[Logophile]

But even as some of his ideas rise to the top, Duesberg himself remains stuck at the bottom. Few scientists who have turned their attention to aneuploidy bother to cite Duesberg's work. His lab is down to its last $50,000, and this past year Berkeley officials relieved him of his only remaining teaching duty. Even some scientists who don't agree with Duesberg say that he has been treated unfairly. "The ideological assassinations that he has undergone will remain an embarrassing testament to the reactionary tendencies of modern science," Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, wrote in 1996.

Even if it were discovered that Duesberg had been right all along, don't expect anyone to acknowledge him. Once the scientific establishment declared him a persona non grata, his work disappeared down the memory hole.

[GodGunsGuts]

That's what they would like to think. But tens of thousands of people are keeping the work of Duesberg and other AIDS Rethinker scientists alive all around the globe. The question is, will Duesberg et al be vindicated in this lifetime. That, I'm very sad to say, almost completely depends on politics, which in turn depends on a popular upswelling of grassroots support. It's a long shot, but it has been many time before, so it is most certainly not outside the realm of possibility. All the best--GGG