Ake, there's a difference between saying that "47% of gay men have HIV/AIDs" and "Of those who have contracted HIV/AIDs, 47% are gay."

That's sort of like saying "100% of men have prostate cancer" when it should be, "Of those who have prostate cancer, 100% are men."

And GfS is not just a racist, he is also a homophobe. Just read what he posts.

Larry, I am open to new ideas and new viewpoints and I do consider them seriously. One learns a great deal that way. But when I keep hearing the same things that I have long ago examined and cast aside as spurious being repeated and repeated like a mantra by some people here as the Gospel Truth—and when I question them, I'm accuse of "not thinking" (often by one of the most blatant non-thinkers frequenting this website), it's a bit hard not to get pretty exasperated.

Far be it from me to fall back on academics, but in my university career, in addition to my studies in English Literature and Music, I spent a great deal of my time taking courses in Philosophy, including Ethics and Logic. I tend to examine ideas that are new to me, or differing viewpoints, and often re-evaluate ideas that are not new to me, especially in the light of any possible new evidence, just in case.

So my reactions and responses are not just "knee-jerk."

Don Firth