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19 hours ago
If HIV is not the sole cause of AIDS, then the effort to fight the disease is in chaos. In fact, we wouldn't even know what disease-or how many different diseases-we are fighting. HIV is the glue that holds together an amorphous syndrome of usually common and nonlethal ailments that are hitting uncommon groups of people or becoming strangely lethal.
If HIV is not the sole cause of AIDS, then five years of desperate searching for a way to kill a virus in already infected people-a feat that has never been accomplished with any virus-might have been spent more productively on another course of research.
For scientists, the idea at this late date that HIV is not a lone assassin is the worst possible news. In the bars outside medical conferences and in off-the-record conversations, dozens of AIDS researchers admit they are disturbed by the persistent failure of the most monumental medical research effort in the nation's history to yield clear proof that HIV is a lone assassin.
Yet in public, and on-the-record, few will express those doubts. "I'd bet my professional reputation that something more than HIV is involved in this disease," said one federally funded AIDS researcher. "But I wouldn't bet my grants, my ability to work."
If there is fear about questioning the established line of thought, it is not because there is any conspiracy against skeptics: It is the intuitive understanding that the last thing anybody wants to hear is what the skeptics are saying. It is just too scary.
"What epidemiologist or federal official wants to admit that the entire thrust of research and education might be misguided?" asks Robin Haueter, an AIDS activist in New York City. "What person with AIDS wants to consider the horrendous thought that we have wasted five years of research, that the end might not be anywhere in sight?
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Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
"Grief" is a new Musica Amente song created with Suno A.I.
Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
Sunday Jun 29, 2025
Sunday Jun 29, 2025
Friday Jun 27, 2025
Friday Jun 27, 2025
Saturday Jun 21, 2025
"Intangible," a new Musica Amente album created with the help of Suno A.I.
Saturday Jun 21, 2025
Saturday Jun 21, 2025
Listen to more Musica Amente songs on Spotify.
1. Intangible
2. D-Day
3. Pack of Lies
4. Science
5. When I Hear You Sing
6. A Heart Must Die
7. Your Best Days
8. My Other Half
9. I Never Thought You'd Die
10. Intangible (Closing Version)
Saturday May 31, 2025
Preview of "Careless People," a new album created with the help of Suno A.I.
Saturday May 31, 2025
Saturday May 31, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
The New Yorker Got It Wrong!
Thursday May 22, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
Where were The New Yorker fact checkers?
Saturday May 17, 2025
"The Paycheck Rodeo," a new Musica Amente song created with the help of Suno A.I.
Saturday May 17, 2025
Saturday May 17, 2025
Friday May 16, 2025
Friday May 16, 2025