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Saturday, March 24, 2007

Placebo ?

AIDS groups in Africa are upset that the President of Gambia is advocating a purported “miracle treatment” for HIV and AIDS. Today’s report in Breitbart.com states that the cure is based on medicinal plants and recitations of a verse in the Koran.

The African Community Platform, which is an umbrella group for several AIDS organizations in Africa alleges that the miracle cure has no scientific basis and that it violates patients’ rights. It has called on the Gambian President to allow international experts to study the claim and put an end to the confusion surrounding it.

OK…..FuelMix has a few thoughts on this:

First, “experts” come and experts go. Every time FuelMix hears that word, he glazes over slightly. Why? Simply put, “experts” can’t – and won’t – agree. FuelMix has been in the international professional field long enough to be well aware of the massively inflated egos that drive our cherished “experts”.

Did FuelMix mention that “experts” can also be bought, threatened, cajoled, harassed and blackmailed in order to support an officially desired conclusion?

Second, plant medicine has a history going back thousands of years. One only has to think of Ayurveda, Aromatherapy, Naturopathy, Homeopathy and, more recently, Bach Flower remedies.

Not only are natural remedies gaining mainstream acceptance in the West, but, the ugly side of such plant-based medicine, is the direct threat they pose to the pharmaceutical companies and their saturation pill-pushing marketing. It’s no secret that properly administered plant based medicines have no side-effects. Prescription pharmaceuticals and side-effects are usually par for the course.

Further, pharmaceutical manufacturers are raking in billions on HIV and AIDS fighting drugs. It’s well documented that some companies are actively suppressing the dissemination of plant medicine knowledge, or worse, conspiring or abetting the destruction of forest areas inhabited for generations by indigenous tribes with intimate knowledge of plant medicine. Environmental degradation takes place for both profit and censorship.

Third, faith-based “miracle cures” have long been a characteristic in the West too. What about the pilgrimages to Lourdes to bathe in and drink from the water? What about getting sprinkled with Holy Water? What about asking for prayers when a person is ill? What about petitioning certain saints?

Is a recitation of a verse from the Koran in conjunction with plant medicine so absurd as to be greeted with alarm? Hardly.

Given the near pandemic status of AIDS, FuelMix is all in favour of a scientific study of the Gambian President’s claims. But the fact remains that a patient’s mind and will are just as strong – and sometimes stronger – than scientific prognoses, blind studies, and sweeping accusations that such natural, faith based treatment violates patients’ rights.

What really violates a patient’s rights is the deprivation of the freedom to think and the freedom to choose.

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Friday, March 09, 2007

Dem Niggas

A report on the Reuters news website today, quotes a CDC finding that African American men are nearly 7 times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV, than white men. Black men who have sex with other men, account for half those cases. To say that statistic is “sobering” doesn’t even begin to cut it.

Blacks represent 13% of the US population, but account for 50% of Americans living with HIV and 40% of AIDS death. Further, of those aged 13 – 24 who are newly diagnosed with HIV, 61% are black.

What is even more alarming is the CDC’s observation that in Washington DC and Philadelphia, 3% of blacks are living with AIDS – a rate higher than Senegal and on par with Cameroon.

The Report points out that blacks do not engage in riskier sexual behaviour than other groups, but the high HIV rates suggest that blacks who have sex with blacks, are more likely to contract HIV than people within other ethnic groups.

In the past, blacks have been criticized for being slower to mobilize their community about HIV and AIDS than say, fags. There is still a culture of homophobia (surprisingly religious fuelled) which gave rise to the practice of having M2M sex on the “down low” – a phrase which is in mainstream usage – and a sense of denial as to how HIV is transmitted.

FuelMix said earlier in this blog that he predicted white fags would slowly but surely marginalize nigga fags when it comes to sex, as nigga infection rates spiral. It will be justified on the grounds of “preference”, but in reality, it will be one of fear. Then we’ll all know that the much vaunted diversity, acceptance and tolerance in the fag world, is a sham.

Those fags now choking with indignation might not like what FuelMix says or how he says it, but in your gut, you know he’s right.

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