tracking the HIV/AIDS controversy

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Mar 18 2001 - 18:38:37 GMT

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From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
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Subject: tracking the HIV/AIDS controversy
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:38:37 -0500
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    >From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >Subject: RE: Toggling nature's auto-erase
    >Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:33:42 -0500
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    >A possibly "memetic" side isue would be some of the undercurrent
    >surrounding
    >HIV as a causal agent in AIDS. The name of Duesberg comes up here and it
    >makes one wonder how far people will run with unconventional ideas which go
    >against the grain of established ideas.
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    >
    Last night while walking through the bookstore I thumbed through Kary
    Mullis's book _Dancing Naked in the Mind Field_ and concentrated on the part
    of the book where he attacks the view that HIV is the causal factor in AIDS.

    Mullis is famous for development of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
    technology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993.

    There were some threads on talk.origins a while back which centered on
    whther HIV was the causal agent in AIDS, but I didn't follow them closely.
    Now I realize that these dissident views are capturing a head of steam,
    perhaps with the fame of Mullis helping them along...

    Does anyone here know enough of the details of Duesberg's and Mullis's
    attacks to post a summary? I'm rather new to the topic.
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