guardian.co.uk - 11/26/2008
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The Aids policies of the former South African president Thabo Mbeki 's government were directly responsible for the avoidable deaths of more than a third of a million people in the country, according to research by Harvard university. South Africa has one of the severest HIV/Aids epidemics in ...
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AIDs Theory Runs Amuck
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... 18.8% of the adult population, have HIV, according to the UN. In 2005, there were about 900 deaths a day.
But from the late 1990s Mbeki turned his back on the scientific consensus that Aids was caused by a viral infection that could be fought – though not cured – by sophisticated and expensive medical drugs. He came under the influence of a group of maverick scientists known as Aids denialists, most prominent among whom was Peter Duesberg from Berkeley, California.
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Hell is Other People (Named Graeme)
The American Scene —
... The ANC, after all, is hardly knee-jerk anti-science, the pronouncements of Thabo Mbeki about HIV notwithstanding. The ANC loved the nuclear program under apartheid, since it supposed the nuclear weapons the apartheid government developed would belong to the ANC after the ANC took power. When de Klerk shuttered the nuclear weapons facilities irrevocably in the early 1990s, ANC politicians howled in anger. This howling, and the peaceable turn that formerly gung-ho militarist engineers have taken, are ...
Doctors Without Boundaries
California Conservative —
... National Laboratory and advocacy groups like the ASRU, ITPC, Project Inform, and TAG. Some write books about their targets. Some are unemployed or expelled medical students. Some are simply not firing on all pistons. All are directly or indirectly supported or directed by the makers of HIV drugs under the nose of NIAID Director Tony Fauci, MD.
Their exclusive role is to isolate, attack, libel, stigmatize, destroy, complicate, or make miserable the lives of anyone who questions Gallo ...
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