Episode 40: Roberto Giraldo, MD
Dr. Roberto Giraldo started investigating immune deficiencies in the mid-1960s as a medical student and was already investigating the mysterious illnesses of some gay men in the 1970s. He understood then that chemical, nutritional and emotional stressors were the cause of these illnesses. When AIDS came along in 1981 he realized immediately that the viral hypothesis was wrong but his colleagues in Colombia were so incensed that they tried to force him into an insane asylum.
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