�Heterotoxin� theory could provide the equivalent of a cure, we think, for many such as �Magic� Johnson who have been diagnosed HIV-positive; for one thing AIDS testing is quite possibly producing a high proportion of false positives because heterogeneity isn�t being assessed. Also we think there�s the possibility of treatment by filtering AIDS viruses from the blood. The reader may wonder whether to credit such nonconformist ideas, so perhaps we should say that, while we certainly haven�t always been right, our original written work has twice preceded findings of a U.S. national or presidential commission.
Mendel, the father of genetics, was first to observe heterogeneity produced by meiosis (his law of independent assortment). He thought genetic qualities could be inherited in the same way that humans inherit titles and property: the Russian Revolution, which tried to abolish human inheritances, also tries to suppress his ideas; Soviet biologists were coerced into doing work that was scientifically dishonest. Today, in perhaps a somewhat similar fashion, the Indiana University Medical School receives a lot of money for AIDS research but has seemed absolutely terrified of responding to any of our questions about that disease and meiosis.
However events this year may provide political pressure of another kind. Marilyn Quayle is reported to have had cervical cancer, and current standard medical dogma says the number-one risk factor for such cancer is promiscuity on the part of the patient. But another explanation is provided by our heterotoxin theory�because spermatozoa are heterogeneous even in a completely monogamous marriage.
If shown to be correct, that would be important for other married couples.
Dan Quayle�s recent assault against CBS�s Murphy Brown made us wonder if that network might have been trying (while denying the validity of our research) to exploit Marilyn Quayle�s medical history: for a long time we�ve had the feeling of being very closely studied by CBS. A number of years ago, for example, we had the experience of encountering several present or former CBS people at or near the IU Medical School; those included Linda Carter, Alan Alda, Connie Chung, and Morton Dean. Currently a Cathy [sic, proper spelling is "Kathy"] Rather works in the IU Hospital Administration Office; a W. Brent Threlkeld has joined an Indianapolis firm in which two of the writer�s relatives practice law. The ghost of Karl F. Gauss (statistician and history�s third-greatest mathematician) wouldn�t want us to ascribe all of that to chance.
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See, for example, the paper by Hahn, Shaw, Taylor, et. al. in Science, June 20, 1986, page 1548