Lanka Vindicated

Dec 1998 "I realized that the whole group of viruses to which HIV is said to belong, retroviruses ...in fact do not exist at all. I was wondering what viruses are for... in evolutionary biology and found that ...every one of our genomes, and that of higher plants and animals, is the product of so-called reverse transcription: RNA transcribed into DNA.." Dr. Stefan Lanka Ph.D. Interview in Zengers Magazine Virologist, with experience in marine biology, biochemistry, and evolutionary biology. Says Aids should be called Acquired Energy Deficiency Syndrome -AEDS--because it's a breakdown in the delivery of oxygen in the body.

Jan 2003 "People have totally misunderstood the nature of genetic systems in higher organisms. This will probably turn out to be the greatest failure in the history of molecular biology." Prof. Dr. John S. Mattick Quoted in NY Times 21 Jan 2003 Director: Aus. Genome Research Facility; Institute for Molecular Bioscience Univ. Queensland; ARC Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics.

The Cure For AIDS. Part 1:
Long Live The MESSENGER
New Star Role for RNA
Undermines HIV Theory
 

by Fintan Dunne, 1 Feb '03
Editor www.SickofDoctors.com

By the end of 2003, two dogmatic edifices of human biology will be irredeemably holed below the waterline. The first is DNA, the second HIV.

For DNA, the writing was on the wall ever since the results of the $3 billion Human Genome Project came in. That laborious task showed that human DNA had 30,000 genes --around the same number of genes as one common weed. Something else had to account for the far greater complexity of humans. According to the DNA theory, there should have been be as many genes as proteins in every plant and animal.

Enter RNA, the humble messenger, now taking a starring role in the functioning of the cell. For example, specialized RNA spliceomes rearrange the sequences of simpler messenger RNA to generate many hundreds or even many thousands more permutations of protein construction.

A gold rush of new venture capital is already surging into molecular biology to harness the power of RNA -long regarded as merely a functionary carrying out the orders of the mighty molecule that encodes the human genome.

For HIV, these recent developments mark the end of the current HIV/AIDS paradigm, and explain why science has failed to cure the disease despite almost twenty years of effort.

The current dogma classes HIV as a retrovirus. Why? The accepted view in the 1970's was that DNA transcribes to RNA -never the other way around. The concept of 'retroviruses' took shape when cancer researchers found that some RNA was transcribing itself into DNA --thus the term 'retro.' Anything that causes RNA to transcribe to DNA, the researchers told themselves, is exceptional and must be some kind of viral contamination.

The latest developments show that RNA to DNA is no aberration -it's how all that human complexity can be explained. DNA is a dead molecule It's more like a library where RNA goes to get the information it need to run cells. The previous assumptions pictured DNA as a king issuing edicts to RNA. This conception was unconsciously a reflection of social and political views in the era before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of feminism had deposed autocratic power. If DNA is King, it is a monarch carried around by RNA -which really runs the whole show.

And if HIV is a retrovirus, the HIV theory is in big trouble. Retroviruses are a construction of the chauvinist scientific mind. HIV is as dead in the water as the ethos which gave it birth and still sustains it.

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RNA Trades Bit Part for
Starring Role in the Cell
 
by Andrew Pollack
The New York Times

In the family of genetic material, RNA has long been the poor cousin of DNA. DNA makes up the genes, the master instructions of life, while RNA merely conveys those instructions to other parts of the cell.

But surprising new discoveries are showing that cells contain an army of RNA snippets that do much more than act as DNA's messenger. The discoveries are helping to refine the prevailing theories of genetics or even upend them.

"It's like discovering the neutrino or something," said Dr. Gary Ruvkun, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School. "These things were all around us for many years," and no one was aware of them. "Now we're discovering they are all over the place," he added. "Genomes are full of them."

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