Serge Lang Quotes

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• Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.
• Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.
• Of course, there are diseases of which people die.
• Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
• Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.
• There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.
• They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention,…
• To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical…
• What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.
• I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis,…
• I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.
• If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the…
• Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.
• Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests.

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