> On 16 May 2007 04:38:21 -0700, rocketscience
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> By the way, chicken sh.t, your name is not rocketscience.
If it's not Stephen Allen it's probably Stephen Davis:
http://www.reviewingaids.org/awiki/index.php/Stephen_Davis
The "fact or fraud" video is so old it has apparently has Walter
Gilbert in it. I emailed Gilbert a while ago to see what his views are
these days, this is his reply (I did not claim to be a doctor, by the
way):
-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Gilbert [mailto:
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 10:27 PM
To: richard.jefferys@
Subject: Re: question
Dear Dr. Jeffreys---I am afraid that those comments go back to the
late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic--the argument based on
Koch's postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association.
However, even during that time we had several AIDS projects going
within Biogen--one to try to stimulate T-independent B-cell activation
(a pet approach of mine), another to develop soluble CD4--to use as an
antiviral agent. That second project got to clinical trials (and
failed
because the virus in patients didn't have the high affinity for CD4
that the lab-grown virus had.)
Today I would regard the success of the many antiviral agents
which lower the virus titers (to be expected) and also resolve the
failure of the immune system (only expected if the virus is the cause
of the failure) as a reasonable proof of the causation argument.
yours truly
Walter Gilbert
GMCarter - 17 May 2007 02:01 GMT
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>these days, this is his reply (I did not claim to be a doctor, by the
>way):
Yes--a little inspection shows the list of "denialists" to be a fraud.
Thanks for this update.
Like the Frod Show....who "rocketscience" resembles.
I had a similar experience when I asked Root-Bernstein, who is pretty
convinced HIV causes AIDS but still avers a co-factor may be
necessary. Or maybe not.
George M. Carter
Chris Noble - 17 May 2007 09:29 GMT
> > On 16 May 2007 04:38:21 -0700, rocketscience
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> Walter Gilbert
Stephen Allen aka "Truth Please" is now aware that Gilbert has changed
his opinions.
http://groups.google.com.au/group/misc.health.aids/msg/da6a9e1d939040b4?hl=en&
"I don't think you can conclude that Gilbert, has indeed, changed his
mind. Remember that in the context of the letter you posted he openly
admitted that he was now working under research funding to find
medical
treatments that would boost CD4 counts and lower viral load which may
or may not have anything to do with HIV infection. (and he used the
parenthesis to illustrate this perspective) I have often asked
myself,
would I change my mind about HIV as the cause of AIDS if someone
offered me a million bucks? hmmmmmm, well maybe....On second thought.
Naaaaa! "
Denial is an answer all of reality's inconveniences!
Stephen Allen is also a rabid 911 conspiracy theorist.
Chris Noble
RJ - 17 May 2007 16:19 GMT
> > > On 16 May 2007 04:38:21 -0700, rocketscience
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> Chris Noble
Not surprising, but Allen has (deliberately?) misread Gilbert's email.
Gilbert resigned from Biogen in 1984, so the work on soluble CD4 he
refers to in the email was started at a time when he was *publicly
supporting Duesberg.* Gilbert's last Biotech venture, the Genome
Corporation, failed in 1987.
So nobody offered Gilbert a million bucks to do anything and he as no
financial interest in AIDS treatment.