The Fight Against AIDS | Placebos and Profits | 2

American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Four years into the AIDS epidemic, scientists discover a drug that may treat the disease: AZT. But the new drug quickly becomes mired in controversy -- over how it's tested, its potential side effects, and its astronomical price tag.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American innovations, add free on Amazon music.
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0:07.0	It's March 10, 1987.
0:17.5	It's March 10, 1987.
0:20.4	Six years into the AIDS epidemic.
0:23.1	At the Lesbian and Gay Community Center in Greenwich Village, New York, Larry Kramer
0:27.4	stands at a metal music stand, watching his audience take their seats.
0:32.7	Among the 250 or so people gathered are leaders of some of the city's most important AIDS advocacy
0:38.7	groups.
0:39.7	Leaders that, to Kramer's mind, have failed to rise to the urgency of the crisis.
0:45.3	Tonight Kramer hopes to change that.
0:49.6	He begins by pointing at the audience.
0:52.3	Everyone from this style on over, could you stand up please?
0:55.7	I want two thirds of you standing.
1:00.5	Now look around the room.
1:01.8	At the rate we're going, everyone you see standing will be dead in five years.
1:07.2	Two thirds of you, dead from this disease.
1:10.0	Now, what are you going to do to save yourselves?
1:14.5	Kramer's confrontational style got him kicked out of the organization he co-founded six
1:19.2	years ago, gay men's health crisis.
1:21.8	But he refuses to change tactics.
1:24.4	He scowls at the crowd through his wire rimmed glasses.
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