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From: arf@chinet.chi.il.us (Jack Schmidling)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: What's the Why and How of Mosquito Bites?
Summary: real data please
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Date: 20 Aug 89 01:22:46 GMT
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Article 2404 (3 more) in sci.bio: 
From: pell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Anthony Pelletier) 
Subject: Re: What's the Why and How of Mosquito Bites? 
 
In article <9279@chinet.chi.il.us> arf@chinet.chi.il.us  
(Jack Schmidling) writes: 
> 
>> Does anyone have any, non-political, "real" data on  
studies of AIDS transmission via blood sucking insects?   
 
Pelletier says: 
 
>If by "real data" you mean has anyone filled a room up with  
mosquitos and had them feed on an AIDS patient, then put a  
non-infected person in the room, well, no ARF, I doubt  
anyone has done that experiment. 
 
ARF says: 
 
I think we all know that "real", to a scientist, means the  
results of rigorous, controlled experimentation, the results  
of which lead to a conclusion. 
 
Show me another disease in which "real" data consists of  
everything but controlled experiments. 
 
>As a molecular biologist, I am quite impressed by what one  
can learn from epidemiology......In any case, they are the  
best data we are likely to get, since noone is going to do  
the controled experiment. 
 
ARF says: 
 
As a scientist, I am more impressed by the results of  
controled experiments.   If you can't or won't do them, that  
is your privilege, but you can not manufacture the data and  
call it SCIENCE. 
 
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