| Science Sold Out: Does HIV Really Cause AIDS? |  | Author: Rebecca Culshaw
Creator: Harvey Bialy
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
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There are many well-established scientific reasons that the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is highly doubtful. In Science Sold Out, Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system. It is rare that a researcher who has received funding to study HIV ever expresses any doubt in the paradigm, and an even rarer event still when she abandons the field altogether. This book focuses on the changing definition of AIDS and the flaws in all HIV testing. In a much broader sense, it explains how the current, government-based structure of scientific research has corrupted science as the search for truth. It offers not only scientific reasons for HIV/AIDS being untenable, but also sociological explanations as to how the theory was accepted by the media and the world so quickly. In particular, this book offers a scathing criticism of the outrageous discriminatory measures that have been leveled at HIV-positives from the inception.
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 Tells the truth by examining the facts.... April 14, 2007
Louie Ville (Tuk-Son)
35 out of 53 found this review helpful
Science has indeed sold out and this book outlines the horrifying events that have resulted. Is it any wonder, considering how corporatized our culture has become, that Science too would fall prey to the almighty bottom line. The brand of science used in support of HIV is highly specious and has far more in common with religious dogma than with real science, and Dr. Culshaw brilliantly and succinctly exposes that dogma, at every turn.
The previous reviewer (Kate Volpe) is typical of the AIDS apologists frequently described in the book. Her review employs the cliched propaganda of the status quo in a pathetic attempt to malign Dr. Culshaw's character, while carefully neglecting to deal the many salient issues that this book boldly addresses. Such underhanded tactics seem to be the norm when one defends HIV, for its also seems that the theory has proven to be quite devoid of tangible explanatory value. Furthermore, Ms. Volpe's exaggerated incredulity is simply appalling, and I shudder to think of a future where there are no more people still buying "these kind of books", for many more of these kinds of books - books that reveal unpopular truths - will be necessary if we are to have hope for the future, given the present state of things. Regardless, we need to restore rigor and objectivity to Science, and we can only do that by honestly assessing its present unsound condition. Removing the numerous conflicts of interests that are exemplar in HIV science is a good place to start.
Of course, we could all go merrily along our way, mindlessly believing the pollyanna spewed forth by rubes like Ms. Volpe, but I'll think we'll all be better served if there is a public examination of the disputed "facts" used in support of HIV. Either way, I'll personally continue to require my facts to be a product of the evidence, unfettered by preconceived expectations and most certainly not mere statements of faith based on a corrupt consensus. That said, let's compare Ms. Volpe's notion of "fact" to Ms. Culshaw's.
Ms. Volpe writes:
"The facts are that HIV treatment is remarkably effective and has given people with HIV a new lease on life. The facts are that our focus now is getting these effective medications to the developing world, to the millions of children and adults who will die otherwise."
Contrast that fact-less tripe with the following quote from the book that we are presently reviewing:
"So healthy people stay healthy for a while and this is credited to the drugs--but there is no evidence to say that they would not have remained healthy even if they never took any medication at all. This is due to the fact that clinical trials of "anti-HIV" drugs rarely if ever use placebo controls, so there is no way to determine whether, for example, nevirapine is better than nothing...activists and researchers alike defend this fundamentally unscientific notion by saying that denying toxic drugs to HIV-positives is "unethical". "
As this passage demonstrates, anyone who values reason over emotion will discover many insights by reading this book, and you will equally discover that no harm will come from that simple act, contrary to what HIV pundits would have you believe. In fact, your experience may be similar to my own, and you may find yourself shocked and furious to discover the low standards by which HIV=AIDS has been measured. Regardless, this brief excerpt from Dr. Culshaw's book demonstrates that propaganda and fear-mongering are inferior to reason when evaluating the facts of any matter.
In closing this review, it should be noted that the new leading cause of death with HIV-positive AIDS patients is "liver failure" -- most likely due to the toxic medications that Ms. Volpe wants to ceremoniously deliver to the developing world. Of course, HIV defenders hide this fact by labeling all HIV-positive AIDS deaths as being "from complications of AIDS." Well, it is imperative to our collective health that we all better understand what those "complications" really entail, and you can certainly get a better understanding of that nebulous phrase by reading this very important book.
A damning indictment of modern medical research January 17, 2007
Frank Lusardi
34 out of 53 found this review helpful
Noting the long recognized near impossibility of isolating HIV particles even from advanced AIDS patients, Culshaw remarks: "The farcical concept of viral load was invented to crate the illusion of correcting this embarrassing fact." This book demonstrates that the entire theoretical edifice of HIV/AIDS is an illusion, a vast farce, now a faith, the greatest blunder in the history of medicine. It will forever shame what we today accept as "science" that a courageous young mathematician, armed with one brief volume, can so easily discredit twenty years of Earth's most advanced research enterprise.
Clear and easy-to-read devastation of the HIV-AIDS hypothesis January 19, 2007
C. Cline
34 out of 54 found this review helpful
In just 100 pages, this deceptively slender volume shreds the standard account of HIV and its relationship to AIDS. Though Culshaw is obviously outraged by the collusion of government, medical/scientific, and media establishments in silencing debate about HIV and AIDS, this book is no mere polemic. The science behind Culshaw's (and other dissenters') objections to the party line is dispassionately and rigorously argued from start to finish.
Readers might disagree with Culshaw's conclusion that the HIV hypothesis was always about behavior control and the disempowerment of homosexuals and blacks, with money and power only secondary motivations, but it is a welcome antidote to the perception that AIDS dissenters are themselves homophobic or racist in their intentions.
An excellent summary of the evidence that HIV is not the cause of AIDS January 18, 2007
Henry H. Bauer (Blacksburg, VA)
24 out of 40 found this review helpful
That HIV does not cause AIDS could hardly be stated more cogently, compactly, readably, and even comprehensively than in this book. The overall lack of logic and substance in the conventional wisdom is demonstrated, for example, Peter Duesberg is everywhere called "discredited" yet there is no published record anywhere of what that discrediting is. Culshaw points out how low are the standards of official arguments, which say things like "You don't need a reference that HIV causes AIDS," or "The fact that HIV and AIDS are so well correlated indicates that it must be the cause," when perhaps the first lesson in Statistics 101 is that correlations don't prove cause.
If anyone is willing to read just one "dissident" book about HIV/AIDS, this would be the ideal choice among some very worthy contenders.
Finally a science book on HIV/AIDS that all can understand! February 20, 2007
Michael Geiger (San Diego)
21 out of 36 found this review helpful
Five stars is not enough. This book deserves a THOUSAND!
Finally a science book on HIV/AIDS that all can understand! Thank you Rebecca for this wonderful contribution to our understanding of the paradigm of HIV/AIDS. Once I began to read it, I could not put it down. And fortunately, it was to the point, understandable to everyone, and very neatly presented in a quick and easy to read package. I salute and thank you for this wonderful contribution to mankind, that sums up the issue of HIV, AIDS. It exposes the the frailty and flaws of man and science that have unfortunately distorted what would otherwise have been simple and obvious critical thinking on the emotional issues surrounding HIV and AIDS! This is a must read for all of mankind, that can enable us all to do our part to save ourselves from ourselves and from flaws in our understanding of science and medicine.
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