Harry, I doubt that any scientific paper describing (never mind proving) the connection between the causes and the symptoms of a disease -- *any* disease -- has ever been written before a cure is found. Such a paper can never be written until the full etiology of a disease can be described in detail.
At this stage, the nearest one can get to "proving" the link between the HIV virus and Aids is the overwhelming circumstantial evidence of tens of thousands of medical case notes of those who suffered from HIV and their inevitable (premature) death whatever palliatives were taken. Ray is quite right. You (not the researchers) will have to define HIV and Aids very carefully indeed before you can reasonably expect them to supply a link before they have found a cure. Unlike the circumstantial evidence of global warming due to CO2 where there are many expert climatologists, including some of the world's most eminent, who remain to be convinced, this is a case of one or two maverick scientists only against the opinion of thousands of others. Keith ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
