In an article published in the Netherlands’ medical journal Genetica, Professor Peter Duesberg and David Rasnick, PhD, criticize the generally-accepted hypothesis that AIDS is caused by HIV. They propose instead that the use of recreational and/or toxic anti-HIV drugs is the primary cause of AIDS and that HIV is a “harmless passenger virus.”

In their article, the scientists explain that the AIDS epidemic does not have the characteristics of an infectious disease. First, unlike other infectious diseases, no single identifiable illness has been specifically linked to HIV and only HIV. The 30-plus illnesses attributed to AIDS occur in persons who test HIV positive and, also, in those who test negative.

Second, the progression of AIDS has been non-exponential and non-random in the United States and Europe. The authors explain: “…infectious epidemics, particularly viral epidemics, disappear again within weeks or months as a result of antiviral or microbial immunity and the selection of resistant survivors…..This generates the conventional bell curve, a rapid rise of cases within weeks or months, followed by a decline as immunity arises and susceptible hosts die out. But there is no evidence for the emergence of immunity as the AIDS epidemic continues to progress.” Non-exponential progression is characteristic of a lifestyle disease. Furthermore, the distribution of AIDS in the US and Europe is distinctly nonrandom: 86% are male; over 60% are homosexual; and 85% are 25-49 years old - the age group least likely to develop an infectious disease.