They say that the first U.S. AIDS cases were caused, not by HIV infection spread through unprotected sex, but by illicit drug use, amyl nitrate sniffing and exposure to antibiotics used to combat venereal diseases rampant in the 1970s
Probably, one of the more fair and reasonable descriptions of the competing hypothesis.
Heart attack, the biggest killer in the US, is multi-factoral, ie, many things contribute to it: (obesity, high cholesterol, genetics, etc, etc.)
Cancer, the second biggest killer in the US, is also multifactoral: (cigarettes, asbestos, radiation, genetics, etc, etc.)
I found particularly peculiar the assertion that these issues are only being addressed by the AIDS establishment now because they're showing up in the popular press "again." Actually what's been most amazing for the last 25 years is how very little coverage any of this has gotten in the popular press, and how all of it was from the very beginning skewed in one direction.
My own suspicion is that we're seeing more and more of it in the popular press because, frankly, the story has changed so much.
Young people barely even think about AIDS -- why should they?
HankB
6.11.2007 12:29am
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They say that the first U.S. AIDS cases were caused, not by HIV infection spread through unprotected sex, but by illicit drug use, amyl nitrate sniffing and exposure to antibiotics used to combat venereal diseases rampant in the 1970s
Probably, one of the more fair and reasonable descriptions of the competing hypothesis.
Heart attack, the biggest killer in the US, is multi-factoral, ie, many things contribute to it: (obesity, high cholesterol, genetics, etc, etc.)
Cancer, the second biggest killer in the US, is also multifactoral: (cigarettes, asbestos, radiation, genetics, etc, etc.)
Why not AIDS, too?
HankB
My own suspicion is that we're seeing more and more of it in the popular press because, frankly, the story has changed so much.
Well we'll see what we see.
There was a nice little piece in the student paper at UC Santa Cruz last month.
Young people barely even think about AIDS -- why should they?
HankB
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.