Ake, what I have tried to point out to you a couple of times (and it seems to have simply bounced off your steel helmet) is that the 43% in the pie-chart on the CDC's website does NOT say that that 43% of homosexual men have AIDS, it says that of ALL the people who have AIDS (including non-homosexuals and women), 43% of them are men. I grant you, that's a large segment of the pie-chart. But the way you are trying to present it is deceptive.

And as I have also pointed out before, by the same token, I think I could claim without fear of contradiction that 100% of those people who have prostate cancer are men.

You have to know what the pie-chart is supposed to cover. You can't just grab a figure and run with it—unless, of course, you're trying to bamboozle people. Not an unusual phenomenon, and easy to spot.

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I know four male homosexual couples who have been in stable, monogamous relationships (whether anyone else recognizes them or not), one for over thirty years, and the shortest of the short-timers for at least six years. Two of the couples are good friends of my wife and I (one of the men in the thirty year couple was a friend of Barbara's in high school).

And NONE of them have AIDS.

So much for spontaneous generation.

Don Firth