Important comment
Is HIV sexually transmitted or sexually acquired?
Readers are no doubt aware of the Perth Group and their immense contributions to the HIV AIDS debate. I received the following comment on my recent post, I have a question for you, in which I asked what people’s opinions are regarding whether AIDS is an STD or not. (Although I could have just as easily asked the same about “HIV,” despite the lack of a causal relationship.) The comment was written by Dr. Valendar Turner of the Perth Group and it addresses the question of whether HIV is an “unconventional” (unidirectionally transmitted) STD. I reprint this with his permission, because it’s a perspective that is too important not to share. I encourage you all to read and weigh in with your thoughts below.
(Also, do check out the “Grim Reaper” advertisement embedded below. It’s almost worse than some PrEP ads I’ve seen, though in an entirely different way.)
The Perth Group
September 5th 2023
The Perth Group "AIDS – SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED OR SEXUALLY ACQUIRED?" was the last manuscript the late Eleni Papadopulos submitted for publication [1]. In it she did not question the authenticity of HIV, HIV "isolation", or the antibody and “viral load” tests (PCR). Her premise was that STIs and STDs are bi-directionally spread. This means epidemiologists cannot prove HIV or AIDS an STD without distinguishing between insertive and receptive sexual partners. With heterosexuals this is unambiguously defined by gender. Since homosexual men may practise either or both insertive and/or receptive intercourse, making this distinction is problematic.
As a thought experiment, one can choose to ignore the latter and focus on heterosexual evidence. In fact, one can go even further. One can temporarily accept there is proof for male-to-female transmission and ask, "What is the evidence that sex between HIV positive females and HIV negative males causes the latter to seroconvert"? From the most oft cited prospective studies she concluded there was no such evidence. She then asked, if HIV were an unconventional STI/STD, that is, can be unilaterally sexually transmitted male-to-female, (invoking pregnancy as a metaphor), how do the heterosexual males get infected? (In order that they can infect the females).
In the manuscript she reasoned, "In terms of a retroviral infection this can only signify the male partner first acquiring HIV by non-sexual means following which he transmits it to the passive [female] partner. However, unless one accepts that millions of heterosexual males (including Africans) are haemophiliacs, transfusion recipients or drug addicts, this is a highly unlikely explanation. [I venture it exceeds the distance to Alpha Centauri]. Hence, one is obliged to search for evidence for an alternative interpretation in the passive [female] partners...That is, factors other than a retroviral infection that can explain acquired immune deficiency (low T4 cell count) and antibody reactions with test kit antigens". The latter means a positive antibody test [1].
Bear in mind the only proof for sexual transmission is epidemiological studies. Unpacking these, there are no RCT type studies. RCTs are inconceivable because they are ethically forbidden. One would need to recruit a group of people and randomly assign half to become the sexual partners of people with HIV infection, and then compare the proportion that develop HIV infection in this group to the corresponding proportion in the other half that did not have sexual partners with HIV infection. That leaves observational studies which are not randomised. The vast majority of these are cross-sectional which, by definition, have no time element. Thus they cannot prove transmission. In its Basic Epidemiology book, even the WHO concedes cross-sectional studies “weak” in the hierarchy of different types of study to "prove" causation” [2]. “Weak” does not justify pitching Grim Reapers at 30 million heterosexuals [3]. There are a few prospective studies and even fewer regularly held up as proof.
Professor Stuart Brody, who has published numerous papers on sex and HIV, unpacked the epidemiologists' strategy. “The primary basis for considering heterosexual intercourse to be a significant source of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections is the logical exclusion process: patients acknowledge heterosexual intercourse, but deny homosexual and recreational intravenous activity (and contaminated transfusions)”. Furthermore, “At first, such a deductive process seems quite sound. But as one begins to consider the garbled nature of the sexual practice categories and the invalid reports of both fairly normal and psychopathological patient groups, the reasoning underlying this exclusion process disintegrates”. Brody concludes, “the basic issue of whether the patient or subject is responding honestly about their sexual and drug history is often given minimal attention. When it is addressed, it is noted as a source of error variance, but the transmission assumptions remain fixed”.
A propos, in regard to the scant numbers of men infected by women, it is hard to beat the New York City Department of Health (NYCDOH), “AIDS Surveillance Update” data, 25th January 1989: “In New York City, the heterosexual AIDS capital of the United States, out of 18,000 cases diagnosed by early 1989, only 7 males have been identified as having gotten AIDS from heterosexual intercourse” [3].
If there is no retroviral explanation for HIV positive tests in female heterosexuals, how can one invoke a retroviral infection in anyone who tests HIV positive? In other words, the heterosexual data, even the female-to-male data alone, are sufficient reason to re-examine the HIV theory of AIDS.
