An Aerial View of Nothing

This week in the journal Nature, Hashim M. Al-Hashimi, PhD reports that he has created an aerial view of what Chapel Hill researcher Joseph M. Watts calls the HIV-1 RNA genome:

Bridging these disparate RNA structure–function scales as well as moving towards movies of the genome in functional motion will be challenges for the future. But for now, it seems that the quest for a high-resolution structure of the entire HIV-1 RNA genome has begun in earnest.

Like all other HIV/AIDS research reports, these reports provide no evidence that HIV actually attacks cells or causes AIDS.

It’s hard to imagine that a report (and citations) showing an alleged graphical representation of an HIV retrovirus would not include exactly what the alleged sample is or how it was isolated and obtained, which is sort of like praising the clarity of a mug shot but failing to identify exactly how the suspect is connected to an actual crime. In this way, Dr. Watts provides no “continuity of evidence” while Al-Hashimi explains how he might graphically depict HIV if and when the retrovirus is ever proven to 1) attack cells and 2) cause AIDS.

When I asked the the same question of National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) last June, they referred me to this South African advocacy group, which helps more than 1600 international mining companies avoid billions of dollars in liability by blaming the hundreds of thousands of mine-related lung disease injuries and death on irresponsible sex (e.g. HIV/AIDS). And when those low-income miners eventually succumb to the combination of their work-related diseases and toxic AIDS drugs, the mining and pharmaceutical companies use their mortality as evidence that "HIV is ravaging Africa" - thereby coercing US taxpayers and Congress to spend billions of additional dollars for toxic AIDS medications to poison and addict the dying miners and their impoverished families.

Ever since Peter Duesberg mapped the retrovirus genome and reported that HIV does not cause AIDS, researchers who receive millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical makers of HIV tests and drugs have used the pretext of "scientific research" to market AIDS mythology. Coincidentally, Duesberg and other skeptical researchers do not receive research funding from that industry.

This former Eli Lilly executive explains why.

More telling is that, while Dr. Duesberg’s papers have been published in the National Academy of Sciences, Watts and Al-Hashimi get their papers published in Nature – the same publication where its former Deputy Editor and Washington Bureau Chief praised this security guard and part-time filter salesman for exonerating the alleged co-discoverer of the HIV virus. If paid pharmaceutical consultants like Nature's former Washington bureau chief are impressed by security guards, Watts and al-Hashimi must be absolutely dazzling.

I sent this email to Dr. Al-Hashimi:

From: Clark Baker
Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 2:28 PM
To: 'hashimi@umich.edu'
Subject: Aerial view of the HIV genome

Dr. Hashimi:

In your recently reported discovery in the journal Nature, you conclude:

Bridging these disparate RNA structure–function scales as well as moving towards movies of the genome in functional motion will be challenges for the future. But for now, it seems that the quest for a high-resolution structure of the entire HIV-1 RNA genome has begun in earnest.

While I celebrate your achievement, your report provides no conclusive evidence that HIV attacks cells or causes AIDS. Since it is not included in your report or in your citations, can you provide evidence that shows exactly who, when, how and where this was accomplished? OMSJ asked the same thing at NIAID last June, but they referred us to a pharmaceutically-funded South African marketing group.

If you cannot provide OMSJ with evidence that HIV attacks cells and causes AIDS, can you provide your rationale for investigating what otherwise appears to be a harmless retrovirus?

Sincerely,

Clark Baker
Office of Medical & Scientific Justice, Inc.
3940 Laurel Canyon Blvd #428
Studio City, California 91604
http://www.omsj.org/ (under construction)

I’ll let you know if he writes back.