Virus Contradictions
The concept of a predatory poliovirus becomes less certain in the context
of these little known virus "facts":
1. Poliovirus "[I]nfectosomes have yet to be experimentally
demonstrated…", writes Roland R. Rueckert, under the subtitle,
"Infection: A Rare Event" in Fields Virology.
2. "Eukaryote cells have a wide arsenal of activities to control the
half-lives of mRNAs, and these nucleases have made it difficult to isolate
intact RNA viral genomes from cells." ("Virus Evolution", Ellen G. Strauss,
et al, Fields Virology, Lippincott - Raven Publishers, Philadelphia (1996),
v1p163) In view of item 1, this appears to be another careful way of saying
"never".
3. The poliovirus does not always infect in accordance to its notoriety,
"For every 200 or so virus particles that encounter a cell, only one will
successfully enter and replicate, so research in this area is often
confounded by the rarity of successful entry." (
http://cumicro2.cpmc.columbia.edu/PICO/Cha...s/Cellular.html )
4. Only herpesvirus has been traced enroute to site of disease from site of
infection. "Viruses during retrograde transport on their way up to the cell
bodies have so far been localized ultrastructurally only in the case of
herpes simplex and herpes virus suis." (Martin E. Schwab and Hans Thoenen,
Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, edited by George Adelman, pub, Birkhaüser
Bros. Inc., Boston (1987), Chapter 39, p102-3)
5. A " poliovirus" has been electrophotographed in cell tissue. Due the
lack of any photos of the virus as an infectosome, these photos should be
interpreted as evidence of the cell's SOS response rather than of
poliovirus causation. Electrophotography has existed for several decades
and has yet to photograph a poliovirus infectosome. An infectosome is a
"membrane-associated particle... which transfers genomic viral RNA through
the membrane." (Field's Virology (1996), p635)
6. "It seems likely that all viruses trace their origins to cellular genes
and can be considered as pieces of rogue nucleic acids." (Encyclopedia
Britannica, Micropaedia (1997), "Virus") This demonstrates the great
potential for a symbiotic relation between viruses and "hosts".
7. The point in history when known viruses began their evolution has been
calculated by molecular biochemists who have interpolated backwards through
time the speed and direction of virus evolution. They found that "most
viruses we know today have probably evolved since the last ice age."
("Virus Evolution", Ellen G. Strauss, et al, Fields Virology (1996), p164)
8. Viruses are involved in a process called transduction, one of the three
modes of genetic transfer between cells, a process that can accelerate
genetic recombination when cells are critically threatened by poisons.
9. Virus infection is used by clone technology to transfer genetic material
into cells.
10. "Genetic information moves between viruses and their hosts to the point
where definitions and classifications begin to blur." (Fields Virology
(1996) p6)
11. In terms of genetic similarity, "[T]here was a remarkable continuum..."
from virus to host. (Fields Virology (1996) p6)
12. "Carrel (1926) was able to produce tumors resembling Rous' sarcoma and
transmissible by cell-free filtrates with indol, arsenic, or tar in chicken
embryo. Carrel's observations have been confirmed by other workers. Fischer
(1926), by treating cultures of normal cells with arsenic obtained on one
occasion a filtrable virus capable of causing tumors." (Ralph R. Scobey,
M.D., "Poliomyelitis Caused by Exogenous Virus?", Science, v71 (1954))
Redefinition
Any of the items listed above can be used to direct work towards a
refreshing view of viropathology. For instance, Alexis Carrel and Albert
Fischer's experiments, in 1925-1926, preceded the discovery of the cellular
SOS Response by decades. Their work is important in its impact on the basic
tenants of viropathology, the contemporary proofs of virus causation, and
definitions of immunity. Carrel, who happens to be one of the most
recognized of all the Nobel Laureates, has stated without equivocation that
the Rous sarcoma tumour is not infective, is caused by an agent within the
cells themselves, yet is transmissible by cell-free Berkfeld filtrate of
tumour extract. He states that the agent could not be a virus because of
his assumption that a virus is an external, disease-causing, infectious
entity. In retrospect such statements reveal the first (unrecognized)
discovery of the dormant retrovirus. Carrel also clearly demonstrates
poison causality for cancer. These landmark experiments are very simple,
very clear, and totally ignored by orthodoxy.
