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Title: AIDS : An Explosion of the Biological Time-Bomb? by Robert E. Lee, Alan Cantwell ISBN: 1-929882-03-3 Publisher: Biographical Pub Co Pub. Date: 28 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.75

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (7 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Exhaustively researched, informatively presented
Comment: AIDS: An Explosion Of The Biological Time-Bomb? is an historical exploration of leukemia and cancer related research down over the last eighty years in the context of newly emerging diseases such as AIDS, Mad-Cow disease, and other hemorrhagic fevers, as well as other neurological and lymphotomous diseases in different animal species - including primates. Robert Lee's AIDS is an important, exhaustively researched, informatively presented, extensive and comprehensive treatise that should be considered a core title for all medical school, public health center, health advocacy organizations, and community library reference collections across the country.

Rating: 5
Summary: Midwest Book Review praises this book
Comment: ...AIDS: An Explosion Of The Biological Time-Bomb? is anhistorical exploration of leukemia and cancer related research downover the last eighty years in the context of newly emerging diseasessuch as AIDS, Mad-Cow disease, and other hemorrhagic fevers, as wellas other neurological and lymphomotous diseases in different animalspecies - including primates. Robert Lee's AIDS is an important,exhaustively researched, informatively presented, extensive andcomprehensive treatise that should be considered a core title for allmedical school, public health center, health advocacy organizations,and community library reference collections across the country...

Rating: 2
Summary: A comedy of errors
Comment: Bob Lee has clearly made an effort to learn and understand a field in which he has had no formal training. Sadly, in this task he has failed. The errors of fact, theory and understanding are so abundant, numbering two or three on nearly every one of the 502 pages of the book, that it would be impossible for me to list and explain them all without writing a tome of similar size. Such gems include labelling the blood borne protozoa malaria as a virus that lives in the brain, confusing the addition of DNA to cells with the creation of immortal cells, using a normal cellular signalling system (tyrosine phosphorylation) as a means of targeting blacks Vs whites...

He makes the critical error of looking for evidence to support his apparently pre-supposed idea that there was a scientific "paradigm" (read "conspiracy") to develop and use a biowarfare agent in the unlikely form of a chronic retrovirus infection. Had he gone about his argument in a better way he might have made better (and easier) reading, but instead I found myself dragged through completely disparate and unconnected fields of research, strung together with a comedy of errors to support this rather unlikely idea. My girlfriend laughed so hard at this book she cried.

But there lies the crunch. Unless you understood my first paragraph you are likely to be taken in by this story. My girlfriend and I are working in the field of molecular biology and have had formal training in veterinary and medical pathology respectively. Bob himself has told me that he did try to get answers to many of his questions from people in the field, but was rebuffed, and perhaps understandably so. The sad thing is that had he had input from a research assistant of any half-decent laboratory, most of his errors would have been spotted. This would have meant that most, if not all, of his case would have been rendered redundant: this book need never have been written.

I think Bob sincerely believes what he says here, but that doesn't make him right. There may well be evidence to support the creation of HIV by a world-wide cabal of military-directed scientists, but if such evidence exists it isn't presented here. Bonus marks are given for humour.