That is why the drug companies are not happy with the conference, which wants access to cheap drugs.
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:26:06PM +0100, Daniel Davies wrote: > OTOH, although this is an interesting scientific question, it has > surprisingly few political implications. Although there are differences of > opinion on how they work, the brute fact of the matter is that > antiretroviral drugs do in fact work for AIDS patients, and nothing else > does. So for the time being the only important political question revolves > around preventing the global economic system from standing between the drugs > and the people who need them. > > dd > > -----Original Message----- > From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dmytri > Kleiner > Sent: 12 July 2004 18:01 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: US under fire at AIDS conference > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:01:11AM -0700, Michael Perelman wrote: > > > How can you defeat an alliance of Christian fundamentalists and the drug > companies? > > This is off topic but: > > --- qoutes --- > > "If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific > documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at > least with a high probability. There is no such document." > > Dr. Kary Mullis, Biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. > > > "Up to today there is actually no single scientifically really convincing > evidence for the existence of HIV. Not even once such a retrovirus has > been isolated and purified by the methods of classical virology." > > Dr. Heinz Ludwig Sänger, Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology and > Virology, Max-Planck-Institutes for Biochemy, München. > > --- end --- > > I am not a scientist, but statements like these make me wonder about the > whole AIDS thing. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
