How Rebecca Cul shaw Tried to Fix the Corrupted Hard Drive of AIDS Research Hopefully, when filmmakers finally start to realize how many rich narrative possibilities there are in the real history of "Holocaust II," Rebeccaās Culshawās dramatic awakening to the dark nature of HIV/AIDS science or pseudoscience will be recognized as a compelling story that deserves to be a movie by itself. Culshaw received her Ph.D. in 2002 for work constructing mathematical models of HIV infection, a field of study she had entered in 1996. In an essay, ā Why I Quite HIV ,ā (published online) she said that her entire adolescence and adult life āhas been overshadowed by the belief in a deadly, sexually transmittable pathogen and the attendant fear of intimacy and lack of trust that belief engenders.ā During her work on AIDS she came to realize āthat there is good evidence that the entire basis for this theory is wrong. AIDS, it seems is not a disease so much as a sociopolitical constr...