Although the AIDS denialists are no laughing matter, because of the deaths they cause, it's sometimes appropriate to laugh at them, as they waddle along their path to destruction. This article wasn't written specifically about Peter Duesberg, the Perth Group, Rethinking AIDS and all the other loony-toons that constitute AIDS denialism, but it could have been - everything in it applies to their thought processes.

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