Opening a new Debate on HIV and the Causes of AIDS
Last week Principia Scientific International (PSI) caused a real stir by publishing an article highlighting the fact that an increasing number of eminent scientists and medical researchers are now questioning whether the consensus is right about the causes of AIDS.
In ‘More Scientists Question Whether HIV Causes AIDS‘ we showed that Peter Duesberg, professor of molecular and cell biology and one of the first scientists to isolate the cancer gene, says the consensus about AIDS is certainly wrong. Professor Duesberg and others are standing up to speak out as more evidence is streaming forth showing that HIV may be a harmless passenger virus.
Since running that story we have received numerous concerned messages that Principia Scientific International (PSI) is going down a blind alley questioning the AIDS orthodoxy. Well, please rest assured, PSI’s role in this is strictly as honest broker/devil’s advocate.
We intend to run more articles on this subject to cover all sides of the argument. PSI is most happy for our scientific members and those knowledgeable about this from the wider community to give us their opinions in the comments section of our articles. Indeed, those who wish to register as PSI members (its free throughout 2013) can more forcefully make their views known to us on the Members’ Discussion Forum on the “inside” of the site (log in details provided upon membership registration).
PSI’s senior fellows are initiating this debate as objective researchers asking all sides to come forward and present their best case. We want to generate the highest caliber of open critical review in the true spirit of the Popperian “falsifiability doctrine.” Thus, we say to all, please do tell us what you believe and then lay down an informed challenge to those with whom you disagree.
This may or may not prove our most daunting task yet. But PSI is engaging with the registed US charity, Office of Medical and Scientific Justice (OMSJ) for an initial six-month period to explore whether both organizations can sit comfortably together with this approach. Certainly, PSI members should rightly ask questions such as what is OMSJ’s policy concerning applying objective tests to verify their claims about HIV? For instance, please do contrast and compare OMSJ’s due diligence with that of our own whereby PSI has an explicit Policy Statement detailing how we assess new or controversial scientific claims.
I was impressed with OMSJ’s reply to me when I first put to them the reasonable concerns of PSI members. Their CEO, Clark Baker urges us to check out the work of Rethinking AIDS (RA), which lists 2700 “rethinkers” on their website.
“They’ve sponsored many conferences and would likely coordinate their next conference with your membership if you wished. I created OMSJ in part because RA and the Perth Group were so busy arguing that nothing meaningful got done. Their big conflict is that, the Duesberg corner (RA) accept that HIV exists and the Perthers say it does not.”
Like me, Clark has no dog in this fight. We simply want to find out the truth.
And surely, in science and medicine, curiosity and a willingness to be thorough in the search for the truth should be our driver. As such, in my capacity as PSI’s CEO I will be eager to see what actual empirical evidence each of the opposing sides possesses. Hopefully, within the next six months PSI will be closer to a more informed and agreed position so as we may serve our public interest duty to advance only the most honest and objective of assessments.
*** Plea for paid use of laboratory facilities for HIV research ***
Finally, OMSJ and PSI are actively searching for more scientists and medical researchers with access to laboratory facilities to help us in our quest to conduct EM HIV concentration and spiking experiments and provide society with more definitive answers on this controversial topic. Further fnding is now being sought to pay for all such services. For those able to assist in this mission please contact us.
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