Posted on 09/07/2008 8:41:08 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
==The only article I remember you pointing to as evidence only dealt with an incident where Magic stopped taking his medications during a cruise he went on with his wife, in order to avoid nausea.
I remember that story and several others that came out at the time. Magic issued several stories to the press before finally admitting the real reason he stopped taking AZT—because of the side effects. If I remember correctly, it was his wife who inadvertantly let the cat out of the bag. At first Magic tried to dodge the media firestorm that followed, but finally admitted that he had discontinued AZT. And as the following Time Magazine article points out, he was still off AZT as of 2001:
“Citing doctor-patient confidentiality, Mellman will not discuss Johnson’s treatment or current condition. But in an interview with TIME last week, Johnson acknowledged that he has in the past taken AZT, the antiviral drug typically administered when a person’s helper T-cell count drops to 500. (See following story.) Johnson said that he is no longer taking AZT and that his T-cell count is above 500, ‘but I don’t tell exactly what it is because then I’ll have everybody talking about it.’”
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,135465,00.html
==Telling the difference is quite easy, statistically.
Forget about statistics for a moment. I’m referring to individual patients. Even from your perspective, just because a person is HIV+ and has a weakened immune system doesn’t mean that the weakened immune system is being caused by HIV. For all we know, they just got infected yesterday, and the weakened immune system has nothing to do with HIV. What if their weakened immune system is caused by long-term, end-point drug abuse, or malnutrition, etc? In such cases, the worst thing in the world you could do is put the patient on AIDS chemotherapy.
Finally, the more we find out about the fast-lane homosexual lifestyle, the more Duesberg’s drug-AIDS hypothesis makes sense IMHO:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079443/posts
So Magic Johnson may secretly believe that AIDS treatments are worthless and harmful, but he endorses and financially supports nearly a dozen clinics where other people’s kids are treated by mainstream medicine.
Sure. I believe that.
I also believe the entire gay community is too stupid to read the medical literature, and the fact that gays changed their opinion of drug therapy in the late 1990s just means they are all brainwashed.
What a bunch of morons, huh?
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