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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (3932)	12/8/2002 4:07:07 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

>>HIV Heretic's Deadly Dare Two scientists agreed last month to play biological chicken over AIDS: One will infect himself with HIV, the other will take antiviral drugs, and the "winner" will be whoever lives longer. David Rasnick is an AIDS "dissident" who works in the laboratory of Peter Duesberg, the University of California, Berkeley, scientist best known for his claim that HIV does not cause AIDS. For years, Rasnick has been looking for someone to take him up on a bet that the virus is not only harmless but less dangerous than anti-HIV drugs. He's finally found a taker--computer scientist Philip Machanick of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Through an exchange of letters in the South African newspaper The Star, Machanick has agreed to take a course of anti-HIV drugs if Rasnick infects himself with HIV. "I have an objection to people who take a stand on something that will not do them any harm, but could harm millions of others if they are wrong," Machanick explains. Rasnick claims he won't have any problem getting the virus, saying there are stocks available at Abbott Laboratories and at the Medical Research Council of South Africa. Furthermore, he says Sam Mhlongo, a South African physician and fellow dissident, has agreed to inject him with the virus on live television (if a TV network will agree). He says Mhlongo will also write Machanick a prescription for a "lifetime course" of a three-drug cocktail of anti- HIV drugs. Rasnick says all he needs now is to find someone to put up $200,000 for the experiment, which would cover the cost of HIV drugs, as well as twice-yearly medical checkups and press conferences in South Africa. Says Rasnick: "If Randolph Hearst were alive, he'd pay for it." << cmbi.bjmu.edu.cn It will be interesting to see how this plays out.