Wrong. Cancer is number one in federal funding at $1.8 billion.
And why does AIDS get the disproportionate funding it does? According to a 1997 Kaiser Family Foundation poll of 1200 Americans, 51 percent said they think the federal government spends too little on AIDS and 40 percent consider federal spending too low compared with expenditures on other health problems like cancer and heart disease. Seventy-three percent said the government should help low-income HIV patients pay for new drugs. Source
As a libertarian, I believe the government's level of funding for AIDS or any other disease should be zero. But from a debating standpoint, I can be objective and intellectually honest enough to recognize why AIDS gets the funding it does. Perhaps your personal biases are inhibiting you from considering all the facts in context.
It's discouraging to see people still quoting that spurious Rolling Stone article as if there was any credibility to it. It was debunked before it hits the newsstands. The doctor "quoted" in the article denounced it saying that he did not say a single word attributed to him in the article. The author also admitted the main character - the bug chaser - was a fictional device, or as he called it, an amalgamation of various people he interviewed. The whole article makes Jayson Blair look like a candidate for the truth in journalism award.
But nevermind all that, it's part of the public record now. The slightly inconvenient matter that it's fiction should be no obstacle to using it to great effect in anti-gay diatribes.
Homosexual behavior increases risk of AIDS - Dr. Brian J. Kopp, ... An exhaustive study in The New England Journal of Medicine, medical literature's only study reporting on homosexuals who kept sexual "diaries," indicated the average homosexual ingests the fecal material of 23 different men each year.
Medical Consequences of What Homosexuals Do FECAL SEX About 80% of gays (see Table) admit to licking and/or inserting their tongues into the anus of partners and thus ingesting medically significant amounts of feces. Those who eat or wallow in it are probably at even greater risk. In the diary study,5 70% of the gays had engaged in this activity--half regularly over 6 months. Result? --the "annual incidence of hepatitis A in...homosexual men was 22 percent, whereas no heterosexual men acquired hepatitis A." In 1992,26 it was noted that the proportion of London gays engaging in oral/anal sex had not declined since 1984.
Citizens Against Government Waste Since the first federal resources were made available to state and local health agencies for AIDS prevention in 1985, federal funding, which now includes money for research, treatment, and housing, has skyrocketed to $13 billion for fiscal 2003. As a result of the work of highly mobilized lobbying forces, more is spent per patient on AIDS than on any other disease, though it does not even currently rank among the top 15 causes of death in the United States. In one year, 1998, heart disease, the nation's leading cause of death, killed 724,859 Americans only 6.8 percent less than the 774,767 who have contracted AIDS in the last 20 years.2 Of those 774,767 total AIDS cases, 462,766 have died. During that same period, 14 million Americans 30 times more have died of heart disease.
It was debunked before it hits the newsstands.
As a libertarian
you will defend SODOMY : A.P.A. Debates Pedophilia, Gender-Identity Disorder, Sexual SadismThe slightly inconvenient matter that your posts are fiction should be no obstacle to using it to great effect in your anti-hetero diatribes.
You very well may be right and if so I have no problem with it. My personal bias is based on what I've read, so if you have a source to support your statements I'd like to see it. From what I've previously seen coming from you, you don't appear interested in facts so I tend to doubt whatever you say without a reference...