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David William Rasnick (born 1948) is a chemist and biologist known for his work in the area of HIV/AIDS denial. ==Education and views== David Rasnick received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Georgia Tech in 1978; his thesis was entitled "Affinity labeling of metalloendoproteases." In a 1998 interview, he stated that he had studied proteases and their inhibitors for twenty years. According to PubMed, Rasnick has contributed to 18 scientific papers on protease-related research,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PubMed search for David Rasnick )〕 and has also written a book about the aneuploidy theory of cancer. Rasnick is best known for his views regarding HIV/AIDS denial. His claim that HIV is not the main cause of AIDS puts him at odds with the scientific community. Regarding his level of expertise on HIV/AIDS, Rasnick states that his own research on rat proteases did not involve HIV/AIDS: "my own research...had nothing to do with AIDS." 〔 However, his observations, based on his understanding of retroviruses and collaboration with AIDS denialist Peter Duesberg, that retroviruses are not sexually transmissible and have never been shown to cause disease, are distressing to the mainstream scientific community, who for this reason refuse to engage with him. His position that AIDS is not caused by HIV and is not an infectious disease is very much a minority view. He claims that the consequences for the medical and political establishments of admitting that they have wasted a quarter of a trillion dollars prevents any open debate around the issue. Rasnick has proposed that HIV testing be completely outlawed, because it has no standard baseline to objectively describe its result. As the insert in the test acknowledges this to be the case, and as a positive or negative is influenced by a variety of external factors, it serves no useful purpose. Furthermore, it instils fear into those diagnosed. He acknowledges that there is a link between a positive test and a diagnosis of AIDS, but sees this as a priori true, insofar as the diagnosis depends upon a positive HIV test. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Rasnick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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