Positively False: Exposing the Myths Around HIV and AIDS [Hardcover]

Joan Shenton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 1998

A prize-winning medical journalist sets out to show that the HIV=AIDS=death hypothesis, which has wrongly acquired the force of certainty, has been riddled with flaws leading to distorted results, wrong conclusions and needless suffering. Shenton argues that research has been driven by the financial interests of pharmaceutical companies and by the ambitions of unscrupulous scientists equally anxious to protect their research funding, their patented HIV test kits, and ultimately their egos.

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Written by a British medical journalist who has produced several documentary films on AIDS, this work presents an alternative to the overwhelmingly accepted belief that the HIV virus causes AIDS. Relying heavily on the work of Peter Duesberg, a molecular biologist who believes not only that HIV does not cause AIDS but also that AIDS is not an infectious disease at all (see his Inventing the Aids Virus, LJ 3/1/96), the author attempts to debunk the accepted scientific thought on this issue. Her work is fairly interesting, but she weakens her own case by resorting to name-calling; for example, she refers to well-known AIDS researcher Robert Gallo and his co-workers as the "King of Virology and his Courtiers." She also repeatedly expresses the dubious notion that mainstream AIDS researchers throughout the world, ignoring the obvious human costs, have closed ranks against dissenting opinions merely in order to protect their own financial interests. Only libraries with comprehensive AIDS collections or where there is great interest in AIDS might consider purchasing this book.?Linda Gleason, formerly with the Univ. of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Lib., Newark
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris (March 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1860643337
• ISBN-13: 978-1860643330
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,162,567 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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46 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gives intelligent reader the knowledge to choose sides, December 1, 1998

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This review is from: Positively False: Exposing the Myths Around HIV and AIDS (Hardcover)

Shenton's telling of a decade of investigation is a complementary part of the AIDS puzzle in main started and mostly filled in by scientists Robert Root-Bernstein and Peter Duesberg; - and Shenton journalistic comrades such as Jad Adams and Michael Fumento. Deductive, objective analysis of all the medical "reporting" of the AIDS statistics have always led to the realization that "you can't get there from here" in trying to understand what the establishment (NIH, CDC, WHO, etc.) has almost successfully rammed down the throats of Americans, and in doing so has killed tens to hundreds of thousands of patients decades before their time. The immense value of Shenton's work is that it is a lifesaving read for those who want to make their own decisions when confronted by a blood test that comes back "positive" for HIV antibodies as one can then refuse to be a fatal victim of the toxic therapy that is currently in vogue, and in fact one can then proceed to take the proper steps to fully recovered health as pointed to by this book and the other authors cited above.

27 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Most Thorough Debunking of the Virus/AIDS Hypothesis, July 3, 2001

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Richard D. Rodriguez (Miami, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Positively False: Exposing the Myths Around HIV and AIDS (Hardcover)

Shenton's book is the best work I've read yet that questions the link between HIV (or ANY virus, for that matter)and AIDS. Anyone who reads this book will be utterly transfixed by it. It is both fascinating and frightening to read about the unanswered questions that continue to vex scientists, researchers and the like about the supposed link between HIV and AIDS. What is more frightening, however, is the extent to which these individuals will go to prevent these gaps in AIDS theory from becoming public knowledge, and how they refuse even to entertain any other possible explanation(s) for AIDS other than their precious "virus." Meanwhile, people continue dying.

4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First rate (understatement), October 15, 2006

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Paul King - See all my reviews

This review is from: Positively False: Exposing the Myths Around HIV and AIDS (Hardcover)

The facts speak clearly: -

AIDS never spread into the hetero population.

People over 65 in both America and Canada get so called 'AIDS' three times MORE than teenagers. Hardly what you would expect from an std.

The mortality rate in South Africa from non natural causes is at exactly the same 2.2% PA level it was before 'AIDS'. How could all the old diseases simply vanish over night to be replace with a single syndrome?

Nothing about 'AIDS' makes sense and this book makes the point with great skill. A MUST READ.