Posted on 05/04/2005 1:47:47 PM PDT by jcb8199
It was never "the prevailing knowledge" it was the prevailing political position.
HIV was never proven to be the cause of AIDS in any scientific paper, this was announced in a NIH press conference by Bob Gallo who had stolen the virus and had a history of falsely attritributing diseases to harmless retroviruses.
Politics not knowledge.
"It was never "the prevailing knowledge" it was the prevailing political position."
Thanks for all your posts, but particularly this quote. Aids has been more politicized than any health problem that we have ever had. It doesn't seem to have been accidental, either.
We rarely have truths posted here depending on the subject. The crowd doesn't usually stand for it. Thanks again.
What you've posted is worth passing on. It's particularly important for young people to understand that nearly all research and most remedies are brought forth under the rod of politics.
I have had to take the human research course on ethical human studies.
To test a drug in a child there must be a compelling reason.
The benefit has to out weigh the risk.
Since the risk of the disease with no treatment is death, I am not sure any outrage is justified.
The foster parents gave consent to treatment.
This is what our tax dollars are going towards. And the radical homo/aids activists are bitching that we're not spending enough money to save their sorry asses.
Let us put this in context.
These children had AIDS and all treatment was experimental at that time. It was deemed that these children would die without treatment and it was tried.
What disease?
These kids do not have an HIV "infection". There was no detectable HIV in their bodies. All they have are is a positive result on an antibody test.
Furthermore, the antibody test was not developed using isolated HIV. Because nobody had isolated HIV when they developed the test.
There was no reason to believe these kids were any danger whatsoever.
We live with an uncountable number of retroviruses. They're everywhere -- and they probably have been here as long as the human race. We have them in our genome. We get some of them from our mothers in the form of new viruses -- infectious viral particles that can move from mother to fetus. We get others from both parents along with our genes. We have resident sequences in our genome that are retroviral. That means that we can and do make our own retroviral particles some of the time. Some of them may look like H.I.V. No one has shown that they've ever killed anyone before. -Kary Mullis, Nobelist, inventor of the polymerase chain reaction.
More on the subject: HIV; REALITY OR ARTEFACT
They did not have AIDS, they had positive antibody test. A positive test to a stolen, unisolated (meaning the positive test was meaningless) pathogen (sic) that had never been shown to harm anyone.
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