tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post6869557838247762719..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Never mind ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50967812312448635542012-10-30T15:13:32.658-07:002012-10-30T15:13:32.658-07:00Someone asked: "I wonder if the African-Ameri...Someone asked: "I wonder if the African-American 'down-low' subculture could turn out to have roots in Africa?"<br /><br />Yes, that's it exactly. I've often thought a better term than "homosexual" would be "hypersexual." If a man can get past the initial disgust at sex with another man, he can have as much sex as he likes. Unlike women, who are inclined to say "no," there's no shortage of men willing to say "yes." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86135782533618671502012-10-30T15:13:32.303-07:002012-10-30T15:13:32.303-07:00Someone asked: "I wonder if the African-Ameri...Someone asked: "I wonder if the African-American 'down-low' subculture could turn out to have roots in Africa?"<br /><br />Yes, that's it exactly. I've often thought a better term than "homosexual" would be "hypersexual." If a man can get past the initial disgust at sex with another man, he can have as much sex as he likes. Unlike women, who are inclined to say "no," there's no shortage of men willing to say "yes." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68352177904508911352008-06-11T10:36:00.000-07:002008-06-11T10:36:00.000-07:00DissidentMan: I don't see what's to stop HIV trans...<B>DissidentMan:</B> <I>I don't see what's to stop HIV transmission when enabling pathologies are present. When I think about this, it occurs to me that this may be why circumcision is a risk mitigator, if we consider that circumcision reduces the fequency of ordinary infection with consequent open sores.</I><BR/><BR/>Yes, but in "normal missionary style" intercourse, there aren't any "enabling pathologies".<BR/><BR/>There aren't syphilis & herpes sores, there aren't dirty needles, there isn't any bleeding.<BR/><BR/>And, quite frankly, circumcision is [or used to be] the standard for American men - it is [or used to be] "normal".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37373364114440172132008-06-11T09:49:00.000-07:002008-06-11T09:49:00.000-07:00For a skeptical take on the HIV-circumcision conne...For a skeptical take on the HIV-circumcision connection, see <A HREF="http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/health/pathogens/hiv_circumcision_cyberchase_2006.w" REL="nofollow">John Hawks</A>Chiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03411363107558366631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33683662380034922552008-06-11T07:54:00.000-07:002008-06-11T07:54:00.000-07:00dissidentman,You really haven't proven anything wi...dissidentman,<BR/><BR/>You really haven't proven anything with your cut-and-paste. There is no question that those folks had their immune systems wrecked beyond the point of no return. That's why the cold that you shook off in a couple of days when you were 30 will set the stage for pneumococcal infection that kills you when you're 80. The question is whether a specific virus is causing AIDS, and gosh darn it all, that pesky HIV is a virus that refuses to act like a virus. In fact, I think it still hasn't been isolated but I'm open to correction.<BR/><BR/>--Senor Doug.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65330569263317864242008-06-11T03:20:00.000-07:002008-06-11T03:20:00.000-07:00roger chaillet,The guy doing germ warfare in Apart...roger chaillet,<BR/>The guy doing germ warfare in Apartheid South Africa was Dr. Germ, a medical officer. He was so good that even Mandela asked him to continue working for the "new" army, but I'm sure he could not match the US, Russia or Israel in things germ warfare. So if they could not create Aids, South Africa was not up to it. But I like that respect the nigerian had for Afrikaners. Its a good thing blacks admit that we were more competent than them. That way we know they killed Apartheid because they were jealous of our achievements and not because it was evil, like say Mugabe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90580443626245268302008-06-10T20:18:00.000-07:002008-06-10T20:18:00.000-07:00As with so many other things, I haven't studied th...As with so many other things, I haven't studied the claims (made by some) denying a causal linkage between HIV and AIDS. For the time being I consider AIDS denialism to be crackpottery, and I haven't heard of any hiv-negative AIDS denialists (like President Mbeki of South Africa or Duesberg) putting their money where their mouths are and injecting themselves with the HIV virus, but then again some AIDS denialists deny that the HIV virus even exists. Wikipedia has an unsympathetic <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_denialism" REL="nofollow">page</A> on the subject. with the following ironic section:<BR/><BR/><I><B>Death of HIV-positive [AIDS] denialists</B><BR/><BR/>In 2007, aidstruth.org, a website run by HIV researchers to counter denialist claims, published a partial list of AIDS denialists who had died of apparently AIDS-related causes. For example, the magazine Continuum, run by HIV-positive denialists, shut down when its editors all died of AIDS-related causes. It was noted that in every case, the AIDS denialist community has attributed the deaths to unknown causes, secret drug use, or stress. Similarly, several HIV-positive former dissidents have reported being ostracized by the AIDS-denialist community after they developed AIDS and decided to pursue effective antiretroviral treatment.