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Denying AIDS

Denialism about the nature of the AIDS virus is estimated to have killed many thousands of people. Should scientists should be held accountable?
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Denialism about the nature of the AIDS virus is estimated to have killed many thousands of people. Jon Cartwright asks if scientists should be held accountable. Meanwhile Bruce Charlton defends his decision last year to publish the work of the AIDS skeptic Peter Duesberg, known as “perhaps the world’s most hated scientist”—a decision that resulted in his being fired.

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