Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS

On April 23, 1984, in a packed, press conference room in Washington, DC, the secretary of health and human services declared, “The probable cause of AIDS has been found.” By the next day, “probable” had fallen away, and the novel retrovirus later named HIV became forever lodged in global consciousness as “the AIDS virus.” Celia Farber, then an intrepid young reporter for SPIN magazine, was the only mainstream journalist to persistently question the official narrative and dig into the real story of AIDS. She questioned the “evidence” that was being continually cited and repeated by health officials and the press and faced the dark truth about the deadliness of AZT and Dr. Fauci’s trials on infants, children, and pregnant mothers. Faber’s reportage was first ignored, then maligned, maliciously attacked, and ultimately canceled. Now, over thirty years after her original reporting, Farber’s Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS is more relevant than ever, serving as an essential foundation to understanding the catastrophic sequel, COVID-19. Farber’s research on AIDS laid bare what was to come in the age of Covid: the unfounded claims, fear-mongering, cancel culture, and “woke” takeover of science, medicine, and journalism. The response to COVID-19 isn’t new-it is a well-trod and dangerous path in the social landscape.