Videos About HIV/AIDS Denialism
There
is a scientific consensus that HIV is the cause of AIDS. The evidence
from research study results published in peer-reviewed scientific
journals is overwhelming. This is considered a settled question by the
mainstream scientific community.
Nonetheless, there remains a vocal minority of fringe activists who
claim that HIV is not the cause of AIDS. Their opinion carries little
weight because they have conspicuously failed to do any scientific
research providing evidence for their beliefs that is good enough to
merit publication in peer-reviewed scientific journals. They rely on
appeal to authority, ad hominem attacks against those who disagree with
them, nitpicking of individual studies, demanding unreasonable
standards of proof, and invoking conspiracy theory to explain why
everyone else disagrees with them and all the scientific evidence
contradicts them. The phenomenon of denial in the face of overwhelming
objective scientific and historical evidence is not unique to HIV as
the cause of AIDS. There are also people who deny that the Earth is
round and people who deny that Hitler committed genocide against the
Jews.
Even though HIV denialists don't have a scientific leg to stand on,
they have nonetheless managed to do enormous damage by spreading
misinformation to laypeople and, in the case of South Africa, managing
to sway the government long enough to significantly delay the
introduction of antiretroviral medication and effective prevention and
treatment measures with absolutely catastrophic results.
This page will index videos that debunk the claims made by HIV
denialists.
- Top Ten Myths About HIV/AIDS (8
min 55 sec): Stream
or Download
(QT, 60MB)
Ten common myths about HIV/AIDS debunked.
- Ten More Myths About HIV/AIDS (12
min): Stream
Also see the following additional pages on AIDSvideos.org that address
HIV denialism:
Additional Resources