January 12, 2005

HIV is not the cause of Aids?

From Dean's World,

But HIV cannot be the cause of the AIDS epidemic.
Tomorrow, Dr. Bialy will show you why.

Now there's a lead that will make sure I click by Dean's Word tomorrow.

Update: The advertised post is up. The short answer is that HIV cases have remained very constant while AIDS has dropped dramatically. The argument then becomes whether or not medicine caused that decline. If not, HIV can not be causing AIDS.

I think there might be a simpler explanation. HIV adapted. A virus is a living organism, it has some genetic impulse to survive. Killing off all the hosts does not further that impulse, so HIV could have adapted to ensure the survival of a sufficient number of hosts.

That seems as likely to me as a conspiracy involving cover ups of medical data etc.

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Makes me wonder if this will be of the sort that fog is not the cause of accidents but instead the behavior of the people traveling in the fog...

Posted by: Ogre at January 13, 2005 08:59 AM

It doesn't need to be a conspiracy.

But: that's not where the argument goes anyway. I encourage you to think hard about the data. It's not so easily dismissed. I thought it was, but it can't be.

Posted by: Dean Esmay at January 13, 2005 12:24 PM

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