significance of testing positive on the Elisa and Western Blot test is unknown. The manufacturers clearly state that the products that they develop are not intended to be used for diagnosing HIV. The two major problems with this are that physicians use these tests to tell people they?re infected with a deadly virus, and decisions to initiate therapy are based on these tests as well.? Scheff, Boston Dig ?In fact there is no test for HIV. It?s just an illusion?early on when we were working in collaboration with Abbott Laboratories, it was clear that there was no gold standard for HIV?no direct isolation of the virus. Nobody has ever demonstrated that HIV is present when any combination, or any one, of these tests comes up positive. None of these tests can be validated, ever. Period. Because we don?t have a way to isolate and culture HIV to prove its existence.? ?Now, it may be that there is a virus called HIV and that people who are testing positive on these tests have antibodies to that virus. It may even be that this virus is lethal. There?s no scientific evidence as such.? ??Do these more than a half-million individuals, or their families and loved ones, deserve to know that all the promised benefits of these [AIDS] drugs, which were aggressively promoted by the pharmaceutical industry, our public health institutions, and uncritical journalists, were nothing more than illusions? That the only thing real that resulted from their dedicated compliance to consuming these