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AIDS: A Second Opinion

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Gary Null's AIDS: A Second Opinion is a book that I could not put down. I found it to be the most comprehensive, insightful, provocative, and disturbing book on AIDS that I have ever read. And as someone who has counseled numerous patients with AIDS, I found that it offered valuable insights into the politics and controversies surrounding this condition. (I should mention that I am not coming from "the fringe," but am a graduate of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, an assistant clinical professor of neurology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the author of more than 50 articles published in peer-reviewed medical journals. So I read the book with the critical eye of one who has been immersed in the mainstream medical world.)

Null and co-author James Feast do us a service in giving voice to the point of view of AIDS dissidents such as Nobel laureates Drs. Mullis and Gilbert, as well as Professors Strohman and Rasnick, and the many others cited in the book. One has to wonder, why hasn't their collective challenge to the "HIV equals AIDS equals death" paradigm been given more publicity? These are credentialed people, and there certainly is, as this book shows, reasonableness to their claims. I myself have had three patients with advanced AIDS and substantially debilitated health who then undertook various natural protocols and improved their overall immune function significantly. So why wouldn't I want to explore alternative approaches to this condition? Why wouldn't I want to review as many scientific references as possible that support these approaches? I am happy to have a book on hand that goes beyond the party line of those who run the war on AIDS, looks at alternative perspectives, and provides extensive documentation to support them.

Furthermore, I plan to make this book required reading for all of the persons I counsel with AIDS-defining illnesses. And I would recommend it to every concerned and conscientious physician, nurse, and public health advocate in the country.

AIDS: A Second Opinion provides a good overview of the controversies and differing opinions surrounding AIDS. (There is a general lack of scientific proof for much of what we think we know about AIDS. For example no one has isolated HIV from everything else in a white bloodcell.) Null focuses on science more than social factors but does address social factors by analyzing how they can unconsciously influence scientific thinking.

For me this book's greatest strength was in not having one specific theory to press. For example Duesberg, a prestigious scientist who writes often about our lack of evidence that HIV can cause AIDS, has the view point that AIDS is caused primarily by drug use. Much of what Duesberg publishes on AIDS is concerned with supporting this theory. Null on the other hand presents evidence and what we know about the various theories on AIDS and gives a general overview. He discussed our lack of knowledge about HIV and the lack of evidence for it causing AIDS, but later assumes the viewpoint that HIV causes AIDS to discuss co-factors and theories about where AIDS may have come from.

Among the subjects Null touches on: does HIV cause AIDS?, effects of long term drug use on the immune system, toxicity of AZT, theories on the origin of AIDS (including discussion of government manufactured disease), HIV vaccine feasibility, trends in vaccine research and alternative therapies. Basically the information presented is comprehensive and frequently not kosher. Null gives reliable references for what he is saying and refers to scientific journals where appropriate. He also tells the reader when he thinks that a theory is a bit over the top and if the theory has not been tested or is not testable (as with a comparison of AIDS and mass hysteria). He includes some theories including conspiracy theories for the sake of being comprehensive. For example, a discussion of AIDS maybe being introduced by aliens is included.

As I said Null extensively references his work. This is a scholaly book (in the sense of being dry) and might be slow for some people because of the way it is written. It is also long. Amazon has it listed as 400 pages but my copy is 618 pages long (and then some with the appendixes). For me it was a fast read and very interesting, but maybe not a fast read for everyone.

AIDS: A Second Opinion is an excellent resource for those who want a better understanding of the disease. This should not be the first book to read on the subject.

AIDS: A Second opinion is, in MY opinion, the most revealing, and singly most valuable source book in its field. As a health care professional I have witnessed people with AIDS not only improving their lives after applying the principles outlined in this book, but more importantly, empowering themselves for the first time to stand up for their privacy and to challenge the destructive rituals of an industry designed to perpetuate itself at the cost of human dignity and lives. What really works in this book is the fact that it is well researched, detail oreinted, makes good sense and is easy to follow. It encompasses the economics and politics as well as practical science and natural approaches to healing the immune system. I can say without any hesitation that it's about time we considered what truly helps people with AIDS, even if the answers lie outside of our circle of the proverbial scientific "known" that we try to fiercely to protect with a righteous defensiveness. I praise Gary Null and James Feast for the courage to publish the first renaissance approach to this socially charged "disease". I am humbled by this book's richness and content and highly recommend it as one of the best nonfiction reads of the year.

Before you get an AIDS test, before you take AZT, before you let your doctor tell you you're gonna die -- read this. You'll be shocked and angered by the politics at work behind this tragedy.

When I heard of this issue I thought like most -- "Pshh! 2 or 3 conspiracy kooks!" Gary Null has interviewed over 5,000 scientists, researchers, journalists, including many Nobel Prize winners, who've been shut out of the mainstream media to compile this book.

He goes through systematically, using nothing but facts, and traces the beginnings of AIDS, how it's being misdiagnosed, how pharmaceutical companies have suppressed dissent, how the corporate media has towed the line, and interviews people who've had AIDS are now alive and well through natural means.

"It's such an emotional thing, people get personally committed to what really is a body of evidence that can be analyzed by lots of people...BUT NO ONE CAN WRITE A REVIEW OF IT THAT SAYS 'HIV IS THE CAUSE OF AIDS because of this..." If a post-doc were to write a review of their literature that showed without much doubt that HIV is the cause of AIDS he'd be famous. Now there's 100,000 people out there who've had this opportunity, [15] years have passed, we've been waiting for this star post-doctorate fellow to distinguish himself forever and get a lifelong grant...but he hasn't shown up! No one has bothered to write a definitive review." --Kary Mullis, Phd,
Biochemist, Nobel Prize 1993, inventor of polymerase chain reactor (PCR) technology used in testing diseases.

