Peter Duesberg was once considered one of the most brilliant minds in science. A Nobel Prize was once in sight and he was friends and a colleague with Dr. Robert Gallo, who is credited with discovering the HIV virus.But Duesberg insisted that the discovery of the HIV virus as a cause of AIDS was false.
As a result, he lost his colleagues, his grants and the bulk of his work. Thirty years have passed and he continues to be employed at the University of California-Berkeley, working in relative obscurity, and is approaching 80.
In 2008,Discover Magazinefeatured an interview with a well-known HIV/AIDS expertMax Essex. Essex said that,
"...history will judge (Peter) Duesberg as either "a nut who is just a tease to the scientific community" or an "enabler to mass murder" for the deaths of many AIDS patients in Africa..."Professor Duesberg joins us in a fascinating, controversial discussion about the course of his career, the strength of his convictions and the cost of sticking to one's own vision of truth.
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