Kat,

Followed your link on the AIDS/HIV thing. Just a few quick comments based on a little surfing of the site

First, I think this sums up my impression of the whole thing: It is not proven that AIDS is caused by HIV infection, nor is it proven that it plays no role whatever in the syndrome. Dr. Richard Strohman, Emeritus Professor of Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley:

That and a lot of the scientific articles offered opinions without hard evidence. At least the ones I looked at.

All the conspiracy stuff is distracting at best.

I wonder, though, if this will end up like Therapeutic Touch? The Rocky Mountain Skeptics did a review of major work in the area and found the references and citation were essentially circular and that appropriate scientific studies had really never ben done. The supporters of therapeutic touch just kept citing each other.

Mention was made that homophobes are that way because they can't deal with their own homosexuality. Which brought to mind the Kinsey Scale. He argued (without substantiating studies) that those closer to the middle of the scale (0 to Six with O being completely heterosexual and 6 being completely homosexual) were more likely to have adjustment problems that could come out as homo (or hetro) phobia.

Regards

John