AIDS post-HIV : beat of a different drummer - AltHeal

we receive many more items than we can
accommodate”.
We submitted an almost identical letter in May to
N AT U R E, which has been equally rejected with
the following comment from the Editor: “...your
letter did not compete very well with the many
other letters that we are currently considering”.
We believe that the letter is calling attention to
considerable uncertainty in methods initialy used
to support the “discovery” of retroviruses and in
the use of the enzyme reverse transcriptase (RT)
as a surrogate marker for so-called “HIV”.
We also believe that the rejection of this letter by
both S C I E N C E and N ATURE is additional
evidence for the level of CENSORSHIP which is
currently applied to prevent any open debate into
the fundamentals of AIDS research.
Etienne de Harven
Emeritus Professor of Pathology, University of
Toronto, Canada
Gordon Stewart
Emeritus Professor of Public Health, University of
Glasgow, UK
A d d ress for correspondence.- Etienne de
Harven, “Le Mas Pitou”, 2879 Route de grasse,
06530 Saint Cézaire sur Siagne, France
Cell membrane vesicles are a major contaminant of gradientenriched
human immunodeficiency virus type-1 preparations.
Gluschankof P. et al. Virology, 1997; 230:125-133
“Material sedimenting in sucrose..is very heterogous and
contains large amounts of cell debris and microvesicles as
recently confirmed by two diff e rent groups of investigators.”
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