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Vaccine Failure Means Setback in AIDS Fight
FOXNews.com ^ | Friday, March 21, 2008 | FOXNews.com

Posted on 03/21/2008 5:39:05 AM PDT by metmom

The two-decade search for an AIDS vaccine is in crisis after two field tests of the most promising contender not only did not protect people from the virus but may actually have put them at increased risk of becoming infected, The Washington Post reported.

Experts are questioning the overall strategy and scientific premises of the nearly $500 million in AIDS vaccine research funded annually by the government after the two field tests were halted last September and seven other trials of AIDS vaccines have either been stopped or put off indefinitely.

The recently closed studies, STEP and Phambili, were halted when it became clear the STEP study was futile and possibly harmful.

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To: Alter Kaker

90% in Men for higher risk of Lung Cancer
80% in women for higher risk of Lung cancer.

Now My Mother was in the 20% that got Lung Cancer with out smoking and being in a smoke free family, environment.

Your comments on Lung cancer or any OTHER CANCER is POINTLESS!
WE CAN NOT KEEP ALL LUNG CANCER from happening! RIGHT???
NOT ALL CANCER is life style related RIGHT?

GET OFF IT ALREADY!


161 posted on 03/21/2008 8:35:38 AM PDT by ConfidentConservative
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To: tm61

“thats cuz whitey dont want no cure for da dizease he uzes to keep da black man dowwnn”

Guess you are a “typical white person.”

LOL


162 posted on 03/21/2008 8:38:57 AM PDT by Larebil (My name is liberal backwards, since they backwards thinking)
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To: AD from SpringBay
"If the vaccine were accompanied by self-control it might work better. As a matter of fact, aspirin and self-control do a pretty good job of protecting people from AIDS."

Photobucket Aspirin? Does one administer this remedy by placing and holding it firmly between the knees?

163 posted on 03/21/2008 8:50:59 AM PDT by SiVisPacemParaBellum (Peace through superior firepower!)
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To: ConfidentConservative

I’m so sorry about your mom’s illness and death...please accept my condolences.

One thing I might point out...people who get lung cancer, either innocently or through lifestyle choices, cannot pass it on to anyone else....that would indicate how VERY different it is from HIV.


164 posted on 03/21/2008 8:52:19 AM PDT by Judith Anne (I have no idea what to put here. Not a clue.)
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To: Judith Anne

Thank you! It was very hard to go through, having someone try to link her death with HIV is unbelievable to me.
I couldn’t STOP what happened to her NOR was it preventable as HIV is all the way preventable.

That doesn’t mean I don’t care about the suffering an AIDS patient goes through.

Mom and I were close.

This person needs to get OFF the cancer excuse and stick with the HIV argument on its own. He won’t though because, by it self, His argument will not stand.


165 posted on 03/21/2008 9:11:36 AM PDT by ConfidentConservative
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To: ConfidentConservative

Sadly, the treatment protocols for lung cancer haven’t changed in decades. A few new drugs, that’s all. You’d think with the tobacco settlement, there could be some real research, but I understand that’s all gone toward funding social engineering.


166 posted on 03/21/2008 9:17:33 AM PDT by Judith Anne (I have no idea what to put here. Not a clue.)
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To: metmom
Proof that the US government invented AIDS to keep the black man down! </Wright>
167 posted on 03/21/2008 9:21:29 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Obama looks, walks and talks like a racist pig...)
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To: MrPiper
Money spent on AIDS is a waste of money

The knowledge gained in field like virology and human immunology is endless. The pursuit of a vaccine or "cure" is not a waste.

168 posted on 03/21/2008 9:23:49 AM PDT by newzjunkey (http://www.friendsofsarah.com/ - CA Abortion Notification Petition)
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To: Alter Kaker

Are you saying that AIDS statistics would not be affected AT ALL by any changes in behavior?? Well, well, I’ll tell my best friend’s ghost. He blamed himself for his choice to leave his wife and baby daughter to come out of the closet. He he hadn’t had sex with men, he still would have gotten and dies of AIDS. He thought his family’s pain at his illness was his fault. Well, maybe he’ll be able to rest in peace now.


169 posted on 03/21/2008 9:27:07 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Obama looks, walks and talks like a racist pig...)
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To: Alter Kaker; Judith Anne; metmom

Judith Anne, He does seem to be fixed on Africa for some reason. This is a country where ADULT men think that gang-raping baby girls will cure them from AIDS! WOW, Alter Kaker, tell us how many more BILLIONS of dollars we need to send down there to teach these monsters the real truth. GANG-RAPING BABY GIRLS DOESN’T CURE AIDS!!!! WTFU!!!

