Is the source of the infection doubtful to anyone else?
To: metacognate
I don't understand your question. Are you implying he was homosexual? Was he?
The article says, "he contracted the disease via tainted blood while undergoing a 1983 heart bypass operation."
A lot of people have died from AIDS from tainted blood.
To: metacognate
No, not to me it isn't. Do you have information you would like to share with the class?
3 posted on
03/12/2002 4:15:22 PM PST by
riley1992
To: metacognate
Asimov's science fiction didn't interest me. However his books on mathematics and physics were gems.
5 posted on
03/12/2002 4:18:09 PM PST by
RLK
To: metacognate
Whatever- I had hours of entertainment from his "Foundation" books which are truly the best sci- fi ever written and upon which has been ripped off so much (like the "Dune" novels) and many other sci fi plot lines. Asimov was a great writer. If he corn holled that is his business- he never tried to tell me it was right in his writing.
7 posted on
03/12/2002 4:24:23 PM PST by
Burkeman1
To: metacognate
Hmmm... I enjoy Asimov a bit, particularly the Foundation novels and also his early works for the magazines. He wasn't the world's greatest sci-fi writer (that was Heinlein) but he was fairly good. After a while he seemed to lose something, but his last novel, Forward the Foundation was very touching in many ways. Also he seemed to know a great deal about a great many subjects - I believe he has a book in every Dewey category? But the one thing I would never have suspected him of is any of the common AIDS-causing behaviors.
9 posted on
03/12/2002 4:30:47 PM PST by
JenB
To: metacognate
1983 was a reeeeeal bad year to get a blood transfusion. I don't think Asimov was an intravenous drug abuser, if that's what you're implying...
To: metacognate
Ooops, I meant to state that I am in no doubt that he got the disease through a blood transfusion as this claims.
11 posted on
03/12/2002 4:31:47 PM PST by
JenB
To: metacognate
Get a life you piece of human garbage.
You have proof?
Put up proof.
But stop the insinuation.
This is not the Drudge Report.
Yet.
To: metacognate
Asimov had a genius for explaining complex scientific theory and mathematics so well that even dunderheads could understand. He was a great writer, one of the three greats from the golden age of science fiction. He wrote hundreds of books on numerous topics.
His books gave me and millions of fellow readers much joy. He introduced us to robots and the future. He helped teach me to think, and he helped me pass astronomy.
He brought happiness and inspiration to millions. In his time on this Earth, he made it a better place. To imply that his life is in any way diminished by what killed him is disgusting.
17 posted on
03/12/2002 4:56:00 PM PST by
Samwise
To: metacognate
Are you another cowardly Democratic poster? Make your stupid hit and run. . .I've seen enough of them on Free Republic to start recognizing the MO: tonight there's been 2 others - KenPhil and A. Pole.
23 posted on
03/12/2002 5:06:25 PM PST by
Alissa
To: metacognate
A search of Asimov or AIDS at the Fox News site does not retrieve this story.
Explain this.
24 posted on
03/12/2002 5:08:51 PM PST by
Dog Gone
To: metacognate
A forthcoming posthumous autobiography of Isaac Asimov I'm sure it's a posthumously published autobiography. Posthumous autobiographies are highly unlikely events.
To: metacognate
It's not doubtful to me. I believe he did get it from a transfusion. The first tests that the Red Cross did on all donated blood began in May of 1985, IIRC, and even then they weren't considered totally reliable (still aren't). In addition, if you have transfused platelets, you can be getting blood components from up to 20,000 people. A lot of hemophiliacs died from HIV, in case you don't remember or weren't around then.
And I don't like the comment you made about the source of his disease.
To: metacognate
Is the source of the infection doubtful to anyone else? Not to me. Many innocent people were infected this way in the early 80's. Why piss on the man's grave?
37 posted on
03/12/2002 6:46:58 PM PST by
pgkdan
To: metacognate
To: metacognate
Is the source of the infection doubtful to anyone else?I have no doubts; it was entirely possible. My late father in law had a quadruple bypass in 1982 and we were scared to death when all the stories started appearing later that year about the blood supply being tainted. It turned out that he was fine, but before we knew that for sure, we stopped giving blood to the Red Cross for a LONG time. They had gotten too interested in sucking up to the homosexual lobby and weren't too diligent about checking the donated blood. When the hemophiliacs began contracting AIDS, folks started to take notice then the Red Cross got more on the ball about it.
68 posted on
03/12/2002 8:14:44 PM PST by
SuziQ
To: metacognate
...he contracted the disease via tainted blood while undergoing a 1983 heart bypass operation. Did YOU read the article you posted?
148 posted on
08/03/2018 3:53:39 AM PDT by
GOPJ
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