Duesberg

In the article, Duesberg questioned research reporting that drugs policies implemented by the South African government on the advice of Duesberg, Rasnick and others had led to excess AIDS deaths.

Scientific study and rejection of Duesberg's risk-AIDS hypothesis Several studies have specifically addressed Duesberg's claim that recreational drug abuse or sexual promiscuity were responsible for the manifestations of AIDS.

Professor Duesberg was a prominent figure in the so-called AIDS denialism controversy because he maintained that HIV did not cause AIDS.

AIDS in Africa According to the Duesberg hypothesis, AIDS is not found in Africa.

Although unwilling to concur with Duesberg in throwing out a role for cancer genes, many researchers do support exploration of alternative hypotheses. citation Research and debate on this subject is ongoing.

Duesberg disputes the importance of oncogenes and retroviruses in cancer.

Duesberg received acclaim early in his career for research on oncogenes and cancer.

Duesberg's advocacy of AIDS denialism has, by all accounts, effectively made him a pariah to the worldwide scientific community.

Duesberg served on an advisory panel to Mbeki, convened in 2000.

Duesberg stated that HIV does not replicate in the body and that antiviral drugs, which he calls "inevitably toxic", do not inhibit HIV.

Duesberg will not be alone in protesting that this is merely a recipe for suppressing challenges to received wisdom.

In addition, Duesberg wrote that neither he nor his co-authors had financial conflicts of interest.

Observing that the overall population of South Africa has increased, Duesberg claimed that HIV must be a harmless "passenger virus" that has not caused deaths in South Africa or elsewhere.

The reviewers claimed that Duesberg and his co-authors cherry-picked data, cited favorable results while ignoring unfavorable results, and quoted statements out of context.