Thanks for the many e-mails on this topic. I should clarify that I am
specifically interested in any insights into how The Sunday Times came
to campaign on this issue and the extent to which the then editor Andrew
Neil was involved. My reason is that on a number of contentious
scientific issues, some newspapers have been exploiting the feebleness
of the self-regulation system to push dodgy theories for their own
reasons - and that is an issue that should be considered by the review
by Lord Justice Leveson of the culture and ethics of the Press.
Bob Ward
Policy and Communications Director
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
London School of Economics and Political Science
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Sent: 17 August 2011 10:54
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Hi Bob (and Dom - the cheque for 'parish membership' is in the post)
I can send you a copy of the OU booklet if you're interested. Feel free
to contact me off-list ([log in to unmask]). What follows is a
summary....
Holliman, R. (2002). HIV/AIDS: a global pandemic. S802 Science in the
public. The Open University, Milton Keynes.
The booklet is split into four sections. Section 1 is an introduction to
some of the background issues which have influenced the global HIV/AIDS
epidemic. This section briefly reviews the disease's effects on
sub-Saharan Africa. It goes on to introduce discussion of the 13th
International AIDS conference, held in Durban, South Africa in July
2000. This provides a snapshot of how HIV/AIDS has been understood and
managed in one sub-Saharan country, South Africa. A key element of this
debate is examined in Section 2 which reviews the significance of the
Durban Declaration in relation to scientific debates over whether the
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the cause of Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). This Section also reviews a range of
possible prevention and treatment programmes, highlighting the
relationship between scientific knowledge and decision making processes.
Section 3 documents a further influence on HIV/AIDS treatment programmes
by considering issues of global trade, research and development (R&D) of
drug treatments, and intellectual property rights. More specifically,
this Section examines the legal case brought by 39 pharmaceutical
companies against the South African government's right to import generic
drugs which could combat HIV/AIDS. Section 5 concludes the booklet by
reviewing the key themes and topics that the South African HIV/AIDS
pandemic has raised.
The booklet does discuss Peter Duesberg's work, but the focus is on
sub-Saharan Africa. For a UK perspective, you could try:
Miller, D., Kitzinger, J. and Beharell, K. (1998). The Circuit of Mass
Communication - Media Strategies, Representation and Audience Reception
in the AIDS Crisis. London, Sage.
Best wishes
Rick
Dr. Richard Holliman
Senior Lecturer in Science Communication
Department of Environment, Earth and Ecosystems
Science Faculty
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
Tel +44 (0)1908 654646
Select http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/r.m.holliman for more
information about my work.
Select http://isotope.open.ac.uk for the Isotope website.
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From: Dominic McDonald [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 16 August 2011 15:47
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] The Sunday Times
Hi Bob
I have in my hand a document called "HIV and AIDS: A Global Pandemic".
It's a Case Study which was part of my MSc at the Open University in
2003ish. It says it was written by Rick Holliman, who I believe is of
this parish. I only have it in hard copy, but he may have it
electronically. (If it's of use it seems to have the reference S802 Part
A. SUP 68252 2)
It has a relatively open-minded appraisal of the does-HIV-cause-AIDS
controversy, but doesn't mention the Sunday Times role in the whole
thing.
Dom
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You bring back some memories with that! I had a look on Peter Duesberg's
website and, in the section headed 'Media', there's a lot about Neville
Hodgkinson plus the headlines of all of the pieces he wrote on the
subject. Unfortunately not many of them have urls, but it might help a
bit.
As far as an account of the campaign goes, I'm not aware of an objective
one. Hodgkinson wrote a book about it, though......
Mary Rice
> Does anybody know of a good account of the campaign by 'The Sunday
> Times' in the late 1980s-early 1990s to convince its readers that HIV
> was not the cause of AIDS?
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