IIRC he explains how in the 80s many of the AIDS cases are linked to certain drug usage in the homosexual scene and how much investment existed in cancer research as an impetus to link AIDS to that as a boost. He then explains in great detail how these disruptions of the immune system actually work, and that an actual AIDS virus has never been directly detected. At the time I also read on the internet about criticims of the official AIDS explanations. Things like the fact that you could have AIDS when tested in one country, and not when tested in another country, due to the different methods and thresholds of the indirect marker detection, made me really sceptical.
Yes, these are exactly the points I've been reading about in articles and have watched in one specific documentary, I think it was
House of Numbers. So if the book gives even more detailled data on the topic, as it seems from your and others' reviews, then that would be interesting, as it is with every such topic, where the official line deviates from the facts.
Yet, along similar lines as to what Gaby wrote above with her clinical experience and research, I also think the clinical picture does exist. The question remaining for me is the actual story of its development as well as understanding the actual mechanisms. If, as Gaby reports, there are also patients who have a seemingly healthy life style (assuming they're honest in the anamnesis) and they still get the same set of symptoms as those who've been immersed in a life style of drugs, strong medication, sexual misconduct, then that would be a contradiction to what the researchers state, who say there's no such thing as HIV, because they do lead it back to a negative life style of above mentioned factors. One of their main argument, as far as I currently know, is that the full-blown syndrome only occured
because of the medication given to the patients diagnosed with HIV, i.e. that the clinical picture of AIDS is a result of the medications' side effects - which wouldn't be surprising.
So we have this medication that brings a lot of income to Big Pharma, and, as it stands nowadays, the official line, as with so many other medical conditions, is something along the lines of: 'See, there's no cure, you're simply unlucky because you contracted the virus, but fear not, we have this special medication that's going to prolong your life, and well, yeah, it's a little expensive (and it makes the cash tills ringing over here big time) and yeah, there may be some side effects, but don't concern yourself with that'.
Apparently, the author of the book mrtn mentioned, also gives recommendation as to a therapy with NAC and gluthathione in high doses, which is supposed to reset the immune system to proper functioning, but I can't comment on this yet, so I'd rather first like to read the book.