House of Numbers: Anatomy of an Epidemic

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House of Numbers: Anatomy of an Epidemic (German: Das Kartenhaus ) is a film about the topic of HIV and AIDS .

The film is a controversial alleged documentary from 2009 in which the author Brent Leung argues that AIDS is not caused by HIV .

Various personalities and media interviewed as experts in the film, including The New York Times and The Lancet , subsequently distanced themselves from the tendency conveyed in the film that there is no HIV virus. It is claimed in the film that HIV testing is very unreliable.

The film features Christine Maggiore as a key witness, an HIV-positive woman who denied the connection between HIV and AIDS and therefore did not seek treatment - even during her pregnancy. However, the film does not mention that Maggiore's child died of AIDS at the age of three and that she herself died of pneumonia in December 2008 as a result of her AIDS.

publication

The film has been shown at several small film festivals including the London Raindance Film Festival. A panel discussion of the film at the A panel of films at the Boston Film Festival was disrupted by Leung and other AIDS deniers who tried to shout down members of the panel whose opinions they disagreed with.

A German version of the documentation with the title House of Numbers - The AIDS Conspiracy was released on DVD in 2011 by Kopp Verlag . The German-language version of the film was broadcast under the same title on the Austrian television broadcaster ORF III in 2013 .

reception

The reviewers gave the film a generally negative rating. Leung's claim of an "objective view" of the issue was rejected. The film has been viewed several times as a mixture of AIDS denial and conspiracy theories . This is how the journal The Lancet saw it, for example . The reviewer for the New York Times spoke of a "wild support pamphlet for AIDS deniers". The Wall Street Journal described the film as conspiracy theories of "people who know the truth behind everything." The author and doctor Ben Goldacre announced in the daily newspaper The Guardian that the film House of Numbers was "AIDS denier propaganda". The Portland Oregonian newspaper criticized Leung for being "not completely honest with viewers" and criticized the film for "selective editing, anomalies and anecdotes, unfounded conclusions ... and suppressing unpleasant facts."

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ AIDS: Deadly Doubts , Der Tagesspiegel , January 20, 2010
  2. ↑ A Mother's Denial, a Daughter's Death , newspaper article in the Los Angeles Times about Christine Maggiore and her daughter from September 24, 2005
  3. ↑ a b Ben Goldacre : HIV and Aids: debate or denial? , The Guardian , October 24, 2009
  4. ↑ Ethan Jacobs: Crazy 'House' . In: Bay Windows , April 22, 2009. Retrieved September 8, 2009. 
  5. ^ House of Numbers - The AIDS Conspiracy - ORF III , December 2, 2013
  6. ↑ Talha Burki: House of numbers. In: The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 9, 2009, p. 735, doi : 10.1016 / S1473-3099 (09) 70316-0 .
  7. ^ Jeanette Catsoulis: AIDS Seen From a Different Angle , New York Times, September 4, 2009
  8. ^ David Aaronovitch, "A Conspiracy-Theory Theory. How to fend off the people who insist they know the 'real story' behind everything" , The Wall Street Journal , December 21, 2009
  9. ^ Stan Hall, House of Numbers blurs facts on HIV , Portland Oregonian, Jan. 21, 2010.