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From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: AIDS IS PREVENTABLE
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Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 18:28:13 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 11 18:28:13 1985
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> 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
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