Harry Pasternak, an AIDS-denier, wrote an extremely disingenuous letter to Jimbo and the rest of us. Mr. Pasternak falsely claimed that their are no peer-reviewed studies and papers that prove that the HIV virus causes AIDS. For shame.
He is using the same tactic used by certain religious fundamentalists who deny that there are any peer-reviewed papers which prove that Evolution occurs, and the same tactic used by religious fundamentalists who claim that there are no peer-reviewed papers which prove that the world is 4.5 billion years old.
In all such cases there *are* such papers, and in all cases Wikipedia articles *do* link to reputable cites which have vast amounts of peer-reviewed scientific information on this topic. We can add more citations of course, but Pasternak's claim is not meant to improve the article. It is meant to mislead, obfuscate, and push AIDS-denial, and it is written in the same way that Evolution deniers and Holocaust deniers work. They give the appearance of being rational, but they distort statements made by other people, and refuse to accept any evidence at all.
The utter denial of the existence of such peer-reviewed papers is dishonest, and borders on a pathological obesession. We need not take such bizarre rants to this list, for any form of "denial".
On this subject, some good reading material about PEER-REVIEWED studies, can be found here:
http://www2.niaid.nih.gov/newsroom/focuson/hiv00/default.htm
http://www2.niaid.nih.gov/Newsroom/FocusOn/Hiv00/MACSWIHS.htm
Unless these websites don't exist either, and the studies cited within do not exist, and the scientists quoted do not exist....
Robert (RK)
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