RFK Jr. pulled the rug out from under HIV. The media looked the other way.
" It would have been the easiest thing in the world for the media to accurately blast Kennedy as “a conspiracy theorist whose book claims that AIDS is a hoax,” and that simple, short phrase would have immediately dealt a massive body-blow to his public reputation. But many people would then have begun looking into the facts, and once they did so, the tables might have quickly turned, destroying the credibility of his critics. The total silence of the media suggests that they greatly feared that possibility."
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the Great Unmentionables, by Ron Unz - The Unz Review