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| Farber | Nor is Duesberg alone in dissenting from AIDS orthodoxy. More than 2,300 people, mostly scientists and doctors, including Nobelists in chemistry and medicine, have signed the petition of the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis, which calls for a more independent and skeptical approach to the question of AIDS causality. |
| Gallo | Footnote 16 refers to the reappraising petition with its approximate 2,300 signatories. It appears that Farber is referring to one of two petition on the virusmyth website (we assume this because Farber, as usual, does not supply references). Farber is a signatory to one of these petitions a fact that indicates she had prejudged views before writing the Harper's piece. The petition texts are vague. They have been open for signing for years. It is not clear how to remove one's name from them if one wishes to do so. It is difficult to verify which of them are scientists or have conducted AIDS research. By contrast, the Durban Declaration was signed by approximately 5,000 scientists, most of them engaged in HIV/AIDS research, in a short space of time. It declared what was already obvious and accepted: that HIV is the cause of AIDS. In any case, as the arguments here clearly show, there is no need to appeal to authority to demonstrate that HIV is the cause of AIDS and the benefits of ARVs outweigh their risks. The public domain research demonstrate these facts beyond reasonable doubt. |
| RA | The petition that Farber is referring to is actually rethinkingaids.com/quotes/rethinkers.htm. At the time of writing almost 2,400 names of educated and accomplished people were listed who question some or all of the HIV=AIDS=Death theory. |