the AIDS thing

From: Susan Brassfield (Susan-Brassfield@ou.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 10:49:47 EST

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    Stephen wrote:

    > [That HIV is not a reliable indicator of AIDS seems like
    >more evidence of a weak causal link between the two. The fact that after
    >10-15 years and billions of dollars spent on HIV/AIDS, researchers
    >overlooked such an obvious factor as "women...are biologically
    >different...`Dingding!'", does not inspire confidence that they know what
    >they are doing, to put it mildly!]

    I have personal knowledge of a man who contracted HIV which developed into
    AIDS and who subsequently died. It is trivially true that people who die
    of AIDS are always HIV positive for some time before that. So my question
    is this: what is the advantage to your co-religionists to try to persuade
    people there is no link between HIV and AIDS? I have to admit this one
    stumps me. I mean the evolution thing contraducts the first couple of
    chapters of the Bible (or seems to). Most fundmentalists/inerrantists are
    anti-modernist, and I can understand that. But *this* I find hard to
    understand. Why don't you want HIV to be related to AIDS?

    Susan

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