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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Budikka666" |
| Date: |
23 Aug 2007 04:00:35 PM |
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AIDS/HIV Denial in the Internet Era |
Tara Smith (of www.scienceblogs.com fame) and Steven Novella have an
article at PLoS about this topic:
http://tinyurl.com/3565le
"One of the prominent HIV denial groups currently is Christine
Maggiore's "Alive and Well" (formerly "HEAL," Health Education AIDS
Liaison) (http://www.aliveandwell.org/). Maggiore's life story is at
the center of this group. Diagnosed with HIV in 1992, Maggiore claims
she has since been symptom-free for the past 14 years without the use
of antiretroviral drugs, including protease inhibitors [10]. She has
risen to prominence, and been embroiled in controversy, in recent
years after giving birth to and openly breast-feeding her two
children, Charles and Eliza Jane. She had neither child tested for
HIV, and did not take antiretroviral medication during her pregnancy
or subsequent breast-feeding [11]. Eliza Jane died in September 2005
of HIV-related pneumonia..."
"Of all the characteristics of deniers, repeatedly nudging back the
goalpost - or the threshold of evidence required for acceptance of a
theory - is often the most telling. The strategy behind goalpost-
moving is simple: always demand more evidence than can currently be
provided. If the evidence is then provided at a later date, simply
change the demand to require even more evidence, or refuse to accept
the kind of evidence that is being offered."
Budikka
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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| Title: Re: AIDS/HIV Denial in the Internet Era |
24 Aug 2007 04:10:23 AM |
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:00:35 -0700, Budikka666 <budikka1@netscape.net>
wrote:
Tara Smith (of www.scienceblogs.com fame) and Steven Novella have an
article at PLoS about this topic:
http://tinyurl.com/3565le
"One of the prominent HIV denial groups currently is Christine
Maggiore's "Alive and Well" (formerly "HEAL," Health Education AIDS
Liaison) (http://www.aliveandwell.org/). Maggiore's life story is at
the center of this group. Diagnosed with HIV in 1992, Maggiore claims
she has since been symptom-free for the past 14 years without the use
of antiretroviral drugs, including protease inhibitors [10]. She has
risen to prominence, and been embroiled in controversy, in recent
years after giving birth to and openly breast-feeding her two
children, Charles and Eliza Jane. She had neither child tested for
HIV, and did not take antiretroviral medication during her pregnancy
or subsequent breast-feeding [11]. Eliza Jane died in September 2005
of HIV-related pneumonia..."
"Of all the characteristics of deniers, repeatedly nudging back the
goalpost - or the threshold of evidence required for acceptance of a
theory - is often the most telling. The strategy behind goalpost-
moving is simple: always demand more evidence than can currently be
provided. If the evidence is then provided at a later date, simply
change the demand to require even more evidence, or refuse to accept
the kind of evidence that is being offered."
Budikka
Steven Novella is one very cluey skeptical neuroscientist.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: AIDS/HIV Denial in the Internet Era |
23 Aug 2007 11:06:30 PM |
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:00:35 -0700, Budikka666 <budikka1@netscape.net>
wrote:
Tara Smith (of www.scienceblogs.com fame) and Steven Novella have an
article at PLoS about this topic:
http://tinyurl.com/3565le
"One of the prominent HIV denial groups currently is Christine
Maggiore's "Alive and Well" (formerly "HEAL," Health Education AIDS
Liaison) (http://www.aliveandwell.org/). Maggiore's life story is at
the center of this group. Diagnosed with HIV in 1992, Maggiore claims
she has since been symptom-free for the past 14 years without the use
of antiretroviral drugs, including protease inhibitors [10]. She has
risen to prominence, and been embroiled in controversy, in recent
years after giving birth to and openly breast-feeding her two
children, Charles and Eliza Jane. She had neither child tested for
HIV, and did not take antiretroviral medication during her pregnancy
or subsequent breast-feeding [11]. Eliza Jane died in September 2005
of HIV-related pneumonia..."
"Of all the characteristics of deniers, repeatedly nudging back the
goalpost - or the threshold of evidence required for acceptance of a
theory - is often the most telling. The strategy behind goalpost-
moving is simple: always demand more evidence than can currently be
provided. If the evidence is then provided at a later date, simply
change the demand to require even more evidence, or refuse to accept
the kind of evidence that is being offered."
How do you not accept a dead baby as evidence? She's been sleeping
for almost 2 years?
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