To: letters@harpers.org
Subject: Farber article

To whom it concerns,

I was shocked and disgusted to see the huge spread and waste of print
space you provided to this crank writer who promotes the despicable
notion that HIV somehow doesn't cause AIDS.

You completely abrogate your responsibility to people struggling with
this disease worldwide while rendering your magazine non-credible. An
otherwise important article on impeaching Bush can now be dismissed,
tarred by the broad brush of coddling a long-discredited conspiracy
theory that ignores the genuine and horrific issues faced by people
living with HIV/AIDS worldwide.

I presume that your magazine has no fact checkers. That can be the
only explanation for providing such an incredible amount of space to
these dangerous and unsupportable ditherings.

If you like, you can see how quickly the denialist garbage is
demolished. Aside from a set of arguments in the British Medical
Journal forum, please review
http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2006/02/discussion_of_the_padian_paper.php

I hope you will print as lengthy an article underscoring the genuine
issues, political, social and moral, faced by people living with
HIV/AIDS.
Yours sincerely,

George M. Carter