The AIDS conspiracy : science fights back

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Millions of people across the globe erroneously believe America manufactured the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to be used as a biological weapon. Ironically, the idea grew from a real conspiracy theory hatched by Russian and East German intelligence officers in the mid-1980s, in the hopes of sp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nattrass, Nicoli (Author)
Corporate Author: Columbia University. Press
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Transmission.
HIV infections > United States.
HIV infections > South Africa.
AIDS (Disease) > United States.
AIDS (Disease) > South Africa.
Medical policy > United States.
Medical policy > South Africa.
Conspiracy theories.
Public opinion > United States.
Public opinion > South Africa.
AIDS (Disease)
Medical policy.
AIDS (Disease) > Transmission
Conspiracy theories
HIV infections
Medical policy
Public opinion
South Africa
United States
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • The conspiratorial move against HIV science and its consequences
  • AIDS origin conspiracy theories in the United States and South Africa
  • Who believes AIDS conspiracy theories and why leadership matters
  • Science, politics, and credibility : David Gilbert fights AIDS conspiracy beliefs in US prisons
  • Science, conspiracy theory, and the South African AIDS policy tragedy
  • Hero scientists, cultropreneurs, living icons, and praise-singers : AIDS denialism as community
  • Defending the imprimatur of science : Duesberg and the medical hypotheses saga
  • The conspiratorial move and the struggle for evidence-based medicine.

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