HIV and AIDS: Questions of Scientific and Journalistic Responsibility

HIV AND AIDS

SOME IMPORTANT FIGURES
Some scientists who have promoted the establishment line on AIDS:
Anthony Fauci, Chairman of the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases.
Harold Jaffe, Acting Director of the HIV/AIDS division of the
Center for Disease Control (CDC).
An establishment scientist who has supported AIDS research on
nitrite inhalants:
Harry Haverkos, Clinical director of AIDS research at the National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
Some scientists who have raised questions about the definition and
causes of AIDS:
Harvey Bialy, molecular biologist, research editor of Biotechnology.
Peter Duesberg, Professor of Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley.
Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1993) for the discovery of the
polymerase chain reaction (PCR). "PCR made it easier to see that
certain people are infected with HIV," as Mullis himself once said.
Robert Root-Bernstein, Associate professor of physiology at Michigan
State University, East Lansing; author of Rethinking AIDS: The Tragic
Cost of Premature Consensus, New York Free Press, 1993; author of
Diversity (Harvard University Press, 1989; former MacArthur Fellow
(1981-1986).
Harry Rubin, Professor of Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley.
Richard Strohman, Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology,
UC Berkeley; former Director of the Health and Medical Sciences
Program at UC Berkeley.
Some journalists:
Celia Farber, author of several articles on AIDS over several years,
in the magazine SPIN.
Neville Hodgkinson, science editor of the London Sunday Times.
Daniel Koshland, editor of Science.
John Lauritsen, author of The AIDS War and Poison by Prescription:
The AZT Story.
John Maddox, editor of Nature.