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He began to question whether AZT was toxic, saying there was a “large body” of literature alleging that the drug was harmful to human health.8 In early 2000, he set up the Presidential Advisory Council on AIDS and invited dissident American scientists David Rasnick and Peter Duesberg, who questioned the link between HIV and AIDS and claimed that antiretroviral drugs were toxic, to take part.9
No Place Left to Bury the Dead Nicole Itano 2007
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Gous said Rasnick was creating the impression that South Africans at risk of Aids need not take measures to protect themselves from infection.
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Rasnick, a California-based scientist, was one of the first dissidents to have contact with Mbeki when the president began questioning conventional theories on HIV and Aids.
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Rasnick said Mbeki's decision to convene the panel had accomplished something that had never happened in 16 years of HIV.
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However Rasnick, himself a panellist, said a debate was not intended to change the views of the participants.
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In other letters, Rasnick had stated that "Aids is not contagious at all", and was in fact a "harmless retrovirus".
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If Rasnick was writing in his personal capacity the impact would probably be very small, and it was unlikely that his letters would receive the prominence they did.
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However, Rasnick was writing as a member of the task team and identified himself as such in his letters.
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Among other things, Rasnick had stated in letters to Independent
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Rasnick was commenting on this week's release of the interim report of President Thabo Mbeki's Aids panel, a body evenly split between dissident and orthodox scientists.
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