had a very close, happy family. And I was educated to be skeptical during my 25 years of general practice about newly heralded grand cures. Reflecting back on the numbers of diseases I treated in the fifties and sixties which now would be grounds for malpractice, I became skeptical about AZT, knowing it to be a cytotoxic agent.? ?I had the temerity to give [Duesberg] a call. I?ll never forget his initial remark. I told him my plight, and he said, ?If you take AZT, you?ll be dead.? I read his work and got introduced to other people who were skeptical about AZT.? ?I decided early on to add some vitamin therapies to my already healthy lifestyle, particularly the anti-oxidants beta carotene, ascorbic acid, and vitamin E. Despite my continuing excellent health for a 69 year old ? I do a lot of hiking and mountaineering in the wilderness ? I have still been pressured by well-meaning clinicians to start AZT ?before it?s too late!? I think it?s very difficult for these people to admit that they?re either partially or completely wrong.? Null, The Big Lie About AIDS, Penthouse, 1995 ? Dr. David Berner , MD, physician and hemophiliac, Condon, Montana ?[Nature editor John] Maddox had expressed regret at the enormous blunder committed in 1984, when that scientific joker, Robert C. Gallo, announced he had discovered HIV to be the cause of AIDS. It was always surprising that a polymath like Maddox?should have fallen for the American fanfare lauding the