prefers to remain anonymous; and numerous private donors for support of the research that led to this book. Finally, I extend my gratitude to my most critical opponents in the AIDS debate, who have unwittingly provided me the great vol ume of evidence by which I have disproved the virus-AIDS hypothesis and exposed the political maneuverings behind the war on AIDS.
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