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Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola : Nature, Accident or Intentional?
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.9792071
EAN: 9780923550127
Edition: Limited
ISBN: 0923550127
Label: Tetrahedron
Manufacturer: Tetrahedron
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: 1996-04
Publisher: Tetrahedron
Studio: Tetrahedron
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Rating: - Reviewers' mistakes
The reviewer "A Customer" says that the US code title 50 section 32 is about fish and wildlife, but I can't find those words in US Code Title 50 at all. Perhaps he works for a pharmaceuticial company? I find the book provocative; although I do not have insurmountable truth that it is accurate, I believe this scenario is possible.
Rating:  - Masterful political analysis, terrible biology
Horowitz does a great job showing what horrible things governments and corporations are capable of, either deliberately or by accident. Unfortunately, he appears to have no understanding of the biology and evolution of viruses. He just picks snippets of information out of context from the incredibly vast volume of research, in order to support his theory. If you really want to learn about the origin of emerging viruses, and what we need to worry about for the future, read Pulitzer-winning journalist ... Read More
Rating: - Fishy
I didn't like this book. For one thing, if it were non-fiction, then why all the dialogue between him and his wife, which was more or less fiction, since who could remember that kind of detail all that time?
For another, there were significant omissions, like the biowarfare lab on Plum Island in New York, lyme disease, West Nile, mycoplasma, Royal Rife, Morgellon's, and a host of others. Not to mention the more convincing evidence that AIDS is from swine not cattle.
He also ... Read More
Rating:  - Nice theory, too bad the sequence analyses of viral samples prove it wrong
Please read the science on this subject before becoming a "true believer" in this theory. Detailed study of the sequences of simian immunodeficiency viruses from many species of monkeys and chimps, compared to the sequences of viral samples from humans with HIV-1 or HIV-2 clearly show that Horowitz's theory is not consistent with the data. When in doubt I suggest going with the facts not speculation.
When a theory does not match the data - move on.
A good start point to enter ... Read More
Rating: - How to easily prove the critics wrong
Interestingly, the bad reviewers of this book have only convinced me of its accuracy. None of their criticisms strike me as being sound. A few of them criticize the book for scaring people, to which I would say that I only wish back in 1932, during my lifetime, someone would have, in a similar fashion, scared people about the Tuskegee Experiment. I also wish back in the 1700s someone would have scared the native americans before the British deliberately distributed smallpox infected blankets to them, killing ... Read More
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