| Date | Source | Scale Pages | Author | Title | Summary |
| 6.8.85 | Times | <1/4 | Philip Webster | AIDS threatens to spread rapidly | Epidemic spreading rapidly to heterosexual community via prostitutes and haemophiliacs |
| same week | Times | <1/4 | Douglas Thompson | AIDS: the American nightmare | Rock Hudson ill with AIDS. Dentists and paramedics protecting themselves from infection |
| 25.2.91 | N.Y. Times National | L K Altman | U.S. Approves Test of Blood Substitute From Cattle | If safe, a product would offer a blood supply free of the AIDS threat. (But see 1.6.91) | |
| 9.3.91 | New Scientist | 1/2 | Phyllida Brown | New findings revive dispute over HIV | Pasteur institute in Paris sent sample of virus to Gallo, who appropriated it as his own. [Also, French patient BRU was probably not the source of LAV, the first French (HIV) strain] |
| 1.6.91 | New York Times National | 1/2 | Keith Schneider | AIDS-Like Virus Is Found At High Rate in U.S. Cattle | "A virus similar in genetic structure to the AIDS virus is more common in cattle in the U.S. than researchers had anticipated. The virus, BIV...." |
| Sept 91 | Evening Standard | 2 | Andrew Tyler | Vaccination the hidden facts | Immunisation may be pointless.AIDS is a high risk. Detrimental effects of Polio Vaccine suppressed |
| 28.11.91 | Guardian | 1/4 | Nigel Williams | Malaria tests may have started Aids | The Aids epidemic may be ... consequence of injections of malaria-infected blood from monkeys [into] .... 34 people |
| 11.2.92 | Philadelphia Daily News | 1/4 | Joseph R Daughem | Scientist sues AP for saying he spread AIDS | Koprowski developer of OPV, suing Associated Press. "How much damage to be called 'the Father of Aids?" |
| 14.2.92 | The Economist | 2 | The Origins of AIDS | SIV introduced by Polio Vaccine | |
| 28.2.92 | Rolling Stone | 5 | Tom Curtis | ||
| 6.3.92 | Houston Chronicle | 1/4 | Ruth Sorelle | Scientists frustrated in bid to test AIDS theory | Koprowski - Wistar Institute refuses to allow Houston scientist Robert Bohannon to test suspect 1950's OPV still in stock |
| 8.3.92 | Houston Post | 1 | Tom Curtis | Do cold, hard AIDS facts lie in freezer? | Discussion of search for the stored samples of the stored Koprowski batch of OPV |
| 12.3.92 | Houston Press | 8 | Tom Curtis | Tracking the Century's Deadliest Plague | The theory that contaminated Oral Polio vaccine caused HIV |
| 14.3.92 | Economist | 1 | Was there a link between polio vaccines and HIV? | Albert Sabin, who developed the live polio vaccine that ended up being preferred to Dr. Koprowski's vaccine, reported in 1959 ... an alien virus in Koprowski's vaccine. | |
| 15.3.92 | Houston Post | 1 | Tom Curtis | Herpes treatment may have started U.S. AIDS epidemic | Oral polio vaccines used to treat herpes in male homosexuals starting in the mid-1970s may have spawned the AIDS epidemic |
| 16.3.92 | Time | 1/4 | Anon | A Medical Accident? | Discusses Rolling Stone's article (OPV) |
| 16.3.92 | Houston Post | 1/2 | Tom Curtis | 'Easy test' for theory on AIDS | Testing stored samples of polio vaccine. Kyle, who presented the OPV theory in the Lancet, said "It should be tested at an independent lab. preferably in England, just so we all know we are on a level playing field," |
| 19.3.92 | Rolling Stone | Tom Curtis | OPV theory | ||
| 22.3.92 | Houston Post | 1/2 | Tom Curtis | Expert says test vaccine | U.S. FDA has said it has polio vaccine stocks dating back at least to 1976, but so far has refused to release them for testing (for OPV theory). Lawsuits could bankrupt American Cyanamid, parent company of Lederle Labs., sole maker of live OPV since 1976. |
