OK, you are black by conventional classifications, and I am white by those classifications, but is this relevant to whether AIDS is caused by HIV?
You agree that the overwhelming weight of scientific opinion is that AIDS is caused by HIV. Why is it then inappropriate to treat skepticism as flat-earthism? You say that some respectable types doubt that HIV could do everything that it's claimed, but even if that is so, that doesn't warrant skepticism about the basic claim. I am not, as I say, a physician or any kind of medical expert, just a lawyer, but under legal standards, given the current state of knowledge, no one who doubted the standard view could be a real expert whose testimony was reliable. There are doubters about the roundness of the earth and about the theory of evolution too.
--jks
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