Rodney Richards, Ph.D.: Why the "HIV Tests" Can't Tell You Whether You Have HIV

by Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine Monday, Sep. 17, 2001 at 7:10 PM
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Interview with Rodney Richards, Ph.D., organic chemist who spent 13 years with Amgen and Abbott Laboratories working on diagnostic tests for HIV and other microbes. Dr. Richards explains that HIV has never been isolated by classical chemical standards; all the so-called "HIV tests" look for indirect markers; and they can be used to assess a general risk for immune suppression but not for the presence of HIV.

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