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The Cure for Cancer Might be: HIV
RGautier writes "Wired News has published that Scientists have successfully modified the AIDS-causing HIV in such a way that it can attack metasticized melanoma (cancer cells). The impact of genetic research on cancer research is in and of itself amazing. To mix this with the strategy of using one strong enemy against another is brilliance! Research will continue, obviously, but they are already reporting success on living creatures." Just think: between HIV and carrots we'll be all set.
When new treatments comes out, usually it has to go through the Drug administrations like 6x to see if it's $$$ profitable before it really reaches your local hospital.
Can I smoke cigarettes as a form of birth control?
I need a handy disinformation pamphlet.
I am from a small, grease-loving country in the north called Ca-na-da.
It doesn't mater what the FDA will or will not let them do. We will never see a cure for cancer - it makes them too much money treating it.
--- Keep the choice with the user..
The HIV virus has never been isolated, there is at least 2 reward ($20,000: The Huw Christie Memorial Prize and the 1000 The Jody Wells Memorial Prize>)
$20,000 reward for the first person to succeed in doing so.
"If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There is no such document."
Dr. Kary Mullis, Biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
"Up to today there is actually no single scientifically really convincing evidence for the existence of HIV. Not even once such a retrovirus has been isolated and purified by the methods of classicalvirology."
Dr. Heinz Ludwig Sänger, Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology and Virology, Max-Planck-Institutes for Biochemy, München.
PETITION OF SUPPORT
In science, no theory should be immune from challenge, and debate over an issue affecting millions of lives should never be declared over. I support South African President Thabo Mbeki's intention to investigate the definition, causation, treatment and prevention of "AIDS".
HIV-SiR
with big jap vinyl stickers
That's called a woman.
Karnal
That's ok, then. Texans are only afraid of Nucules, whcatever they are.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
HIV and AIDS. Seriously this hasn't ever been shown.
In this paper I would like to present the evidence available to me in support of the hypothesis:
(a) that AIDS is a typical example of epidemic hysteria;
(b) that the epidemic has at its core an unconscious group delusion, which can be called the group-fantasy of scapegoating, according to which the poison feelings of the entire group are injected into containers who are called scapegoats and whose destruction rids the group of these bad feelings and insures its purification of guilt and sinfulless;
(c) that the same fantasy complex underlies this scapegoating ritual as was found for leprosy during the Middle Ages and early Renaissance;
(d) that the proximal and distal causes of the tensions giving rise to the epidemic can be found in the group psychology of the United States and (to a lesser extent, inasmuch as they follow the cultural lead of America) the West since World War II;
(e) that among the more important distal causes are the effects of the following drastic changes in cultural ethos: the development of nuclear arsenals with a potential for obliterating the world, and the changes this has forced in the psychology of warfare; the introduction of birth control and the invention of "recreational sex"; positive changes in the mental health of American women over the last 35 to 40 years, culminating in the women's liberation movement and the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the US. Constitution; and the "liberation" of various disenfranchised groups such as blacks and homosexuals;
(f) that the proximal cause can be found in a vast, society-wide conservative swing (or neo-popuhst trend) in public opinion since 1977, cumininating in the Reagan years and the Central American conflict;
(g) that the combination of these unconscious group tensions brought about a subtle and sophisticated, but nevertheless sacrificial witch hunt, in which the participants were the Moral Majority and an assortment of other conservative groups (as hunters) and the nation's drug addicts and homosexuals (as hunted);
(h) that both of these subgroups are ardng-out group-sanctioned and group- delegated roles, which acting-out takes place mostly outside of awareness;
(i) that these attacks resulted in an epidemic of depression based mostly on shame;
(j) that the core sign of AIDS, the reclusion of cell-mediated immunity, is one of the typical vegetative signs of a severe depression (the mechanism of which will be the focus of the medical companion piece to this paper);
(k) that the epidemic represents, in the group's unconscious fantasies, an equivalent of war, during which the group keeps carefull count of the sacrifices;
(1) that most of the members of the group (the U.S.A.) are in a regression vis-a-vis this phenomenon, a trance state which is noticeable in a certain suspension of logic in the lay press and in the medical literature;
(m) that there are powerful forces at work to delay the solution of the puzzle posed by this epidemic and to obscure its group-fantasy origins, since the epidemic itself is a wished-for solution to pre-existing conflicts;
(n) and finally that, since the epidemic is psychogenic, the prediction can be made that the group will decide when it should be over (when they have "had enough"), a decision which will be broadcast to the group members through the media, so that after a suitable lag period (based on the time needed for the T-helper lymphocytes to be restored to previous levels of functioning) the epidemic will resolve and the incidence will descend from epidemic to endemic levels.
spoonerize "magic trackpad"