James Barrington - Pandemic

Second, the worldwide rate of infection has been doubling about once every twelve to fourteen months – an exponential increase. Simple mathematics predicts that, unless some positive action is taken to halt the spread of AIDS, everybody in the world will eventually contract the disease within the foreseeable future. If that happens, the entire human race could cease to exist within one or two generations. As Dr John Seale said: ‘The war against AIDS is a war of survival. If we lose, Britain and all her people will perish.’ [12] Problems Associated with AIDS . House of Commons Third Report from the Social Services Committee Session 1986–87. Minutes of Evidence (8 April–13 May 1987). Memorandum by Dr John Seale, Royal Society of Medicine. Full transcript at URL: http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?id=519 .

Third, there is no cure, and it is quite possible that there never will be a cure. For that depressing news, we can thank mathematics as well as virology.

There are at least six different varieties of the AIDS virus infecting the human population, and each is a recombinant retrovirus. The word ‘recombinant’ means that the virus has the ability to change and recombine into a new strain at will, and it has been calculated that each variety of the AIDS virus has a recombinant potential of about nine thousand to the power of four. For the six known varieties, therefore, the number of possible new strains is inconceivably huge – it’s actually the number 354,294 followed by twenty-one zeros. To put that into perspective, we’re talking about unbelievably massive numbers, such as the total number of grains of sand on all the beaches in the world, or the number of stars in the universe. To develop a cure for each strain would be simply impossible – the number is just too enormous. And we’re nowhere near finding a cure for even one strain yet.

But if the foregoing is true, why haven’t the news media seized on this information and trumpeted it to the world? Well, it certainly isn’t for the want of people and organizations trying to get the information promulgated, but in virtually every case the articles, letters and reports have been ignored, apparently because the information they contained was considered ‘too controversial’.

As was stated by Dr John Seale when discussing the infectivity of AIDS: ‘The scale of the deceptions and misinformation perpetrated by virologists, clinicians and editors of scientific and medical journals about the infectivity of genital secretions, compared with that of blood and saliva, has been astonishing. In the presence of a new, lethal virus, spreading amongst people, for which no vaccine or cure is in sight, every person would assume that scientists have been working day and night to verify how it is transmitted.

‘On the contrary, having assumed for a variety of motives that AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease like syphilis or gonorrhoea, a negligible research effort has gone into the critical matter of transmission. A few preliminary papers were published and their findings have been repeatedly quoted as showing the opposite of what they actually showed. When this was pointed out in letters to the editors of American medical and scientific journals, publication has been refused. No attempt has been made to check or double-check the findings in other laboratories, or to rectify published errors’. [12] Problems Associated with AIDS . House of Commons Third Report from the Social Services Committee Session 1986–87. Minutes of Evidence (8 April–13 May 1987). Memorandum by Dr John Seale, Royal Society of Medicine. Full transcript at URL: http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?id=519 .

An American doctor, Robert B. Strecker, a practising gastroenterologist who holds a Ph.D. in pharmacology and is a trained pathologist, spent five years investigating the AIDS phenomenon, and then attempted to interest the world in what he had discovered. Virtually every letter and article he wrote was ignored.

Almost in desperation, he and his brother compiled some of the most damaging documents he had uncovered into a report which he called ‘This is a Bio-attack Alert’. [3] This is a Bio-attack Alert by Theodore A. Strecker M.D., Ph.D., 28 March 1986. URL: http://www.umoja-research.com/bio-attack_doc.htm . Copies of this were sent to the governor of every one of the United States, the President, the Vice-President, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and selected members of Congress. He got replies from three of the governors and nothing at all from anybody else. His story is typical, and certainly not unique.

What is perhaps not so typical of Dr Strecker is what then happened around him.

First, the CIA warned all agencies that he was a Communist and instructed them not to take anything he said seriously. That, despite the fact that this allegation was a complete fiction, appeared to work.

Second, his office was burgled but, interestingly, only papers and documents were taken, but nothing of any commercial value.

Third, on 11 August 1988, his brother Ted was found dead of gunshot wounds at his home in Springfield, Missouri. He was an apparent suicide, although he had been in good spirits, said no goodbyes and left no note or message. He had been actively assisting his brother Robert in trying to uncover links between the American Department of Defense and the development of HIV.

Fourth, on 22 September 1988, Illinois State Representative Douglas Huff of Chicago was found dead alone at home, the victim of an overdose of heroin and cocaine. Douglas Huff was almost a lone voice in the wilderness, the only person who thought Robert Strecker’s theories were of sufficient importance to give him very vocal and very public support. He gave frequent press interviews and appeared on radio and television programmes urging people to be aware of the huge cover-up surrounding AIDS. [16] ‘ The Strecker Memorandum ’. URL: http://www.konformist.com/1999/aids/strecker.txt .

Of course, all these events could be completely unrelated, entirely innocent and totally unconnected with Robert Strecker’s work. And, then again, pigs might fly but most people would agree that they make unlikely aviators.

So, to return to the question posed earlier, what really happened?

The least likely scenario is that, uniquely in the history of virus infections, a naturally occurring sheep virus combined itself with a naturally occurring bovine virus, and simple chance tailored the resulting recombinant retrovirus into a form ideally suited to destroying the human immune system. Then the new virus made two species jumps: first from the sheep or cow in which it had been conceived into a green monkey, and then from the monkey into the human population where it’s been wreaking havoc ever since.

Almost nobody who’s actually done any proper research into AIDS, instead of simply relying on what’s been published in the media, really believes that, but it’s still the ‘official’ explanation. But no matter what one’s personal belief, it is possible to easily disprove this theory using the same entirely unrelated discipline already mentioned – mathematics.

Because, even if what may be termed the ‘green monkey scenario’ is, by some bizarre mechanism, correct, the numbers don’t work. As stated above, the rate of infection of AIDS is doubling about once every year. The first cases of AIDS in Africa occurred in 1972. If we assume that there was a single source of infection, and the number of victims doubled once every fourteen months, by 1987 there should have been about 8,000 cases of the disease in Africa. Even if the alleged green monkey had gone on a biting spree – for which, of course, there is not a shred of evidence – and had attacked hundreds of people at about the same time, there would still have been well under one million cases.