The day Randy Shilts almost recognized HIV as a massive fraud.

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"It is the strangest twist in terms of medical news in the epidemic in years," says Randy Shilts, author of "And the Band Played On." "It calls into question everything--the existing paradigm for the epidemic, the direction of research, treatment modalities and even the integrity of the blood supply."

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-01-28-op-1358-story.html

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 From Perplexity A.I.  If the establishment decides that the nosology of AIDS is wrong and HIV is not the cause of AIDS could that be considered a Black Swan event? If the scientific establishment were to fundamentally revise the current understanding of AIDS and declare that HIV is not the cause, this would indeed constitute a Black Swan event—an extremely rare, unpredictable, and highly consequential occurrence that dramatically alters conventional wisdom and scientific consensus. A Black Swan event is defined by its rarity, profound impact, and the tendency for people to rationalize it retrospectively as if it could have been expected. The current scientific consensus, established in the late 1980s and reinforced by overwhelming evidence, is that HIV is the causative agent of AIDS. This consensus is based on decades of research, clinical experience, and the effectiveness of HIV-targeting treatments. If the establishment were to reverse this consensus, it would be unpreceden...
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