>http://library.newsday.com/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=38e3d07b627cbMshakeP11000&doc
>=hdresults.html ...
>... Duesberg insists that AIDS
>in the African context is "nothing more than a new name for old diseases,"
>... Tom Bethell ..., "People are not dying of AIDS but of the diseases that
>have always afflicted those parts of the globe where water is not clean
>and sewage is not properly disposed of"... Gayle, who heads up AIDS
>programs for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
>denounced the skeptics and said that "there is no merit in questioning
>conventional wisdom" about HIV.... [The reactions of the pro-drug
>establishment: " criminal prosecution", "genocide", "Holocaust did not
>occur" and "no merit in questioning conventional wisdom" is disturbingly
>unscientific. They sound just like people with something to hide. if they
>were confident of their case they should *welcome* the chance to finally
>prove the AIDS skeptics like Duesberg wrong. BTW if this "Banqui
>Definition" of AIDS is not the same as the definition used in Western
>countries, then the African statistics might be inflated with non-HIV/AIDS
>cases.]
Stephen Jones quoted a huge amount of the above article but left out these
two tidbits:
"Last June, following Mbeki's election to the presidency, Manto
Tshabalala-Msimang was named minister of health. UNAIDS then brokered a
deal with British pharmaceutical company Glaxo Wellcome for cut-rate AZT
to be used in Africa to reduce the spread of HIV from infected mothers to
their babies. Such AZT interventions reduced the number of HIV-positive
babies born in the
United States to just 32 last year."
and
" (Ironically, when Deputy President Zuma's wife was raped in South Africa
last summer she was immediately put on Nevirapine in hopes of blocking HIV
transmission.)"
Is it more anti-intellectual clap-trap? or is it pure racism or homophobia?
I still havn't figured it out.
Susan
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing
of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of
this one.
--Albert Camus
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