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Objecting to the pharmaceutical industry's bullshit or hysterical
knee-jerk f.ck ups like the quackwatch a.sholes does not mean that one
is obliged to believe (often right-wing induced) screwball theories of
AIDS.

I have watched too many friends die of AIDS. The one thing they all
had in common was HIV. My friends and people I have known have
represented every gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, experience or
lack thereof of recreational drug use and age, from children to
grandmothers.

And medications have VERY important uses. It's the ABUSE,
overcharging, overhyping and lying about them that discredits the
INDUSTRY, not necessarily the value, limitations and costs of
medications.  Statins for people who have had a heart attack are
probably a useful intervention, for example. ARV for a person with
dropping CD4 count due to HIV infection is a good idea.

Charging hideous amounts for the drugs and raping people and health
systems for all they are worth holds people's lives hostage. When they
die, it is an act of second degree murder. And the numbers of
avoidable deaths due to AIDS and lack of access to ARV due to
outrageous pricing is, in my view, a form of genocide.

But embracing bullshit notions about HIV not causing AIDS doesn't make
you any less of an idiot, Jannie-poo.

At least idiocy MAY be curable, but I doubt it in your case.

        George M. Carter