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From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
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Subject: The AFU Book List
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> There's a book named "Why Clocks Run Clockwise and other Imponderables"
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> by David Feldman.
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BOOKS?!?! Did you mention BOOKS, son!?! Why didn't ya say so sooner!
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I haven't published this in quite some time.
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Terry "Books R Us" Wood
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Here's the OFFICIAL AFU BOOK LIST -- Suggested Reading for when your
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news feed is down.
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If you can't find anything of interest on this list, you should probably
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be reading alt.sex or rec.arts.cooking.
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If you know of a "good book" that isn't on this list, send it to me and
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maybe (just maybe) it will end up on this list :-) (You know how PICKY
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I am). Seriously, I'm always on the look out for books to read, so send
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE A.F.U COLLECTION:
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Cannibalism and the Common Law: The Story of the Tragic Last Voyage of the
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Mignonette and the Strange Legal Proceedings to Which it Gave Rise
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by A.W. Brian Simpson, published by the University of Chicago Press, 1984.
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This book is a great source of information about cannibalism in the
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Victorian age and covers not only the case of the Mignonette, but also
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the Alferd Packer trial and various other celebrated cases of "you are
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what you eat." Although Mr. Simpson has a lot of fun with his subject,
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this book is obviously well researched and includes a nice bibliography.
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An excellent reference when debunking cannibalism ULs.
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The Vanishing Hitchhiker Jan Harold Brunvand
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The Choking Doberman Jan Harold Brunvand
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The Mexican Pet Jan Harold Brunvand
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Curses! Broiled Again! Jan Harold Brunvand
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If you haven't read these, you can't be appointed an honorary TERRY.
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The Straight Dope Cecil Adams
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More of the Straight Dope Cecil Adams
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"The Official Handbook of Practical Jokes", - Peter Vanderlinden
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publ Signet, $3.50, ISBN 0-451-15873-3
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"The Second Official Handbook of Practical Jokes" - Peter Vanderlinden
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publ Signet, $3.50, ISBN 0-451-16924-7 illustrated (Lord help us)
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Both books rated "It's the least he deserves" by 4 out of 5 AFU readers.
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Note: These 2 books SHOULD BE PURCHASED (don't wimp out and go to the
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public library and GET THEM FOR FREE) as Peter needs the money.
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Rumor! Hal Morgan and Kerry Tucker
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More Rumor! Hal Morgan and Kerry Tucker
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Big Secrets William Poundstone
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Bigger Secrets William Poundstone
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The Dictionary of Misinformation Tom Burnam
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More Misinformation Tom Burnam
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Books by David Feldman:
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Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? Who put the butter in butterfly?
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Why do dogs have wet noses? How to win at just about everything
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When Do Fish Sleep? Imponderables
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Do Penguines have knees?
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These are short subject books -- a couple of paragraphs are
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Books by David Michael Feldman:
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"Birth control in Jewish law"
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This book deals with marital relations and contraception. What
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does it have to do with AFU? Your guess is a good as mine, but
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it came up in the computer search for "David Feldman". It could
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have been him, so it must be true. Or something like that.
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The Day that lightning chased the housewife and other mysteries of science
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The "Uncle John's Bathroom Readers" series (3 volumes) - Bathroom Reader
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Institute, Inc.
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Piled Higher and Deeper: The Folklore of Campus Life Simon J. Bronner
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Little Rock, Ark.: August House, 1990.
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Best of the Journal of Irreproducible Results
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Eccentric Lives and Pecular Notions (??? It was put out in 1990 by Bantam)
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Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science - Martin Gardner 1952/1957
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The Devouring Fungus (Tales of the Computer Age) - Karla Jennings
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Bare-Faced Messiah - Russel Miller
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(It's about L. Ron Hubbard NOT Grizzly Adams)
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The Journal of the Institute for Hacks TomFoolery & Pranks at MIT -
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Brian M Leibowitz
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Mrs. Byrnes' Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Obsolete Words - ???
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Dictionary of Historical Slang - Eric Partridge
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High School - David Owen
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David pretends to be a High School Student at the age of 27.
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Anomalies and Curiosities Of Medicine - Gould, George M. 1848-1922.
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Monkey On A Stick: Murder, Madness and the Hare Krishnas - John Hubner
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and Lindsey Gruson. With a title like this, you'll get no sleep at night.
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Our Marvelous Native Tougue: The Live and Times of the English Language -
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Robert Clairborne (Author of The Birth of Writing). Probably some college
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You Know What They Say - Alfie Kohn.
