Resignations Over AIDS Denial

A member of an Italian journal’s editorial board resigns in protest of a paper denying the link between HIV and AIDs.

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Cell biologist Klaudia Brix of Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, has resigned from the board of the Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology (IJAE) following the publication of a paper by the infamous Peter Duesberg of the University of California, Berkeley, who has been a longtime opponent of the idea that HIV causes AIDS. Another member of the 13-member board, Hanne Mikkelsen of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, is also considering resigning, Nature reported.

A different version of the Duesberg paper was originally published in Elsevier’s journal Medical Hypotheses in 2009. At the time, Medical Hypotheses did not use peer review, and articles were simply selected by the editorial board. Following the publication of the Duesberg paper, however, AIDS researchers complained to the publisher that ...

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