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Scientists Expose Weak DNA in HIV

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the go-for-the-throat dept.

Ace905 writes "The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases announced Thursday that they had discovered a very promising 'weak spot' in the HIV virus. The HIV virus, a progenitor to full blown AIDS has eluded all attempts at a vaccine since it was discovered sometime in the 1970's. The major problem with developing a vaccine initially was isolating the virus. Conventional viruses are often defeated with existing drugs, or after being tested against new compounds. HIV has been unique, and staggering in it's ability to resist all attempts at treatment by mutating its own genetic code. HIV is able to resist, with great effectiveness, any drug or combination drug-therapy that is used against it."

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  1. Re:The HIV virus has actually never been seen...so by Stickerboy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I am unsure how many of you do research on this subject, but I recommend that people watch the documentary The Other Side of AIDS. It has amazing interviews and explanations by a Nobel Prize winning scientist for his discovery in AIDS meds, as well as Dr Peter Duesberg, a professor of molecular cell biology from the University of California who shed real light on alot of the bogus statements made about HIV. If you explore these areas, and find out that the HIV has actually never been seen, just the antibodies...supposedly...how on earth are scientists finding a vaccination or any treatment for an unknown/unseen virus? I wish I was kidding.

    I wish you were too. Because now you're just an ill-informed crackpot, just like the filmmakers who made "The Other Side of AIDS". How on Earth this got modded "Insightful" is beyond me. For those of you not in the know, "The Other Side Of AIDS" is just the latest bunch of idiots trying to push the agenda that HIV does not cause AIDS. And that HIV positives are better off not taking antiretrovirals. If you really believe that pile of stinking shit, moosejaw, I can suggest a carefully monitored experiment that will win you a Nobel Prize at the very least. You like Nobel Prizes, right? And please, recruit all of your HIV-is-not-the-cause buddies.

    Experiment:
    Test yourselves for HIV. Make sure you're negative. Now inject yourselves with a large bolus of HIV-infected blood. Do nothing out of the ordinary for 10 ten years, take no antiretroviral drugs, and get back to us with the results.     Since HIV doesn't cause AIDS, right, you'll be great, you'll have disproved 99.9999999% of conventional medical wisdom, and earned yourself an easy million from the Prize committee. Congratulations! Now get to it.

    To tone it down a little, the easiest way to refute your idiocy is to refer to the many and varied mortality outcomes-based clinical trials of antiretroviral drugs in AIDS patients. I suggest using the search functions on PubMed or even a general journal like NEJM or JAMA. All approved antiretroviral drugs in combination regimes, when taken as prescribed, extend the lifespan of AIDS patients well beyond the life expectancy of an AIDS patient not taking antiretrovirals. Dispute that. If AIDS was not caused by HIV, CD4 counts would not improve, and patients would not live one year longer than AIDS patients who weren't taking antiretrovirals.

    Will the human population ever get to a level of education where we don't have to rehash 20 year-old debates over basic crap like "What causes AIDS?" "Why can't I see a pretty picture of AIDS on a microscope?" "What if we're all wrong, I'm a genius, and HIV doesn't cause AIDS?" HIV deniers remind me a lot of the nutty strict Creationists on evolution.

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    Light a fire for a man and he'll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
  2. Re:The HIV virus HAS been seen, many times. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "We know that HIV causes AIDS."
    That's convinced me!
    You idiot.
    The DEFINITION of 'AIDS' is a circular argument.
    So-called 'AIDS' is only 'AIDS' if the victim is 'HIV positive'. Therefore ALL cases of 'AIDS' are caused by 'HIV'. But the HIV tests are fraudulent. They all say so on the box. (For legal reasons.)
    If HIV was the cause of AIDS, there would be TENS OF THOUSANDS of Americans dying EVERY YEAR from AIDS, because, according to the CDC, up to HALF of all people who are so-called 'HIV positive' don't KNOW they are 'infected', and there are 500,000 of these people... How come that figure never goes up? How come at least ONE TENTH of them don't DIE from 'AIDS' every YEAR?

    "Ultimately, stories like this do have the potential to kill people, and if you repeat them, you are making yourself an accessory to murder."
    Oh puh-lease... You idiot. People who push AZT and other DNA chain terminators, as 'medicine' for a non-existent virus, are the MURDERERS, dumbass...