Oh, and after multiple studies, peptide T turned out to be a worthless drug that was never approved for anything.
In the title card, he hasn’t died of AIDS instead, he has survived six years beyond a misleading diagnosis. Early in the script, Ron is told immediately after his diagnosis that he only has six months to live. Ronald Woodroof died on September 12, 1992, six years after he was diagnosed with the HIV virus.įluconazole and Peptide T are now F.D.A. To drive this point home, another scene has Ron picking up a pamphlet from a literature table during a mostly gay community meeting on AIDS that says, “POPPERS STUDY: POSSIBLE CAUSE OF AIDS.” One of its earliest ancillary theories was that gay men were dying from AIDS because our immune systems couldn’t handle all the party drugs we were using, including poppers. The scene includes a major dog-whistle for the AIDS denialist movement. Rayon starts coughing into a handkerchief, pulls it away, it’s covered with BLOOD. Rayon, extremely sick, holds a bottle of POPPERS, watches Sunny dance around the room amongst the stacked moving boxes. DALLAS BUYERS CLUB APARTMENT - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT It even helps his ailing dad with his Alzheimer’s!Īnother Hollywood addition to Woodroof’s story brought more strange twists: Rayon, Ron’s fictional business partner who would end up being played by Jared Leto, is described in the original script as “a cross-dresser in his early 30s,” and serves as a constant challenge to Ron’s pervasive homophobia-a character trait that, by most accounts, the real Woodruff never displayed. Whatever is making Woodroof sick, an experimental drug called peptide T seems to help.
Her patients start doing better after she rescues them from AZT. Eve immediately pulls all her patients at Dallas Memorial Hospital off AZT, because she becomes convinced the drug itself is killing her AIDS patients.
Even worse, Woodroof becomes a denialist, then convinces his doctor to become one too. An estimated 340,000 lives were lost and 35,000 babies were infected because of Mbeki’s denialism.Īnd now here was a script in which Duesberg, the denialists’ founding nutjob, was an off-screen hero. And a nutty millionaire funded a slick documentary that claimed to expose the scientific fraud around the “harmless virus” HIV.īut most enraging of all, South Africa’s president Thabo Mbeki became a denialist and kept antivirals out of his country from 2000 to 2005, until finally its supreme court intervened. A couple of journalists tried to make their names promoting AIDS denialism.
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