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Who the denialists are

Harvey Bialy - former journal editor

Henry Bauer - professor emeritus, Virginia Tech

Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD

Rebecca Culshaw - professor at University of Texas-Tyler

Stephen Davis

Stephen Davis, a former US Army "Physician's Assistant" is the author of a novel that also claims to be "the true story of how government lies and incompetence, gross medical malpractice, and unbridled greed by a drug company cost 300,000 American lives in just ten years". Like most AIDS denialists, he is not a scientist and prefers his own websites to peer-reviewed journals for the dissemination of his crackpot theories. His own website has a bio that exposes his lack of appropriate medical and scientific expertise.

Peter Duesberg - professor at UC-Berkeley

Celia Farber - writer

Roberto Giraldo - laboratory technologist

Christine Maggiore - activist and HIV-positive mother whose second child died at age 3

Andrew Maniotis - University of Illinois

  • Andrew Maniotis - His background is in cancer research, but his career as an active researcher took a wrong turn several years ago and he no longer holds a tenure track faculty position at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He has no direct experience working with HIV experimentally. His lack of experience and professional stature has, however, have not prevented Maniotis from lying on the internet, both specifically (as outlined below) and generally, by presenting himself as a bona fide expert on multiple areas of science and medicine...more

Kary Mullis - chemist

Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, nuclear physicist


A member of the "Perth group", who despite tens of thousands of HIV genetic sequences in Genbank, claims that HIV does not exist.

In the R v. Parenzee case, Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos was called to testify as an "expert witness" for the defense. The judge had this to say about Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos and her supposed expertise in his Reasons for Decision document:

Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos has no formal qualifications in medicine, biology, virology, immunology, epidemiology or any other medical disciplines. She has never treated or been directly involved in clinical trials of any kind relating to any disease. Her duties at the Royal Perth Hospital are to test people for sensitivity to ultraviolet radiation.

Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos claims that she conducts research in the area of HIV/AIDS in her private time. It became clear that, when she spoke about research, she meant reading various medical papers about the research of others. Her experience with the HIV virus and with AIDS is limited to reading and critiquing the work of researchers involved in various studies. She purports to have expertise to speak on the subject of virology, epidemiology, electron microscopy, biology and immunology. She has no practical experience in any of these areas. She has no formal qualifications in these disciplines.

The evidence given by Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos about the Perth group demonstrates that she is promoting a cause. She is not independent. She is motivated to create a debate about her theory. The Perth Group will use whatever means available to promote that debate, including encouragement of persons such as the applicant, to promote their theories in courts of law.

The judge concluded: "I consider that her opinions lack any credibility."

Matthias Rath - vitamin salesman

Valendar Turner, physician


A member of the "Perth group", who despite tens of thousands of HIV genetic sequences in Genbank, claims that HIV does not exist.

In the R v. Parenzee case, Dr Turner was called to testify as an "expert witness" for the defense. The judge had this to say about Dr Turner and his supposed expertise regarding HIV and AIDS in his
Reasons for Decision document:

Dr Turner's knowledge of the subject matter is limited to reading. He has no formal qualifications to give expert opinions about the virus. He has no practical experience in the treatment of viral diseases. He has no practical experience in the disciplines of virology, immunology or epidemiology.

His opinions are based on reading scientific literature, studying of scientific literature, and spending a considerable amount of time thinking.

I conclude that Dr Turner is not qualified to advance expert opinion about virus isolation, antibody tests, viral load tests, or sexual transmission of the virus. His knowledge of these subjects is limited to having read a number of publications. He relies entirely on his interpretation of various studies in the specialised disciplines of virology, epidemiology, microbiology, immunology, pathology or infectious diseases, in none of which he has qualifications beyond his medical degree. He has no practical experience, and has performed no research which has been published.

Apparently there is some struggle going on between the Perth Group and other denialists, as we see in this post on a denialist discussion group:


From: MSN NicknameDissidentSaint           Sent: 5/14/2007 7:44 PM
To Whom It May Concern,

This information was communicated to me by defense attorney Kevin Borick and confirmed by David Crowe who were both intimately involved with the case. Mr. Borick stated that The Perth Group were acting as prima donnas and threatened to hold a press conference denouncing other dissenting perspectives if Duesberg or others were brought in as expert witnesses for the defense or if the case was expanded, as it should have been to address anomalies in epidemiology, etc, to include discussion of 'HIV' positivity pathogenesis and progression to 'AIDS.'

AIDS Denialists Who Have Died

There is a separate page listing AIDS Denialists Who Have Died.