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On April 23 1984 in a packed press conference room in Washington DC the secretary of health and human services declared The probable cause of AIDS has been found By the next day probable had fallen away and the novel retrovirus later named HIV became forever lodged in global consciousness as the AIDS virus Celia Farber then an intrepid young reporter for SPIN magazine was the only journalist to question the official narrative and dig into the science of AIDS She reported on the evidence that was being continually cited and repeated by health officials and the press the deadliness of AZT and Dr Faucis trials on children infants and pregnant mothers Throughout Farbers reportage was largely ignored She was maligned maliciously attacked and ultimately canceled Now forty years after her original reporting Farbers Serious Adverse Events An Uncensored History of AIDS is reissued with a new foreword by Mark Crispin Miller shining muchneeded light on her groundbreaking work once again More relevant than ever this book serves as an essential foundation to understanding its catastrophic sequel COVID19 Serious Adverse Events makes clear that the tactics employed at the height of HIV/AIDSthe fearmongering cancel culture and woke takeover of science medicine and journalismpersist today The response to COVID19 isnt new it is a welltrod and dangerous path in the social landscape