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A Dive Into Darkness
Hello,
I’m Paul Franks and I’ve written a conspiracy-thriller called ‘A Dive Into Darkness’ based upon 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 Six of ‘A Dive Into Darkness’, ‘The Cut Soldier - part two’, I will tell you about the dodgy science underpinning the official dating of the origin of HIV-1.
I have previously referred to the proponents of the official ‘HIV causes AIDS’ narrative as the ‘HIV Mafia’. What I mean by that is a small group of interconnected scientists and public health officials gained early control over nomenclature, publication, invitation to conferences, and history. For example, Beatrice Hahn, who I mentioned in Episode Five, one of the most zealous of the HIV zealots, and her husband George Shaw, another top-order zealot, both believe that HIV originated from a single chimpanzee and a single cut to a single hunter, were both working in the laboratory of Robert Gallo, of whom much more later, in 1983-84, whilst the laboratory was committing all sorts of scientific jiggery pokery. Gallo had been influenced to look for a retroviral cause of AIDS by Myron ‘Max’ Essex, and it was one of his students, Bette Korber, who, by 2000, was in charge of the HIV/AIDS Sequence Database. Other members of the ‘HIV causes AIDS’ mafia include: Don Francis, Robin Weiss, Simon Wain-Hobson, David Ho, James Curran and Anthony Fauci. Having read his autobiography, I exclude Luc Montagnier from that list.
According to Edward Hooper’s book, ‘The River’, early in February 2000 Korber appeared at a conference on retrovirology in San Francisco, and gave a presentation about dating the origin of the AIDS pandemic. She and her team, which included Beatrice Hahn, had used “the world’s fastest supercomputer” (which even had a name, Nirvana) to deduce that the common ancestor of HIV-1 Group M (“the Eve virus”) had existed in the year 1930, with a 95 percent confidence interval of plus or minus twenty years, giving a range of 1910 to 1950.
According to the gathered press, so far, so straightforward. Unfortunately, as with many apparently straightforward things, the origin of HIV was not as simple as that at all. The 1930 date was not the date when a human was first infected with HIV-1, it is simply the extrapolated date when, it is believed, the last common ancestor of HIV would have existed. We do not even know if that common ancestor was a chimp virus or a human virus. Hooper’s contention was that Hahn and Korber’s work was something of a sleight-of-hand, in that it related to an unproven ancestor and to a date of common ancestry that may not have meant very much in real terms.
Furthermore, it was quite difficult to reconcile their theory with good “Darwinian process.” Essentially, they required a chimp hunter who becomes infected in Gabon or Cameroon or Congo Brazzaville between 1910 and 1950, who does not pass on his infection to anyone locally, but instead migrated to the Belgian Congo. Then, at some moment in the fifties or sixties, this chimp hunter (or persons he has infected) needed to start causing pockets of infection in several different parts of the Congo (and perhaps Rwanda and Burundi), to establish the different subtypes. This is not linear progression, with infection passing from one place to the next. This requires several separate introductions of distinctive, yet equidistant, viruses into different populations. There was quite simply no mechanism in the Hahn/Korber theory to explain how these separate introductions may have occurred. Hooper was backed up by Korber’s mentor Gerry Myers, who also appears again in later episodes. Myers believed that several aspects of Korber’s work were flawed and, moreover, that she had overstated her case, supercomputer or not.
Thank you for listening to Episode Six of ‘A Dive Into Darkness.’ I hope you enjoyed it. In the next episode, I will be telling you about how and why I became an HIV heretic. 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
http://www.aidsorigins.com/wp-content/uploads/The-River-by-Edward-Hooper-2021-edition.pdf ‘The River’, Edward Hooper
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cascades.substack.com
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By Paul FranksHello,
I’m Paul Franks and I’ve written a conspiracy-thriller called ‘A Dive Into Darkness’ based upon 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 Six of ‘A Dive Into Darkness’, ‘The Cut Soldier - part two’, I will tell you about the dodgy science underpinning the official dating of the origin of HIV-1.
I have previously referred to the proponents of the official ‘HIV causes AIDS’ narrative as the ‘HIV Mafia’. What I mean by that is a small group of interconnected scientists and public health officials gained early control over nomenclature, publication, invitation to conferences, and history. For example, Beatrice Hahn, who I mentioned in Episode Five, one of the most zealous of the HIV zealots, and her husband George Shaw, another top-order zealot, both believe that HIV originated from a single chimpanzee and a single cut to a single hunter, were both working in the laboratory of Robert Gallo, of whom much more later, in 1983-84, whilst the laboratory was committing all sorts of scientific jiggery pokery. Gallo had been influenced to look for a retroviral cause of AIDS by Myron ‘Max’ Essex, and it was one of his students, Bette Korber, who, by 2000, was in charge of the HIV/AIDS Sequence Database. Other members of the ‘HIV causes AIDS’ mafia include: Don Francis, Robin Weiss, Simon Wain-Hobson, David Ho, James Curran and Anthony Fauci. Having read his autobiography, I exclude Luc Montagnier from that list.
According to Edward Hooper’s book, ‘The River’, early in February 2000 Korber appeared at a conference on retrovirology in San Francisco, and gave a presentation about dating the origin of the AIDS pandemic. She and her team, which included Beatrice Hahn, had used “the world’s fastest supercomputer” (which even had a name, Nirvana) to deduce that the common ancestor of HIV-1 Group M (“the Eve virus”) had existed in the year 1930, with a 95 percent confidence interval of plus or minus twenty years, giving a range of 1910 to 1950.
According to the gathered press, so far, so straightforward. Unfortunately, as with many apparently straightforward things, the origin of HIV was not as simple as that at all. The 1930 date was not the date when a human was first infected with HIV-1, it is simply the extrapolated date when, it is believed, the last common ancestor of HIV would have existed. We do not even know if that common ancestor was a chimp virus or a human virus. Hooper’s contention was that Hahn and Korber’s work was something of a sleight-of-hand, in that it related to an unproven ancestor and to a date of common ancestry that may not have meant very much in real terms.
Furthermore, it was quite difficult to reconcile their theory with good “Darwinian process.” Essentially, they required a chimp hunter who becomes infected in Gabon or Cameroon or Congo Brazzaville between 1910 and 1950, who does not pass on his infection to anyone locally, but instead migrated to the Belgian Congo. Then, at some moment in the fifties or sixties, this chimp hunter (or persons he has infected) needed to start causing pockets of infection in several different parts of the Congo (and perhaps Rwanda and Burundi), to establish the different subtypes. This is not linear progression, with infection passing from one place to the next. This requires several separate introductions of distinctive, yet equidistant, viruses into different populations. There was quite simply no mechanism in the Hahn/Korber theory to explain how these separate introductions may have occurred. Hooper was backed up by Korber’s mentor Gerry Myers, who also appears again in later episodes. Myers believed that several aspects of Korber’s work were flawed and, moreover, that she had overstated her case, supercomputer or not.
Thank you for listening to Episode Six of ‘A Dive Into Darkness.’ I hope you enjoyed it. In the next episode, I will be telling you about how and why I became an HIV heretic. 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
http://www.aidsorigins.com/wp-content/uploads/The-River-by-Edward-Hooper-2021-edition.pdf ‘The River’, Edward Hooper
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cascades.substack.com