Alan Cantwell



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Alan Cantwell is an American conspiracy theorist, AIDS denialist, retired physician and cancer woo promoter who supports the hypothesis that bacteria cause cancer. He also believes that HIV/AIDS is a man-made disease, a genetically modified organism developed by U.S. Government scientists.

Cantwell is a fan of Wilhelm Reich and his idea of orgone energy He was influenced by the research of who advocated the unsupported theory that a species of bacteria named Progenitor cryptocides was the cause of cancer in humans.

Cantwell invokes a conspiracy theory that cancer microbe research is being suppressed by the medical community:

Cantwell is also supportive of Helena Blavatsky and the idea of a soul:

Cantwell has a number of controversial papers published. He has written the following books:


 * AIDS, the Mystery and the Solution (1986)
 * The Cancer Microbe: The Hidden Killer in cancer, AIDS and other Immune Diseases (1990)
 * Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot (1993)
 * Four Women Against Cancer: Bacteria, Cancer, and the Origin of Life (2005)
 * Aids and the Doctors of Death (2017)

The Encyclopedia of American Loons describes Cantwell as an "utter loon and megalomaniac whose approach to medicine is not science."