AIDS: Virus- or Drug Induced?

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

1996 | Partly reprinted from GENETICA 95, 1996. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Springer (Verlag)
978-0-7923-3961-8 (ISBN)

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Despite enormous efforts, over 100,000 papers and over $22 billion spent by the US taxpayer alone, the HIV-AIDS hypothesis has failed to produce any public health benefits, no vaccine, no effective drug, no prevention, no cure, not a single life saved. Is the science system to be blamed? Has science failed to reveal the truth about AIDS?
In AIDS: Virus or Drug Induced?, two dozen scientists, scholars and journalists have investigated the status quo of AIDS research. Most of them have questioned the HIV-AIDS hypothesis before, but have since been censored, and sociologically excluded from AIDS research, politics and journalism. Here they are united for the first time to put on trial the HIV-AIDS hypothesis.
There are those who acquit HIV entirely. Others who make a case for HIV as a necessary, but not a sufficient cause of AIDS. And one medical scientist who, together with the huge AIDS literature, defends the hypothesis that HIV is sufficient to cause AIDS.
The book convincingly reveals that the scientific method could very well find a solution to AIDS, but only if ideas can be exchanged freely and if the HIV monopoly can be broken. AIDS: Virus or Drug Induced? illustrates that the solution to AIDS could be as close as one of several, very testable and very affordable alternatives to the unproductive HIV-AIDS hypothesis.

A critical analysis of the HIV-T4-cell-AIDS hypothesis.- Factor VIII, HIV and AIDS in haemophiliacs: an analysis of their relationship.- Foreign-protein-mediated immunodeficiency in hemophiliacs with and without HIV.- Critical analysis of the current views on the nature of AIDS.- Some mathematical considerations on HIV and AIDS.- HIV as a surrogate marker for drug use: a re-analysis of the San Francisco Men’s Health Study.- A critical appraisal of the Vancouver men’s study Does it refute the drugs/AIDS hypothesis?.- Duesberg and the right of reply according to Maddox-Nature.- HIV: Science by press conference.- AZT toxicity and AIDS prophylaxis: is AZT beneficial for HIV+ asymptomatic persons with 500 or more T4 cells per cubic millimeter?.- The toxicity of azidothymidine (AZT) on human and animal cells in culture at concentrations used for antiviral therapy.- Measuring inhalant nitrite exposure in gay men: implications for elucidating the etiology of AIDS-related Kaposi’s sarcoma.- A hypothetical disease of the immune system that may bear some relation to the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.- The epidemiology and transmission of AIDS: a hypothesis linking behavioural and biological determinants to time, person and place.- Five myths about AIDS that have misdirected research and treatment.- Semen alloantigens and lymphocytotoxic antibodies in AIDS and ICL.- AIDS and good theory-making.- How much longer can we afford the AIDS virus monopoly?.- HIV and AIDS: Have we been misled? Questions of scientific and journalistic responsibility.- To fund or not to fund, that is the question: proposed experiments on the drug-AIDS hypothesis To inform or not to inform, that is another question.- HIV Symposium at AAAS Conference.- AIDS and poppers.- NIDA meeting calls forresearch into the poppers-Kaposi’s sarcoma connection.- The thinking problem in HIV-science.- The incidence quagmire.- The HIV test.- Cry, beloved country How Africa became the victim of a non-existent epidemic of HIV/AIDS.

Reihe/Serie	Contemporary Issues in Genetics and Evolution ; 5
Zusatzinfo	6 Illustrations, black and white; VI, 360 p. 6 illus.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
ISBN-10	0-7923-3961-4 / 0792339614
ISBN-13	978-0-7923-3961-8 / 9780792339618
Zustand	Neuware