http://www.metafilter.com/tags/maggiore Posts tagged with 'maggiore' at MetaFilter. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:52:23 -0800 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:52:23 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/77988/Christine%2DMaggiore%2Dhas%2Ddied HIV/AIDS denialist Christine Maggiore <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-christine-maggiore30-2008dec30,0,7407966.story">has died</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Maggiore">Maggiore</a>, who tested HIV+ in 1992, was a prominent skeptic of the scientific consensus that HIV causes AIDS. In 2005, she sparked a <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2005/sep/24/local/me-eliza24">debate</a> on parental medical obligations after her 3-year-old daughter was found to have died of AIDS-related pneumonia. Orac at Respectful Insolence <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/12/hivaids_denialist_christine_maggiore_die.php">mourns</a> both the personal tragedy of the Maggiore family and the larger <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/world/africa/26aids.htm">public health tragedy</a> of HIV/AIDS denialism. Sympathetic journalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Farber">Celia Farber</a>, who <a href="http://www.lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/?id=3887&IssueNum=157">defended</a> Maggiore in 2005, offers a <a href="http://www.deanesmay.com/2008/12/30/what-killed-christine-maggiore/">personal recollection</a>. (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/45478/Science-refusal-kils-child">previously</a>) tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.77988 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:52:23 -0800 AIDS aidsdenialism celiafarber christinemaggiore farber HIV maggiore obit obituary lalex