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ACT UP Crashes NYC Fundraiser Featuring AIDS Denialist Gary Null: WATCH

Andy Towle December 12, 2015 Leave a Comment

ACT UP Null

The activist group ACT UP last night crashed a fundraiser featuring national radio show host and longtime AIDS denialist Gary Null hosted by the New School and sponsored by WBAI.

Writes ACT UP in a press release:

Activists moved to the auditorium chanting “Shame on Null” and “HIV causes AIDS” before being stopped by security who scuffled with protesters and aggressively pushed them back. One activist, Brent Nicholson Earle, made it into the auditorium chanting while the others chanted “Shame on Null” through the open back door of the auditorium to the around 300 people in attendance.

Gary Null
Gary Null

The chant “HIV Causes AIDS” was significant because one of the main tenets of AIDS denialism is that HIV is not the cause of AIDS. Other discredited claims of AIDS denialism are that HIV is not infectious and thus not transmitted via sex or needles, HIV antibody tests are meaningless, and anti-HIV medications are harmful and can even cause AIDS. The activists targeted Null for his history of promoting AIDS denialism on his radio shows. All AIDS denialist claims defy decades of scientific evidence established in hundreds of studies worldwide. Most importantly, these anti-science beliefs promote HIV infection through negligence.

The protest happened at a fundraiser for progressive radio station WBAI 99.5, the New York City outlet of the Pacifica Broadcasting Network. “WBAI hosts a number of progressive radio programs, but unfortunately, they also host a dangerous AIDS denialist like Gary Null, whose misinformation helps the spread of HIV,” said ACT UP member Brandon Cuicchi. ACT UP demands that Null stop promoting AIDS denialism on the Pacifica Network.

After activists were blocked from the auditorium, they chanted “New School, Shame on You” and moved outside to the sidewalk where they chanted and distributed flyers. There were no arrests.

ACT UP has also called for a boycott of Null's vitamin sales business NutriPowders.com since he uses his radio show to promote taking vitamins instead of scientifically recommended medications. ACT UP member Jeton Ademaj said, “Nutrition is not enough to prevent AIDS when HIV is not controlled by real anti-retroviral medicine, the only treatment backed by real science. The only thing worse than Big Pharma profiteering from life-saving HIV medications are AIDS denialists profiteering from snake-oil that condemns HIV-positive people to avoidable illness and death.”

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Topics: Health, History More Posts About: ACT UP, Activism, AIDS, AIDS/HIV, Gary Null, New York

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