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To: pogohere who wrote (53693)8/17/2009 10:56:39 PM
From: 8bits   of 219931
 
No, I haven't made an argument one way or another. I'm interested in the way the science industry operates.

It would appear to be politicized like almost any institution.

I don't care for the way PD was treated. I don't think he did anything that merited the response he got from the scientific community.

I can see your point.. but I can also see the point that given his credentials and style of argument, his views may have inadvertently led to needless deaths. (He chaired a panel in South Africa for example that dismissed the linkage of HIV and AIDs..) Of course if he is eventually proven correct then he's a hero. I think if he hadn't been so strident and added things in his critique such as the use of condoms during sex is a very wise precaution, etc. he would not have been so widely pilloried. There are a number of scientific research subjects which provoke highly emotion reactions, another is anything correlates race, genetics, and IQ.

Some discussion of the Deuesberg hypothesis:
en.wikipedia.org

By the way, he is still a professor at Berkeley and is also a professor at a German university where he is receiving funding for cancer research, so I would argue he has not been totally cut out of the scientific community.
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