The good news is that the U.S. government scientist who stole Montagnier’s lab results and conjectures and then convinced the U.S. and the U.N. to waste hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives has been dissed.
The bad news is that the Nobel people have added credence to the biggest medical hoax in history.
For reliable background information:
. Inventing the AIDS Virus
. Science Sold Out: Does HIV Really Cause AIDS?
. Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS
. Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society - Latest News
. Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives
. AIDS Myths 101 - Thread at Delphi “VirusMyth“ Forum
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From a National Public Radio article, Nobel Prize In Medicine For Major Virus Discoveries:
Nobel Prize In Medicine For Major Virus Discoveries [/] by Richard Knox and Steve Inskeep
Morning Edition, October 6, 2008 · The 2008 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine goes to two French scientists for discovering the virus that causes AIDS. A German researcher shares the prize for discovering the viruses that cause cervical cancer.
Half the $1.4 million prize goes to Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi for their discovery of the AIDS virus. The other half goes to Harald zur Hausen, who established that most cervical cancer is caused by two types of human papilloma viruses.
In the case of HIV, or the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS, the Nobel committee clearly waited until the dust settled over a bitter controversy over who really discovered the virus in the early 1980s — Americans or the French. The committee apparently accepts the results of an investigation done 15 years ago, which concluded that the American virus was actually a contaminant from the French lab.
U.S. researcher Dr. Robert Gallo was locked in a dispute with Montagnier in the 1980s over the relative importance of their roles in groundbreaking research into HIV and its role in AIDS. Gallo told The Associated Press that he was disappointed at not being included in the prize.
Montagnier told the AP in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where he is attending an international AIDS conference, that he was still optimistic about conquering the disease. [/] The prize, he said, "encourages us all to keep going until we reach the goal at the end of this effort." [/] Montagnier said he wished the prize had also gone to Gallo. [/] "It is certain that he deserved this as much as us two," he said.
[…] In its citation, the Nobel Assembly said Barre-Sinoussi and Montagnier's discovery was one prerequisite for understanding the biology of AIDS and its treatment with antiviral drugs. The pair's work in the early 1980s made it possible to study the virus closely.
[…] "The combination of prevention and treatment has substantially decreased spread of the disease and dramatically increased life expectancy among treated patients," the citation said.
Barre-Sinoussi said that when she and Montagnier isolated the virus 25 years ago they naively hoped that they would be able to prevent the global AIDS epidemic that followed. [/] "We naively thought that the discovery of the virus would allow us to quickly learn more about it, to develop diagnostic tests — which has been done — and to develop treatments, which has also been done to a large extent and, most of all, develop a vaccine that would prevent the global epidemic," she told the AP by telephone from Cambodia.
Gallo, director of the Institute for Human Virology at the University of Maryland and a prominent early researcher in HIV, said it was "a disappointment" not to be honored along with Montagnier and Barre-Sinoussi.
But he said all three of the award's recipients deserved the honor. No more than three people can share a Nobel Prize.
His dispute with Montagnier reached such a level in 1987 that then-President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Jacques Chirac of France penned an agreement dividing millions of dollars in royalties from the AIDS blood test. The settlement led to an agreement that officially credited the Gallo and Montagnier labs with co-discovering the virus.
In the 1990s, however, the U.S. government acknowledged that the French deserved a greater share of the royalties. The admission solidified the French position that Montagnier had isolated the virus in 1983, a year before Gallo.
Maria Masucci, member of the Nobel Assembly, said there was no dispute in the scientific community that the French pair discovered and characterized the virus.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, agreed there's no doubt the French scientists first identified the virus. He said they, and zur Hausen, deserved the Nobel. [/] Fauci said that if additional researchers could have been included, Gallo "would have been an obvious choice to be added to that list." [/] That's because of Gallo's roles in showing that HIV causes AIDS and in the technical advance that allowed the isolation of HIV, Fauci said.
[…] Associated Press writers Malcolm Ritter in New York, Malin Rising in Stockholm and Benoit Hili in Abidjan contributed to this report. [My ellipses and emphasis]
