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To: pogohere who wrote (53693)	8/17/2009 9:56:01 PM
From: dvdw©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217802

compartmentalists prefer to engage arguments to the slant that the information flows to them. Never expect a compartmentalist to see an holistic problem holisticly...you will die waiting for the responding compartment to receive instructions on A. How to change the subject. B. Deny the subjects veracity c. ignore the facts to the extent the dialog can be shifted to issues under the commanding sub systems control.

To: pogohere who wrote (53693)	8/17/2009 10:56:39 PM
From: 8bits	Respond to of 217802

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.