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.

I realize that the previous two episodes have contained a lot of medical-science information but when you are challenging a 40 year old narrative which has established a vice like grip over the consciousness of an entire planet, that ‘HIV is the cause of AIDS’, with everything that has resulted from that, then you have to have firm medical-science foundations from which to expound your alternative hypothesis. The three papers combined are absolute proof that AIDS was no mystery, did not appear out of a clear blue sky, and that the CDC and NIH, and every other individual and institution connected to, and with, the ‘HIV causes AIDS’ conspiracy, deliberately ignored this evidence in pursuit of their own ends. Just as Dan Brown’s desire to expose the conspiracy surrounding the actual life of Jesus led to ‘The Da Vinci Code’, so my desire to expose the existence of an ‘HIV network’ and its conspiracy and cover up surrounding the fake ‘HIV causes AIDS’ narrative, led me eventually to writing the conspiracy-thriller, ‘A Dive Into Darkness.’

In previous episodes I have already shown that CMV had the opportunity and the means to be a major cause of the AIDS epidemic. In Episode Twenty-Three, ‘1970s Transplant AIDS - Part Three’, I will examine the third of three papers published in the 1970s which prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that AIDS was no mystery. Never mind the content, just the title of Paper Three stunned me: ‘INFECTIOUS DISEASE SYNDROMES ATTRIBUTABLE TO CYTOMEGALOVIRUS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE AMONG RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS’. I saw that this title, if amended slightly, could just as easily fit those early AIDS cases: ‘Infectious disease syndromes attributable to cytomegalovirus and their significance among ‘Fast Lane’ homosexuals / IVDUS frequenting shooting galleries / hemophiliacs using Factor 8.’

Just like Papers One and Two, Paper Three is too detailed to explore totally in a single episode, and I shall stick to a big picture overview. The abstract begins: ‘Because of the ubiquity of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection among renal transplant patients, the correlation between CMV isolation and clinical events is often difficult.’

Exactly the same argument was put forward about CMV and AIDS cases in the early 1980s by the CDC’s James Curran and others and used as an excuse to look for alternative explanations for the syndrome.

‘In this prospective study, clinical CMV disease was diagnosed in 26 of 68 patients (38%) that received transplants between 1974 and 1976. All CMV syndromes began 1 to 4 months post-transplant, persisting up to 23 weeks thereafter (mean duration of symptoms was 19 days). Although CMV was observed in some instances to cause only prolonged fever (10 patients) or hepatitis (4 patients), its most important effects were pneumonia (9 patients) and profound leukopenia (8 patients). Three patterns of pneumonia were observed: bilateral interstitial pneumonia (3 patients), unilateral focal consolidation (1 patient) (both attributable to CMV alone), and diffuse bilateral pneumonia attributable to CMV and superinfecting microorganisms (5 patients). These last patients had CMV-induced leukopenia of >1 week's duration at onset of superinfection, and all died. The 4 patients without leukopenia did not develop superinfection, and all survived. Two other renal transplant recipients died of infection during this period, both with CMV, leukopenia, and Listeria monocytogenes sepsis. The major infectious disease importance of CMV appears to be its effects on the respiratory tract and systemic host defense in predisposing to fatal superinfection. This last sentence confirms what Papers One and Two said, and the abstract exactly describes what happened to AIDS patients in the early 1980s. Immunosuppression, CMV infection, prolonged fever, very low white blood cell counts, CMV disease, overwhelming superinfecting pathogens, pneumonia, death. One of the 5 patients had PCP pneumonia, another had Candida Albicans, a marker disease of early AIDS cases. The symptoms of these patients mirrored those outlined in the San Francisco AIDS documentary referenced below. The author notes that there is a synergistic effect of CMV combined with other pathogens including Candida Albicans. In previous episodes I noted the close association between CMV and: PCP pneumonia, KS and toxoplasmosis. The author also states that the leukopenia induced by CMV infection is a red flag for physicians and an indication to begin anti-immunosuppressive treatment immediately. He concludes that ‘future progress in limiting the infectious disease complications will require the prevention of this form of CMV infection and earlier identification and better protection of those patients afflicted by it.’

The CDC knew by Christmas 1981 that cases had significantly higher titers of antibody to CMV, had a higher frequency of isolation of cytomegalovirus (3 times more than ‘controls’) and were more likely to be infected with multiple strains of CMV. It knew that the occurrence of GRID/AIDS was found to be associated with certain aspects of lifestyle, including a greater number of male sex partners per year, exposure to feces during sex, history of syphilis and non-B hepatitis, treatment for enteric parasites, and use of various illicit substances. Shamefully, it sat on its data for 20 months when the report was finally published, by which time the early conviction of Don Francis that a retrovirus was the cause of AIDS had become the orthodox view.

Thank you for listening to Episode Twenty-Two of ‘A Dive Into Darkness’. I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, please tell your friends about it. In Episode Twenty-Four of ‘A Dive Into Darkness’, I will 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. ‘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

file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/infectious_disease_syndromes_attributable_to.10%20(11).pdf ‘Infectious disease syndromes attributable to cytomegalovirus and their significance among renal transplant recipients’

1985 "AIDS: An Incredible Epidemic" by San Francisco General Hospital

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6309049/ National Case-Control Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia in Homosexual Men: Part 2: Laboratory Results

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