Science Doesn't In The Slightest Depend On

The Virtues Of Science Are Skepticism And Independence Of Thought.

Today We Try To Identify A Gene And Then Study Its Properties.

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 .

We Haven't Been Able Yet To Determine In Terms Of Genes What Makes A Human Being A Human And Not Another Mammal.

We Know Specific Genes Are Turned On In Specific Cells, But We Don't Know To What Extent This Happens.