When I read RFK Jr's book I wasn't ready to take it at face value but figured he had to be directionally right about most things. I think if I read it again now that I'm further along it would make my blood boil. If my memory serves me I remember RJF Jr. saying that at one point Reagan wanted Fauci to join him in conversation with Dues…
When I read RFK Jr's book I wasn't ready to take it at face value but figured he had to be directionally right about most things. I think if I read it again now that I'm further along it would make my blood boil. If my memory serves me I remember RJF Jr. saying that at one point Reagan wanted Fauci to join him in conversation with Duesberg to hash out what the hell was going on...and Fauci told Reagan no. Did I misremember that or was that in the book? I know there was also a moment when Duesberg was supposed to be on with Larry King and Fauci took his place. If that happened, then that alone is a friggin movie. The story of Fauci is crazier than most fiction.
One more moment in censorship history around the AIDS epidiemic. One of the writer's of Dallas Buyer's Club wanted Mathew McCaughney's character to make a pass at femal Doctor making a reference to Duesberg saying the virus isn't even the real cause. They had it taken out in editing. It was bragged about in Slate, or some lefty magazine, as saving the movie from being homophoebic. Unreal.
Yes, I need to go back and read TRAF again, I got what I could get out of it on first reading, the second time will be different.
I don't believe there is a Reagan/Duesberg story in the book. Pretty sure there isn't.
Also I think the Larry King story was for Kennedy being swapped for Fauci last minute.
Didn't know about the Duesberg edit in the movie, wow. They caved to pharma at the very end by saying that it was the "dosage" of AZT that was the issue and that got rectified!
I tracked down the Reagan thing because I still can't believe it myself. Like this moment alone warrants a feature length film around it. (hmm I think I'd like to randomly cast Tom Hanks as Reagan...but I digress) The excerpt:
'....On the night preceding his appearance, a GMA producer called to say the show was canceled. In the morning, he turned on his hotel TV and saw Anthony Fauci himself on the show. Similarly, Larry King asked Duesberg for a televised interview in 1992 and then abruptly canceled the night before. Dr. Fauci took Duesberg's place at King's table. In 1987, when President Reagan invited Duesberg and Dr. Fauci to the White House for a friendly debate in front of the president, Dr. Fauci forced Reagan to cancel. A member of President Reagan's administration told Duesberg that "Anthony Fauci, far from reacting as . .. anticipated, threw a 'small fit' when he was invited, and demanded to know why the White House was interfering in scientific matters that belonged to the NIH and the Office of Science and Technology Assessment. --RFK Jr. TRAF pg 472 per my kindle version.
Larry King did schedule a CNN interview with Duesberg on August 6, 1992, but it was cancelled just hours before airtime. Fauci was interviewed instead and no mention was made of the HIV dispute. As described in Duesberg, Inventing the AIDS Virus, pages 392-93. It wasn't the only time Duesberg was replaced by Fauci on TV interviews.
When I read RFK Jr's book I wasn't ready to take it at face value but figured he had to be directionally right about most things. I think if I read it again now that I'm further along it would make my blood boil. If my memory serves me I remember RJF Jr. saying that at one point Reagan wanted Fauci to join him in conversation with Duesberg to hash out what the hell was going on...and Fauci told Reagan no. Did I misremember that or was that in the book? I know there was also a moment when Duesberg was supposed to be on with Larry King and Fauci took his place. If that happened, then that alone is a friggin movie. The story of Fauci is crazier than most fiction.
One more moment in censorship history around the AIDS epidiemic. One of the writer's of Dallas Buyer's Club wanted Mathew McCaughney's character to make a pass at femal Doctor making a reference to Duesberg saying the virus isn't even the real cause. They had it taken out in editing. It was bragged about in Slate, or some lefty magazine, as saving the movie from being homophoebic. Unreal.
Yes, I need to go back and read TRAF again, I got what I could get out of it on first reading, the second time will be different.
I don't believe there is a Reagan/Duesberg story in the book. Pretty sure there isn't.
Also I think the Larry King story was for Kennedy being swapped for Fauci last minute.
Didn't know about the Duesberg edit in the movie, wow. They caved to pharma at the very end by saying that it was the "dosage" of AZT that was the issue and that got rectified!
I tracked down the Reagan thing because I still can't believe it myself. Like this moment alone warrants a feature length film around it. (hmm I think I'd like to randomly cast Tom Hanks as Reagan...but I digress) The excerpt:
'....On the night preceding his appearance, a GMA producer called to say the show was canceled. In the morning, he turned on his hotel TV and saw Anthony Fauci himself on the show. Similarly, Larry King asked Duesberg for a televised interview in 1992 and then abruptly canceled the night before. Dr. Fauci took Duesberg's place at King's table. In 1987, when President Reagan invited Duesberg and Dr. Fauci to the White House for a friendly debate in front of the president, Dr. Fauci forced Reagan to cancel. A member of President Reagan's administration told Duesberg that "Anthony Fauci, far from reacting as . .. anticipated, threw a 'small fit' when he was invited, and demanded to know why the White House was interfering in scientific matters that belonged to the NIH and the Office of Science and Technology Assessment. --RFK Jr. TRAF pg 472 per my kindle version.
Thanks Denis, I'd forgotten about that.
Larry King did schedule a CNN interview with Duesberg on August 6, 1992, but it was cancelled just hours before airtime. Fauci was interviewed instead and no mention was made of the HIV dispute. As described in Duesberg, Inventing the AIDS Virus, pages 392-93. It wasn't the only time Duesberg was replaced by Fauci on TV interviews.
Thank you for the correction.
Duesberg’s book is outstanding, by the way.