Author: Bialy
Date: 21 Jun 2000 9:59PM
The inclusion of Weiss R.A and Jaffe, H.W. (1990). Duesberg, HIV and AIDS.
Nature, 345, 659-660, as one of the three key references supporting the HIV etiology of AIDS and representing the 'overwhelming evidence' attesting to this gives me the opportunity to quote once more from my authorized biography in progress of Prof. Duesberg.
In a section dealing with the replies in the scientific literature to his PNAS 1989 review by his peers that precedes by a few pages the previous post in which I refer to the important exception to the frivolousness of Weiss & Jaffe represented by Walter Gilbert's use of PNAS '89 as the basic text of his graduate seminar in critical thinking in molecular biology (cf. "An explanation ..." of 14 June) I write :
"But really, why should anybody take the trouble to assemble a detailed rebuttal to the Berkeley professor? There was such "overwhelming evidence" who could be bothered reading let alone replying to all of the "molecular minutiae" and "miasmal" thinking of the "flat-earther" Duesberg? Or so said Robin Weiss and Walter Jaffe in the editorial pages of Nature in 1990, echoing with a bit more style, but equal incoherence the sentiments of Anthony Fauci ranting in the pages of Science two years earlier about 'confusing everybody'. Their "Duesberg, HIV and AIDS" came with the now requisite page-dominating portrait, this time a not totally unflattering cartoon caricature that actually looked a little like Maddox (endnote), and went very well with the surreal picture of Peter and his "theories" that they painted in two full pages of diatribe masquerading as discourse.
This harsh and personalized assessment of the scientific quality of the Weiss and Jaffe piece is not contradicted by the fact that even though the two names belong to high ranking bishops in the AIDS church, and their pronouncements were given the most prominent of displays by a leading ecclesiastical publication, it has only been cited 14 times over the past decade according to a detailed pub med search."
That is until it became part of the Durban Declaration's Triadic Proof.
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