Is this really true?
I'd always thought Mexican
culture was "macho"
culture, where this stuff
was more taboo than for us.
(My first reaction
to this headline was
to wonder if HIV
might be influenced
by bad nutrition
the way some tin foil types say.
The third world's hit hard.)
The "macho" culture allows for some types of "acceptable" homosexual activity. For instance, to play the part of the man, though looked down upon, is not as bad as the other role. It is thus socially justified in a way.
" (My first reaction
to this headline was
to wonder if HIV
might be influenced
by bad nutrition
the way some tin foil types say.
The third world's hit hard.)"
Peter Deusberg is a tinfoil hatter??? News to me.
There is actually 0 empirical evidence that HIV causes what is caused "Aids," and HIV has never been isolated.
AIDS symptoms in africa are different than in the US.
The Africa AIDS stats are silly, since they don't actually test people - they just look for symptoms. Symptoms which are the same as many other tropical diseases. Then they give these people anti-viral drugs which make them sicker... and make them have the same symptoms as people in the US who take the anti-virals. Then they claim "see, it's AIDS."
Color me skeptical.
Deusberg thinks it's an auto-immune reaction caused by sexual practices, drug use, and malnutrition which amplify each others effects and allow opportunistic infections to occur. HIV virus may or may not have much to do with it - it may just be a virus that's common among people who do that sort of thing.