Quiting HIV. On today's LRC an establishment HIV researcher, Rebecca Culshaw, in Why I Quit HIV explains how she has come to realize that this government-announced cause of AIDS is wrong. Read it. She gives a moving account of how the HIV-causes-AIDS... By Donald Miller. [LewRockwell.com Blog]
A very interesting article, but I think there's more to this than just government action, as Miller suggests. There are definitely other political factors involved in the whole HIV/AIDS story.
When AIDS was first discovered, there were plenty of bigots saying that it was "god's punishment" and that the people who had it (being mostly young gay men and heavy drug users) deserved to die. Naturally the bigots didn't want a whole lot of time and money spent finding a cure, because they wanted the people with AIDS dead anyway.
In reaction, a considerable amount of effort was spent on "education" telling people that everyone could get AIDS, regardless of their lifestyle. This lead to considerable panic (as the article notes) and a whole lot of research funding, as the general public were convinced that they were in danger, and not just those "yucky" gay people who they didn't care about anyway.
Now considerable time has passed, and although the conventional wisdom that anyone can get AIDS seems to be holding, anyone who actually pays attention (which does, sadly, include the bigots) has noticed that in reality the warnings of suburban housewives with AIDS never came to pass--regardless of what causes it, AIDS never really moved out of the groups were it was discovered.
My theory is that this is where the vigorous defense of the theory that HIV causes AIDS comes from. People are afraid that the bigots (who never really wanted people with AIDS to survive anyway) will shut down all that funding they've been getting if they can convince the general public that they really don't have anything to fear after all.
That is probably a justified concern. If it's determined that AIDS is dependent on lifestyle after all, that huge funding will almost certain dry up, because the sad reality is that even if they're not actively bigoted, most Americans don't really care one way or the other if a bunch of gay men and drug addicts die or not. Obviously it's in the interests of gay rights activists to promote the HIV causes AIDS theory, simply to preserve research funding.
The sad thing is that if the theory is wrong (which does, from what I've read, appear likely), then the treatments are actually killing people who could have lived long and happy lives just by cutting back on the excess a bit.
Unfortunately this possibility will likely keep the HIV-causing theory going for the foreseeable future, even if it is indeed proven false, because most of those gay rights activists and AIDS researchers won't be able to face the knowledge that the work they've spent 20 years of their lives on has actually been killing the people they've been trying to help. Just look at the way there are so many socialists around today, still in denial over the horrific slaughter their beliefs cause.
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