AIDS is billed as the disease against which people have no defense, where drugs are the only hope. A tiny minority of the infected might be lucky enough to have some genetic protection. This is, of course, random and nothing that anyone could change about themself.

With AIDS, we are beholden to the Halls of Science for protection, we are not to know that there is any such thing as exposure to HIV without infection [1,2], as this might lead people to think that they could avoid HIV and AIDS through their own efforts to strengthen their immunity. Even those who already test HIV-positive can prevent development of immune deficiency by simply boosting their cell-mediated immunity (CMI).

AIDS takes control of personal health out of the hands of individuals and puts it into the hands of "professionals." Nontoxic actions which boost immunity, which strengthen one's resistance, which boost cell-mediated immunity, are of little interest to the medical-industrial complex, no matter how important such information might be to the public.

If anyone lives with HIV, we are to believe it is a fluke, an anomoly. Science studies such individuals in the only pathetic way it knows how: it reduces them from humans to numbers. If one were to accept for a moment that HIV is absolutely the cause of the immune suppression collectively labeled as "AIDS," the most terrifying thing about it that can be said is that it behaves exactly like any other disease-causing organism:

• Those who are exposed but have a competent immune system do not become infected. [And when they do seroconvert, other explanations are often evident.] Conversely, that portion of all exposed individuals who have prior weakened immune systems are much more likely to develop infection.

• Not all who are infected develop the disease.

• Preventative health care is effective in reducing chances of both infection and disease development through strengthening of CMI.

• Drug treatment can, at best, in about half the cases, reduce symptoms, and at worst make you sick in many other ways.

When General Motors bought the public transit system of Los Angeles to necessitate driving cars, it was called business, not conspiracy. When the medical industry teaches us that we are helpless without its drugs to fight a germ, that is also business.

It is a business that is built on convincing us that we cannot achieve health through our own resources. It is a business, like all others, that only survives if it convinces us we need it, aAnd it is a business that is killing us.