Features, Editorials and Letters Regarding AIDS Denialism

Features

• AIDS Denialists - This edition’s feature article examines the global impact of AIDS denialism (IAS Newsletter, March 2007)

Editorials

• AIDS and the dangers of denial: "Imagine the scenario - The cafeteria at your child's high school is frequented by a few individuals telling your children that it's fine to smoke. They make passionate exhortations that statistics linking cigarettes to cancer, stroke and heart disease are flawed, because many people have smoked regularly without ever suffering ill effects..."

• Deadly Quackery: ...a bizarre theory has gained ground - one that claims that H.I.V. is harmless, and that the antiretroviral drugs that curb the growth of the virus cause rather than treat AIDS. Such talk sounds to most of us like quackery, but the theory has emerged as a genuine menace to public health...

Letters to Officials

• Letter to South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki: Expression of concern by HIV scientists

Letters to Media

• Motherhood, Winter 2007 - John Moore responds to a letter from Ms Collins, a sympathizer with AIDS denialist Christine Maggiore, by correcting various inaccurate statements or implications, and also congratulates Dr. Cottler on his own letter. The correspondence in The Motherhood is now closed. It is clear from informal conversations with the publisher that this is not an AIDS denialist magazine.

• Take Your Medicine - Dr. Don Cotler: "People who comfortably dismiss the near unanimity of the scientific world on this issue have no appreciation for the breadth of scientific knowledge and the interconnectedness of scientific concepts or they suffer from an abnormal level of mistrust of authority, or (usually) both..."

• AIDS Activists and Scientists File Complaint Against the BBC over HIV Disinformation: On January 10, 2007, AIDS activists and scientists in the US, South Africa and London filed a complaint against the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) over a piece aired in 2004 called "Guinea Pig Kids" that was written and produced by HIV denialists...
  • BBC Admits that "Guinea Pig Kids" Video is Misleading, Erroneous - The BBC has apologised after admitting that a documentary about the testing of HIV drugs on children contained "serious breaches" of its editorial guidelines on accuracy and impartiality.

  • HARD TO SAY I'M SORRY - After three long years, the BBC apologizes for airing denialist propaganda

  • ECU ruling: Guinea Pig Kids, BBC2, 30 November 2004 and related websites

    Please note this error in the text of the ECU ruling – "the programme interviewed an expert witness who was, though the audience was not told, a leading advocate of the propositions that HIV is unconnected with AIDS..."  David Rasnick, the so-called "expert witness" is in fact, no expert on HIV or AIDS.

• Letter to Discover Magazine: regarding the interview of denialist Celia Farber (by John Moore)

• Letter to Discover Magazine: regarding the interview of denialist Celia Farber (by Bob Funkhouser)

 
 
 

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