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Roundup Unready
Scientists rarely are the heads of agencies, political appointments rarely go to
scientists. Scientists are perhaps less likely to be dishonest, but are subject to the same pressures as everyone else. In my lectures this week I am talking about what happens when science "goes wrong". They are under the same political, social, economic pressures as everyone else. http://users.megapathdsl.net/~solo/a...d_science.html perhaps no incident points this out better than the search for the cause of AIDS. I show my students the movie "... and the band played on" but there are two books, one is the same title as the movie and the other is "Science fictions". Robert Gallo not only contributed nothing to the search for the cause of AIDS, but he may have well set research back by at least a year ... leading to the death of thousands of people. Case in point: the French came up with a blood test 99.9% accurate in detecting those with the virus. Gallo came up with a blood test that was something like 90.9% accurate in detecting those with the virus, letting 10% of blood from infected people continue to contaminate the blood supply. 1. The French had the European patent and then applied for a US patent on their blood test 1 YEAR before Gallo, guess who got the patent? Gallo. The patent office is a government agency... above politics? 2. The blood centers and everyone else in the US were BARRED from using the French test.. never mind all the false negatives, AND, all the false positives too. So our blood supply continued to be contaminated with HIV. Who barred the use of the better French test? The gov'ment. Who has continually maintained the myth that Gallo discovered the virus that causes HIV, who continues to let Gallo off the hook, covers up for him.... many scientists in the US. Whether they WANT to do that, they do it to cover their own asses out of political, social and economic concerns. Just so my perspective is understood. I am a viral immunologist and was studying persistent viruses at the time the first reports of an unusual disease in gay men came out so I followed every detail. I have been on a board overseeing clinical trials of experimental drugs for treating HIV/AIDS for 8 years. I am a scientist. Ingrid "Frank Logullo" wrote: I'm not familiar with rBGH but it has been my experience that unlike politicians government scientists are honest people. I would add Nader to the politicians list Frank ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. |
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