Everyone Wants A Hand In The Outcome,

In 15 Years We'll Have All The Sequence, A List Of The Genes Everyone Has In Common And Those That Differ Among People. We Know Only Something Like A Tenth Of 1 Percent Of The Sequence At The Moment.

Three Billion Bases Of Dna Sequence Can Be Put On A Single Compact Disc And One Will Be Able To Pull A Cd Out Of One's Pocket And Say, 'here Is A Human Being; It's Me!'

The Community As A Whole Doesn't Listen Patiently To Critics Who Adopt Alternative Viewpoints. Although The Great Lesson Of History Is That Knowledge Develops Through The Conflict Of Viewpoints.

[duesberg] Is Absolutely Correct In Saying That No One Has Proven That Aids Is Caused By The Aids Virus. And He Is Absolutely Correct That The Virus Cultured In The Laboratory May Not Be The Cause Of Aids.

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. 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 .