Occupation: Mathematician Birth: May 19, 1927 Death: September 12, 2005
Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us..
I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypot….
Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions..
To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology)….
I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior..
Of course, there are diseases of which people die..
What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including….
There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative..
To an extent that undermines classical standards of science, some purported scientific results concerning 'HIV' and 'AIDS' have been handled by press….
Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists..
The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which ….
Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions..
Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization..
If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in t….
They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own atten….
The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world..
Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kap….