| 26.3.92 | Houston Post | 1 | Tom Curtis | Polio experts support vaccine tests for HIV | Nobel Prizewinner F.G. Robbins says old stored Polio vaccine should be tested for HIV and similar viruses |
| 5.4.92 | Houston Post | 1/2 | Tom Curtis | Discovery too grave to imagine | Monkey virus SV40 - now linked to brain tumors and other cancers in humans - was administered to hundreds of millions of people from 1955 to 1963. |
| 5.4.92 | Washington Post | 1 | Tom Curtis | Did a Polio Vaccine Experiment Unleash AIDS in Africa? | Albert Sabin, a legendarily careful researcher, reported in the BMJ in 1959 that he found an unidentified cell-killing virus in Koprowski's Congo [OPV] vaccine. |
| 1 | Malcolm Gladwell | It's Possible, but Not Likely | AIDS experts stop short of saying that [the OPV theory of the origin of AIDS] is absolutely out of the question | ||
| 7.4.92 | Los Angeles Times | 2 | Robert Steinbrook | A Deadly Virus Hides its Past | From contaminated Polio Vaccine ( OPV, Pascal-Curtis theory) |
| 17.4.92 | Houston Post | 1 | Tom Curtis | Scientists' polio fears unheeded Theories trace how virus could cross species | U.S. govt. scientist Bernis Eddy chastised and demoted for warning doctors that OPV caused cancer in lab animals. Previously she had correctly warned that live OPV could cause polio, and it did, producing paralysis in 150 people. |
| 25.4.92 | Weekend Australian Review | 2 | Julian Cribb, Philip Adams | Was this science's biggest blunder?Information exchange is no AIDS risk | Pascal - Curtis theory |
| 26.4.92 | Sunday Times | 2 | Neville Hodgkinson | AIDS: Can we be positive? | Suppose HIV doesn't equal AIDS (See Gallo, 24.5.92) |
| 1/4 | Neville Hodgkinson | Experts mount startling challenge to AIDS orthodoxy | Montagnier said that infection with HIV did not necessarily lead to AIDS. | ||
| May 92 | American Spectator | 2 | Tom Bethell | Heretic | About Duesberg. "He said that most people who take AZT will die from it...." |
| 3.5.92 | Sunday Times | 1/2 | Neville Hodgkinson | Government to back rebels in Aids research | Following the 26.4.92 ST article, the Medical Research Council (MRC) reversed its attitude and now will back development of a previously ignored Aids vaccine. |
| Letters | Ignorance is the greatest danger to public health | Dr Kenneth Calman, Chief Medical Officer to Govt. says; "... Neville Hodgkinson, risk(s) leaving your readers with a mispleading and potentially dangerous misconception." Also Joan Shenton, head of Meditel, makers of dissident TV programmes, described how they were taken to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission by Wellcome, who found against Shenton. | |||
| 8.5.92 | Houston Post | 1/4 | Tom Curtis | Scientists scramble to solve interplay of immunodeficiency viruses | Gerald Myers, Fed. Govt. chief expert in genetic sequencing, suggests that HIV is SIV adapting to a human host |
| 9.5.92 | New Scientist | 1/2 | Editorial | Virtual AIDS | NS falsely claims that Duesberg had not been suppressed "... whether HIV causes AIDS. ... He is alone among scientists on this." |
| 11.5.92 | Times | 1 | Charles Bremner | Cast out for an AIDS heresy | Duesberg ostracised. "AZT .... induces Aids diseases." "The ... Aids establishment, which spends $3 billion a year, would prefer to tune him out for political reasons" |
| Editorial | AIDS AND TRUTH | "Undoubtedly Aids has proved a disease most vulnerable to 'political correctness' ... Vested interest should always have a question mark raised over it, not least when it seeks to stamp on efforts of scientists who sincerely believe otherwise." | |||
