A RESPONSE TO THE PUBLISHERS OF THE BOOK:
"LIFE AT THE CELL
I am disturbed by the reckless manner in which you are promoting this book Life at the Cell and Below-Cell Level; re: the following statement from your website:
"Looming danger -- AIDS - a disease unknown 25 years ago - is devastating the human population in entire sections of the African continent."
This brief statement contains significant three falsehoods.
1. The first is that AIDS is a disease -- it is a deficiency syndrome. Should you genuinely wish to make people think about their health in a new manner, this is a critical distinction. Deficiencies are not contagious (or weren't before the invention of AIDS) and a syndrome is a collection of symptoms and, as I am sure your research has shown, the symptoms of "AIDS disease" vary widely from patient to patient and from nation to nation (in America alone the CDC defines 29 different manifestations of AIDS).
2. The notion that such immunity deficiency syndromes didn't exist 25 years ago would be easily dismissed should you wish to consult the Merck Pharmaceutical Manuals of the past 50 years. Note the following excerpt from T.C. Fry's THE GREAT AIDS HOAX:
"Is AIDS A New Disease? What is now called AIDS is an aggregate of many diseases that have actually existed in medical literature for several decades. ¶ The Merck Manual, literally a physician's bible, and Dorland's Medical Dictionary were used in compiling this list of diseases known as "immunodeficiency diseases." The editions used were published before AIDS was devised and foisted upon our population. acronyms for AIDS were as follows: CID (Combined Immunodeficiency Disease), CIDS (Combined Immunodeficiency Syndrome), IDS (Immunodeficiency Syndrome) and SCID (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency."
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A. THE AFRICAN AIDS EPIDEMIC: NEW AND CONTAGIOUS - OR - OLD UNDER A NEW NAME? From Peter Duesberg to the AIDS panel, 6/22/00: "However, it is evident from the WHO data that the African AIDS epidemic is not following the bell-shaped curve of an exponential rise and subsequent sharp drop with immunity, that are typical of infectious epidemics. Instead it drags on like a nutritionally or environmentally caused disease (Seligmann et al., 1984), that steadily affects, what appears to be only a very small percentage of the African population."
B. From the CIA World Factbook 2001, we have comparative annual population growth rates for selected countries:
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C. Note that the CIA World Factbook annual population growth rates for Sub-Saharan Africa are lower than those published by the World Bank but are considered more current: http://www.worldbank.org/depweb/english/modules/basdata/bdata/datasubsbasic.htm
I'll close my challenge with a quote from the British medical journal, The Lancet:
Before the days of AIDS in
Thank you for your attention. Now might you be so bold as to remove these offensive references from your website?