Provocative as always, once again Gary Null gathers a stunning list of experts and research to challenge an existing paradigm. Far from endorsing the accepted view of AIDS as an infectious disease caused by HIV he calls into question the science behind the discovery of HIV, the validity of AIDS statistics, and, no suprise here, the remedies offered by the biomedical establishment. Challenging the use of AZT and other highly toxic drugs which destroy the immune system, he offers instead treatments to bolster the immune system and to treat the whole person. This is a fine book, one that deserves to be widely read and discussed. The biomedical community, with billions to be made, should be challenged at every turn. Thank God we've got Gary Null.

Dr. Null's most recent public service, AIDS: A Second Opinion, is an impressive book for many reasons. This book discusses ideas that have been marginalized about AIDS and HIV, that could have great bearing on the lives of many AIDS sufferers.

The evidence that Dr. Null presents has totally convinced me that the theories about AIDS and HIV need at least to be re-examined, because there are most certainly grave errors in our current beliefs and practice. The people he quotes and cites are accomplished, reputable individuals - why would they risk their status, unless these possibilites were serious ones? (For example, Nobel prize winner Kary Mullis).

Some things Dr. Null addresses: the reason the AIDS hypothesis is so widely accepted is that so many people, doctors, scientists, politicians, whoever, simply take what they are told and run with it. Do you think 99% of the people who advocate the AIDS hypothesis have done ANY research on it? These dissenters (weren't Galileo, Copernicus, Socrates dissenters too?) HAVE done the research, loads of it, and they see something wrong. In this book, Dr. Null shows us this reality.

Those who can't admit that the AIDS hypothesis has some serious inconsistencies and contradictions are probably acting to defend their egos (would you want to admit that 20 years of your thinking was WRONG?), or are defending their funding. This book not only demonstrates this, but provides alternative theories, and better approaches for AIDS victims. I commend Dr. Null for his integrity and scholarship.

I really like the approach this author takes. He is very even handed with this difficult subject. It is so ingrained in all of us to believe authority figures, doctors, priests, CEO's, that it comes as a shock when it is demonstrated that they are wrong. Or that perhaps they had an agenda. Gary Null isn't strident here. He puts forth both sides of the argument and then charts a different way to go. Bravo! Highly informative, full of information I wouldn't have known otherwise.

This is my first Gary Null book, though I have read may of his articles over the years. I was not put off by reading the negative review of this book because it was obvious that the writer had not actually read the book, only referred to another reviewer and wanted to spend his time attacking Null's character. Another reason I was not wary after listening to the negative attacks was the fact I have a family history of Cancer and over twenty years ago Gary Null was one of the only voices constantly being attacted and labeled as a quack for challenging the Cancer establishment and bringing forth new ideas. It turns out that everything he claimed has long since been proved accurate and today would be considered mainstream thinking.
The book is well written and an easy read even thought the topic is scientific. Gary Null's expertise has always been in bringing out the politics surrounding an issue. That he does very well in Aids: A Second Opinion, and makes a strong case that AIDS may have more politics and special intrests involved in it's evolution than any other major disease. I am very open to the possibility that the whole truth surrounding AIDS has not been forthcoming. It seems that Gary Null has gone out of his way to assure that the professionals promoting this controversial idea surrounding AIDS are credible experienced professionals most of whom have disinguished credentials. I welcome the spirit of "dissention" and "challenging" the establishment's ideas and methods when evidence is present to support such a challenge. AIDS: A Second Opinion gives that evidence from people whom are quite compentent and compassionate about this issue. Therefore, I would recommend this book

Gary Null, Ph.D., and James Feast, Ph.D., have written a book, "AIDS: A Second Opinion," which offers a compelling and comprehensive examination of AIDS and HIV from both established and countervailing perspectives.

The book is sure to incite controversy because the findings of experts that question much of what we regard as established science surrounding AIDS, such as Noble Laureate in Chemistry, Kary Mullis, Ph.D., and whose data is presented in this well-documented publication, have been largely ignored, suppressed and even publicly castigated, paradoxically by people wholly unqualified to pass judgment.

Furthermore, a look at the book's roll call of esteemed and notable virologists, biomedical scientists and physicians whose research and data weighs-in against the hegemony of opinion of the medical and pharmaceutical industrial complex about HIV and AIDS is overwhelming.

While we do know more than we did twenty years ago - and treatment protocols have improved along with that expanding base of knowledge - there remains far more that we don't know. Most people don't realize, for example, that the virus deemed responsible for AIDS has never been clinically isolated. Or that AZT often causes symptons of the syndrome of illnesses that it is intended to treat. Or that there are alternative therapies available. Consequently people still suffer and die from AIDS.

This book safeguards a free and full examination of the issues, research and treatments. Hopefully it will inspire people, including our representatives in Washington who are in a position to save lives, to look deeper into the causes, possible cures and treatments - the financial motives of private interests notwithstanding. Kudos to Gary Null and James Feast to have the courage to begin this crusade.

an amazing amount of information...looking at multiple aspects of Aids..evidence against the current Aids hypotheses,a critique of the established aids hypotheses,the mis-diagnosis of HIV,
the politics of Aids, and many pages devoted to the subject of supporting the immune system.