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| View Larger Image | Inventing the AIDS Virus | Paperbackby Peter H. Duesberg (Author)
| List Price: | $24.95 | | Price: | $16.47 | | You Save: | $8.48 (34%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Regnery Publishing, Inc. | | Page Count: | 722 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 25, 1997 | | Sales Rank: | 357,243th |
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Product Description
Duesberg argues that HIV is merely a harmless passenger virus that does not cause AIDS. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 100 reviews)
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Amazing information by Aryn M (On the Palouse - USA)  5 Stars
August 28, 2009
I'd heard of the battle of the gay community and AIDS researchers with Mr Duesberg and wanted more facts. I'm delighted that his information is finally written down; clearly and thoughtfully and more importantly to my non-scientific brain, accessibly. Since the author has gained nothing but making a target of himself, and the researchers refusing to acknowledge any of his information stand to lose $$billions in grant and research money, to say nothing of the drug companies and the $$billions in drug sales, I have to admit that I am have been willing to 'hear' his information. And after the AIDS conglomerates have quashed his attempts to respond to the Harvard paper accusing the author of genocide (really, he 'caused' the death of 300,000 plus Africans, in a country whose population DOUBLED during the same time he is accused of these deaths? Not rational, Harvard, not rational at all) I am doubly delighted to find this book. I would hope, several centuries ago, I would have been willing to look at Galileo's findings in as willing a mood. Meanwhile, regardless of your stance or interest, the book was interesting, and can make for spirited conversations around the table/water cooler/bar of your choice. It certainly has for me.
And what if he is correct and the research is wrong? Those folks who refuse to listen to his information may be committing even larger wrongs and more deaths in the name of their own pride. And I regret that, for my friends, for myself, and for our communal humanity.
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Convoluted and wrong by marknyc  1 Stars
June 11, 2009
Duesberg uses psuedo-science to "prove" his wildly wrong information. I've seen many of my friends with HIV go from near death to good health due to HIV meds, while I've seen AIDS denialists like Christine Maggiore die. Don't buy the Duesberg myth, and don't buy this book.
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The Denialism IS the Conspiracy by jetforcex (Earth (temp residence)) 1 Stars
December 28, 2008
It is shocking...and shameful....that over a decade after this book came out, and after the wealth of information gathered about HIV since then, some humans can still possibly think that:
A) HIV isn't real
or
B) HIV doesn't lead to full-blown AIDS
or
C) AIDS isn't real
But, even before we had a decade of deeper understanding (leading to significantly more effective antiretroviral treatments), this book was deeply, decidedly refuted by the vast majority of the people fighting on the front lines to educate and help people against a REAL, causal, viral killer.
The best refutation from "back then" can be seen here:
http://www.aidstruth.org/inventing.php
That was written in 1996.
I am dismayed....heartbroken....that here, 12 years later, people still log in to Amazon and give this tragically errant relic five stars, and glowing reviews. I suppose that people who WANT to believe in a conspiracy will simply believe it, and no amount of current, global, overwhelming scientific consensus can breach such an impenetrable ideological conviction.
For anyone reading this review who is NOT a zealot, and is NOT conspiracy-biased, I encourage you to read EVERYTHING YOU CAN, including Duesberg. Know the full history. Understand the controversies, real and imagined. Learn about all the present and past actors including some of the more prominent dissidents who died from AIDS in the midst of denying that they had it.
And most importantly, keep up with the field. Virology...like all of life science...is moving very fast now. As regards good science, concurrent, independent, global peer review is the lifeblood of healthy discussion here. Colorful contrarianism lives and breathes only when validated by redundant, independent, repeatable corroboration on a world scale. Without that, it eventually, rightfully dies, at least in the realm of practical scientific endeavor.
Think, read, and stay sane.
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The definitive AIDS dissident book by Matthew Iofe (Brooklyn, NY USA)  4 Stars
June 16, 2008
This book should be required reading. Those who are unaware of the failings of the current HIV/AIDS hypothesis are in for a big surprise. Peter Duesberg has been run out of the profession, branded with names like "loony" and "murderer", all for disputing the HIV/AIDS hypothesis. The book goes into detail about alternative causes of immunosuppression in AIDS patients. Recreational and prescribed drugs, malnutrition, and foreign proteins in hemophiliacs. The most shocking information in this book is that the majority of AIDS is actually caused by the drugs prescribed to HIV +'s!
Anyone who has been diagnosed HIV + should think twice (or perhaps three of four times) before starting anti-HIV medications. 4 stars because he doesn't go into other possible causes of AIDS, such as multiple infections,overuse of antibiotics,rectally deposited semen,corticosteroids,etc. Also there is not much in the book about alternative treatments for AIDS such as selenium. The fact remains that even if HIV does not cause AIDS, it is still a majour health problem.
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Duesberg is a hero by J. L. Williams (Groveland, CA USA) 5 Stars
February 28, 2008
Everyone owes it to himself/herself to read this book. You have nothing to lose but your ignorance. Everything Duesberg writes is carefully explained and supported and extensively footnoted. It's not hard to read. After 25 plus years of believing in the HIV theory of AIDS I finally saw the light. How could we all have been misled so totally for so long? HIV does NOT cause AIDS. That was a scam from the beginning. It was always all about money and prestige and government cover up and scientists going along to get along. Shouldn't we have known? Duesberg has been squelched for too long. Read this book. Buy an extra copy for a friend. It could save your life.
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