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Not quite an urban legend book, but should appeal to the same crowd.
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Any current almanac, for those "factual" ULs
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MAYBE RECOMMENDED:
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Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things"
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Any issue of the WEEKLY WORLD NEWS (although issues with JFK or UFOs on
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NOT RECOMMENDED:
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Book Of Answers - New York Public Library Research Service.
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Myself and the following READERS of A.F.U are to blame for this list:
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"twcaps@dante.lbl.GOV" 30-MAY-1991
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"Peter.Vanderlinden@Eng.Sun.COM" 30-MAY-1991
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"AXM22@PSUVM.PSU.EDU" 30-MAY-1991
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"wichers@husc.harvard.EDU" 31-MAY-1991
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"bls@robin.svl.cdc.COM" 31-MAY-1991
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I have read your recent post concerning________________________________.
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PS: You are ____A St*p*d F*ck*ng B*st*rd
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INTERNET: tjw+@pitt.edu BITNET: TJW@PITTVMS
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"Laugh while you can, Monkey Boy!" - Lord "John" Warfin
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"There can be only one!" - The Highlander
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Summary: Excellent Introduction to Posting on AFU
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The following is a repost of Antony Cooper's excellent guide to
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A brief guide that should enable newbies with something to contribute,
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* First, the usual DISCLAIMER: *
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* Antony Cooper (acooper@nuustak.csir.co.za) *
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unintelligible. I always have a dictionary close at hand when working
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on my computer, and while it will not eliminate every error that I
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might make, it will at least reduce the frequency of my errors. It
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imitators of John Fowles.
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Star Trek series in great detail, though of course, you must not
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actually be a fan of Star Trek, otherwise you might take this news
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group (and others) far too seriously. Now, I don't catch all of the
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Star Trek jokes because I dimly recall seeing only one or two episodes
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of it (it was a sort-of rip off of the Star Wars movies, wasn't it?),
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but such is life.
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first time you read them - and don't post here asking for them to be
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explained. After all, while you might think that you have been reading
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news groups for a long time, you will probably be reading them for
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years and years to come (that is, of course, if the Death of the Net
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is not imminent), so let each joke reveal itself to you in the due
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course of time. That way, you can savour each new revelation, and you
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will have lots of things to look forward to in the years to come (or
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are you one of those people who only play adventure games when you
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have been told all the secrets on how to win?).
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For example, certain terms are common here. You might be tempted to
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enquire after the meaning of words such as the following:
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Furrfu
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While you might or might not be flamed for such a query, the responses
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that you will elicit might not be as informative as you might have
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anticipated. However, hidden in them might be the answer you desire
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(These are also what are known as "in jokes"). Rather, let some other
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newbie post the query, and you can chuckle at the responses they
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receive (while you silently note the answers to your queries).
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you wish to relate as a rumour rather than gospel fact, if indeed it
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is. Try to make your posting interesting, informative and/or witty
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(OK, so this posting fails those criteria). Don't adopt an inflexible
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attitude on the story, otherwise your errors will be treated with
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minimal kindness. Don't flame, unless you really know what you are
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doing - even the net.deities have been known to misread a post and
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flame in error. Try to keep the invectives under control.
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Like similar newsgroups, this newsgroup is a bit of a clique with
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its own culture, in-jokes and net.deities (are there any sociologists
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out there studying life in a news group?), but it is always looking
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for new participants to contribute new and interesting threads. So,
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once you feel that you have caught the vibe of this group, trust your
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instincts (if they are trustworthy), and contribute a great maiden
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posting. If you are a bit nervous, you could always try it out on a
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net.deity near you.
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If you think you have an interesting variation on an urban legend
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already noted in the FAQ, please feel free to share, subject to
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the considerations mentioned above.
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Don't brag about being the first newbie who has been diligent enough
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to have studied the FAQ, the netiquette documents, the survival guide,
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and the postings to this news group for months before posting - you
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are not.
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Some of the net.deities in this group might feel that this survival
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guide is inappropriate as it will reduce the number of careless
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newbies who post garbage without thinking, and hence some of them
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might feel that it will take the fun out of this news group. However,
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there is no danger of that as no one takes seriously advice proffered
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on news groups, least of all advice on how to post. After all, its
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worth what they pay for it.
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[I don't worry about it. All the more reason to flame people when
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they do end up posting garbage without thinking. - tc]
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Happy AFUing!
