The key scientific facts underlying the epidemic are quite simple, though AIDS is perceived to be unusually complex and full of scientific uncertainties. These perceptions have been produced by a few scientists and others who have recklessly minimized the seriousness of the epidemic and have fostered confusion and dangerous misconceptions. The most important and urgent task for politicians, both in Government and in Parliament, is to force scientists to speak clearly, precisely and honestly about the AIDS epidemic. Half- truths, wishful thinking, flawed scientific hypotheses and deceptions have been perpetrated by scientists and allowed to flourish as conventional wisdom, aided and abetted by editors of scientific and medical journals. The deceptions must be exposed with maximum publicity. The public must be fully informed of the true nature of the threat from the virus which faces us all. Once this is done the mass of the population will accept the measures inevitable to halt the spread of the virus, even though they will inevitably require severe curtailment of the liberty and civil rights of everybody, just as happens in war time. The longer the truth is obscured from the public, and the greater the multitude of innocent people who die most horribly as a result, the more ferocious will be the explosion of hatred and revenge against those guilty of perpetrating the deception.  (74 of ) The virus has the properties of a skilled, devious, hidden and implacable invader with the capacity and willingness to kill every man, woman and child in our country. It may be now spreading amongst us precisely because it has this capacity. It is unwise to think that such a force can be vanquished without taking actions which the people of Britain accepted as entirely appropriate in two World Wars; particularly as dissemination of the virus is being actively encouraged by some who wish to destroy our society." Dr. Seale provided a brilliant overview of the entire situation the world faces in the AIDS epidemic:

A. THE NATURE OF THE DISEASE

1. AIDS is a contagious, infectious, communicable disease caused by a lentivirus (slow virus), a member of the family of retroviruses.

2. No lentivirus has been known to affect humans before the advent of AIDS.

3. AIDS is a typical slow virus with a prolonged, silent incubation period of great variability, but usually lasting several years, followed by slowly progressive disease always ending in death.

4. An epidemic of a new slow virus disease spreading unchecked is the ultimate virological nightmare, yet in none of the major scientific or medical journals has this been spelled out clearly and the implication discussed.

5. Death is caused by the AIDS virus infecting, and slowly destroying, cells in the brain, lungs, intestine and immune system.

B. MORTALITY FOLLOWING INFECTION.

1. Within five years of infection with the virus, twenty-five percent of people have developed fullblown AIDS and all of them die.

2. The ultimate mortality within twenty-five years of infection is unknown as the virus has been spreading for only ten years. The optimistic view held by a decreasing number of virologists is that only fifty percent of those infected will die. Many virologists accept this pessimistic view, that all people infected with the virus will eventually be killed by it.

3. All virologists are agreed that once infected with the AIDS virus, people are potentially infectious to others for life.

C. FAILURE OF ANTIBODIES AND VACCINES TO PROTECT.  

1. In all people with antibodies to the AIDS virus, some virus persists in brain and other cells from which it cannot be removed. In contrast to most virus infections, antibodies to a lentivirus do not provide protective immunity; they fail to neutralize or eliminate it. Although many people infected with the AIDS virus look and feel well for several years, destruction of the cells of the brain and immune systems is progressing slowly.

2. The outlook for a successful vaccine is bleak. None is available for lentivirus diseases of animals. Search for a vaccine against infectious anemia of horses for eight years, and against maedi-visna in sheep for forty years has proved futile. Indeed when antibodies to a lentivirus are produced artificially by vaccination, animals die after subsequent infection more rapidly than those which are not. In spite of many successful vaccines, it should be realized that for the majority of viral and bacterial diseases, vaccines do not work.

D. BLEAK OUTLOOK FOR A CURE.

1. No simple, effective, curative drug, like penicillin will be available for AIDS in the foreseeable future, because once a person is infected, the viral genetic code is permanently inserted into the human genetic code of cells in the brain and other tissues. Any drug which blocks replication of the virus will have to be taken for life. All drugs used so far are highly toxic and expensive. If a cheap, apparently effective drug becomes available it will take several decades to be certain that it is both safe and effective. Nevertheless, many companies will announce "promising new drugs and a "breakthrough" in the treatment for AIDS for simple commercial motives.

2. The handling of recent AZT clinical trials by the U.S. Government was particularly important. The U.S. Public Health Service insisted the trials cease long before any long term benefit of the drug had been shown, and before the manufacturing company suggested it, thereby misleading the public into believing a "cure" for AIDS was already in the pipeline. Such disinformation weakens the political will to implement tough control measures required to halt the spread of the virus.

E. TRANSMISSION OF AIDS SEXUAL INTERCOURSE.

1. Scientists and doctors have repeatedly stated as fact that the AIDSvirus is fundamentally transmitted during sexual intercourse, but is, unfortunately, sometimes transmitted in blood. This is highly misleading, though published laboratory and epidemiological evidence, and editorials in scientific and medical journals, have been heavily slanted to support this "fact."

2. In reality, AIDS is characteristically a blood transmitted infection, which is only transmitted with difficulty during sexual intercourse compared with the genuine sexually transmitted diseases, gonorrhea and trichomonosias. All the exceptional epidiomological evidence is consistent with this view.  

