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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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Wed, 3 May 2000 09:13:27 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> However to say now that we should be doing research on a disease that
> ultimately is preventable by behaviour modification while neglecting research
> on diseases that currently aren't... that allows responsibility shirking,
> don't you agree? (if you posit that the government should be in the business
> of funding ANY disease research, which of course I reject, you should at least
> allocate the money to the most important ones....)
Breaking only for a few words, but you are now making misteaks (first in
the history?)..:-)
Just think about the tremendous numbers of people who have the virus
right now. I can't think of any kind of education that can save them,
although I certainly with you, about education is the tool for reducing
the future possible cases.
In underdeveloped and religious countries like mine, by the way, while
sexual intercourse is not so much a problem to spread it (free sex is
not a common practice among the masses here), below standard medical
facilities are much of the concern.
Selçuk
> I'll give credit to ActUP for improving things at the FDA. Sort of. Certain
> drugs get fast tracked because of what disease they are for, others take
> forever. Better yet would be to abolish the FDA altogether and go with strict
> liability on the part of drug manufacturers and doctors.
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> Less seriously:
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> I think we should start a campaign for doing research into how to survive
> jumping or falling off 1000 foot cliffs! After all, it's not FAIR that doing
> so tends to kill people and I feel it's interfering with my right to choose
> whether to take precautions near cliff edges or not. Why should I have to
> suffer the consequences of walking too close to the edge? Society as a whole
> should, not me in particular. Right? If not, why not? What is the difference
> between unsafe sex and unsafe cliff edge walking?
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> ++Lar
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| (...) Let's review for a sec, here... when my uncle Gary got it back in 1984, there was a good argument that it wasn't his fault. People at that time didn't know how to go about preventing it. Now, they do. Haemopheliacs are at the mercy of a clean (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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