In this episode, David presents a slightly different format by playing clips from the current media and commenting on them. He begins the episode with some listener feedback and some news items. Then, in the first clip, Susan Reverby describes how she uncovered a series of U.S. experiments in Guatemala (now deemed unethical), where prostitutes and prison inmates were inoculated with syphilis. David points out the distorted logic and the lack of evidence for sexual transmission of the disease. In the next clip, former magician James Randi contradicts himself as he discusses whether science is imposed by authority or discovered by critical thinking.
Finally, David plays an interview with Raymund, spokesperson for a Rethinking AIDS group in South Korea. David and Raymund discuss attitudes towards HIV and AIDS in that country, including the high levels of fear and isolation people experience when they are discovered to have HIV antibodies.
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It would seem that the truth is thus very malleable. The Hippocratic Oath becoming a Hippocritic Oath, particularly when doctors are prescribing Viagra et al (which lowers blood pressure) to a high risk group that are using Poppers (which also lowers blood pressure). How kind of them? So who is the “high risk group”, the carers or the patients?
This is clearly answered in this bit of spin:
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/247.1/popup/index.php?cl=4817932
And so “the drug ring is smashed”? So why is it still being advertised in Sydney’s SX magazine, this 2nd May 2011? Does the gay community really care? Do the medicos really care? What happened to the supposed “poppers alert”?
These are momentous times for America? It would certainly seem to be true that “The Amercian people can do whatever they set their minds to” and definitely “Politics is not a reality show”.
The next RA Conference in America? I wouldn’t be seen dead there!
Oh Glen, don’t be like that. Even Osama Bin Laden won’t be seen dead in America. He disppeared with the truth (and probably that poppers alert) into the sea. You know what they’re like. Assuming they got him at all. There is no real evidence that they did. There is more evidence that poppers are not video head cleaners for instance, and that truth seems to be lost also.
Check out this bit of spin:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/30/content_12362265.htm
Truth, liberty and justice disappeared a long time ago in America. “Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s Swine Flew”. Yes I do exist. But like Superman, I disappeared a while back like that speeding bullet.
By the way, not even Superman can be President of the United States. He wasn’t born there either, thank God!
The truth?
I think you will find that many in the medical profession not only misdiagnosed the AIDS virus and condition, prescribed profitable Viagra and other sexual stimulants, all while the patient was still using immuno-suppressive alkyl nitrites, prescribed supposed remedies such as retroviral poisons like AZT, and then finally had to give their poor victims that final lethal injection to put them out of their misery.
And you thought I was scary?
Grim Reaper, you are such a bringer of good tidings. Thanks for that.
The only thing scarier than your news (or you), is perhaps the complacent and complicit gay community that are STILL advertising these rush poisons openly in their gay press. I guess they haven’t got the message? They certainly didn’t get ‘the alert’!
It makes a mockery of National Security messages the Governments are sending: “If you see anything dangerous or suspicious, for example poisons being peddled or sold, then contact us immediately. Unless of course if it’s faggots!”
I know of the saying “Unless we know history, then we are doomed to repeat it” but we seem to keep repeating it. But how can we learn from this disaster if the authorities won’t even acknowledge it, or act on the atrocities?
One’s thing’s for sure, as Professor Benno Muller-Hill (a well known geneticist from Cologne University) stated about the last holocaust: “History has to be faced by science, because if it doesn’t, then you can’t believe in science”.
On the whole Osama Bin Laden controversy, I understood they had a helmet-camera in use during their recent raid. Where is all the footage and audio from that supposed act of justice? It must have disappeared into the ocean also?
So much for “Thou shalt not kill”. The bigots all seem to break every commandment, and then still call us faggots. I don’t think that this is what Jesus had in mind.