I had never really done any sort of "research" on HIV or AIDS and only found out that HIV was the virus and AIDS the disease that it (alledgedly?) caused.
Now, almost everytime I read something about it I kinda run into those HIV/AIDS dissidents who says HIV doesnt cause AIDS. At first I thought..yeah right thats just another one of those conspiracy theories... Anyways I had also wondered before why Magic Johnson hadn't died yet or didnt really have any symptomes of AIDS..like 10 years after he was found to be HIV positive.
Anyways it seems that a lot of scientists who actually won nobel prizes and even the guy who invented the testing method that's used for HIV screening and also the guy who first discovered the (alledged) virus causing it is now doubting this whole HIV causes AIDS theory.
I mean I'm not gonna say "ok HIV is harmless maybe doesnt even exist so Im gonna go out there and give up safer sex". First off there are still other diseases, plus Im way too paranoid ;-).
But anyways, it seems to be clear that HIV has never actually been proven to exist. Besides after AIDS was first 'detected' in the 80's scientists were expecting that somebody with HIV would get AIDS only a few weeks or months after being infected with HIV and thus a huge epidemic would break out etc. However 20 years afterwards the number of ppl infected with HIV or those with AIDS hasnt really changed (though it was expected to blow up assuming it was an infectious disease) and all of a sudden they're saying AIDS can often take decades before it breaks out.
(one of the aids dissidents who had gotten a nobel prize before too, compared that to somebody playing tennis and raising the net all of a sudden because he's losing).
I mean I really dunno much about biology etc. but it seems to me that the hypothesis that HIV is something really bad (as in causing) AIDs is highly questionable. (again: Im not gonna abolish safer sex because of these doubts).
This isnt really a problem for me..however I thought that if I did get a serious girlfriend I'd want her (and also myself) to take a STD test. However I had worried before, that the actual chance of myself having a wrong positive testing result (due to human error or testing error or whatever) might be bigger (even if still slim) than actually having HIV if I had always practiced safer sex (as a lot of ppl say condoms are 'only' around 90% effective at preventing HIV)..
and now I read this:
http://www.sumeria.net/aids/false.html
Does anybody know more about this subject than me? How many are those AIDS dissidents compared to other scientists in that area that believe in the HIV/AIDS-hypothesis?
Plus, does anybody know if your blood is usually screened for HIV/AIDS if a regular blood sample is taken or does that only happen when you do an HIV test on purpose?
Now, almost everytime I read something about it I kinda run into those HIV/AIDS dissidents who says HIV doesnt cause AIDS. At first I thought..yeah right thats just another one of those conspiracy theories... Anyways I had also wondered before why Magic Johnson hadn't died yet or didnt really have any symptomes of AIDS..like 10 years after he was found to be HIV positive.
Anyways it seems that a lot of scientists who actually won nobel prizes and even the guy who invented the testing method that's used for HIV screening and also the guy who first discovered the (alledged) virus causing it is now doubting this whole HIV causes AIDS theory.
I mean I'm not gonna say "ok HIV is harmless maybe doesnt even exist so Im gonna go out there and give up safer sex". First off there are still other diseases, plus Im way too paranoid ;-).
But anyways, it seems to be clear that HIV has never actually been proven to exist. Besides after AIDS was first 'detected' in the 80's scientists were expecting that somebody with HIV would get AIDS only a few weeks or months after being infected with HIV and thus a huge epidemic would break out etc. However 20 years afterwards the number of ppl infected with HIV or those with AIDS hasnt really changed (though it was expected to blow up assuming it was an infectious disease) and all of a sudden they're saying AIDS can often take decades before it breaks out.
(one of the aids dissidents who had gotten a nobel prize before too, compared that to somebody playing tennis and raising the net all of a sudden because he's losing).
I mean I really dunno much about biology etc. but it seems to me that the hypothesis that HIV is something really bad (as in causing) AIDs is highly questionable. (again: Im not gonna abolish safer sex because of these doubts).
This isnt really a problem for me..however I thought that if I did get a serious girlfriend I'd want her (and also myself) to take a STD test. However I had worried before, that the actual chance of myself having a wrong positive testing result (due to human error or testing error or whatever) might be bigger (even if still slim) than actually having HIV if I had always practiced safer sex (as a lot of ppl say condoms are 'only' around 90% effective at preventing HIV)..
and now I read this:
http://www.sumeria.net/aids/false.html
Does anybody know more about this subject than me? How many are those AIDS dissidents compared to other scientists in that area that believe in the HIV/AIDS-hypothesis?
Plus, does anybody know if your blood is usually screened for HIV/AIDS if a regular blood sample is taken or does that only happen when you do an HIV test on purpose?