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Guys, please, do something with this article. I believe David Rasnick phD deserves better. He is completely wrong about AIDS, I myself admit it. But that has nothing to do for making his biographic article something as perfidious as this one here. I'm a student of chemistry and I know Rasnick is a pioneer in protease inhibitors research, but that is just fadely mentioned here. Even if we don't like the guy, this is Wikipedia and we are supposed to be neutral, specially when we talk about biographies of living people like Rasnick. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.122.168.154 (talk) 05:18, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Worthless article

This is a page on David Rasnick. The 'Education and Views' should, ostensibly, reflect his own views. The single, out-of-context quote in the article, "my research... had nothing to do with AIDS" clearly does not represent his views. The first line is also ridiculous; "AIDS denialist" is nothing more than an emotional, ad-hominem attack, and to follow that by saying he was "trained as a chemist", to imply that he somehow went astray and is no longer a chemist, is indicative of immense prejudice. I tried to replace the quote with another one,

...In the early days, in 1984, when Robert Gallo made that pronouncement that HIV was the probable cause of AIDS, I assumed he knew what he was talking about because he was a virologist and I was not. I didn't have any background in virology, so I just had to accept on faith that he knew what he was talking about. The non-virologists assumed that he knew what he was talking about. As it turned out, the virologists didn't assume that -- at least not at first. But since he made that claim in public before his papers were published, they never got a chance to critique it in the literature. You never got to hear the scientific debate among his peers, so it looked like there was no opposition at all. The other virologists never had an opportunity to challenge it. I'm a scientist with 20 years' experience, and there's only two things that I'm absolutely certain of in science. Absolutely, with no doubt in my mind. One is that AIDS is not contagious. It's not a thing that you can "catch" from anybody. And the other thing is it's not caused by a virus, in particular HIV. The only reason why I'm absolutely convinced on that is because "HIV/AIDS" is the most studied thing in all of science. Absolutely the most studied thing in all of science. The fact that it's so well studied -- and you can't find a grain of literature that even supports it, much less proves the hypothesis -- finally has satisfied me enough I would risk my life on that statement. The only reason I'm that confident is because billions of dollars have been spent on it, and have proved it to be the case!

The source of this quote is already cited by the article; it is source [1]. I tried to add it to the article twice, but some delinquent keeps reverting it to this nonsense. I'm going to stop trying, but someone should definitely fix this article; in its current state it is worse than worthless and is indicative of unreasonable prejudice. 128.151.22.98 (talk) 01:42, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Edits to this article made by someone claiming to be David Rasnick

I've removed comments added to the article by someone in the Bahamas who claims to be David Rasnick. I reckon these comments violated at least one of Wikipedia's policies on autobiography, neutral point of view and original research.

The removed comments are reproduced in italics below. Some of this information is almost certainly worthy of inclusion in the article, but only if properly referenced.

[The Rath foundation never sold or attempted to sell vitamins or anything else in South Africa. D. Rasnick]

[The Rath Foundation had not conducted a clinical in South Africa up to my departure in July 2006. I stopped working for The Rath Foundation July 2006. The Rath Foundation Africa pursued approval for a micro-nutrient clinical trial to be conducted at MEDUNSA (Medical University of Southern Africa) but was stopped by political pressure from opponents of Mbeki’s government. Professor Sam Mhlongo of MEDUNSA and I brought this political interference to attention of the Department of Health and were assured that it would be addressed. It never was. There are powerful forces within and from without that oppose the government’s approach to the important causes of health problems of the people of South Africa. D. Rasnick]

Trezatium 19:18, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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