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- From: pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman)
- Subject: Re: Why care what percentage? (was: Gay Likelihood)
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- References: <BzJ0nJ.1Ip7@austin.ibm.com> <1992Dec21.084939.19583@netcom.com> <JTCHEW-211292065104@b50-afrd4.lbl.gov>,<1992Dec21.151840.21605@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:14:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.151840.21605@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
- >And, of course, having an accurate percentage is important for epidemological
- >considerations for certain afflictions. If 10% of all men are gay, it means
- >that gay men are 19 times as much risk for HIV infection than the rest of the
- >population (assuming that the UL'ish notion that 50% of all HIV+ are hetero),
- >while if 4% of all men are gay, then gay men are 48 times as much risk, etc.
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- >This would (or should) change the amount of societal resources devoted to AIDS
- >education and prevention. Ironically, the constant repetition of the clearly
- >false 10% overestimate probably results in far too much of society's resources
- >being devoted to preventing heterosexual AIDS, and not enough devoted to
- >preventing homosexual AIDS.
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- You should have read my AIDS post. Duesberg says there is no peer-reviewed
- paper which proves the HIV-AIDS _hypothesis_. Is he right?
- He says modern AIDs is caused by the hard drug lifestyle of malnutrition,
- sleeplessness, and chronic tension, classic causes of immune deficiency.
- I say scientists are morally intimidated by egalitarianism and so claim
- that all groups are equally at risk. Duesberg says homo. druggies.
- Also, the Am. Psychiatric Assoc. permitted itself to be lobbied and intimi-
- dated by homo. activists around 1970 and, without new science, changed their
- public judgement about the psy. unhealthiness of homo.
- I am not a scientist but a person who recognizes that science is a tool of
- survival and that it is being corrupted by political correctness.
- See _Rethinking AIDS_, an occasional publication from the Group for the
- Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis (2040 Polk St.-321, San
- Francisco, CA 94109; FAX 415-775-1984). They need donations.
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- AYN RAND
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