Business Wire - December 3, 1999
When: Tuesday, December 7, 1999, 10:00 am
Where: 75 Rockefeller Plaza/ Time Warner Bldg. 4th Floor, Room 433
What: Press Conference with Edward Hooper
For the last ten years, distinguished science journalist Edward Hooper has traveled the world investigating the origin of AIDS. In THE RIVER, Hooper finds disturbing links between experimental oral polio vaccines administered in Africa in the 1950s and the beginnings of the AIDS virus. Hooper's extensive investigations and interviews in America, Europe and Africa lead to some remarkable revelations, which include previously unpublished details about where the vaccines were given and the locations of the earliest traces of HIV and AIDS. In the New York Times on Tuesday, November 30, Lawrence K. Altman M.D., wrote "a remarkable new book by a British journalist offers tantalizing clues to revive and expand the polio vaccine theory."
PRAISE FOR THE RIVER FROM OTHER SCIENTISTS AND JOURNALISTS
"Hooper has done a prodigious amount of research...'The River' builds a sufficiently detailed case to require serious examination of his theory." Lawrence K. Altman M.D., New York Times
"In a year when detective fiction faltered and failed, a work of spine-chilling forensic imagination stands out--Edward Hooper's `The River'....It's brilliantly researched, passionately written and -with most of the medical science relegated to the footnotes--an astonishingly easy and thoroughly gripping read." Geoffrey Robertson, Observer
"Among the best surveys to appear on the epidemiology of AIDS." Helen Epstein, New York Review of Books
"An amazing combination of comprehensive reporting, scientific investigation and engrossing storytelling. Once you start it, you will find it impossible to put down." Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News
"A towering achievement. The book, a strange fusion of personal quest and scientific treatise, is a thriller." Robin Weiss, Science
"One of the great stories of the century. What, then is the source of HIV? You really should read the book and make up your own mind." Charles Gilks, New Scientist
"A remarkably thorough and gripping investigation." Richard Horton, The Times Literary Supplement
"It has extraordinary things...to say about the origins of AIDS and the unintended consequences of medical testing. This book offers a scientifically plausible story, a testable hypothesis and a challenge." The Economist
"Not only fascinating but important...this book represents nothing less than a version of the Faust myth for our age." Giles Foden, The Guardian
"The most comprehensive and thoroughly documented account of the AIDS epidemic yet published." James Le Fanu, Observer
"An extraordinary book...that doesn't feel a page too long...as readable and compelling as a thriller." Penelope Dening, Irish Times
"His book is as much a work of detection as it is of science, and it is clearly the product of an unquenchable passion...a great achievement." Anthony Daniels, (London) Evening Standard
"Everyone should read this book, both for its story and in order to think hard on all that it implies." Professor W. D. Hamilton, University of Cambridge--author of the foreword to THE RIVER
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