</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20374733101494198382008-06-10T19:19:00.000-07:002008-06-10T19:19:00.000-07:00Here's another commentary on the report, from a si...Here's another commentary on the report, from a site that questions the HIV/AIDS link (as does Duesberg, cited above.) The same site has some other recent entries on the apparent "racism" of the HIV virus. <BR/><BR/>http://hivskeptic.wordpress.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89813368293496904382008-06-10T18:53:00.000-07:002008-06-10T18:53:00.000-07:00First, AIDS is a collection of specific symptoms a...First, AIDS is a collection of specific symptoms and infections not a disease in itself. <BR/><BR/>If you are HIV+ and have TB, you are considerd an AIDS patient.<BR/><BR/>If you have TB and are HIV-, you are NOT an AIDS patient.<BR/><BR/>Is there a proven causality between HIV and AIDS?<BR/><BR/>Apparently not.<BR/><BR/>See Kary Mullis: http://www.duesberg.com/viewpoints/kintro.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40610007950424112382008-06-10T17:11:00.000-07:002008-06-10T17:11:00.000-07:00Dr. Peter H. Duesberg's position is that "American...Dr. Peter H. Duesberg's position is that "American/European AIDS diseases are brought on by the long-term consumption of recreational drugs and/or AZT." <BR/><BR/>He also states "THE LONG LIST OF AFRICAN AIDS DISEASES CAN NOT BE CLINICALLY DISTINGUISHED FROM THEIR CONVENTIONAL COUNTERPARTS."<BR/><BR/>The above quotes from Dr. Duesberg's website. duesberg.com<BR/><BR/>He is a virologist who "isolated the first cancer gene through his work on retroviruses in 1970." <BR/><BR/>Kent GatewoodAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80945553821521462502008-06-10T16:00:00.000-07:002008-06-10T16:00:00.000-07:00j., the answer to your question could be long or s...j., the answer to your question could be long or short. The short answer is, "AIDS spreads through Africa differnently because Africans are different." Who knows how different?<BR/><BR/>People have mentioned anal sex, dry sex, sex with underage victims, rape, and frequency of sex partners. There's also the basic health of the population to consider ... people with open sores are more likely to catch it. <BR/><BR/>Let's pause for a moment at the underage/nonconsensual angle some have alluded to. Check out Wikipedia on a new and different <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_ironing" REL="nofollow">practice</A> that makes me pretty angry. The point isn't that it causes AIDS; the point is that it is done because mothers in that country feel that they have no power to prevent their daughters from being raped. They feel they must make them less attractive to the perps! Don't trust La Wik, read the links. <BR/><BR/>So while in East Africa, female genitals are mutilated to make a girl a good catch for a husband, in West Africa, breasts are attacked in the hopes that the rapists will pick someone else. ... And we're to believe that "People are the same wherever you go"? <BR/><BR/>What about South Africa, where a cabinet member carefully took a shower after raping an HIV+ woman ... to keep from catching the disease?<BR/><BR/>Swing over to the United States, where there is a massive incidence of <A HREF="http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/hatecrime.htm" REL="nofollow">black-on-white rape</A> (supported, often explicitly, by leftist heroes), a high HIV rate among black men, a high incidence of catching AIDS from violent sex <BR/><BR/>... and a by-any-means-necessary / <A HREF="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={465F5083-DB9A-4D11-83CF-5AC09C37D30A}" REL="nofollow">kill whitey </A> mentality pervading a criminal underclass<BR/><BR/>... abetted by white Uncle Toms who think a rope hanging from a tree is about equal in magnitude to six athletes beating stomping on a kid's face.<BR/><BR/>I'm a only a white nationalist when I think about these things. Rest of the time I'm really normal, honest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67277865188708821102008-06-10T15:38:00.000-07:002008-06-10T15:38:00.000-07:00marc mentioned, "Lack of circumcision among men".T...marc mentioned, "Lack of circumcision among men".<BR/><BR/>This may distinguish Africa from the United States, but if I'm not mistaken it doesn't distinguish Africa from Europe or Asia. I'm highly inclined to doubt circumcision angle.<BR/><BR/>(Which is to say nothing of the various mutiliations of females sometimes referred to as "circumcision", which increase infection rates for all sorts of diseases, as well as having the potential to make blodes on other continents red-faced with anger.