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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 36
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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AIDS Inc. -- Part 7
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There was such a response to the previous CN (CN 7.23) on the
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banning in the United States of the book *Why We Will Never Win
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the War on AIDS* by Bryan Ellison and Peter Duesberg, that I
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thought I would re-post the following. It is my synopsis of Jon
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Rappoport's book, *AIDS Inc.* Because Rappoport covers Dr.
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Duesberg's challenge to official AIDS dogma, they may be banning
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his book next! (Or, late breaking, thanks to Rep. Schumer and his
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proposed H.R. 2580 -- outlawing discussion of what he calls
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"baseless conspiracy theories" -- they may be banning Conspiracy
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Nation!)
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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[...continued...]
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Where did AIDS come from?
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In 1987, The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was saying that
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there was no official version as to the origin of AIDS. A Don
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Robusky of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) stated "The
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accepted wisdom on the origin of AIDS is the green monkey
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(African). But nobody's really sure."
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How would AIDS have been transferred from monkey to human? There
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are several scenarios:
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*** Jungle insects bit green monkeys, then bit humans
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*** Humans killed monkeys and monkey blood washed through human
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sores or cuts
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*** Humans ate monkeys
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*** [B.R. Humans had sex with monkeys (?) Just conjecture.]
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The author, Jon Rappoport, suggests that a possible source for
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AIDS may be African Swine Fever (ASF). "In 1971 and 1980, Cuba
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suffered epidemics of ASF. Press coverage in the *San Francisco
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Chronicle* and *Newsday*, and by Jack Anderson, as well as
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references in William Blum's *The CIA, Its Forgotten History*,
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trace possible CIA involvement in the 1971 epidemic."
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An article appearing in the January 9, 1977 issue of *Newsday*
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describes how operatives having at least tacit CIA approval
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introduced African Swine Fever into Cuba: "A U.S. intelligence
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source told *Newsday* he was given the virus in a sealed,
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unmarked container at a U.S. Army base and CIA training ground in
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the Panama Canal Zone, with instructions to turn it over to [an]
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anti-Castro group."
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A Cuban national, on trial in New York Federal District Court,
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testified that in 1980, "as part of a biological warfare scheme
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against the Castro Cuban economy, 'a ship traveled from Florida
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to Cuba with germs...'"
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Rappoport points to the mariel Cuban boatlift as the possible
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means by which ASF was transported back to the U.S.
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Could ASF be one of the factors behind so-called AIDS? "In 1983,
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two Boston scientists, John Beldekas (Boston University School of
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Medicine) and Jane Teas (Harvard School of Public Health),
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wondered whether ASF was, in fact, the AIDS virus... They found
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evidence that ASF was showing up in the blood of AIDS patients,
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'even though Swine Fever isn't supposed to infect humans,'
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Beldekas comments."
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Teas went to Florida. She recalls that while there she "heard
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rumors that some Haitians, after eating pork, were contracting an
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odd illness... Regardless, it was already clear that in some
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areas where you saw a concentration of AIDS (Africa, Brazil,
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Haiti), you saw outbreaks of Swine Fever in herds of pigs.
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Although the pork industry and government scientists won't admit
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it, there are ASF-infected wild pigs in Florida."
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In July, 1986, Douglas Feldman, a medical anthropologist at Yale,
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concluded a letter to the *New York Times* as follows:
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"...epidemiologists and veterinarians might do well to explore
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the possibility that this virus [ASF] is a co-factor in AIDS
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transmission in central Africa and perhaps other regions of the
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world." But, as of 1988, no such exploratory study had been
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undertaken.
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In September 1985, the NYC Health Department tested 160 *random*
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blood donors for evidence of Swine Fever. "Five showed signs of
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having contacted the [ASF] virus. This is quite remarkable, since
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the prevailing wisdom on African Swine Fever is that humans can't
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catch it."
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Needless to say, the billion-dollar pork industry would be
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disturbed at charges that:
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1) There is a trace of Swine Fever among hogs in the U.S.
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2) ASF might be connected with AIDS.
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3) AIDS might be contracted from eating pork.
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In an article in the October 7, 1985 *Washington Post*, John
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Beldekas [Boston University School of Medicine, see above] tells
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the authors of the article "that after he had found signs of ASF
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in the blood of people diagnosed with AIDS, U.S. Dept. of
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Agriculture officials told him to keep his mouth shut about it,
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'for national security reasons...'"
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Rappoport concludes this section by mentioning that
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1) the mariel Cuban boatlift "was at least one-third gay... the
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major number of these men ended up in New York, L.A., and San
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Francisco, the three cities where AIDS cases have been reported
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in large numbers."
