Comments on: How Fauci solved AIDS http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/how-fauci-solved-aids.htm Reviewing scientific paradigms and other general beliefs in the light of the scientific amd professional literature Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:19:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: yello http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/how-fauci-solved-aids.htm/comment-page-1#comment-5154 yello Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:52:28 +0000 http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/how-fauci-solved-aids.htm#comment-5154 Thank you Michael Sir for those articles. However, I had to chuckle at this gem..... "But to end the HIV epidemic, gay men would need to have rates of unprotected sex several times lower than those currently evident among the straight population. This is because transmission rates are higher for anal sex than they are for vaginal sex, say the authors. But "role versatility," whereby people adopt both "insertive" and "receptive roles," also plays a part, they add. A gay man can be easily infected through unprotected receptive sex, and then infect someone else through insertive sex." Gay men are therefore far more susceptible to the spread of the virus through the population, even with the same numbers of unprotected sexual partners." Evidently these folks never read Padian et al. or are men who bottom far more vunerable to "seroconversion" than women who happily do the same? Thank you Michael Sir for those articles.

However, I had to chuckle at this gem…..

“But to end the HIV epidemic, gay men would need to have rates of unprotected sex several times lower than those currently evident among the straight population. This is because transmission rates are higher for anal sex than they are for vaginal sex, say the authors.

But “role versatility,” whereby people adopt both “insertive” and “receptive roles,” also plays a part, they add.

A gay man can be easily infected through unprotected receptive sex, and then infect someone else through insertive sex.”

Gay men are therefore far more susceptible to the spread of the virus through the population, even with the same numbers of unprotected sexual partners.”

Evidently these folks never read Padian et al. or are men who bottom far more vunerable to “seroconversion” than women who happily do the same?

]]> By: MacDonald http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/how-fauci-solved-aids.htm/comment-page-1#comment-5148 MacDonald Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:32:23 +0000 http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/how-fauci-solved-aids.htm#comment-5148 I think the purpose is for her to be able to claim that she is an expert on "denialist intellectual strategies" through personal experience. And it has worked, PLoS was so impressed with her credentials in the area that they let her publish her profound insights with not a single question asked. I think the purpose is for her to be able to claim that she is an expert on “denialist intellectual strategies” through personal experience. And it has worked, PLoS was so impressed with her credentials in the area that they let her publish her profound insights with not a single question asked.

]]> By: Truthseeker http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/how-fauci-solved-aids.htm/comment-page-1#comment-5147 Truthseeker Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:37:23 +0000 http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/how-fauci-solved-aids.htm#comment-5147 These comment threads of Tara's are amusing but since none of the people posting are worried about total accuracy they must be very confusing for the onlookers and newbies. But still, Michael and others are doing a fine job it seems of knocking down men of straw. On the whole Tara has done a service to the community as usual by showing that there are two sides to the question she decided before it was even posed. One wonders if the purpose is a) to pave the way for tenure and b) to provide an escape hatch in case it all comes tumbling down. These comment threads of Tara’s are amusing but since none of the people posting are worried about total accuracy they must be very confusing for the onlookers and newbies. But still, Michael and others are doing a fine job it seems of knocking down men of straw. On the whole Tara has done a service to the community as usual by showing that there are two sides to the question she decided before it was even posed. One wonders if the purpose is a) to pave the way for tenure and b) to provide an escape hatch in case it all comes tumbling down.

]]> By: MacDonald http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/how-fauci-solved-aids.htm/comment-page-1#comment-5146 MacDonald Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:21:46 +0000 http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/how-fauci-solved-aids.htm#comment-5146 Tara doen't approve of anyone taking Fauci's name in vain Tara Smith Aetiology Blog - Loneliness causes AIDS, claims HIV “dissident” Michael Geiger thread Sep 27 2007 http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2007/09/loneliness_causes_aids_claims.php#comment-581414 Tara doen’t approve of anyone taking Fauci’s name in vain

Tara Smith Aetiology Blog -
Loneliness causes AIDS, claims HIV “dissident” Michael Geiger thread Sep 27 2007
http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2007/09/loneliness_causes_aids_claims.php#comment-581414

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