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48917093578909911802008-06-10T14:20:00.000-07:002008-06-10T14:20:00.000-07:00Yes,dammit,why IS Africa so distinct? Isnt it comm...Yes,dammit,why IS Africa so distinct? Isnt it common in all parts of the world for a guy who has AIDS to have intercourse with an infant to magically cure himself? I mena,thats pretty standard stuff,aint it? :*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26171670631090281802008-06-10T13:11:00.000-07:002008-06-10T13:11:00.000-07:00The Fumento article that Glaivester links to above...The Fumento article that Glaivester links to above includes this passage:<BR/><BR/>"German anthropologist Kurt Falk reported in the 1920s that bisexuality was almost universal among the male populations of African tribes he studied. Medical records also show that African men who insist they're straighter than the proverbial arrow often suffer transmissible anorectal diseases."<BR/><BR/>I wonder if the African-American "down-low" subculture could turn out to have roots in Africa?Chiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03411363107558366631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79029632040208999892008-06-10T11:59:00.000-07:002008-06-10T11:59:00.000-07:00(1) AIDS is defined differently in Africa so that ...<I>(1) AIDS is defined differently in Africa so that a number of diseases historically common in poor parts of the continent count as AIDS, (2) people with those diseases are classified as having AIDS even if they are never tested for HIV, and (3) even among the small percentage tested, the results are unreliable because of the high percentage of false positives.</I><BR/><BR/>I've heard such things, but it conflicts with the universal tendency of individuals with AIDS-like symptoms, prefering to believe that they do <I>not</I> have HIV, until they are forced to believe it on account of a positive test. In accordance with this pattern, president Mbeki of South Africa used to insist that AIDS wasn't caused by HIV. I assume that this denial arises because HIV transmission is associated with male homosexuality and unrestrained sexual impulsivity. In truth I don't feel certain about what's going on in Africa, but I tentatively believe the AIDS alarmists.<BR/><BR/><I>But then along came Michael Fumento to set the record straight - I particularly remember a statistic from one of his stories which indicated that the CDC was not sure if ANY man had ever contracted HIV from a woman via normal "missionary style" intercourse.</I><BR/><BR/>I don't see what's to stop HIV transmission when enabling pathologies are present. When I think about this, it occurs to me that this may be why circumcision is a risk mitigator, if we consider that circumcision reduces the fequency of ordinary infection with consequent open sores.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55368373465535533772008-06-10T10:26:00.000-07:002008-06-10T10:26:00.000-07:00I'm fairly sure that HIV rates in Africa are calcu...I'm fairly sure that HIV rates in Africa are calculated from sentinel studies in health clinics using the same tests used here in the West. They aren't just diagnosing sick people with AIDS to get funding. <BR/><BR/>Lack of circumcision among men plus a tradition of concurrent sexual partners explains much of the high HIV rates in Africa, which, nonentheless, are far from universal. I think the use of non-sterile needles in African hospitals may be a contributing and underappreciated factor.<BR/><BR/>Even so, some sub-Saharan countries do not have severe epidemics, and most likely will not develop such at this point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-77068479260712288942008-06-10T09:58:00.000-07:002008-06-10T09:58:00.000-07:00What every body seems to overlook in discussions o...What every body seems to overlook in discussions of AIDS is that unlike any typical parasitic or bacterial infection/infestation you do not die of AIDS per se. You die of its effect on your ability to resist infections/infestations.<BR/><BR/>If you have been subject to the depredations of HIV. You will die of some "opportunistic" infection (bacterial, viral, or parasitic). You will not die directly from HIV.<BR/><BR/>So if someone dies of malaria for example in the United States and has tested positive for HIV then that person is said to have died of AIDS. This is a resonable decision. But in Africa where there are many, many different infections they seldom test for HIV. They simple attribute viral and bacterial infections to a presumed underlying HIV infection. <BR/><BR/>Some critics say that in the past when someone died of malaria they wrote malaria on the death certificate but today for exactly the same symptoms they write AIDS. Nobody has ever seemed to care if Africans died of tropical diseases but an AIDS diagnosis can lead to help from the West.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60102526137496667722008-06-10T09:53:00.000-07:002008-06-10T09:53:00.000-07:00Hey jimboCasual sex is the norm in SubSa Africa. V...Hey jimbo<BR/>Casual sex is the norm in SubSa Africa. Village elders initiate the young girls. Apart from that they only talk crap and smoke pot, whilst their infected wives till the fields. Its a culture thing.