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

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

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

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

If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.

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

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.