A MYTH THAT KILLS: AIDS INDUSTRY FEEDS ON FEAR

New York Post ^ | July 3, 2008 | Michael Fumento

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A MYTH THAT KILLS: AIDS INDUSTRY FEEDS ON FEAR

July 3, 2008 --

THE Senate is near to pass ing a massive $50 billion Emergency Plan for HIV/ AIDS Relief - a bill whose priorities are based on myth, just like virtually all anti-AIDS efforts worldwide.

The world's top AIDS bureaucrat recently admitted the truth: "It is very unlikely that there will be a heterosexual epidemic" outside Africa, Kevin de Cock, director of the World Health Organization, told London's Independent newspaper. His bosses at the United Nations issued an official denial - but couldn't truly challenge his science.

The effort to "democratize" AIDS dates back to the mid-1980s, when the media and health officials began a desperate and concerted effort to divert attention and make it seem everyone was at risk. The 1985 Life magazine cover, blaring "NOW NO ONE IS SAFE FROM AIDS" in huge red letters, represents this effort. Surgeon General Everett Koop coined the term "heterosexual AIDS explosion" in 1987, while in 1993 HHS Secretary Donna Shalala told Congress that AIDS may leave "nobody left."...

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Didn’t you ever wonder why Magic never came to look like a chemotherapy patient?

I don't know what he looked like at all times during his treatment. Do you?

But in an interview with TIME last week, Johnson acknowledged that he has in the past taken AZT, the antiviral drug typically administered when a person’s helper T-cell count drops to 500. (See following story.) Johnson said that he is no longer taking AZT and that his T-cell count is above 500

All this talks about is the fact that he is not taking AZT at this time becuase his T-Cell count is high. It doesn't talk about the other drugs he is taking, and it does not mean he won't take AZT in the future, if his T-Cell count drops. AZT is not the sole drug used to control AIDS- it is part of a regimen of drugs that is adjusted over time for each patient's situation.

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==I don't know what he looked like at all times during his treatment. Do you?

I don't know about all times, but most times. I followed his case VERY closely.

==All this talks about is the fact that he is not taking AZT at this time becuase his T-Cell count is high.

His wife said he went off of them because of the side effects. I think Magic was trying to spin his decision so as not to become a pariah in the very AIDS community that made him their hero and poster boy.

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Ooops...actually I meant #31 and #32