AIDS - Knowledge and Dogma

Conditions for the Emergence andDecline of Scientific TheoriesCongress, July 16/17 2010, Vienna, Austria

HIV/AIDS:A dogmatic constructionagainst life

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Jesús García Blanca

keffet@gmail.comhttp://saludypoder.blogspot.com

AIDS - Knowledge and DogmaConditions for the Emergence and Decline of Scientific TheoriesCongress, July 16/17 2010, Vienna, Austria

HIV/AIDS:A dogmatic constructionagainst life

Jesús García Blanca

“If we stand idly by we will be accomplice of a system that has legitimized silent death"

Ernesto Sabato

Abstract

The concepts of "scientific knowledge" and "scientific method" are reviewed, to showthat scientific knowledge is not the only nor the best possible way of approaching Nature'sknowledge, and their presumed objectivity is nothing but a sum of subjectivities.The Official Version of AIDS (OVAIDS) is subjected to a systematic review to show that itdoes not meet two basic scientific criteria: reproducibility and falsifiability; it does not pass theCarl Sagan´s

Baloney Detection Toolkit

; it does not meet the characteristics of factual scienceand it fails to comply with the guidelines of scientific research by Mario Bunge.The conclusion is that the OVAIDS is a dogmatically imposed non-scientific-medicalconstruction. The key step proposed to remove it is to break the basic tenet that undelies it: the

theory of infection/immunity

Contents

1. INTRODUCTION: Science and production of "truth."2. REVIEW OF CONCEPTS: [A] Scientific knowledge, [B] Scientific method [C] Factual science, [D] Truth, [E] Dogmatism, [F] Scientific fundamentalism.3. ANALYSIS: Is the Official Version of AIDS supported by a scientific theory?: [ A] The Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Toolkit, [B] Guidelines of scientificresearch, by Mario Bunge. CONCLUSIONS.4. OPEN PROPOSAL.References. Acknowledgments.