7.5. Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis.
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This article is from the AIDS FAQ, by Dan Greening with numerous contributions by others.
7.5. Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis.
Please see Q5.3 `HIV the cause of AIDS?' for introductory information
on this question.
The Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis
(hereafter just 'Group' for short) is an organization of scientists,
AIDS-activists and educators, and other concerned persons, currently
numbering around four hundred. As their name indicates, the Group
wishes for the scientific community to reexamine an hypothesis which
they believe to have been prematurely, dogmatically, and even
dangerously, accepted. Many or most of the best known AIDS-skeptics
are members of the Group, including Peter Duesberg, Robert
Root-Bernstein, John Lauritsen, Eleni Eleopoulos, Michael Callen, Jad
Adams and Kary Mullis. The Group may be contacted at 2040 Polk
St. Suite 321, San Francisco, CA 94109 USA; Fax: 415-775-1379. The
Group publishes a newsletter entitled Rethinking AIDS, for which a
$25/year donation is requested.
The Group came into existence as a result of efforts to get the
following four sentence letter published in a number of prominent
scientific journals, including Nature, Science, JAMA, The New England
Journal of Medicine, and Lancet. As of October 1993, all have refused
to do so.
"It is widely believed by the general public that a retrovirus called
HIV causes the group of diseases called AIDS. Many biomedical
scientists now question this hypothesis. We propose that a thorough
reappraisal of the existing evidence for and against this hypothesis
be conducted by a suitable independent group. We further propose that
critical epidemiological studies be devised and undertaken."
The members of the Group do not necessarily agree with each other on
the precise nature and causes of "AIDS;" all they automatically have
in common is disbelief that HIV (sole) causation of AIDS has been
scientifically established.
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