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Virus Mania: Corona/COVID-19, Measles, Swine Flu, Cervical Cancer, Avian Flu, SARS, BSE, Hepatitis C, AIDS, Polio. How the Medical Industry ... Making Billion-Dollar Profits At Our Expense Unknown Binding – July 31, 2020

by Torsten Engelbrecht (Author), Köhnlein Claus (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
If one follows public pronouncements, the world is repeatedly afflicted with new terrible virus diseases. As the latest horror variant, the so-called * SARS-CoV-2 dominated the headlines. The population is also terrified by reports of measles, swine flu, SARS, BSE, AIDS or polio. However, The authors of Virus Mania, journalist Torsten Engelbrecht and doctor of internal medicine Claus Khnlein, MD, show that this fannning of fear is totally unfounded and that virus mayhem ignores very basic scientific facts: the existence, the pathogenicity and the deadly effects of these agents have never been proven. The book "Virus Mania" will also outline how modern medicine has pushed direct virus proof methods aside and uses dubious indirect tools to "prove" the existence of viruses such as antibody tests and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The alleged contagious viruses may be, in fact, also be seen as particles produced by the cells themselves as a consequence of certain stress factors such as drugs. These particles are then identified by antibody and PCR tests and interpreted as epidemic-causing viruses by doctors who have been inoculated for over 100 years by the theory that microbes are deadly and only modern medications and vaccines will protect us from virus pandemics. The central aim of this book is to steer the discussion back to a real scientific debate and put medicine back on the path of an impartial analysis of the facts. It will put medical experiments, clinical trials, statistics and government policies under the microscope, revealing that the people charged with protecting our health and safety have deviated from this path. Along the way, Engelbrecht and Khnlein will analyze all possible causes of illness such as pharmaceuticals, lifestyle drugs, pesticides, heavy metals, pollution, stress and processed (and sometimes genetically modified) foods. All of these can heavily damage the body of humans and animals and even kill them. And precisely th
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  • Thomas J. Busse
    5.0 out of 5 stars Superb - not just a history of science but a wise guide to wellness
    Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2020
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    This book of superb. I first encountered the work of Claus Koehnlein from his interview in the film "House of Numbers," but I later discovered he had published as far back as 1995 in the prestigious journal "Nature." He is a passionate advocate for health and wellness and has fought the orthodoxy of the establishment for decades. In regard to the toxic chemotherapies pushed by "AIDS Inc." he has saved many lives.

    In many ways, this book is a 25-year update to Professor Peter Duesberg's 1996 "Inventing the AIDS Virus," and I recommend reading both back-to-back. Although Koehnlein discusses COVID-19, the scope of his work is so much more broader. It was not thrown together to capitalize on a current "political bug" and for the book's price, the research is worth the price. My own experience with this book is Koehnlein's criticism of 2020 Nobel Prize in medicine laureate Michael Houghton. I already knew Houghton's research at Chiron Corporation on Hepatitis C to be a fraud, but I ordered this book before the 2020 prize was announced and did not know that Koehnlein addressed it. Amazon sent the book to me in the mail the day after the prize was announced and I was fulminating about it. I was overjoyed to find even more original research to confirm my suspicion this may be the most corrupt Nobel prize in history.

    English-speaking researchers will find this book particularly valuable for its footnotes: 1432 of them. As a work that did not come out of the English-speaking world, it draws from a range of sources not commonly touched upon by English-speaking researchers. I heartily recommend this book.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Factural Information
    Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2021
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    Well written and easy to understand. Read cover to cover to gain insight into factual information and discovered that what we had been taught in medicine regarding the common virus epidemic was not based on sound science.
    Recommend highly to those who would like to review the facts themselves to help them discover the truth.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Informational
    Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2021
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    I wish everyone would actually read a book, learn more about science and research and stop believing everything you see on tv or internet
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  • Mark Barone
    5.0 out of 5 stars The real scoop for critical thinkers!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2020
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    An outstanding book about the true nature of viruses, the impact of vaccines, the horrific truth about Aids/Africa, and so much more. Turn off your TV and get ready for a Tour de Force! Once read, you will be changed, forever!
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  • CK_
    4.0 out of 5 stars 4.5 stars: An important book- deserves to be a best-seller
    Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2020
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    I recently read the 2007 1st edition. I thought the book was so important that I also bought the new 2nd edition despite the much higher price. Apparently, the German version of this book was recently updated and then hastily translated into English in order to create this 2nd English edition. Unfortunately, the 2nd edition has numerous typos. Also, why is the 2nd edition 2.5x as expensive as the 1st edition? The book is physically much larger than the 1st edition mainly because the font-size is bigger, not due to the new content. The first 8 chapters are largely the same as the 1st edition. The 2nd edition adds CHs 9-12 + a new epilogue. Below is a summary:

