Is More Than One Cause Of AIDS Possible?

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to do with causing AIDS. The majority
of AIDS patients that also have HIV cannot be ignored. HIV is however not
the only cause of AIDS. This is proven by the thousands of AIDS victims
that do not have HIV. It is widely assumed by nearly everyone in the world
that HIV is the only cause of AIDS. It is puzzling, however, that this is
believed, because there has never been any solid evidence to say that this
is true and there has not been a single paper written that proves that this
is true. Scientists need to stop basing all of their research on something
that may not be valid in the first place. They need to find proof that HIV
is the only cause of AIDS before they can research a way to prevent it. Dr.
Charles Thomas, molecular biologist and former Harvard and Johns Hopkins
professor says, “I feel that for scientists to remain silent in the face of
all this doubt is tantamount to criminal negligence” (Thomas-1994).
It is widely known that, before looking for a cure for a disease ...

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it. Before scientists go any further in looking for a cure for HIV
or AIDS, they need to prove that HIV is the only cause of AIDS in the first
place. If HIV is not the only cause of AIDS, billions of tax dollars, years
of research, and millions of lives may have been wasted, because pompous
scientists have refused to admit that they were wrong. Why is it that
scientists continue to ignore this argument? It's not as if all of these
doctors and scientists are trying to disprove the fact that smoking causes
lung cancer. Even with lung cancer, there is more than one possible cause.
All that this side of the argument wants is evidence that what we are
spending so much time and money on ...

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