Sam,
Granted, you are not a toxicologist. Neither are you an epidemiologist, nor are you a virologist. Yet, you have very strong opinions in favor of HIV causation, despite the missing toxicology.
I'm looking for the toxicological studies for AIDS causation. They should be rigorous, not conjecture, and they should be at the cell, animal, human, and epidemiological level, and they should substantially fail, if they are to support the HIV theory of causation. These studies should have occurred during the discovery era of the AIDS epidemics. I doubt any such studies are to be found.
Jim
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I am not a toxicologist, so I am trying to understand exactly what you are getting at. I am also pointing out that the evidence suggests that toxicological explanations would not fit the epidemiologic data. The only attempts I know of to make toxicological arguments had to do with early thinking that drug use overload (heroin, cocaine, maybe some club drugs of 70s) might explain AIDS. These did not work out, as I partially explained below.
Do you know of any other efforts on this? And do you have any reason to think that the network-based data that strongly imply person to person transmission are inadequate?
best
sam
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Subject: Re: HIV AIDS and toxicology
Sam, You are speculating from non-toxicological studies. Apparently you are
unaware of any such toxicology studies.
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If by that you mean where is the evidence that exposures to chemicals or
whatever are not important causes, the Auerbach et al (1984??) study that showed
the sexual networks connecting AIDS cases was pretty good evidence that personal
contact was involved. The evidence that only injecting drug use was involved in
the early AIDS cases among drug users suggested pretty strongly that drug
toxicity was not a critical factor, as has the wide variety of different
injection drugs in different countries that have been associated with AIDS risk.
And, again, if it is toxic exposures, then medicines that target a specific
virus should not have been so effective at reducing both AIDS incidence and AIDS
deaths
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Subject: HIV AIDS and toxicology
Sam, Thanks for your reply.
Rephrasing my question:
Where is the toxicology of AIDS? Toxicology should be a primary area of study
for an emerging disease. Otherwise, characterizations of a causal virus could
be severely biased.
Jim
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