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> In the late 1990s there were still medical scientists who questioned the causal link between HIV and AIDS This is how science works. Being right is not "sci
by FollowingTheDao 2y ago
> In the late 1990s there were still medical scientists who questioned the causal link between HIV and AIDS
This is how science works. Being right is not "science". Science is verb. If the questioners were right we would be calling them heroes.
- pavlov 2y agoI said as much in my comment, pointing out that these scientists with differing takes were not the bad guys: “These scientists believed they were asking reasonable questions and pointing out potential inaccuracies.” The bad guys were the people who took this receding debate within the field as evidence of conspiracies and worse, and convinced thousands of people to treat their AIDS condition with quackery instead of effective drugs derived from the HIV-AIDS theory. The organized denialism killed people. That’s not science.
- wordofx 2y agoWell with climate change we have no scientists saying otherwise because we see they get attacked and lose funding by the quackery of the public and governments. As evident by the idiots on HN.
- pavlov 2y agoFunding is a red herring. Powerful interests would love to fund serious climate science that could assure the status quo is fine. If only they could find serious climate scientists willing to claim that. Fifty years ago, there was no shortage of funding for medical scientists who tried to prove that tobacco didn't cause cancer. (You can guess where that funding came from.)