I seem to recall only a few short years ago that the researchers who suddenly announced a preventative cure for cervical cancer were booed and sullied too.
It's now standard practise.
Are we calling this HIV-derived treatment "snake oil" or just the vitamin C claim?
The HIV as cancer therapy research has been going on for some time, and I can find reference to it going back at least six years:
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/con...5/s1303130.htm