House of Numbers (2009 film)

House of Numbers Anatomy of an Epidemic is a 2009 documentary film directed, produced, and hosted by Brent Leung and described by him as an objective examination of the idea that HIV causes AIDS. The film argues that human immunodeficiency virus HIV is harmless and does not cause acquired immune deficiency syndrome AIDS, a position known as AIDS denialism. The films claims of impartiality have been widely rejected by scientists, and the films claims about HIVAIDS have been dismissed as pseudoscience and conspiracy theory masquerading as evenhanded examination.

Leung has declined to discuss funding for the film except to state that funders came from all over the world. In the film, Leung interviews a range of scientists and AIDS denialists, most notably Christine Maggiore. At the time of filming, Maggiore was HIVpositive and appeared healthy, despite her refusal to take antiretroviral medication, which mainstream medicine uses to slow down the rate at which HIV destroys CD4 Tcells. As she said in the film, she refused to take the medication, and had not had her daughter, Eliza Jane Scovill, tested, or provided her with medication, because she believed HIV did not cause AIDS. Rather, she believed that the medication itself caused AIDS. Maggiores relative health, despite years of infection, is used by the film to support the idea that antiretrovirals are unnecessary to combat, and may themselves cause, AIDS.The film was screened at the multiple small film festivals, including the London Raindance film festival A panel discussion of the film at a Boston film festival was disrupted by Leung and other AIDS denialists in the audience, who attempted to shout down members of the panel with whom they disagreed. ........

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