For more than a decade my newspaper, New York Native, warned New York and the rest of the world that HHV-6 was the key to the AIDS epidemic and was causing all kinds of other problems like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and cancer. The New York Times and the rest of the media mocked my newspaper and was happy when it went out of business.You can read the story of my newspaper's struggle to get the word out about HHV-6 in Truth to Power.
Perplexity on the implications of Rebecca Culshaw Smith's critique of HIV
If Rebecca Culshaw’s HIV critique on Substack were factually correct, it would imply that the overwhelming majority of modern AIDS research—potentially tens of thousands of studies and policy frameworks—would require retraction or radical re‑evaluation. Her position is that the connection between HIV and AIDS is unproven or misinterpreted, meaning that almost all virological, pharmacological, and epidemiological work based on that premise would collapse. Scope of Research Impact Since the 1980s, more than 300,000 peer‑reviewed papers have been published citing HIV as either the cause or major cofactor of AIDS. These encompass molecular biology, immunology, pharmacology, antiretroviral drug development, epidemiology, vaccine research, and global health policy. If HIV were not the etiologic cause, the chain of inference underlying nearly this entire corpus would be invalidated, necessitating retraction or reinterpretation of most AIDS‑related literature. Culshaw’s C...