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All kinds of diseases started coming into the AIDS family

faster than anyone should have been comfortable with, really.

To go from 2 or 3 to 30 in a few years

was like somebody should have said, hey, there's something wrong here and it's got to be financial.

Things don't happen that fast in science.

You don't suddenly notice that one new organism is causing every problem.

I mean, it was a bizarre thing that happened.

It really was. It didn't really have any precedence in terms of medicine before that

unless perhaps you could think of the possession by the devil stuff, right?

You see, once you're possessed by the devil, anything that happens to you or anything you do has got to do with that, right?

So it makes it easier for you to get tuberculosis and it makes it easier for you to get uterine cancer.

It makes it easier for you to get candida albicans. And so all those things can now be called AIDS.

Now, why would anybody do that?

And why would any reasonable doctor start lumping together various symptoms into one pile and think all this is caused by HIV?

Dr. Cary Mullis, who invented the polymerase chain reaction,

gives this in 83, I believe, and he got the Nobel Prize in 1993.

He gives this little story that he was hired to do PCR for an HIV project for a private company and he wrote as the first sentence of his paper,

HIV is the probable cause of AIDS.

And he said he turned to a virologist and said, what's the reference for that?

And the virologist said, you don't need it.

Well, Mullis is smart enough to know, of course, something new as this, you'd always have a series of original papers that established unequivocally

that this was the cause of AIDS. Then, only then, I started looking into it.

I looked up a bunch of papers in science that Bob Gallo, I knew about him and had written.

I figured, well, Gallo must have been the one to figure it out because he's the name I've heard associated with it.

I looked at his papers and I didn't find anything in there that actually showed me that there was a fact now in science

called HIV is the cause of AIDS, or even the probable cause of AIDS, which is all I would have expected, the

probable cause of AIDS, highly probable, because they were attacking the whole problem by then as though it were certainly the

cause. So I'd expect it to be highly probable, but I couldn't find anything that said it was remotely probable even.

It was possible, but it wasn't probable,

and so therefore it wasn't even close to what you'd call a fact.