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Man Cures Himself of HIV?
IZ Reloaded writes "A 25 yr old British man could be the first person in the world to have cured himself of the deadly HIV virus. He was diagnosed HIV positive in 2002. After another test done the following year, he stunned doctors when his test results turned negative. He is now a wanted man after researchers and doctors want him to come back for further testing but he has so far refused. Experts think he could have something in his immune system that may help in producing vaccines against HIV."
Can he walk on water
No Black or White only shades of Gray
Only lamers reads digg.
"it is not in the interest of any disease to kill its host. the disease wants your body to replicate it and spread it. a dead body for a disease is a dead end"
That's true for diseases that are not designed by men.
evil is as evil does
please pass the maple syrup.
i hope aids fucking kills him. remember, bitches, god hates fags!
That's why it's funny, stupid!
He's gay, therefore a fuck-up to begin with.
Which one is the disease you get by being gay? I was pretty sure it was AIDS but maybe they get HIV first?
Gays are good for something after all, not just hair/makeup/makeover shows on TV! Get back to your ass-pounding and fix up some other deadly infectious diseases.
http://teasphere.wordpress.com - A little spot of tea
"Child" means a human baby. When you talk about negros, the term is "piglet".
Any microsoftie or their supporters perhaps is not entitled to request unpaid support from this individual under their rules of greed (if their lives depend upon it perhaps they should provide him with at least 50% of their assets for his assistance). Cranky penguinistas have a different view and tend to demand/request forcefully he provide what seems a minimum amount of effort to assist others on free and open basis, of course we would also demand the results be open and unpatented.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
The guy is not a shithead. Excepting children unfortunate enough to have HIV passed on to them from birth, the virus is largely spread through irresponsible behavior. So why is this guy now responsible for cleaning up someone else's mess? Although possibly incurable, HIV is mostly preventable. People should take care of themselves.
You guys see too many movies, you know the one's with the kind old scientist in a white coat played by Sam Jaffe who goes on and on about serving humanity through science and all that other nonsense.
Science today is totally corporatized and in service of the military/industrial complex. If we take this guy's claim at face value, that there is either something in his body or through a diet or herbal/vitamin supplement that enabled him to deplete the virus from his body, then why should he assume that he would benefit from enabling the global corporations access to this knowledge or genetics?
AIDS is big business in the west, and a way of getting rid of unneeded surplus people everywhere else. Protease inhibitors bring in tens of thousands of dollars per patient per year to the drug companies, and some guy comes along that can possibly destroy that income at the source? In all likelyhood, the drug companies would find the cure for themselves and their gay kids, then use the copyright laws to keep the research secret in order to protect their AIDS-maintanence profits. After they get this genetic knowledge from this one guy, they will kill him in order to prevent the genetic structure or technique from becoming known to the public. They'd simply say that he had HIV all the time and the second test results were only a false negative. Then they would apply for and get hundreds of millions of dollars in military grants to develop this 'cure' into a biological weapon.
Remember, you're dealing with American Corporations in the here and now. Assume the most paranoid and evil design and intent and you are going to be right most of the time. This is the real world. This guy is right not to trust corporate science.
Neither should you.
I anticipated this type of response. That is why I said LARGELY spread, rather than EXCLUSIVELY spread. Thousands of people die a year in the US from automobile collisions. Do you have an automobile? If so, why not get rid of it? Maybe you've never seen a loved one mangled in a car crash. Mention you won't waste any tears for them, because you have a right to drive.
Talking from experience huh?
I sent in an article at least couple of years ago about this site, and the story reviewer was at first going to submit the story, then he renegged on it and turned it down. I even got a reply to my email from Dr. Peter Duesberg (professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley), where I asked him if he is willing to lend facts/credence to the story I submitted on Slashdot by backing up some of the claims that HIV is a myth - which he very well did, and the moderator on Slashdot _still_ decided to turn the story down. He cited some shitty sources where they call Duesberg and others like him "dissidents" (yeah, just like Chomsky I suppose), and said there was enough conflicting opinion that he himself found to reject my story. What a buffoon, I thought... and two years later, someone actually submits a story on a self-healing HIV-positive "patient".
Is it just me or is there others who find Slashdot to be laughable when it comes to credibility, or even newsworthiness? I think all Slashdot has going for it is a lot of momentum from the past - other than that, I think there's a number of websites that one can go to for higher quality news and more credible stories.
'A lie if repeated often enough, becomes the truth.' - Goebbels