When Nature rejected the letter, Thomas and Bialy subsequently organized a consortium, The Group for Scientific Reappraisal of HIV/AIDS Hypothesis, and in 1992, Thomas called it “. . . tantamount to criminal negligence”6 for scientists to remain silent. “Of the fifty-three who had signed by June 1992, twelve had M.D.’s and twenty-five had Ph.D.’s. Twenty of the fifty-three gave academic affiliations with departments like physiology, biochemistry, medicine, pharmacology, toxicology, and physics.”7 Over 2,600 people, including three Nobel laureates, Walter Gilbert, Kary Mullis and two-time
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