Quite honestly, we might as well be trying to teach a monkey to build a computer. They are third world mental retards, always have been and always will be no matter how many billions you throw at them. They continue to breed and overpopulate their country when they cannot even feed themselves. How much money does it take to teach an adult to put a condom on a penis? What is the minimum I.Q. score needed to grasp this task? Take it as you will, I don’t care. Yes, most of the HIV/AIDS in Africa is spread through hetero sex.

I know name-calling is not tolerated here and I’ll probably be zotted for this, but you’re an idiot if you can’t see the lack of common sense contained in your arguments.

The Statistics on Homosexuality and its Effects
Some statistics about the Homosexual lifestyle:

” One study reports 70% of homosexuals admitting to having sex only one time with over 50% of their partners (3).
• One study reports that the average homosexual has between 20 and 106 partners per year (6). The average heterosexual has 8 partners in a lifetime.
• Many homosexual sexual encounters occur while drunk, high on drugs, or in an orgy setting (7).
• Many homosexuals don’t pay heed to warnings of their lifestyles: “Knowledge of health guidelines was quite high, but this knowledge had no relation to sexual behavior” (16).
• Homosexuals got homosexuality removed from the list of mental illnesses in the early 70s by storming the annual American Psychiatric Association (APA) conference on successive years. “Guerrilla theater tactics and more straight-forward shouting matches characterized their presence” (2). Since homosexuality has been removed from the APA list of mental illnesses, so has pedophilia (except when the adult feels “subjective distress”) (27).
• Homosexuals account for 3-4% of all gonorrhea cases, 60% of all syphilis cases, and 17% of all hospital admissions (other than for STDs) in the United States (5). They make up only 1-2% of the population.
• Homosexuals live unhealthy lifestyles, and have historically accounted for the bulk of syphilis, gonorrhea, Hepatitis B, the “gay bowel syndrome” (which attacks the intestinal tract), tuberculosis and cytomegalovirus (27).
• 73% of psychiatrists say homosexuals are less happy than the average person, and of those psychiatrists, 70% say that the unhappiness is NOT due to social stigmatization (13).
• 25-33% of homosexuals and lesbians are alcoholics (11).
• Of homosexuals questioned in one study reports that 43% admit to 500 or more partners in a lifetime, 28% admit to 1000 or more in a lifetime, and of these people, 79% say that half of those partners are total strangers, and 70% of those sexual contacts are one night stands (or, as one homosexual admits in the film “The Castro”, one minute stands) (3). Also, it is a favorite past-time of many homosexuals to go to “cruisy areas” and have anonymous sex.
• 78% of homosexuals are affected by STDs (20).
• Judge John Martaugh, chief magistrate of the New York City Criminal Court has said, “Homosexuals account for half the murders in large cities” (10).
• Captain William Riddle of the Los Angeles Police says, “30,000 sexually abused children in Los Angeles were victims of homosexuals” (10).
• 50% of suicides can be attributed to homosexuals (10).
• Dr. Daniel Capron, a practicing psychiatrist, says, “Homosexuality by definition is not healthy and wholesome. The homosexual person, at best, will be unhappier and more unfulfilled than the sexually normal person” (10). For other psychiatrists who believe that homosexuality is wrong, please see National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality.
• It takes approximately $300,000 to take care of each AIDS victim, so thanks to the promiscuous lifestyle of homosexuals, medical insurance rates have been skyrocketing for all of us(10).
• Homosexuals were responsible for spreading AIDS in the United States, and then raised up violent groups like Act Up and Ground Zero to complain about it. Even today, homosexuals account for well over 50% of the AIDS cases in the United States, which is quite a large number considering that they account for only 1-2% of the population.
• Homosexuals account for a disproportionate number of hepatitis cases: 70-80% in San Francisco, 29% in Denver, 66% in New York City, 56% in Toronto, 42% in Montreal, and 26% in Melbourne (8).
• 37% of homosexuals engage in sadomasochism, which accounts for many accidental deaths. In San Francisco, classes were held to teach homosexuals how to not kill their partners during sadomasochism (8).