<BR/><BR/>You could have known all you wanted about blacks in SubSa Africa by asking those racist Rhodesians or white South Africans, but it was not cool to believe them so everybody still asks these dumb questions now when things could ALWAYS have been clear. I guess we can afford to be ignorant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80236663744480744992008-06-10T08:22:00.000-07:002008-06-10T08:22:00.000-07:00I used to work with a Nigerian immigrant. It was ...I used to work with a Nigerian immigrant. It was his opinion that AIDS was some sort of nefarious plot on the part of apartheid era government of South Africa. He basically said, "Isn't it a coincidence that AIDS took off once apartheid ended?"<BR/><BR/>Apparently AIDS was a stealth bomb left by the Afrikaners.<BR/><BR/>He overlooked the fact that long haul truckers were, as the airline commercial says, free to move about the country once apartheid ended. They became the new vectors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36808876709184750132008-06-10T07:14:00.000-07:002008-06-10T07:14:00.000-07:00I don't agree that pouring so much money into retr...I don't agree that pouring so much money into retrovirus research benefits us all that much in the end.<BR/>We are not going to find a "cure" for the HIV retrovirus in our lifetime.<BR/>Stop and consider how long scientists have been trying to defeat the common cold. Whoever does would an instant billionaire. That's plenty of motivation, but still... nobody has. Nobody will in our lifetime. They can only figure out how to do end runs around it. No cure.<BR/>Our billions would be MUCH better spent researching Alzheimer's, since that disease will, by any responsible researcher's estimate, rock the economy of the United States far more in comparison, and as baby boomers start hitting their seventies, it's going to change the way this country functions dramatically.<BR/>The popular media has been giving Alzheimer's short shrift in relation to how it will change everyone's lives in the near future.<BR/>When it really hits, nobody will be talking about AIDS.<BR/>It will be the major topic of the new century: essentially "dawn of the dead" without the cannibalism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51482196027146027042008-06-10T07:08:00.000-07:002008-06-10T07:08:00.000-07:00Perhaps it is because so many more whites are natu...Perhaps it is because so many more whites are naturally immune to AIDS? <BR/>http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sci_tech/highlights/011025_ccr5.shtml<BR/><BR/>(which of course fuels the conspiracy theorist everywhere)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70732423194844405252008-06-10T06:06:00.000-07:002008-06-10T06:06:00.000-07:00I am sorry but I dont get it. Maybe I dont underst...I am sorry but I dont get it. Maybe I dont understand the codewords. Please explain the quandary for dumbs. Is AIDS a disease attacking mostly African people? It is because some sexual habit exclusive to Africans? Why are North Dakotans immune to AIDS? Europeans have something that Africans dont or what is happening? I understand you are pointing to something racial, what it is? Are Africans too stupid to protect themselves from AIDS? Why should be so difficult to say it? Somebody is forbidding it? If it is true, and if it will help people, what is the problem? Am I being naive or you are just making a quandary where there is no need to create any?Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05676167615981895061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14115204188757773572008-06-10T05:45:00.000-07:002008-06-10T05:45:00.000-07:00The status of AIDS as the trendy disease with a se...The status of AIDS as the trendy disease with a sexy angle has been diminishing for a while now. The reigning champion in that category is breast cancer, with pink-packaged products throughout Wal-Mart that you can buy to show your support for women and their breasts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24882374572739384972008-06-10T01:55:00.000-07:002008-06-10T01:55:00.000-07:00"They are probably lying about smoking, period."Ab..."They are probably lying about smoking, period."<BR/><BR/>About passive smoking, very possibly; about active smoking, no. The evidence against cigarette smoking has accumulated to be as good as you can get, short of doing controlled experiments on humans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61132372032626993352008-06-09T22:40:00.000-07:002008-06-09T22:40:00.000-07:00I realize this puts me in "official crackpot" land...<I>I realize this puts me in "official crackpot" land, but I just don't buy the whole "AIDS in Africa" thing....</I><BR/><BR/>(1) AIDS is defined differently in Africa so that a number of diseases historically common in poor parts of the continent count as AIDS, (2) people with those diseases are classified as having AIDS even if they are never tested for HIV, and (3) even among the small percentage tested, the results are unreliable because of the high percentage of false positives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com