Positively False: Exposing the Myths Around HIV and AIDS - Hardcover

Shenton, Joan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1860643337 ISBN 13: 9781860643330

Publisher: I. B. Tauris, 1998

Synopsis

A prize-winning medical journalist sets out to show that the HIV=AIDS=death hypothesis, which has wrongly acquired the force of certainty, has been riddled with flaws leading to distorted results, wrong conclusions and needless suffering. Shenton argues that research has been driven by the financial interests of pharmaceutical companies and by the ambitions of unscrupulous scientists equally anxious to protect their research funding, their patented HIV test kits, and ultimately their egos.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Written by a British medical journalist who has produced several documentary films on AIDS, this work presents an alternative to the overwhelmingly accepted belief that the HIV virus causes AIDS. Relying heavily on the work of Peter Duesberg, a molecular biologist who believes not only that HIV does not cause AIDS but also that AIDS is not an infectious disease at all (see his Inventing the Aids Virus, LJ 3/1/96), the author attempts to debunk the accepted scientific thought on this issue. Her work is fairly interesting, but she weakens her own case by resorting to name-calling; for example, she refers to well-known AIDS researcher Robert Gallo and his co-workers as the "King of Virology and his Courtiers." She also repeatedly expresses the dubious notion that mainstream AIDS researchers throughout the world, ignoring the obvious human costs, have closed ranks against dissenting opinions merely in order to protect their own financial interests. Only libraries with comprehensive AIDS collections or where there is great interest in AIDS might consider purchasing this book.?Linda Gleason, formerly with the Univ. of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Lib., Newark
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: I. B. Tauris
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1860643337
• ISBN 13: 9781860643330
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288