Edward Hooper's site on the Origins of AIDS
Just last night I was able to view the excellent Channel Four documentary “Did COVID Leak from a Lab in China?”, directed by David Malone for DNA Productions, and first broadcast on Sunday August 22nd. In the space of 47 minutes, this documentary made a compelling case for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which has caused the …
As the COVID-19 origins debate increasingly comes to resemble an eighteenth century battle-field, more and more scientists now believe that the pandemic virus was the result of a catastrophic lab escape. For several weeks now people have been sending me links to a variety of articles which offer strong support to the theory that COVID-19, …
Welcome to the new AIDS Origins site: May 18th, 2020 First of all, let me offer my sincere thanks to the Webmaster for yet again reorganising this site. This has taken a great deal of work, all of which has been done in his own time, and without any financial recompense. The reorganisation has necessitated …
Abstract There is much to be gained from learning how new diseases emerge. This applies to the origins of the AIDS pandemic, which has now killed over 50 million people globally. I (and to my knowledge many scientists) believe that a full and convincing explanation of how AIDS began has still not been provided by …
Just this evening I received a heads-up from an American professor about an on-line article announcing a new piece of work by Michael Worobey, a key member of the “bushmeat school”. This is a group of scientists who believe that the “AIDS virus”, pandemic HIV-1, transferred to humans a hundred or so years ago, when …
[A recent communication from one of the co-authors of the Faria paper has provided new information, which requires an updated response from myself. Surprisingly, this information reveals even more evidence in favour of the OPV theory. Ed Hooper, November 11th, 2014.] Several people have recently asked (either via the AIDSorigins site or via on-line message …
Several people have recently asked (either via the AIDS Origins site or via on-line message boards) for my opinions on the latest article about dating the beginning of the AIDS epidemic to Leopoldville/KInshasa in 1920. The article is called “The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations“, and though released earlier on-line, …
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Review of Spillover, by David Quammen; [The Bodley Head; 2012] Gentle reader, beware! Do not believe all that you read in this book. First things first. David Quammen is a master story-teller, and Spillover (even if weakly-titled) is very well written. Moreover, it is hard to argue with its central premises – that zoonoses (diseases …
Two new books and a flurry of new articles have recently appeared about the “origins of AIDS”, plus a third conference on the subject has been staged….. Some Glimmer of Light, Perhaps, At The End Of The Tunnel? I shall use this blog to address five new developments in the origins of AIDS debate. The …
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Review of Tinderbox by Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin [Penguin USA; 2012] This is powder puff reporting, as a ten-minute glance at the forward matter and the origins chapters (the Prologue and chapters 2 to 8 inclusive) quickly reveals. In the Acknowledgements, the authors thank several of the usual suspects, notably Beatrice Hahn and Michael …
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