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Antony
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Antony Cooper | Voice: +27 12 841 4121
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acooper@nuustak.csir.co.za | Fax: +27 12 841 3037
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INFOTEK, CSIR, Box 395, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa | ICBM: 25 45S 28 16E
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[Posted with very minor tweaks by Terry Chan on 27 February 1993. First
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edition posted 6 February 1993 by Antony Cooper.]
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AIDS: a U.S.-made monster?
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PREFACE
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In an extensive article in the Summer-Autumn 1990 issue of "Top Secret", Prof
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J. Segal and Dr. L. Segal outline their theory that AIDS is a man-made disease,
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originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
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Top Secret is the international edition of the German magazine Geheim and is
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considered by many to be a sister publication to the American Covert Action
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Information Bulletin (CAIB). In fact, Top Secret carries the Naming Names
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column, which CAIB is prevented from doing by the American government, and
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which names CIA agents in different locations in the world. The article, named
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"AIDS: US-Made Monster" and subtitled "AIDS - its Nature and its Origins," is
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lengthy, has a lot of professional terminology and is dotted with footnotes.
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The following is my humble attempt to encapsulate its highlights. It is
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recommended that all interested read the original, which is available at some
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bookstores, or can be ordered for $3.50 from:
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Top Secret/Geheim Magazine P.O.Box 270324 5000 Koln 1 Germany
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AIDS FACTS
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"The fatal weakening of the immune system which has given AIDS its name
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(Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome)," write the Segals, "has been traced back
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to a destruction or a functional failure of the T4-lymphocytes, also called
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'helper cells`, which play a regulatory role in the production of antibodies in
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the immune system." In the course of the illness, the number of functional T4-
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cells is reduced greatly so that new anti-bodies cannot be produced and the
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defenseless patient remains exposed to a range of infections that under other
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circumstances would have been harmless. Most AIDS patients die from
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opportunistic infections rather than from the AIDS virus itself.
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The initial infection is characterized by diarrhea, erysipelas and intermittent
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fever. An apparent recovery follows after 2-3 weeks, and in many cases the
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patient remains without symptoms and functions normally for years. Occasionally
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a swelling of the lymph glands, which does not affect the patient's well-being,
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can be observed.
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After several years, the pre-AIDS stage, known as ARC (Aids- Related Complex)
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sets in. This stage includes disorders in the digestive tract, kidneys and
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lungs. In most cases it develops into full-blown AIDS in about a year, at which
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point opportunistic illnesses occur. Parallel to this syndrome, disorders in
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various organ systems occur, the most severe in the brain, the symptoms of
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which range from motoric disorders to severe dementia and death.
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This set of symptoms, say the Segals, is identical in every detail with the
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Visna sickness which occurs in sheep, mainly in Iceland. (Visna means tiredness
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in Icelandic). However, the visna virus is not pathogenic for human beings.
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The Segals note that despite the fact that AIDS is transmitted only through
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sexual intercourse, blood transfusions and non- sterile hypodermic needles, the
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infection has spread dramatically. During the first few years after its
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discovery, the number of AIDS patients doubled every six months, and is still
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doubling every 12 months now though numerous measures have been taken against
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it. Based on these figures, it is estimated that in the US, which had 120,000
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cases of AIDS at the end of 1988, 900,000 people will have AIDS or will have
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died of it by the end of 1991. It is also estimated that the number of people
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infected is at least ten times the number of those suffering from an acute case
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of AIDS. That in the year 1995 there will be between 10-14 million cases of
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AIDS and an additional 100 million people infected, 80 percent of them in the
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US, while a possible vaccination will not be available before 1995 by the most
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optimistic estimates. Even when such vaccination becomes available, it will not
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help those already infected. These and following figures have been reached at
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by several different mainstream sources, such as the US Surgeon General and the
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Chief of the medical services of the US Army.
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Say the Segals: "AIDS does not merely bring certain dangers with it; it is
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clearly a programmed catastrophe for the human race, whose magnitude is
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comparable only with that of a nuclear war." They later explain what they mean
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by "programmed," showing that the virus was produced by humans, namely Dr.
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Robert Gallo of the Bethesda Cancer Research Center in Maryland. When
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proceeding to prove their claims, the Segals are careful to note that: "We have
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given preference to the investigative results of highly renowned laboratories,
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whose objective contents cannot be doubted. We must emphasize, in this
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connection, that we do not know of any findings that have been published in
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professional journals that contradict our hypotheses."
