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Will stupid people & their pseudoscience cost more lives this year?
- mistermann 18y agoI don't really know, but I read one seemingly well researched and footnoted paper on the HIV/Aids connection and I am now quite skeptical. The general assertion was that though HIV and Aids commonly occur together, but that HIV does not cause Aids. Two interesting points I recall were statistics on drug use and Aids, and malnutrition and Aids, and the stats are available on the CDC website for verification. Of course there will be higher HIV infection in the drug user community, but the numbers are so high that it becomes a little suspicious. And there is also another very high correlation between malnutrition and Aids, and the paper asserted that a great deal of the statistics of "Aids" deaths in Africa are in fact malnutrition, as the patients weren't even tested for HIV. Is this true or false? I don't know, but if not, and the HIV/Aids proponents steer away from questions or discussions on this topic, it seem to me a bit suspicious. After all, there is, in fact, a massive economy built around HIV Aids (research grants, drugs, NGO's, etc)...they have every financial reason to maintain the status quo, even if it is false. Now that I'm thinking about it, there were several other good points in the paper....I tried googling it but couldn't find it.
- tokenadult 18y agoThanks for preserving the original newspaper article headline as the submission headline. That's really the issue: how many people have to die before they acknowledge reality?
- brl 18y agoI personally believe that HIV causes AIDS but I also have to admit that denialists such as Peter Duesberg and Kary Mullis are more qualified to have an opinion on this subject than I will ever be.