Apart from the power of nightmares brought about by the rise of radical Islamism and its counter-campaign called war on terror, there has been another successful psychological warfare that is being waged against humankind – with the same desired result of collective panic.

As far as hoaxes are concerned, this one is even bigger than the fear of one eccentric bearded billionaire bogeyman and his buddies.

Both spin the same yarn of fear and paranoia.

Both are about a phantom menace.

If you google ‘truth about AIDS,’ you’ll most likely get this report: nearly 422,000 results in 0.27 seconds of search. Google ‘myth of AIDS’ and this is what comes up: 3,830,000 results in 0.36 seconds of search.

Staggering.

There must be truth to the rumor that the rumor is just a rumor.

FACT: Most of our impressions about HIV and AIDS are actually based on popular ideas and have little basis on scientific fact.

The following is a brief summary of what we have been made to believe about AIDS today:

• An infection from the virus known as HIV causes the disease called AIDS.

• The AIDS test is the accurate method of detecting HIV. It is also a simple test.

• There is an impending AIDS pandemic in the West, with HIV infection spreading among women and heterosexual men, and is increasing exponentially every year.

• AIDS is devastating the Third World.

• The virus spreads through the following ways: promiscuous, unprotected homosexual sex; sexual contact with an HIV-infected member of the opposite sex; sharing of intravenous drug users’ contaminated needles; or use of contaminated blood supplies.

• Pregnant women who test positive can pass the virus on to their unborn child.

• HIV can also be transmitted to the baby outside of the womb through breast-feeding.

• There is currently no cure for AIDS.

• Drugs are available to treat AIDS patients but they are very expensive.

• A new range of anti-HIV drugs, the ‘protease inhibitors,’ are now more effective.

The only thing scientifically valid in the above list is that AIDS drugs are expensive.

Have we really been duped for nearly three decades?

The book The Truth About HIV by authors Stephen Ransom and Philip Day reveals the following:

• In spite of over a billion US dollars in research funds, medical science has not yet found and isolated a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

• The HIV=AIDS=DEATH hypothesis is fraudulent.

• The ‘AIDS test’ routinely produces results of ‘false positives.’

• A positive ‘AIDS test’ result is being used to traumatize patients and coerce them into taking highly toxic drugs.

• Africa is NOT being devastated by HIV. There are other causes behind these African illnesses.

AIDS is not a new disease

There is no such relatively new disease called AIDS. AIDS is a new name given by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to a collection of 29 familiar illnesses such as yeast infection, herpes, diarrhea, some pneumonias, certain cancers, salmonella, and tuberculosis. The AIDS category was a creation of the CDC. Since 1981, the surveillance tool AIDS has been used to track and record familiar diseases when they appear in people who have tested positive for antibodies associated with HIV.

A person is diagnosed with AIDS if he or she has one or more of the 29 official AIDS-defining conditions and if he or she tested positive for antibodies associated with HIV. However, these 29 old diseases and conditions were not thought to have a single, common cause prior to the creation of the AIDS category. They also used to have documented causes and treatments not related to HIV. AIDS diseases existed before the adoption of the name “AIDS.”

None of these conditions appears exclusively in people who test HIV positive, while all appear among people who test HIV negative.

In other words, pneumonia in a person who tests HIV positive is AIDS, while the same pneumonia in a person testing HIV negative is pneumonia.

On January 1, 1993, the CDC expanded the definition of AIDS to include people with a T cell count of 200 or less who have no illness or symptoms. This new definition caused the number of AIDS cases in America to double overnight.

Also, one can have a diagnosis of AIDS without ever having an HIV test. This is referred to as a “presumptive diagnosis.” Even if the only difference between “pneumonia” and “AIDS” is a positive HIV test, the test is not required for a diagnosis of AIDS.

Since AIDS is not a disease, and there is no single, universally accepted definition for AIDS, the conditions that are called AIDS vary from country to country. For example, Canada’s Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (LCDC) does not recognize the American T cell count criterion for AIDS. This means that a certain percentage of American AIDS patients would not have AIDS if they were in Canada.

The World Health Organization (WHO) employs two distinctly different definitions for AIDS in Africa, neither of which conforms to the criteria for American AIDS or Canadian AIDS. The diagnostic definition most commonly used in Africa does not require an HIV test, only that a patient has at least one of three major clinical symptoms (weight loss, fever and/or cough), plus one “minor sign” such as generalized itching or swollen glands.

Immune deficiency can be acquired by chronic, habitual, and multiple exposures to the risks that can cause the group of symptoms called AIDS. These several risk factors are not infectious or transmitted through blood or blood products. Each of the AIDS defining illnesses had immune deficiency related to the particular illness, even prior to the creation of the term AIDS, and not necessarily connected to AIDS.

HIV has never been isolated in human tissue, and no scientific report exists to prove that it has.

In Henry Bauer’s book “The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory,” the author asserts that HIV/AIDS has never reached epidemic proportions in the United States; HIV is not an infection and is not transmitted from person to person sexually, by the sharing of infected needles, or by contact with contaminated bodily fluids; everyone is not at risk, even if they fail to practice ‘safe sex;’ HIV has never been isolated in human tissues; antiretroviral drugs may actually elevate mortality rates among non-symptomatic HIV-positive patients); and, most importantly, no proof that HIV causes AIDS has ever been published.

After nearly three decades and more than $50 billion in federal AIDS funding, there is still no significant understanding of HIV, still no safe and effective therapies have been produced, and still no hope to ending AIDS.

What the world has, though, is a powerful AIDS establishment that demands an even greater allocation of resources and support.

The world has funded the growth of multi-billion dollar industries, institutions, and organizations that depend on AIDS and its dubious HIV hypothesis.

Myths cannot cause disease.

AIDS is a political infrastructure hanging on a phantom menace called HIV.