Noah talks to R. George Metellus, an epidemiologist who is director of the AIDS, TB, and Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Units at the Dade County Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services. A talk show host on Miami's WLQY-AM radio station had been saying on the air that AIDS is a myth. Metellus says that some AIDS patients have stopped taking medication because they believe the radio broadcast.
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