AIDS & Conspiracy Stuff??

[Meg Larson]

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> From: RICHARD ROMEO <RR.TFCNY at mail.fdncenter.org>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: RE: AIDS & Conspiracy Stuff??
> Date: Wednesday, June 11, 1997 3:00 PM
> 
> With regards to Mr. Duesberg's theories and all the vehemence against 
> him:  Maybe his ideas are wrong, but geez people, could any of you 
> without a M.D. after your name argue specifics with those who are 
> professional scientists?  Seems when it comes to AIDS (not to mention 
> cancer, et al) we need as many scientists working as possible, expounding

> upon radical therapies.  
>
At least someone is trying to look at AIDS from all angles.  Crackpot or
not, it seems that Don Francis and his compadres at the CDC were considered
crackpots when they posited the theory that AIDS was _not_ exclusively a
gay disease.  You want to talk assholes or crackpots as far as AIDS is
concerned, look no further than one Dr. Robert Gallo of the NIH.  His
theories helped lead to the discovery of the nature of the virus, but he
didn't want to share the credit with the French doctors who were studying
it at the same time.  Francis wounded Gallo's ego, which shouldn't have
been an issue at all.  While Gallo is most certainly not a crackpot, he is
definitely an egomaniacal asshole.  And maybe Duesberg is wrong, but so
were the PTB in the blood industry who refused to believe that transfusions
were a method of infection, in the face of the evidence, and consequently
let a large number of hemophiliacs die before they got the message.
Meg 
 
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