>> I was under the impression he was a nut thx to the headlines that pepper the American media landscape until I watched most of his Town Hall the other night.
He thinks HIV is not the cause of AIDS.
He thinks HIV is not the cause of AIDS.
> , but he spends over a hundred pages quoting HIV denialists such as Peter Duesberg who question the isolation of HIV and the etiology of AIDS.[269] Kennedy himself refers to the "orthodoxy that HIV alone causes AIDS",[252]: 348 and the "theology that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS",[252]: 351 as well as repeating the HIV/AIDS denialist false claim that no one has isolated the HIV particle and "No one has been able to point to a study that demonstrates their hypothesis using accepted scientific proofs".
What I don't like is that Kennedy is trying to place a pseudoscientific veneer over a conspiracy theory idea, sort of "oh hey it looks like the science is still up in the air". If somebody were to convincingly demonstrate that HIV didn't cause AIDS, it would rewrite large sections of many textbooks.
Anthony Fauci used to spread misinformation about AIDS, too. [0]
[0]: https://www.yahoo.com/video/video-resurfaces-fauci-warning-h...
I was so terrified of HIV/AIDS at that time that I went into drug discovery research and later worked with people who helped develop anti-HIV drugs (protease and transcriptase inhibitors). To hear people today try to discredit Fauci for doing his job is just painful to watch. It took decades of hard research before we really understood the nature of transmission. I believe the current understanding is mucous membranes between two people touching has a measurable but very small rate (.01% of exposures lead to infection).