By means of press releases to the public media, it was purported that AIDS was caused by HIV, even though HIV had not been found in every case of AIDS and had not been proven to cause AIDS in test animals. It had also not been proven to have any effect on the T-cells or human immune system, even though AIDS was supposed to be an immune deficient disease. And to add insult to injury, AIDS was declared to be highly contagious (infectious) and transmitted by sexual contact.

In fact, all the evidence is to the contrary. Let's look again at Koch's Postulates....

POSTULATE #1. THE CAUSE OF ANY DISEASE MUST BE FOUND IN EVERY CASE OF THE DISEASE. In all the research that has been done, no particle of the virus called HIV can be found anywhere in the tissues of most AIDS patients.(11) What has been found in a percentage of AIDS patients is the antibody against the virus called HIV. In fact, the famous HIV blood test does not test for the virus itself, but for the HIV antibody.(12) In simple terms, someone who has tested HIV Positive has not been found to have the HIV virus, but to have the antibodies against HIV.

Having the antibody against a virus means that the body's immune system -- at some point in the past -- detected the presence of the virus called HIV by means of its T4 "helper" cells, sent out the Killer T-cells to destroy all traces of the active virus itself (which is why no active HIV virus can be found in most HIV Positive AIDS patients), and developed special agents (antibodies) to combat any future harm from this particular invader. In short, being HIV Positive means that the body's immune system was functioning perfectly at the time, and all threats from whatever the virus called HIV might do had been neutralized within weeks after "infection."(13)

In addition, there have been over 4000 reported cases of AIDS where the patient was HIV Negative(14) -- meaning that not only did they not have the virus called HIV, but they also didn't have the HIV antibodies.

And there may be many more HIV Negative AIDS patients. It's difficult to give exact figures or percentages because only a small portion of diagnosed AIDS cases are tested for HIV. For instance, from 1985 to 1989, only seven percent (7%) of all AIDS cases in New York and San Francisco were tested for HIV, even though these two cities contributed over one-third of all AIDS cases in the U.S. that year.(15)

But the question of how many AIDS cases might have tested HIV Negative is moot. If there is even one case of AIDS without active HIV, then HIV fails Koch's Postulate Number One and cannot be the cause of AIDS.

KOCH'S POSTULATE #2. THE CAUSAL AGENT MUST BE ABLE TO BE ISOLATED FROM ALL OTHER MICROBES AND GROWN INDEPENDENTLY IN A LABORATORY CULTURE. Robert Gallo claims to have done this, along with others. Let's give him this one, although it appears that growing the virus called HIV is not a simple matter and requires very advanced technology.(16) (There is evidence to suggest that Robert Gallo also had to steal the special T-cell culture "HUT78" required to grow HIV in his own lab.(17))

KOCH'S POSTULATE #3. THE MICROBE MUST CREATE THE SAME DISEASE WHEN INTRODUCED INTO AN OTHERWISE HEALTHY BODY. Many attempts have been made to make the virus called HIV meet this criterion, and all have failed. For example, out of 150 lab chimpanzees who have been injected with purified HIV since 1984, none has yet developed AIDS.(18) Out of 5,000,000 medical professionals and AIDS researchers working with and treating more than 400,000 AIDS patients in the last ten years, there is not one case (other than anecdotal) in the scientific literature of a health care worker who contracted AIDS from a patient.(19) Out of 15,000 hemophiliacs in the U.S. infected with the virus called HIV prior to blood testing in 1984, fewer than two percent (2%) develop AIDS each year,(20) and their wives have not developed AIDS.(21)

But if the virus called HIV doesn't cause AIDS in animals or in whole human bodies, what about in individual human cells? Robert Gallo, in his patent application, claimed he was growing HIV in healthy T-cells. In fact, the HIV antibody blood test is made from virus that is mass-produced in T-cells which continue to grow, rather than die. According to Gallo himself, the virus called HIV does not kill the very T-cells it must kill in order to cause immune deficiency. Rather, T-cells and HIV seem to grow happily side-by-side.(22)

HIV clearly fails at least Koch's Postulates #1 and #3. To be deemed the cause of a disease, a microbe must meet all three. To solve this little problem, Robert Gallo and his HIV/AIDS team simply respond that Koch's Postulates are out of date and should be ignored.(23) Very convenient.