Posted on 12/16/2007 6:00:09 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
...Regardless of whether Duesberg is right about HIV, his case, like Fishbein's, lays bare the political machinery of American science, and reveals its reflexive hostility to ideas that challenge the dominant paradigm. Such hostility is not unusual in the history of science, but the contemporary situation is dramatically different from those faced by maverick scientists in the past. Today's scientists are almost wholly dependent upon the goodwill of government researchers and powerful peer-review boards, who control a financial network binding together the National Institutes of Health, academia, and the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. Many scientists live in fear of losing their funding. “Nobody is safe,” one NIH-funded researcher told me. “The scientific-medical complex is a $2 trillion industry,” says former drug developer Dr. David Rasnick, who now works on nutrition-based AIDS programs in Pretoria, South Africa. “You can buy a tremendous amount of consensus for that kind of money.”
You have to write a grant a year almost. And you have to write four to get one, if you're any good. I got out just in time. Everybody who's still in there says the same thing,” says Berkeley's Strohman. “Before the biotech boom, we never had this incessant urging to produce something useful, meaning profitable. Everybody is caught up in it. Grants, millions of dollars flowing into laboratories, careers and stars being made. The only way to be a successful scientist today is to follow consensus. If you're going to produce something and put it on the market you don't want any goddamn surprises. You've got the next quarter to report and you don't want any bad news. It's all about the short term now. Science has totally capitulated to corporate interests. Given their power and money, it's going to be very hard to work our way out of this.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at harpers.org ...
Someone asked for a more recent paper...here it is—GGG
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Too much of what passes for science these days is mere statistical correlation, not cause-and-effect testing.
While I don't know that the money's in the same range, the same thing could be said for globull warming.
GGG's creed is blatently anti-capitalist. It is Ralph Naderism at its finest. Big corporations are evil. Little guys who peddle vitamins and coffee enemas are good. It is so 1968.
==GGG’s creed is blatently anti-capitalist.
Is the Hoover Institution’s “Policy Review” anti-capitalist?
http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/pdpolicy.htm
Is Reason Magazine anti-capitalist?
http://www.duesberg.com/articles/kmreason.html
Is American Spectator anti-capitalist?
http://virusmyth.net/aids/data/tbafrica.htm
C’mon JS, even you aren’t that low. Surely you can do better than that?
Correcting Gallo: Rethinking AIDS Responds to Harper’s ‘Out of Control’ Critics
http://rethinkingaids.com/GalloRebuttal/overview.html
Correcting Gallo: Rethinking AIDS Responds to Harper’s ‘Out of Control’ Critics
http://rethinkingaids.com/GalloRebuttal/overview.html
Duesberg is a genius - and it’s not just him.
His former student, Mullis, invented PCR and the techniques used to “test for aids.”
Only HE says the tests they use are wrong - it doesn’t measure viral load of a specific virus. It measures lots of other stuff too!
Michael Chrichton also has a lot to say on this subject.
I post them because one of your allies on this site claims the decline in AIDS mortality can be attributed to decline in treatment. I'm merely pointing out that the consumers for treatment are the ones with the strongest motive to examine the facts and make wise decisions.
I am not sympathetic to do-gooders who bash capitalism and assume that consumers are too stupid to make their own decisions.
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I’m so glad you said that! I keep repeating in my head — correlation doesn’t equal causation!
I just find it interesting that I post conservative articles re: AIDS and you post gay/liberal articles.
You are absolutely correct. The exact same thing is repeating itself re: the anti-human agenda driving global warming.
He, like many of his kind, sold out and now they’re blaming us for believing them?
Let them eat yellow cake.
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