The AIDS Conspiracy: Science Fights Back

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Release: 2012-03-20
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0231149123
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Since the early days of the AIDS epidemic, many bizarre and dangerous hypotheses have been advanced to explain the origins of the disease. In this compelling book, Nicoli Nattrass explores the social and political factors prolonging the erroneous belief that the American government manufactured the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to be used as a biological weapon, as well as the myth's consequences for behavior, especially within African American and black South African communities.Contemporary AIDS denialism, the belief that HIV is harmless and that antiretroviral drugs are the true cause of AIDS, is a more insidious AIDS conspiracy theory. Advocates of this position make a "conspiratorial move" against HIV science by implying its methods cannot be trusted and that untested, alternative therapies are safer than antiretrovirals. These claims are genuinely life-threatening, as tragically demonstrated in South Africa when the delay of antiretroviral treatment resulted in nearly 333,00 Download The AIDS Conspiracy for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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