Readers of the Royal Statistical Society's newsletter : RSS News, may
recall an exchange of letters, in the January 1999 issue, regarding
events in an Ordinary Meeting of RSS in which the authors of a
paper concerned with modelling the spread of AIDS refused to
engage with critics of the 'HIV Hypothesis' (the hypothesis that AIDS
is caused by HIV infection) on which their work was predicated. The
authors assertedthat criticism of the HIV Hypothesis is not a serious
scientific position.
As a member of RSS and a critic of the HIV Hypothesis, I have
responded to this disagreement by publishing a World-Wide-Web
resource which reviews the arguments about establishment of the
causation of AIDS in a manner which may be accessible to
statisticians and other scientifically-oriented persons who
lack medical training. This resource was announced in the
May 1999 issue of RSS News; however at the date of that
announcement the resource was not quite in its complete and final
form.
The resource *is* now available in what may be its final form. The
URL to access the main/home page of the resource is :
http://www.liv.ac.uk/~jw34/epidem_logic/main.html
Also workable is the pointer URL mentioned in the announcement
in RSS News : http://www.liv.ac.uk/epidem-logic.html .
Please consider accessing and reading this resource - the matters
which it covers are of considerable real-world importance in
addition to the academic interest. I would be pleased to receive
any responses - from experts or from other interested persons -
wherther or not they agree with me on this issue.
Norman Marsh
University of Liverpool
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