http://ww2.aegis.org/files/tac/2006/errorsinfarberarticle.html
Errors in Celia Farber's March 2006 article in Harper's
Magazine
Final version: Released 25 March 2006
Authors (in alphabetical order by surname):
Robert Gallo MD1, Nathan Geffen2, Gregg Gonsalves3, Richard Jefferys4, Daniel R. Kuritzkes MD5, Bruce Mirken6,
John P. Moore PhD7, Jeffrey T. Safrit PhD8
1. Director Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland Baltimore
2. Policy, Communications and Research Co-ordinator, Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa
3. Gay Men's Health Crisis
4. Basic Science, Prevention & Vaccines Project, Treatment Action Group
5. Director of AIDS Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard
Medical School
6. Director of Communications, Marijuana Policy Project (previously a health journalist who covered HIV/AIDS
for AIDS Treatment News, Men's Healthand other publications)
7. Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York
8. Senior Programs Officer, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation; Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of Pediatrics David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
Please send correspondence to Nathan Geffen at nathan@tac.org.za
This document describes the errors in Celia Farber's March 2006 article in Harper's Magazine, titled Out of Control:
AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science.
Our primary concern is with rebutting Farber's misconceptions about HIV/AIDS and antiretrovirals (ARVs). We have
not focused our attention on misleading or biased reporting that relate to the NIH; none of us is an NIH employee.
We have also ignored the sections on Peter Duesberg’s career problems, his rejected funding proposals, and how
he is (or is not) regarded by other cancer researchers nowadays; we have no interest in Duesberg, other than to
note that he is not an AIDS researcher and has no practical experience in studying HIV.
Using a plethora of false, misleading,