Talk:Walter Gilbert

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[edit] Views on AIDS

Why isn't he an AIDS dissident?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 134.139.24.99 (talk • contribs) .

Gilbert once said that the HIV theory was unproven; according to the AIDS journalist Richard Jefferys, he's since changed his mind: "I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic--the argument based on Koch's postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association... Today I would regard the success of the many antiviral agents which lower the virus titers (to be expected) and also resolve the failure of the immune system (only expected if the virus is the cause of the failure) as a reasonable proof of the causation argument." (Source) Trezatium 21:32, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

So far I have been unable to verify that info from other sources, so I am removing it from the article until someone can provide a reliable source as per WP:RS (a post in a blog, where someone associated with the AIDS-orthodox organization Treatment Action Group claims to reproduce a private email from Gilbert, is not a reliable source per Wikipedia guidelines). Given the relevance for his reputation (since he would be leaving what the AIDS orthodoxy labels as the "pseudoscientific" side), one would expect that Gilbert would have made his change of mind public through some verifiable source such as a press release, a published interview, or a notice in his own website. Uaxuctum 10:49, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] synthesis

Surely he didnt work on the "synthesis of insulin" as a protein -- done much earlier -- but the synthesis of the nucleic acid sequence coding for Insulin. ? 21:03, 25 March 2007 (UTC)