Once upon a time, a small group of politically powerful scientists rammed a flawed theory of the origin and cause of AIDS down America’s and then the world’s throat. Yet we are still led to believe that we are fortunate, even ’lucky’ that retroviruses, only discovered in the 1970s, were uncovered just in time to label them the culprit in a killer AIDS epidemic. And ’lucky’ that two HIVs were discovered in rapid succession, and the technology and theory to link AIDS to the HIV retrovirus were fully in place for the first time in history, only a few years prior to the recognition of the AIDS epidemic. Lucky? The latest statistics released as of this writing by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which still labels AIDS an epidemic, say otherwise: CDC estimates that 1,144,500 persons aged 13 years and older [in the United States] are living with HIV infection, including 180,900 (15.8%) who are unaware of their infection.1 Over the past decade, the number of people living with HIV has increased, while the annual number of new HIV infections has remained relatively stable. Still, the pace of new infections continues at far too high a level… In other words, with regard to AIDS, over the last decade we have been going nowhere, fast.
