Serious Adverse Events

An Uncensored History of AIDS

By: Celia Farber, Mark Crispin Miller - foreword

Narrated by: Caroline White

Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

On April 23, 1984, in a packed press conference room in Washington, DC, the secretary of health and human services declared “The probable cause of AIDS has been found.” By the next day, “probable” had fallen away, and the novel retrovirus later named HIV became forever lodged in global consciousness as “the AIDS virus.”

Celia Farber, then an intrepid young reporter for SPIN magazine, was the only journalist to question the official narrative and dig into the science of AIDS. She reported on the “evidence” that was being continually cited and repeated by health officials and the press, the deadliness of AZT, and Dr. Fauci’s trials on children, infants, and pregnant mothers. Throughout, Farber’s reportage was largely ignored. She was maligned, maliciously attacked, and ultimately canceled.

Now, forty years after her original reporting, Farber’s Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS is reissued with a new foreword by Mark Crispin Miller, shining much-needed light on her groundbreaking work once again. More relevant than ever, this book serves as an essential foundation to understanding its catastrophic sequel: COVID-19. Serious Adverse Events makes clear that the tactics employed at the height of HIV/AIDS—the fearmongering, cancel culture, and “woke” takeover of science, medicine, and journalism—persist today. The response to COVID-19 isn’t new: it is a well-trod and dangerous path in the social landscape.

©2006, 2023 Celia Farber (P)2023 Chelsea Green

Heartbreaking and Informative

I highly recommend this in-depth and well thought out dive in to the world of corruption that results from governments and corporations manipulating Science and medicine.

Still relevant

This is the template for the Covid response with the same controversy in terms of science, politics, government agencies and even the same people.

Very Engaging

This book does a very good job of looking down on no opinion except those people who won't have a honest discussion. Though at some points names, dates and locations can get a bit jumbled (maybe more of a problem from an audio standpoint) the overall narrative and perspective keeps the story flowing and its not difficult to reorient yourself.

Wow!

I’ve always considered myself well informed on this topic but didn’t know any of this. This is fascinating

Solidly written and well researched.

Glad it finally got its proper chance in the sun in the wake of the renewed interest in government/corporate malpractice due to the Covid-19 debacle. Well written, although I would have liked to see an updated version made that accounts to the last 15 years and applies those lessons forward to today.

History repeats itself

if you can only take one thing from this book is that, although one would think science is about learning from mistakes, it seems to actually be about fame and profits.

Even if you don’t want to believe the statements on the main “characters” of this book, the stricken similarities between the handling of the mentioned pandemic and our latest one are so similar you could think there is a playbook for it.

Marking a disease be far worse than it actually is, even after information to the contrary comes to light, creating “cures” that end up killing more than they save. Pushing narratives you can’t go against and be ostracized if you do… all things from a book almost 2 decades old, nothing recent to see here.

Great Book

This book is worth listening to. I found it while listening to "The Real Anthony Fauci" by Robert Kennedy

I found it to be very eye opening

Must read for critical thinkers

Excellent history. Calm. Factual. Witty. To understand the atrocities of the present nothing beats looking into the not so ancient history of similar atrocities committed by the same people using the same playbook