The AIDS conspiracy
Subtitle: science fights back
By: Nicoli Nattrass
Publisher: Wits University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781868145621
Subjects: Transmission; HIV infections; AIDS (Disease); Conspiracy theories; Public opinion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-216) and index.
Table of contents: title: The conspiratorial move against HIV science and its consequences; title: AIDS origin conspiracy theories in the United States and South Africa; title: Who believes AIDS conspiracy theories and why leadership matters; title: Science, politics, and credibility : David Gilbert fights AIDS conspiracy beliefs in US prisons; title: Science, conspiracy theory, and the South African AIDS policy tragedy; title: Hero scientists, cultropreneurs, living icons, and praise-singers : AIDS denialism as community; title: Defending the imprimatur of science : Duesberg and the medical hypotheses saga; title: The conspiratorial move and the struggle for evidence-based medicine.