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Author disputes the `real' cause of AIDS
A contestable new novella regarding the "real" cause of AIDS has been written that will possibly undermine the medical deeds of every doctor, scientist and researcher who has spent limitless hours in the past 20 years trying to both discover and disseminate all they know about the HIV virus.
"The Closing Argument," by Charles Ortleib, former editor of the New York Native newspaper, tells the tale of the trial of Christian King, an African-American man accused of infecting a Greenwich, Conn. woman with HIV. However, his lawyer Frederick Douglass Thompson switches gears and in fact tries to convince the jury that all they have previously been told about HIV is a blatant untruth.
Though the story is fiction, Ortleib says the science behind the story is not. "This book was written as a warning that we're about to enter the criminal phase of AIDS," says Ortleib, who points out that New York tops the list with how negatively they regard the people affected by HIV. According to him, those in New York whose T-cell counts are lower than 500 and those who are HIV-positive are placed on a list that gets sent to the state. At that time doctors then ask the patients to name everyone they've ever had sex with. He then contacts those people and informs them that they may have been infected with HIV, but does not tell them by whom. "The doctor is supposed to tell the patients that it is not mandatory that they give...