Robert Willner

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Robert E. Willner (1929–1995) was an American doctor who argued that AIDS is not caused by HIV. He began as a traditional physician but later moved toward alternative medicine, influenced in part by his wife’s cancer treatment. In 1990 his Florida medical license was suspended for making inappropriate medical claims about food products. He wrote a book, Deadly Deception, arguing there is no link between HIV and AIDS. The book came out soon after he was disciplined for treating an AIDS patient with ozone therapy. In 1994 he held a Greensboro, North Carolina press conference and claimed a blood sample he showed came from an HIV-infected patient. Willner was influenced by Peter Duesberg, whose AIDS-denial ideas are not supported by science. He died of a heart attack in 1995.