Virulent Viruses or Virulent Virology?
By Thomas DiFerdinando
Many of you know there has been a growing controversy regarding the question of the existence of viruses, their pathogenicity if they do exist, and whether there is scientific merit to the claims of proof for viral isolation.
While Drs. Andrew Kaufman and Thomas Cowan have been the more famous popularizers of this essential question – especially through social media channels – and Dr. Kaufman has done a lot of research on his own, the driving force in these arguments for really over twenty years now has been Dr. Stefan Lanka of Germany. The founding chapter of the dissident AIDS group called HEAL (Health Education AIDS Liaison) that I helped lead for over twenty years and that was based in New York City, hosted Dr. Lanka a few times back in the 1990’s, so I know him personally.
Stefan, influenced by Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, Val Turner and John Papadimitriou of “The Perth Group”, was one of the most vocal proponents of the point of view that “HIV” has never been isolated, and thus never even proven to exist, let alone cause anything other than confusion and hysteria. The famous, bombshell paper on the subject written by Perth was published by the late Harvey Bialy in Biotechnology magazine in 1993, and reported on by Neville Hodgkinson in the Sunday Times of London (two more of my AIDS dissident associates). At the time, I personally faxed this story to multiple mainstream news sources in the USA. Crickets…
(Downloadable original)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt0693-696
Is a Positive Western Blot Proof of HIV Infection?
Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, Valendar F. Turner & John M. Papadimitriou Bio/Technology volume 11, pages 696-707 (1993)
1 June 1993
In case that link doesn’t work:
http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/epwbtest.htm
Is a Positive Western Blot Proof of HIV Infection?
Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, Valendar F. Turner and John M. Papadimitriou
1 June 1993
Newspaper report:
http://www.duesberg.com/media/nhtests.html
NEW DOUBTS OVER AIDS INFECTION AS HIV TEST DECLARED INVALID
By Neville Hodgkinson
The Sunday Times (London)
1 Aug. 1993
Some months ago I found out Lanka, who is a trained virologist (but now identifies as a biologist) has been wanting to run virology’s “missing control experiment”. The standard protocol for preparing cell cultures, and proving the existence and testing the pathogenicity of purported viruses, requires putting the cells on a “starvation diet” and poisoning them with antibiotics, and this, before the addition of the “virally infected” substances. What Lanka wanted to know, was whether the resulting cell death (“cytopathic effect”) was due to the introduction of the mysterious viruses, or to the fact the cells had been starved and poisoned. It seems the obvious thing to do, but believe it or not, no one has ever run a full control experiment to test this latter possibility!
Stefan explains all the background to this situation at the following link, where he recounts the history of viral theory, the original Enders paper on viruses (Enders got the Nobel Prize for medicine as a result of his work on “polio virus”, later using the same uncontrolled techniques to investigate the alleged “measles virus”), and then lays out simply and clearly his seven arguments against the alleged reality of any and all “pathogenic viruses”. The paper is rather poorly translated, but you’ll get the point:
https://telegra.ph/The-causers-of-the-corona-crisis-are-clearly-identified—VIROLOGIST—who-claim-disease-causing-viruses-are-science-fraudsters–12-05
The causers of the corona crisis are clearly identified – VIROLOGISTS – disease causing viruses are science fraudsters and must be prosecuted
Dr. Stefan Lanka – reblogged by Corona Investigative December 05, 2020
To help appreciate what is going on here, here’s an excellent one-page summary on the question of viral isolation by Drs. Kaufman and Cowan:
https://andrewkaufmanmd.com/sovi/
Statement On Virus Isolation (SOVI)
(And just for fun, I include an attachment of my related "origin of viruses" meme – see below.)
