| View Larger Image | The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS: How a Tragedy Has Been Distorted by the Media and Partisan Politics | Paperbackby Michael Fumento (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Regnery Publishing | | Page Count: | 463 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 01, 1993 | | Sales Rank: | 952,094nd |
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Product Description
In a critique of recent declarations of an AIDS epidemic, the author argues that AIDS is not a heterosexual disease and contends that homosexuals and IV drug users are still the highest risk groups. By the author of Science Under Siege. Original. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 25 reviews)
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James E. Van Buskirk was wrong... by Superman (Dallas, TX)  5 Stars
October 02, 2009
The review from Library Journal that is so disparaging was written by James E. Van Buskirk, a gay librarian from San Francisco who contributed an article titled, "Queer Career" for a book edited by Norman G. Kester entitled, Liberating Minds: The Stories and Professional Lives of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Librarians and Their Advocates. Here is a quote from that article by Buskirk - concerning being asked to review gay and lesbian titles by Library Journal - that illustrates why he is unfit to provide a review for any books about AIDS that don't toe the party line:
"I quickly realized that I had the potential to influence the acquisition of lesbian and gay materials by librarians all over the country. I took this position seriously and have continued to try to word my reviews so that librarians would be encouraged to acquire deserving titles for their collection"
Clearly Van Buskirk has taken that job too seriously and is now wording his reviews in such a way to discourage book buyers from titles he finds unpalatable. Van Buskirk accuses Fumento of an "insidiously homophobic, flippant style" something I'm sure he would accuse any author of who doesn't agree with the gay and lesbian polemic concerning AIDS funding. Anyone who has read the book or knows Fumento is well aware that Fumento is anything but "homophobic". This is a man that was an AIDS analyst and attorney for the US Commission on Human Rights. Nothing in his life or work has ever suggested that he is homophobic. I wonder if individuals in the gay and lesbian community are aware that hurling the accusation of homophobia has utterly and completely lost any meaning, because it is leveled at anyone that disagree with their position(s)? The bottom line is, Van Buskirk owes Fumento an apology for this accusation and Library Journal should immediately retract this review.
Van Buskirk concludes in his review that Fumento's "argument is contradicted by the continuing spread of AIDS among heterosexuals". Time has borne Fumento out to be very correct, as the incidents of AIDS in the heterosexual community has not grown, in fact it has drastically decreased. Cases within the heterosexual community are often the result of IV drug usage or sex with said. Fumento's book can now be said to be uncannily prophetic and accurate in the extreme, while Van Buskirk was wrong in more ways than one.
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Still right on 18 years later by Matthew Iofe (Brooklyn, NY USA) 5 Stars
June 25, 2008
Fumento, Gordon Stewart, and others who disputed that HIV would be a pandemic in the general heterosexual population have finally been vindicated. The independent published an article a few weeks ago about how the threat of a heterosexual epidemic is over. It is obvious that AIDS is far from the disaster that was forecast in the 1st world countries. It has confided itself to the so-called trash can of society - junkies,homosexuals,whores, and Johns. As far as Africa proving the heterosexual epidemic that is rubbish. "AIDS" in Africa is the relabeling of old diseases. Africans need nutritious food, clean drinking water, medications for endemic diseases, and other basics, not condoms and "partner reduction". I dare anyone to visit the disease ridden slums of Africa. Sex is the last thing on peoples minds there!
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One of the best books of the last 50 years by Swami B (Harlem, NY USA) 5 Stars
February 16, 2007
This book is one of the best I've ever read, and is a brave statement from a daring journalist, Michael Fumento, who was willing to prick the bubble of AIDS overhype when few others in the lazy mainstream media were willing to challenge the hotheaded claims of AIDS activists (no wonder newspaper readership is in steady decline--newspapers have continually sacrificed their credibility at the altar of hype and untruth, but fortunately, they now have to face brutal competition from other media outlets).
It is now nearly 20 years since this book was published, and its analysis can only be described as prophetic: AIDS is not an epidemic among the U.S. heterosexual community and never will be (we should be more concerned about Asian bird flu). AIDS is a lifestyle disease more than anything else, like lung cancer and emphysema, and its spread could have been easily prevented had people been more willing to wear a condom and not share drug needles. Insisting on a drug cure was a reckless waste of resources, and nearly 30 years after AIDS was diagnosed, guess what? There still is no cure. It is a manageable condition similar to high cholesterol and diabetes. In fact, the best hope may be that HIV eventually mutates into another harmless virus that lives symbiotically within a human host. The best way to halt the spread of HIV in Africa is through education. Cultures that cannot accept safe sex practices are destined to be extinguished. No particular culture on earth is entitled to survive its own recklessness.
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A Must Read by swassociates (Seattle, USA) 5 Stars
June 15, 2005
This is a book the Homosexual lobby will have a great deal of trouble with as it doesn't fit their agenda. The claims are backed by real science and the conclusions are sound. Read the book without an agenda and you will come away better for the experience. Don't live in fear. There is no need to.
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ideological hack science by Bo Diddley (Palo Alto, CA)  1 Stars
June 05, 2005
Considering that you can round off the HIV+ homosexual population of America when talking about AIDS numbers in Africa, the conclusions of this book are specious to say the least. If you're an ultra conservative who likes blaming the price of gas on gay marriage, no doubt reading this book will make you feel good.
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