3. Obviously AIDS is transmittable during sexual intercourse, but so is influenza, glandular fever and scabies. Sexual intercourse is only one of many ways by which the virus can be transmitted, and is by no means the most efficient.

4. The illusion that AIDS is essentially a sexually transmitted disease arose from the first observations that AIDS appeared to affect only sodomites with numerous partners. However, sodomy is not sexual intercourse in the biological sense of the word. As we are dealing with a very important biological event, the transmission of a lethal parasite from one human host to another, it is essential that scientists use words describing the transmission with the utmost precision.

5. In biological terms sexual intercourse means the union of male and female which may result in reproduction of the species. In mammals, this invariably requires contact between male and female genitals. Consequently sexual intercourse between two men in the biological sense is impossible.

6. Scientists who state, or simply imply sodomy is sexual intercourse without some qualification are being imprecise and misleading, whether intentionally or not.

7. Homosexual men engaged in homosexual activities frequently insert their fingers, fist, penis or tongue into the lower intestinal tract of their partners. These maneuvers transmit any virus which persists in the blood for months or years with devastating efficiency, even though no virus is present in either semen or saliva. This has been shown very clearly with hepatitis B virus which, in prosperous communities, infects the majority of homosexual men within three years of becoming sexually active; whereas hepatitis B infection remains rare among heterosexual men and women, even though they frequently change partners.

F. DISINFORMATION FROM SCIENTISTS.

1. The AIDS virus persists in an infectious state (i.e. cell-free virus) in blood and semen levels up to 25,000 virions per milliliter, according to the only published paper giving this critically important information. Cell-free virions were detected easily in saliva over two years ago, but quantitative studies have still not been published.24

2. No infectious virion has been detected in semen, according to the only two detailed studies published on the subject, which between them included a grand total of three men examined. In ten percent of fifty infected men, according to another report sent to me personally but which gave few details, cell-associated virus has been detected in a few white blood cells in semen, but never in spermatozoa.

3. Virions have been detected in the vaginal secretions in only trivial quantities about one millilitre indicating that their infectivity is minimal.

4. The scale of deception and misinformation perpetrated by virologists, clinicians, editors of scientific and medical journals about the infectivity of genital secretions, compared with that of blood, serum and saliva, has been astonishing. In the presence of a new, lethal virus spreading amongst people for which no vaccine or cure is in sight, every sane person would assume that scientists have been working flat out to verify precisely how it is transmitted.

5. On the contrary, having assumed for a variety of motives that AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease like syphilis or gonorrhea, a negligible research effort has gone into the critical matter of transmission. A few preliminary papers were published and their findings have been frequently quoted as showing the opposite of what is actually showed. When this is pointed out in letters to the editors of major medical and scientific journals, publication has been refused. No attempt has been made to check, double-check, and recheck findings in other laboratories, and in other countries, to rectify published errors.

6. As far as it goes, the tiny research effort into infectivity of bodily fluids indicates that saliva is far more infectious than genital secretions, but that blood and serum is vastly more infectious than either. Consequently the idea that condoms can have any significant effect on the spread of AIDS in a nation is utterly preposterous.

7. Governments all over the world are spending millions of pounds advising their citizens to prevent AIDS by using condoms on the basis of manifestly fraudulent misrepresentation of scientific evidence presented by scientists themselves.25

8. The AIDS virus is unusually stable outside the human body. It retains almost all of its infectivity after seven days in water at room temperature and sometimes after being kept dry for a week. A virus with this degree of stability, which persists in the blood and is shed in saliva, cannot possibly fail to be transmitted in many ways apart from sexual intercourse.

G. VARIABLE EFFICIENCY IN MEANS OF TRANSMISSION.

1. A virus which persists in moderate quantities in the blood for years and is shed through saliva will be transmitted with far greater ease by some means than by others.

2. Injection of the virus through the skin in hypodermic needles is the most certain way of transmission. This happens when blood-contaminated hypodermics are reused without sterilization, as is common among drug addicts in the West and in health care facilities in less prosperous countries. It also occurs when virus-contaminated blood transfusions and clotting factors are administered.

3. Male homosexual contact of the finger, penis or tongue with the rectal wall of another male transmits the virus very easily. Seventy percent of the male homosexual population of San Francisco became infected within six years of the arrival of the virus in the city, and nearly thirty percent of London homosexuals are already infected. The percentages are rising remoreselessly in large cities throughout the Western world, unaffected by the highly acclaimed "safe sex" propaganda.

4. Well over fifty percent of newborn babies of infected mothers are infected.

5. Moderately efficient means of transmission include mouth-to-mouth and genital contact before and during normal sexual intercourse, oral salivary contact between small children, needle stick injuries to nursing staff, and chance contact of sores or abrasions with blood, serum and saliva or sputum.

6. Inefficient means of transmission include social kissing, inhalation of respiratory aerosols caused by coughing or sneezing and blood-sucking insects.

7. Transmission by inhalation is only inefficient because of the relatively small number of virions shed in saliva and bronchial secretions. However, if an AIDS virion is inhaled into the lung, it is engulfed by an amoeba-like macrophage on the lining of the alvoli (air sacs). It has been shown repeatedly in the laboratory that the AIDS virus readily infects people by this route.

