Challenging the HIV Hypothesis
by Ching-Chee Chan, Ph.D.
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Egret Publishing Inc.
July 2001
I mailed copies of my booklets, entitled "An Alternative Approach
to AIDS and Related Problems" and "An Alternative Approach to
AIDS and Related Problems: Book 2" (for shortened versions of the
two booklets, please click here) to various research scientists,
newspaper editors, heads of state, heads of government, federal and
provincial government officials. Most of them did not reply or
replied in a perfunctory manner except one. This minister stated in
his letter that he read my booklets with interest but in subsequent
letters, he indicated there was no change in policy, meaning
continuation of the HIV/AIDS route. In view of the propaganda
power of the media, alternative hypotheses are politically not viable.
Some of these officials may change side when there is a change in
the political situation.
The medical establishment is monolithic but its individual members
are not. They are human like us, vulnerable to diseases and feelings.
Pass some dissident literatures to our doctors while discuss our
medical problems. Avoid extremists' languages and do not force him
or her to say "yes" or "no." This method is effective in a certain
way.
With almost unlimited resources, the HIV industry is as solid as the
Maginot line. It is best to by-pass it through the Ardennes, in this
case, the related problems. If we find a cure or cures for some of
those immune-related diseases, listed in my booklets, then my
hypothesis, linking these diseases to AIDS, will not be ignored. A
breakthrough will most likely to be in the fields of ALS, arthritis or
Crohn's disease, because these diseases of unknown cause or causes
are life-threatening and difficult to treat or not treatable. These
patients' minds are not affected and they are likely to seek new ways
to find a cure. That is why I spend a lot of my time in answering
questions from these patients.
It is very difficult to get dissident messages into the mainstream
media. There seems to be a line drawn in the sand by the mass
media, that is the HIV hypothesis although not proven but
expressing doubt about its correctness is not permitted except by
VIP. This is an improvement, the HIV hypothesis used to be
considered as a proven theory or dogma by the media. With the
mainstream media, I got only as far as pointing out the HIV
hypothesis is a hypothesis. Click here to see my letter published by
the Toronto Star.
The science media have a way of weeding out responses, to its
articles, challenging the HIV hypothesis. It has HIV/AIDS articles
written in such a way if a reader challenges the HIV hypothesis, his
post will become non-contributing to the subject under discussion,
hence not eligible for publication. But I managed to slip a few posts
under its radar screen by responding to articles about asthma,
breast cancer and Crohn's disease in BMJ. These were apparently
unrelated to HIV/AIDS, but if a reader of my posts clicked the link,
he would reach the shortened versions of my booklets, linking all
these diseases with AIDS by means of the alternative hypothesis. For
detail, please click the links below and scroll down
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/320/7226/47
The title of my post
"A Probable Solution"
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/320/7228/139
The title of my post
"There may be something significant"
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/316/7129/449
The title of my post
"The real culprit"
A friend of mine, familiar with the local Chinese media, asked me
for a manuscript in Chinese, responding to a HIV/AIDS report in
the New York Times. The manuscript was published in Chinese
Canadian Post on June 23, 2001, page 3.
Below is a rough translation
"My View on AIDS
Lately the U.S. media are expanding its reporting about the AIDS
epidemic in the Third World. At the beginning of the AIDS
epidemic, experts expected those people tested HIV-positive to live
only three months. This was proven to be incorrect. Now HIV-positive people may live twenty years. Many of those long-term
survivors have not been treated with antiretroviral drugs or only
treated for a very short time.
Just before the International Conference on AIDS, president Mbeki
of South Africa expressed doubt about the link between HIV and
AIDS. In February this year, FDA issued guidelines about the side
effects of those AIDS drugs. Pharmaceutical companies are
prepared to sell some AIDS drugs at special prices to South Africa
but South Africa has reasons not to use borrowed money to buy
these harmful drugs.
After twenty years and enormous expenses, there is no
breakthrough. One could not help wondering about the correctness
of this hypothesis, besides, the HIV hypothesis was not published
according to the normal procedure. Every country has the rights to
choose its own way to save its people. Poverty, hard labour, poor
living conditions leading to mental and physical stress, malaria and
tuberculosis as intercurrent infection can irritate an compromised
immune system and cause it to attack the body. Those peasants in a
certain village in Henan province were living in poverty and that
was why they sold blood for money. If their living conditions are
improved and their intercurrent infections treated, most of them
will recover. If not, the cause or causes of their compromised
immune systems should be investigated and treated accordingly.
After being rejected by the South African Government, it is
understandable that the HIV industry is focusing its attention on
China in view of China's bulging hard currency reserve. The bitter
political fight in South Africa may be repeated in China. The U.S.
government and media may use the opportunity to play the human
rights and humanitarianism cards. China can say "no" to the
incorrect HIV hypothesis. The U.S. has a weak spot: that is the HIV
hypothesis."
Hopefully this will spread all the way to China to help stopping the
HIV industry before another "cocktail" disaster. For people who
can write in languages other than English, the same method can be
tried in Spanish, German, Hindustani. . . etc. In a certain way, the
ethnic media can influence the mass media. A major newspaper
bought a stake in a major ethnic press. There is a tendency of
mutual infiltration.
The whole AIDS disaster is only ten percent natural, the rest ninety
percent man-made, the combination of the politicizing of science, the
media propaganda and the general public. This is just like nuclear
weapons, it cannot be un-invented and we will have to learn how to
live with it. This is not the first time in politicizing of science.
Remember Professor Lysenko of the former Soviet Union? It hurt
only the Soviet agriculture and it may have accelerated the fall of
the former Soviet Union. The present disaster involves propaganda
by the media and public mass hysteria as well just like the Cultural
Revolution in China in the Nineteen Sixties. The combination of all
three factors has spread around world. Perhaps this is a part of the
so-called globalization. It has brought fame and fortune to a few but
deaths and tragedies to many.
I suspect the number of people (and percentage) accepting antiviral
treatments are reducing, treatments for opportunistic infections are
improving, and thalidomide treatments to stop low-grade fever are
readily available, resulting in lowering the number of deaths due to
AIDS. Some HIV-positive children at birth, becoming negative when
reaching the age of seven, have been reported. Antiviral drug
holidays and reducing dosages may have extended some lives.
Basically AIDS is a chronic disease. The FDA guidelines in February
is simply a recognition of reality. According to the guidelines,
antiviral treatments are to be postponed until the T-cell drops to a
certain level. A new proposal suggests postponing the cocktail
treatments even further. The number of deaths due to AIDS
declined in 1994 before the cocktails were available in mid 1996. In
spite of the dangerous side effects of those AIDS drugs stated n the
FDA guidelines, the HIV industry is still maintaining that the
cocktail treatments are responsible for the decline in the number of
deaths due to AIDS. Will no-AIDS-drug treatments achieve better
results?
Links
Shortened Versions of the two booklets: An Alternative Approach to
AIDS and Related Problems