The New York HistorIcal Society on Central Park West and 79th Street hosted a full dress parade of HIV/AIDS generals discussing the current outlook for defeating the supposedly dread disease (science indicates that all its symptoms are caused by drugs or other factors) on the morning of Friday, May 31. The major players assembled for the panel included David Baltimore, who having won a Nobel for discovering a substance which proves the presence of a special, tiny virus called a retrovirus, has been a staunch supporter of the ruling paradigm in AIDS, the belief that it is caused by HIV, which is a retrovirus.

The notion has been the basis for all the research by scientists on AIDS since 1984, despite critics who say the notion is false, and that this is the reason why decades of an unusually high level of spending on HIV research have not resulted in a vaccine or a cure, nor any explanation of the mechanics of how HIV might damage human health. So knowledgeable observers of this dispute, which is largely unreported by the media, were interested in what would be said at this panel, which was essentially a briefing to the public which was offered hand in hand with the latest exhibition at the Historical Society, which deals with the early experience of the life threatening disease in New York City.