6.3. Is HIV the cause of AIDS? Doubts About The Scientific Validity Of The HIV/AIDS Hypothesis
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This article is from the AIDS FAQ, by Dan Greening with numerous contributions by others.
6.3. Is HIV the cause of AIDS? Doubts About The Scientific Validity Of The HIV/AIDS Hypothesis
Were the only doubts about HIV causation of AIDS those surrounding the
"context of discovery," these doubts would be of little interest to
anyone but historians of science. The main doubts raised by HIV-
skeptics are on the actual scientific evidence for the HIV/AIDS
hypothesis. HIV-skeptics consider this evidence to be either weak or
non-existent. Beyond the generic concern which HIV-skeptics have that
no mechanism for the alleged action of HIV has been demonstrated, the
skeptics raise several more specific problems concerning the HIV/AIDS
hypothesis. These problems fall into two major categories:
Epidemiological and Immunological/Biochemical. Two general starting
references to HIV-skeptics are: Robert Root-Bernstein's 1993,
_Rethinking AIDS_ (Free Press, New York, ISBN 0-02-926905-9), and
Peter Duesberg's article "AIDS Acquired by Drug Consumption and Other
Noncontagious Risk Factors", _Pharmoc Ther_ v.55 p.201-277, 1992.
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