Mark Hoofnagle has a PhD in physiology from the University of Virginia and is currently a 3rd year medical student. His interest in denialism concerns the use of denialist tactics to confuse public understanding of scientific knowledge.
Apparently, Gary is now a documentary filmmaker, and officially an HIV Denialist. What a pity. So many people like him. It's a shame he has to go from being wrong to being wrong and dangerous.
Check out this beauty from his website (edited for space):
Documentary filmmaker (sic) and health expert Gary Null (sic-er), Ph.D.(sic trifecta!), features never before seen footage from around the world, especially in Africa, in his new film "AIDS, Inc.". This is the first film on AIDS to bring together the most compelling arguments of dissident scientists, physicians and public health advocates.In "AIDS, Inc.", Dr. Null shows how greed and corruption have prevented any real progress in fighting the epidemic and its underlying causes. The film challenges the notion that AIDS or HIV is an African monkey virus that is spread sexually and can be "treated" with harmful drugs. It considers the common underlying conditions of the epidemic, such as malnutrition, unclean water, poverty, illness such as TB, malaria and dysentery, and poor lifestyle choices.
Help give a voice to over 4,000 dissident scientists, physicians and public health advocates, and redirect the war on AIDS. We offer letters which can be adapted and sent to your legislators. Please be sure to include your name and address on the letters.
Vey is meir! Gevalt, gevalt! I mean, the coffee enemas were kind of funny, the hydrogen peroxide was just plain stupid, and the chelation therapy was kind of sad. This is downright dangerous.
In "AIDS, Inc. Dr. (sic) Null shows how greed and corruption have prevented any real progress in fighting the epidemic and its underlying causes. The film challenges the notion that AIDS or HIV is an African monkey virus that is spread sexually and can be "treated" with harmful drugs.
HIV Denialism is a huge topic, which has been addressed at my old place a few times, and here quite often.
This should really be the final straw in the discrediting of Null. Any PBS station that still uses his infomercials during their pledge drives should stop. If they don't, viewers should consider sending their money to some other worthy cause, and tell the station why.
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Just the appearance of his website oozes what I like to call a high wacko quotient. There's a great [self-sic] joke in all this about the Null Hypothesis but it's way too early...must...get...coffee.
Posted by: FullFrontal | April 26, 2008 8:40 AM
FullFrontal: I hope the coffee won't be in enema form...
Posted by: Dan Hocson | April 26, 2008 2:19 PM
This is a bit off topic, but have you ever considered having links open in a separate window rather than taking someone away from your site?
Posted by: Bill | April 26, 2008 4:46 PM
You are implying that I have some sort of logical, systematic method that I employ...
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April 26, 2008 4:57 PM
It has always amused me that the hydrogen peroxide cures everything and the AIDS is oxidative stress kooks tend to flock together despite the mutually contradictory beliefs.
Posted by: Chris Noble | April 26, 2008 9:56 PM
Bill, I just middle-click to open links in another tab anytime I want to keep the main window open.
Posted by: Bluegrass Geek | April 27, 2008 12:26 AM
~Bracing for a Firefox commercial...
Posted by: Bill | April 27, 2008 8:30 AM
Gary has been a hardcore AIDS denialist for years, this is nothing new:
http://www.garynull.com/Documents/aids.htm
Posted by: Dr. Duke | April 27, 2008 9:34 AM
Help give a voice to over 4,000 dissident scientists, physicians and public health advocates
What's an order of magnitude among friends? Or two, for that matter.
Posted by: ElkMountainMan | April 28, 2008 7:51 AM
And if you dare to criticize him he will send his lawyers after you, threatening to sue (see my website for details).
Posted by: Lee Phillips | April 30, 2008 10:14 AM
He'll send lawyers? Geez, I haven't heard from them yet, and I've been, um, highly critical.
I like your letter. Did you get sued?
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April 30, 2008 10:21 AM
never mind followed the link...might have to look into this further...thanks
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April 30, 2008 10:26 AM
"Gary has been a hardcore AIDS denialist for years, this is nothing new"
Dr. Duke, why don't you tell that to the under-informed disinformants with a nose for the important news stories at JP's:
http://aidstruth.org/in-the-news.php
But crediting Denialism Blog with "outing" Null is maybe one of those little mutual bedside gestures you guys show each other?
I wonder who you'll "out" next - Thabo Mbeki?
Posted by: MEC | May 6, 2008 4:00 PM
Gary Null has some listing of supplements for treatment of HIV in the back of one of his books. It is possible some of them will slow the progression to AIDS. He is right about the money problem as it takes millions of dollars to get approval for a HIV drug. This leaves drugs already off patent that can not be used because there is no profit and much cost. It is a flawed system.
Supplement and herbs also have that problem. Things such as lactoferrin inhibits entry to virus. Enough blocking of virus entry does away with HIV drug resistance. One can be a denalist in the sense of a very flawed health medical system that WHO has United States listed 37th just next to Cuba.
One can make fun on denalist because they are a suicide club but convential medicine lacks flexibility and one can make fun of them as they also increase the HIV problem with more deaths. There are no innocents with this disease. You can even start with Ronald Regan as an example. Nobody seems to want to change things and both denalists and convential think they are right. It seems things work both ways.
Posted by: Arthur Gittleman | May 7, 2008 7:52 AM
Well, I have to admit that I don't know the veterinary literature, but from what I can parse from your difficult grammar and reasoning, you seem to think that supplements have been shown effective in treating HIV. None have. What has been shown effective is HAART (highly active anti-retroviral therapy).
Real science is far more interesting and useful than guesswork. Knowing what CCR5 is, knowing what integrin is, knowing what reverse transcriptase is, and knowing their significance is far more useful than guessing about herbs for which there is no evidence.
Also, blocking viral entry does not render a virus immune from evolutionary adaptation. There is nothing particularly different, in an evolutionary sense, between blocking entry to the cell and inhibiting replication. They all exert selective pressures.
Oh, and my colleagues don't especially like AIDS denialists, so, while I won't censor comments, you won't receive a warm fuzzy welcome here.
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May 7, 2008 10:49 AM