Allstat subscribers may recognise me as one who disbelieves the
HIV Hypothesis : that AIDS is due to HIV, and has urged that
statisticians should be playing a role in campaigning for better
scientific reasoning in this field.
The recent International Conference on AIDS and HIV took place
in South Africa, at a time when the South African President,
Thabo Mbeki was inviting a number of persons, including noted AIDS
dissidents, to come to Pretoria to advise him with a view to
whether his medical budget was being wisely disposed. In
response, the Conference organisers issued a world-wide e-mailing
of scientists urging them that if they believed that it was right
to accept the HIV Hypothesis then they should send in their names.
A huge number of electronic signatures were collected and led to
the issuance of 'The Durban Declaration' - a statement on behalf
of scientists worldwide that they upheld the HIV Hypothesis.
Here's the slippery point :
I am told by a respected source that some or all of
the e-mail messages asking for support included a
statement that it was helpful to sign EVEN IF ONE
DID NOT CONSIDER ONESELF TO BE AN EXPERT IN THE
FIELD OF AIDS / HIV .
I haven't seen this message, and would like to do so, and
also to try to assess if this was the usual form or a
variant sent to only a few recipients.
Please, if you received an e-mail message asking you to sign up
for what became the Durban Declaration, or have a friend who
did, then please could you send me a copy? (to me direct,
please, *not* via the allstat list).
If responding, please bear in mind that I will find the
forwarded copy most useful if it includes the full e-mail headers
showing from where the message originated to reach the person
whose support was being requested.
Thanks, as it were, from :
Norman Marsh (about to be overwhelmed?)
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