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 story behind the story, the four-year research and writing process from inspiration to publication, and all points in between.

At the end of the previous episode, I said I would examine the paper which confirmed my hypothesis that CMV could be the cause of AIDS. A paper written by the very same person credited with breaking the AIDS story to the world on 5th June, 1981. I will come to that paper but, in Episode Twenty-Four of ‘A Dive Into Darkness’, ‘SCID’, I wish to examine a paper published in 1979 which again exposes the CDC’s big lie, that AIDS was a total mystery which appeared out of a clear blue sky in the summer of 1981. The big lie which motivated me to write the book which eventually became ‘A Dive Into Darkness’ in 2022.

This British paper, ‘Combined immunodeficiency and thymic abnormalities’, examines ‘Severe combined immunodeficiency’, (SCID). It is very technical but there are some nuggets in there. For example, ‘The characteristic clinical features are failure to thrive with severe bacterial, viral, fungal, and protozoal infections. Death is often due to Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.’ Remarkable isn’t it that the CDC told everyone point blank that the combination of symptoms seen in early AIDS cases had never been seen before. Yet here is a paper published just two years before the first MMWR bulletin, outlining the exact same combination of symptoms. AIDS wasn’t new, but the affected demographics were. ‘Almost all patients have a severely depleted relative number of circulating T lymphocytes which, in absolute terms, may be exacerbated by a lymphopenia. The relative percentage of B lymphocytes is often expanded, and many patients produce immunoglobulins. In keeping with the virtual absence of T lymphocytes delayed hypersensitivity skin tests are negative.’

Next comes another big departure from the CDC’s closed-mind view of AIDS as ‘a single disease, with a single cause.’ ‘SCID is clearly a heterogeneous disease with more than one cause. Some patients have virtually no T or B lymphocytes and die within a few months, while others live up to 5 years and may even make some functional antibody. It is not known whether these two polar groups represent different diseases or reflect a spectrum of severity.’

A condition known as ‘PURINE NUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHORYLASE (PNP) DEFICIENCY is examined. ‘Nine infants and children from five families have suffered from recurrent upper and lower respiratory tract infections and some have had severe infections with varicella, vaccinia, and cytomegalovirus. All the patients have very low numbers of circulating T lymphocytes with consequent severe impairment of T cell function.’

The author also considers Thymic Aplasia, a condition with ‘a wide spectrum of severity with some infants developing recurrent bacterial, fungal, and viral infections while others remain healthy. The diagnosis is confirmed by finding severely depleted or absent circulating T lymphocytes, often with a relative expansion of the B cell population.’

For the CDC to present AIDS as a unique, unheard of, syndrome was absolutely false. The reason why it did this is simple. It had nothing to do with medical-science or public health, presenting AIDS as something new would, it hoped, buy the CDC time to fend off Reagan’s evil henchmen, determined to get rid of any unnecessary public health institutions.

Thank you for listening to Episode Twenty-Four of ‘A Dive Into Darkness’. I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, please tell your friends about it. In Episode Twenty-Five of ‘A Dive Into Darkness’, I promise to explore the paper which confirmed my hypothesis that CMV could be the cause of AIDS. A paper written by the very same person credited with breaking the AIDS story to the world on 5th June, 1981.

Till the next time, goodbye and happy reading.

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1521582/pdf/jcpsupproyal00011-0015.pdf ‘Combined immunodeficiency and thymic abnormalities’, Webster.

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