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DISCOVERING AIDS
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The first KNOWN cases of AIDS occurred in New York in 1979. The first
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DESCRIBED cases were in California in 1979. The virus was isolated in Paris in
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May 1983, taken from a French homosexual who had returned home ill from a trip
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to the East Coast of the US. One year later, Robert Gallo and his co-workers at
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the Bethesda Cancer Research Center published their discovery of the same
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virus, which is cytotoxic, i.e poisonous to cells.
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Shortly after publishing his discovery, Gallo stated to newspapers that the
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virus had developed by a natural process from the Human Adult Leukemia virus,
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HTLV-1, which he had previously discovered. However, this claim was not
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published in professional publications, and soon after, Alizon and Montagnier,
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two researchers of the Pasteur Institute in Paris published charts of HTLV-1
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and HIV, showing that the viruses had basically different structures. They also
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declared categorically that they knew of no natural process by which one of
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these two forms could have evolved into the other.
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According to the professional "science" magazine, the fall 1984 annual meeting
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of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), was almost
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entirely devoted to the question of: to what extent new pathogenic agents could
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be produced via human manipulation of genes. According to the Segals, AIDS was
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practically the sole topic of discussion.
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THE AIDS VIRUS
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The Segals discuss the findings of Gonda et al, who compared the HIV, visna
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and other closely-related viruses and found that the visna virus is the most
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similar to HIV. The two were, in fact, 60% identical in 1986. According to
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findings of the Hahn group, the mutation rate of the HIV virus was about a
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million times higher than that of similar viruses, and that on the average a
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10% alteration took place every two years. That would mean that in 1984, the
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difference between HIV and visna would have been only 30%, in 1982- 20%, 10% in
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1980 and zero in 1978. "This means," say the Segals, "that at this time visna
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viruses changed into HIV, receiving at the same time the ability to become
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parasites in human T4-cells and the high genetic instability that is not known
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in other retroviruses. This is also consistent with the fact that the first
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cases of AIDS appeared about one year later, in the spring of 1979."
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"In his comparison of the genomes of visna and HIV," add the Segals, "Coffin
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hit upon a remarkable feature. The env (envelope) area of the HIV genome, which
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encodes the envelope proteins which help the virus to attach itself to the host
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cell, is about 300 nucleotides longer than the same area in visna. This
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behavior suggests that an additional piece has been inserted into the genomes
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of the visna virus, a piece that alters the envelope proteins and enables them
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to bind themselves to the T4-receptors. BUT THIS SECTION BEHAVES LIKE A
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BIOLOGICALLY ALIEN BODY, which does not match the rest of the system
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biochemically. (emphasis mine)
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The above mentioned work by Gonda et al shows that the HIV virus has a section
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of about 300 nucleotides, which does not exist in the visna virus. That length
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corresponds with what Coffin described. That section is particularly unstable,
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which indicates that it is an alien object. According to the Segals, it
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"originates in an HTLV-1 genome, (discovered by Gallo-ED) for the likelihood of
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an accidental occurrence in HIV of a genome sequence 60% identical with a
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section of the HTLV-1 that is 300 nucleotides in length is zero." Since the
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visna virus is incapable of attaching itself to human T4 receptors, it must
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have been the transfer of the HTLV-1 genome section which gave visna the
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capability to do so. In other words, the addition of HTLV-1 to visna made the
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HIV virus. In addition, the high mutation rate of the HIV genome has been
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explained by another scientific team, Chandra et al, by the fact that it is "a
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combination of two genome parts which are alien to each other BY ARTIFICIAL
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MEANS rather than by a natural process of evolution, because this process would
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have immediately eliminated, through natural selection, systems that are so
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replete with disorders."
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"These are the facts of the case," say the Segals. "HIV is essentially a visna
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virus which carries an additional protein monomer of HTLV-1 that has an epitope
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capable of bonding with T4 receptors. Neither Alizon and Montagnier nor any
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other biologist know of any natural mechanism that would make it possible for
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the epitope to be transferred from HTLV-1 to the visna virus. For this reason
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we can come to only one conclusion: that this gene combination arose by
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artificial means, through gene manipulation."
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"THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIV"
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"The construction of a recombinant virus by means of gene manipulation is
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extraordinarily expensive, and it requires a large number of highly qualified
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personnel, complicated equipment and expensive high security laboratories.
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Moreover, the product would have no commercial value. Who, then," ask the
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Segals, "would have provided the resources for a type of research that was
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aimed solely at the production of a new disease that would be deadly to human
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beings?"
