Serge Lang
Serge Lang
Serge Langwas a French-born American mathematician and activist. He is known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential Algebra. He was a member of the Bourbaki group. At the time of his death he was professor emeritus of mathematics at Yale University...
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth19 May 1927
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In policing science, I favor applying the norms of science, which require scientists to answer criticisms of their works openly and publicly.
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In the last decade, Peter Duesberg has been one of those who have continued to raise questions about the drug hypothesis seriously.
views media people
To an extent that undermines classical standards of science, some purported scientific results concerning 'HIV' and 'AIDS' have been handled by press releases, by disinformation, by low-quality studies, and by some suppression of information, manipulating the media and people at large. When the official scientific press does not report correctly, or obstructs views dissenting from those of the scientific establishment, it loses credibility and leaves no alternative but to find information elsewhere.
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Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.
numbers goal world
The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.
political intellectual isms
The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.
hiv viruses screening
Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.
views community fundamentals
If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.
differences facts opinion
I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.
drug-use hiv disease
Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.
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The reality has been the opposite of the rhetoric especially when questions have been raised about eminent figures in the establishment.