There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

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.

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

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.