You would do well to consult more recent sources (and I don't mean wacko conspiracy theory sources) to find answers to the questions that these researchers raised. They raised a legitimate question as to whether the HIV virus might be just another opportunistic infection commonly seen in AIDS patients. But they were by no means universally ridiculed, and there was serious research into whether their theory could be correct. However, after all these years in which researchers have been pretty routinely producing AIDS in lab monkeys by infecting them with the HIV virus, and not seeing AIDS develop in lab monkeys who were not deliberately infected with HIV, it seems the theory is pretty well disproven.
Could you provide a link to this information?
I think you mean the SIV virus not the HIV virus which is harmless to monkeys.
==However, after all these years in which researchers have been pretty routinely producing AIDS in lab monkeys by infecting them with the HIV virus, and not seeing AIDS develop in lab monkeys who were not deliberately infected with HIV, it seems the theory is pretty well disproven.
What are you talking about? That was one of the big frustrations for the AIDS Establishment, the monkeys refused to get sick and die of AIDS. Last I heard, they were happily playing in their cages and eating bananas.
"What fraction of AIDS sufferers are HIV negative?"
As 'AIDS' is defined as being so called 'HIV' positive, the answer would be none.
If you mean how many people with immune suppression don't 'test' positive the answer would be millions.
'AIDS' is old diseases renamed. The diseases are REAL, the cause is not.