| 14.5.92 | Times | 1/4 | Letters | Kenneth Calman Jad Adams Maddox Nick Partridge | Govt. chief medical officer; "... HIV is the infectious agent responsible ..." Author of "AIDS - The HIV myth" praises the Sunday Times Editor of "Nature"; "...Duesberg ... is cruelly irresponsible...." Head of Terrence Higgins Trust; "..Duesberg's intransigence..." |
| 21.5.92 | Nature | 2 | John Maddox | Rage and confusion hide role of HIV | "Duesberg .... had come to preach ... but he seemed seriously to have misjudged his audience" - Amsterdam conference |
| 24.5.92 | Sunday Times | <1/4 | Letters | Lost time, lost lives | Research focused almost entirely on HIV, nothing found out about the pathogenesis of AIDS. As a result, many lives lost. Also, Robert Gallo writes to say Neville Hodgkinson (26.4.92) is "irresponsible both to myself and to HIV as the cause of Aids" |
| 1/2 | Calman, Hodgkinson | Disputed evidence: the argument on Aids | The opposing arguments on the HIV - AIDS link | ||
| 31.5.92 | Sunday Times | 1/2 | A giant hole in the HIV-AIDS hypothesis | Duesberg's theory | |
| June 92 | Spin | 9 | Celia Farber | FATAL DISTRACTION | "....medical establishment is ignoring powerful evidence that HIV doesn't spread sexually, and may in fact be harmless." In depth discussion of Duesberg and much else |
| 1.6.92 | Media Guardian | 1/4 | John Illman | Truth or dare | John Illman, editor of Guardian Health page, goes to another section to say that "legitimate ... debate ... is now being undermined by the Sunday Times, whose latest contribution ... Spectacular stuff. And, of course, we should be told - if it were true. But even as a piece of speculation, it was as dangerous as it was sensational. ... ....this is no reason for giving [Duesberg] a platform. How long before the Sunday Times is claiming that the world is flat?" |
| 5.6.92 | Times | <.1 | Alison Roberts | Aids study predicts 25m cases by 2000 | "A new study ... may make Britons take it more seriously ... ... 2.6 million people already have Aids and at least 13 million are HIV positive ..." |
| 13.6.92 | New Scientist | 1/2 | Comment | Banned AIDS | Discuss idea that Times and Sunday Times are dangerous and irresponsible to repeat Duesberg. Argues for open debate. |
| 28.6.92 | Sunday Times | <1/4 | Letters"Frederick Lawton" | Limits of Sexual Liberty | The arguments for not reducing the age of consent for homosexuals |
| 28.6.92 | L.A. Times | 1 | Steve Heimoff | Test Ideas With Science, Not Scorn | Discussion of Duesberg. "... And the defection from HIV continues |
| 1.7.92 | Telegraph | 1/4 | B Maddox | In London, of Aids, aged 33 | Media fails to convey the gravity of the problem |
| 3.7.92 | Houston Chronicle | 1/4 | Ruth Sorelle | Committee to study AIDS origin theory | Wistar Institute will study OPV theory, but still withholds suspect OPV from Bohannon (see 6.3.92) |
| 17.7.92 | Tom Curtis | 1/4 | Tom Curtis | Scientists urge screening of polio vaccine for HIV | Basilico, co-chair of independent committee, wants stored samples screened for HIV to check OPV theory |
| 18.7.92 | Houston Post | 1 | Tom Curtis | Doctor wants Houston researcher to test polio vaccines for AIDS link | Stricker supports Bohannon's attempts to test stored OPV samples for HIV. |
| 19.7.92 | Sunday Times | 1/4 | John Furbisher | More staff than patients in booming Aids industry | Possibly 1,800 professionals making a career in Britain out of Aids, a counsellors etc., in some areas outnumbering the number of patients by four to one. Govt. spends more than £200 million p.a. on AIDS, more than £1 million per case reported that year. |
