“Anti-vaxxers” are making people nervous

But it’s really deeper than vaccines; I think there is real fear that HIV AIDS is crumbling

I’ve noticed a rising panic among the more mainstream people in the scientific community that a dangerous level of skepticism over vaccines seems to be increasing. Probably the fact that they are aware that the Covid vaccines that they so enthusiastically bullied most of us into taking are basically admitted to as being useless or worse, as evidenced by the mass abandonment of the boosters, is the problem here.

I came across the following statement by Dr. Tara Smith, PhD, biologist who “leads the Emerging Infections Laboratory at Kent State University. ” She and I have had friction in the past online and she’s since blocked me on X. She was at one point a writer for the now-defunct Seed Magazine, which was clearly very closely aligned with pharmaceutical interests. Anyway, she’s come out denouncing “anti-vaxxers,” although half the statement is about “HIV denial.” Here is the relevant portion:

Smith told the Institute for Public Accuracy: “HIV denial narratives [which were in the media in the early 2000s] have become resurgent in the last few years. We’ve seen them come back” especially since the 2021 publication of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s book The Real Anthony Fauci, which covers the years that Dr. Fauci worked in HIV research. “That’s where the HIV denial started from. It’s being pushed on different platforms. 

“There are different ideas being promoted by different groups that don’t agree with one another. On the extreme end, there is the Perth Group in Australia. They believe that HIV doesn’t exist and is ‘cellular debris.’ If the virus doesn’t exist, it can’t cause you harm. That’s the extreme end. Most of the denial––like what RFK Jr. pushes––is what was championed by [molecular biologists who worked on retroviruses in the 1980s, like] Peter Duesberg. When HIV was discovered, Duesberg didn’t buy into it. He argued that HIV could be detected and was associated with sexual activity, but was a harmless ‘passenger virus.’ It didn’t do anything. That hypothesis was adopted well beyond AIDS––into Covid and measles. 

I challenge Dr. Smith to find a statement anywhere from the Perth Group stating that “HIV doesn’t exist and is cellular debris.” She won’t be able to, because they never said that. Comprehending nuance and basic logic appears not to be her strong suit.

Given that “HIV” is most decidedly not a realistic candidate for a vaccine, it seems curious that half of her statement, which was meant to be about vaccines, discusses the dangers of “HIV AIDS denialism.” It makes me wonder what is so important about keeping the HIV AIDS story alive that there is such panic about it—especially lately, as we’ve seen—that it has to be brought up during a discussion on vaccine hesitancy. And why is Dr. Smith so obsessed with “HIV denial” that she spends half of a statement on vaccines discussing it? It’s peculiar.

Anyway, that’s all I have to say about that, but I’m definitely noticing the guard going up again among the HIV AIDS propagandists, and I think we all know that RFK Jr’s book, The Real Anthony Fauci, was the catalyst that enabled the conversation to be reopened. It would probably have happened in some form in the wake of the Covid fiasco, but Kennedy’s book really did reopen the debate about the HIV AIDS story, and he had the ability to reach a large audience—it worked.

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If you’re a new reader and would like some background as to my views on HIV AIDS, including the “existence” question, please refer to this post and the links contained therein. My interview with Sam Bailey is also a great introduction.