Questioning HIV/AIDS: Morally Reprehensible or Scientifically Warranted?

Questioning HIV/AIDS: Morally Reprehensible or

Scientifically Warranted?

Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 12 Number 4
Winter 2007

Henry H. Bauer, Ph.D.

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"...As already

noted, from the very beginning defenders of the mainstream

consensus have steadily declined, indeed specifically refused to

engage in substantive discussion.

We will not:

Engage in any public or private debate with AIDS

denialists or respond to requests from journalists who overtly supportAIDS denialist causes. The reasons are:

1. The debate has been settled: HIVcausesAIDS….

2. The information proving the above is already in the

peer-reviewed science literature….

3. Our time is better spent conducting research into

HIV/AIDS and/or educating the general public…."

"...The HIV =AIDS believers insist that the mainstream consensus

is so overwhelming that dissentersmust bewrong. History of science

is not kind to this argument. As scientific understanding has

advanced, sooner or later the most firmly held mainstream views

have been modified, indeed often overturned completely. Near the

end of the 19 century it was the consensus that all the major

discoveries had already been made—just before the Second

Scientific Revolution turned on their heads the firmly held beliefs

about atoms and much else. Medical science firmly believed that

schizophrenia could be cured by infecting the sufferer with malaria

(Nobel Prize, 1927) or by cutting out bits of brain (Nobel Prize, 1949)

before settling—for themoment?—on drugs.Diseases like mad cow

disease were firmly believed to be caused by lentiviruses (Nobel

Prize, 1976) until the firm belief became that they are caused not by

viruses but by prions (Nobel Prize, 1997). The proper, historically

informed questions to ask are:How likely is it that HIV/AIDS theory

will be significantly modified at some future time? What is likely to

stimulate modification?When is that likely to happen?..."