| 22.7. 92 | Times | 1/4 | Nigel Hawkes | £3 virus test gives answer in minutes Patients without HIV confound doctors | Simple saliva sampling kits ... soon .... to check for HIV before sex "... a string of doctors reporting cases of[Aids without HIV]..." |
| 25.7.92 | Houston Post | 1 | Tom Curtis | New evidence of AIDS-monkey link | Two laboratory workers have tested positive for SIV. Also Kyle suggests that heavy dosage of OPV for homosexual herpes sufferers brought HIV into humans |
| 26.7.92 | Sunday Times | <1/4 | Hodgkinson | 'Silent' virus challenges thinking on Aids | HIV is usually already there. If however our defences are weakened, it becomes active and only then is it recognised by an HIV test |
| 1 | Hodgkinson and Mangold | AIDS: THE DEBATE INTENSIFIES | Discusses why the Aids bureaucracy exaggerates AIDS threat | ||
| 1.8.92 | Houston Post | 1 | Tom Curtis | 3rd case of human testing positive for AIDS-causing monkey virus | See 25.7.92 |
| 2.8.92 | Houston Post | 1 | Tom Curtis | Monkey may offer 'missing link' to induction of AIDS virus | A healthy vervet monkey (known as African Green Monkey in the USA) shows evidence of HIV-1 by Western Blot test |
| 3.8.92 | Time | 1/2 | Dick Thompson | First assertion that AIDS will become more transmissible as it adapts more fully to the human species | |
| 7.8.92 | L.A. Times | 1/2 | Letters | Duesberg; "Telling those at risk for the syndrome that drug use is not particularly dangerous so long as the needle is clean, and promoting the toxic, immune destructive chemotherapy AZT for patients whose lives are at stake..." | |
| 8.8.92 | Guardian | 1/4 | Derek Brown | Dark tide of AIDS in a sea of suffering | HIV spread among Indian prostitutes |
| 17.8.92 | Newsweek | 1 | Russell Schoch | 'Dad, I'm HIV Positive' | The story of haemophiliacs, Factor 8, HIV.Lists three books attacking AZT. The only long-range AIDS survivors are those who have not taken AZT. |
| 17.8.92 | National Review | 2 | Tom Bethell | Could Duesberg Be Right? | "Duesberg responds: 'AIDS is defined as any of 25 existing diseases in the presence of HIV. Therefore the correlation between HIV and AIDS is 100% by definition.'" |
| 19.8.92 | Houston Post | 2 | Tom Curtis | Officials [still] ignore.... | Nobody wants to check whether doctors caused AIDS |
| Patricia Manson | Theories tying AIDS to ...vaccines [back in] 1988 | In 1988, in "Child and Family" (vol 20 no 2*), H Ratner linked AIDS in humans with Salk's polio vaccine made in monkeys. *"... the relationship of the Salk vaccine to AIDS.... .... Koprowski [said in march 1961] 'As our technical methods improve we may find fewer and fewer lots of vaccine .... free of simian viruses.'" | |||
| 21.8.92 (corrections 11.9.92) | Science | 2 | Hilary Koprowski | AIDS and the Polio Vaccine | "As a scientist, I did not intend to debate Tom Curtis when he presented his hypothesis about the origin of AIDS in Rolling Stone (19.3.92). The publication of his letter in Science (29.5.92), however, transferred the debate from the lay press to a highly respected scientific journal. .... .... dissemination by the lay press of unproved theories of the origin of AIDS ...." |
| 3,4,17.9.92 | San Francisco Chronicle | 3 | Tom Bethell Martin Delaney | Is Peter Duesberg Right About AIDS? | For and against Duesberg |
| 19.9.92 | Independent Magazine | 5 | Andrew Tyler | Monkey business? | Medical profession caused AIDS epidemic by introduction of SIV through Polio vaccine [the OPV theory] |
| 2.10.92 | Times | 1/2 | Barbara Lamb | What really worries a teenager? | HIV and other teenage anxieties - recommendations for health education |
