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This is fantastic, thank you so much. I am very interested in more articles like this one. And I find the hypothesis quite plausible. I have read bits and pieces in other places during my research.

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for the HIV infections in Congo a plausible explanation. But for AIDS in the US there was an experimental vaccine made of chimpanzee plasma tested in gay men from 1978-1980. https://zenodo.org/records/13249978

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The theories of Duesberg about there not really being an HIV/AIDS link (from the mid 90s) are also quite interesting, especially in light of what we all learned about the public health community during COVID. When I fact checked his claims years ago, multiple problems he raised for the link were still problems today. For example a viral cause would yield equal numbers of men and women getting AIDS, and the original bias towards gay men was predicted to disappear as the virus spread. Yet there is still a strong bias towards men .... but only in the west, not in Africa, where the numbers are equal. This outcome isn't plausible for a virus, but is highly plausible given Duesberg's alternative theories (that cases in Africa are mostly fraud intended to tap into western financial aid tied to AIDS diagnoses and western cases are mostly mis-classifications of other problems that don't have a viral origin, driven by ideological biases in public health workers).

So perhaps it's a double fail: HIV (a not particularly harmful virus) jumped across to humans due to public health gone wrong, and its effects were then falsely linked to AIDS (a genuine condition with other causes) by the public health community again.

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This is garbage. Cancelling subscription.

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You call it garbage, but yet you were unable to supply even one sentence you think is garbage.

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Great article, I had never even HEARD of this before. Regarding the conclusion- I do not think it is fair to ascribe the motives of the involved researchers to "scientific hubris". We must remember that they were trying to cure Polio, a terrifyingly infectious virus. We are thankfully now well removed by time from the iron lungs and leg braces that so many children were consigned to, and it's easy to forget that there were quarantines, there were summers of death, and parents stood in line for hours for the CHANCE to vaccinate their child during the field trial stage. Perhaps the vaccine researchers weren't as careful as they should have been, but their motives were beyond reproach.

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A viral cause would most definitely not be expected to yield equal numbers of men and women getting AIDS. AIDS is hard to get, it is not transmitted by casual contact. Homosexual sodomy is very effective at transmitting the virus. Why is sodomy more effective at transmitting the virus than intercourse? The vagina is designed (by natural selection) for insertion of a penis. The rectum is not. It is filled with blood vessels and it is easier for semen to come in contact with blood in the rectum.

Why does homosexual sodomy more effectively transmit the virus than heterosexual sodomy? Because only in homosexual activities can a person be in both roles, inserter and recipient. A woman can become infected with HIV, but, once infected, she cannot inject her semen into the rectum of an uninfected person. Only male homosexuals, who also tend to be promiscuous, (and not use condoms, because they do not risk pregnancy), do so.

It is an interesting observation, though, that in Africa there are equal numbers. The theory I have heard is that in Africa, where the economic standard of living is much lower, hypodermic needles are in short supply, thus they are more likely to be reused in medical settings, and often not sterilized.

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Thank you for writing this—it was well worth it!

Can I subscribe to your articles somehow? And is there a way to be notified when you publish your book?

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Thanks for the terrific article, me and my dad co-wrote the first peer-reviewed paper arguing that this pandemic started in a lab, using a method called "serial passage" which is what also would've been used to make CHAT-OPV since it's how you make live-attenuated vaccines.

And then in April 2021 I wrote the article below, which lays out in great detail why as the end of your article alludes to: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic started when again a LAV reverted faster-than-expected:

https://www.harvard2thebighouse.com/p/understanding-covid-19-and-seasonal

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i am surprised you do not discuss the possibility of dna contamination of current mrna based vaccines. another similar conflict in explaining the dangers of modern technology ?

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I had always heard it was contracted by unhygienic practices as it pertained to burial rites. It was always said that because African's didn't use gloves, gowns, etc, and didn't wash correctly after the burial rites, they picked up aids. From there, it spread by sexual contact.

But that never explained how it hit the states and settled in the gay population in Los Angeles.

It also never explained how it remained in just that population, until it was spread by contaminated blood.

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Iirc, the missing link is a very promiscous gay man, Gaëtan Dugas: fluid is a bad vessel for a virus, unless the host does cruise too much in the Roaring Seventies.

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