Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS PDF

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“Although much of what Farber dredges up is not new, the fact remains that her argument has not been answered to the satisfaction of a lot of people. I would guess that it is not going to be so easy now to sweep this debate under the carpet by naming Farber and Duesberg and others ‘crazies’ and ‘HIV deniers.’ As Farber herself points out, there is too much money and greed now controlling the entire system of our ‘treatment’ for that to be an effective response.”
—Larry kramer, Founder, ACT UP

“It’s an engaging piece of investigative journalism that exposes deep problems with the standards of medical research when it comes to AIDS.... Her argument is that AIDS has become an industry and a certain kind of sloppiness has entered the search for new anti-retroviral drugs.”
—Gal Beckerman, Columbia Journalism Review

About the Author

From 1987 to 1997, Celia Farber wrote and edited SPIN magazine’s AIDS column, “Words From The Front.” She has also written for many magazines and newspapers, including Esquire, Rolling Stone, Gear, Salon, and Harper’s. She lives in New York City.

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• Paperback: 345 pages
• Publisher: Melville House (April 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933633018
• ISBN-13: 978-1933633015
• Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 5.9 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds

Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS PDF

Science is facing some serious challenges nowadays. We have people who insist that humans walked alongside dinosaurs or that there is no such thing as time dilation, regardless of the scientific canon, we still have catastrophists and UFOlogists and people who insist that the moon landings were a fraud... It's a frustrating thing, sometimes, to waste precious time on people who have corrupted science out of ignorance or for their non-scientific agendas, and one can be tempted to insist on censoring them and locking them out of the hallowed halls of science.

I have examined various challenges to the established scientific currents and found them wanting. I validated a number of calculations regarding relativity, refuted a computation that arrives at a 6,400 year age for the sun, studied the videos of men on the moon: I invested much precious time examining sundry claims. It's clear to me that there are many Corruptors of science, with the AIDS dissidents seemingly among the worst.

Delving into the complicated world of HIV/AIDS, however, I found that I could not refute the better-laid arguments of the dissidents while the orthodoxy repeatedly fails to substantiate its fundamental tenets. Whereas creationists are almost exclusively religious zealots, AIDS dissidents include Nobel laureates and thousands of Ph.D.s, physicians and scientists. When I would read that there is no study that establishes the necessary presence of HIV in patients, that HIV has never been isolated from any one patient, that no study has established the sexual transmissibility of HIV, that the pathology of HIV has never been demonstrated, that the spike in AIDS deaths corresponds to AZT prescription, etc.

Serious Adverse Events is for the most part a collection of Celia Farber's previous work, with a few updates and some new material. I should say at the outset that, prior to reading this particular collection, I had read much of this material in other publications (Harper's, Spin, etc). But no matter where it first appeared, this is some good stuff---it's that rare piece of science journalism that is a) passionate, b) intelligent and informed, and c) accessible to the lay reader.

It's a safe bet that most folks buying this book will already have at least a passing familiarity with the questions it raises, but if you're new to this subject, it's worth noting that this book addresses (with uncommon insight) questions and doubts surrounding the mainstream account of AIDS, its causes, and its treatments. AIDS skepticism is as old as AIDS science, and Farber has been chronicling AIDS skeptics since nearly the beginning.

Those early skeptics had simple doubts about the epidemiology of AIDS: Even before the 80s were through, it was clear that large numbers of HIV-positive folks simply weren't getting sick. But if the growing numbers of healthy HIV-positives should have been the beginning of the end for the HIV hypothesis, then the discovery of AIDS cases with no HIV should have been the nail in its coffin. But there was no coffin to put the nail in, because, as Farber makes acutely clear in one of the most compelling sections of the book, these damning anomalies were simply defined away. You see, the most common argument for HIV's role in AIDS is the apparently perfect correlation between AIDS and HIV. Critics have long contended that the correlation is an artifact of the disease's definition: HIV is a requirement for a case to be considered AIDS.