And lo On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:00:00 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake thusly:

>
http://www.badscience.net/2009/01/what-if-everything-you-thought-you-knew-about-aids-was-wrong/
>
> For reasons I can't entirely put my finger on, I find this whole thing  
> really disturbing.
>
> Maybe I just find it upsetting that hundreds of scientists have spent  
> thousands of man-years pouring research into this lethal disease to find  
> out what causes it, but then some random person goes "hey, actually, I  
> think really you're all wrong - I don't have any logic or evidence, I  
> just believe this, for no particular reason". And now other people  
> actually *believe* this nonesense. And people are dying because of it.

Trouble is occasionaly one of these fruitcakes turns out to be correct and  
due to the highly specialised technical nature of things the general  
public have little way of telling who is and isn't correct (and of course  
there's that latin phrase you know so well).

-- 
Phil Cook

--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com

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