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Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by WhitneyLand on Thursday June 20, 2024 @07:37PM (#40744668)
Influenced the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people?

Yet apparently to this day he draws over 200k/yr in salary from Berkeley. I believe they are not entirely funded by tuition/endowments which means California tax payers support him at least in part.

Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by dekhn on Thursday June 20, 2024 @07:52PM (#40744761)
He has tenure and hasn't done anything that would force the dean to fire him. He hasn't published in ~7 years.

IIUC he's been isolated- doesn't get any real funding from NIH, or from the university (beyond the standard salary), and doesn't have an active lab.

It would likely cost the university more in legal fees to get rid of him than keep him until he goes away.

Re:Gilead Shot Prevents All HIV Cases in Trial of African Women by opprobium on Thursday June 20, 2024 @07:56PM (#40744788)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Duesberg#Consequences_of...

He was investigated but it was dropped as being protected by his academic freedom: https://www.science.org/content/article/berkeley-drops-probe...

He also, that I know of, still supports this position. To this day, you will find people getting into this particular conspiracy and rejecting treatment. It doesn't go well for them.

I do think that freedom of speech is important, and that many attempts to squash "misinformation" are misguided, but some speech has consequences. Personally I find Duesberg utterly reprehensible and morally culpable.