Questioning HIV and Evolution
I’m still wavering on this issue, although I have moved more towards the mainstream view of late. Much of the evidence that I have seen (and can understand) seems to be nipping at the edges and not enough to overturn the current paradigm.
Still, the common equation of those who question the HIV Hyptothesis with Intelligent Designers really annoys me. It’s the intellectual equivalent of running to your mother instead of defending your pet hypothesis. Although I’ll hand it to them: it does put those who question the HIV hypothesis on the defensive.
But take a moment to consider: Evolution has been around in its current form for over 150 years. HIV? I still clearly remember when it was called HTLV just over 20 years ago. Evolution has survived countless debates, bannings, and challenges since it became public: Duesberg’s criticism is only the first challenge to the hypothesis. The evidence of evolution is all around us – from the spread of methicillin resistant staph aureus infections to the breeds of dogs being walked by their owners on city streets. HIV is silent, and the mechanisms behind it only understood by a small cadre of scientists. Evolution is perhaps the single greatest scientific achievement in the entire history of humanity, while HIV is just another disease that kills half the people stroke does – if the HIV hypothesis turns out to be true.
Michael:
Hello America. Dear sweet still Homophobic and Racist America, you may be wavering to the side of mainstream on HIV being the cause of AIDS. I used to be, but am not any more.
Just boiling it all down, to whom actually died or is affected, or is told that their test result are positive, or that they have AIDS, seems to me to be more than telling me all I need to know about HIV and AIDS.
Whom is testing HIV positive and being diagnosed in the category (AIDS is a category that requires a positive HIV test) as having AIDS. Whom is even taking the tests?
Well let me see, here in America, america, we have the numero uno group of HOMOSEXUALS, mixed with some BLACK heterosexuals, a handful of Mexicans, and a most of these in the last categories are DOPE ADDICTS, and a mere minute smattering of others that do not fit into these categories. Now why just gays, blacks, and dopers. What else do these groups have in common?
Gee, they are all on the undesirable list of an awful lot of people! It would be quite amazing indeed if this tiny little spec of 17 proteins of retrovirus was smart enough to discriminate, so I can not possibly understand how the virus or the tests would know how to be racist homophobes. How can this be?
Now lets look at AFRICA. Strange as strange can be, it is a BLACK HETEROSEXUAL disease in Africa. Strangely enough the virus and the tests are again exhibiting RACIST attributes here as well. No hetero outbreak over here in the states or Europe, other than a small pattering of another unwanted and despite group, the dopers! Just a big ole hetero thing for the poorest black heterosexuals in Africa.
Smart virus indeed, Smart HIV test. So brilliant that it is a total RACIST and Gay Bashing HOMOPHOBE. Care to explain this? Didn’t think so. The largest common denominator is that the affected and infected are in “high risk” categories of being discrimated against. WoW!
As a straight man, first of all, I don’t even bother to go get a test, but just in case someone ever talked me into it after a long bout with the flu, I would go to the testing place, tell them I am hetero and not a doper, and they would give me the test. OK, I am in a “Low Risk Category” for testing positive. If the test lit up as it often does for more than 60 often common conditions even including with just the flu, I would be told I need a backup test. OK, I take the backup test, and have 3 out of 6 lines light up in the test, and then they see I am hetero low risk, I am declared to be a false positive.
Now I go to a clinic frequented by gays. Tell them I am a gay man. My first test lights up, I take the second test. My test lights up with the same 3 out of 6 lines that were found when I posed as the straight guy, and this time low and behold, with the very same test results as last time when I was told I was false positive, as a gay man I am told Your test result came back positive for HIV! “YOU HAVE HIV, THE VIRUS THAT CAUSES AIDS”. Take these meds and take em quick, and take em for the rest of your life. Oh don’t worry about those side effects. Be brave now, lipodystrophy and liver failure, and blood poisoning from the drugs are not all that bad! Well if you say so, Doc. I am gonna die anyway if I don’t take the toxic meds. I am not even going to do any research to find out that the leading cause of death in HIV positive Americans is actually liver failure directly due to the HIV drugs, cause now I am too paranoid to even investigate it.
There you have it. HIV and AIDS, and HIV testing. Gee, How come HIV/AIDS and the HIV tests are soooo smart to get away with being as Racist and Homophobic as many of the people in the world.
Whatsamatter America! Too simple to see the obvious? Although it is sooooo ugly, I don’t blame you for not looking and seeing it for what it is. But I hope one day you will have the courage to open your eyes and take an honest look. At yourself.
25 July 2006, 5:04 pm