Charles Murtaugh points out that Peter Duesberg isn’t always wrong-and that his heterodox HIV-does-not-cause-AIDS schtick probably retarded acceptance of a hypothesis that might have some validity in relation to the cause of cancer. The bad of science? Personality and politics are important. The good of it? Overwhelming evidence will always drag a slow-poke tortise theory weighed down by extraneous baggage over the finish line. Evidence is more important in the end.
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