Fauci’s Fatal Mismanagement of the AIDS Epidemic

In chapters 3-6 of the The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, Kennedy explores how Fauci fabricated and manipulated (for his own profit) the 1980s AIDS epidemic in the exact same way he has fabricated and manipulated the current plandemic. Then, as now, he promoted a faulty diagnostic test, he massively exaggerated the contagiousness and severity of AIDS, he caused tens of thousands of needless deaths by suppressing cheap and effective treatments, he aborted animal studies and Phase III human trials because “too many people were dying,” he falsified studies to promote AZT (because he owned shares in the company), and he shrewdly deflected criticism through misdirection and outright lies.

AZT was a failed (because it was far too toxic) cancer chemotherapy drug that Fauci enabled Burroughs-Wellcome to resurrect, at $10,000 per patient, to treat AIDS. Originally developed by the National Cancer Institute, AZT cost the drug company pennies per tablet to produce

Meanwhile Fauci’s agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) blocked FDA approval for cheap off-label medications for fatal AIDS complications, eg ribavirin, alpha interferon, DHPG, Peptide D, Foscarnet, Bactrim, Septra, and aerosol pentamidine.

When the study leading to FDA approval for Fauci’s drug AZT was finally published in 1987, independent analysis reveals that it was more fatal than AIDS at recommended doses.** During the study, researchers could only keep  some AZT patients alive by giving them repeated blood transfusions.

Chapters 5 and 6 mainly concern Fauci’s deliberate destruction of the career of renowned virologist and cancer researcher Dr Peter Duesberg for his extremely cogent critique of the hypothesis promoted by NIAID under Fauci’s leadership that HIV causes AIDS.

Credited as the worlds foremost retrovirologist, Duesberg found it highly improbable that a retrovirus such as HIV could be the sole cause of the total immune system breakdown found in AIDS. As Duesberg and other retrovirologists point out, retroviruses have always lived in a comfortable symbiosis with human beings. Eight to ten percent of our current DNA consists of retroviruses we have incorporated into our genetic material. Until the discovery of HIV, no retrovirus in 3 billion years ever developed the capacity to attack human cells, as HIV allegedly attacks the CD4 T-cell fundamental to cell-mediated immunity. Moreover neither Robert Gallo nor Luc Montaigner, the researchers who identified HIV as the cause of AIDS, could ever explain how a totally benign retrovirus could mysteriously mutate into a killer virus.

In my view, the two most likely alternative infectious agents Duesberg and others put forward for AIDS are the herpes virus HHV6 or some type of mycoplasma. HHV6 was first identified in 1986 the blood of AIDS patients and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (which appeared in epidemic proportions in heterosexuals around the same time AIDS appeared in gays). Unlike HIV, HHV6 is a killer virus and attacks CD4 T-cells. Ironically even Gallo, the alleged US discoverer of HIV, acknowledged in 1988 that HHV6 could be a “co-factor” (with HIV) in causing AIDS.

A year earlier a Chinese investigator discovered a new mycoplasma (mycoplasma incognitis) in the brains, livers and spleens of AIDS patients that caused an AIDS-like illness when he injected it into monkeys. Despite wide international recognition of Dr Lo’s work, Fauci sidelined and/or disciplined every NIAID researcher who attempted to replicate his research.

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*Because the patent on these drugs had expired, the only potential funding for randomized controlled trials (RCT) was NIAID (drug companies won’t fund new RCTs on existing drugs once their patent expires). Fauci refused to authorize them.

**When the FDA halved the recommended dose, it stopped killing people.