Says journalist and editor Mark Gabrish Conlan of Gallo’s big press event, “The Conference was held before any of Robert Gallo’s papers were published. Therefore, before any other scientists had a chance to review them and look at the evidence and ask, has he got it right or wrong?”30 Gallo’s announcement was a windfall for Anthony Fauci. Pinning the AIDS epidemic on a virus allowed him to divert the cascading river of AIDS money from the National Cancer Institute into NIAID’s overflowing coffers. Dr. Fauci opened the floodgates of NIAID cash to develop new antivirals against HIV. He unleashed
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