David Rasnick, PhD, is a scientist with over two decades of pharmaceutical experience, renowned for his work on the aneuploidy theory of cancer, protease inhibitors, and his role on South Africa’s Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.
In other words, he knows a lot about cancer and AIDS.
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David wrote a fantastic commentary on the death of science, called The Tyranny of Dogma, in which he argues that institutional despotism suppresses dissent and perpetuates junk science through a systemic corruption of professional and governmental institutions.
'Science died in the 1980s'
Put simply, he argues that science is dead because powerful interests suppress disagreement and dissent.
Stanford’s John Ioannidis has spent two decades demonstrating why the overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed science is either fabricated or sheer nonsense.
Even editors of science journals agree.
Journals have devolved into information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry.
—Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, 2004
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.
—Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, 2009
Most of what appears in peer-reviewed journals is scientifically weak.
—Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ
Okay, so we've established that 'trusting the science' is a stupid idea.
Don't trust the science.
After all, why should science be trusted? The claim doesn't make any sense.
HIV/AIDS doesn't exist
The Perth Group is easily one of the most compelling dissident scientific sources around, having operated for over 40 years, arguing that HIV hasn’t been proven to exist as a distinct virus. They have many published papers.
Their position is that scientists have not shown that:
- HIV is a real, unique virus from outside the body
- HIV tests specifically detect ‘HIV’ infection
- HIV causes AIDS by damaging the immune system or leads to its symptoms
- HIV spreads through blood or sex
- a virus called ‘HIV’ passes from mother to child or can be stopped with ARVs
Kary Mullis, a chemist awarded the Nobel Prize for inventing PCR, investigated AIDS for ten years and concluded:
It’s not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There are no such documents.
He couldn’t find any link between an alleged virus called HIV and its subsequent syndrome called AIDS.
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David arrived in South Africa in the 1990s to advise the then-president, Thabo Mbeki, who was recalled after he publicly (and correctly) questioned the link between HIV and AIDS, wondering why it primarily affected Black people.
Interestingly, his 2001 Presidential Aids Advisory Panel Report highlights the unreliability of PCR tests, and, over two decades later, I have realised that he was right all along and everyone—including me—incorrectly dismissed him back then.