| 5.10.92 | Now York Native | 1 | C L Ortlieb (Editorial) | In Praise of the leader of the Opposition to HIV Apartheid | "We hope that our readers, and all supporters of intellectual freedom and truth, will rally around Duesberg, and tell him that the majority of the gay community appreciates what he is trying to do for us and the rest of the human race." |
| 10.10.92 | New York Times | 1 | J.E. Groopman | A Dangerous Delusion About AIDS | "The role of H.I.V. as the inciting agent of immune suppression in AIDS is clear." 29.10.92 Duesberg replies. |
| 11.10.92 | Observer | 1/2 | Andrew Billon | AIDS: the ghost at the feast of British show business | Nureyev |
| 13.10.92 | Sunday Times | < .1 | John Furbisher | 'Imported' Aids is biggest threat | "... overwhelming majority of heterosexuals with HIV in Britain are immigrants who were infected abroad." |
| 23.10.92 | New York Times | 1/2 | Gina Kolata | Theory Tying AIDS to Polio Vaccine Is Discounted | Scientists were called together by Wistar Inst., an original maker of polio vaccines. Details of OPV theory outlined. Polio vaccines could become contaminated with other monkey viruses |
| 24.10.92 | Times | 1/4 | Charles Bremner | Blood bank chief jailed for role in HIV scandal | Haemophiliacs knowingly given HIV contaminated blood in France |
| 25.10.92 | Science | < .1 | Duesberg | HIV-Free AIDS Reports | He offers a list of 800 HIV-free immunodeficiencies and AIDS-defining diseases. |
| 30.10.92 | Science | 1/4 | Editorial | Panel Nixes Congo Trials as AIDS Source | Independent six-member committee set up by Wistar concludes that HIV "with almost complete certainty that the large polio vaccine trial .... was not the origin of AIDS,..." (Proof is the Manchester sailor, who had AIDS too early.) |
| 11.1.93 | New York Times | 1 | L K Altman | Man Dying From Hepatitis Is Given a Baboon's Liver | Efforts to overcome the species barrier and alleviate the growing shortage of organs from human donors. [Eva Snead sees this as extremely dangerous] |
| 14.3.93 | Sunday Times | 1/4 | Neville Hodgkinson | AIDS truth falls victim to virus of ignorance | Medical community does not understand AIDS |
| 18.3.93 | Nature | 1 | Albert B Sabin | HIV vaccination dilemma | Sabin doubts that vaccination against SIV or HIV is possible |
| 21.3.93 | Sunday Times | 1/4 | Neville Hodgkinson | Epidemic of AIDS in Africa "a tragic myth" | There is no African AIDS epidemic |
| 3.4.93 | Times | <1/4 | George Sivell | Wellcome shares plunge 51p on Retrovir test data | AZT may be harmful |
| 3.4.93 | Guardian | 1 | Roger Cowe & Chris Stephen | Share crisis for AZT firm | £700 million share drop in Wellcome shares. AZT did not delay AIDS in HIV carriers, and extreme side effects |
| 4.4.93 | Sunday Times | 1 | Neville Hodgkinson | The cure that failed | Failure of AZT. Scandal of prescribing it to children |
| 18.4.93 | Sunday Times | 1/2 | Neville Hodgkinson | Experts confounded on AIDS as grim reaper fails to strike | ".... many geographical areas and population groups are virtually untouched by the epidemic, and probably never will be." |
| 21.4.93 | Independent | 1/2 | Brian Appleyard | Just an illness with big ideas | Major synthesis of factors governing perceptions about AIDS |
| 26.4.93 | Newsweek | 4 | Jerry Adler | Sex in the Snoring 90s | A new survey of American men shocks the nation with what it didn't find. (Only 1% homosexuals, not Kinsey's 10%) |
| 2.5.93 | Times | <.1 | Prof. N. Day | AIDS experts stand by their gloomy forecasts | Day's letter contradicts Hodgkinson |
