-Caveat Lector-
In the course of researching <AIDS INC.> Jon Rappoport interviewed Dr.
Joseph Sonnabend. Here Dr. Sonnabend discusses the social forces behind
the acceptance of the HIV theory.
"Dr. Joseph Sonnabend spent ten years working at the British National
Institute for Medical Research (their equivalent of our NIH). He is a
member of the British Royal College of Physicians, has been Associate
Professor of Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical School in New York City.
Since 1978, he has been treating patients in New York for sexually
transmitted diseases and AIDS. For several years in the mid-1980s, he was
the editor of the journal, <AIDS Research>.
That journal, now exclusively concentrating on HIV, was once the only true
independent voice in AIDS research. Sonnabend was released from his
position by the publisher when it became apparent that his approach to
AIDS was in serious conflict with the more widely accepted HIV-view.
I spoke with him on March 25th, 1988.
Q: Where did the HIV hypothesis come from?
A: Several places. One involved a very sloppy analysis by the CDC of the
first Los Angeles patients.
Q: From proposing that AIDS comes from a number of sources acting in
concert, to proposing that AIDS is not a single disease-entity at all,
seems a short step.
A: That's right.
Q: So if a patient comes in with pneumocystis, you could try to learn what
produced the immuno-suppression that led to that pneumocystis -- and once
you learned that, there would be no reason to use the word AIDS. There
would be no reason to go further and say there is something <else> that
patient has called AIDS.
A: That's right. I would go along with that
Q: In which case, the HIV thesis would seem to be operating as a diversion
from the truth.
A: Yes. There is a history to this. There was such a hasty process -- the
worst thing that happened was the announcement in 1984 that HIV had been
discovered to be the cause of AIDS> That did damage to the whole
scientific endeavor.
There are social factors here, you know, in the whole presumption that
every disease has a single agent. Some people want to believe that nothing
we do in our lives, in our environments, is really unhealthy. That poverty
is really not a bad thing, just a choice, and it doesn't make people sick.
<snip>
The single-agent idea of disease, when believed across the board, at the
expense of environmental factors, absolves people whose economic policies
create ghettos and keep people poor. It's so easy to say that a virus came
along and made people sick, not their living conditions.
<snip>
Or in Africa, it's much easier to say that illness from the collapse of
malaria-eradication programs or hunger is really due to HIV.
<snip>
There really is now such a thing as the AIDS-establishment. It is a group
which receives virtually all the grant money, sits on important boards
(such as the fund raising organization, Americans for AIDS Research).
There is definitely a group, and sadly, it's not the best talent.
<snip>
Q: I've had people say to me, if HIV doesn't cause AIDS, why do so many
scientists around the world say it does?
A: It's a selection process. The ones who agree HIV causes AIDS get their
articles printed.
Q: But then people also like to maintain that if HIV were a mistake, some
famous scientists would have spoken out publicly by now.
A: That's ridiculous. That's terrible. That's ascribing a quality to
researchers that doesn't exist.
<snip>
. . . you'd think that these researchers would have more respect for the
truth, more social conscience. But these researchers are like anybody
else. They fight for their jobs, they're intimidated, they don't stand up.
<snip>
I asked an interferon researcher how they could continue to give AIDS
patients this when it had such clear immuno-suppressive properties. He
said well, the drug companies had such huge unsold stocks of recombinant
interferon -- anything that would make the annual shareholder meeting a
happy event . . .
<snip>
AIDS has become an international business, an industry. It could be
assessed at billions of dollars."
-- <AIDS INC.> by Jon Rappoport, Human Energy Press, San
Bruno, 1988, ISBN: 0-941523-03-9, pp 139-143
DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER
==========
CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic
screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters
and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright
frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects
spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL
gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers;
be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and
nazi's need not apply.
Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
========================================================================
Archives Available at:
http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
========================================================================
To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Om
