The above is the Dialectic Process. It's logical. This thread is not--logical that is.
Actually I feel Re-Entry has a point but he hasn't made it very well.
Last year, Harper's Magazine had a very controversial article that basically asserted that HIV doesn't cause AIDS.
Read that carefully.
These people are not suggesting that AIDS does *not* exist but rather that AIDS is *not* caused by the HIV virus.
And I'm not saying I agree with one side or the other but the article did raise my eyebrows.
The basic idea of the article was that the so-called cures (drugs) were literally poisoning the HIV patients and inducing a sickness that we've come to recognize as AIDS.
I don't have a medical background and as far as I'm aware I know no one with HIV or AIDS.
But I'll say this: I don't trust the friggin' pharmaceutical companies any farther than I can throw them.
That's my thesis. Would anyone care to offer an antithesis?