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.

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.

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

Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.

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.

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