| <.1 | J. Robb | Vaccine verdicts | Letter from Chief Executive of Wellcome denying unethical conduct by Wellcome over triple vaccine | ||
| 4.5.93 | Times | <.1 | Anon | Bottomley cuts grants to Aids campaigns | Funding for Terrence Higgins Trust cut |
| 6.5.93 | Times | 1/4 | Dr James Le Fanu | The high cost of the AIDS panic | A fortune has been squandered fighting a threat that never existed. Health education was targeted at heterosexuals, not at known-risk groups |
| 9.5.93 | Sunday Times | 1/4 | Neville Hodgkinson | New realism puts the brake on HIV bandwagon | With no heterosexual AIDS explosion, a failed therapy and widespread medical uncertainty, the tide is turning against HIV activists as sanity returns to funding and attitudes |
| 9.5.93 | Observer | 1 | Janet Watts | Publish and be damned | An interview with Nick Partridge, Terrence Higgins Trust Director. He believes heterosexual spread of HIV and AIDS is very evident. Also regarding heterosexual epidemic, failure of AZT, and GAG (Gays against Genocide, who fear AZT) |
| 30.5.93 | Sunday Times | 1/2 | Neville Hodgkinson | How giant drug firm funds the Aids lobby | Wellcome, who sell AZT and HIV tests, "has extended its own funding and support operations to a huge range of Aids organisations, including [£65,000 to] a parliamentary group." "Gays against Genocide (Gag), picket ... hospital .. to protest ...experimental use of AZT on HIV-positive babies." |
| 19.6.93 - 3.7.93 | Guardian Weekend | 17 | Mike Bygraves | Pills and Hope. The story of AIDS | Three part series summarising history. "When government researchers questioned some of the original Aids victims, they were astonished at their sexual histories" |
| 1.8.93 | Sunday Times | 1 | Neville Hodgkinson | New doubts over AIDS infection as HIV test declared invalid | "The 'Aids test' is scientifically invalid and incapable of determining whether people are really infected with HIV, according to .... the first extensive review of research surrounding the test." |
| Brian Deer | AIDS doctors attack drug claims | ".... Aids specialists have ... accused Wellcome researchers of misleading the scientific community [about AZT]." | |||
| 10.8.93 | Times | <1/4 | Gillian Bowditch | AIDS will claim 6m by end of century | Merson, executive director of WHO, believes worst is yet to come |
| 6.9.93 | Times | <0.1 | Fiona Bolton | Stop being so coy about sex | More sex education needed in the National Curriculum |
| 7.9.93 | Times | <0.1 | Anon | Channel 4 to screen sex series for schools | |
| 8.9.93 | Times | <0.1 | Gillian Bowditch | Ominous evidence proves women face greatest HIV risk | Women's social status and biological nature makes them particularly vulnerable to the HIV virus |
| 9.9.93 | Times | <1/4 | Gillian Bowditch | Princess speaks out for AIDS mothers | Princess Diana speaks at WHO conference |
| 3.10.93 | Sunday Times | 2 | Neville Hodgkinson | African Aids plague 'a myth' | The Krynen's set up a hospice in central Africa for 'dying' HIV positive children. Then for four years none died |
| 17.10.93 | Sunday Times | 1 | Neville Hodgkinson | Old certainties begin to crumble | The Krynen couple who exposed African AIDs epidemic as a myth face abuse from EC activists |
| Baroness Chalker | Why we must keep up the war on AIDS | "Let us admit ... that predictions of drastic population decline across Africa ... undermined efforts of African govts." "Our research shows the true menace of HIV. ... We know how to contain HIV ..." | |||
| 5.11.93 | Times | 1/4 | Roger Boyes | Blood scandal spreads HIV panic | HIV contaminated blood from German supplier may have reached many hospitals |
