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Title: The River : A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS by Edward Hooper ISBN: 0-316-37137-8 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (40 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A word of caution
Comment: A wonderful book which clearly explains some intriguing, if unproven, theories. As much a cautionary tale as a scientific work.
In reference to the Clinical Infectious Diseases article (2001;32:1068-1084), it should be noted that the author of this article was one of the scientists possibly implicated by this book.
Hooper experienced many roadblocks during his research for the book and many of them were placed before him by eminent scientists who preferred not to get involved in a book which might harm the reputation of their profession by suggesting that it may have been responsible (accidentally or otherwise) for disastrous wrongdoing during the development of the OPV.
In the article, the author acknowledges the assistance and input from many of his colleagues in the scientific profession. Personally, I believe this is further proof that the medical/scientific community are more than happy to work together to protect the reputation of their profession but are less inclined to involve themselves in a project aiming to reveal the truth, no matter how horrifying and sinister that truth may turn out to be.
Rating: 5
Summary: Reads like a literary mystery
Comment: Though a long, complex, and technical book, THE RIVER held my daily interest until I had finished it. A masterpiece of investigative journalism written by a man with high interpersonal intelligence who understands the human side of science and its pitfalls. Hooper discusses other possible dangers of cross-species transfer of viruses in the use of transplanted animal parts in humans. Science, Hooper demonstrates, must include careful documentation, followup, and open, honest discussion. A rush to solutions can be more dangerous than the original problem. A must read for anyone in public health or concerned with the AIDS epidemic.
Rating: 1
Summary: This Theory is Refuted ... YET AGAIN
Comment: Conspiracy theorists are entitled to their own ramblings in their own fantasy land. However, when it negatively impacts humanity, (in this case, global polio eradication), and the conspiracy theorist earns profits from his book with tiresome resurrections of the issue, one must start looking at the hard facts. The scientific community has already invested an immense volume of resources (including direct analysis of the OPV stocks in question) to address this theory, and every evidence contradicted the scenario laid out in this book.
The latest counterproof emerges from a study which directly analyzed the chimpanzees in the Kisangani area. The approach was sanctioned by no other than the late Bill Hamilton, who initiated the first expedition in the area, being convinced that it is the most direct way to address this theory once and for all. After much toil (3 expeditions mounted, one of which Bill Hamilton himself perished from malaria), it was found that the chimpanzees in the area have a distinct virus strain that was most closely related to those found in Gombe National Park in Tanzania than to the HIV-1 strains infecting people right now. Thus, the Kisangani SIVcpz, and therefore any polio vaccine that may have been prepared there, could not have been the source of HIV-1. (...)
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Title: And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts, William Greider ISBN: 0312241356 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 09 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine by Jon Cohen ISBN: 0393322254 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: History of AIDS by Mirko D. Grmek ISBN: 0691024774 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: AIDS in the Twenty-First Century : Disease and Globalization by Tony Barnett, Alan Whiteside ISBN: 140390006X Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 16 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Viral Sex: The Nature of AIDS by Jaap Goudsmit ISBN: 0195124960 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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