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[stocks]

Ignore the fuss over the news last week: that the United Nations' AIDS-fighting agency had admitted to overestimating the global epidemic by 6 million people. That was a sampling error.

Look instead at the fact that glares out from the Orwellian but necessary revision of the figures for earlier years. There it is, starkly: AIDS has peaked.

New infections reached a high point in the late 1990s - by the best estimate, in 1998.

http://www.iht.com/a...merica/aids.php

[maineman]

Medicine is truly wonderful. Not only were we able, yet again, to identify the source of the problem, we learned volumes about how the source interacted with the host. We ramped up our studies on the immune system and were able to create therapies to treat the disease. This multi pronged attack included doctors, scientists and drug companies working together. Thanks to our global economy we were able to spread information quickly and educate more people. Vaccines, antibiotics and antiviral drugs are truly wonderful. The only thing left to fear is stupidity. Believe it or not there are still those who think vaccines are "bad". Or not "god's way". There are those who think condoms are "wrong" for religious reasons. In the end, we will look back on this as we look back on Tuberculosis, polio, smallpox, rheumatic heart disease, coronary disease, streptococcal pneumonia, lymphoma, leukemia, prostate cancer, small cell lung cancer, etc. etc. etc. etc. that we in medicine have stepped up to and cured. When I started medical school AIDS wasn't even known. Then it exploded on us in New York City. Now its under control. When I was a student you were dead from Leukemia in months. Now our patients are cured. When I was in medical school Toxic Shock Syndrome was discovered. We've already cured it. Woman had horrible mastectomies. Now we treat them early and with dignity. Men died from prostate cancer. THe only ones who do so now are the ones who won't get a check up. WHen I was a student and resident the wards were filled with "stroke victims" in their 50s, 60s. Now the only ones who get "strokes" are the ones who won't take blood pressure pills or cholesterol lowering medications. The rest are out playing golf at age 90. And my own list goes on and on..... Great article, stocks, thanks for sharing such good news with us. mm

[Rogerdodger]

The UN is the boy who cried wolf one time too many.

That food for oil was a great scam they got away with.

For your money.

"The United Nations' top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they have long overestimated both the size and the course of the epidemic, which they now believe has been slowing for nearly a decade, according to U.N. documents prepared for the announcement. AIDS remains a devastating public health crisis in the most heavily affected areas of sub-Saharan Africa. But the far-reaching revisions amount to at least a partial acknowledgment of criticisms long leveled by outside researchers who disputed the U.N. portrayal of an ever-expanding global epidemic."
"The latest estimates, due to be released publicly Tuesday, put the number of annual new HIV infections at 2.5 million, a cut of more than 40 percent from last year's estimate"

"Critics have also said that U.N. officials overstated the extent of the epidemic to help gather political and financial support for combating AIDS."

Now that the facts on aids have been revealed, they are pimping something else .
10 years from now...repeat the above.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 26 November 2007 - 09:58 PM.

[maineman]

let me know if you'd like me to sing it to you.....


Artist: Perry Como
Album: Saturday Night With Mr. C.
Title: Accentuate The Positive

( ac-cent-thu-ate the positive,
E-lim-inate the negative,
Ac-cent-thu-ate the positive, an' latch on! )

You gotta accent-thu-ate the positive,
E-lim-inate the negative,
An' latch on
To the affirmative
Don't mess with mister in-between!

You gotta spread joy up to the maximum,
Bring gloom down to the minimum,
An' have faith ( amen! )
Or pandemonium's
Liable to walk upon the scene!

To illustrate
My last remark
Jonah in the whale!
Noah in the arc!
An' what did they do ( what did they do? )
Just when everything looked so dark?

( what did they, what did they, what did they do? )

Man! they said
You better accent-thu-ate the positive,
E-lim-inate the negative,
An' latch on
To the affirmative
Don't mess with mister in-between!
No, don't mess with mister in-between!

( to illustrate
His last remark
Jonah in the whale!
Noah in the arc! )
An' what did they do
( what did they do?
Just when everything looked so dark?
What did they do, what did they do? )

Man! they said
You better accent-thu-ate the positive,
E-lim-inate the negative,
An' latch on
To the affirmative
Don't mess with mister in-between!
No, don't mess with mister in-between!
No, don't you mess with mister in-between!
No, don't mess with mister in-between!

