>Messsage du 23/01/2001 17:35
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>Objet : RE: Null on AIDS
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> Steve Perry wrote:
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> >what's the genealogy of the anti-HIV line? and the political economy of it?
> >i've never understood how it survived.
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> Dunno where it came from, but it's sustained by people who are deeply
> suspicious of mainstream science, but who credulously swallow any
> line coming out of a quack.
Sorry, Doug. I don't swallow any line coming out of quack. My own feeling is that drugs and high technology have their place but that NO doctor should EVER turn to drugs and high tech FIRST to solve a major medical problem UNLESS there is extremely compelling evidence that the drug will "work" without any serious or life threating side effects (and even when they do not have immediate serious or life threatening side effects, they often have a destructive cumulative effect). Just as a matter of ethics, the simple questions should be asked first. Unfortunately, doctors, for all their smarts, are not trained to ask the simple questions first. In any case, one needs to maintain a healthy skeptecism of BOTH mainstream and alternative types. There is certainly plenty to be skeptical about.
Chris