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by jfengel 1853 days ago
He also denied that HIV causes AIDS.

He had a right to say whatever he wanted to say. (He's dead and no longer has the ability to say anything.) But he doesn't have a right to be believed. And no matter how incredibly smart he may have been about a thing, he also believed some stuff so incredibly stupid as to force us to take everything else he said with a grain of salt.

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Has strong parallels to the Linus Pauling/Vitamin C situation.