Montagnier and Mayor create AIDS foundation

A critique of the Montagnier evidence for the HIV/AIDS hypothesis.

In 1983 Luc Montagnier and his colleagues claimed to have discovered a novel retrovirus presently known as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By 1984 HIV was almost universally accepted to be the cause of AIDS. However, 20 years later, HIV cannot account for the phenomena for which the retroviral hypothesis was proposed, namely, Kaposi's sarcoma, decrease in T4 lymphocytes and thus the opportu...

Mathias Mayor (1775–1847)

Steno's inability to explain an affair of the soul such as pain in terms of the impact of matter reveals the dualist split between science and religion which makes itself increasingly perceptible at the time and seems to have troubled him fundamentally. Had earlier scientific men such as Harvey and Van Helmont been perhaps happier in their monist view of the world and of the 'working-matter' in...

Memorandum To : Mayor

On June 26, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, more commonly known as ACES or the Waxman-Markey bill, after its sponsors, Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA). Currently, the United States Senate is beginning to work on its version of climate change legislation; it is widely understood that the En...

Luc Montagnier--Discoverer of HIV Virus.

A mayor for London.

In May last year Londoners elected a mayor by direct vote for the first time. The mayor and the London Assembly, together forming the Greater London Authority (GLA), have an electorate of seven million people and command resources of almost 6 billion euros. Four appointed committees—the police authority, the fire and emergency planning authority, TraYc for London and the London Development Agen...