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Dr. Lawrence Mass, who wrote the first article about AIDS in a U.S. publication, points to South Africa when reflecting on the legacy of AIDS denialism. The legacy, he says, is "the death â the preventable unnecessary deaths â of more of 330,000 people" there.
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Skepticism Of Science In A Pandemic Isn't New. It Helped Fuel The AIDS Crisis
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Forty years ago, Lawrence Mass, a young, gay doctor living in New York City, made history. It is the kind of history no one wants to make.
Mass began writing news stories about a disease that many did not want to acknowledge.