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One of the most important investigations into AIDS

was carried out in 1988 by the Social Services Committee of
the House of Commons in the British Parliament.
They were given considerable help, incidentally, by disaffected
intelligence service agents
and members of the medical and dental professions.

The "Third Report from the Social Services Committee,
Problems Associated with AIDS, Minutes of Evidence and Memoranda"
is of great interest.

One of its quoted documents is a memorandum from Dr. John Seale,
Royal Society of Medicine, who has come as close to the truth
publicly as any medical authority in the world.
What he says contains great wisdom — and the beginnings of
solutions that could ultimately save millions of lives.
This is an historically important document.

Dr. Seale:

No politician can make rational decisions to deal with AIDS without
a clear understanding of the nature and severity of the epidemic,

the means of transmission of the virus,
and the prospects of a cure or preventive vaccine.

The key scientific facts underlying the epidemic are quite simple,
though AIDS is perceived to be unusually complex and full of
scientific uncertainties.
These perceptions have been produced by a few scientists and
others
who have recklessly minimized the seriousness
of the epidemic and have fostered confusion and dangerous misconceptions.

The most important and urgent task for politicians, both in Government
and in Parliament, is to force scientists to speak clearly, precisely
and honestly about the AIDS epidemic.

Half-truths, wishful thinking, flawed scientific hypotheses and deceptions
have been perpetrated by scientists
and allowed to flourish as conventional wisdom,
aided and abetted by editors of scientific and medical journals.

The deceptions must be exposed with maximum publicity.

The public must be fully informed of the true nature of the threat from the virus which faces us all. Once this is done the mass of the population will accept the measures inevitable to halt the spread of the virus, even though they will inevitably require severe curtailment of the liberty and civil rights of everybody, just as happens in war time. The longer the truth is obscured from the public, and the greater the multitude of innocent people who die most horribly as a result, the more ferocious will be the explosion of hatred and revenge against those guilty of perpetrating the deception.

The virus has the properties of a skilled, devious, hidden and implacable
invader with the capacity and willingness to kill every man, woman
and child in our country.
It may be now spreading amongst us precisely because it has this capacity.

It is unwise to think that such a force can be vanquished without
taking actions which the people of Britain accepted as entirely
appropriate in two World Wars; particularly as dissemination of the
virus is being actively encouraged
by some who wish to destroy our society."

Dr. Seale provided a brilliant overview of the entire situation the world
faces in the AIDS epidemic:

A. THE NATURE OF THE DISEASE

1. AIDS is a contagious, infectious, communicable disease
   caused by a lentivirus (slow virus),
   a member of the family of retroviruses.

2. No lentivirus has been known to affect humans before the advent of AIDS.

3. AIDS is a typical slow virus with a prolonged, silent incubation period
   of great variability, but usually lasting several years,
   followed by slowly progressive disease always ending in death.

4. An epidemic of a new slow virus disease spreading unchecked
   is the ultimate virological nightmare,
   yet in none of the major scientific or medical journals has this
   been spelled out clearly and the implication discussed.

5. Death is caused by the AIDS virus infecting, and slowly destroying,
   cells in the brain, lungs, intestine and immune system.

B. MORTALITY FOLLOWING INFECTION.

1. Within five years of infection with the virus, twenty-five percent of people have developed fullblown AIDS and all of them die.

2. The ultimate mortality within twenty-five years of infection is unknown as the virus has been spreading for only ten years. The optimistic view held by a decreasing number of virologists is that only fifty percent of those infected will die. Many virologists accept this pessimistic view, that all people infected with the virus will eventually be killed by it.

3. All virologists are agreed that once infected with the AIDS virus,
   people are potentially infectious to others for life.

C. FAILURE OF ANTIBODIES AND VACCINES TO PROTECT.

1. In all people with antibodies to the AIDS virus, some virus persists in brain and other cells from which it cannot be removed. In contrast to most virus infections, antibodies to a lentivirus do not provide protective immunity; they fail to neutralize or eliminate it. Although many people infected with the AIDS virus look and feel well for several years, destruction of the cells of the brain and immune systems is progressing slowly.

2. The outlook for a successful vaccine is bleak. None is available for lentivirus diseases of animals. Search for a vaccine against infectious anemia of horses for eight years, and against maedi-visna in sheep for forty years has proved futile. Indeed when antibodies to a lentivirus are produced artificially by vaccination,

animals die after subsequent infection more rapidly than those which are not.

In spite of many successful vaccines, it should be realized that

for the majority of viral and bacterial diseases, vaccines do not work.