ABSTRACT
The “Frequently Asked Questions on HIV and AIDS” page of the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website offers the visitor a hyperlinked index to its content (“Frequently Asked Questions”). Its broad categories suggest the contested social process from which knowledge about HIV/AIDS emerges. For example, “transmission” – a category intended to offer transparently factual information about the science and epidemiology of HIV – is coupled with “rumors,” those alternative theories that fail to meet scientific criteria for veracity.
