Alan Cantwell

Alan Cantwell Jr., MD, (b. 1934, New York, New York), is a retired dermatologist, researcher, and active conspiracy theorist in the field of cancer and AIDS microbiology. He is the author of around 30 published papers between the late 1960s and mid-1980s, predominantly on Kaposi's Sarcoma and other dermatological malignancies related to HIV infection.

More recently, he has written speculative articles on the origin of HIV, suggesting it may have been a released biological warfare virus and/or deliberately put into a Hepatitis B vaccine used in a trial targeted at American homosexuals or black men.

His books are published by Aries Rising, his own imprint which he started in 1984 to disseminate his ideas. He has also been published in New Dawn, an Australian magazine dedicated to "presenting news and information ignored or deliberately suppressed by the mainstream media", Organica, Paranoia, Steamshovel Press, and the New African. He is also a contributor to rense.com.