| 5.11.93 | Times | <1/4 | Roger Hawkes | Blood scandal shows risk of plasma trade | Blood transfusion services should be voluntary not paid, to avoid HIV contamination scandals such as have occurred in France and Germany |
| 14.11.93 | Observer | 1/4 | Liesl Graz | Aids 'revolution' for women | World Health Organisation switches emphasis from condoms to vaginal jelly which kills HIV virus |
| 20.11.93 | Telegraph Magazine | 10 | Paul Eddy & Sara Walden | Does this man know something we don't? | Thorough analysis of Duesberg's arguments. "Duesberg's claims are now largely ignored in America ... Yet in Britain his iconoclastic voice has continued to be heard." Mentions John Lauritsen's recent book: The Aids War: Propaganda, Profiteering and Genocide from the Medical-Industrial Complex |
| 21.11.93 | Sunday Times | <1/4 | Ian Burrell | Prisoners may get condoms | Senior prison officials ask Michael Howard to permit issue of condoms to prisoners to avoid transmission of HIV, and needle sterilisation tablets |
| 21.11.93 | Sunday Times | <1/4 | Jonathan Miller | The unspoken truth about AIDS | Health Education Authority is at the heart of the AIDS establishment and delivers only politically correct view. Real debate is impossible |
| 28.11.93 | Sunday Times | <1/4 | Alex Russell | Gays betrayed over AIDS | Endorses Jonathan Miller - homosexuals have a right to information about risks of life-style |
| 2.12.93 | Independent | <1/4 | Editorial | Aids stories that cost lives | "The overwhelming majority of specialists now believe ... [in] the causal link between HIV and AIDS ... Doing anything to obscure or confuse [this fact] is irresponsible and dangerous." |
| 12.12.93 | Sunday Times | 2 | Neville Hodgkinson | AIDS: WHY WE WON'T BE SILENCED | Sunday Times has been subjected to a wave of extraordinary attacks for publishing dissident AIDS views |
| John Maddox | Reprint of editorial in Nature by Maddox advising his readers to boycott Sunday Times. (for which ST paid £200 to reprint) | ||||
| Greg Hadfield | Judge and jury in the world of science theory | Analysis of Maddox's manipulation of scientific communication for political ends | |||
| 13.12.93 | The Guardian | 1/2 | Madeleine Bunting | War of words over AIDS | "Claim and counter-claim grow ever more fierce as the Sunday Times defends its controversial line on HIV." "Even the World Health Organisation has accused the Sunday Times of 'criminal' statements." "Over the past 18 months, the Sunday Times has published 28 major articles such as ... 'The plague that never was: Aids' ...'Aids: The Emperor's Clothes.'" |
| 19.12.93 | Sunday Times | 1/2 | Letters | Censorship: the world's leading scientific journal is playing in a sinister game | Anthony Tucker, Guardian's Science Editor Emeritus, says "Nature" (that is, Maddox) indulged in massive censorship of reports on Chernobyl damage. Also other prestigious letters on both sides of the HIV-AIDS debate |
| 19.12.93 | Sunday Express | 2 | Roger Wilsher | THE SHOCKING COST OF AIDS | Gross over-estimates of cases. Profligacy everywhere. Mersey Health Authority spent £300,000 on each AIDS patient last year. "... the biggest political miscalculation the medical profession has ever witnessed"; "hysterical and totally inappropriate response to the problem". |
| 17.1.94 | Times | 1/2 | William Rees-Mogg | Missing the Moral of Wobble Week | The vast majority of the British population is monogamous - results of survey of British Sexual Behaviour |
| <1/4 | Marianne Curphey | Loving Britons favour fidelity | Ditto | ||
