One of his Berkeley colleagues complimented Duesberg lavishly in a private interview with journalist Celia Farber.38 The colleague praised his integrity, his genius, his kindness, and his intelligence. She protested his shoddy treatment by the university and the scientific establishment, but she insisted that she did not want to be identified in Farber’s story, explaining that she feared retribution. Another Berkeley colleague from the Donner Lab explained to Farber the general hesitancy about Duesberg among the faculty: “Peter may be right about HIV. But there’s an industry now.”
