While some people question the existence or pathogenicity of the HIV Virus, there is no evidence for this assumption. But there is indeed a remarkable case about a presumed virus that practically nobody knows about. Let's make a brief journey to Japan back then in the 1960's, when an epidemic labeled 'Subacute myelo-optic neuropathy' (SMON) killed dozens of people and disabled tens of thousand. What happened?
1971 three Japanese scientists Yukishige INOUE, Yoko NISHIBE and Yoshiko NAKAMUR published a paper titled 'Virus Isolated from Patients of Subacute Myelo—Optico-Neuropathy (SMON)'. They claimed to have isolated a virus from the stools and spinal fluids of SMON patients. They also provided photographs of the pathogenic effect as can be seen here:
One year later they published another paper in 'The Lancet' titled 'PATHOGENICITY OF VIRUS ASSOCIATED WITH SUBACUTE MYELO-OPTICO-NEUROPATHY where they found the presumed virus, that was priorly isolated from humans, to cause similar symptoms in mice that were inoculated at birth.
So what we have, is a virus isolated according to standard medical procedure and found to be the causative agent of SMON.
But what happened then, is more than remarkable. The disease was not caused by a virus, but a drug called Clioquinol. This was admitted 1978 by the Japanese government and indisputably shown in a myriad of studies. One of them 'Subacute myelo-optico-neuropathy: Clioquinol intoxication in humans and animals' states that
It remains a tragic event that some 10 000 individuals in Japan developed a unique neurologic disease, subacute myelo-optico-neuropathy (SMON). Neuropathologic studies on SMON patients and experimental reproduction of the disease in animals which had been administered clioquinol helped resolve the etiology of this disease. SMON research in Japan may be worth reviewing for determining the etiology and preventing similar neurotoxic diseases in the future.
What do you make of that? A virus is claimed to be the causative agent and this is proven by isolation and reproduction of pathogenic behavior. This is in line with standard medical procedure and every single virus that presumably exists and causes harm has been 'scientifically' proven using the very same methods.
Is it possible that virus isolation, particularly photos of viruses are simple cell artefacts and that mice simply get ill because someone is putting strange stuff into them. Guess what happens if I inject water into your brain even without virus? I do not claim that no viruses exist and I have no means of proving that they're not causative agents of diseases. But after this story we should take any virus research with a massive grain of salt. What do you think?
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