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I was responding to your claim that "he thinks", not the claim that all these other scientists that he covers in a book think. Anthony Fauci used to spread mi

• dekhn 3y ago
  the first reported cases of HIV/AIDS were around 1981, he said that in 1983, and at the time, we actually didn't know very much about transmission. 1983 was the year that HIV was determined to be the cause of AIDS. That's not spreading misinformation because nobody at the time really knew any better for sure, and the precautionary principle applies in this case. Further, he went on to be one of the "heroes" of HIV/AIDS. I was so terrified of HIV/AIDS at that time that I went into drug discovery research and later worked with people who helped develop anti-HIV drugs (protease and transcriptase inhibitors). To hear people today try to discredit Fauci for doing his job is just painful to watch. It took decades of hard research before we really understood the nature of transmission. I believe the current understanding is mucous membranes between two people touching has a measurable but very small rate (.01% of exposures lead to infection).