If one views Carrel and Fischer as a reinforcement of the symbiotic virus
paradigm, then two strong alternative views can be defined regarding work
that has been based on injections:
Virus Disease: In the case of classical induction of disease by injection
of extremely high quantities of virus, the alternative view would be that
the presence of such quantities of virus serve as an informational context,
a context that indicates imminent toxic death to naïve tissue, with an
expected tissue reaction (disease). Or in other words, disease induction
(via injection) is no more than an over-reaction (like jumping out of a
window when someone yells "fire") in terms of inflammation and catharsis
(disease manifestations).
Immunity: In the case of the classical demonstration of immunity whereby
surviving subjects are found immune to attempts to induce disease by
subsequent injections of virus, the alternative view is — you can’t
fool them twice.
Thus, a) inducement of disease by the injection of high-quantities of
virus, and acquired immunity in survivors of these injections, can both be
viewed as parlour tricks, though claimed to be demonstrations of virus
causation for disease.
Conclusion
The word "virus" is ancient Latin, meaning "slime" or "poison". Mainstream
science admits that most viruses are harmless, yet the word "virus" adds to
a biased and highly promoted language of fear regarding nature. Definitions
of viruses range from "pathogenic" to "not usually pathogenic" — the more
popular the media source, the more frightening the definition. Less fearful
definitions would change the relationship between the medical industry and
its "patients".
Paradoxically, early virus studies considered virus filtrates to be a
poison, not a microbe, thus the name virus. Today, we know that viruses are
information.
Now, nearly a half-century later, the validity of Dr. Biskind's work
appears even more certain. Again, according to Biskind:
QUOTE
It was even known by 1945 that DDT is stored in the body fat of mammals and
appears in the milk. With this foreknowledge the series of catastrophic
events that followed the most intensive campaign of mass poisoning in known
human history, should not have surprised the experts. Yet, far from
admitting a causal relationship so obvious that in any other field of
biology it would be instantly accepted, virtually the entire apparatus of
communication, lay and scientific alike, has been devoted to denying,
concealing, suppressing, distorting and attempts to convert into its
opposite, the overwhelming evidence. Libel, slander and economic boycott
have not been overlooked in this campaign.
The unique correlations between CNS disease and CNS poisons present a
variety of research opportunities not only in medical science, but
political science, philosophy, media studies, psychology, and sociology.
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Van Der Wiel & Co., Arnhem (1949)
Fields Virology, edited by B. N. Fields, et al, Lippincott - Raven
Publishers, Philadelphia (1996)
Jack Trombadore, “An Introduction to Post Polio Syndrome”, New Jersey
Polio Network Newsletter, Fall (1995)
John H. Menkes, Textbook Of Child Neurology, 5th ed., Williams & Wilkins
(1995)
Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan, Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis, and
Evolution, Copernicus, New York (1997)
Mark Ptashne, A Genetic Switch, Cell Press and Blackwell Scientific
Publications, 50 Church St., Cambridge, MA 02138 (1992)
Morton S. Biskind, M.D., “Public Health Aspects of the New
Insecticides”, American Journal of Digestive Diseases, New York (1953)
v20p331
Peter Duesberg and Brian J. Ellison, Inventing the AIDS Virus, Regnery Pub.
(1996)
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Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D., Confessions of a Medical Heretic, Contemporary
Books, Chicago (1979)
Robert Richter and Ruth Norris, Pills, Pesticides And Profits, North River
Press, Inc. (1982)
“The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act”, Federal
Statutes (1947), Volume 61, p163
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University Press (1981)
U.S. Vital Statistics, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
Wayland J. Hayes, Jr., Edward R. Laws, Jr., Handbook of Pesticide
Toxicology (3 volumes), Academic Press, Inc., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
Publishers, San Diego (1991)
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