Origin of Aids
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DVD: Region Code 1Format: NTSC
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-25
Studio: New Video Group
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Movie Review: Disturbing, brilliant
Summary: 5 Stars
Despite the mellifluous voice of the female narrator, this fierce, aggressive documentary ignores the protestations of medical science and stalks to its conclusion, i.e. that Hilary Koprowski's oral polio vaccine, given to over a million Africans in the late 1950s, caused the AIDS pandemic in Africa and, by extension, around the world.
The meeting of the Royal Society that tendentiously debunked Edward Hooper's book THE RIVER doesn't hinder the filmmakers, who journey to Africa to interview those who were employed by Koprowski to catch chimpanzees, to kill chimpanzees, to remove their kidneys, and to use the kidney tissue to make a polio vaccine. Despite the stout denials of Koprowski and his associate Paul Osterreith, who directed the project, the African lab workers leave no doubt that chimpanzees, and not the lower monkeys who are the usual choice for OPV, were used at Lindi Camp to make the vaccine.
"The most hated hypothesis in science," i.e. that our victory over polio caused the AIDS epidemic, is set forth here with cogency and power. The stars of the show (along with Koprowski) are Edward Hooper, a charming, soft-spoken man, and Cecil Fox, an angry pathologist who explains that we now know how to synthesize polio vaccine genetically, but the pharmaceutical companies and the doctors are still injecting monkey parts into children because this is the cheaper way to do it.
Bill Hamilton, the legendary evolutionary biologist, is seen, expressing his chagrin at science's "almost paranoid rejection" of the OPV theory. Hamilton later died of malaria on a trip to Africa with Hooper to find samples of monkey stool which might have shed light on the relationship between the simian and human viruses.
A powerful, disturbing documentary, filled with warnings not only about AIDS but about the diseases that may arise in the future as a result of our head-in-the-sand attitude toward the mistakes science can make.
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