californ at netcom.com wrote:
>> Peter Duesberg, the retrovirologist, became well known for his public
> stance that HIV is harmless and doesn't cause AIDS, and that AIDS is
> primarily caused by cumulative toxicity from recreational and
> pharmaceutical drugs. Finally, after many delays, he is releasing a book
> without a co-author which covers his basic theory. Details below.
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 01:53:58 -0500
> From: Fred Cline (Facpat at aol.com)
> Subject: Duesberg's new book "Inventing the AIDS Virus"
>> To lay to rest once and for all the idea that somebody is deliberately
> banning a book, I have had permission to send out this "Publisher's
> Preface" to Inventing the AIDS Virus by Peter H. Duesberg. Peter's name
> will be the only name on the cover page. The book has essentially all the
> same material as Bryan Ellison's, but will have all the publicity and
> distribution facilities of Regnery put behind it. They plan to initially
> publish 100,000 copies. This is the attention that we always felt the
> book deserved. Actual release date 3/22/96.
>> Fred Cline, San Francisco
>> =======================================================================>
> Publisher's Preface
> (Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC, phone 202-546-5005 or 800-462-6420)
>> As one reviewer said, "At last! This is the book every AIDS-watcher has been
> awaiting, in which the most prominent and persistent critic of HIV as the
> cause of AIDS presents his case most exhaustively and popularly."
>> The book you are about to read has been a long time in coming. Why? It is
> at once enormously controversial and impeccably documented. It comes from a
> scientist and writer of great ability and courage. It will cause, we
> believe, a firestorm of yet undetermined proportions in both the scientific
> and lay communities. And it is, I think I am safe in saying, about the most
> difficult book that the Regnery Company has published in nearly 50 years in
> the business.
>> If Duesberg is right in what he says about AIDS, and we think he is, he
> documents one of the great science scandals of the century. AIDS is the
> first political disease, the disease that consumes more government research
> money, more press time, and indeed probably more heartache--much of it
> unnecessary--than any other. Duesberg tells us why.
>> Regnery is the third publisher to have contracted to publish Inventing the
> AIDS Virus. Addison Wesley initially announced the book in 1993. St.
> Martin's signed it in January 1994 and subsequently assigned its contract
> to us in January 1995. We announced it, initially, in the fall of 1995
> and finally published it in February 1996.
>> Bryan Ellison, Duesberg's former research assistant and original
> co-author, became disenchanted with Duesberg's and his publisher's
> insistence on careful documentation and self-published his own version
> under the title Why We Will Never Win the War on AIDS in 1994. We sued
> Ellison for breach of contract and copyright violation and, after a
> two-week federal court jury trial, were awarded a six-figure verdict and
> an injunction against Ellison's edition.
>> Inventing the AIDS Virus has been edited by at least five editors, has
> been agonized over by the publishers of three major publishing firms, and
> concurrently praised and damned by countless critics.
>> We anticipate that the prepublication controversy may be just a precursor of
> what is to follow. In our tradition of presenting the public provocative
> books, we are proud to be Peter Duesberg's publisher.
> [end]
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