Michael Hobbes
speaker
4,402 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Michael Hobbes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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that's good.
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I'm Aubrey
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Aubrey, today we are talking about AIDS denialism.
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We are giving this episode some sort of clickbait title, but we're basically going to be talking about AIDS denialism, what it is, where it comes from, and where it is now.
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So do you know what it is?
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high profile AIDS denier is Will Smith.
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We have a clip later.
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It's really weird.
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Yeah, the Foo Fighters held a benefit concert.
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Man.
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But specifically, we are talking today about the belief that HIV does not cause AIDS.
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Boy, oh boy, oh boy.
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Correlation does not equal causation, Aubrey.
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Nothing.
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The inventor of this theory describes it as one of the most harmless viruses known to man.
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you kidding me?
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It's like buck wild.
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The whole fucking thing is nuts.
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So to tell the story of AIDS denialism, we have to tell a little bit of the story of AIDS.
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This is mostly based on two books, one of which is called Denying AIDS by Seth Kallikman and another called Impure Science by Stephen Epstein.
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