• 41% of homosexuals say they have had sex with strangers in public restrooms, 60% say they have had sex with strangers in bathhouses, and 64% of these encounters have involved the use of illegal drugs (8).
• Depending on the city, 39-59% of homosexuals are infected with intestinal parasites like worms, flukes and amoebae, which is common in filthy third world countries (8).
• The median age of death of homosexuals is 42 (only 9% live past age 65). This drops to 39 if the cause of death is AIDS. The median age of death of a married heterosexual man is 75 (8).
• The median age of death of lesbians is 45 (only 24% live past age 65). The median age of death of a married heterosexual woman is 79 (8).
• Homosexuals are 100 times more likely to be murdered (usually by another homosexual) than the average person, 25 times more likely to commit suicide, and 19 times more likely to die in a traffic accident (8).
• 21% of lesbians die of murder, suicide or traffic accident, which is at a rate of 534 times higher than the number of white heterosexual females aged 25-44 who die of these things(8).
• 50% of the calls to a hotline to report “queer bashing” involved domestic violence (i.e., homosexuals beating up other homosexuals) (18).
• About 50% of the women on death row are lesbians (12).
Homosexuals prey on children.
• 33% of homosexuals ADMIT to minor/adult sex (7).
• There is a notable homosexual group, consisting of thousands of members, known as the North American Man and Boy Love Association ( NAMBLA). This is a child molesting homosexual group whose cry is “SEX BEFORE 8 BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.” This group can be seen marching in most major homosexual parades across the United States.
• Homosexuals commit more than 33% of all reported child molestations in the United States, which, assuming homosexuals make up 2% of the population, means that 1 in 20 homosexuals is a child molestor, while 1 in 490 heterosexuals is a child molestor (19).
• 73% of all homosexuals have had sex with boys under 19 years of age (9).
• Many homosexuals admit that they are pedophiles: “The love between men and boys is at the foundation of homosexuality” (22).
• Because homosexuals can’t reproduce naturally, they resort to recruiting children. Homosexuals can be heard chanting “TEN PERCENT IS NOT ENOUGH, RECRUIT, RECRUIT, RECRUIT” in their homosexual parades. A group called the “Lesbian Avengers” prides itself on trying to recruit young girls. They print “WE RECRUIT” on their literature. Some other homosexuals aren’t as overt about this, but rather try to infiltrate society and get into positions where they will have access to the malleable minds of young children (e.g., the clergy, teachers, Boy Scout leaders, etc.) (8). See the DC Lesbian Avengers web page, and DC Lesbian Avengers Press Release, where they threaten to recruit little boys and girls. Also, see AFA Action Alert.
The homosexual agenda.
• The homosexual agenda includes desensitizing the public: “The first order of business is desensitization of the American public concerning gays and gay rights.....To desensitize the public is to help it view homosexuality with indifference instead of with keen emotion. Ideally, we would have straights register differences in sexual preferences the way they register different tastes for ice cream or sports games....At least in the beginning, we are seeking public desensitization and nothing more. We do not need and cannot expect a full ‘appreciation’ or ‘understanding’ of homosexuality from the average American. You can forget about trying to persuade the masses that homosexuality is a good thing. But if only you can get them to think that it is just another thing...then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won” (25).
• Part of the homosexual agenda is to get the public to affirm their filthy lifestyle, as one homosexual admitted in the October 1987 homosexual rally on Washington: “We are no longer seeking just a right to privacy and a protection from wrong. We also have a right — as heterosexual Americans already have — to see government and society affirm our lives” (27).
• Part of the homosexual agenda is to turn people from Christianity: “The teaching that only male-female sexual activity within the bounds and constraints of marriage is the only acceptable form should be reason enough for any homosexual to denounce the Christian religion” (1).
• Homosexuals knowingly lied (and still lie) about the 10% figure (i.e., homosexuals make up 10% of the population). As Tom Stoddard (formerly of the Lambda Legal Defense Fund) said, “We used that figure when most gay people were entirely hidden to try to create an impression of our numerousness” (17).
