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Scientific American

August 1, 2001

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Dissident or Don Quixote?

Challenging the HIV theory got virologist Peter H. Duesberg all but excommunicated from the scientific orthodoxy. Now he claims that science has got cancer all wrong

By W. Wayt Gibbs

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W. Wayt Gibbs is a contributing editor for Scientific American based in Seattle. He also works as a scientific editor at Intellectual Ventures.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 285 Issue 2This article was originally published with the title “Dissident or Don Quixote?” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 285 No. 2 ()
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