ublished in Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences
29 June 2001, Volume 356, Issue 1410, Royal Society
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Position Paper on the Origins of HIV/AIDS Debate
Position paper to coincide with the publication of the proceedings of the Royal Society conference on “The Origins of HIV and the AIDS Epidemic”
Edward Hooper 14 June, 2001
Key Points
Professor Robin Weiss, one of the organisers of the Royal Society conference on the origins of HIV and AIDS, recently declared the oral polio vaccine (OPV) theory of origin dead. “Some beautiful facts have destroyed an ugly theory”, he wrote.
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Inaccuracies and Errors in Press Statements
Inaccuracies and errors in press statements released by doctors Stanley Plotkin and Hilary Koprowski at the Royal Society meeting on “The Origins of HIV and the AIDS Epidemic”, on September 11, 2000
Edward Hooper. December 5, 2000.
Slightly updated and revised on June 14, 2001.
Like many other speakers at the Royal Society conference on “The Origins of HIV and the AIDS Epidemic” (myself included) doctors Plotkin and Koprowski later revised their oral presentations for the published proceedings, which are about to appear as Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, B; 2001; Volume 356, pp. 778-977.
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Comments on the Papers by Stanley Plotkin and Hilary Koprowski Presented at the Royal Society Meeting on “Origins of HIV and the AIDS Epidemic” in September 2000
All three papers presented by doctors Plotkin and Koprowski at this conference were characterised by inaccuracies, errors and obfuscation.
Bitter Debate on Polio-Vaccine Theory of AIDS
Africa-at-Large Bitter Debate on Polio-Vaccine Theory of AIDS
Wairagala Wakabi, Paul Redfern; The East African, September 21, 2000
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Nairobi – The Two sides in the increasingly bitter row over the origin of Aids appeared to be as far apart as ever following a conference on September 11 at the Royal Society in London.
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Africa News
Paul Redfern, The East African (Nairobi), September 21, 2000
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Nairobi – The Two sides in the increasingly bitter row over the origin of Aids appeared to be as far apart as ever following a conference on September 11 at the Royal Society in London.
New Study Disproves Polio Vaccine Theory
SCIENCE AND HEALTH NEW STUDY DISPROVES POLIO VACCINE THEORY
Joey G. Alarilla, Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 16, 2000
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IS the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome epidemic the result of a contaminated polio vaccine? No, according to new tests debunking this theory originally posed in the late ’80s, which has been revived by a book published last year.
AIDS Wars
The Economist, Vol. 356, 16 September 2000, pp. 87-88.
A meeting in London has destroyed the idea that AIDS was the accidental result of a polio-vaccination campaign conducted in the 1950s. But the disease’s origins are still mysterious
Did the March of Progress Bring AIDS to Africa
Sydney Morning Herald, 15 September 2000; from Daily Telegraph (UK), 12? September 2000.
Matt Ridley in London says the evidence suggests that polio vaccine researchers in the 1950s unwittingly unleashed the pandemic that is ravaging Africa.
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Forensic Epidemiology
Vaccine Theory of AIDS Origins Disputed at Royal Society
Jon Cohen
Science, Vol. 289, 15 September 2000, pp. 1850-1851.
LONDON, ENGLAND–For 2 days this week, the staid Royal Society hosted a spirited, sometimes raucous, meeting on the origin of the AIDS epidemic, the first such gathering ever held. At center stage was a controversial theory that a contaminated polio vaccine tested in Africa more than 40 years ago sparked the epidemic. The theory took a hit when researchers revealed that tests of old samples of the vaccine provided no supporting evidence, and the main proponent of the theory, British writer Edward Hooper, endured a verbal battering himself from several prominent scientists. But Hooper, unbowed, got in plenty of jabs of his own.