[27] What the U.S. Congress pushed through was highly politicized and embattled, and a fraction of what was spent on similar public health problems. Dr. Fauci & The Pandemics | Springfield IL - Facebook It was happening to people I cared about and loved. "[58] Shilts never stated this in the book, instead writing, "Whether Gatan Dugas actually was the person who brought AIDS to North America remains a question of debate and is ultimately unanswerable there's no doubt that Gatan played a key role in spreading the new virus from one end of the United States to the other. The National Institute of Health, which Fauci has longstanding ties to, has joint ownership of the Moderna vaccine. [53] Author Douglas Crimp suggests that Shilts' representation of Dugas as "murderously irresponsible" is in actuality "Shilts' homophobic nightmare of himself", and that Dugas is offered as a "scapegoat for his heterosexual colleagues, in order to prove that [Shilts], like them, is horrified by such creatures. Graeme Jennings | Pool via AP. Howard Markel, in the American Journal of Public Health, notes Shilts' tendency to assign blame, writing "A requirement of the journalist, and certainly the historian, however, is to explain human society rather than to point fingers". The views expressed in this article are the authors own and do not necessarily reflect MintPress News editorial policy. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic Markel, Howard (July 2001). Absolutely everything. Engel, Margaret. [41] It earned the 10th spot on "100 Lesbian and Gay Books That Changed Our Lives", compiled by the Lambda Book Report. "Although the federal government's leading AIDS celebrity, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health, actually goes into his immunology lab in Bethesda to work with test tubes, a lot of the people you see quoted on TV as major laboratory researchers don't," Shilts wrote. Now, the objection to that, and its a reasonable objection, is that it discriminates against Haitians. If, indeed, the latter is true, then AIDS takes on an entirely new dimension..
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