What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

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.

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

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.

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.