Notorious AIDS-denial quack has died...

[Archae]

Paul Fleiss, M.D., dead at 80. Professor William M. London has posted a lengthy report on the activities of Paul M. Fleiss, M.D., who was on the wrong side of many quackery-related issues. [London WM. Medical Renegade Paul M. Fleiss, M.D. Dead at 80. Skeptic Ink Blog, Aug 12, 2014] The report notes:

In 1995 he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and making false statements to a federally insured bank related to a mortgage application for a home that his daughter (Heidi Fleiss, the Hollywood Madam) was using for purposes of prostitution.

In 2007, the California Medical Board disciplined him for failing to properly care for two children who were HIV-positive. One was a 4-year old boy whom Fleiss failed to adequately diagnose or treat. The other was a 3-year-old girl who was HIV-positive and subsequently died of AIDS-related pneumonia. The girl was the daughter of Christine Maggiore, who had become an outspoken denier of HIV as the causal agent of AIDS after she tested positive for HIV.

He was a prominent advocate of raw (unpasteurized) milk.

He supported a delayed vaccination schedule rather than the standard schedule recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

[Warpy]

1. If he didn't die in prison for extreme malpractice

resulting in the death of a child, then there is no justice.

Please tell me the old quack died of brucellosis from that raw milk.

[LeftishBrit]

3. According to the less-than-reliable Daily Mail, he died as a delayed result of injuries suffered in

a road accident.

And no, he was apparently never even struck off, let alone put in prison.

[AlbertCat]

2. Perhaps he now thinks he's not really dead....

....yet.