Redkrab: No, they don't fake the tests perse... Hemophiliacs, for example, legitimately tested positive for the 'HIV virus', since they were infused with blood that also tested positive for the 'HIV virus'. If you want to read the story of Arthur Ashe, a world-famous tennis player... well, it's tragic.
The real question, as you ask, is... what are they finding? Well, I can only answer that in a slightly oblique way. If you look into the PCR method, what it does is double the amount of a specific DNA (or RNA) sequence in your body each time you run it. So, if you have only one strand of DNA in your sample, after 20 runs through PCR you'll have 1Million, which will be detectable via 'glowing' techniques.
An aside: if you have alcohol breath, and I can smell it, then in some sense I have alcohol in my nose. If you can amplify the alcohol molecules in my nose by 1M times... you'll think that I, too, was drunk.
So: what are they finding? Well... nothing. They're finding a specific DNA sequence that they have said is the cause of AIDS.
To realize that it's not consider: In the 80s, the US Army tested its recruits, both male and female, for HIV... and it turned out that women had HIV at the same rate as men. But, as you know, women in the US were not affected by AIDS at all!
As a more unpleasant example, the incidence of anal sex in India is astonishingly high! And yet, there's almost no AIDS in India. Same with Thailand, where Ladyboys are a thing. AIDS is largely an African thing, which I'll explain in my response to ChippingToe below.
To summarize, they're detecting a small chain of DNA which has no causative relation to immune deficiency. Then they give you drugs that destroy your liver and kill you. Why??? Well, to paraphrase a Berkley AIDS researcher... 'It's not that what I wrote was wrong... it's just that we're making so much money...'
Redkrab: No, they don't fake the tests perse... Hemophiliacs, for example, legitimately tested positive for the 'HIV virus', since they were infused with blood that also tested positive for the 'HIV virus'. If you want to read the story of Arthur Ashe, a world-famous tennis player... well, it's tragic.
The real question, as you ask, is... what are they finding? Well, I can only answer that in a slightly oblique way. If you look into the PCR method, what it does is double the amount of a specific DNA (or RNA) sequence in your body each time you run it. So, if you have only one strand of DNA in your sample, after 20 runs through PCR you'll have 1Million, which will be detectable via 'glowing' techniques.
An aside: if you have alcohol breath, and I can smell it, then in some sense I have alcohol in my nose. If you can amplify the alcohol molecules in my nose by 1M times... you'll think that I, too, was drunk.
So: what are they finding? Well... nothing. They're finding a specific DNA sequence that they have said is the cause of AIDS.
To realize that it's not consider: In the 80s, the US Army tested its recruits, both male and female, for HIV... and it turned out that women had HIV at the same rate as men. But, as you know, women in the US were not affected by AIDS at all!
As a more unpleasant example, the incidence of anal sex in India is astonishingly high! And yet, there's almost no AIDS in India. Same with Thailand, where Ladyboys are a thing. AIDS is largely an African thing, which I'll explain in my response to ChippingToe below.
To summarize, they're detecting a small chain of DNA which has no causative relation to immune deficiency. Then they give you drugs that destroy your liver and kill you. Why??? Well, to paraphrase a Berkley AIDS researcher... 'It's not that what I wrote was wrong... it's just that we're making so much money...'