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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (11318)10/27/1998 11:36:00 AM
From: Johannes Pilch  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
>True, sometimes crackpots are right. More often, they're wrong.<

But this is really quite besides the point, you see. Mullis should not be required to have answers to the AIDS question before pointing out an error in methodology. If it is true that scientists in this area are generally marching in accordance with a paradigm handed to them (and not in accordance with the pure facts), then he may very well point out the deficiency.

I never heard him, by the way, claim that HIV did not in fact cause AIDS, and likely he would agree that perhaps it does. His point seems to be that the correspondences between HIV and AIDS do not prove causality and yet science has rushed headlong down an HIV rabbit trail as if it does. He seems to say science needs first to find the AIDS culprit definitively, before assuming it is HIV. And this is reasonable.

Now again, I do not know if he is correct in all his claims, and that HIV is not the culprit in AIDS is irrelevant to my point. My point concerns the fact that a Noble Prize winning scientist claims serious myopia exists within the scientific community, a fact that despite that scientist's spiritual views, leaves me not a bit surprised since I myself have suspected the very same thing.
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