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| '''''Inventing the AIDS Virus''''' is a book in which molecular biologist ] presents his theory that ]. |
'''''Inventing the AIDS Virus''''' is a book in which ] ] presents his theory that the ] ] does not cause ]. Instead, Duesberg contends that HIV is a ] and that the symptoms diagnosed as ] are caused by noninfectious factors such as ], ], chronic ], poor ], and ]. | ||
| The book was also the subject of an authorship dispute with one of Duesberg's graduate students. | |||
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| * The symptoms of AIDS are caused by the drugs used to treat the condition; recreational drug use; malnutrition; and unsanitary living conditions. | * The symptoms of AIDS are caused by the drugs used to treat the condition; recreational drug use; malnutrition; and unsanitary living conditions. | ||
| * American public health and science agencies stifle creativity and suppress the true causes of AIDS.<ref>{{cite book |title= Inventing the AIDS Virus|last=Duesberg |first=P |authorlink=Peter Duesberg |year=1996 |publisher=] |location= |isbn= 0-89526-470-6 |pages=86–103}}</ref> | * American public health and science agencies stifle creativity and suppress the true causes of AIDS.<ref>{{cite book |title= Inventing the AIDS Virus|last=Duesberg |first=P |authorlink=Peter Duesberg |year=1996 |publisher=] |location= |isbn= 0-89526-470-6 |pages=86–103}}</ref> | ||
| The book's central premise, that HIV is not the cause of AIDS, is completely rejected by the ] as HIV has been isolated and shown to be the cause of AIDS.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/HIVAIDS/Understanding/howHIVCausesAIDS/Pages/HIVcausesAIDS.aspx | publisher = ] | title = Fact Sheet: The Evidence that HIV Causes AIDS | date = 2010-01-14 | accessdate = 2010-06-17 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last = Delaney | first = M | url = http://www.aegis.com/topics/mdelaney.html | title = HIV, AIDS, and the Distortion of Science | volume = 15 | issue = 6 | pages = 1–6 | journal = Focus | year = 2000 | pmid = 12180385 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/HIVAIDS/Understanding/howHIVCausesAIDS/Pages/connection.aspx | title = The HIV/AIDS Connection | publisher = ] | accessdate = 2010-06-17 | date = 2005-09-25 }}</ref> | |||
| ==Reception== | ==Reception== | ||
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| Author | Peter H. Duesberg |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | AIDS, HIV, Disease |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Regnery Publishing |
| Publication date | 1996 |
| Publication place | USA |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 722 |
| ISBN | 0-89526-470-6 |
Inventing the AIDS Virus is a book in which molecular biologist Peter Duesberg presents his theory that the HIV virus does not cause AIDS. Instead, Duesberg contends that HIV is a passenger virus and that the symptoms diagnosed as AIDS are caused by noninfectious factors such as drug abuse, antiretroviral medication, chronic malnutrition, poor sanitation, and hemophilia.
Summary
Duesberg's principal assertions are that:
- AIDS is not an infectious disease.
- HIV as the cause of AIDS fails Koch's postulates.
- HIV is a passenger virus unrelated to AIDS.
- The symptoms of AIDS are caused by the drugs used to treat the condition; recreational drug use; malnutrition; and unsanitary living conditions.
- American public health and science agencies stifle creativity and suppress the true causes of AIDS.
Reception
The book was negatively reviewed in The New York Times Book Review by June E. Osborn, former Chairwoman of the National Commission on AIDS, who wrote "Mr. Duesberg's credentials make his assertions both distracting and disabling of preventive response. Denial has always been the most devastating social and political dynamic of the AIDS epidemic and his book feeds it abundantly." Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, as part of an exchange with Duesberg in The New York Review of Books, wrote that "The central role of HIV in the development of immunodeficiency is, in my view, established by the force of epidemiological and laboratory evidence. On this key issue, Duesberg is, I believe, in error," but "Duesberg has predicted, correctly, that the virus alone is not enough to explain all aspects of the immunodeficiency process." Steven Epstein, author of Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge, reviewed the book in The Washington Post. Epstein stated that Duesberg misrepresents the scientific conclusions about AIDS, and that Duesberg is at his least convincing when dealing with the most recent evidence about HIV/AIDS. Epstein also argued that Duesberg's conclusions involved manipulation and bad logic, and wrote that the book is "ore than just a critique of the HIV hypothesis" and "offers a broad-ranging, revisionist history of the whole enterprise of virus hunting." A discussion of Duesberg's work in the journal Epidemiology described Duesberg's work as "unscientific", "sheltered from conflicting evidence", and harmed by the author's "dogmatic assertions".
Authorship dispute
Inventing the AIDS Virus was initially co-written with Bryan Ellison, one of Duesberg's graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley. However, following a 1994 dispute over manuscript changes, Ellison published the manuscript himself, under the title Why We Will Never Win the War on AIDS, listing himself as the lead author. A dispute between Duesberg and Ellison resulted, with Ellison charging that Duesberg was "doing favors on behalf of several people in the government" who wished to suppress the book. In a publisher's preface to Duesberg's book, Regnery Publishing described the dispute in terms of Ellison becoming "disenchanted with Duesberg's and his publisher's insistence on careful documentation."
Ellison also charged Duesberg with "cooperat with some of the very hostile factors to have me thrown out of school right before I could submit my thesis and get my Ph.D." Duesberg stated that "...since didn't talk to me anymore and didn't show up at the lab, I couldn't pay him anymore." Ultimately, Duesberg and Regnery Publishing sued Ellison for breach of contract and copyright violations, winning a "six-figure verdict" and an injunction against Ellison's manuscript.
References
- Duesberg, P (1996). Inventing the AIDS Virus. Regnery Publishing. pp. 86–103. ISBN 0-89526-470-6.
- "Book Review". The New York Times Book Review. 7 April 1996. Retrieved 2010-04-08.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) Reproduced at Peter Duesberg's website. - "'The AIDS Heresy': An Exchange". The New York Review of Books. August 8, 1996. Retrieved 2010-04-08.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - "'The AIDS Heresy': Another Exchange". The New York Review of Books. September 19, 1996. Retrieved 2010-04-08.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - Epstein, S (1996-03-14). "Infectious Pessimism". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2010-05-30.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - Maclure, Malcolm (1998). "Inventing the AIDS Virus Hypothesis: An Illustration of Scientific vs Unscientific Induction". Epidemiology. 9 (4): 467–473. JSTOR 3702721. PMID 9647914.
- ^ McGarrahan, Ellen (1995-05-24). "Outbreak". SFWeekly. Retrieved 2007-01-08.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Publisher's Preface". Inventing the AIDS Virus. Regnery Publishing. 1997. pp. vii–viii. ISBN 9780895263995.