John Lauritsen

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John Lauritsen is a gay activist, AIDS dissident, and author from the earliest days of the gay liberation movement. He covered AIDS for the New York Native.

Lauritsen has chronicled the AIDS epidemic from the perspective of an AIDS dissident — that is, one who does not accept the scientific consensus that HIV is the cause of AIDS. He has written dozens of articles and published three books specifically on AIDS: Poison by Prescription, The AIDS War, and The AIDS Cult. His writings have had an impact on the AIDS dissident movement. Lauritsen also covered the Concorde trials, and alleged rampant fraud in the early clinical trials of AZT.

Lauritsen has criticized the perceived "intemperate and reactionary tendencies" of radical feminism, including what he considered the intimidation of the gay academic community. At the Gay Academic Union Conference in New York City in 1976, Lauritsen said: "It has become almost taboo to criticize anyone who identifies herself as a 'feminist'... Why have feminists enjoyed this virtual immunity from criticism?... Because feminists have so often demanded that things they disagree with be censored, and have so often gotten their way, that some men frankly are afraid of them."^{[citation needed]}

Lauritsen's 2007 book The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein claims that Percy Bysshe Shelley, not his wife Mary Shelley, wrote Frankenstein.

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