Perhaps you didn't finish Duesberg's book either.
Perhaps you didn't understand his book. - Yes, I have more than finished it. I have typed in quotes from it ad infinitum, but most lack the desire to delve in and understand what is really happening.
Peter's conclusion is that most of the "AIDS deaths" in Africa never even happened; they were based on the assumption that empty houses were due to dead people, rather than the fact that they simply had to leave them due to drought and food shortage and move elsewhere.
Most inportantly, he demolishes the absurd idea that AIDS is contageous completely.
To the Editors of The New York Review of Books: We would like to clarify three points in Richard Horton's superb essay, "Truth and Heresy about AIDS" (New York Review of Books May 23, 1996).
" The WHO estimates of AIDS cases are based instead on a list of clinical symptoms that include persistent coughing, high fever, weight loss, and chronic diarrhea. These criteria for AIDS diagnosis in African cohort studies overlap considerably with the symptoms of such endemic diseases as dysentery, tuberculosis, cholera and malaria. This is why a growing number of African scientists and researchers have criticized the WHO premise and insist that addressing structural poverty and unhealthy living conditions — not behavior modification schemes — constitutes an appropriate patient-centered approach to achieve better health care."