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- 10 Dec 05
- 9:33 am
I suppose the one bright spot in the Uganda/AIDS crisis is that the evangelicals, who are pushing the abstincence only policy in the face of evidence that it does not work and that the previous policy did work, is that the evangelicals will pretty much die out as AIDS spreads among them. It's just too bad that they are and will be responsible for the deaths of so many thousands of rational, normal people who are just trying to get on with their lives, to survive in an increasingly difficult world ruled increasingly by the ignorant, the stupid, the ideological - …

Posted to Beatrice Were: Fighting a Deadly U.S. AIDS Policy in Uganda
- 10 Dec 05
- 11:17 am
Thanks to Rethinkit for reminding me that arrogance is the handmaiden of ignorance and ideology.

Posted to Beatrice Were: Fighting a Deadly U.S. AIDS Policy in Uganda
- 10 Dec 05
- 7:36 pm
I saw no point in responding to your second post. However, to say that I called you names indicates the level of thinking you practice. I did not call you names. I noted that your post was arrogant, and based on ideology and ignorance. As for your comments, is Mbeki a virologist? An epidemiologist? A biologist? A scientist? Does being President of South Africa qualify him in any of those fields? George W. Bush is the most powerful political being in the world, and his ideology, his ignorance, his arrogance have killed tens of thousands of innocent people in Iraq, and …

Posted to Beatrice Were: Fighting a Deadly U.S. AIDS Policy in Uganda
- 13 Dec 05
- 8:18 pm
Exactly.

Posted to Beatrice Were: Fighting a Deadly U.S. AIDS Policy in Uganda
- 24 Nov 05
- 8:42 pm
In practical terms, forget about the government doing anything sensible that will deal with the reality of a pandemic. Incompetents rule in the Bush Illusion of Government. Do expect the Republicans to use a pandemic or the threat of a pandemic to score political points. Philosophically, if you will, I can't help but think that any microbe that can wipe out huge swaths of humanity cannot be a bad thing now. One good plague deserves another and it is certain that humans are a plague on the biological and environmental systems of the planet. It has nothing to do with our …

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