[Brad DeLong]

>  > and who was arguing three years ago that protease inhibitors would
>>  not help but would hurt AIDS patients...
>>
>Yes, I remember the "Lazarus effect" stories that were circulated 
>about the protease inhibitors. But don't forget: straight up AZT had 
>a lazarus like effect on some people, too. It did not last, of 
>course, and that drug-fix honeymoon is now over. The PI honeymoon 
>(which includes AZT) is pretty much over, too. They have serious 
>side effects, there is absolutely no scientific proof that they 
>work, and even the manufacturers make it clear that they do not cure 
>AIDS. In short, just like the vast majority of drugs for serious 
>illnesses, they often have very different, and sometimes 
>unanticipated, effects on people. To imply that they work--while 
>ignoring the many health complications and deaths that have resulted 
>from their ingestion (or complications thereof)--is not responsible.
>
>Chirs

To (falsely) claim that--side effects and all--they have not made a 
lot of people much better is more than "not responsible": it is to 
become a junior member of the League of Genocide.

Brad DeLong