The reputation of the AIDS dissident movement will be based on its
most visible representative.  That would be Mark Hanau (aka Paul King)
who seeks out AIDS-related forums on the web, tries to destroy them,
and sometimes succeeds.

What people will remember, when they hear somebody question the role of
HIV in causing AIDS, is that AIDS dissidents invaded their favourite
web forum without provocation, and used vandal-bot software to flood
it with contrarian articles, until members couldn't find the messages
from other members among the attack postings.  They will remember
that the attack continued relentlessly until the forum operator,
who was just trying to provide a place where friends could converse
about a common interest, gave up and closed it down.

And you will never know, when you mention that you are an AIDS
dissident, whether you are within mouth-punching distance of somebody
who saw his favourite web forum destroyed and holds a grudge.

With Hanau as your unavoidable emissary to the mainstream web forums,
the AIDS dissident movement will be known for viciousness, unprovoked
aggression, pathological dishonesty, sociopathy and destructiveness.
He may be an irritant to the mainstream, but he's a disaster for the
dissident movement.

He's your problem, not mine.  There's nobody in the world I  would
want representing the AIDS dissident movement more than Mark Hanau.