tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post3916755117465866482..comments2024-01-17T13:16:10.378-08:00Comments on Joseph4GI: Male Circumcision and HIV in Africa: EPIC FAILJosephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-59396074340980163372011-05-07T18:51:15.520-07:002011-05-07T18:51:15.520-07:00Joseph, your post deserves a standing ovation. It ...Joseph, your post deserves a standing ovation. It gets to the core of problem. Ideas involving sexual conduct are very vulnerable to vulgar and self-serving misunderstandings. The push for circumcision as an AIDS battling strategy is a splendid case in point. Thus the myth that "a circumcised man can't catch AIDS, and doesn't need to use condoms." Tell that to the 250,000 odd North American gay men who died during the Gay AIDS Holocaust, 1980-2000. The vast majority of those men were circumcised.<br /><br />To expect that the typical African male will know how to respond logically and wisely to the claim that circumcision reduces the chances of getting AIDS by "60%" is to expect far too much. Alleged scientific findings cannot be viewed in splendid isolation. We have to take into account that human beings who are illiterate and innumerate will respond to those findings in unpredictable or shabby ways.<br /><br />Sure enough, this vulgar corruption has spread like wildfire, and the consequences will be tragic. All the clinical trials claimed to show is that circed men are less likely to catch AIDS from infected women via vaginal intercourse. The trials said nothing about AIDS and gay/anal sex, or about circ affecting a woman's chances of catching AIDS from an infected man. I bet the typical African male does not appreciate the points I am making in this paragraph, because he hasn't been told about them. And even if he were told, he does not have the education needed to appreciate the fine distinctions I am making. People, the germ theory of disease is only about 140 years old!<br /><br />The WHO and CDC investigators are impractical fools, willfully blind to how human nature plays out in the real world. The randomized clinical trials are a major scientific scandal waiting to detonate.RDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05120095550637873753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-81960365654364627512011-05-06T08:28:00.219-07:002011-05-06T08:28:00.219-07:00That's certainly scary! Those poor people that...That's certainly scary! Those poor people that actually got HIV because they thought circumcision protected them :(Margaret Diazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13101096929702712119noreply@blogger.com