Semmelweis Endorses Scientists' Call for Science to RETRACT Fraudulent Reports on HIV

Semmelweis Society International ^ | December 9, 2008

[GodGunsGuts]

(See original for links)

Washington DC, Dec 9 -- Nearly 25 years after the publication of four foundational articles on HIV and AIDS, prominent scientists, physicians and legal experts are now asking for their removal from the journal Science.

Their request is based upon new evidence that Dr. Robert Gallo - the former National Cancer Institute (NCI) researcher who declared he had found the probable cause of AIDS - had actually based his claims on his own unverified last-minute alterations to lab reports and experiments.

The letter's 37 signatories include medical doctors, chemists, oncologists, university professors, virologists, researchers, pathologists, AND biologists. After fellow researcher Matthew Gonda PhD informed Gallo that his electron microscopy showed no evidence of a virus in 1984, Gallo used Gonda’s name and photographs to corroborate his claim that he had isolated the virus. Because the majority of all subsequent AIDS research is predicated on the assumption that Gallo's research was legitimate, the ramification of these findings of fraud raises serious questions regarding past and current US policy toward AIDS research.

It now appears that Gallo never produced any evidence or proof that HIV attacks cells or causes AIDS. As a result of his unchallenged claims, Gallo was officially declared one of two co-discoverers of the HIV in 1984.

Gallo left NCI after the Dept's of Health's Office of Research Integrity (ORI) accused him of committing scientific misconduct (1992). Although the evidence against him was considerable a legal technicality prevented criminal charges from being filed.

Gallo shares a patent for HIV tests that generates millions of dollars in annual revenue, although the tests do not detect the presence of the virus itself or any unique or specific components of HIV. No HIV test manufacturer has ever claimed that their tests detect HIV or AIDS.

The new findings were first admitted into evidence during a Congressional investigation (Dingell-1993) that focused on questions related to Gallo's alleged theft of cell culture samples. Those hearings never examined the actual fabrication of research.

The ORI reported that Gallo's "irresponsible laboratory management has permanently impaired the ability to retrace the important steps taken." Not only did Gallo's conduct prevent fellow scientists from verifying his research, but Gallo distributed research materials with the express stipulation that his experiments not be repeated.

Semmelweis Society International (SSI) has determined that the new evidence does not conflict with the findings of its own investigation, which was initiated after a former medical student raised questions about AIDS in Africa.

For additional information, contact Clark Baker (clark@semmelweis.org) or visit www.semmelweis.org.

(Semmelweis Society International, Inc., is a registered 501c3 non-profit corporation. Comprised of physicians, nurses, attorneys and university professors, its primary mission is to promote patient safety by ending retaliation against scientists, physicians, and nurses who report dangerous conditions, fraud, and corruption within hospitals and the US healthcare industry.)

[GodGunsGuts]

Also see press release:

http://www.rethinkingaids.com/Content/QA/tabid/147/Default.aspx

and letter by scientists:

http://www.rethinkingaids.com/Home/tabid/146/Default.aspx

[GodGunsGuts]

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(A) prevent the American public from hearing the scientific evidence that suggests HIV may not cause AIDS
(B) scare the public into thinking "we are all at risk"
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[allmendream]

HIV going into CD8 positive T helper cells.

[null and void]

Wow. I didn’t know old Ignatz was still around! I guess hand washing really does work!

[GodGunsGuts]

Do you have a link to the page that series came from?

[allmendream]

http://www.plospathogens.org/article/slideshow.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000134&imageURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000134.g006

Numerous studies have seen GFP (Green Fluorescent Protein) linked HIV entering helper T cells.

[GodGunsGuts]

Ok. The pictures are very pretty. But what is the argument you are trying to make based on those pictures?

[allmendream]

That HIV does enter T helper cells. You couldn’t figure that out? Boy, for someone obsessed with the subject you sure are ignorant about it.

[GodGunsGuts]

Is that all your trying to say, that retroviruses enter cells? What penetrating insight!

[allmendream]

That the specific H.I.V. retrovirus enters a specific cell, the T-helper cell. To deny the evidence for it at this point is abject stupidity.

[GodGunsGuts]

Are you suggesting that I am denying that HIV enters T-Cells?

[InterceptPoint]

Is that all your trying to say, that retroviruses enter cells? What penetrating insight!

I have to agree. That's what retroviruses do by definition. They are not standalone widgets like ordinary viruses.

This is a long way from proving that this retrovirus causes AIDS. There is no proof of that whatsoever and never has been. Anyone who disagrees should post a link to the definitive article in a reputable medical journal that proves that there is a causative relationship (not just a correlation) between HIV and AIDS. Those links used to point foolishly to the 1984 Gallo stuff but that is obviously no longer viable. So I'm anxiously awaiting for new "proof that HIV causes AIDS" links from the true believers.

[allmendream]

“It now appears that Gallo never produced any evidence or proof that HIV attacks cells” from your source.

Obviously somebody is trying to deny that HIV attacks cells, specifically helper-T cells.

[GodGunsGuts]

Not to mention the fact that HIV is grown in permanently infected, immortal T-cell lines for the HIV antibody test. LOL

[Judith Anne]

I’m watching this thread with interest. Thank you for posting.

[GodGunsGuts]

There is a difference between “attacking cells” and a harmless retrovirus benignly dividing in a host cell. You do know that the vast majority of retroviruses are known for being harmless, right? Indeed, if a retrovirus kills its host it commits suicide. Not exactly a good survival strategy, don’t you think?

[aculeus]

I’ll start paying attention to the “HIV-doesn’t-cause-AIDS” gang when they line up to receive blood transfusions from HIV positive donors.

[allmendream]

HIV doesn't kill its host quick enough to preclude its being spread, in fact most people are HIV positive for years before they are symptomatic. A retrovirus doesn't enter a cell for the benefit of the cell, but for the benefit of the retrovirus. A retrovirus must enter a cell in order to reproduce itself, and rampant retroviral reproduction within a cell leads to cell death.

So where do you break the chain GGG?

1) HIV virus enters helper-T cells in order to reproduce HIV virus.
2) HIV titer count is higher in those with low helper T cell counts, and HIV titer count is low in those with high helper T cell counts.
3) Anti retroviral medicine lowers HIV titer count and increases helper T cell count.
4) Low helper T cell count leads to a compromised immune response and thus leads to immune deficiency.

Where does the chain break GGG?

[Judith Anne]

If I remember correctly, HTLV-III causes one of the leukemias.