Michael Larkin
Member
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/HIVAIDS/Understanding/howHIVCausesAIDS/Pages/HIVcausesAIDS.aspx
I have include a rough outline below but the full details are at the link...
This is the view from the HIV causes AIDS group. Meanwhile, we have the evidence from the opposition. Like you said, it is almost impossible for people to assess the truth. The two sides aren't talking to one another, but past one another. The issue isn't so much whether HIV causes AIDS, but whether dissension is tolerated. Peter Duesberg may be right or wrong, but there's no doubting what happened to him as a result of his contrarianism.
Luc Montagnier is a bit of a queer fish: he got his Nobel for discovery of HIV (which he initially labelled LAV) and it was Gallo who implicated it in AIDS. But even Montagnier's contribution wasn't enough for him to evade censure for his work on the structure of water, broadly supportive of homeopathy, where the discussion is as closed as it is in the HIV-AIDS case.
Like I said, even a Nobel doesn't exclude one from the unfavourable attentions of the inquisition.