Oh, I'm really excited about the potential, obviously, but there's no count of whether more than the 51 and 74 were exposed to HIV and whether, if it was 74 in each group somehow who were exposed, the ones who didn't get infected in the first group were part of that known strand of people who just don't get infected, and so I am hesitant to be too excited, because it's thoroughly possible that there was that much variation in who was exposed. I'm a historian, not a scientist, but I do know numbers and that they can be manipulated pretty easily to demonstrate things. You can give three different people the same set of numbers and they'll draw three different conclusions, you know?
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Date: 2009-09-26 02:58 pm (UTC)Oh, I'm really excited about the potential, obviously, but there's no count of whether more than the 51 and 74 were exposed to HIV and whether, if it was 74 in each group somehow who were exposed, the ones who didn't get infected in the first group were part of that known strand of people who just don't get infected, and so I am hesitant to be too excited, because it's thoroughly possible that there was that much variation in who was exposed. I'm a historian, not a scientist, but I do know numbers and that they can be manipulated pretty easily to demonstrate things. You can give three different people the same set of numbers and they'll draw three different conclusions, you know?