March 12, 1999

Biologist With Contrarian View of AIDS Raises Private Funds to Support His Lab

By DAVID L. WHEELER

Friends of Peter H. Duesberg, a biologist at the University of California at Berkeley who holds unorthodox views about the cause of AIDS, have saved his laboratory from being closed by raising money from an unusual source -- private donations.

Last fall, while Mr. Duesberg was on a sabbatical in Europe, Berkeley administrators told David Rasnick, a visiting scientist in Mr. Duesberg's laboratory, that it would

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