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People coexist with many dormant viruses for much of their lives, viruses that can flare up but don’t necessarily have to. If buggery would stop, so would virtually all HIV transmission. Short of that, the best that probably can be hoped is coexistence with the virus by agents that keep it permanently dormant.
Am i the only one seeing the possibles of wiping out all retrovirus infections?
They may not have a cure now, but something is really happening here. How about a guess that within the next 15 years there will be a cure?
Actually, many have been ‘cured’ but the standard retort of denial that is issued prevails: They never were infected, previous results were in error.
That is the kind of junk that passes for ‘science’ in the age of hoaxes.
I sympathize with the need to make a political case for the funding of scientific research. Believe me, I've seen lots of the results of this phenomenon over decades of working in the sector. Once it was sickle cell, then cancer, then aids funding. Melvin Calvin got his own lab at Berkeley and had his account at NSF. Peter Duesberg, a brilliant scientist, recruited from the Max Plank Institute, lost all his NSF funding because he suggested testing of alternative hypothesis - because he put truth first.
Science has suffered because its funding is largely government controlled. That is the reason for the junk science of global warming and for the junk medicine surrounding HIV, and for the junk science policy of John Holdren and his fellow Marxists. We are headed down the path of T.D. Lysenko, whose dialectically correct genetic principles set Soviet genetic science back fifty years. There may be some science being done by scientists getting HIV funding, but it isn't likely to have any impact on AIDS. I too know how to write the grant proposals likely to get funding. We do what we must to do science, but it is a poor substitute for the real thing.
One of the ironies is that many in gay support groups, I know of Act Up in particular, know the truth and have modified their life styles, forsaken the drugs including prophylactic antibiotics, and live healthy lives, like Magic Johnson, with occasional bouts of cold sores and HIV infections just like the rest of us. Magic is probably only alive because some very knowledgeable people warned him away from antiviral treatment.
Silly me. I always thought they were hiding that virus up their butt.