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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 155, No. 12 : 1143-1144
Copyright © 2002 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: "THE RIVER: A JOURNEY TO THE SOURCE OF HIV AND AIDS"

Philip Alcabes

School of Health Sciences, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY 10010

I remained as unconvinced of Hooper's theory of the origin of the human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) after reading The River (1Go) as I had been before, but Dr. Monto dismisses the work too lightly (2Go). Monto's review offers only five disdainful paragraphs, dispatching the book with a coup de grace in the sixth: He recommends it "... only for people with plenty of free time who would like to see how nonscientific reasoning can capture so much attention" (2, p. 485). Unfortunately, this breezy review exemplifies a closed-mindedness in the health sciences profession, evidence of exactly what Hooper alleges: We . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Arnold S. Monto

Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109–2029


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