Full Description
Thanks to enormous funding for educational programs, the whole world "knows" that HIV causes AIDS. But is what we know compatible with the facts? This book challenges the conventional wisdom on this issue. Collating and analyzing, for the first time, the results of more than two decades of HIV testing, it reveals that the common assumptions about HIV and AIDS are incompatible with the published data. Among the many topics explored are the failings of HIV testing, statistical evidence that HIV is neither sexually transmitted nor increasingly prevalent, and problems caused by the differing diagnostic criteria for AIDS around the world.
But how could everyone have been so wrong for so long? This vital question, unaddressed in previous works questioning the HIV-AIDS connection, is central to this book. The author considers comparable missteps of modern science, and discusses how funding influences discovery in today's scientific circles.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Tables xiii
Preface
A Note on Sources and the Structure of the Book
Part I: Does HIV Cause AIDS?
1. MALES AND FEMALES
2. UNIFORM TRENDS
3. FALSE POSITIVES OR CONTAMINATED SAMPLES?
4. HIV IS NOT AN INFECTION
5. HIV DISCRIMINATES BY RACE
6. WHAT IS IT ABOUT RACE?
7. RACISM
8. WHAT DO HIV TESTS DETECT?
9. HIV AND AIDS ARE NOT CORRELATED
10. AIDS
Part II: Lessons from History
11. MISSTEPS IN MODERN MEDICAL SCIENCE
12. HOW SCIENCE PROGRESSES
13. RESEARCH CARTELS AND KNOWLEDGE MONOPOLIES
Part III: How HIV/AIDS Theory Took and Kept Hold
14. IT'S A VIRUS
15. MAINTAINING THE MONOPOLY
16. THE END OF THE BEGINNING
Sources
Index
