AIDS and the Doctors of Death: An Inquiry into the Origin of the AIDS Epidemic

by Alan Cantwell Jr., Jon Rappoport (Forwword)

Book by Alan Cantwell

239 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Alan Cantwell is a dermatologist and scientific researcher in the field of cancer and AIDS microbiology. He is a graduate of New York Medical College, and studied dermatology at the Long Beach Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Long Beach, California. He was a member of the Dermatology Department at the Southern California Permanente Medical Group in Hollywood from 1965 until his retirement in 1994.

Reviews

[Derek · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dr. Alan Cantwell passed recently, in January of last year. In his 1988 book questioning the burgeoning story on AIDS, he throws a lot at the wall (AND MUCH OF IT IN ALL CAPS). The biggest thing that winds up actually sticking is the striking incidence of the first AIDS cases lining up with a series of experimental hepatitis-B vaccinations aimed at gay men in 1978 and ‘79. Given his medical background however, I was a little disappointed he couldn’t provide more of a smoking gun or speak more to the mechanism behind AIDS as a bioweapon, something that would be essential to any successful treatment.

Dr. Cantwell spends much more time narrativizing and describing how he came to a generalized mistrust of the AIDS virologists, admittedly in part against their own propensity for narrativizing at the time, targeting homosexuals, Africans, and Haitians. The central figure in Cantwell’s journey is a Dr. Robert Strecker, who apparently had a newsletter during the ‘80s where he advanced his own theories, and one honestly has to wonder if there might be some more useful material to be found there.

[Wealhtheow · Rating 1 out of 5]

There is no evidence whatsoever that the hepatitis B vaccine contained HIV. Cantwell's hypothesis was tested: there was no difference in the incidence of AIDS in men who had or hadn't received the vaccine.

[Krista the Krazy Kataloguer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting...

[Douglas Wickard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Disturbing research.

[ZzZ · Rating 5 out of 5]

The FACTS are FACTING