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2) The *New York Native* (June 2, 1985) attributes the following
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statement to the U.S. Department of Agriculture: "On the export
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side, if African Swine Fever Virus became established in the
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U.S., there would be an annual loss of some 300 million dollars
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in pork and related products..."
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The author includes a copy of a letter written by one Michael
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Callen to the "People With AIDS Coalition." Following are some
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excerpts from that letter:
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One advantage of believing that HIV is the cause of AIDS
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is that it's such a simple explanation. All you have to
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say is that a killer virus is on the loose which, like
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some *Pac Man* video game, eats T-4 cells. Such a
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simplistic explanation seems tailor made for the TV
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age...
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I am a multifactorialist. I believe that *multiple*
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factors conspire to produce the immune deficiency which
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we now call AIDS.
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...now that we have both HIV-1 and HIV-2, we're being
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asked to believe that two viruses whose genetic make-ups
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are different enough to consider them different viruses
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could appear at the same time and happen to cause the
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same disease.
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If AIDS were truly caused by one virus, we ought to have
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seen cases of AIDS appear *simultaneously* in every
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major city where there are gay men and IV drug users...
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Why were the overwhelming majority of all cases of AIDS
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confined almost exclusively to New York, San Francisco
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and Los Angeles for the first several years of this
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epidemic?
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Trying to convince America that everyone is equally at
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risk for AIDS has been a successful fundraising ploy.
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But it has also caused a lot of panic and needless
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social disruption. Many people who are the unlikeliest
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candidates to ever develop AIDS are nevertheless
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suffering tremendously from the fear of AIDS.
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The deafening silence in response to Professor
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Duesberg's devastating challenge to HIV is a scandal!
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Science doesn't progress by ignoring embarrassing
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criticisms of received wisdom. If Duesberg is wrong, his
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claims should be easy to refute. Duesberg's devastating
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challenge to HIV has gone unanswered long enough.
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"Most alternative theories of how AIDS came to be assume that
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AIDS exists, it is one thing, the reports of cases around the
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world are accurate, and HIV-blood testing is accurate and
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meaningful."
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However, "when you try to say that immune suppression, which
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gives rise to opportunistic infections, wasting away,
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pneumonia... when you say this immune suppression comes from one
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cause, one germ, you're asking for trouble. All over the world
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there is immune suppression, there is reduced T-cell formation,
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reduced macrophage function, there is the sprouting of
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opportunistic infections. This is nothing new."
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"To define a syndrome so loosely that it virtually includes any
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sort of immune suppression ever seen -- this is bound to fail. It
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just doesn't work."
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"Alternative theories, if they prove anything, make stronger the
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suggestion that AIDS is not one thing."
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"After such a failure as AIDS-research, in all its aspects, the
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most intelligent thing to do for the health of the U.S. may be to
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cut off funding for NIH, disband it, dismantle the buildings,
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throw some seed on the ground, forget it was ever there and start
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over."
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Health "has nothing necessarily to do with selling cascades of
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new pharmaceuticals. It doesn't have anything to do with winning
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Laskers and Nobels. If a researcher likes shucking the public,
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let him go into selling. If he enjoys participating in useless
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and false research in a silent way, let him become a
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speechwriter. But get him out of public health."
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{ --- Recommended Reading --- }
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{ Badgley, Laurence E., M.D. *Healing AIDS Naturally* }
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{ Cantwell, Alan, M.D. *AIDS, The Mystery and the Solution* }
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{ }
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{ ------------------ *AIDS and the Doctors of Death* }
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{ Coulter, Harris. *AIDS and Syphilis, the Hidden Link* }
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{ (North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, 1987) }
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{ Jones, James. *Bad Blood* (Macmillan, 1981) }
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{ National Antivivisection Society of London. *Biohazard* }
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{ Paxman, Jeremy and Harris, Robert. *A Higher Form of }
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{ Killing*. (Hill and Wang publishers, 1982). }
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{ Piller and Yamamoto. *Gene Wars*. (William Morrow and }
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{ Company, 1988). }
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{ }
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{ Weir, David and Shapiro, Mark. *Circle of Poison* }
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{ (Institute for Food and Development Policy, }
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{ San Francisco, 1981) }
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"The outstanding book in the field describing the alternative
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view on AIDS is *AIDS Inc.*, by Jon Rappoport. It is available
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for $13.95 plus $2.00 postage (total $15.95) from: Human Energy
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Press, Suite D, 370 West San Bruno Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066.
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If you, the reader, read but one book on AIDS in your lifetime,
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make it this one. It may save your life." [CN -- *Caveat emptor*.
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This info (above) as to availability of the book *AIDS Inc.* may
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not be current. I got the book via my local bookstore, i.e. they
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ordered it for me.]
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