Infectious AIDS : Have We Been Misled? [Paperback]

Peter Duesberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 13, 1995

Infectious AIDS is a collection of thirteen articles originally published in scientific journals, which call into question the dogma of infectious AIDS. With such thought-provoking chapters as "HIV is Not the Cause of AIDS" and "AIDS acquired by Drug Consumption and Other Non-contagious Risk Factors," Duesberg explores the correlation (but not causality) between HIV and AIDS. By challenging popular AIDS theory, Duesberg investigates fresh possibilities that can transform the study and treatment of the AIDS virus.

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"AIDS 'science' has one clear thinker. His name is Peter Duesberg"
- Harvey Bialy, Science Editor, Biotechnology

About the Author

Peter H. Duesberg, Ph.D., is a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 1968-1970 he demonstrated that influenza virus has a segmented genome. This would explain its unique ability to form recombinants by reassortment of subgenomic segments. He isolated the first cancer gene through his work on retroviruses in 1970, and mapped the genetic structure of these viruses. This, and his subsequent work in the same field, resulted in his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1986. He was also the recipient of a seven-year Outstanding Investigator Grant from the National Institutes of Health from 1985-1992.

On the basis of his experience with retroviruses, Duesberg has challenged the virus-AIDS hypothesis in the pages of Cancer Research, The Lancet, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, Nature, Genetica, Journal of AIDS, AIDS Forschung, Biomed. & Pharmacother., New Engl. J. Med., Chemical and Engineering News, Naturwissenschaften, Research in Immunology , Pharmacology & Therapeutics and the British Medical Journal. He has instead proposed the hypothesis that the various AIDS diseases are brought on by the long-term consumption of recreational drugs and anti-HIV drugs, such as the DNA chain terminator AZT, which is prescribed to prevent or treat AIDS.

Based on 30 years of studies on viral cancer, and over 15 years on cellular genes related to viral cancer- or oncogenes, now termed cellular oncogenes, the conclusion was reached that viral carcinogenesis is statistically negligible, and that the evidence for cellular oncogenes is inconclusive. Therefore, the hypothesis was advanced that aneuploidy, an abnormal number of chromosomes, rather than cellular oncogenes, is the cause of cancer. The hypothesis promises improvements in cancer prevention by eliminating substances that cause aneuploidy from food and drugs.

Product Details

• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books (December 13, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556431953
• ISBN-13: 978-1556431951
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.6 x 8.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #886,063 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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54 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE CHILD IN THE CROWD..., December 19, 2002

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This review is from: Infectious AIDS : Have We Been Misled? (Paperback)

The Emperor's New Clothes on a massive scale - with enormous implications - right under our noses (ongoing in 2002 with no end in sight yet). Any thinking person not yet familiar with the content of this and Duesbergs other books will be grateful to discover them. The public is shown barely the tip of this particular iceberg.
Duesbergs integrity and clarity of mind make him the child in the crowd, but his courage , tenacity and curriculum vitae make him a formidable and feared opponent . His work is terribly important. His herculean efforts go largely unseen due to ruthless media censorship of the subject but the whole picture is available to us in these books and on the internet on Duesbergs and related websites. If you have stumbled across this issue- do a bit of research and prepare to be staggered......

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Duesberg asked the right questions but NO one gives the right answers, March 18, 2008

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Michael D. Mellgard - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Infectious AIDS : Have We Been Misled? (Paperback)

As an AIDS re-thinker/dissident since 1992 I can safely say that Dr. Duesberg has been one of the most critical and out-spoken critic of the AIDS establishment. It was his appearance on "Tony Brown's Journal" in the spring of '92 that he first caught my attention. I have read just about everything he has written on HIV and AIDS. His arguments about how and why HIV cannot be the cause of AIDS have never been, as far as I am can see, been answered by the scientists of the AIDS establishment. All they have done is resort to name calling and degrade his character. Here is a man who was regarded as one of the formost expert in his field but then was shut out when he asked questions that the likes of Dr's Gallo, et al could not answer. If HIV does cause AIDS then how can anyone explain the thousands of people who are HIV+ but have never taken any drugs for treatment and are still alive after more than 20 years? How can anyone who has read his "scientific" arguments not, at least, start to ask the right questions. I cannot understand why anyone defends the AIDS establishment unless they are in it for some personal gain or are too affraid to admit that they are being misled by a bunch of quacks and money grubbing thieves

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reason vs Emotion, March 26, 2009

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Dragon Irish "Canny Celt" (Boulder, CO, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Infectious AIDS : Have We Been Misled? (Paperback)

Peter Duesberg is one of the most logical, sane, studied, and brilliant researchers on the planet. The two reviews here that attack him are by the emotional zealots who follow the Church of Overfunded Science and the emotional 'my gay friend died and Peter and his kind killed him' types. I have had friends die of 'AIDs' who were on poppers, recreational drugs, needles, and unclean habits in their personal lives, who had hundreds of partners and whose immune systems were destroyed by the environment they chose, not by some harmless retrovirus. I also know one gay man diagnosed HIV-positive whose healthy friends were also diagnosed at the same time and took the drugs. They are all dead. These people should read some of the histories of the American/Europen pharmaceutical gangsters who have spread death over the world.