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Possible Breakthrough for AIDS Cure
kryonD writes "Researchers believe they have found a new compound that could finally kill the HIV/AIDS virus, not just slow it down as current treatments do. While most of the community is still hesitant to comment on this until it passes peer review, initial results show that their method attacks and kills ALL variations of the virus. A fast track through the FDA could have one of the world's leading problems licked in less than a decade."
Well, I was cautiously optomistic until I saw it was from BYU. Now I think it's just B.S. Sorry, but they are not known for being smart about this sort of thing.
every _exit() is the same, but every clone() is different.
Absolutely disgusting...
Just stop screwing around and sharing drug needles.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
Uhm, I'm pretty sure that the world's leading problem is Islam and its pig fucking leader Muham/b>met.
Beware: what I am going to write is one-thousand times more offensive than claiming that I don't believe in god, or that I don't believe in human races.
I do not buy the notion that A. HIV exists, or B. HIV causes AIDS. This statement usually elicits boatloads of insults calling me stupid, blind, unscientific, or someone who is solely motivated by a desire to have non-stop unprotected sex. Keep in mind that none of those statements mean that HIV exists or causes AIDS. They are merely punishment for someone who isn't buying into the orthodox theory. I believe that I can provide you with enough material to inspire you to doubt the HIV/AIDS theory, but it is very long, very difficult reading, and replete with many concepts about which I am only barely versed. I am no virologist, but that doesn't mean I have to accept the word of someone else because I am not.
I believe that this press announcement is sound and fury signifying nothing. AIDS will never be cured because it is, more than anything else, a jobs program for A) AIDS researchers, B) pharmaceutical companies, and C) the press. If AIDS is cured then all of these people are out of jobs.
The reason why this press release exists is because it's salacious. "A cure for AIDS! Can you believe it!" Perhaps you all don't remember when "eradication" was the AIDS buzz of the day. "Hit early, hit hard" was the mantra. Of course, it was bullshit, and no lives were saved, but it did help warm us up to the idea of getting people on the drugs as soon as they "tested positive" for HIV rather than when they started getting sick.
I know that there will people who will want to mod me to oblivion for stating that I do not believe the "accepted" view. I do not deny that people have died and are dying. My position is skepticism, and I despise conspiracy theories. There will also be people who reply to this with insults and those posts will get modded up. AIDS is part of our culture and it fulfills many different roles. As a gay man, I am committing high treason to the "gay cause" by stating my skepticism. If the skeptical position is utter crap (and it may very well be), then it can be critically analyzed and it will be found lacking. I invite that kind of criticism (but have rarely seen it).
The skeptical position is worthy of being investigated. I warn you: it is not an easy read, and the ugliness of the HIV/AIDS proponents is breathtaking. For example, they have openly stated that people like me should be thrown in jail for not believing.
If you are interested in the topic, I invite you to examine the articles at the Perth Group, which has been skeptical of a human immunodeficiency virus as the cause of AIDS since it was announced by Dr. Gallo. http://www.theperthgroup.com/ It's all science. Slow reading.
If you are interested in the topic but want something more "juicy", then you might want to read about black children being taken from their parents and forced to be human guniea pigs for AIDS drugs that poisoned them to death via stomach tubes. Yes, this happens in America. Welcome to the AIDS industry. http://www.altheal.org/toxicity/house.htm (warning: not safe for work)
Despite what others think about me personally, I think my position (skepticism) has merit and deserves a place in the table of discussion. I pray that the moderators will see that free speech and scientific discussion, even regarding positions that others hate, has more merit than censorship and invective.
I don't make the rules. I just make fun of them.
Just because something isn't PC doesn't mean it isn't the truth. In 2004, only .00541% of the US population died from AIDS, about 15,798(on the decline) people.
Around 14,900 people fall to there deaths every year in the United States, over 43,000 die in automobile accidents. Over 1.3 million abortions were performed in 2002, over 700,000 died from heart disease, cancer took over 500,000, strokes took out over 150,000, doctors managed to take out 250,000, and Alzeheimers killed nearly 50,000.
Only 11% of men are exposed through heterosexual contact. That means, that if 100% of the people that died of AIDS were men, 1,738 died from heterosexual contact. That's 0.000588% of the population.
In short, if you don't want to get AIDS, avoid unprotected homosexual sex if you are a male, and unprotected anal sex if you are a female, and don't share injection drug needles. Additionally, don't have sex with people that are in the risk group. That should bring the odds down to a completely manageable level.
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer. - Winston Churchill
Yes, well, I think there may be second thoughts with the drug companies when they realize they will no longer be able to bleed AIDs sufferers dry until they die. Sort of killing the cash cow, if you will. Look for this to be "shown" to not be a breakthrough after all.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
I spoke with Mormons and former Mormons. It's hard to separate out the facts of inbreeding from the racial slurs, I admit. The isolation of the original Mormon group for some generations in Utah, founded by a cult movement driven across America by local communities unwilling to accept them in each State as they gathered, and their very small racial diversity (only white members (with basically no black, Asian, or native American members whatsoever), and the sexual policies of multiple wives (which meant only their local leaders need join) meant they have serious inbreeding issues.
Their intense interest in genealogies is a big help in reducing the problem, by helping avoid first cousins marrying, and it's very helpful indeed for genealogical research. And they believe in big families, so the group has spread out quite a bit from their relatively small origins, but if you look at those family trees, their family trees all seem be tightly interwoven for those first 3 generations. You're going to have common inherited diseases in a group like that.