HIV ideologues lock horns over the cause of AIDS (original) (raw)

Abstract

The battle lines in the scientific debate over the cause of AIDS have now become even more firmly drawn with the publication of two papers in the British journal Nature, papers that claim to prove that HIV — and nothing else — is the culprit in AIDS. To many in the field, the papers represent the final blow to criticisms of the HIV-equals-AIDS theory by people like professor Peter Duesberg. the controversial molecular biologist from the University of California at Berkeley who has argued that the virus is not the cause of the syndrome. He's even gone a step further, claiming that AIDS itself is not an infectious, transmissible condition, and that safe-sex practices will do nothing to halt the epidemic — a radical position that most other critics of the HIV-based approach don't share. HIV researchers, however, don't usually distinguish between these two separate issues, and see the latest findings as a vindication for HIV-based research and a source of ridicule for "...

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