When her best friend commits suicide on discovering she was HIV-positive, Core Fletcher, an attractive journalist, decides to investigate the validity of the publicly accepted theory of the cause of AIDS. Using her skills in reporting and scientific research, she begins her investigation in the institutions of healthcare, government and the media, to which the public has delegated all handling of the problem. Uncovering a tangle of fears, taboos, myths, greed, lust for power and privilege according to caste, she discovers that virtually everything the public has been told about AIDS is false, and is known to be false at the highest levels of Government, including the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, and Centers for Disease Control. HIV is not in fact the cause of AIDS, and some scientists, despite severe obstacles, are exposing the biggest scientific, medical blunder of all time.
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By Gen Guracar
Mar 3, 2009
"Germ of Lies" In this novel the author with his characters Core, a science reporter and Alan,a scientist take the reader into the politics of science and health care.The author challenges the main stream thinking on HIV and AIDS. His characters show how research projects get funding and why and how the profits for the drug companies get developed. The author is able with the characters in his novel to bring up the science around AIDS that a person without much science education could relate to. I found reading this novel helpful in understanding why health care has less to do with healing and more to do with how much profit can be made for the drug companies. The author's writing holds and involves the reader to the conclusion of the novel. Definitely a good read.
