--- Rob Schaap <rws at comedu.canberra.edu.au> wrote: >
>
> Well, whatever he did, it would have been before June 1984, as that's when
> he died. Perhaps he thought the virus was just a discursive
> transformation, an invention of the power-knowledge nexus? By his lights,
> just about everything else was ...
eine kleine googleresearch seems to suggest that MF is innocent of this particular charge, though the contradiction you note is also noted. The second link on the search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=foucault+aids+myth
gives this charming little site, dedicated to the sort of stuff which has been done to death on this list, etc
http://www2.prestel.co.uk/littleton/aids_hiv_fraud.htm
Where is found this nugget:
"Martin J. Walker, author of Dirty Medicine: Science, big business, and the assault on natural health care (7000 copies sold). His book has very detailed though not, unsurprisingly, complete, research into PR/journalism and interlocking funding by governments and industry of research, handbooks like M.I.M.S., bodies like the Campaign Against Health Fraud and U.S. Skeptics. He has details of failed AZT trials. He places emphasis on the sociology/politics of medicine, being for example baffled how Foucault (who analysed—whether correctly or not—the history of modern medicine almost entirely in terms of a struggle for control by medicos) could swallow the entire story of AIDS, and, along with it, sufficient AZT to kill himself. His overriding thesis is that industry has a vested interest in profits, and also in minimising harm caused by, for example, pollution—both factors leading to the 'assault on natural health care'. Although this book is only partially on AIDS, and gets off to a weak start with homoeopathy, it's thorough and thought-provoking enough to be included in this section. "
0800 hrs and I'm still drunk from my election party. I feel that the international working class is more or less safe from me today ....
dd
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