Null on AIDS

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Tue Jan 23 07:48:29 PST 2001


-----Original Message----- From: Adam from San Francisco <sf_adam at rocketmail.com> To: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> Date: Monday, January 22, 2001 9:21 PM Subject: Re: Null on AIDS


>A few notes from a bitter queen. AR
>
>
>--- Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> wrote:
>> -----------------------------
>>
>> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:28:04 -0500
>> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>> Subject: Null on AIDS
>>
>> Gary Null is a massively popular programmer on WBAI.
>> He does
>> "alternative" health stuff. He doesn't believe HIV
>> causes AIDS. What
>> does? Among other things, "fear," AIDS drugs, and a
>> bad lifestyle.
>
>AIDS drugs have prolonged and saved millions of lives.
> This is anti-science, puffy new age crap. Behind it
>is usually a heaping dose of homobigotry. The defacto
>message is usually, "If these guys liked New Age music
>instead of disco, they wouldn't have caused their own
>deaths." I consider most of this middle class
>elitism. I am quite bitter about this line. It is
>frankly why I am a new age refugee.
>
>
>> Null is a bete noire of mine, so if anyone who knew
>> the science could
>> take a look at this, I'd be grateful. Here are some
>> excerpts
>> <http://www.garynull.com/Documents/aids.htm>:
>>
>> >Lifestyle. Remember the swashbuckling actor Errol
>> Flynn? As a young
>> >man, he charmed audiences as Robin Hood and Captain
>> Blood. But by
>> >the time the actor had died on his fiftieth
>> birthday, he was so
>> >burnt out from a fast life of drugs and heavy
>> drinkingthat his
>> >doctors, upon autopsy, were amazed that he had
>> remained alive for
>> >the last five years of his life. Triple the speed
>> of Flynn's
>> >lifestyle, and you speed up the process of
>> self-destruction.
>
>Big generalizations here. I believed these too until
>gay buddhist low key types started dying and in big
>numbers. AIDS isn't just partyers disease, although
>many in the hard partying scene were amongst the first
>to contract AIDS.
>
>> >
>> >Such is the case with AIDS, which many attribute to
>> a worn down,
>> >stressed out immune system caused by drug abuse and
>> a super fast
>> >lifestyle. Initially, AIDS was detected in
>> homosexual men who were
>> >frequenting bars and bath houses and having
>> multiple sexual partners
>> >a night. They were taking massive amounts of
>> antibiotics as a
>> >prophylactic against syphilis, and repeatedly
>> coming down with
>> >hepatitis and parasitic infections. They drank,
>> smoked, ate poorly,
>> >and deprived themselves of sleep. Recreational
>> drugs, such as
>> >cocaine, heroine, Ecstasy, and nitrite inhalants
>> were commonplace.
>
>Ecstasy wasn't commonplace in the late 70s, and heroin
>use wasn't all that common in gay scenes. Try speed
>and the writer might have something to talk about.
>This writer hasn't done their homework.
>
>Adam
>
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