| 23.1.94 | Sunday Times | 1 | Sir Ian McKellen | It is a question of human rights, not numbers. | A survey of sexual habits, revealed last week, says active homosexuals number one man in 90, not one in 10. Does this affect the debate in parliament on relaxing the legal age of consent for gay men? |
| William Oddie | A tiny minority with too much cultural clout | "It is time to stop changing our laws to satisfy the gay lobby" | |||
| James Adams | Angels of death cash in on AIDS | Trade in life insurance policies of AIDS patients | |||
| Peter Kellner | Do sex surveys tell all? | ||||
| 30.1.94 | Sunday Times | 1 | Neville Hodgkinson | Court battles launched over anti-Aids drug | Using legal aid, test case Sue Threakall sues Wellcome alleging AZT killed her husband. |
| 1/4 | Matthew Lynn | New Aids report to hit Wellcome | Final Concorde report (see prelim 3.4.93 et seqq) will "conclude that AZT is ineffective in HIV-positive patients who have not yet developed AIDS. U.S. sales slumped 25% | ||
| 31.1.94 | Times | 1/4 | Sarah Bagnall | Aids drug enquiry blow for Wellcome | "Wellcome .... is set to have a hefty slice of its stock market value wiped off today, as the City evaluates adverse reports on the effectiveness of AZT, its anti-Aids drug." |
| 21.2.94 | Times | 1/4 | Obituaries | Derek Jarman, film director, died from AIDS-related illness, aged 52. | |
| 21.2.94 | Times | <1/4 | John Russell Taylor | Jarman's heroism leaves a prolific lyrical legacy | "... film maker who died after a titanic struggle with Aids." |
| 24.2.94 | Times | 1/4 | Geoff Brown | Hanks heroic in a dying cause | Reviews of the film "Philadelphia", the story of a lawyer with AIDS |
| 6.3.94 | Sunday Telegraph | 2 | Robert Matthews, James Le Fanu | The hero heretics | ".... AZT could not work .... it seems [Duesberg] was right about its ineffectiveness - albeit for the wrong reasons. Those tens of thousands who took AZT might have been better off listening to Duesberg than to their own doctors." |
| 3.4.94 | Sunday Times | 1 | Neville Hodgkinson | Conspiracy of silence. These scientists are among hundreds | Professor Hiram Caton, ethicist: "The orthodoxy will collapse because it flunks the practical tests. The Aids epidemic was a mirage." |
| Anon | New Aids virus discovered | "... cannot be traced by tests used to screen ... blood...." | |||
| 4.4.94 | Times | 1/4 | Nigel Hawkes | New strain of HIV detected in France | ".... the risk of catching the new strain of... HIV ... from donated blood was virtually non-existent" |
| 10.4.94 | Observer | 1/4 | Robin McKie | Vaccine for Aids set back a decade | ".... preliminary vaccines are powerless to .... block .... (HIV), the cause of Aids." "... We have got to find out what is the problem .... before ... taking human trials further." |
| 10.4.94 | Sunday Times | 1/2 | Neville Hodgkinson | New evidence links gay sex drug to Aids | ".... amyl nitrite [=one type of poppers], is a powerful destroyer of the immune system. .... [it] facilitates homosexual practices." |
| Aids hopes dashed by terrible truth on AZT | "... final report on the Anglo-French Concorde trial, published yesterday in The Lancet, .... comprehensive trial ... shows that .... AZT has nothing to offer people with HIV." | ||||
| 24.4.94 | Sunday Times | 0.1 | (Letter) John Lauritsen | AZT Scandal | John Lauritsen was first critic of AZT in 1987 |
| 1.5.94 | Sunday Times | <1/4 | Neville Hodgkinson | Poppers and propaganda | Health ministers reassure both Houses of Parliament that Poppers (amyl nitrite) do not cause Aids. |
| 4.3.95 | 'Independent' | Says 'first AIDS case' wasn't AIDS (added by RW). |