Talk:Scientific controversy over the cause of AIDS

Although two prominent members of my church have question the HIV/AIDS link, I simply don't know enough to have an opinion. That, combined with half a dozen years experience writing neutral articles at Wikipedia, may enable me to present both sides here. --Ed Poor ^Talk 14:03, 7 January 2009 (EST)

I can add plenty to the link, the NIH AIDS Research & Reference Reagent program, https://www.aidsreagent.org/Index.cfm is two doors down from my office.--Able806 14:07, 7 January 2009 (EST)

Excellent. It's always good to have an inside track to a real scientist. I learned a lot from my Wikipedia collaboration with climatologist William Connolley. --Ed Poor ^Talk 14:23, 7 January 2009 (EST)

One Reference

If I may quote the first reference, "Feeding an adequate diet reverses these changes. It cures AIDS!." It was right under our noses! I applaud your attempt, Ed, but this one's going to be a hard one to find evidence for, methinks. Jeffrey W. Lauttamus_Discussion 14:20, 7 January 2009 (EST)

You're referring to the African starvation hypothesis, which clearly is not relevant to the industrialized West. --Ed Poor ^Talk 14:24, 7 January 2009 (EST)

AIDS is AIDS, though, regardless of the setting. Otherwise you're dealing with a different condition, in this case malnutrition versus AIDS. I sincerely doubt that the source reflects someone practicing sound medicine. The nutrition-cures-AIDS one statement undermines the credibility of anything else in that source. I could also add that he's trying to explain cases where AIDS is transmitted via corticosteriods instead of HIV, but there's no provable correlation for this. A better source is needed for credible alternative theories to HIV, and this one should be removed. --DinsdaleP 14:28, 7 January 2009 (EST)

He's attempting to prove that high-dose prednisone and other glucocorticoids cause AIDS, which means that it could not be transmitted between sexual partners, blood transfusions, drug use, etc; these are just behaviors that led to the administration of the aforementioned medications. I think this is an interesting avenue to at least examine, though as I said before, a difficult position to find credible evidence for. Jeffrey W. Lauttamus_Discussion 14:32, 7 January 2009 (EST)

Jumping off point

• The former Virgina Tech professor Henry H. Bauer recently wrote the book The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory (2007). I read through it and it's definitely a sourced, pro-intellectual book. Anyway, I recommend it as a respectable place to start. --RickD 14:36, 7 January 2009 (EST)