{"id":1371,"date":"2005-07-06T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2005-07-06T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T14:53:00","slug":"baiting-the-tiger-hiv-revisited-what-constitutes-sufficient-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1371","title":{"rendered":"baiting the tiger:  HIV revisited, what constitutes sufficient evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, can&#8217;t resist.<\/p>\n<p>So, I ask you, <lj user=richie73> and <lj user=elo_sf> and anyone else who is convinced that HIV does not cause AIDS: what would constitute sufficient evidence that HIV _is_ the cause of AIDS?<\/p>\n<p>And I ask those of us who believe that HIV does cause AIDS: what would constitute sufficient proof to convince us that it does not?<\/p>\n<p><!--more I'll start-->I would want controlled, independently replicated studies with the following results:  People with both HIV and AIDS (to avoid issues of inherent HIV resistance), cured of AIDS without affecting the HIV levels in the bloodstream or cured of AIDS via methods which do not relate to the mechanisms specified by current theories of how HIV works (e.g. the nutritional therapy idea).<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t come up with an experiment under which you can be proven wrong, you&#8217;re adhering to dogma, not science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, can&#8217;t resist. So, I ask you, and and anyone else who is convinced that HIV does not cause AIDS: what would constitute sufficient evidence that HIV _is_ the cause of AIDS? And I ask those of us who believe that HIV does cause AIDS: what would constitute sufficient proof to convince us that it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1371\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;baiting the tiger:  HIV revisited, what constitutes sufficient evidence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,46],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-commentary","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}