On February 19, 1988, Dr. Fauci appeared with hosts Charles Gibson and Joan Lunden on ABC’s flagship television program, Good Morning America. His appearance was part of a propaganda blitz of the friendly media platforms to resurrect himself and AZT from the all-out assault by scientists and independent reporters like Lauritsen and Peltz.111 Initially, GMA invited Dr. Fauci’s most vocal and credible nemesis, perhaps the world’s leading virologist, Berkeley professor Dr. Peter Duesberg, to appear on its show. Duesberg, who had at that date received more NIH grants than any other scientist, was
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