    1) The central premise of this book is that the "modern medical industrial complex", which includes Big Pharma and public health institutions like the WHO and CDC, "invents" pandemics for profit and to justify its high funding. This is due to corruption and also BIAS- i.e. many scientists/doctors are automatically primed to blame "killer viruses" instead of looking for other factors due to self-serving dogma. The widespread MISUSE of PCR tests has also become a great enabler of "virus mania". (PCR= polymerase chain reaction was invented in the mid-1980s by Kary Mullis.) The authors don't deny that viruses exist and can cause disease but they question if "killer viruses" are really the proven cause of many highly publicized pandemics. By "proven", they mean the virus must be isolated/purified and viewed with an electron microscope (viruses are incredibly small) and shown to cause an infectious disease per Koch's postulates. Incredibly, HIV and SARS-COV-2 don't meet this criteria and PCR tests may even be identifying "viral DNA fragments" that were produced by our own cells, NOT an exogenous virus.

    2) CH2 contends that widespread DDT spraying was the real root cause of polio and the phase-out of DDT ended the pandemic, NOT the Salk vaccine.

    3) The authors say "virus mania" became a dogma by the 1960s and virologists received massive funding that was wasted, trying to prove retroviruses cause cancer. (Retroviruses consist of RNA instead of DNA.) By the late 1970s, their failure to do so was apparent and the CDC had become irrelevant. The AIDS "crisis" gave the CDC and virologists (like Gallo) a new lease on life and yet the HIV retrovirus has NEVER been proven to be the cause of AIDS. In CH3, and the new CH10+epilogue, the authors repeatedly assert that highly toxic (and highly profitable) AIDS "treatments" are what actually kill patients (e.g. Rock Hudson). The authors also say that many AIDS patients became ill in the first place due to years of heavy drug use, which damaged their immune system. The authors cast serious doubt on the HIV=AIDS hypothesis by revealing it to be dogma, and not based on proven fact. They even show there's NO evidence AIDS is a STD. In Africa, the authors contend that "tens of millions" of AIDS cases are based on "fake" computer models and that treating AIDS has become profitable for the WHO when in actuality, patients are suffering from poverty, not AIDS.

    3) CH 5 discusses BSE (mad cow disease). Predictions of millions of cases from eating "contaminated" meat didn't happen and the authors say that "infectious" prions were never proven to be the root cause. A much more likely cause of BSE was neurological damage from Phosmet, a toxin used to kill flies. (The law requiring Phosmet was passed in 1985 and then quietly repealed in the 1990s because the British govt probably realized it was the true cause of BSE but couldn't publicly admit it.)

    4) CHs 6 (SARS), 7 (H5N1) and 9 (Swine Flu) discuss recent "pandemics" that caused HYPE+HYSTERIA and yet resulted in only a small number of deaths. The authors believe that most of the deaths were caused by highly toxic anti-viral drugs, and not "killer viruses", which again were never proven to be the root cause. E.g., Roche's Tamiflu was a block-buster drug and yet it's NOT an effective treatment and has severe side-effects.

    5) CH7 also discusses the 1918/19 Spanish Flu, which killed 20-50 million people world-wide and the new CH12 discusses the current COVID-19 pandemic, which has supposedly killed ~900k world-wide. (The deaths are inflated, though, since they include many people who supposedly had COVID-19 but actually died instead of something else.) Here again the authors question whether a virus is the root cause and they again blame the many deaths on the "treatments". The authors also believe that highly toxic vaccines during WWI were a major factor in the Spanish Flu deaths.

