Edited sentence: , a Berkeley AIDS researcher, characterized Duesberg's continued publicizing of his theory as "irresponsible, with terribly serious consequences"., characterized Duesberg's message as "very damaging" to AIDS prevention projects.AZT and illicit drug use, contrary to Duesberg's claims, do not cause an immune deficiency to or similar to that seen in AIDS.An issue of Science which evaluated Duesberg's methods and claims found that.Helene Gayle, who was associate director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) office in Washington, D.Martin Delaney, of Project Inform, has been an active opponent of Duesberg's "continuing public campaign" "to convince the public, people at risk of HIV infection, and people already infected that they are in no danger from this virus, that AIDS is solely a behavioral disease, and that current treatments for the disease and recreational drug abuse are in fact the cause of the disease.Science's special news report, which followed a 3-month investigation, found that "Mainstream AIDS researchers argue that Duesberg's arguments are constructed by selective reading of the scientific literature, dismissing evidence that contradicts his theses, requiring impossibly definitive.The current consensus in the scientific community is that the Duesberg hypothesis has been refuted by the huge mass of available evidence, showing that Koch's postulates have been fulfilled by HIV, that virus numbers in the blood correlate with disease progression and that a plausible mechanism for HIV's action has been proposed.Warren Winkelstein Jr.it is abundantly evident that HIV causes disease and death in hemophiliacs.proof, and dismissing outright studies marked by inconsequential weaknesses.the AIDS epidemic in Thailand cited by Duesberg as confirming his theories in fact is evidence tending to confirm the role of HIV in AIDS