[Letter to Colleagues from Peter Duesberg]

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
BERKELEY * DAVIS * IRVINE * LOS ANGELES * RIVERSIDE * SAN DIEGO * SAN FRANCISCO ~ SANTA BARBARA * SANTA CRUZ
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
clo Stanley/Donner Administrative Services Unit
229 Stanley Hall
January 14, 1993 Berkeley, CA 94720
FAX: [phone]
Council of the National Academy of Sciences
attn: Kenneth Fulton
Room 146
2101 Constitution Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20418
Dear Colleagues,
The following is an addendum to my letter to you from Jan 12, 1993. In
this letter I have submitted the opinion that the current editor of the
Proceedings of the National Academy, Dr. Lawrence Bogorad, holds a strong
bias in favor of Dr. Robert Gallo's virus-AIDS hypothesis. The following
example further supports my claim.
At the 8th International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam in July 1992,
the AIDS orthodoxy officially recognized the existence of HIV-free AIDS cases.
In view of this, Bogorad even authorized advanced circulation of a paper by
Salahuddin et al. that claimed a "new AIDS virus" while it was in press in the
Proceedings (PNAS 89, 7831-7835, 1992).
Since HIV-free AIDS is entirely consistent with my hypothesis that
drugs and AZT cause AIDS, at that time I requested reconsideration of my
paper "The role of drugs in AIDS" for publication in the Proceedings (see my
letters of Aug 14, Sept 4, and Oct 9, 1992).
However, Bogorad favored Salahuddin et al's "new virus" over my
drug hypothesis, although Salahuddin is one of several researchers from
Gallo's lab who have been convicted of felony charges (see my letter of Aug
14, 1992), while I am an Academy member in good standing. Yet in our
correspondence Bogorad pointed out to me that "the Proceedings considers
papers which are submitted for publication in an orderly and regular
manner" (see Bogorad's letter of Oct 13, 1992).