I find it odd that Kary Mullis is listed on that as an “AIDS researcher”. Ill have to admit that Im not up on everything Kary did and worked on but there is a video floating around out there where Kary relays a story about an idea he had and his effort to get ahold of some of the original HIV research. The video is 20(?) or so years old by his appearance so he might have changed his mind along the way but at the time he was convinced that there was no HIV virus.
He didnt say in the video exactly what the idea was. He talked to a number of “experts” of the time on HIV but they were no help. He said he had attempted to get information on the original research from Fauci and [NIH? CDC?] as a starting point for his research. He couldnt get any response. Shortly thereafter he saw Montagnier at an event so he decided to ask him about it. All Montagnier would offer was references to papers on (attempted quote follows) “a similar but not the same thing in monkeys.”
His conclusion, at least at that time, was basically that if the two involved in discovering AIDS couldnt offer any proof then it didnt exist. At that time he has other ideas of what it was.
I guess that it would technically be “AIDS research” if he was trying to prove that HIV didnt exist and that something else was happening to these people but that certainly isnt what most people would understand as “AIDS research”, as in “attempting to find a cure”.
A hypothetical disease of the immune system that may bear some relation to the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Mullis KB. Genetica. 1995;95(1-3):195-7. doi: 10.1007/BF01435010. PMID: 7744261 No abstract available. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7744261/