The true number of homosexuals.
• The Kinsey study of 1948, which homosexuals often cite to say that 10% of the population is homosexual, actually says that only 4% of the population is EXCLUSIVELY homosexual. This study involved a disproportionate number of people who had been in jail for sex crimes (hardly a random sample of the population). Kinsey also did perverse studies involving young boys and pedophiles. Information on Kinsey.
• Current research shows that the true percentage of homosexuals is in the 1-2% range (15,23,26,28). Consider how small this number is when compared to most of the numbers above.
Homosexuals aren’t discriminated against in employment, so why should they be a protected class?
• The average yearly income of a homosexual is $55,430.00 (most of which is disposable because no children to take care of!). The average of the general population is $32,144.00. The average of blacks is $12,166.00 (24).
• 59.6% of homosexuals are college graduates. 18.0% of the general population are college graduates (24). Too bad they aren’t smart enough to listen to God. “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:22).
• 49.0% of homosexuals hold professional/managerial positions. 15.9% of the general population hold such positions (24). Where’s the job discrimination?
Sexual Orientation
• A phrase that has come up recently in this earth is “sexual orientation.” This is a phrase made up by homosexuals to try to make themselves look less filthy than they really are. The purpose of the phrase is to take the spotlight from what these perverts do, and put it on the notion that they are just poor, mistreated people, who simply are attracted to members of the same sex - as if they aren’t engaging in activity forbidden by God Almighty. “Sexual orientation,” as used today, has nothing to do with sexual activity (yeah, right), but only refers to who or what a particular person is attracted to. If you think that people of other “sexual orientations” are just fine, let’s see what other “sexual orientations” you would necessarily have to accept as wholesome and pure. If you’re not going to discriminate based on “sexual orientation”, then you must not discriminate against any of the following. If you discriminate against any of these, you’re a hypocrite. These “sexual orientations” are generally known as “paraphilias”, and are mental disorders - just like homosexuality used to be (29).
REFERENCES
(1) Advocate, 1985.
(2) Bayer, R. Homosexuality and American Psychiatry.
(3) Bell, A. and Weinberg, M. Homosexualities: a Study of Diversity Among Men and Women. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
(4) Cameron et. al. ISIS National Random Sexuality Survey. Nebraska Med. Journal, 1985, 70, pp. 292-299.
(5) “Changes in Sexual Behavior and Incidence of Gonorrhea.” Lancet, April 25, 1987.
(6) Corey, L. and Holmes, K. “Sexual Transmission of Hepatitis A in Homosexual Men.” New England J. Med., 1980, pp. 435-38.
(7) Family Research Institute, Lincoln, NE.
(8) Fields, Dr. E. “Is Homosexual Activity Normal?” Marietta, GA.
(9) Jay and Young. The Gay Report. Summit Books, 1979, p. 275.
(10) Kaifetz, J. “Homosexual Rights Are Concern for Some,” Post-Tribune, 18 December 1992.
(11) Kus, R. “Alcoholics Anonymous and Gay America.” Medical Journal of Homosexuality, 1987, 14(2), p. 254.
(12) Lesbian News, January 1994.
(13) Lief, H. Sexual Survey Number 4: Current Thinking on Homosexuality, Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, 1977, pp. 110-11.
(14) Manlight, G. et. al. “Chronic Immune Stimulation By Sperm Alloantigens.” J. American Med. Assn., 1984, 251(2), pp. 237-438.
(15) Morton-Hunt Study for Playboy
(16) MsKusick, L. et. al. “AIDS and Sexual Behavior Reported By Gay Men in San Francisco.” Am. J. Pub. Health, 1985, 75, pp. 493-96.
(17) Newsweek, February 1993.
(18) Newsweek, 4 October 1993.
(19) Psychological Reports, 1986, 58, pp. 327-37.
(20) Rueda, E. “The Homosexual Network.” Old Greenwich, Conn., The Devin Adair Company, 1982, p. 53.
(21) San Francisco AIDS Foundation, “Can We Talk.”
(22) San Francisco Sentinel, 27 March 1992.
(23) Science Magazine, 18 July 1993, p. 322.
(24) Statistical Abstract of the U.S., 1990.
(25) “The Overhauling of Straight America.” Guide Magazine. November, 1987.
(26) United States Census Bureau
(27) United States Congressional Record, June 29, 1989.
(28) University of Chicago’s Nation Research Corp.
(29) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth Edition, American Psychiatric Association, 1994.
© 2000- 2003 International Organization of Heterosexual Rights


