Hello, I’m Paul Franks and I’ve written a conspiracy-thriller called ‘A Dive Into Darkness’ based upon my four years researching HIV/AIDS. In this original podcast series, I’ll tell you everything you need to know about the book and its four-year writing process, from inspiration to publication, and all points in between. In Episode Nine of ‘A Dive Into Darkness’, ‘The Charlatan’, I will focus on the American scientist, Robert Gallo and his ‘AIDS virus’, HTLV-IIIB.
In Episodes Seven and Eight, I told you about the moment I discovered that the ‘HIV causes AIDS’ narrative was a house built on sand. In 2002, Luc Montagnier, awarded ‘The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008’ for his ‘discovery of human immunodeficiency virus’, admitted the only productive ‘HIV’ his laboratory had produced was a double contamination in the summer of 1983. This should have rendered all research post this date null and void.
However, it wasn’t the French who originally claimed the discovery of the AIDS virus – that dishonour lay with the Americans. How did it happen? Let me tell you. In July 1981, when the first cases of PCP pneumonia / Kaposi’s sarcoma and CMV infections were being brought to the medical world’s attention, one man already believed he knew what was the cause. Don Francis of the CDC said this was a cross between Feline Leukemia Virus and Hepatitis B. He quickly got the head of the CDC’s newly formed Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections Task Force, James Curran, on board his theory, that this was a single new disease, with a single new cause, an, as yet, undiscovered retrovirus. Francis convinced his PHD mentor, Max Essex and all three of them badgered Essex’s old friend, Robert Gallo to look for this retrovirus. It was a Gallo lecture that set the Paris scientists to begin looking for the retrovirus in late 1982.
Gallo’s team struggled to find the retrovirus until the autumn of 1982, when things suddenly began happening, coincidentally just after his laboratory received the doubly contaminated French virus LAV/LAI. By April 1984, Reagan’s government in an election year was looking for any good news it could get its hands on and even before Gallo published his findings in a science magazine, the Health Secretary announced that the ‘probable cause of AIDS has been found’, HTLV-IIIB.
The real story behind Gallo’s ‘triumph’ was revealed in the John Crewdson 2002 epic expose, ‘Science Fictions’. Every single one of Gallo’s claims about finding the AIDS virus, such as having one hundred isolations, as well as dozens of photos, turned out to be false. In 1993, an investigation of the LAV/LAI/HTLV-IIIB ‘virus’ which was named HIV-1 in 1986, concluded that the origin of the HTLV-IIIB was patient LAI, a product of a pooled culture, a witches’ brew, concocted by one of Gallo’s scientists, Popovic.
So, all the French had was a double contaminant. All the Americans had was that same double contaminant.
I now turned all my research energy into trying to discover the true cause of AIDS and I’ll begin telling you about that search in Episode Ten of ‘A Dive Into Darkness.’
Thank you for listening to Episode Nine of ‘A Dive Into Darkness’. I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, please tell your friends about it.
Till the next time, goodbye and happy reading.
‘A Dive Into Darkness’ is available both as an ebook and paperback, with Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-dive-into-darkness-paul-franks/1145527746?ean=9781917129855
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dive-Into-Darkness-Paul-Franks-ebook/dp/B0D32DP97S
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8502298/ The origin of HIV-1 isolate HTLV-IIIB
https://www.sciencefictions.net/
Science Fictions, John Crewdson
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