Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

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

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

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

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.