Peter Duesberg

Peter Duesberg (born December 2, 1936 in Germany) is a controversial United States scientist viewed as fringe by most of the established scientific community as a result of his unorthodox claims. His most controversial claims are: #Disputing the importance of oncogenes in cancers (1983). #His claim that recreational and pharmaceutical drug use, and not HIV, are the primary causes of AIDS (the Duesberg hypothesis) (1987/8). #His proposed aneuploidy hypothesis of cancer (1997). In recent years a small number of scientists have begun to support the idea that aneuploidy may indeed have a role in the formation of some cancers. Research on this subject is ongoing. He isolated the first carcinogenic gene from a virus (biology) at the age of 33, at 36 earned tenure at the University of California, Berkeley, and at 49 was invited to the National Academy of Sciences. His controversial hypotheses have caused a withdrawal of financial support. He has been forced to fund his research from charitable contributions and to move to Germany for part of the year. South Africa President Thabo Mbeki voiced support for the Duesberg hypothesis and suffered substantial political fallout as a result. At the 2000 Mbeki AIDS conference, it was announced that the HIV theory would at last get proper epidemiological testing by a panel of three or four—Helene Gayle, director of the National Center of HIV/AIDS prevention at the CDC; dissenter Harvey Bialy; and Malegapuru Makgoba, head of South Africa's Medical Research Council. Orthodox and dissenter reporting disagree on whether Duesberg was included. == Bibliography == *''Inventing the AIDS Virus'' - ISBN 0895263998 *''Inventing the AIDS Epidemic'' - ISBN 0312112939 *''AIDS: The Good News Is HIV Doesn't Cause It'' - ISBN 0913571059 == See also == *AIDS reappraisal *Kary Mullis *David Rasnick *John Lauritsen *Robert Root-Bernstein *Alfred H�ssig *Winstone Zulu == External links == ===Advocacy=== *[http://www.duesberg.com Duesberg homepage] *"[http://www.mercola.com/2001/apr/18/duesberg.htm What If Everything We Thought We Knew About Cancer Was Wrong?]" - interview with Duesberg discussing his controversial cancer theory *[http://www.blancmange.net/tmh/hivcont2.html The Memory Hole > HIV = AIDS controversy] *"[http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/]" Virus Myth Homepage ===Critical=== *[http://www.niaid.nih.gov/newsroom/focuson/hiv00/default.htm NIH position] regarding the Duesberg hypothesis * [http://www.skeptic.com/03.2.harris-aids.html THE AIDS HERESIES: A Case Study in Skepticism Taken Too Far] ===South Africa=== * [http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/cfmbeki.htm Celia Farber] on the Mbeki summit * [http://www.aegis.com/news/re/2000/RE000702.html Reuters] on the Mbeki summit 1936 births Scientists

Peter Duesberg

I'm not sure that tenure at 36 is so remarkable - I'd have to know a lot more than I do about the science departments at Berkeley. At the American universities of my life it's been about right to be 36 and tenured in the sciences - it's a little young for a humanist, but not much below average. And for *anyone* on the research fast track like Duesberg it's not remarkable at all. --MichaelTinkler ---- We really don't need "rebuttals" to external links here, especially a commentary that seems not to recognize that HIV viral culture (i.e., isolation of HIV from patients) is a routine clinical test (see [http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/327/17/1192 here] for just one readily accessable example). -- User:Someone else 00:05, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC) :Well, it would be nice if a "rebuttal" addressed Duesberg's objections. -- user:kwantus :: There are articles at Duesberg hypothesis and AIDS reappraisal -- User:Someone else 02:45, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC) ---- ''dwindling support'' is not my impression, nor is it the one conveyed in AIDS reappraisal. -- user:kwantus ---- DAVID GERARD -- ''EMBARASS: 1 a : to place in doubt, perplexity, or difficulties b : to involve in financial difficulties c : to cause to experience a state of self-conscious distress '' ''FALLOUT: 2 : a secondary and often lingering effect, result, or set of consequences '' Merriam Webster Dictionary It is my informed opinion (I know quite a bit about these issues) that the word "fallout" more accurately describes what Mbeki experienced, not "embarassment". To the best of my knowledge, Mbeki has never been embarrassed or ashamed of his questioning of HIV, or of the decisions he made as a result, or of his invitation of dissident scientists, etc. He has never PERSONALLY felt "in doubt, perplexed, or in self-conscious distress". He HAS suffered FALLOUT, secondary and lingering effects which have had a detrimental effect on his being able to govern as well as possible, and other political consequences he suffered. These are not the same two things. Replacing "embarrassment" with "fallout" was not intended to be a "whitewash". I have given reasons when I make revisions because I think they violate NPOV. E.g. I explained WHY I thought the "conspiracy theory" link was POV at Duesberg's article, and you put it back in, with what type of explanation??..."reverting anonymous omission" i.e. no explanation. You should stop the habit of using the fact that contributors are anonymous as a justification to make any kind of edits you want of their writings. Besides being patently prejudicial and fallacious reasoning for making changes, it discourages anonymous contributors and makes them feel like second-class citizens. BTW, I'm actually NOT anonymous -- I took a vow not to visit my user page or login at all while I was completing my ph.d. dissertation the past few weeks, but I have snuck on occasionally at times anonymously, I couldn't help it. The vow helped me stay away enough to get the paper done. But you are the only person I've run into here that treated me any differently simply because I was "anonymous". You might want to stop and think about the image this sends to people who visit for the first time. At times, there have been some real problems with the dissident articles, edit wars, fighting, etc. Usually, it is the result of a couple people who arrive with an agenda and want to smash it on everyone else instead of listen to everyone and arrive at something acceptable to all. I sincerely hope you aren't one of these people. I won't get into some of the other changes. (Actually, most of them, you kept, so...) I'm just saying, if you want to contribute to these articles (i.e. articles remotely relating to the dissident movement), it's not going to be good if you come in "these are all the answers and I have to correct all the rubbish and pseudoscientific crap here". That mindset going in will only lead to edit wars and me and a lot of other people walking away. Although I do object to the phrase "fringe" used with regards to dissidents, I won't try to change it now. As I've said before, part of the reason the dissident scientists are "fringe" is because they are FORCED TO BE -- i.e. "if you don't agree with us, get off the damn playground". Most of the scientists I know personally have great reservations about the HIV hypothesis -- these include biologists, doctors, mathematicians, and so on. If questioning HIV is so "fringe", why do I personally know SO MANY PEOPLE THAT DO QUESTION IT (and why do they personally know so many, and so on, and so on)??? I'm changing "embarrassment" to "fallout"; everything else I'll leave as is. If you wish to change it back, please explain why you believe "embarrassment" is more accurate than "fallout". User:Revolver User:128.111.88.227

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