Edward Hooper's site on the Origins of AIDS
Abstract There is much to be gained from learning how new diseases emerge. This applies to the origins of the AIDS pandemic, which has now killed over 50 million people globally. I (and to my knowledge many scientists) believe that a full and convincing explanation of how AIDS began has still not been provided by …
[A recent communication from one of the co-authors of the Faria paper has provided new information, which requires an updated response from myself. Surprisingly, this information reveals even more evidence in favour of the OPV theory. Ed Hooper, November 11th, 2014.] Several people have recently asked (either via the AIDSorigins site or via on-line message …
Several people have recently asked (either via the AIDS Origins site or via on-line message boards) for my opinions on the latest article about dating the beginning of the AIDS epidemic to Leopoldville/KInshasa in 1920. The article is called “The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations“, and though released earlier on-line, …
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Two new books and a flurry of new articles have recently appeared about the “origins of AIDS”, plus a third conference on the subject has been staged….. Some Glimmer of Light, Perhaps, At The End Of The Tunnel? I shall use this blog to address five new developments in the origins of AIDS debate. The …
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Review of The Origins of AIDS by Jacques Pepin [C.U.P. 2011] “The Origins of AIDS” by Jacques Pepin [Cambridge University Press], which came out in October 2011, has received a fair amount of attention in the press, almost all of which has been complimentary. I have a rather different take on the book. I believe …
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Early in October 2008 an article proposing a new, earlier year of origin for HIV-1, the pandemic AIDS virus, was published in Nature. For several reasons I, and scientists whom I know, considered this article a travesty, and one that spoke volumes about the conduct of Science in the 21st Century. The principal author of …
ublished in Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences 29 June 2001, Volume 356, Issue 1410, Royal Society All papers are in pdf format.