believe that HIV causes AIDS is to either have insufficient knowledge to think for oneself or to have a vested, financial and/or ego interest in the theory being true...? ?So what about the presence of the HIV virus in many people with AIDS? It seems far more likely to me that this virus is a so-called ?passenger virus,? in other words just going along for the ride.? ?...It is well- acknowledged that the HIV virus is cleared quickly out of the body. The mechanism by which it is cleared is through the production of an antibody, which is specific for the virus. What can be found in an ?HIV positive? individual is this antibody, not the virus itself. The virus itself is undetectable, and this is explained away by the AIDS establishment as a ?latency? period. How does a virus which is not present do progressive damage to an immune system?? ?While it may be true that the retroviruses have the ability to cause the cell to produce more viruses, if those viruses are causing no problem, it is just not relevant. It may even be that, at the end-stage of AIDS, there is a sudden increase in HIV virus particles. However, this does not mean that HIV is causing the final collapse of the immune system, but vice-versa: the final collapse of the immune system allows large numbers of HIV particles to exist.? ?No one yet has proposed a reasonable mechanism by which the HIV virus might actually damage