    The authors cite a paper by Doshi*, which reveals that the oft-repeated claim of ~40K annual typical flu deaths in the US is actually a fabrication by the CDC (based on computer models)- the REAL number is ONLY ~3k! (The CDC tries to scare people into getting the flu shot in order to increase Big Pharma sales - NOT because the flu shot is safe** + effective***.) So even if the number of actual COVID-19 deaths is only comparable to "official" (fake) flu death statistics then that still means that an unusual number of deaths have truly occurred this year. These 2 sections therefore deviate from the central premise of the book- that the medical industry invents FAKE pandemics for profit at our expense- because the high number of deaths really do imply an infectious agent like a virus. So for these 2 cases, I disagree with the authors.

    Bottom-Line: Overall, this is a MUST-READ book. I took off 0.5 stars because it needs more editing and an index. Also, it's perhaps premature to write about COVID-19 and the authors will likely have to revise their preliminary thoughts in a future edition.

    * Doshi, P. (2005). Are US flu death figures more PR than science? BMJ.
    **CH8 and the new CH11 discuss vaccine safety. It's yet more self-serving dogma that vaccines- now a $60B industry- are "safe+ effective". Vaccines are deemed "effective" only if they increase antibodies, NOT if they save lives. And many vaccines contain Aluminum, which causes autism. (Read "How to end the Autism Epidemic".)
    ***The CDC claim that the flu shot is "50% effective" is a relative effect. The absolute effect is only 1%, i.e. 1 out of 100 vaccinated people get the flu vs. 2 out of 100 unvaccinated people!

    EXTRA: One of the authors recently published an article which greatly expands upon the book's discussion on the MISUSE of PCR tests:
    1) PCR replicates DNA. Every "cycle" doubles the amount of DNA. (Think of the rice and chessboard fable.) Many COVID-19 PCR tests incorrectly use 35 or even 45 cycles instead of the recommended 30 max. Even the alarmist NYT conceded that 90% of "positive" PCR tests may be "false positives" due to this factor ALONE- because they include people whose actual "viral count" is orders of magnitude too low to be infectious and/or cause symptoms. (REAL cases should ONLY include people who have actual symptoms!)

    2) PCR tests are NOT 100% accurate like most doctors/scientists assume- accuracy can be greatly affected by contamination, human error and the fact that they compare only a portion of the virus genome (a "positive" COVID-19 PCR test can result from a different coronavirus- or even "viral-like" fragments produced by our own cells). Also, SARS-COV-2 is a retrovirus, which means it consists of RNA instead of DNA. PCR only works on DNA so Reverse Transcription (RT) is first used to convert the RNA into DNA. But this initial step can also greatly diminish the accuracy of the test. Note: Other COVID-19 tests such as antibody tests are even less accurate than PCR tests.

    Finally, the incidence of disease has a major effect on the test results: Let's say a COVID-19 test is 95% accurate and the incidence of COVID-19 is 1 out of 100 people. If a person tests positive, what is the chance the test is a true positive? Most people and most doctors think the answer is 95% but the real answer is only 17% per Bayesian conditional probability. (95%=95/100 so 5/100 tests are false positives; therefore, the probability of a true positive is only 1/(1+5)= 17%! If the incidence drops to 1 out of 1000 people, then 50/1000 tests are false positives and the probability of a true positive is only 1/(1+50)= 2%, i.e. 98% of "positive" cases are FALSE!)

    All of the so-called "experts" recommend testing as much as possible. Why? Given how inaccurate and misleading the tests are, it seems to be the epitome of self-serving dogma, which generates high profits for the medical industry at the expense of everyone else, i.e. the medical industry took a bad situation and made it 10x worse (for the rest of us)! Without the testing, the lockdown wouldn't have happened and the 2019/20 winter would only be remembered as a particularly bad flu season like 1968. Over a million people worldwide (including 100k Americans) supposedly died in both the 1957/58 and 1968/69 pandemics (when the world population was less than half of today). There was no lockdown in 1957 and 1968 and the economy actually grew! Today, the lockdown/masks/social distancing get all of the credit for reducing deaths in the Spring when it was probably seasonality (UV light/vitamin D/heat/humidity) that deserves most of the credit. It could also be that SARS-COV-2 has already mutated into a more contagious- but also more benign- virus as one scientist recently suggested- most coronaviruses only cause a mild cold. (Having any coronavirus- even one that only causes a minor cold- can cause you to test "positive" for COVID-19 because the tests simply aren't specific enough.)

