Written
January 16, 2010
Single Pathogen AIDS Theory a "House of {Numbers} Cards", About to Collapse
H.L. Mencken wrote: "What begins as a guess--or....a deliberate lie--ends as a fact and is embalmed in history books." Interviewing all major players re: HIV-AIDS, orthodox and dissident, filmed and edited superbly, Brent Leung explores the genesis of a bad guess about what caused AIDS. He reveals anomalies from the single pathogen theory, which look more like evidence against a rush-to-judgment in 1984, when the Reagan Administration embraced and politicized junk science to quiet criticism of its "insensitivity" to gay men. Gay men also embraced the theory, because it made AIDS "everybody's disease," when more likely it resulted from: (1) unprecedented exchange of old pathogens in incestuous gay urban enclaves; (2) heavy use of immuno-suppressive drugs, alcohol to cocaine to nitrites; and (3) psychogenioc illness from being a hated minoirty, as the religious right reared its ugly head. Simply put, Leung's film screams the need to reexamine a flawed hypothesis.
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