Why is it necessary to call me inscrutable? Do you think toxicology is unnecessary? ======= 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. > > =============== > 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?