    The mainstream media also deserves much of the blame for the hysteria. The media used to be a pillar of democracy, but it's now dependent upon Big Pharma ad revenue and has become their PR firm. That's why the media relentlessly promotes the narrative that we must remain in lockdown until Big Pharma "saves" us with a vaccine. (The 1918, 1957 and 1968 pandemics ended on their own without a vaccine.)

    Many critics point out that modern medicine has become a "religion" and doctors/scientists are the new high priests. Perhaps the public will finally realize that it's long past time to take doctors and scientists off of their pedestal (just like politicians and priests are no longer blindly trusted).

    Update (11-18-2020): The claim that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is "95% effective" is also a relative effect. The absolute effect is only 0.7%(!), i.e. 8 out of 21,769 vaccinated people supposedly got COVID-19 vs. 162 out of 21,769 unvaccinated people. COVID-19 will end on its own like previous pandemics but the so-called "experts" will give all of the credit to the (ineffective) vaccine anyway. (The public hysteria, though, won't end until we stop the worthless testing.)
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Revealing great truths !
    Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2020
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    Wow, this book is full of great info that has been kept from the mainstream. It will blow your mind about dis-ease
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  • meggan
    5.0 out of 5 stars So glad I bought this
    Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2020
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    Great book so glad I bought this!
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  • Ken McCarthy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Important update to an essential 2007 book
    Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2020
    It's important to appreciate that this book was originally published in 2007. It's been updated for CoVid, but is NOT a "Johnny-come-lately" contribution to the topic. The book's original thesis is that medical bureaucrats working with pharma companies create virus hysterias for personal advancement and profit. The current CoVid scam - maximum hysteria, gross misrepresentation of facts, suppression of expert analysis from Noble Prize winning scientists and other highly credible parties - is nothing new. Fauci and Friends ran similar scams with Ebola, Zika, and Swine Flu. - all well documented in this detailed and heavily referenced book. It's a disgrace that the "reporters" and know-nothing TV talking heads choose to not be informed about the well known phenomenon of medical fraud.
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  • Wentai
    5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
    Reviewed in Canada on April 6, 2022
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    An interesting book. I love it. My family thinks I'm crazy for not being afraid. Yup. Cause being afraid will make things so much better. I told my brother that we should just believe whatever the TV tells us. He complained that the TV in each room told him something different.
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  • David J. Hayward
    5.0 out of 5 stars Empower yourself to take long-term responsibility for your health
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2021
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    This book is right up there with Ben Goldacre's book "Bad Science", not only does it dispell a lot of the myths about what we as a society think we know about viruses and the cause of illness, it gives you the tools and knowledge to be able to seek good information and recognise it when you see it.
    Not only does this book go through the data itself it goes through the flaws in big pharma testing and trials procedure, and the relationships between pharma, government and the alleged regulatory bodies.

    It also highlights how society has become lazy, looking for pills and quick fixes to solve all our problems, and how we need to change our attitudes and take responsibility towards our long term health and lifestyle.

    This is an updated version of the original book to include a number of updates and covid19.
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  • Isa
    5.0 out of 5 stars Buena y oportuna compra
    Reviewed in Spain on November 25, 2020
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    Excelente libro!!!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Best book I read in a long time
    Reviewed in Germany on November 25, 2020
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    The most informative book I read in a long time . It is just mindblowing even when I saw and read so much already. This book belongs in universitys and schools !!! Incredible work and I can't thank the authors enough for their courage !
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  • David Bridgman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Everybody should have a copy of this book
    Reviewed in Australia on September 18, 2022
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    Simply the best book to expose the whole fake virus story and set on free from the medical mafia
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