Thanks, Guest, I (certainly!) couldn't have said it better myself.

Another point is that the paper "HIV and AIDS: Correlation but not Causation" cited by M.Ted and another Guest above was published 16 years ago, back when the cause was much less clear.

I really hope we can put this issue to rest. Then maybe we can talk about something really controversial, like the existence of phlogiston, or whether the heart actually pumps blood.

Aloha,
Mark