Does the HIV virus really cause AIDS?
In your July 14 editorial The other global threat, you write ”unless more is done, 70 million people will die of AIDS by 2020.” Similar predictions have often been made and disproven. It’s the pharmaceutical industry that is interested in keeping the AIDS threat alive to sell more drugs. The HIV-AIDS hypothesis remains just that — a hypothesis. Many experts’ predictions turned out to be false. For example, contrary to the prediction that AIDS would rapidly spread into the heterosexual population, the disease in the United States is still restricted to 85 percent males. Yet HIV positives are found with equal frequency in healthy male and female Army recruits. This discrepancy doesn’t support the hypothesis that AIDS is caused by HIV. Is AIDS infectious? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the chance of getting infected by HIV is about one in 1,000 encounters. You are more likely to catch the flu from your sex partner, but is the flu considered a sexually tran
