A site run by a friendly and reasonably honest woman I know recently
reposted a text titled “The Man Who Created AIDS: Robert Gallo.” The
text went super-viral, over 80,000 shares on Facebook alone. Once I read
it, I was aghast at how much misinformation and how many scientifically
illiterate statements were in the text and attached video. I wrote her
explaining my reasoning, and she immediately agreed to take down the
text. It still exists on other, less responsible, sites.
Unfortunately, a large part of the damage has already been done, and
that among other articles has helped foster the continued existence of a
completely unfounded theory based primarily on not understanding what a
patent is in molecular biology. A patent on Ebola or HIV is not the
same as a patent on an engine.
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Whereas the engine’s patent is reserving the production of that type of
engine to the patent holder, a patent on HIV or Ebola is a patent meant
to specify how the virus was isolated, how the genotype was determined,
and what this consensus genotype is.
In biology, you can patent things you found to concretely identify that
component, potentially for use in a more complex system later. Keep in
mind that you can even patent seeds obtained from cross-pollination: the
patent does not mean the species was genetically modified in a
laboratory.
The same way a patent on cross-bred species does not mean it was created
in a lab, a patent on a virus genome does NOT mean it was created in a
lab. Robert Gallo first published his isolation and identification of
HIV in 1984, and patented this in 1985. After older blood samples were
then analysed in a search for this virus, it was then found in the past:
it didn’t suddenly occur in the 1970s or 1980s.
Despite the claims of the article whose damage I am working to undo, the
earliest samples of HIV positive blood did not originate from New York
homosexuals from the 1970s, but instead date back to 1920s Congo.
The virus most certainly did not originate from biological weapons
programs, which are only today becoming advanced enough that creating
such a virus is even theoretically possible. They were most certainly
not advanced enough in 1920, or even 1960, to create a synthetic
retrovirus, which I might add, has still never actually been
accomplished. One of the articles I saw blaming Gallo comically claims
that chimps were supposedly deliberately infected and released in 1979,
which somehow led to the virus occurring in New York in 1971.
The viral “Gallo did it” article that I convinced my friend to take down
had an embedded video, where a man “explains” over dramatic music that
HIV was created through “combining lymphoma, leukemia, and carcinoma
viruses.” I literally burst out laughing, because none of what he listed
was a retrovirus or even a virus, and cancer has literally nothing to
do with HIV.
You could spend your entire life combining lymphomas, carcinomas, and
leukemia, and you would still never end up with a retrovirus at the
end.
All of these theories make very specific claims, without any evidence.
They encourage me to believe that a man (who thinks cancers are viruses)
has special knowledge and access to untold classified documents. To
prove his point, the video displays extremely blurry documents that are
barely legible beyond seeing Gallo’s name.
For all we know, these documents are completely fake, or actually
completely harmless. We don’t know, because as is the norm in such
articles or videos: no sources are supplied. Yes, the United States did
and maybe still does have biological weapons programs. The Soviets did,
and Russia still runs its “Vector” high-security lab, as well.
This is absolutely no indication that HIV is a bioweapon, especially
considering the actual time-line of infections. There are even more
reasons why Ebola is certainly not a bioweapon, but that is beyond the
scope of this text.
Gallo was a scientist, and a researcher, and his position in the public
eye is yet another reason to doubt him being an evil mastermind. There
is no historical evidence actually implicating Gallo, or any others, in
creating a HIV virus.
All of the historical and scientific evidence, as well as a general
understanding of patents in science, point to a legitimate researcher,
along with his peers, simply trying to identify understand a human
illness. There may very well be one or more synthetic doomsday viruses
sitting snugly or being worked on in undisclosed locations (or in BSL-4
labs), but HIV and Ebola are not examples of this.
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