Denying AIDS Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy /

• Main Author: Kalichman, Seth C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Public health.; Infectious diseases.; Medicine.; Health.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Medicine and Health.; Public Health.; Infectious Diseases.

Denying AIDS: Denialism, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy Seth C. Kalichman, Storrs, University of Connecticut Paralleling the discovery of HIV and the rise of the AIDS pandemic, a flock of naysayers has dedicated itself to replacing genuine knowledge with destructive misinformation—and spreading fr...

Table of Contents:

• HIV/AIDS Denialism Is Alive and Well
• Peter Duesberg and the Origins of HIV/AIDS Denialism
• AIDS Pseudoscience
• Denialist Journalism and Conspiracy Theories
• Politics of Denialism
• Getting Out of Denial.