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Saturday, 8 May 2010

AIDS and HIV: the hot debate continues

The big debate over whether HIV really does cause AIDS seems to have stirred up a hornets’ nest.

The article appears in the latest issue of Gay & Lesbian Humanist (see link in sidebar for latest issue at any given time), and in it John Lauritsen, the American AIDS dissident, takes on Seth Kalichman, a clinical psychologist who has written several books on AIDS.

Lauritsen couldn’t get a rebuttal article into New Humanist after an article by Kalichman appeared there that seemed to be knocking AIDS dissidents.

Several people have entered the fray since then, and a scathing comment in Digital Journal below its report on the issue has links that lead you to more.

It’s a hot topic. Don’t ask me where I stand. I’m not a scientist.

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  1. AnonymousSat May 08, 04:04:00 pm BST

    I'm not a scientist either, nor are most of the HIV-denialists. The thing is, I bet you can't find one of them willing to receive a blood transfusion from an HIV-positive person.

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