Infernal adventuring…
Trying to find the famous Grim Reaper HIV/AIDS advert from Australia in the 1980s, I stumbled upon this miracle of rhetorical power. I think it’s safe to say that this is the pithiest example of the craziness of AIDS-denialism that there is to be found on the internet. Could you be more offensive and more ignorant in a shorter space of time?
Who needs rational arguementation when there is Godwin! There was really a craze back in the time though about anyone who had HIV/AIDs.
Interestingly enough I read a study in 2003 by the Donner Laboratory and U of C Berkeley the other day that attempts to tie it to Retrovirals, poor nutrition and intravenus needle useage. Not sure that I buy it, but it does raise a tremendous amount of unanswered questions.
I think you mean this study, which has been withdrawn due to being “incoherent.” It appears it wasn’t peer-reviewed, either.
The retrovirals/poor nutrition/IDU angle were gone over extensively in the 1990s. The thesis that paper would be putting forward has been solidly refuted about 15 years ago, I would guess!
As it happens I’m writing another post on HIV as we speak…
Actually I looked a bit further into that study, and I think you’re referring to Duesberg, right? It would appear he’S one of the original denialists, whose work has been dismissed time and again since the 1980s. See here, for example.
Interesting stuff! Unless they did multiple studies, I would imagine that would be the article. I’ve got it on this notebook if you’d like to take a look at it.
Even more amusing is it looks like it was already redacted when someone posted it. Apparently someone did not do their homework~
That blog has the obvious question – if the cause of AIDS is a gay lifestyle, how does one explain mother-to-child transmission? It’s one of the key causes of the spread of the disease in Africa, along with heterosexual transmission. And how does one explain the sudden drop in AIDS cases since the advent of anti-retroviral drugs? The gay community certainly hasn’t changed its lifestyle, except in one way – condoms to prevent the spread of HIV.
AIDS denialism in the developed world seems to be myopic to what’s going on in Africa, but then tries to export its brand of stupid to those countries, with disastrous results.
Compromise and Conceit 
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