Peter Duesberg and the Duesbergians Quotes

“reconstructions of that period is the fact that subsequently Gallo’s so-called French co-discoverer, Luc Montagnier, had surprisingly indicated that HIV was actually not sufficient to cause AIDS. Montagnier had uncovered evidence that bacteria called mycoplasmas are necessary to stimulate HIV, making mycoplasmas at least a co-factor of AIDS, and possibly even more important than HIV, raising the scandalous question of whether HIV was even the cause of AIDS. Root”
― Charles Ortleb, Peter Duesberg and the Duesbergians: How a Brave and Brilliant Group of Scientists Challenged the AIDS Establishment and Inadvertently Exposed the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic

“that the opinion is a nonrational one.” (All quotes are from the frontispiece of Rethinking AIDS) Root-Bernstein subsequently backed away from his position challenging HIV,”
― Charles Ortleb, Peter Duesberg and the Duesbergians: How a Brave and Brilliant Group of Scientists Challenged the AIDS Establishment and Inadvertently Exposed the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic

“Montagnier suggested that Mullis look at the work on Simian Immunodeficiency Virus. Mullis responded that the research on that virus didn’t remind him of AIDS at all, and didn’t answer the more basic question about the whereabouts of “the original paper where somebody showed”
― Charles Ortleb, Peter Duesberg and the Duesbergians: How a Brave and Brilliant Group of Scientists Challenged the AIDS Establishment and Inadvertently Exposed the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic

“genocidal toxic drug on AIDS patients was Sam Broder, the man who was Gallo’s boss at the National Cancer Institute. He was the man responsible for”
― Charles Ortleb, Peter Duesberg and the Duesbergians: How a Brave and Brilliant Group of Scientists Challenged the AIDS Establishment and Inadvertently Exposed the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic

“Duesberg didn’t say it, but he didn’t have to. AZT was more of a cruel, sadistic, toxic punishment than a medical treatment for AIDS patients.”
― Charles Ortleb, Peter Duesberg and the Duesbergians: How a Brave and Brilliant Group of Scientists Challenged the AIDS Establishment and Inadvertently Exposed the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic

“inherently political and the politics of AIDS science are both antigay and racist. Antigayness and racism are hardwired into the epidemiology and pseudoscience of AIDS in the same way that antisemitism was hardwired into Nazi science. I came up with the term “homodemiology” to describe the kind of antigay epidemiology and science that blames diseases and epidemics on gays and cherry-picks or distorts data to support unwarranted and bigoted conclusions. (“Afrodemiology” is my word for the racist version of the same concept.) In the so-called AIDS epidemic, “public health” is the mask that homodemiology and Afrodemiology wear.”
― Charles Ortleb, Peter Duesberg and the Duesbergians: How a Brave and Brilliant Group of Scientists Challenged the AIDS Establishment and Inadvertently Exposed the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic

“were actually two faces of a large pandemic caused not by the retrovirus HIV but by HHV-6, a DNA virus that was able to infect and harm many systems in the body and seemed to cause variable illnesses. Her reporting supported the notion that the”
― Charles Ortleb, Peter Duesberg and the Duesbergians: How a Brave and Brilliant Group of Scientists Challenged the AIDS Establishment and Inadvertently Exposed the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic