(manarak @ Aug. 23 2009,18:19) Please explain 2 things:
- If the risks are greatly exagerated, why do some countries have very high rates of infection with millions of corpses, while educated populations who use protective measures (i.e. condoms) are not affected so much?
- If HIV is not the cause of AIDS, why does the treatment against HIV extend the infected's lifespan, and people do not die anymore so quickly?
Citing 22 year old articles on subjects where the main discoveries have been made in the last 15 years is at best inept.
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- If the risks are greatly exagerated, why do some countries have very high rates of infection with millions of corpses, while educated populations who use protective measures (i.e. condoms) are not affected so much?
- If HIV is not the cause of AIDS, why does the treatment against HIV extend the infected's lifespan, and people do not die anymore so quickly?
Citing 22 year old articles on subjects where the main discoveries have been made in the last 15 years is at best inept.
You are and remain a
The explanation for why 'so called' HIV infection rates are so high in Africa, is one of the main arguments against HIV being the cause of AIDS. It seems you're not familiar with the arguments of the dissident movement.
The answer is simple. People have been dying from a range of diseases there for many years due to bad nutrition, hygiene etc. These diseases often show as positive for HIV. The more people they test, the more people they say have HIV.
Note that the symptoms and diseases that are predominant in African AIDS patients are quite different to the symptoms of the original AIDS patients and western AIDS patients in general. That alone is a huge flaw in the supposed HIV cause theory.
Regarding increased lifespans, I'm not aware of any conclusive studies that prove that. Believe it or not, not many people don't take medication and most of those who don't, do not due to extreme poverty, so it's very difficult to get a broad based double-blind study that is reliable.
Anyway, it's not impossible that certain treatments may in fact have advantages for the disease people who are said to have HIV. That is a long way from proving HIV exists. For example, Vitamin D supplementation may increase the lifespans of a given population, and it probably would, whether they are HIV or not. That wouldn't prove that HIV exists.
You also tell us how older studies are irrelevant. Well, it's hardly surprising that an industry which receives billions in research funding has managed to find specious evidence to continue along its merry way. It's a bit like the funding that went to global warming modellers. Those who find the right and scary results continue to get funding.
The HIV - AIDS link was dubious right from the start, it just gets dressed up more and more as funding for new wardrobes flows in.
btw: I'm hesitant to carry on with this discussion while you feel the need to use ad hominen attacks.
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