OTOH, although this is an interesting scientific question, it has surprisingly few political implications. Although there are differences of opinion on how they work, the brute fact of the matter is that antiretroviral drugs do in fact work for AIDS patients, and nothing else does. So for the time being the only important political question revolves around preventing the global economic system from standing between the drugs and the people who need them.
dd -----Original Message----- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dmytri Kleiner Sent: 12 July 2004 18:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: US under fire at AIDS conference On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:01:11AM -0700, Michael Perelman wrote: > How can you defeat an alliance of Christian fundamentalists and the drug companies? This is off topic but: --- qoutes --- "If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There is no such document." Dr. Kary Mullis, Biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. "Up to today there is actually no single scientifically really convincing evidence for the existence of HIV. Not even once such a retrovirus has been isolated and purified by the methods of classical virology." Dr. Heinz Ludwig S�nger, Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology and Virology, Max-Planck-Institutes for Biochemy, M�nchen. --- end --- I am not a scientist, but statements like these make me wonder about the whole AIDS thing.
