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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!

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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.

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Thanks Denis, I'd forgotten about that.

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