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Paper denying HIV–AIDS link sparks resignation

The publication of a paper denying the link between HIV and AIDS 1 in an Italian anatomy journal has prompted a member of its editorial board to resign in protest. 

Published
30 January 2012
From
Nature.com
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Bryan Fischer Of American Family Association: God Will Cure AIDS If Gays Stop Having Sex, Doing Drugs

Bryan Fischer is at it again. The right-wing Christian extremist, who has previously endorsed the idea that HIV is not the caise of AIDS , is now suggesting that the disease can be cured -- if the victim stops doing drugs and having sex.

Published
19 January 2012
From
Huffington Post
Bad science and bogus treatments
AFRICA: Snake oil salesmen and dodgy HIV "cures"

Uganda's National Drug Authority recently arrested sales representatives of a company selling a drug that purports to cure HIV; the firm's owners are not licensed to sell medicine and are being sought by the police.

Published
19 January 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
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HIV created by West to enfeeble third world, claims President of Iran

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has claimed that Western nations created HIV to enfeeble the third world and create a market for Western pharmaceuticals.

Published
18 January 2012
From
Daily Telegraph
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What do we know about AIDS deaths in South Africa?

The obscure Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology has published an article by AIDS denialist Peter Duesberg packed with errors. It claims that data from Uganda and South Africa shows that there is no evidence of an HIV epidemic. The article will have no influence on medical science. Nevertheless its publication and the subsequent unnecessary publicity it received in the world's leading science journal, Nature, provide a good opportunity to explain how we do know there is a massive HIV epidemic in South Africa.

Published
16 January 2012
From
Quackdown
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Fighting on after the war is over, HIV contrarian publishes yet another paper

As attention first focused on HIV, a handful of scientists very publicly raised questions about whether the scientific evidence was as solid as others thought. And, years later, at least one's still at it: Berkeley molecular biologist Peter Duesberg. Last month, after his latest effort to see his arguments published ended up in a retraction and the firing of an editor-in-chief, Duesberg managed to get it published in the Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology.

Published
10 January 2012
From
Ars Technica
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The Right Wing Appeal of Duesberg's HIV/AIDS denialism

Duesberg comes out and blames homosexual promiscuity for AIDS rather than a virus. I think examples like this make it clearer that the ideology responsible for this denialism is plain just plain homophobia after all.

Published
10 January 2012
From
Denialism blog
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Bryan Fischer Of American Family Association: HIV Does Not Cause AIDS

"The reason HIV was invented as the cause of AIDS is it was a way to get research money," Fischer, who serves as Director of Issues Analysis for the American Family Association (AFA), said on his "Focal Point" radio show.

Published
05 January 2012
From
Huffington Post
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Paper refuting HIV–AIDS link secures publication

A controversial research paper that argued “there is as yet no proof that HIV causes AIDS" and met with a storm of protest when it was published in 2009, leading to its withdrawal, has been republished in a revised form, this time in the peer-reviewed publication Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology (IJAE)

Published
05 January 2012
From
Nature News
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UK: 'HIV Healing' Church Will Not Be Punished

A church that Sky News exposed as claiming to offer HIV healings will keep its charitable status.

Published
06 December 2011
From
Sky News
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