Dr. David Rasnick
Dr. David Rasnick is a protease specialist and has been in AIDS research for 20 years. He and Duesberg work in collaboration on cancer and AIDS research. Both Rasnick and Duesberg were advisors on President Mbeki's South African AIDS panel.
"In 1983, Luc Montagnier, a French
scientist at the Pasteur Institute, claimed to have found a new retrovirus in
AIDS patients. But nobody paid attention, because he hadn't isolated a virus,
and he hadn't found a single viral particle in the blood - remember the titer
was zero, undetectable. Seeking some academic support, Montagnier sent a cell
sample to Robert Gallo at the NIH. Gallo took the cell-line Montagnier sent him
and modified it slightly. Then he did something strange. He stole it.
In 1984 Gallo called an
international press conference and together with Margaret Heckler, the head of
the Department of Health and Human Services, announced that he'd discovered the
"probable cause" of AIDS. It was a new retrovirus called HTLV-III, (later
re-named HIV). Later that same day, he patented the modified cell-line he'd
originally gotten from Montagnier. He hadn't published a single word of his
research. Robert Gallo, a government-backed scientist, simply announced that a
retroviral-epidemic was on its way.
He sold the cell-line to Abbot
Labs, a pharmaceutical company that makes HIV tests. The French government
demanded that all patent rights be returned to Montagnier. Gallo refused,
claiming it was all his work. In 1987, Gallo and Montagnier were forced by
President Reagan and French Prime Minister Chirac to meet in a hotel room to
work out the HIV patent rights. In 1992, Gallo was officially convicted of theft
by a federal scientific ethics committee."---Dr. David
Rasnick The AIDS Debate
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