8. Understandably, and wisely, the Department of Health and Social Services has officially advised all British dental surgeons to always wear masks to avoid AIDS virus infection when using high speed drills. These drills make aerosols of saliva, similar to those produced by sneezing.

9. Chronic lymphoid intestinal pneumonia is a well-recognized variety of pneumonia caused directly by infection of the lungs with the AIDS virus. It is similar to the pneumonia of maedi-visna in sheep and is particularly common in children with AIDS. When associated with pulmonary tuberculosis, a very common complication of AIDS, it is inevitable that coughing will produce some aerosols containing tubercule bacilli and the AIDS virus.

After a fluid in the aerosols evaporates, the minute dry flakes containing tubercule and AIDS virus float around in the air indefinitely and remain infectious for days.

10. The normal route of transmission of the maedi-visna lentivirus between adult sheep is by respiratory aerosols when they are crowded closely together in winter shelters. Maedivisna is not a sexually transmitted disease of sheep.

11. The efficiency of transmission of AIDS virus by biting insects will depend upon the quantity of virions in the blood of the bitten person, the anatomical structure of the biting parts of the insects, their feeding habits and other factors. The AIDS virus has been shown to remain highly infectious in the stomach of a bed-bug for  (79 of ) at least two hours. It has been shown that it can infect the cells of insects, including mosquitoes and cockroaches both in laboratory cell cultures and in live insects. Replication of the virus in the insect has not been demonstrated.

H. SATURATION OF THE BRITISH POPULATION WITH THE VIRUS.

1. There is a key to estimating how long it will take for the people of Great Britain to be saturated with AIDS virus, if its spread is allowed to continue unchecked as at present. This is the application of probability theory to the known facts about the virus, its pathogenesis, the frequency of "contact" and the efficiency with which different "contacts" transmit the virus.

2. The basic facts are that the entire population is susceptible to infection, and once people are infected, they remain potentially infectious to others for life.

3. As the number of people infected rises, the probability of transmission during any contact between people also rises.

4. Initially the virus was introduced into Britain from the United States by homosexual men who soon infected others by having frequent, efficient "contacts" sodomy with strangers. As the number of infected homosexuals rises, the probability of infection being transmitted through one "contact" rises at first exponentially, but then a slower doubling rate saturation point with the homosexual population is approached.

5. As numbers of infected homosexuals and addicts increase, efficient "contacts" rarely performed such as receiving a blood transfusion, or clotting factor or having a baby infect more and more people.

6. Once a critical mass of people has been created by the highly efficient "contacts," then "contacts" which are only moderately efficient, but occur frequently such as normal sexual intercourse or small children playing together will spread the virus in everwidening circles throughout the population.

7. Finally, highly inefficient "contacts" which occur very frequently, such as coughing in public and being bitten by insects will infect many people as millions of infected persons interact with the non-infected, and saturation of the entire British population becomes unstoppable.

I. GROUPS MISINFORMING THE PUBLIC AND THEIR MOTIVES. A. Homosexual men.  

1. Homosexual men have been the most determined and effective in distorting the truth about AIDS.

2. They have been so effective because there is a scattering of homosexuals amongst all the key professional groups involved, scientists, doctors, medical editors, journalists, lawyers, politicians and priests.

3. The initial impact of AIDS on homosexuals in the West inevitably resulted in an unusually high proportion of them becoming involved in the disease since it first surfaced. Many of the men who are particularly knowledgeable about and dedicated to AIDS research, treatment, legislation, publication and education are homosexuals.

4. Most in the professions are only identifiable as homosexuals to other men with similar tastes a few have "come out" and even the wives of those who are married are usually unaware of their habits. Hence they automatically form a type of secret society without even trying, with wide ramifications across professional, institutional and national boundaries.

5. Homosexual men have been vectors of the virus throughout the Western world and if it had not been for their activities, very few people in prosperous countries would now be infected. Their oft-repeated statement that they are the major victims of the virus is true, but it is also true that they have spread the virus to each other by their practices and thence onward to the rest of the population.

6. Many do not want to face reality because of guilt, most do not wish to change their ways and a few seeing death and destruction facing themselves and their friends are dedicated to destroying the rest of society with them.

7. All wish to deny the reality that restricting the freedom of homosexuals to infect each other and other people is essential if our society is not to be destroyed by the virus.

B. Scientists.

1. Every biological scientist who has dispassionately studied the virus and the epidemic knows that the origins of the virus could lie in the development of modern biology, just as the origins of the nuclear bomb with modern physics.

2. Most biological scientists have not yet come to terms with the terrible truth and have developed various neurotic reactions to cope with it.

3. Many have developed a selective denial of reality and genuinely cannot see what is happening. Most who see it keep quiet, but increasing numbers are talking privately, though   they still lack the moral courage to speak out in public. They still hope it is a nightmare which will vanish with tomorrow's dawn.

4. Some who know perfectly well what is happening are deliberately fudging scientific data to keep the heat off them and fellow scientists of their molecular biological "club."