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Editorial


Nature Medicine 12, 369 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nm0406-369

Denying science

'There are non-HIV causes for every AIDS disease; HIV has never been properly isolated; AIDS can be treated effectively without anti-HIV drugs.' Such views, typical of AIDS denialists and taken from one of their websites, may have exited the scientific press by the mid-1990s, but they persist to the detriment of millions of HIV-infected people.