Dogma and Science
Your last point first. I don't know where you get that heterosexuals only have a few sex partners during their entire life. Must be a thought pulled out of thin air. Just like most of what you are saying here.
This was taken from Health Canada's website:
"... of the 17,810 cumulative AIDS cases in adults reported up to
December 31, 2001 to the Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
(CIDPC), 1,403 (7.8%) were among women. The proportion of AIDS cases among
women (relative to all reported AIDS cases in adults for which gender and age are
known) has increased over time, from 5.6% before 1992 to 8.3% in 1995 and
peaking at 16.4% in 1999. In 2001, the proportion of AIDS cases among women
has remained at 16%. "
Consider the low number of women. If women are only 1,403, that means men are 16,407 cases; hardly an epidemic for women in Canada. Yet, Health Canada makes it into a big thing. They follow a politically correct path because they have a vested interest in Creating the view that we are all at equal risk for Aids. Not true. In WHAT CAUSES AIDS? It's An Open Question
By Charles A. Thomas Jr., Kary B. Mullis, & Phillip E. Johnson (link provided in an earlier post) make the following observation:
"...predictions based on the HIV theory have failed spectacularly. AIDS in the United States and Europe has not spread through the general population. Rather, it remains almost entirely confined to the original risk groups, mainly sexually promiscuous gay men and drug abusers. The number of HIV-infected Americans has remained constant for years instead of increasing rapidly as predicted, which suggests that HIV is an old virus that has been with us for centuries without causing an epidemic."
And Fumento explains the patern of epidemics such as Aids:
Now, the nature of an epidemic such as AIDS – that is, an epidemic based on behavior – is that the virus will pick off the "easy" targets first. (With AIDS, the easiest targets were men who engage in receptive anal intercourse with numerous other men, who also engage in receptive anal intercourse with numerous other men, since this activity has been shown to be by far the most conducive to transmitting the virus.) An epidemic will progress ever more slowly as fewer and fewer easy targets remain. That is, the caseload may increase from month to month, but the rate at which it increases is ever lower. This is a general rule
for epidemics.
http://www.fumento.com/shrinking.html
And he takes apart the propaganda from CDC tha -- like Health Canada -- have a financial vested interest in keeping this disease hyped:
And here’s some good news that anyone can access in the just-released CDC HIV/AIDS annual report (available at:
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats/hasr1202.htm), but that nobody in the media has bothered to tell you:
"Forget the heterosexual AIDS epidemic. The category of those who so much as claim to have gotten the disease this way comprises over 90 percent of the population but only 11 percent of AIDS cases. In 1993, 9,570 such cases were reported. By 1999 it was down to 7,139 and last year it fell further, to 6,530.... But the CDC’s numbers show reported female HIV infections attributed to heterosexual contact declined slightly last year, from 2,506 to 2,448. Female AIDS cases attributed to heterosexual contact declined from 4,281 to 3,981, down in turn from 6,253 in 1993. When a decline is the “most rapid” area of growth, how bad can things be?"
Gala, we have to be careful of what Bacon referred to as " Idols of the Theater": ideas that have made it into our consciousness from various dogmatic systems of thought which create fictitious worlds. Science is about questioning so-called established fact. Consider Environmentalism: Many don't question the so-called fact that Humans are destroying the planet. They think it's self evident and laugh at those they consider ignorant fools who think otherwise. Then enter: Lomborg's "The Skeptical Environmentalist" and the works of Julian Simon before him. There are many others of course. Same goes for HIV-AIDS controversy. Health Canada says HIV causes Aids. But what of Mullis et al who question the cause and have some good arguments? Or Dr. Thomas Dorman's point that: "The equal distribution between men and women in Africa versus the predominance of male homosexuals in America sits poorly with the concept of single disease". And even the percentages you decided to give to buttress your argument, when converted to numbers; and when we consider how epidemics progress -- we see that you have nothing at all.