Endnotes
1. Sixth file at http://theperthgroup.com/hivexist.html
2. Bonita, Ruth, Beaglehole, Robert, Kjellström, Tord & World Health Organization. (2006). Basic epidemiology, 2nd ed. World Health Organization. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/435413.
3. In 1987 Australia, heterosexual sex=death begat the three million dollar Grim Reaper campaign. This slick TV commercial was based on the belief that AIDS could "kill more Australians than World War II". For just over a minute young and old alike were treated to a nefarious, hooded, scythe-bearing animated corpse in black garb, launching a gigantic, two metre bowling ball at ten mums, dads, a footballer, terrified kids and a woman holding a baby. As the ball struck, nine fell to their deaths. The woman and baby required a second ball. The finale, redolent of the solitary, monumental cymbal clash in Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony, had the baby’s head snapping off. Eleven lifeless bodies, laying in a disjointed heap of smoke laden, end-of-times rubble, were then scraped away to make way for the next lot of victims. 72,814 Australian service men and women died in World War II. As of Dec 31st 2020, a cumulative total of 7962 Australians had died from AIDS.
4. Michael Fumento. 1990. The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS. New York: Basic Books. page 17.
5. In the 1980s and 1990s Papadopulos managed to get some papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. After that the orthodoxy grew tired of, and increasingly hostile to, dissidents. They did everything possible to prevent even a hint of heterodoxy reaching the populace. For instance, see [6] and Professor John Moore. In 2007 Moore emailed an AIDS dissident, "This IS a war, there ARE no rules, and we WILL crush you, one at a time, completely and utterly (at least the more influential ones; foot-soldiers like you aren't worth bothering with)” (his emphasis).
In 1993 Papadopulos argued that the HIV antibody tests have not been proven fit for purpose [7]. That is, to diagnose HIV infection. This paper was comprehensively ignored and her claim stands. Pragmatically Papadopulos then began focusing on other elements of the HIV theory, assuming, for the sake of argument, that HIV, HIV “isolation” and viral load are bona fide. By pointing out several “downstream” problems, she hoped scientists would eventually transplant their attention to the root cause of the HIV theory. That is, to HIV itself, and the tests claimed to prove infection with it. Note that she did have one last attempt at the root but no editor would touch it [8]. Such is the realpolitik of life as a scientist. Julius Robert Oppenheimer was surely reminiscing an antediluvian Eden in his 1953, “House of Science” BBC Reith Lecture: “We go in and out; even the most assiduous of us is not bound to this vast structure. One thing we find throughout the house: there are no locks; there are no shut doors; wherever we go there are the signs and usually the words of welcome. It is an open house, open to all comers [9].
6. http://theperthgroup.com/HIV/TPGVirusLikeNoOther.pdf#page=36. (From line 4).
7. http://www.theperthgroup.com/SCIPAPERS/EPENatBioTech1993.pdf
8. http://theperthgroup.com/HIV/TPGVirusLikeNoOther.pdf
9. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/radio4/transcripts/1953_reith6.pdf
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I wrote in another post that it's preposterous to say Black African's have been decimated by 'HIV/AIDS' when white people in the West are largely untouched. It's like saying they're oversexed savages who are having so much random, wonton sex that they're being infected by great numbers than their more moral puritan white western counterparts. This racist idea is so easily shot down it's baffling to me why it's believed there's been a great pandemic of AIDS in African heterosexual when one hasn't existed in he West.
For instance, using other STI's as a measure of sexual frequency, a study by Newman et al. (2013) found that the estimated annual incidence rate per 1000 population of chlamydia infection among men aged 15-49 was 14.9 in sub-Saharan Africa and 19.0 in Western Europe. Among women aged 15-49, the rate was 25.6 in sub-Saharan Africa and 38.1 in Western Europe. The estimated annual incidence rate per 1000 population of gonorrhea infection among men aged 15-49 was 11.8 in sub-Saharan Africa and 11.9 in Western Europe. Among women aged 15-49, the rate was 9.8 in sub-Saharan Africa and 7.5 in Western Europe.
How can the mainstream say there's significant heterosexual transmission in Black African's but not in White Westerners???
Eleni can't possibly know how her efforts over the years freed many of us. I can tell you as a gay man that the LGBT community is trapped and most don't know it. I met a young 25yo gay men last year who was 'diagnosed' positive after doing meth for some time, and now he's been on the various antiretroviral drugs to suppress the 'viral load'. He told me that, at 25, he's already showing signs of bone loss in his vertebrate. I tried to talk to him about the nature of the tests, but he wouldn't hear me, he held onto his diagnosis and the drugs that will eventually ruin his body because he believed they're saving him. he developed the hallmarks of methamphetamine abuse such wasting/significant weight loss, but he was told those were the result of 'HIV'. It's nuts.
Eleni was the best and that's probably because she didn't go through the indoctrination process most AIDS scientists did at university. She was just smart as hell.