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Jim West <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 13 Nov 2013 08:32:10 -0500
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Why is it necessary to call me inscrutable?   Do you think toxicology is unnecessary?

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Sam has my sympathy in this exchange. Like him, I can't
make out what study you think ought to have been done
that wasn't. Is your inscrutability deliberate?

Chandler

On Tue, 12 Nov 2013, Jim West wrote:

> Sam,
>
> The assumption of toxicity is not necessary, nor the finding of toxicity, nor the separation of views.
>
> Required is the toxicological context to actually understand any disease, perceived "successful" recovery, and the characteristics of any suspect microbe.
>
> Without the toxicology, fundamental data is missing from the picture, any picture related to AIDS, including your hypothesis of ?ARV success?. It's basic science.
>
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> That assumes that his specimens are toxic, I think.
>
> The trouble with your argument here is that it avoids the point I have been making: The intervention methods based on the HIV theory worked. Lots of people got well and did not die.
>
> Until you have an answer to that bit of history, you are just saying "You did not play in my sandbox so I don't like you any more."
>
> However, I will play in your sandbox a little:
>
> Exactly what toxicological studies do you think should have been done?
>
> Maybe what you wanted was in fact done and maybe I know about it.
>
> What hypotheses, or kinds of hypotheses, do you think should have been tested?

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