[escepticos] La declaracion de Durban

["Ramón Díaz-Alersi" <rda@...>]

Con respecto a la falsa controversia sobre la causa del SIDA, esto sale
publicado en el número de hoy de Nature:

The Durban Declaration

The declaration on these two pages was stimulated by the current controversy
in South Africa about whether HIV is the cause of AIDS (see, for example,
Nature 404, 911; 2000 and Nature 405, 105; 2000). This has caused massive
consternation among all scientists, doctors and many others in the
international community who treat AIDS patients or who work on AIDS in other
ways. There is widespread anxiety that denying or doubting the cause of AIDS
will cost countless lives if blood screening, use of condoms, and methods to
prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus are not implemented or,
worse, even abandoned.

The declaration has been signed by over 5,000 people, including Nobel
prizewinners, directors of leading research institutions, scientific
academies and medical societies, notably the US National Academy of
Sciences, the US Institute of Medicine, Max Planck institutes, the European
Molecular Biology Organization, the Pasteur Institute in Paris, the Royal
Society of London, the AIDS Society of India and the National Institute of
Virology in South Africa. In addition, thousands of individual scientists
and doctors have signed, including many from the countries bearing the
greatest burden of the epidemic. Signatories are of MD, PhD level or
equivalent, although scientists working for commercial companies were asked
not to sign.

The Durban Declaration has an organizing committee of over 250 members from
over 50 countries. The list of signatories up to 29 June can be found on
Nature's website as Supplementary Information (http://www.nature.com), and
an up-to-date list can be found at http://www.durbandeclaration.org .

En esta última página puede obtenerse el texto completo en castellano. Casi,
casi parece una de las FAQs de escépticos.

Saludos.

RDA