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The English sociologist Allistair Hay (as well as Paxman et al in "A Higher
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Form of Killing"-ED), published a document whose authenticity has been
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confirmed by the US Congress, showing that a representative of the Pentagon
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requested in 1969 additional funding for biological warfare research. The
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intention was to create, within the next ten years, a new virus that would
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not be susceptible to the immune system, so that the afflicted patient would
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not be able to develop any defense against it. Ten years later, in the spring
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of 1979, the first cases of AIDS appeared in New York.
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"Thus began a phase of frantic experimentation," say the Segals.
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One group was working on trying to cause animal pathogens to adapt themselves
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to life in human beings. This was done under the cover of searching for a cure
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for cancer. The race was won by Gallo, who described his findings in 1975. A
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year later, Gallo described gene manipulations he was conducting. In 1980 he
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published his discovery of HTLV.
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In the fall of 1977, a P4 (highest security category of laboratory, in which
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human pathogens are subjected to genetic manipulations) laboratory was
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officially opened in building 550 of Fort Detrick, MD, the Pentagon's main
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biological warfare research center. "In an article in 'Der Spiegel`, Prof.
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Mollings point out that this type of gene manipulation was still extremely
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difficult in 1977. One would have had to have a genius as great as Robert Gallo
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for this purpose, note the Segals."
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Lo and behold. In a supposed compliance with the international accord banning
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the research, production and storage of biological weapons, part of Fort
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Detrick was "demilitarized" and the virus section renamed the "Frederick
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Cancer Research Facility". It was put under the direction of the Cancer
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Research Institute in neighboring Bethesda, whose director was no other than
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Robert Gallo. This happened in 1975, the year Gallo discovered HTLV.
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Explaining how the virus escaped, the Segals note that in the US, biological
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agents are traditionally tested on prisoners who are incarcerated for long
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periods, and who are promised freedom if they survive the test. However, the
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initial HIV infection symptoms are mild and followed by a seemingly healthy
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patient.
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"Those who conducted the research must have concluded that the new virus
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was...not so virulent that it could be considered for military use, and the
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test patients, who had seemingly recovered, were given their freedom. Most of
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the patients were professional criminals and New York City, which is
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relatively close, offered them a suitable milieu. Moreover, the patients were
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exclusively men, many of them having a history of homosexuality and drug abuse,
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as is often the case in American prisons. 1111
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It is understandable why AIDS broke out precisely in 1979, precisely among men
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and among drug users, and precisely in New York City," assert the Segals. They
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go on to explain that whereas in cases of infection by means of sexual contact,
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incubation periods are two years and more, while in cases of massive infection
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via blood transfusions, as must have been the case with prisoners, incubation
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periods are shorter than a year. "Thus, if the new virus was ready at the
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beginning of 1978 and if the experiments began without too much delay, then
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the first cases of full- blown AIDS in 1979 were exactly the result that
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could have been expected."
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In the next three lengthy chapters, the Segals examine other theories,
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"legends" as they call them, of the origins of AIDS. Dissecting each claim,
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they show that they have no scientific standing, providing also the findings
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of other scientists. They also bring up the arguments of scientists and
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popular writers who have been at the task of discounting them as "conspiracy
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theorists" and show these writers' shortcomings. Interested readers will have
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to read the original article to follow those debates. I will only quote two
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more paragraphs:
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"We often heard the argument that experiments with human volunteers are part of
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a barbaric past, and that they would be impossible in the US today... We wish
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to present one single document whose authenticity is beyond doubt. An
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investigative commission of the US House of Representatives presented in
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October 1986 a final report concerning the Manhattan Project. According to this
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document, between 1945 and 1975 at least 695 American citizens were exposed
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to dangerous doses of radioactivity. Some of them were prisoners who had
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volunteered, but they also included residents of old-age homes, inmates of
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insane asylums, handicapped people in nursing homes, and even normal patients
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in public hospitals; most of them were subjected to these experiments without
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their permission. Thus the 'barbaric past` is not really a thing of the past."
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"It is remarkable that most of these experiments were carried out in university
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institutes and federal hospitals, all of which are named in the report.
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Nonetheless, these facts remained secret until 1984, and even then a
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Congressional committee that was equipped with all the necessary
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authorization needed two years in order to bring these facts to life. We are
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often asked how the work on the AIDS virus could have been kept secret. Now,
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experiments performed on a few dozen prisoners in a laboratory that is
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subject to military security can be far more easily kept secret than could
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be the Manhattan Project."
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