In 1983 I began thinking critically about the newly named “Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome” or “AIDS”. The entire medical literature at this time amounted to a couple of dozen articles. In this year I joined forces with Hank Wilson in San Francisco to warn gay men that the premier gay drug — “poppers” or the nitrite inhalants — was harmful to the health and very likely a cause of “AIDS”. We prepared and distributed a pamphlet, “Poppers & AIDS”, and wrote letters to the gay press warning about poppers.

In 1984 my first letter questioning the AIDS-orthodoxy was published — in the New York City Paper, a free weekly distributed mainly in gay bars.

On 14 February 1985 my first major AIDS article, “CDC's Tables Obscure AIDS-Drugs Connection”, was published in Philadelphia Gay News. This article, which was soon republished in five other papers, demonstrated that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) had used statistical trickery in order to construe “AIDS” as a venereal disease, rather than a drug-induced condition. This article is reprinted as the first chapter in The AIDS War (1990).

1986 marked the publication of Death Rush: Poppers & AIDS by Hank Wilson and me. The appendices in this book challenged the official hypothesis, that an “AIDS virus” — then known as either HTLV-III or LAV — caused the syndrome of diseases. These appendices were the first to use Koch's Postulates and Occam's Razor to argue against a viral etiology. Also in 1986 my first article, on Koch's Postulates, was published in the New York Native — which in the next eleven years would publish over fifty of my articles.

On 9 March 1987 my review of Confronting AIDS, by the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, was published in the New York Native. I referred to the report as “monumental folly”, and excoriated its incompetent epidemiology, its fatuously cavalier dismissal of “co-factors”, its preposterous projections, and its lethal public health measures. By this time I was convinced that “AIDS” is not infectious, that it is not a coherent and rationally defined disease entity, and that multiple factors, especially toxins, provided the best explanation for AIDS-illnesses. This review is reprinted as the third chapter in The AIDS War.

On 13 June 1987 I became the first journalist to interview molecular biologist Peter Duesberg, whose March 1987 article in Cancer Research, “Retroviruses as Carcinogens and Pathogens: Expectations and Reality”, concluded that the role of retroviruses in causing either cancer or “AIDS” was far from proven. This interview caused an immediate sensation, and AIDS-criticism burst briefly  into the public arena — after which media censorship set in, of an intensity normally found in a totalitarian country in the midst of war.

Since then a lot of water has gone under the bridge. I've received death threats — been slandered and ostracized — been on television and radio — been cited innumerable times in books and articles — and so on. If I could go back in time, I'd still fight against the AIDS lies, only I hope that I'd do it better. Despite substantial financial losses from abandoning my market research career, I am at peace with myself. I believe that I and the many other AIDS-dissidents have saved lives. In the short run, Goliath usually defeats David — and the Medical-Pharmaceutical Complex is formidable. In the long run, Truth will prevail.

Since the demise of the New York Native and Christopher Street, almost all of the gay press have been closed to AIDS criticism. I did succeed in having one article, “AIDS Realism Versus The HIV Hypothesis”, published in the electronic weekly, Gay Today (22 May 2000). To read it click here.

My most recent “AIDS”  article, “AIDS: A Death Cult”, appeared in the Winter 2003-2004 issue of the Gay & Lesbian Humanist. To read it click here.

For information on the premier gay drug “poppers” (nitrite inhalants), including the complete text of the 1986 book, Death Rush: Poppers & AIDS, click here.

For an AIDS-dissident bibliography click here.

Many of my writings on “AIDS” can be found on the Internet. Below are some of the many dozens of AIDS-dissident websites:


For descriptions of my two AIDS books that are still in print, The AIDS War and The AIDS Cult, click here.



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