On several occasions, most concentrated in 1993 through 1995, I was drawn into discussions and debates with denialists, some on national television and often to the confusion of TV viewers. On the one hand, Peter Duesberg, who was a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, was saying that HIV did not cause AIDS and was a harmless virus. On the other hand, Dr. Tony Fauci, also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, was saying that HIV was the unequivocal cause of AIDS. Inadvertently, the press, by attempting to report on this in an unbiased manner, was giving these
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