Posted on 06/03/2005 11:18:37 AM PDT by FormerLib
Glazov: Dr. Brody, lets begin with you. Could you kindly comment on this phenomenon and give your perspective on some of the themes I have raised?
Brody: In the early 1980s, in my hometown of New York, it was apparent that AIDS deaths were occurring in transfusees, injecting drug users, and male homosexuals. It was also apparent to the homosexual community that given that affected population, generous federal funding would not be forthcoming. People skilled at public relations developed the "Big Lie": that HIV was a major risk to all, and was readily spread via penile-vaginal intercourse (rather than only by injection or anal intercourse) to otherwise reasonably healthy adults. This lie was understandable given the circumstances at that time. With time, generous funding became available, and the lie was no longer needed for the original purpose.
However, by that time, several political interests became very invested in the Big Lie. Those interests included those who sought to confuse political equality of homosexuals with egalitarian disease susceptibility (I suspect that only a small minority of those promoting that agenda were themselves nominally homosexual). So-called "gender feminists", inspired by the late Andrea Dworkin and her ilk, were keen to vilify intercourse, and hoped to reduce intercourse frequency (in favor of sexual behaviors that were less exclusively heterosexual), as well as to dampen its quality and intimacy (via condom promotion).
In addition to the major role played by the political left, segments of the political right might have been pleased to see a means of enforcing relative sexual continence. People of any political persuasion who, for their own psychological reasons, feared intercourse, also joined the chorus.
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Haha...go to med school, you'll understand how dumb this article is. I have neither the time nor inclination to supply an article for you. That is like telling me to supply an article that the moon landing actually occured, or that air contains oxygen.
The fact that some bogus article disputes the scientific fact that the spread of aids is caused in part by unsafe vaginal sex, does nothing to "prove" anything. This is simply absurd.
Then allow me to be honest for you and admit that you cannot.
So what? The article is called The Big Lie...that my friend, is hogwash, pure and simple. Hiv is spread a number of ways. One of them is unsafe vaginal sex. If legal, I could provide you with the names and phone numbers of people infected by vaginal intercourse. I wish you could meet them and explain to them that they didn't really have HIV.
I did ask for ones not refuted in the article.
Would you like to meet some women I know and tell them the contracted aids through drug use or homosexual sex?
Would you like to meet some women I know and tell them that they contracted the disease through drug use or homosexual sex? Do you realize how dumb you sound?
Clearly the number of transmission via normal heterosexual intercourse have been inflated to serve an agenda; that is The Big Lie (thought that is not the title of the article).
Let me guess, he won't acknowledge this article either.
...raged the pot to the kettle .
It's easy to refute hard science in a glib article. But that does not make the science any less valid. It's like my asking you to prove newtonian physics without mentioning newton because, after all, he was into all that alchemy stuff.
Based on estimates from the United Nations AIDS program (UNAIDS), approximately 47 million people have been infected with HIV since the start of the global epidemic. Through December 2000, an estimated 21.8 million children and adults have died, and an estimated 36.1 million people are living with HIV infection or AIDS.
your right, I overestimated. But still that's a heck of a lot of homo's or butt lovers in Africa.
Notice how these articles all cite each other?
As I said, these are the type well refuted by Glazov's article.
Very upsetting. someone is likely to read that tripe, believe it and act on it. horrible. unconscionable.
So what, we should just ignore hiv because unprotected hetersexual intercourse, though dangerous, is not as dangerous as unprotected anal sex? I doubt very seriously the jama research inflated anything. Oh, still waiting for you to offer to tell some of my women friends that they don't really have hiv.
I have a bridge to sell this dope.
Oh I see, we suplly articles and you refute them by stating one internet posting is proof that it's all a Big Lie...you are really something...you belong over at the DU site...they are well aware of your tactics.
"In fact, the largest group of people currently growing in number of infections is African American Heterosexual Women."
That's because they already have a variety of other VDs who's lesions provide entry points for the AIDS virus.
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