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  • Valendar Turner

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  • HIV Isolation

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  • HIV Isolation Validity

  • HIV Pictures

  • T Lymphocytes

  • Robert Gallo

  • Luc Montagnier

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  • The contents discuss the controversy around HIV's existence, focusing on Gallo's research. It questions the methods used and the validity of the findings.

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  • This content discusses the evidence for the existence of HIV, a retrovirus associated with AIDS. It examines four papers published by Dr. Robert Gallo and his colleagues, which aimed to isolate and identify the virus. The papers describe experiments involving T-lymphocyte cells from AIDS patients and the detection of retroviral-like particles. The content questions the rigor of the experiments and highlights the need for further evidence to conclusively prove the existence of HIV. It emphasizes the importance of isolating the virus to support the hypothesis. The content also mentions the use of antibodies from AIDS patients and rabbits to study the viral proteins. Overall, it suggests that more research is needed to establish the existence of HIV.

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  • HIV

  • Evidence

  • Existence

  • Viral strains

  • RNA blueprint

  • Retroviral-like particles

  • Density gradient ultracentrifugation

  • T-lymphocyte cells

  • AIDS patients

  • Reverse transcriptase

  • Robert Gallo

  • Luc Montagnier

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By Valendar Turner
Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Perth
Hospital, Perth, Western Australia

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The real purpose of scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking something you don't actually know... One logical slip and an entire scientific edifice comes tumbling down. One false deduction about the machine and you can get hung up indefinitely.

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Now, are you ready for that scientist? His name is Galileo Galilei, a man no stranger to heresy. Perhaps we should heed his counsel and begin to trust our own sparks. I say the sooner the better. *

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