170 posted on 03/21/2008 9:28:42 AM PDT by panaxanax (Writing in Duncan Hunter 2008!)
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To: Alter Kaker
"I think the biggest push should be on prevention: educating people about HIV/AIDS and about how they can prevent or limit transmission, just as I agree we should teach kids to eat right, exercise and warn them about the dangers of smoking."

Every argument you have given so far educating people in preventing AIDS is futile, because behavior isn't a factor.

171 posted on 03/21/2008 9:30:28 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Obama looks, walks and talks like a racist pig...)
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To: panaxanax

Thank you more than I can say. What an informative post!

I knew very well about the “African treatment” for HIV; since the thread was about the quest for a vaccine, I limited my comments. That same “treatment” was supposed to be effective for syphilis once upon a time in this country.

*sigh*


172 posted on 03/21/2008 9:39:28 AM PDT by Judith Anne (I have no idea what to put here. Not a clue.)
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To: Alter Kaker
"But why treat AIDS differently on FR than lung cancer, heart disease, or, frankly, mesothelioma (a nearly 100% preventable disease that you can avoid by simply not inhaling asbestos fibers)?"

At LAST, you ask an INTELLIGENT question! At LAST!

I don't know the answer to why AIDS gets so much more attention and funding and political capital than far more virulent and easily communicable diseases.

If you ever find out why AIDS is so much more important, let us all know.

173 posted on 03/21/2008 9:40:02 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Obama looks, walks and talks like a racist pig...)
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To: metmom

Maybe if they quit siphoning off half of the AIDS donations to PROMOTE the gay lifestyle, they’d have made more progress in the medical arena?


174 posted on 03/21/2008 9:46:49 AM PDT by G Larry (HILLARY CARE = DYING IN LINE!)
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To: Dianna; Alter Kaker
"If smokers and the families of smokers were on tv demanding a cure, and trying to make you feel like a vicious, unfeeling bigot for not donating enough, not caring enough, don't tell me you wouldn't suggest that people stop smoking"

You've nailed the argument right on th ehead and right to the floor!

175 posted on 03/21/2008 9:49:28 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Obama looks, walks and talks like a racist pig...)
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To: Alter Kaker
"That's what I'm talking about, that's what I'm concerned about. There are entire nations that are being depopulated."

Oh, I see. You're not a US citizen are you? You've spent the past ten years so obsessive compulsively pursuing US money to cure AIDS in Africa you haven't paid attention to the fact that AIDS has funding has become a political platform all by itself as well as a welfare system for researcher's who'd work themselves out of a job if they find a cure, is that it?

Yeah, we need a vaccine. You need to acknowledge that YOUR side is ALSO interfering with finding one - while screaming that those of us who are collectively FUNDING your cure are cruel, heartless, uncaring and cheap. we have FAMILIES to raise and bills to pay and need SOME of our money for THAT - while at the same time, in it's collective greed for money and power and stop going all arrogant elitist on all of us.

If you are one of the people who's job it is to educate people about preventing aids and the need to find a vaccine for it, then WE PAY YOUR SALARY.

176 posted on 03/21/2008 10:00:11 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Obama looks, walks and talks like a racist pig...)
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To: Judith Anne
You are more than welcome, my dear.

We can only hope that the gruesome and disgusting facts presented will shut A-K’s pie-hole. Somehow I feel he will overlook them and continue to defend the gay lifestyle in regards to spreading this disease.

177 posted on 03/21/2008 10:05:53 AM PDT by panaxanax (Writing in Duncan Hunter 2008!)
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To: cake_crumb
I don't know the answer to why AIDS gets so much more attention and funding and political capital than far more virulent and easily communicable diseases.

The diseases I mentioned were mesothelioma, lung cancer, and heart disease. Which of those, exactly, is far more virulent and easily communicable than HIV/AIDS?

178 posted on 03/21/2008 10:05:59 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: panaxanax
Somehow I feel he will overlook them and continue to defend the gay lifestyle in regards to spreading this disease.

Kindly remind me where I have "defend[ed] the gay lifestyle." You folks must be mistaking me for someone else. I'm certainly not the one who keeps on bringing up the gays.

179 posted on 03/21/2008 10:07:22 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: cake_crumb
You've spent the past ten years so obsessive compulsively pursuing US money to cure AIDS in Africa

I'm semi-retired. I've spent most of the past ten years obsessive compulsively playing golf. Not sure who you think I am, but I haven't pursued one cent of your tax dollars.

You need to acknowledge that YOUR side is ALSO interfering with finding one -

My side? What side would that be, exactly?

If you are one of the people who's job it is to educate people about preventing aids and the need to find a vaccine for it, then WE PAY YOUR SALARY.

That's nice, but that's not my job and no, you don't pay my salary.

180 posted on 03/21/2008 10:09:45 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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