Carlos, while there is merit to your point do you not think that a
similarity can be drawn with the tobacco industry which disputes the link
between cigarettes and cancer?
Anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carlinhos Puig" <carlinhospu@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: combats with AIDS, and Foucault's personal attitude
> Hi,
>
> I really believe Foucault would be another personallity signing the list
of
> the "Dissidents of Aids", the group of scientists who question the fact
that
> there is no scientific proof that it is the HIV virus that causes the
> sindrome. I think Foucault would line up with South Africa´s president,
> standing up for having food for people who die of symptoms that are
> considered aids, in Africa, but who are starving, and have not been tested
> (an HIV test would cost an amount that is unafordable to people who are
> starving, starvation have very similar symptoms to those attributed to
> AIDS).
> I think Foucault would question the farmaceutical industry, whith bilions
a
> year involved in the discussion. He would argue and stand for a Nobel
Prize
> scientist who has no voice any longer in the official medical press, the
> same one who developed the exam that tells HIV+ people the "quantity of
> virus" they have, and he has told the world, after receiving the Nobel
> Prize, that what he had developed wouldn´t be good to test HIV, and so, he
> was "banished" from the medical society.
> If anyone here is thinking this brazilian student is being "paranoic" or
is
> having "conspiratory thinking" do search for the words 'Aids dissidents'
and
> see their point of view. Power? That´s a good example IF they are to be
> right.
>
> Carlos
>
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similarity can be drawn with the tobacco industry which disputes the link
between cigarettes and cancer?
Anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carlinhos Puig" <carlinhospu@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: combats with AIDS, and Foucault's personal attitude
> Hi,
>
> I really believe Foucault would be another personallity signing the list
of
> the "Dissidents of Aids", the group of scientists who question the fact
that
> there is no scientific proof that it is the HIV virus that causes the
> sindrome. I think Foucault would line up with South Africa´s president,
> standing up for having food for people who die of symptoms that are
> considered aids, in Africa, but who are starving, and have not been tested
> (an HIV test would cost an amount that is unafordable to people who are
> starving, starvation have very similar symptoms to those attributed to
> AIDS).
> I think Foucault would question the farmaceutical industry, whith bilions
a
> year involved in the discussion. He would argue and stand for a Nobel
Prize
> scientist who has no voice any longer in the official medical press, the
> same one who developed the exam that tells HIV+ people the "quantity of
> virus" they have, and he has told the world, after receiving the Nobel
> Prize, that what he had developed wouldn´t be good to test HIV, and so, he
> was "banished" from the medical society.
> If anyone here is thinking this brazilian student is being "paranoic" or
is
> having "conspiratory thinking" do search for the words 'Aids dissidents'
and
> see their point of view. Power? That´s a good example IF they are to be
> right.
>
> Carlos
>
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