Look, nobody likes hearing it, but #DaveGrohl was a full-blown AIDS denialist & has never apologized for or acknowledged his support for a movement that caused hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide.
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Yes he was young and idealistic, but it's the absolute silence on the subject in the years since.
He watched the last member of the Alive and Well With AIDS denialist organization die, and a few months later, quietly removed all references to them from the Foo Fighters webpage.
He watched the last member of the Alive and Well With AIDS denialist organization die, and a few months later, quietly removed all references to them from the Foo Fighters webpage.
They did concerts, benefits for anti-vax and AIDS denialist groups. They gave contributions. They appeared in propaganda films, telling people not to take life-saving medicine prescribed by their doctor.
You're welcome to forgive and forget, but just so we're clear. The band deleted references to Alive and Well as their sponsored charity, but they have not recanted their position.
AIDS denialism killed 300,000 people in Thabo Mbeki's South Africa.
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AIDS denialism killed 300,000 people in Thabo Mbeki's South Africa.
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And in case you feel like I'm stretching, here's Christina Maggiore, founder of "Alive and Well with AIDS Alternatives", with the band & separately w Thabo Mbeki, the South African President who adopted AIDS denialism as official policy in his country.
Also worth pointing out that Christine Maggiore's denialism likely led to the death of her own child, Eliza Jane Scoville, at the age of 3 in 2005.
Christine died of AIDS-related illness in 2008.
Christine died of AIDS-related illness in 2008.
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