In his book
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the War on Democracy and Public Health, Kennedy says he takes "no position on the relationship between HIV and AIDS",
[252]: 347 but he spends over a hundred pages quoting HIV denialists such as
Peter Duesberg who question the isolation of HIV and the etiology of AIDS.
[269] Kennedy himself refers to the "orthodoxy that HIV alone causes AIDS",
[252]: 348 and the "theology that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS",
[252]: 351 as well as repeating the
HIV/AIDS denialist false claim that no one has isolated the HIV particle and "No one has been able to point to a study that demonstrates their hypothesis using accepted scientific proofs".: 348 Additionally, he repeats the false claim that the early AIDS drug
AZT is "absolutely fatal"
[252]: 332 due to its "horrendous toxicity".
[252]: 298 Molecular biologist
Dan Wilson points out that Kennedy falsely claims that
Luc Montagnier, the discoverer of HIV, was a "convert" to Duesberg's fringe hypothesis. Wilson concludes that Kennedy is a "full blown" HIV/AIDS denialist.
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