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.

Before I begin this episode, I wish to mark the fact that yesterday was ‘World AIDS Day’ and I did post on ‘The Real AIDS Epidemic’ Substack page as follows:

‘It is important to say today of all days that the 'HIV causes AIDS' narrative was and remains a massive 40 year conspiracy and scam involving: the CDC; NIH; NIAID; ACTUP; Chester Beatty Laboratories in the UK; the Institut Pasteur in Paris; the WHO; UNAIDS; many governments, public heath bodies, medical / science institutions, Big Pharma, and media organizations around the planet.’

In previous episodes I have outlined the close relationship/association between CMV and 3 of the main marker diseases of early AIDS: PCP pneumonia; KS; Toxoplasmosis. Today, in Episode Eighteen of ‘A Dive Into Darkness’, ‘The Stealth Virus’, I will begin to outline my research into CMV. By March 2021, having read ‘And The Band Played On’ and come to the conclusion that

a) the HIV causes AIDS narrative was false

b) that CMV could have played an important part of the AIDS narrative

I began to examine CMV in great detail. After a couple of weeks research, I knew for certain that CMV had played an important part. One of the explanations of this certainty was the book ‘The Stealth Virus’ by Professor Paul Griffiths. This book told me that CMV could be transmitted by every body fluid, could be passed from mother to child in the womb, and via breast milk, infected a person for life, like the flu virus, was multi-strain so a person could be infected with different strains of the virus, and was a cause of immunodeficiency, as well as an exploiter of immunodeficiency.

There were two more aspects of CMV that really stood out for me: first, the reason why some people suffered more than others when infected by CMV was, like the flu or Covid virus, down to the amount of viral load – the ones who suffered the most were the ones who had the highest viral load. Combine a high viral load with a weakened and weakening immune system then the effect was sometimes very bad indeed. So, for gay males even kissing was bad news because CMV is passed very readily in saliva. One of the arguments from the anti-‘CMV as a cause of AIDS’ lobby was that why, if 90%+ of sexually active gay males were infected with CMV, didn’t they all get AIDS? One of the papers I read showed that 10% of sexually active gay males were having 90% of the sex, and 10% of IVDUs were sharing 90% of the needles. The most active in those demographics had the highest viral loads, the weakest immune systems, and, therefore, the most disease. This fantastic paper (partly produced by the CDC) contains a diagram showing that ‘HIV’ incidence declined sharply after 1982.

Back to Griffiths and the second key concept following on from ‘viral load’, is the ‘tipping point’ or ‘threshold value’. Once the viral load passes a certain point the risk of disease shoots up rapidly. If we look at AIDS patients, the syndrome would first show itself with permanently swollen lymph glands, then gradually the symptoms get worse as the immune system weakens, the T4-helper cell count declines, the T8-suppressor cells increase in numbers, and the various infections and pathogens, including CMV, take over the body in full-blown AIDS, from which there was no recovery.

Thank you for listening to Episode Eighteen of ‘A Dive Into Darkness’. I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, please tell your friends about it. In Episode Nineteen of ‘A Dive Into Darkness’, I will tell you more about what I learned from ‘The Stealth Virus’, including what I believe to be a perfect description of how CMV acts in AIDS patients. 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

https://rebeccaculshawsmith.substack.com/p/world-aids-day-now-with-a-side-of/comments?utm_source=substack%2Csubstack&publication_id=702441&post_id=152413283&utm_medium=email%2Cemail&isFreemail=true&comments=true&utm_campaign=email-half-magic-comments&action=post-comment

https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/cphl/Models/aids/chapter8.pdf WEAK LINKAGE BETWEEN HIV EPIDEMICS IN HOMOSEXUAL MEN AND INTRAVENOUS DRUG USERS IN NEW YORK CITY

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stealth-Virus-Prof-Paul-Griffiths/dp/1477566791 The Stealth Virus

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