For the sake of completeness, I also want to include here another important paper by Dr. Lanka, this one published in WISSENSCHAFFTPLUS – a German magazine – in June of 2015. The above “Causers of the Corona Crisis” article is, in essence, a revamped version of this earlier, more detailed article. However, while the “Causers” paper is less detailed, it is still more up-to-date, and of course includes the vitally important 7-point summary disproving the existence of “viruses” as pathogenic entities:
http://theart-oflife.com/uploads/6/7/6/2/67623383/dismantling_the_virus_theory.pdf
Dismantling the virus theory: The “measles virus” as an example
Why should we doubt the existence of viruses? What are viruses and what are they not? How are viruses being scientifically demonstrated to exist?
By Dr. Stefan Lanka
June, 2015
Parenthetically, the “Causers” paper holds a special point of interest for scientific workers in the field of orgonomy. In it, one finds in the second section (titled, “The transition from toxin virology to today’s genetic virology”) a reference that Lanka makes to a “biont”. One will immediately note the similarity to Reich’s term “bion”. Some dictionaries define a “biont” as “a discrete unit of living matter”. Lanka develops his meaning of the term a bit more in the following two sections of the paper (“Biology of phages and giant viruses and the resulting refutation of the cell theory of life”; and, “A nobel prize and its fatal consequences”). The question for orgonomically-oriented scientists is, what is the relationship between the “bionts”, i.e., the “phages” and “giant viruses” that Stefan references, and Reich’s “bions”? Is there a relationship?*
(* Reich, W. “The Bion Experiments, On the Origins of Life”, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971. DeMeo, J. “Wilhelm Reich’s Bion-Biogenesis Experimental Verifications” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PVnS72IIY8)
I will also mention that I talked to Stefan a little bit about Reich’s work, in discussions that took place in the late 1990’s. I don’t remember much detail from those talks, or whether I gave him a book list or any specific articles on Reich (I did give him a copy of Jim DeMeo’s Saharasia, and books on heredity by Allan Fraser and Paul Kammerer), I think I told him about the bions.
But getting back to the main point of this communication. Stefan, this past April, completed the first leg of the “missing control experiment”. Dr. Kaufman announced the results of this effort at G. Edward Griffin’s Red Pill Expo in Rapid City, South Dakota one month ago, a conference I attended.
As predicted, Lanka found that if you follow the same protocol virologists follow to claim “isolation” of a virus, except that you leave out the patient’s allegedly infected serum or sputum, the cells still die from protocol-induced malnutrition and poisoning (again, the “cytopathic effect”); they also produce in this natural process the commonly observed “viral particles” that are in fact cellular debris, i.e., the natural breakdown products, proteins and nucleic acids of dead and dying cells. These end products of cell death are classically asserted to have appeared due to “viral replication”, but again, with no control experiments, how can one know?
Here is a newly released and translated video interview, with Stefan briefly describing the experiment and its first round of results. I don’t think he has as yet released the scientific paper detailing the protocol, methods and results. I’ll provide a link to that when it becomes available.
https://www.newbraveworld.org/stefan-lanka-new-study-disprove-virology/
New Study Set to Disprove Virology (Video)
May 19, 2021
From text that accompanies the video link:
"…Most virological research follows this format:
1) Secretions from a sick person are introduced into a cell culture, along with other toxic chemicals. When cells are found to be damaged (called “cytopathic effects”), virologists conclude that there must be a virus present.
2) Genetic material is separated out from patient secretions and analyzed using a computer program. Sequences are trimmed, fitted together, and manipulated until they find one that matches a ‘known’ virus. They then proclaim this to be the virus’s genome.
3) Electron microscopy is performed on cell culture fluid. When scientists observe small particles under the microscope they proclaim this to be the ‘virus’.
Dr. Lanka’s study aims to reproduce this process, except they will be using proper control experiments to show that each one of these steps can be done without the presence of a virus.
• In other words, cytopathic effects are observed due to cell starvation and the introduction of antibiotics and other toxic chemicals;
• Computer programs can manufacture “viral” sequences without the need for an actual virus to be present and, finally:
• The particles seen under the electron microscope are normal constituents of dead and dying cells.”
This is the first study of its kind and it is truly revolutionary. Once complete, a hundred years of virological research will be shattered into tiny fragments…”
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