The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.

Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.

Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.