Posted on 02/22/2005 8:55:44 PM PST by neverdem
Where did you take your classes in immunology and microbiology?
My teachers taught that a fever was a defensive response to thwart an invading pathogen.
Maybe its the side effects -- staying up for 3 to 4 days has to be physically stressful, and stress can depress immune function.
That's interesting. Do you have a link for that?
I know that homemade "bathtub gin" was usually more powerful and sometimes more dangerous than conventional alcohol, but I never realized that it was becuase of a demand for stronger alcohol.
Dr. Peter Duesberg has been ridiculed for this belief since the eighties.
http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/index/pduesberg.htm
Col Sanders
The supposedly increased demand for a stronger anything with any prohibition is not the case. It's another story of unintended consequences. When the penalty is the same, but the economic reward is so much greater, criminal smuggling on the black market will naturally tend towards the substance with more bang for the buck per unit weight, i.e. concentrations of active substances will tend to increase.
So rational smugglers will trade in hard liquor rather than beer, heroin rather than raw opium, crack or cocaine rather than coca leaves, etc. whenever a prohibition exists.
The subject of addiction has become extensive. Try reading the following pdf link at least until it deals with the American Whiskey Rebellion of 1791 with the same taxes on lower quality spirits as those on higher quality whiskey. It's the other side of what you get when the government distorts the market.
This was the theory I threw out there, in laymans terms ofcurse, when these stories first started to make the news.
Dr. Peter Duesberg has been ridiculed for this belief since the eighties.
I'm familiar with Dr. Duesberg. How do you account for the effect of anti-retroviral medications on the decreased mortality of folks who are HIV positive, on the decreased vertical transmission from pregnant mother to child at childbirth by the short term use of those same medications, and the death by an AIDS diagnosis of healthcare personnel from accidental exposure to HIV?
I account for nothing. I merely stated that the theory reflected in the story was not a new one.
If you have a bone to pick with Duesberg, I would suggest you take it up with him, perhaps at one of the many conferences he attends around the world discussing his theories.
Col Sanders
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