Bottom line? No one knows what causes AIDS. We know it cannot be the virus called HIV. We know it isn't contagious. We know AIDS is not transmitted by sexual contact.

It would be nice to know what causes AIDS -- what has been destroying the immune systems of so many more people since the 1970's. But we can never find out as long as all the money and time and effort and research is spent on the faulty HIV/AIDS hypothesis.

Right now there are only theories. For example, Dr. Peter Duesberg has one: AIDS is caused by long-term recreational drug use. He even explains why, out of an estimated 20,000,000 "druggies" in the U.S., only some 500,000 have developed AIDS over the last 15 years.

But every other past epidemic disease has been isolated down to one specific cause (Polio, Smallpox, TB, Scurvy, SMON in Japan, etc.). So is there one cause of AIDS -- one virus, one bacterium, one fungus -- maybe one drug, one antibiotic, or one steroid -- that destroys the normal function of the human immune system? It took 15 years and 11,000 victims in Japan in the 1950's and '60's before they found the real cause of their SMON epidemic: a drug called Clioquinol, freely available to treat diarrhea and dysentery.

Is AIDS another iatrogenic (doctor-caused) disease -- the result of some common drug taken by all three of the high-risk groups, with the (unknown?) side-effect of destroying normal immune functions? That generic antibiotic (that goes by different brand names) many IV drug users take to prevent needle infections, and many homosexuals take to prevent STDs and pimples -- is that what's causing AIDS?

There's an age-old principle that says, "Use it or lose it." In the human body, if you don't use your muscles, you lose them. They grow weak. They cease to function properly. Does the same thing work in the immune system? If someone takes antibiotics over many years, will their immune system also grow weak and stop functioning from lack of its normal work (now being performed by some outside, artificial chemical)? Will one dose of antibiotic every day for 10 years to prevent STDs finally result in AIDS?

Like the Japanese who cheerfully continued to take Clioquinol while their SMON epidemic spread, are many of us taking some unsafe drug -- a lethal drug -- while the vested interests cling to a flawed HIV/AIDS hypothesis worth $7.5 Billion a year in U.S. taxpayer dollars? We need to know. Yes or no?