RFK Jr explained to the reporter that, “that nobody knows whether HIV is the sole cause of AIDS.” [my emphasis] “For the record,” RFK Jr writes in The Real Anthony Fauci (p. 485), “I believe that HIV is a cause of AIDS, but… causation is more complex than the official theology.” The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their discovery of HIV in the 1980s. Montagnier himself questioned whether HIV was the sole cause of AIDS. At the Sixth International Conference on AIDS in 1990, Montagnier reportedly presented data suggesting that a mycoplasma (a bacteria-like organism) might play a role in accelerating HIV reproduction. During this conference, Montagnier said, “This is not to say that HIV is not the primary agent, but there are serious shortcomings in the idea that it causes all the disease.” He proposed that mycoplasma infection might turn an otherwise benign HIV infection into a disease, suggesting that HIV alone might not be sufficient to cause AIDS in all cases.