[Dean's World] Celia Farber: The Passion of Peter Duesberg (Act 3)

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Posted by Celia Farber:
The Passion of Peter Duesberg (Act 3)
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1176758330.shtml


   I have long been fascinated by the social uses and media ideo-class
   wars that have been expressed via the medium of Peter Duesberg--the
   twin towers of AIDS and Cancer; the light and the dark of it all, the
   perfect double helix in which all I ever wanted to know about human
   behavior is encoded.

   I was privileged enough to get a front row seat at what was once the
   back of the theater, and to see the Duesberg trilogy unfold, because I
   was smart enough to listen when Harvey Bialy called to insist I read
   his book and also grasp it. It took two readings. When I grasped it,
   it was on the emotional plane--I understood it as a dramatist, more
   than as a science knower. I understood the magnitude of it, and at
   Bialy's urging, I pitched the story to Lewis Lapham's Harper's.

   It wound up becoming one third of a much bigger story, but it was
   always my secret favorite, and I share it here, now, with enthusiasm
   and an imaginary champagne toast to Peter Duesberg, to those who stuck
   by him to their own detriment if not destruction, and to all of us,
   who are looking ahead to a world that might well get the upper hand
   against the dragon of Cancer in our lifetimes.

   [1]The (Unexpurgated) Passion of Peter Duesberg

References

   1. http://barnesworld.blogs.com/barnes_world/2006/10/the_pssion_of_p.html