What if everything you thought you knew about AIDS was wrong? (Paperback)

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" Clear, concise and completely accurate, Maggiore's powerful little book is highly recommended reading for anyone who has ever had the doubt about any aspect of the 'global AIDS pandemic,' and is absolutely compulsory reading for those few never have." -- Harvey Bialy, PhD Editor at large, Nature Biotechnology

" This book exposes the many incongruencies in conventional wisdom and establishes why we must question how AIDS research and treatment are currently conducted. The paradox of the search for an AIDS cure is that the thing most neededopen debate and scientific exchangeis the thing most feared by the AIDS establishment." -- Bob Guccione, Jr. Editor and publisher, Gear magazine

" This splendid book is a perfect text for provoking university students. It requires them to think critically about sexuality and public health, obliging them to scrutinize the unscientific dogmas churned out by the AIDS orthodoxy. Maggiore's book should be required reading for all undergraduates." -- Charles Geshekter, PhD Department of History, California State University, Chico

" Until recently, I was a physician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the number-one funded AIDS research center in the country. Before January of 1998, my knowledge of AIDS was typical; I knew that HIV caused AIDS because that's what the textbooks said. I had no reason to think otherwise and never knew or cared that anybody thought differently. I ordered this book on a whim, but once I started reading it, I didn't stop until I hit the back cover.

" I used to think that medical research wasn't politically directed and financially motivated, and that pharmaceutical companies wouldn't compromise patient well-being for a profit. I used to think the FDA was there to protect the American public. Now I know better. Now I tell the story of AIDS to anyone who will listen." -- Rob Hodson, MD Former professor of anesthesiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham

A succinct summary of the gaping holes in the official view of AIDS, this book has become an underground classic. Christine Maggiore, whose own HIV positive diagnosis didn't stop her from disobeying the authorities and giving birth to a healthy child, challenges all the politically correct opinions about the health crisis. A straightforward, jargon-free little book that provides volumes of highly explosive intellectual ammunition in its brief pages." -- Ian Young Author, The Stonewall Experiment: A Gay Psychohistory

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"Maggiore's influence here and abroad is swelling."  —Newsweek

"The kind of questioning that is the lifeblood of scientific inquiry."  —Bill Maher, host, Real Time

"Christine Maggiore writes clearly for any reader the simple truth about AIDS."  —Kary Mullis, PhD, chemist and 1993 Nobel laureate

 

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 126 pages
• Publisher: American Foundation for AIDS Alternatives; 4th Rev edition (September 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967415306
• ISBN-13: 979-0967415306
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #872,161 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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45 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Warning, This is a very dangerous book., September 26, 2005

By	Richard Francis (Washington DC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a very dangerous book. Denying that the HIV virus causes AIDS is just a primitive escape mechanism, similar to that of a two year old holding their fingers in their ears chanting "I can't hear you, I can't hear you".

It's also sad to note that the authors own daughter, 3-year-old Eliza Jane Scovill is dead. The cause, according to a Sept. 15 report by the Los Angeles County coroner, was AIDS-related pneumonia.

"This was a preventable death," said Dr. James Oleske, a New Jersey physician who never examined Eliza Jane but has treated hundreds of HIV-positive children. "I can tell you without any doubt that, at the outset of her illness, if she was appropriately evaluated, she would have been appropriately treated. She would not have died.

She died because her mother refused to accept the possibility of her having aids, a disease she might well have not caught if her mother took the appropriative measures during pregnancy.

EDIT (10/12/05)

sloppy thinking? It always amazes me that people (as John above) can take such pseudo-scientific thinking as this book as anything less than a load of rubbish.

We must remember that Christine Maggiore, an influential HIV-positive activist believes that HIV doesn't cause AIDS, isn't infectious, shouldn't be treated with "toxic" anti-retroviral drugs like AZT and certainly needn't prevent HIV-positive mothers like herself from breastfeeding.

This is certainly dangerous thinking.

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53 of 76 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking, but be careful, May 8, 2002

By	Bufford D. Moore (Baytown, Texas USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I want this book to be right. I want no one else ever to die of AIDS. I can see how anyone who is HIV positive would be greatly relieved by the postulates, and I don't want to upset anyone. I was an ER nurse up to the early 80's, and we were on the forefront of presentations of AIDS patients. I don't profess to know what causes AIDS, as the author does, nor can I swap reference citations. What I can do is assure you that her thesis that AIDS is simply a name applied to pre-existing disease is a very questionable one. Even at the level of "street level" ER nurses, we recognized that something was different; there was something new out there. I think that the book should be read, but carefully and with a very large grain of salt. My biggest fear is that years of educating high-risk groups, which I feel has helped, could be very easily undone by the implication that AIDS is really caused by those terrible drugs the terrible doctors give. The patients that we saw pre-dated those agents, and you may believe me or not, but those young men were incredibly ill and died with startling speed. They were often gone before much "toxic" anti-biotic could be given.

11/10/06 Addendum:

In a very sad turn of events, the author's three year old daughter died suddenly. The ME has ruled that she died of AIDS related pneumonia. Her pediatrician has been investigated for poor care in not testing her for HIV. Who knows what's right? Looks real bad for the author's theory

22 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exposing the "AIDS" myth with facts!, March 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?: The Book That Will Change Your View of HIV and AIDS...and Possibly Change Your Life (Paperback)

Finally a book that gives you the facts about "AIDS" and HIV. Even if you don't believe a word of what Christine presents in the book, you must admit that, it is very odd that, none of this information is being discussed on Primetime T.V., Radio and "News" papers.

Christine presents the truth and it might hurt and perhaps even anger some people, but nevertheless, it is still the truth as many people see and experience every day. Christine shows in her book that, HIV has never been proven to cause "AIDS" or any other disease, but the public is being told over and over again that it is. Christine lays the facts on the table with extensive research and documentation to back up her claims. When you read, you might feel a sense of betrayel by the medical industry and media. That is what I felt, first time reading this book. Christine tells it like it is. The statistics that "AIDS" is not the epidemic compared to other diseases and accidents. That "AIDS" is not a disease, but a diagnose of being tested positive for HIV antibodies and having one or more of 28 old illnesses. Christine shows that, contrary to popular belief, the HIV test is NOT for the virus, but for antibodies, which they claim are specific to HIV, but is not.

The only critisism I have of the book is, I wish Christine would have spent a little more time on explaing the early cases of "AIDS" and the correlation between drug use and "AIDS". Nevertheless, the book brings the pure facts to the public in lay terms and in only 64 pages, that there isnt any excuse not to read it.

Go out and get a copy, and learn from Christine that, "AIDS" is not a death sentence, but a wake up call from a degenative lifestyle caused by recreational, prescription drugs, poor nutrition, stress and other environmental contaminations.