A heavily publicized survey of doctors that showed 7 out of 10 questioning Hillary Clinton's physical readiness to be president was conducted online by a far-right medical group whose fringe beliefs have been widely debunked in the past.

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons said Thursday that 71 per cent of its members who responded to an 'informal' Internet survey believe c oncerns about Hillary Clinton's health are 'serious' and 'could be disqualifying for the position of President of the U.S.'

The Drudge Report, an influential news aggregation website, featured the results in giant headline letters for half of the day. Along with conservative media outlets, the site has featured dozens of stories about Clinton's physical stamina and the effects of a 2012 concussion on her cognitive abilities.

Not mentioned on Thursday was the political partisanship of the AAPS, or the group's history of advocating positions that are at odds with mainstream medical science.

ALL GOOD: Hillary Clinton was clobbered on Thursday by survey results that suggested most doctors doubted she was healthy enough to be president – but the group behind the news is on the scientific fringes

'NO POSITION ON WHAT CAUSES AIDS': Association of American Physicians and Surgeons executive director Dr. Jane Orient said Friday that the HIV-AIDS link is just a 'hypothesis'

CRISIS: About 1.8 million people die every year from HIV-AIDS and related medical complications, but the AAPS publishes articles from conspiracy theorists and dissenters who see giant holes in the medical research explaining the disease

Dr. Jane Orient, the group's executive director, told DailyMail.com on Friday that the AAPS 'has no position on what causes AIDS,' for instance.

'Unlike some organizations, we do not take the position that thou shalt not question certain dogmas such as the HIV/AIDS hypothesis.'

Her group's scientific journal featured an editorial in 2005 written by the group's chief lawyer, the son of the late conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, arguing that there is 'a link between abortion and breast cancer.'

That same year the AAPS published an article claiming that illegal immigrants were bringing a plague of leprosy to the United States, a claim that turned out to be false.

The journal's most recent issue promotes the argument that mandatory flu vaccines for medical workers represent 'misinformation and corruption in a multimillion-dollar vaccination industry.'

A series of articles have promoted the idea that 'shaken baby syndrome' is a myth – with infant deaths in those cases actually caused by childhood vaccines.

CANCER FACTORY? The AAPS's journal has promoted the idea of a link between anortions and breast cancer

Others have promoted the idea that HIV does not cause AIDS, and that gay men's life expectancy is as much as 20 years shorter than that of heterosexuals.

'Nearly half of today’s gay and bisexual 20- year-olds,' a published article concluded, won't 'reach their 65th birthday.'

That was based on a Canadian study that only applied to HIV-positive AIDS sufferers, however.

During the national debate over health insurance reform in 2009, its leaders organized trips aboard 'Tea Party Express' buses to Houston, Texas to protest the American Medical Association's endorsement of Obamacare legislation.

AAPS members staged a live reading of objectionable portions of the bill outside the AMA's annual meeting.

BIG SPLASH: The Drudge Report touted the AAPS survey Thursday in giant red letters

Orient, the group's day-to-day leader, promoted her organization's informal poll on Thursday, saying that 'physicians and other voters think that health concerns are relevant when choosing a presidential candidate.'

Most voters, she added, are 'not aware of all of Clinton's problems or their potential serious long-term implications for cognitive function.'