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Death Rush: Poppers And AIDS

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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.

...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.

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.

Lauritsen and Wilson sadly have it all wrong in a booklet that is nearly twenty years old. Their theories about "poppers" and AIDS are as outside the mainstream of responsible research as are their theories that AIDS is NOT caused by the HIV virus.

Such junk science, as exemplified in this small booklet, should indeed be "out of print", since it terribly misleads the reader and does a disservice to all those impacted and affected by HIV and AIDS.

Anyone who might read this tiny booklet would be terribly mislead by its zealous anti-popper and anti-HIV rhetoric.

In their attempts to create a soapbox from which to continue to espouse their now long-discredited views on both AIDS and Poppers, the authors' blatant attempts to continue to misinform and mislead the public on matters of such significant importance, are shameful at best, and evil at worst.

As others have already stated, this small booklet should indeed be "out of print", because it truly misleads the reader and does a terrible disservice to ALL those impacted and affected by HIV and AIDS.

I'd seen a refernce to the book on an AIDS website that attempts to debunk the well-known and inconclusively-proven fact that AIDS is caused by HIV. The author, along with the others on this site, seem nothing short of zealots who need a soapbox to help in their shameless self-promotion.

Lauritson's anti-popper stance is as unwarranted as his stance on what causes AIDS. He does a disservice to the public who will undoubtedly be mislead should they read his book.

His brand of false alarmism is a shame.