Suppose he had proved, once and for all, that Peter Duesberg, Karry Mullis, Mbeki, Hodgkinson, Lauritsen, Fintan Dunne, etc, and let's not forget Serge Lang, were all right; HIV is not the cause of AIDS and, possibly, AIDS is not a even a communicable disease. Billions of dollars would be at stake. People have been "disappeared" for far less.
* Too whom it may concern. I beat you to it.
Of course, in Memphis, folks have also *been disappeared* for their shoes. Sometimes their bodies are found; sometimes not.
'Course if those Arkies from 'cross the river got ahold of him, the corpus delecti may be some local family's Thanksgiving dinner and likely will never be found. Bones, maybe.
-archy-/-
I did say, people have been disappeared for far less.