[Letter to Colleagues from Peter Duesberg]

August 14, 1992

Dr. Lawrence Bogorad
Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology
Harvard University
The Biological Laboratories
16 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Dear Dr. Bogorad,
Earlier this year you rejected my paper on "The role of drugs in AIDS" that
described HIV-free AIDS cases, contrary to the advice of four reviewers selected by Dr.
Rubin and following the advice of six anonymous reviewers selected by you. Although no
factual or logical errors in my paper were detected by any of these reviewers, you pointed
out to me that you were concerned for "the reputation" of the Proceedings because of
"profound and pervasive differences in opinion."
Now you have published, and even authorized advance circulation of, a paper by
Salahuddin et al. that describes a "new virus" in an HIV-free AIDS case (PNAS, No. 16,
Aug. 1992). I wonder whether you are aware that Salahuddin was the first of several
collaborators of Dr. Gab who were convicted of a felony? (See enclosed articles from
The Washington Post, Baltimore Evening Sun, Associated Press, The New York Native,
etc.)
Would you now also consider a paper from me on HIV-free AIDS cases?
Sincerely,
Peter Duesberg
PD:bd
Encs.
cc: Francis Zwanzig, PNAS
Frank Press, President of NAS
Gunther Stent, UC-Berkeley
Jim Watson, Cold Spring Harbor
Harry Rubin, UC-Berkeley
Walter Gilbert, Harvard