Editing Michael Callen (section)

=== Opposition ===
Despite his career and prominence as an activist, Callen was met with resentment, suspicion and opposition from others. Since he was diagnosed with AIDS in 1982 and survived over a decade, people speculated as to whether his diagnosis was real or fabricated to get attention. He responded to that criticism by releasing his medical reports and pictures of his lungs which showed his pulmonary Kaposi's Sarcoma.<ref name=":02"/> Additionally, Callen stood by his belief in the multifactorial theory when there was scientific proof that HIV was the cause of AIDS.

Callen openly questioned the HIV theory of AIDS and was especially critical of [[AZT]] [[monotherapy]] when it was first introduced: "The HIV paradigm has produced nothing of value for my life and I actually believe that treatments based on the arrogant belief that HIV has proven to be the sole and sufficient cause of AIDS has hastened the deaths of many of my friends."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.immunity.org.uk/videos.html|title=Immunity Resource Foundation – Meditel Film and Video Archive|publisher=Immunity.org.uk|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130807120900/http://immunity.org.uk/videos.html|archivedate=August 7, 2013|url-status=dead|accessdate=March 31, 2013}}</ref>