Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bbncc5.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!bbnccv!bbncc5!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: AIDS IS PREVENTABLE Message-ID: <325@bbncc5.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 18:28:13 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncc5.325 Posted: Sun Aug 11 18:28:13 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 03:36:58 EDT References: <2041@ukma.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA Lines: 26 > I just want to set the record straight about AIDS! > ... This posting has all the requisite elements of quackery: the familiar "us" vs. "modernmedicalestablishment" stance, the sweeping statements which propose THE solution to difficult problems, and the perversion of incomplete scientific evidence into a grand theory fully of fanciful embellishments but truly lacking in any kind of scientific basis, let alone scientific proof. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER THAT PEOPLE WITH "HEALTHY" IMMUNE SYSTEMS ARE SOMEHOW PROTECTED FROM CONTRACTING AIDS. One might as well make the same kind of tautological statement about disease in general, and it would still lack any predictive value for the individual. Yeah, AIDS is preventable: to be 100% safe, don't have sex outside of a monogamous relationship which has remained monogamous for the past 5 years. The next best thing is to avoid exchanging bodily fluids with strangers. Any "vigorously healthy" or even "average" person would have to be out of his mind to think that his presumably healthy immune system is immune to getting AIDS: there are too many "vigorously healthy" people who are now seriously ill or dead. In many cases, it only took a single infected sex partner. -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbnccv.ARPA