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...experts threatening to stay away if Mbeki's government insists on indulging the views of dissident academics whose views were debated and discounted a decade ago in the U.S. To the consternation of South Africa's own medical and AIDS-activist community, Mbeki has invited Berkeley molecular biologist Peter Duesberg and his colleague David Resnick - who maintain that the HIV virus is harmless and not the cause of AIDS - to serve on a panel advising the government over whether to make AZT available to pregnant HIV carriers. Duesberg and Resnick argue that the high incidence of AIDS in Africa...
Schreiber says Duesberg was a respected virologist prior to this controversy...
...best I can tell, I think Duesberg is genuinely concerned with this question," Schreiber says. "In the early days of this proposal, the evidence was less convincing, but during the period of time when he has been challenging the established AIDS theory, an enormous amount of evidence has arisen that supports the HIV theory...
According to Schreiber, Duesberg doesn't seem willing to address the new data supporting the HIV hypothesis. "He has refused invitations to comment on these new findings," Schreiber says...
...Abul K. Abbas, professor of pathology at the Medical School, says, "Peter Duesberg has been supporting this line for sometime now. His proposal is controversial. The evidence in published work is overwhelming that HIV causes AIDS...