Anthony,
Well, yes, I must agree with you, but that similarity does not change the
problem of HIV/AIDS. Dissidents are people who are doctors, phisitians,
researchers, people from all around the world, and they do describe the
problem in a very reasonable way. Their view is that aids could be caused by
the way of life of a person - using drugs, starvation, compulsive sex, and
they do include cigarette smoking as an activity that causes
immunodeficiency.
What strikes me in that controversy is the fact that very reliable
scientists cease to have a voice in the official medical press, are
ridiculized in the media, after just questioning a more accurate research
before stating something as a truth.
Personally, I am acquainted with quite a number of people who are HIV +, but
do try to live a healthy life (some of these people just refuse to take any
medication at all) and none of them is getting sick, in a period of over ten
years. Actually, they seem to be healthier than me, and I do smoke tobaco,
but I´m not labeled HIV+.
I cannot be sure about what is really happening, but a fact is that those
scientists do have a good point on the issue, but the world deals with aids
in a very sensationalist way. And no one can deny that the farmaceutical
industry does have quite a big lot of profit out of selling medication to
that syndrome.
Carlos
Em 13 Dec 2003, foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx escreveu:
>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"
>To:
>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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Well, yes, I must agree with you, but that similarity does not change the
problem of HIV/AIDS. Dissidents are people who are doctors, phisitians,
researchers, people from all around the world, and they do describe the
problem in a very reasonable way. Their view is that aids could be caused by
the way of life of a person - using drugs, starvation, compulsive sex, and
they do include cigarette smoking as an activity that causes
immunodeficiency.
What strikes me in that controversy is the fact that very reliable
scientists cease to have a voice in the official medical press, are
ridiculized in the media, after just questioning a more accurate research
before stating something as a truth.
Personally, I am acquainted with quite a number of people who are HIV +, but
do try to live a healthy life (some of these people just refuse to take any
medication at all) and none of them is getting sick, in a period of over ten
years. Actually, they seem to be healthier than me, and I do smoke tobaco,
but I´m not labeled HIV+.
I cannot be sure about what is really happening, but a fact is that those
scientists do have a good point on the issue, but the world deals with aids
in a very sensationalist way. And no one can deny that the farmaceutical
industry does have quite a big lot of profit out of selling medication to
that syndrome.
Carlos
Em 13 Dec 2003, foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx escreveu:
>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"
>To:
>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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