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> That's plain bonkers. That hypothesis was advanced and defended by Peter Duesberg, a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California,
by lisper 6y ago
> That's plain bonkers.
That hypothesis was advanced and defended by Peter Duesberg, a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. In retrospect we can tell that Duesberg was obviously wrong, but to simply dismiss it as "plain bonkers" is being far too facile.
- HarryHirsch 6y agoYou'd like to know how Duesberg came up with his hypothesis because the results from early clinical trials speak for themselves. T-cell count went up in the treatment group, amelioration of symptoms, progression to more severe disease delayed. Of course the virus evolved to defeat the medication, and the disease came back, that's why we nowadays use combination therapy. You'd really like to know why, despite the obvious successes of combination therapy, Duisberg continued to advance his theory, by 2000 it was totally disproved.
- lisper 6y ago> You'd like to know how Duesberg came up with his hypothesis He wrote a book about it: https://www.amazon.com/Inventing-AIDS-Virus-Peter-Duesberg/dp/0895264706 https://www.amazon.com/Inventing-AIDS-Virus-Peter-Duesberg/d... Yes, it's an interesting question why Duesberg never admitted he was wrong. But that's a separate question.