Hello, I’m Paul Franks, a Leeds-based, retired History teacher, and I’ve written a conspiracy-thriller called ‘A Dive Into Darkness’. 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 beyond.

In Episode Five of ‘A Dive Into Darkness’, ‘The Cut Soldier’, I will begin telling you why and how I came to the conclusion that there is no scientific proof that HIV causes AIDS, and that there has been a scarcely believable, industrial scale, 40 year, global conspiracy to cover up the truth. At this juncture, I should make it crystal clear that whilst I am an HIV denier and I have some reservations about the CDC’s methodology and motivations, I am no AIDS denier.

Sometimes a statement or a version of events gets repeated so often that it becomes accepted by a large part of humanity as fact, even when the supporting evidence has been disproved long before. This is called an ‘Availability Cascade’, and it is one of the ways in which myth can take over from reality. Personally, an example of one such commonly accepted myth in the public mind would be that HIV is the cause of AIDS — a claim that began with erroneous research papers published on both sides of the Atlantic based on a lab contamination in the mid-eighties - but which is still believed by 99% of the world’s population to this day.

I stated in previous episodes that Edward Hooper’s book, ‘The River’, led me down a very deep rabbit hole. However, that only applies to his hypothesis about the origin of HIV and his belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS. As I also stated previously, the book is a mighty tome and it is a goldmine for researchers, like myself, who wish to discover the foundations of the official ‘HIV causes AIDS’ narrative

At the beginning of February 1999, a press conference was held which announced that a team of American and

British researchers had discovered the origin of the AIDS virus. Apparently, they had tracked it down to a virus, almost identical to HIV-1, which they had found in a certain type of chimpanzee. Good science dictates that a single SIV sample, which might well have been an aberrant or atypical virus, is quite clearly insufficient evidence on which to base an entire theory of origin of the AIDS pandemic. Good science was not the ‘HIV causes AIDS’ mafia’s strongest point. The epidemic, it was explained, had probably begun when hunters were exposed to infected blood while cutting up chimpanzees for meat. “It took us twenty years to find out where HIV-1 came from’’, said team leader Beatrice Hahn, of Birmingham University, Alabama. Twenty years takes us back to 1979 and alleged ‘HIV’ was allegedly ‘discovered’ in Paris in 1983, but, as I’ll explain in future episodes, accuracy was never the ‘HIV causes AIDS’ mafia’s strong point either. What this scenario required was that the chimp-hunter became infected with SIV in one of the countries to the north, and then moved to Leopoldville (in a different country, ruled by a different colonial master), modern day Kinshasa, where he passed on his virus to someone else, and for this event to start a chain of infection, between the fifties and the seventies, which progressed exclusively eastward, across more than a thousand miles of rain forest, through the Belgian-held territories of Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi, to start the explosion of AIDS in east Africa in the early eighties.

An even more bizarre scenario was postulated by the former GP and self-appointed HIV expert, Jacques Pepin, who stated that the first person ever infected with HIV was a starving World War One soldier who caught the virus in Moloundou, Cameroon in 1916, while hunting chimps. His hypothesis is that one of the soldiers got infected while hunting in the forest. A chimpanzee was killed and when cutting the animal to bring it back, there was an injury which got infected with the virus. Eventually, the soldier, after the war, came back all the way to Léopoldville and probably started the very first train of transmission in Léopoldville itself. In the 1960s a Haitian technical assistant who came to the city caught the virus in this region, and eventually took it home where it then spread among gay men. Within a few years it was exported to the US via the gay sex trade, and then spread among gay men and IV drug users in the USA and Europe. .

Thank you for listening to Episode Five of ‘A Dive Into Darkness.’ I hope you enjoyed it. In the next episode, I will continue telling you about the 40-year global conspiracy and cover-up that is the ‘HIV causes AIDS’ official narrative.  

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

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9202531/First-HIV-case-soldier-World-War-One-caught-virus-hunting-chimps.html   ‘The origin of AIDS revealed?’  

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