The AIDS War
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The AIDS War: Propaganda, Profiteering, and Genocide from the Medical-Industrial Complex (ISBN 0943742080) is a 1993 book by John Lauritsen. It consists of a collection of writings by Lauritsen from February 1985, most of which were originally published in the New York Native. The essays, articles, interviews, and reports which make up the book are presented largely in chronological order.
Notable topics covered by Lauritsen include interviews with Peter Duesberg and Ben Gardiner, several chapters on AZT, the risk-AIDS hypothesis, AIDS incidence, and commentary on mainstream AIDS organisations and media coverage of the epidemic.
The title of the book refers to a metaphor frequently employed by Lauritsen and described in the introduction:
The official AIDS paradigm – including the preposterous notion that a biochemically inactive microbe, the so-called "human immunodeficiency virus" (HIV-1), causes the (at last count) 29 AIDS-indicator diseases – represents the most colossal blunder in medical history. But it is more than a blunder. In the course of this book it will become plain why I have employed the metaphor of war: the terrible suffering and loss of life, propaganda, censorship, rumors, hysteria, profiteering, espionage, and sabotage.
Chapters
- Dedication
- Introduction
- CDC's Tables Obscure AIDS-Drugs Connection (1985)
- The Appendices to Death Rush: Poppers & AIDS
(1986)
- Let the Reader Beware: Review of Confronting AIDS (1987)
- An Interview with Peter Duesberg (1987)
- Non-responses to Duesberg (1988)
- AZT: Iatrogenic Genocide (1988)
- The Racism Connection: Review of AIDS, Africa, and Racism (1988)
- Latex Lunacy (1988)
- AIDS Incidence Dropping (1988)
- Poppers: The End of an Era (1989/post. 1993)
- A Conference on Holistic Healing (1989)
- The Political Economy of AIDS Incidence (1989/rev. 1990)
- Confusion in the HIV Ranks (1989)
- Science by Press Release (1989)
- GMHC Announces Campaign to Encourage HIV Antibody Testing (1989)
- Debate Over AIDS Incidence (1990)
- AZT Watch: New Research Does Not Prove Efficacy (1990)
- They Left Their HIV in San Francisco (1990)
- The Risk-AIDS Hypothesis (1993)
- Recovery from "AIDS" (1993)
- Interview with Ben Gardiner (1990)
- Lesbian and Gay Health Providers: Friends or Foes? (1990)
- HIV Voodoo from Burroughs-Wellcome (1991/post. 1993)
- FDA Has Second Thoughts on AZT (1991)
- Dunky the Litigious Journalist: Gay McCarthyism in England (1991/post. 1992)
- The AIDS War: Lies and Censorship in Coverage of the Epidemic (1991)
- Kramer versus Kramer's Children (1991/post. 1992)
- Something Rotten in the British AIDS Establishment (1992)
- FDA Documents Show Fraud in AZT Trials (1992)
- AIDS Criticism in Europe (1992)
- Review of Research Fraud in the Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences (1992)
- The Incidence Quagmire (1993)
- AIDS Organizations (1993)
- Petrushka Was Poisoned (1993)
- What Next? (1993)
- Excursus 1: The Color Black
- Excursus 2: Epidemic Hysteria
- Excursus 3: The SMON Story by Etsuro Totsuka
- Excursus 4: Eve, Ecstasy, and "AIDS"
- Indices
- Colophon
