It’s no big secret that I despise AIDS denialists who claim scientific credentials. They are the most damnable frauds or idiots on Earth, even worse than global warming denialists or anti-vaccination nuts.

Andrew Wakefield, the one who started the anti-vaccination crusade by attempting to link vaccinations with autism, has been discredited and will no longer be allowed to do any medical work.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8695267.stm

The doctor who first suggested a link between MMR vaccinations and autism is to be struck off the medical register.

The General Medical Council found Dr Andrew Wakefield guilty of serious professional misconduct over the way he carried out his controversial research.

It follows a GMC ruling earlier this year that he had acted unethically.

Now I can only hope the same will soon be done to Peter Duesberg!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Duesberg

Peter H. Duesberg (born December 2, 1936 in Germany) is a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known as a central figure of AIDS denialism, believing that HIV is harmless and not the cause of AIDS.

Duesberg, along with Peter Vogt, was one of the first scientists to discover a cancer gene (oncogene), which became known as src. In 1970, Duesberg and Vogt reported that a cancer-causing virus of birds had extra genetic material compared with non-cancer-causing viruses.^[1][2] At the age of 36, Duesberg achieved tenure at the University of California, Berkeley, and at 49 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He received an Outstanding Investigator Grant (OIG) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1986, and from 1986 to 1987 was a Fogarty Scholar-in-Residence at the NIH laboratories in Bethesda, Maryland.

Although long considered by his scientific colleagues to be a “contrarian,”^[3] Duesberg began to gain public notoriety with a March 1987 article in Cancer Research entitled “Retroviruses as Carcinogens and Pathogens: Expectations and Reality”.^[4] In this and subsequent writings, Duesberg proposed his hypothesis that AIDS is caused by long-term consumption of recreational drugs and/or antiretroviral drugs, and that HIV was a harmless passenger virus. The scientific consensus is that HIV is the causal pathogen that leads to AIDS;^[5] Duesberg’s HIV/AIDS claims have been rejected as incorrect and disproven by the scientific community.^[6][7][8]

Duesberg’s views on HIV/AIDS are cited as major influences on South African policy under the administration of Thabo Mbeki. Duesberg also served on an advisory panel to Mbeki, convened in 2000. The consequent failure of South Africa to provide antiretroviral drugs in a timely manner is thought to be responsible for hundreds of thousands of preventable AIDS deaths and HIV infections.^[9][10] Duesberg disputed these findings in an article in the journal Medical Hypotheses,^[11] but the journal’s publisher, Elsevier, later retracted the article over accuracy and ethics concerns as well as its rejection during peer review.^[12][13] The flap prompted several complaints to the University of California, Berkeley, which began a misconduct investigation of Duesberg in 2009.^[14][15]

Whatever good science Duesberg may have done decades ago, he has degenerated into a dangerous crank, as did his ally Lynn Margulis. Past accomplishments have nothing to do with present credibility.

https://dalehusband.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/how-not-to-argue-or-do-research/

Look at this too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DShCZTbHEhk

If only we could charge Duesberg with some form of homicide!