Death Rush: Poppers And AIDS [Paperback]

John Lauritsen (Author), Hank Wilson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Inland Book Co (June 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0943742056
• ISBN-13: 978-0943742052
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,005,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars AIDS experts not impressed with Death Rush, May 23, 2006

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Toyo Midori (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Death Rush: Poppers And AIDS (Paperback)

Research on this book reveals that it has been part of an anti-poppers campaign that's been waged by these authors for many years. The AIDS research community long ago generally dismissed the book, and its theories.

The scientist who gave AIDS its name, Bruce Voeller, Ph.D., was quoted in a Mariposa Education & Research Foundation White Paper in 1986, saying that "I can also tell you that the intense campaigns against use of volatile nitrites conducted by Hank Wilson in San Francisco... and John Lauritsen in New York, are slim in scientific merit."

Written by anti-popper zealots who were both unable and unwilling to be objective about the subject, the authors' theories were subsequently invalidated by later research. The book (more properly called a phamplet) remains out of print it seems, which is where it belongs.

4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Order This Title In Case You Run Out Of Toilet Paper..., May 30, 2006

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David Roman "David Roman" (NYC, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Death Rush: Poppers And AIDS (Paperback)

...cause that's all it's good for.

Some people will do anything to avoid admitting they were incorrect about something, yet one would hope that after 20 years of spreading fear and misinformation linking poppers to HIV/AIDS, these authors would finally have the courage to fess up and/or shut up. Apparently not.

Anyone with any common sense or intelligence can tell from the statistics: If poppers caused AIDS or HIV, then the infection rates would still be skyrocketing everywhere poppers were sold and used. It's exactly like when people were afraid you could get AIDS/HIV from kissing; if that were true, we'd all have it. The numbers just aren't there.

On second thought, I take back what I said about using this publication for toilet paper. I don't wanna insult any toilet paper manufacturers...this trash isn't worthy of being compared to toilet paper.

4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't listen to reviews below, April 27, 2006

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Darin Brown "revolver13" (Goleta, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Death Rush: Poppers And AIDS (Paperback)

Don't listen to the reviews below (which appear to have been written by the same person, probably a plant from one of the major popper companies). This book contains dozens of references to the literature available at the time. In any case, the price is trivial, and you should make up your own mind.