However , in the '' Discover Magazine '' interview Margulis said that " the set of symptoms , or syndrome , presented by syphilitics overlaps completely with another syndrome : AIDS , " and also noted that Kary Mullis said that " he went looking for a reference substantiating that HIV causes AIDS and discovered , ' There is no such document . ' " This provoked a widespread supposition that Margulis had been an " AIDS denialist . " Notably Jerry Coyne reacted on his '' Why Evolution is True '' blog against his interpretation that Margulis believed " that AIDS is really syphilis , not viral in origin at all . " Seth Kalichman , a social psychologist who studies behavioral and social aspects of AIDS , cited her 2009 paper as an example of AIDS denialism " flourishing " , and asserted that her " endorsement of HIV/AIDS denialism defies understanding . " Margulis argued that the September 11 attacks were a " false-flag operation , which has been used to justify the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as unprecedented assaults on ... civil liberties . " She claimed that there was " overwhelming evidence that the three buildings of the World Trade Center collapsed by controlled demolition . "
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