NRBQ did a great version in the 1970s......

mm

[Rogerdodger]

We got the AIDS thing under control.
Here's the next decade:

We are set on a course of 'planet saving' madness
On the one hand we have the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coming up with yet another of its notoriously politicised reports, hyping up the scare by claiming that world surface temperatures have been higher in 11 of the past 12 years (1995-2006) than ever previously recorded.

This carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, with the hottest year of all being not 1998, as was previously claimed, but 1934.

But it's OK because the UN players only want to do good...
And they do VERY GOOD.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 27 November 2007 - 12:05 AM.

[maineman]

Perry Como version


Singing Detective Version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n971eXyInng
spaced out NRBQ version

enjoy....

mm

[stocks]

The United Nations has systematically exaggerated the scale of the Aids epidemic and the risk of the HIV virus affecting heterosexuals, claims a leading expert on the disease.

The numbers of people worldwide with HIV have been inflated and the UN Aids agency has wasted billions of pounds on education aimed at people who are unlikely to become infected, says Professor James Chin, a former senior Aids official with the World Health Organisation. He also accused UNAids of misleading and scaring the public by promoting 'myths' about the disease, such as that poorer people are most at risk, and of being guided in its approach by 'political correctness' rather than hard evidence.

'UNAids has systematically exaggerated the size and trend of the pandemic, as well as hyping the potential for HIV epidemics in general populations,' said Chin. 'UNAids's perpetuation of the myth that everyone is at risk of Aids has led to billions wasted on prevention programmes directed at general populations and youth who, outside of sub-Saharan Africa, are at minimal risk of exposure to HIV.'

Chin's claims are part of a growing backlash at the Aids strategies employed by international aid agencies. Writing in the British Medical Journal last month, Dr Roger England, of the Health Systems Workshop in Grenada, said HIV should be downgraded in the fight to improve global healthcare for poorer people. It caused 3.7 per cent of mortality but received 25 per cent of international healthcare aid, he said. He urged switching £5bn a year of Aids funding to tackle other diseases and said Aids was not a unique global threat.

http://www.guardian....;feed=worldnews

[stocks]

Chin confesses that he has found it difficult ‘to understand how, over the past decade, mainstream AIDS scientists, including most infectious disease epidemiologists, have virtually all uncritically accepted the many “glorious” myths and misconceptions UNAIDS and AIDS activists continue to perpetuate’. An explanation for this shocking betrayal of principle can be found in a 1996 commentary on the British AIDS campaign entitled ‘Icebergs and rocks of the “good lie”’. In this article, Guardian journalist Mark Lawson accepted that the public had been misled over the threat of AIDS, but argued that the end of promoting sexual restraint (especially among the young) justified the means (exaggerating the risk of HIV infection): as he put it, ‘the government has lied and I am glad’ (2).

This sort of opportunism is not confined to AIDS: in other areas where experts are broadly in sympathy with government policy – such as passive smoking, obesity and climate change – they have been similarly complicit in the prostitution of science to propaganda.


http://www.spiked-on.../earticle/5686/

[stocks]

Blood for Money - The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal.

For more than two decades, the Arkansas prison system sold blood plasma from inmates infected with viral hepatitis and AIDS. Thousands of unwitting victims who transfused a product called Factor 8 made from this blood died as a result.

Dan Farthing, communications manager for Britain's Haemophilila Society, wondered why “high-risk groups like prisoners were not excluded from donating blood.” With reference to Arkansas, he wrote, “The Arkansas officials should not have approved such practices, and our UK government certainly should not have licenced the import of products made from prison blood.”

Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had banned prison blood from being sold in the U.S. as early as 1984, Farthing said he wondered, “why blood and blood products not thought fit for U.S. consumption was allowed to be exported rather than destroyed.”

Filmmaker Kelly Duda chronicled his mostly fruitless attempts to obtain documents on the plasma program from Arkansas prison officials and officials of the two companies that contracted with the ADC to run the program during the 1980s. Records from Clinton's terms as governor were also unavailable since Clinton took possession of them when he left office to run for president.


http://www.arktimes....tent?oid=863387


http://en.wikipedia....n_Blood_Scandal