| Iconoclaster 2005-10-26, 10:52 am |
| >"Duesberg thinks that HIV is irrelevant. He has never attempted to work
with HIV. His point in claiming the Continuum prize was to move the
dissident debate from the decidely nutty claim that HIV does not exist to
the more plausible stance that HIV does exist but does not cause AIDS."
That's probably the case. Duesberg may be right, but I doubt it. I don't
find the claim that HIV doesn't exist nutty at all. If it exists, *where
is it?*
Look, these "cloning" experiments are nice kindergarten diversions, but
you can put any old piece of DNA in a plasmid and show that it's
infectious. If you introduce DNA in any cell, it will replicate. That's
what DNA does. Insects inject bacterial DNA into plants. As a result,
Crowngall tumors develop on the stem of the plant.
Who is to say that the DNA they put in a plasmid and cloned had anything
to do with an exogenous virus named HIV? Isolate that sucker! Then we'll
believe it exists.
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