Science Sold Out: Does HIV Really Cause AIDS? by Rebecca Culshaw


My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Very short book, almost pamphlet length by a Mathematician who did her PhD in modeling HIV. I would put it with Serious Adverse Events as an nice intro to the question of whether or not one should believe that HIV really causes Aids. She finally just became fed up that the numbers just could not be made to work. 1)The mortality rate of those on Anti Viral drugs due to testing positive for HIV being several times higher than those who have tested positive for HIV and it was left untreated. 2)People in the US have tested positive to HIV at the same rate since testing began in the early 80s. Yet the number of people with AIDS has not been consistent.

The most interesting fact to me, was that rapidity with which scientific papers went out of date. The author coming from a math background was used to being able to cite a paper 2-3 years old and be taken as being current. In the HIV research world, you can't get such work published because research that old is considered out of date. Yet those in the mainstream will talk about the overwhelming evidence that HIV causes AIDS by pointing to the tens of thousands of papers published on the subject (Most of them beyond the 2-3 year window).

It is a short read that is not super technical that I recommend highly.

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