mainlining HIV

S Martens sm at kiera.com
Mon Jan 28 14:32:08 PST 2002


There is a guy named Philip Machanick (NB one 'l' in his first name) at the U of Witwatersraad. His home page is at http://www.cs.wits.ac.za/~philip/. He has written a lot of letters to the Jo'burg Mail&Guardian as well as a few computer articles there and elsewhere, but only the letter at http://www.mg.co.za/mg/letters/2000/4may-letters.html says anything like this story, but its not some Berkeley prof he's challenging, it's Thabo Mbeki.

David Rasnick has at least one article in the Mail&Guardian too, but nowhere are both names together. This article ( http://www.mg.co.za/mg/za/archive/2001jan/features/25jan-smith.html ) claims Resnick promised to be injected with HIV, but it is dated January last year and it does not say when or to whom he promised it.

This is an odd confluence of events if true.

Scott Martens

on 1/28/02 9:53 PM, Doug Henwood at dhenwood at panix.com wrote:


> [is this a hoax?]
>
> Academics In Bizarre AIDS Challenge
> By Mark Klusener
> CNSNews.com Correspondent
> January 24, 2002



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