Correspondence in the London Review of Books, 2003, following publication of Edward Hooper’s article. For a longer version of this article, see “The story of a man-made disease”.
The Story of a Man-Made Disease
17 March, 2003; revised 22 April, 2003.
A much abbreviated and modified version of this article appeared as “Aids and the polio vaccine”, London Review of Books, Vol. 25, No. 7, 3 April 2003, http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n07/hoop01_.html
When their leaders cannot be relied upon, people believe what they are led to believe. Truth and knowledge become perverted by political expediency, by the needs of the day.
Truth and Science: Bill Hamilton’s Legacy
Maria Luisa Bozzi, “Truth and science: Bill Hamilton’s legacy”, Atti dei Convegni Lincei; 2003; 187; 21-26. This is part of the proceedings of the round table conference on “Origin of HIV and Emerging Persistent Viruses”, Rome, 28-29 September 2001.
Dephlogistication, Imperial Display, Apes, Angels, and the Return of Monsieur Émile Zola
The paper presented by Edward Hooper at the 2001 Lincei Conference, published in Atti dei Convegni Lincei; 2003; 187; 27-230.
This major essay, based on the speech Ed Hooper gave at the National Academy of Lincei, in Rome, in September 2001, was originally prepared for publication in the house journal, Atti dei Convegni Lincei. It is over 200 pages long, and represents Hooper’s major published response to the web of disinformation and misleading claims that certain members of the scientific community have created in response to “The River”, and in the wake of the Royal Society meeting on “Origins of HIV and the AIDS epidemic”. Hooper suggests that this essay represents useful base-line reading for any visitors to this site who are seriously interested in the question of how the AIDS pandemic began.
Recombination and Phylogenetic Analysis of HIV-1
Papers Presented at the Royal Society Meeting
ublished in Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences
29 June 2001, Volume 356, Issue 1410, Royal Society
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Position Paper on the Origins of HIV/AIDS Debate
Position paper to coincide with the publication of the proceedings of the Royal Society conference on “The Origins of HIV and the AIDS Epidemic”
Edward Hooper 14 June, 2001
Key Points
Professor Robin Weiss, one of the organisers of the Royal Society conference on the origins of HIV and AIDS, recently declared the oral polio vaccine (OPV) theory of origin dead. “Some beautiful facts have destroyed an ugly theory”, he wrote.
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Efforts to Prove Origin of AIDS Continue
© 2001 Bangor Daily News
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
The history of the AIDS epidemic has been one of continuous controversy over points such as who first discovered its viral roots, how the infection made the transition from Africa to North America, and why did it spring, apparently from nowhere, 30 to 40 years ago.
Premature “Exoneration” of Polio Vaccines
Brian Martin, submission to Nature, May 2001, not published.
The theory that AIDS arose out of contaminated oral polio vaccines [1-3] has recently received publicity that goes well beyond what is warranted by new evidence. Contrary to some headlines, polio vaccines have not yet been “exonerated.” [4]
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Submission to Nature
Edward Hooper, submission to Nature, May 2001, not published.
Dear Sir,
I have returned from two months’ research in Africa to find four brief correspondences published in “Nature” and “Science” [April 26, 2001] which, it is claimed, finally pour cold water on the oral polio vaccine (OPV) theory of origin of AIDS. Robin Weiss’s accompanying commentary concludes: “some beautiful facts have destroyed an ugly theory”. The reality is rather different, for these communications provide no relevant “facts”, new or otherwise, and no disproofs.