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| Author | Peter H. Duesberg |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | AIDS |
| Publisher | Regnery Publishing |
Publication date | 1996 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 722 |
| ISBN | 0-89526-470-6 |
Inventing the AIDS Virus is a 1996 book by molecular biologist Peter Duesberg, in which the author argues that HIV does not cause AIDS. Duesberg contends that HIV is a harmless passenger virus and that AIDS is caused by unrelated factors such as drug abuse, antiretroviral medication, chronic malnutrition, poor sanitation, and hemophilia. The unambiguous scientific consensus is that HIV causes AIDS and that Duesberg's claims are incorrect. Duesberg received a negative response from the scientific community for supporting AIDS denialism, misrepresenting and ignoring the scientific evidence that HIV causes AIDS, and for relying upon poor logic and manipulation. The book was also the subject of an authorship dispute with one of his graduate students.