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 Seven of ‘A Dive Into Darkness’, ‘Eureka!’, I will begin telling you how and why I became an HIV heretic.

It’s February 2021 and I’ve spent 8 months researching the origins of HIV/AIDS, and written my first novel, ‘Race!’. Unfortunately, ‘Race!’ was based upon a theory I no longer believed in, that HIV was a product of flawed polio vaccine trials in Central Africa in the late 1950s. I was also struggling to have faith in the official HIV Causes AIDS narrative, the so-called Cut Soldier / Cut Hunter theory, which didn’t add up either. I had the feeling that when I got to the moment of HIV discovery, I would find something else that wouldn’t add up. I was correct. Watching the Channel 4 documentary ‘The Plague’ I discovered that there was a contamination in Montagnier’s laboratory which had been passed onto Gallo’s laboratory in Bethesda and to several other laboratories, including Robin Weiss’s UK laboratory which manufactured the UK’s AIDS testing kits, and the laboratory in the USA where the virus for the USA’s AIDS testing kits were manufactured.

I quickly look online and find an article written by Luc Montagnier, published in 2002. It states the following:

‘To better characterize the new virus, we tried (unsuccessfully)to grow the BRU isolate in different T cell lines. If we had tried the LAI isolate instead, we would have been able to grow the virus without any trouble.In October 1983, we were finally able to grow the BRU isolate in Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B cell lines, although we discovered later that the LAI virus had contaminated our BRU culture. At least six laboratories received the LAI sample (under

the name BRU) from our group and experienced the same contamination. We think that the LAI virus readily contaminated the BRU culture because it associates with a mycoplasma species, Mycoplasma pirum, usually present in T cell lines. This physical association makes a fraction of the Lal virus highly infectious. As mycoplasmas are common contaminants of cultured cells, an infectious pseudotype virus (LAI associated with Mycoplasma pirum) may have caused several contaminations between 1983 and 1984 in different laboratories.’  

I then look up mycoplasma contamination and find a 2002 paper, ‘Mycoplasma contamination of cell cultures: Incidence, sources, effects, detection, elimination, prevention’. It states that ‘The contamination of cell cultures by mycoplasmas remains a major problem in cell culture. Mycoplasmas can produce a virtually unlimited variety of effects in the cultures they infect. Besides the loss of an important culture, in the worst case, all experiments might be influenced by the infections and artefacts which are produced.’ I will look at this paper in more detail in future episodes.

I am stunned. Right from its inception in 1983, everything to do with HIV research was, literally, contaminated. There was no scientific basis for the HIV mafia’s claim that HIV was the cause of AIDS because there was no pure, killer virus called HIV.

Thank you for listening to Episode Seven of ‘A Dive Into Darkness.’ I hope you enjoyed it. In the next episode, I will continue telling you about how and why I became an HIV heretic. Till the next time, goodbye and happy reading.

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  "The End of The Beginning" The Plague Program 4 (1993 Documentary) - Jenny Barraclough

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

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3463982/pdf/10616_2004_Article_5113481.pdf Mycoplasma contamination of cell cultures: Incidence, sources, effects, detection, elimination, prevention

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