Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 614.599392
EAN: 9780316371377
ISBN: 0316371378
Label: Back Bay Books
Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1168
Publication Date: December 01, 2000
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Sales Rank: 113010
Studio: Back Bay Books
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Rating:  - Outstanding work -- Hooper deserves a Pulitzer prize
One of the great work's of independent and objective research of the last 50 or 60 years.
Since many of the other reviews provide an excellent tour of the book itself, I'll take issue here with one negative review I saw. A reviewer calling themselves "A Customer" gave one a one-star review, and to refute the OPV AIDS hypothesis, claimed that "no [sic] other than the late Bill Hamilton...found that the chimpanzees in the area...could not have been the source of HIV-1." Just to check my ... Read More
Rating:  - amazing look at the origin of AIDS...
Edward Hooper has written an amazingly researched hypothesis on the origin of the AIDS virus. He takes us back to the 50's around the region of the Congo River where clinical trials are being conducted on polio vaccines. The race is on whereas the scientist who can come up with the most accepted from of a polio vaccine will have ensured their place in medical history. In the race for fame and prize could scientists have unknowingly released a virus that will kill millions? The facts presented by Hooper ... Read More
Rating: - Forever Inspiring! Opening the Eyes of Science!
As a Biology and Pre-med student in 1999, I purchased this book fresh off the shelf, when it was first being sold. Dedicated to the world of science and research, I was eager to learn more about health, science, diseases, and the epidemic called AIDS.
As other reviewers have stated, this book is an excellent body of investigative research. It is also speculative in some instances to bridge the gaps between science and reality. I believe Hooper stayed as neutral as possible. He did interview ... Read More
Rating: - How so much could go wrong
The title of this book refers to the Congo River of Africa. This great river became famous in Western minds in the 1800s with the journeys of Dr. Livingstone. Later, it would be the setting of The Heart of Darkness. Doctors and scientists in the heart of darkness indeed as The River explains in its long, well-documented, exhaustive tale of secretive, unregulated medical research. This book's author interviews hundreds of individuals involved in this process, goes over countless documents, and from it, pieces ... Read More
Rating: - Indictment of Koprowski and "Big Science"
Ah, if only AIDS would have remained "GRID," a gay disease that only infected and affected gays! Nobody would care!!
Stinging statement, isn't it? From the perspective of Koprowski and other involved scientists and governments, that sentence probably rings quite true.
It is important to note that this book is essentially a hypothesis which brings so much circumstantial evidence to its defense, that it is impossible to ignore. Thankfully, growing numbers of scientists are bucking the trend ... Read More
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