LEADER 04785nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910790105703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-95892-1 010 $a9786613793089 010 $a0-231-52025-5 024 7 $a10.7312/natt14912 035 $a(CKB)2670000000187550 035 $a(EBL)909382 035 $a(OCoLC)818856690 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000622558 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12246683 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000622558 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10643053 035 $a(PQKB)10525127 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000087866 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909382 035 $a(DE-B1597)459159 035 $a(OCoLC)785572770 035 $a(OCoLC)979573746 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231520256 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909382 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10542688 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL379308 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000187550 100 $a20111031d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe AIDS conspiracy$b[electronic resource] $escience fights back /$fNicoli Nattrass 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (239 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14913-1 311 $a0-231-14912-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe conspiratorial move against HIV science and its consequences -- AIDS origin conspiracy theories in the United States and South Africa -- Who believes AIDS conspiracy theories and why leadership matters -- Science, politics, and credibility : David Gilbert fights AIDS conspiracy beliefs in US prisons -- Science, conspiracy theory, and the South African AIDS policy tragedy -- Hero scientists, cultropreneurs, living icons, and praise-singers : AIDS denialism as community -- Defending the imprimatur of science : Duesberg and the medical hypotheses saga -- The conspiratorial move and the struggle for evidence-based medicine. 330 $aSince the early days of the AIDS epidemic, many bizarre and dangerous hypotheses have been advanced to explain the origins of the disease. In this compelling book, Nicoli Nattrass explores the social and political factors prolonging the erroneous belief that the American government manufactured the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to be used as a biological weapon, as well as the myth's consequences for behavior, especially within African American and black South African communities.Contemporary AIDS denialism, the belief that HIV is harmless and that antiretroviral drugs are the true cause of AIDS, is a more insidious AIDS conspiracy theory. Advocates of this position make a "conspiratorial move" against HIV science by implying its methods cannot be trusted and that untested, alternative therapies are safer than antiretrovirals. These claims are genuinely life-threatening, as tragically demonstrated in South Africa when the delay of antiretroviral treatment resulted in nearly 333,000 AIDS deaths and 180,000 HIV infections-a tragedy of stunning proportions.Nattrass identifies four symbolically powerful figures ensuring the lifespan of AIDS denialism: the hero scientist (dissident scientists who lend credibility to the movement); the cultropreneur (alternative therapists who exploit the conspiratorial move as a marketing mechanism); the living icon (individuals who claim to be living proof of AIDS denialism's legitimacy); and the praise-singer (journalists who broadcast movement messages to the public). Nattrass also describes how pro-science activists have fought back by deploying empirical evidence and political credibility to resist AIDS conspiracy theories, which is part of the crucial project to defend evidence-based medicine. 606 $aHIV infections$zSouth Africa 606 $aHIV infections$zUnited States 606 $aAIDS (Disease)$zSouth Africa 606 $aAIDS (Disease)$zUnited States 606 $aMedical policy$zSouth Africa 606 $aMedical policy$zUnited States 606 $aPublic opinion$zSouth Africa 606 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States 606 $aConspiracy theories 615 0$aHIV infections 615 0$aHIV infections 615 0$aAIDS (Disease) 615 0$aAIDS (Disease) 615 0$aMedical policy 615 0$aMedical policy 615 0$aPublic opinion 615 0$aPublic opinion 615 0$aConspiracy theories. 676 $a362.196/9792 700 $aNattrass$b Nicoli$0126370 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790105703321 996 $aThe AIDS conspiracy$93697713 997 $aUNINA