inflated figures to the press, and officials at public meetings began to quote their estimated cases for AIDS in order to drum up funding, quietly dropping the actual reported figures. We challenged these figures at a meeting at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1993, and there was a red-faced acknowledgement that the figures they were using as fact, were no more than guess work.? ??But there are those who prefer to cling to the ?single simple cause.? They have something to cling to in their grief...It is this ignorant, if innocent collusion, both by ordinary mortals and celebrities, with the orthodox virus-AIDS hypothesis (that has failed to save a single life) which continues to fill the pharmaceutical industry?s pockets, continues to perpetuate the myth that HIV causes AIDS ? that HIV exists at all ? and continues to prevent dissident scientists from exploring new avenues of research.? Continuum June/July 1997 ? Joan Shenton , MA, Meditel Productions, England. Medical journalist and producer of over 100 TV documentaries which won her company seven international awards as well as the British Royal Television Society Award and the British Medical Association Award ?The real virus is in the medical industry?s secrecy and deception; too bad that disease has no cure.? ?Why is there overwhelming scientific consensus that HIV causes AIDS?? ?Focus on the HIV-AIDS Connection,? ?  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, US National Institutes of Health ?I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought