What if everything you thought you knew about Aids was wrong? That was the title of a book by Christine Maggiore, an HIV/Aids-denialist lauded in the American media. She is now dead.
Maggiore decided that HIV does not cause Aids, and that antiretroviral drugs do not treat it. She was HIV positive, which the media loved. She declined to take ARV drugs and specifically decided not to take HIV drugs during her pregnancy, despite the strong evidence that they massively lower the risk of maternal transmission. She insisted on breastfeeding her children, even though it has been shown that this increases the risk of maternal transmission. She also refused to have her children tested for HIV. Her daughter, Eliza Jane Scovill, died three years ago. The coroner attributed the death to Aids and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. She was three years old.
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HIV Denialist Dead... of AIDS
Started by cousin it, Jan 13 2009 03:47 AM
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Posted 13 January 2009 - 03:56 PM
Research has shown that the virus has been around, in human populations, since at least the 20s. I think that the HIV is one of the best arguments for evolution. Some might argue that that is not a valid argument since viruses aren't living entities, but that is just semantics. Other than the ability to self-replicate, they are similar.
Next month a paper will be published that shows evidence that prokaryotic life forms, and hence all life, evolved from viruses.
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