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Duesberg and the right of reply according to Maddox-Nature

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AIDS: Virus- or Drug Induced?

Part of the book series: Contemporary Issues in Genetics and Evolution ((CIGE,volume 5))

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In 1993 John Maddox, the editor of Nature, commissioned a commentary refuting the hypothesis that drugs cause AIDS (Ascher et al., 1993). The piece described 215 patients each of which had used drugs (Duesberg, 1993a; Duesberg, 1993b; Duesberg, 1993c). In view of this Duesberg sent a letter to Nature arguing that the perfect correlation between drug use and AIDS confirmed, rather than refuted, the drug hypothesis. Maddox censored the letter and wrote an editorial ‘Has Duesberg a Right of Reply?’ (Maddox, 1993). The editorial pointed out that the world’s oldest science journal could not afford an open scientific debate on the cause of AIDS because of the perceived dangers of infectious AIDS.

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    Peter H. Duesberg

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    Harvey Bialy

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Duesberg, P.H., Bialy, H. (1996). Duesberg and the right of reply according to Maddox-Nature . In: Duesberg, P.H. (eds) AIDS: Virus- or Drug Induced?. Contemporary Issues in Genetics and Evolution, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1651-7_8

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