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AIDS: A Second Opinion
by Gary Null, James Feast
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Seven Stories Press (2001-12)
ISBN: 1583220623
EAN: 9781583220627
Dewy Decimal #: 616.9792
Hardcover: 400 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: 08010062
Condition: Like New Like New
Comments: Hardcover. Like new cover and text. Like new dust jacket with very minor shelfwear. Near Fine condition. Beautiful book.
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Editorial Reviews
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Book Description
This is the first book to unravel the half-truths about AIDS that some say have marred the study of the disease from the start. Tackling everything from alarmist statistics to the asserted African origin of AIDS, Gary Null gives both African and Western experts their say before presenting a new model for understanding this elusive and multifaceted illness. The one-cause, one-disease “virological” model, says Null, is obsolete and should be replaced with a more ecological, holistic, “immunological” paradigm of health and sickness. Drawing on his years of studying alternative and traditional medicine, Null dissects the claims of AZT and drug cocktail advocates and offers an array of treatments, including nutritional support and metabolic stabilization therapies, to broaden the options available to AIDS patients.
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Customer Reviews
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Dangerous Lies
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-01-13
3 out of 18 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is unscientific and plain wrong. Please don't be drawn in by its pseudo-scientific cloak. The positive reviews here are in denial and full of wishfully thinking. The truth is AIDS is late-stage HIV. Denying that has caused much unnecessary confusion and deaths.
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Comprehensive discussion of alternative theories on AIDS
Rating  (5)
Date: 2004-10-26
12 out of 16 customers found this reveiw helpful
AIDS: A Second Opinion provides a good overview of the controversies and differing opinions surrounding AIDS. (There is a general lack of scientific proof for much of what we think we know about AIDS. For example no one has isolated HIV from everything else in a white bloodcell.) Null focuses on science more than social factors but does address social factors by analyzing how they can unconsciously influence scientific thinking.
For me this book's greatest strength was in not having one specific theory to press. For example Duesberg, a prestigious scientist who writes often about our lack of evidence that HIV can cause AIDS, has the view point that AIDS is caused primarily by drug use. Much of what Duesberg publishes on AIDS is concerned with supporting this theory. Null on the other hand presents evidence and what we know about the various theories on AIDS and gives a general overview. He discussed our lack of knowledge about HIV and the lack of evidence for it causing AIDS, but later assumes the viewpoint that HIV causes AIDS to discuss co-factors and theories about where AIDS may have come from.
Among the subjects Null touches on: does HIV cause AIDS?, effects of long term drug use on the immune system, toxicity of AZT, theories on the origin of AIDS (including discussion of government manufactured disease), HIV vaccine feasibility, trends in vaccine research and alternative therapies. Basically the information presented is comprehensive and frequently not kosher. Null gives reliable references for what he is saying and refers to scientific journals where appropriate. He also tells the reader when he thinks that a theory is a bit over the top and if the theory has not been tested or is not testable (as with a comparison of AIDS and mass hysteria). He includes some theories including conspiracy theories for the sake of being comprehensive. For example, a discussion of AIDS maybe being introduced by aliens is included.
As I said Null extensively references his work. This is a scholaly book (in the sense of being dry) and might be slow for some people because of the way it is written. It is also long. Amazon has it listed as 400 pages but my copy is 618 pages long (and then some with the appendixes). For me it was a fast read and very interesting, but maybe not a fast read for everyone.
AIDS: A Second Opinion is an excellent resource for those who want a better understanding of the disease. This should not be the first book to read on the subject.
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The Best Book on the Subject
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-07-05
10 out of 18 customers found this reveiw helpful
I wish that we coud force people to read this book, it is so empowering. Our land, and the world, has been so duped by big business, the powers that be, and our political leaders. Strong, intelligent researchers outside the paradigm should be heard. Gary Null is writing the our new Bill of Rights. Or is he reminding us of our original one?
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HE IS RIGHT!
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-07-05
10 out of 18 customers found this reveiw helpful
I lost so many friends to "aids" in the seventies I can't count. Gary is right. There is no plague. There was behavior that caused a crash in the immune system. Some died of "hiv" some just died. Anyone who lived then knows that. Work as hard at being well as you worked at being bad, don't be confined by labels and empower yourself. GN's research, shining thought processes, and care for all of us is, and has been, an inspiration.
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Physician Finds Merit
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-06-18
28 out of 34 customers found this reveiw helpful
Gary Null's AIDS: A Second Opinion is a book that I could not put down. I found it to be the most comprehensive, insightful, provocative, and disturbing book on AIDS that I have ever read. And as someone who has counseled numerous patients with AIDS, I found that it offered valuable insights into the politics and controversies surrounding this condition. (I should mention that I am not coming from "the fringe," but am a graduate of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, an assistant clinical professor of neurology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the author of more than 50 articles published in peer-reviewed medical journals. So I read the book with the critical eye of one who has been immersed in the mainstream medical world.)Null and co-author James Feast do us a service in giving voice to the point of view of AIDS dissidents such as Nobel laureates Drs. Mullis and Gilbert, as well as Professors Strohman and Rasnick, and the many others cited in the book. One has to wonder, why hasn't their collective challenge to the "HIV equals AIDS equals death" paradigm been given more publicity? These are credentialed people, and there certainly is, as this book shows, reasonableness to their claims. I myself have had three patients with advanced AIDS and substantially debilitated health who then undertook various natural protocols and improved their overall immune function significantly. So why wouldn't I want to explore alternative approaches to this condition? Why wouldn't I want to review as many scientific references as possible that support these approaches? I am happy to have a book on hand that goes beyond the party line of those who run the war on AIDS, looks at alternative perspectives, and provides extensive documentation to support them. Furthermore, I plan to make this book required reading for all of the persons I counsel with AIDS-defining illnesses. And I would recommend it to every concerned and conscientious physician, nurse, and public health advocate in the country.
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