party spurred to level hodgkinson medical journalist for britain's sunday times newspaper he thinks more progress will be made in treating aids scientists were more open to other data and views on the disease. i think their calls are being listened to but that actually the direction in which the science is going is misplaced and that's why people are angry. for many years i've reported on this subject i started writing about it twenty five years ago and held the conventional view that if aids was caused by a new virus when that was first. put forward in the 1980's but over the years i've come to the conclusion that scientists who've been challenging that idea who say that hiv has never been proven in. a specific entity and therefore the tests that claim to diagnose infection are faulty i think they've got a very strong point and that's why after all these years we're still seeing such dissatisfaction with the efforts of the scientific community it's not that they're not trying but they're there misdirected their efforts now with people heading to beaches for summer summer sun the seedier