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AIDS : An Explosion of the Biological Time-Bomb?

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AIDS: An Explosion Of The Biological Time-Bomb? is an historical exploration of leukemia and cancer related research down over the last eighty years in the context of newly emerging diseases such as AIDS, Mad-Cow disease, and other hemorrhagic fevers, as well as other neurological and lymphotomous diseases in different animal species - including primates. Robert Lee's AIDS is an important, exhaustively researched, informatively presented, extensive and comprehensive treatise that should be considered a core title for all medical school, public health center, health advocacy organizations, and community library reference collections across the country.

...AIDS: An Explosion Of The Biological Time-Bomb? is anhistorical exploration of leukemia and cancer related research downover the last eighty years in the context of newly emerging diseasessuch as AIDS, Mad-Cow disease, and other hemorrhagic fevers, as wellas other neurological and lymphomotous diseases in different animalspecies - including primates. Robert Lee's AIDS is an important,exhaustively researched, informatively presented, extensive andcomprehensive treatise that should be considered a core title for allmedical school, public health center, health advocacy organizations,and community library reference collections across the country...

Is it possible that unwise human research is responsible in some way for the explosion of emerging diseases?

Robert Lee's book is an excellent review of research over the past century that has possible bearing on newly emerging diseases such as AIDS and "Mad-Cow" disease. Not only was there significant potential for lab accident, but there was also potential for covert abuses of research, for purposes of biological warfare.

Many phenomena that laymen think of as "new" in the AIDS epidemic have actually been the subject of intense study, for a very long time. Robert Lee's book documents the paper trail of detailed research with retroviruses, cancer-causing viruses, immune suppression, opportunistic diseases, and cross-species transfer.

It is a must-read for anyone interested in AIDS origin or emerging diseases.

This is the first book to lay out the real story of cancer research,
genetics, molecular biology, and the laboratory development of
pathogens for military and political use. Professor Lee gives a
seamless documentation of this history through citations found the
most respected science journals. He clearly shows the involvement of
the world's top scientists and research institutions in a paradigm
with a single goal -- that of using the power of science to shape the
world's population to liking of those who have the might and the
callousness to do so. Lee's book shows how the biologists, in a few
short years, walked pathogenic viruses up the evolutionary ladder in
such a way that they could single out ethnic and genetic traits....I only
hope that Professor Lee follows this book with continued research that
looks into the cut-and-paste biological history of the rest of the new
and emerging pathogenic viruses and mycoplasms.

Robert Lee's meticulously researched and documented history of the medical research that preceded the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic in 1981 is not a conspiracy theory. It is an annotated bibliography of the medical research that preceded the appearance of the virus, which is publically available but far too complex for non-specialists to read, much less evaluate. After reading this material, one must ask oneself if the sudden appearance of a "new" (read "hybrid"), species-jumping, immunosuppressive virus called HIV was not a direct result of the intensive research that was carried out for decades in search of precisely such viruses.

Lee thus joins the small group of courageous thinkers (including Dr. Alan Cantwell, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, Dr. Robert Strecker, and the late Prof. Jakob Segal) who are willing to look the science of the matter, as opposed to the hordes of government and institution-dependent "scientists" who are too busy denying any possibility of wrongdoing to even evaluate the questions seriously.

Why was it necessary for Bob Lee, a sociologist by training, to educate himself in microbiology--a feat not many of us are likely to duplicate--in order to write this book? Where is the "medical community"? Where are the "scientists"? Where are the journalists? The answers to these questions tell us everything we need to know about the status of truth, and the concern for truth, in our supposedly open, free, democratic society today. If we had more people like Bob Lee, we would have a society much closer to the ideals that we all pay lip service to, but hardly ever actively pursue.

Bob Lee has clearly made an effort to learn and understand a field in which he has had no formal training. Sadly, in this task he has failed. The errors of fact, theory and understanding are so abundant, numbering two or three on nearly every one of the 502 pages of the book, that it would be impossible for me to list and explain them all without writing a tome of similar size. Such gems include labelling the blood borne protozoa malaria as a virus that lives in the brain, confusing the addition of DNA to cells with the creation of immortal cells, using a normal cellular signalling system (tyrosine phosphorylation) as a means of targeting blacks Vs whites...

He makes the critical error of looking for evidence to support his apparently pre-supposed idea that there was a scientific "paradigm" (read "conspiracy") to develop and use a biowarfare agent in the unlikely form of a chronic retrovirus infection. Had he gone about his argument in a better way he might have made better (and easier) reading, but instead I found myself dragged through completely disparate and unconnected fields of research, strung together with a comedy of errors to support this rather unlikely idea. My girlfriend laughed so hard at this book she cried.

But there lies the crunch. Unless you understood my first paragraph you are likely to be taken in by this story. My girlfriend and I are working in the field of molecular biology and have had formal training in veterinary and medical pathology respectively. Bob himself has told me that he did try to get answers to many of his questions from people in the field, but was rebuffed, and perhaps understandably so. The sad thing is that had he had input from a research assistant of any half-decent laboratory, most of his errors would have been spotted. This would have meant that most, if not all, of his case would have been rendered redundant: this book need never have been written.

I think Bob sincerely believes what he says here, but that doesn't make him right. There may well be evidence to support the creation of HIV by a world-wide cabal of military-directed scientists, but if such evidence exists it isn't presented here. Bonus marks are given for humour.

So what if AIDS is man-made? What good does it do to know that? Not one life will be saved because of this so-called knowledge. Everyone's time would be better spent trying to fix the problem rather than playing useless and tedious blame games.