Aides is a disease that has medical science baffled. It levelled the gay communities of major cities around the world. Preachers stood up and denounced homosexuality from their pulpits. Doctors refused to treat gay patients. Public health officials started talking about quarantines in those early years. No one knew what it was or how it spread. The obscure virus club thought it looked like lucamia viruses they had been studying for years.
Throughout the 1960s, a biologist named Howard Temin became convinced that something wasn’t right in science’s understanding of viruses. His colleagues dismissed him as a heretic. He turned out to be right — and you're alive today as a result. Season Four ends with a bedtime story about how we should be freed by our doubts, not imprisoned by them.
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