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D.A.S.
4.0 out of 5 stars What you need to know about HIV and AIDS but were afraid to ask
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2021
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This shows the politics involved in the identification of HIV as the cause of AIDS and how science and researchers may have ignored evidence that HIV is not the cause of AIDS, or not the only cause. It deserves a read about anyone who cares about retroviruses and how we think about them. It is related to the current madness around SARS-COV-2, Covid 19 and the absolutely insane drive to vaccinate the world with untested methods. The problems that exist in AIDS research, including wondering how it broke out in the gay male population, are related to the madness surrounding covid and the current "pandemic."
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david krebs
5.0 out of 5 stars Ortleb has done a great public service by taking us on this dark journey
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2018
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One can only be grateful that CharlesOrleb was at the right place at the right time when the AIDS epidemic began. His courageous decision to make his newspaper the journal of record in the middle of a tsunami of horrifying events will secure his place in history. But he didn’t stop with AIDS. When Chronic Fatigue Syndrome began to appear he immediately recognized that it was no coincidence that it broke out at the same time as AIDS. This page turner of a history makes one think deeply about the politics of science and public health. Ortleb has done a great public service by taking us on this dark journey. And he never loses his sense of humor in the face of this multi decade battle for the truth.
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P. Debow
4.0 out of 5 stars Makes Sense
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2021
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In light of the pandemic today, this book makes a lot of sense. I doubt if I would have believed it if I had read it give years ago. It gave me much to think about as I deal with cases of CFS or similar multiple system diseases in my own family.
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Paula Frighetti
5.0 out of 5 stars Still covered up
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2018
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I gave five stars for Ortleb's courage to tell the truth despite the consequences. It's clear most people can't handle the truth, especially if it interferes with profit or image. The questions and allegations raised in this book have yet to be answered. Millions of people are still suffering. The CDC and NIH are still playing politics with people's lives. I recommend this book to anyone with a chronic illness, or anyone who has loved one with a chronic illness. Take your life into your own hands. Get and stay informed. Our government and its bureaucrats is not looking out for us.
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GeorgiaPeach
3.0 out of 5 stars Conspiracy theory AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome were purposly mistreated
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2020
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As a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferer for nesrly 3 decades i am nearly always grateful to read and learn as much as possible about this illness which has severly affect me and so any others, unfortunatly, this book delves into areas concerning questions as to whether Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was a created illness formed in conjunction with AIDs as a way to control an entire grneration of human beings. I cannot prove nor disprove The Authors theories, but found myself vastly disturbed by the depth of the Author's Conspiracy Theory concerning those researching both illnesses. Most unfortunate, there was no insight into how to treat symptoms or what the future holds for those of us struggling with these debilitating illnesses.
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K. Hellenbrand
2.0 out of 5 stars Title is misleading - style of writing is journalistic
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2021
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This book should have been called The AIDS epidemic coverup. CFS isn’t mentioned until half way through the book. Also, mycoplasma is discussed but barely, at least at the halfway point.
The info is interesting but not written in a way that is easy to read. Written like a reporter, which he is. It’s too bad bc the info is interesting and inspires me to look up more on the African swine virus. Can’t get through the book though.
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Jeff From Cali
5.0 out of 5 stars This fantastic book is a "must-read" for anyone ever determined to be HIV+.
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2019
Conscientiously researched and elegantly written, this account by Charles Ortleb of the evolution of the AIDS epidemic from 1981 through 1997 is full of compassion and hope as well as eye-openers on the evil shenanigans of drug companies like Burroughs-Wellcome and the banally criminal managers/scientists leading the CDC. Although the book weighs in at 466 pages, I couldn't stop reading, and felt deeply disappointed when I finished the book, which ends at 1997, the year that the New York Native newspaper closed its doors. On the book's final page Ortleb writes, "The surprising developments that occurred during the two decades following the demise of the New York Native (including the nation-destroying epidemic of HHV-6-related autism), are stories for another day." Ortleb really should write the rest of the story. I stopped reading for some minutes to track down the availability of the drugs Ampligen and Nexavir (formerly called Kutapressin), both shown to be highly effective at suppressing the HHV-6A/B viruses which seem to do the most damage in both AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Yet the one drug (Ampligen) is still not approved for use in the US after over 20 years, though available in Canada, while the other is manufactured only by a single company in Texas and seemingly ignored. The odd fate of these potentially highly-beneficial drugs is a direct result of the "tissue of lies" woven by the CDC and the National Institutes of Health regarding HIV, the HIV test, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The lies, in an heroic effort by Ortleb and his staff writers Neenyah Ostrum (on CFS) and John Lauritsen (on AZT), are lucidly and with great care documented in this book. I bought the Kindle edition if the book; it was probably the best $10 I have ever spent.
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5.0 out of 5 stars And education on fatigue syndrome
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2019
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I found this book very hard reading and had to keep going back over some of it for it to sink in,But the author was spot-on One review was very negative I just asked the question has that person ever experience fatigue, If anyone who suffers from with fatigue this book is very educational Also for those that don’t suffer that don’t understand fatigue they should read it although Quite expensive for a paperback But what’s inside makes it a goodbye would 100% recommend it to all suffers especially and those that just don’t understand.
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