==Grant requests are rejected for many reasons. And how does he know his request was not reviewed? Maybe it was reviewed and it just sucked?
Apparently, you missed the point. The main point is that the “AIDS establishment continues to fund ONLY research on HIV.” All research grants into other potential causes of AIDS have been banned by the AIDS establishment right from the beginning. If you doubt this, I challenge you to find one research grant that was approved to challenge HIV-AIDS or otherwise investigate non-viral causes of AIDS from the time of Gallo’s 1984 science-by-press-conference until now.
For more on the political machinations behind the denial of Duesberg’s amyl nitrite/poppers grant proposal, read the following:
http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/slfund.htm
==Where is the evidence that refusing his grant proposal has anything to do with some conspiracy?
The AIDS establishment was intent on silencing Duesberg the moment his first paper challenging HIV “inexplicably” appeared in the journal Cancer Research. For their first official response, see the following links:
(For instance, what on earth could the Dept. of HHS mean when they say Duesberg’s paper should have been “flagged” by NIH during the prepublication process?...then look at the concluding paragraph...it’s obvious these guys were behaving like politicians with something to hide, rather than scientists interested in a dispassionate pursuit of the truth):
Link #1:
http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/hhsalert.htm
Link #2:
http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/hhsmemo.htm
More later—GGG
The link between HIV and AIDS was dicovered fairly early in the game, and since then a mountain of evidence has piled up. True, nothing is ever proven in science- AIDS could be caused by little plague demons- but to trained scientists, after the mountain of evidence gets as high as Everest, it's pretty much pointless to keep going down the same road. The HIV-deniers are claiming that AIDS is caused by something other than HIV, but they have not shown any evidence that makes re-opening the issue worthwhile, given that we live in a world of limited research funds.
If you doubt this, I challenge you to find one research grant that was approved to challenge HIV-AIDS or otherwise investigate non-viral causes of AIDS from the time of Gallo’s 1984 science-by-press-conference until now.
If serious medical researchers have no interest in going down a certain research path, that should tell you something- that path is probably not fruitful.
The AIDS establishment was intent on silencing Duesberg the moment his first paper challenging HIV “inexplicably” appeared in the journal Cancer Research.
From what I can tell, there is no conspiracy here- Duesberg has gone far beyond the world of legitimate disagreement into quackery, pseudo-science and conspiracy theories. When every other serious, intelligent and experienced expert in a given field is telling you you're nuts, it's time to re-evaluate your position.
The fact of the matter is, we essentially have AIDS under control, especially in the US. The much-prophesised fear of a global AIDS epidemic hasn't really materialized. New drugs are allowing HIV-infected people to live longer and longer lives.
But people like Duesberg seem to think that all this progress needs to be thrown overboard and that we should focus on his obsession with party drugs and his hysterical fear of AIDS drugs.
Come on.