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the first cancer genes to be identified. He has been conducting a careful study of the HIV-AIDS hypothesis, and makes several interesting observations.

According to Dr. Duesberg, recent studies show that HIV is just a harmless "passenger virus" instead of the cause of AIDS. These studies clearly show that AIDS occurs randomly at unpredictable intervals after HIV infection. And they also show that HIV may be active, passive, or even totally absent from otherwise identical AIDS cases.

Dr. Duesberg also points out that AIDS does not meet even one of the classical criteria of infectious disease:

Criterion 1. Equal distribution between sexes.

How AIDS matches: In the United States, AIDS is ninety percent male.

Criterion 2. Disease follows infection within days or weeks, which is the time microbes take to become either immunogenic or pathogenic or both.

How AIDS matches: AIDS is claimed to follow HIV infection with a lag of ten years.

Criterion 3. Presence of a common active microbe.

How AIDS matches: HIV is not common to all AIDS cases, and it is not active in any AIDS cases.

In a recent series of scientific articles, Dr. Duesberg proposes a dramatically different cause-and-effect relationship for AIDS which he calls the Drug-AIDS hypothesis. He proposes that American and European AIDS is caused by the long-term consumption of recreational drugs and the anti-HIV drug Azidothymidine (AZT).

There is, indeed, a startling epidemiological and chronological correlation between the post-Vietnam era drug epidemic in the United States and Europe, and AIDS. In support of this hypothesis, Dr. Duesberg offers the following five points.

1. Approximately thirty percent of American and European AIDS patients are intravenous drug users. (This statistic takes into account "AIDS babies" born of IV drug using mothers.)

Virtually one hundred percent of male homosexuals with AIDS or at risk for AIDS have been long-term users of nitrite inhalants and other oral aphrodisiac drugs that confer euphoria and facilitate anal intercourse. Recently completed epidemiological studies from San Francisco and Vancouver have confirmed that one hundred percent of several hundred male homosexuals with AIDS had used multiple recreational drugs for a long time. Since 1909, medical literature has documented the immunotoxicity of recreational drugs.

Presently, approximately 200,000 HIV-positive healthy people and AIDS patients are being treated four times daily with AZT and several other DNA chain terminators

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