Hello, I’m Paul Franks and I’ve written a conspiracy-thriller called ‘A Dive Into Darkness’ based upon my four years researching HIV/AIDS. In this original podcast series, I’ll tell you everything you need to know about the book and its four-year writing process, from inspiration to publication, and all points in between. In Episode Eight of ‘A Dive Into Darkness’, ‘Patient BRU’, I will focus on the first of Luc Montagnier’s 1983  ‘HIV’ experiments.

In Episode Seven, I told you about the moment I discovered that the ‘HIV causes AIDS’ narrative was a house built on sand. In 2002, Luc Montagnier, awarded ‘The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008’ for his ‘discovery of human immunodeficiency virus’, admitted the only productive ‘HIV’ his laboratory had produced was a double contamination in the summer of 1983. This should have rendered all research post this date null and void.

Let’s look in detail at his ‘Patient BRU’ experiments and the resulting paper, ‘Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)’, published on May 20, 1983 and described as a seminal paper for the discovery and characterization of ‘HIV’. It is one of the most cited medical science papers of all time – ground zero as far as ‘HIV’ is concerned.

Patient BRU was a 33-year-old homosexual male who sought medical consultation in December 1982. BRU had a history of several episodes of gonorrhea and had been treated for syphilis in September 1982. During interviews he indicated that he had had more than 50 sexual partners per year and had traveled to many countries, including North Africa, Greece, and India. His last trip to New York was in 1979. Laboratory tests were positive for cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Epstein-Barr virus. Herpes simplex virus was detected in cells from his throat.

The cell cultures only survived thanks to a blood donation from a Spanish tourist, and then cells taken from umbilical cord tissue. The cell cultures’ activity levels were very low and Montagnier told us in 2002 that he ‘tried unsuccessfully to grow the BRU isolate in different T cell lines.’ In other words ‘BRU’ was a dud.

In 2009, a Swedish professor reviewed the paper and concluded: ‘in my view there is no evidence whatsoever in this paper that a new human retrovirus has been isolated! With the data presented, the virus they isolated could well have been HTLV-I or in particular HTLV-II. The paper was obviously written in haste, as acknowledged by Montagnier, and contains numerous errors and omissions in the figures legends.’

In fact, Montagnier himself was guarded as to what the experiments actually meant:

‘The role of this virus in the etiology of AIDS remains to be determined. Repeated infection by the same virus or other bacterial and viral agents may, in some patients, overload this early defense mechanism and bring about an irreversible depletion of T cells involved in cellular immunity.

Thank you for listening to Episode Eight of ‘A Dive Into Darkness.’ I hope you enjoyed it. In the next episode, I will look at Montagnier’s summer 1983 experiments which brought about the fatal double contamination.

Till the next time, goodbye and happy reading.

‘A Dive Into Darkness’ is available both as an ebook and paperback, with Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-dive-into-darkness-paul-franks/1145527746?ean=9781917129855 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dive-Into-Darkness-Paul-Franks-ebook/dp/B0D32DP97S  

https://www.penroseinquiry.org.uk/finalreport/pdf/LIT0013767.PDF  A History of HIV Discovery, Luc Montagnier

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2008/montagnier/facts/ 

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