HIV denial

While I was on vacation, I got some email from Chris Noble pointing me towards a discussion with some thoroughly innumerate HIV-AIDS denialists. It's really quite shocking what passes for a reasonable argument among true believers. The initial stupid statement is from one of Duesberg's papers, [AIDS Acquired by Drug Consumption and Other Noncontagious Risk Factors][duesberg], and it's quite a whopper. During a discussion of the infection rates shown by HIV tests of military recruits, he says: >(a) "AIDS tests" from applicants to the U.S. Army and the U.S. Job >Corps indicate that…