Posted: March 22, 2009 at 11:32 am | Tags: catholic, medical myths, Religion
Pope Benedict again proved how irrelevant the church is on any subject outside the mumbo jumbo of religion by screwing Africa and not wearing protection.
Pope in Africa reaffirms “no condoms” against AIDS
In Africa where more than 25 million people have died from Aids and another 22.5 million have the disease, the pontiff actually told the faithful “It (aids) cannot be overcome by the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, they increase the problem,”!!!!!!!
And me with out a Pro!
WHAT UTTER STUPIDITY! He ignores the simple proven fact that use of a condom decreases the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Sad part is the rather unsophisticated masses of the poorer sections of Africa will believe the man, and they are the one who suffer the most from the Aids epidemic. I guess they don’t realize the pope represents an organization that up to only recently has accepted evolution, an organization for whom it took hundreds of years to admit they were dead wrong on the heliocentric solar system. Seems to me taking sexual advice from a celibate person is like taking driving lessons from Ray Charles. Give the church another three of four hundred yeas and they may step out of the dark ages. And they wonder why they can’t but butts in the seats at church.
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Posted: March 17, 2009 at 2:17 pm | Tags: autism, medical myths
It’s been a popular claim by autism activists like Kathie Lee Gifford and others who that measles shots caused their children’s disorders. But a courts confirmed what scientist have been saying all along, this is just popular myth.
The evidence “is weak, contradictory and unpersuasive,” concluded Special Master Denise Vowell. “Sadly, the petitioners in this litigation have been the victims of bad science conducted to support litigation rather than to advance medical and scientific understanding” of autism.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/11/autism.vaccines/
The preservative, thimerosal was outlawed in 2001, and yet we continues to see an increase in autism cases. Why is that? if the drugs were the cause the cases of autism should decline. Maybe the reason is because blaming a child’s development difficulties is easier to take if you can put on a someone else, big paramedical or the government. Add to that lawyers who will take your case to get you some cash and famous TV and movie personalities who peddle the so called cause, and it easy to see why people find the idea compelling.
Rather then admit the vaccines were not to blame, activist continued to tell people not to have their kid vaccinated even though doing so not only threatened their own children but others by increasing the likelihood of measles outbreaks in school children. It’s the “herd immunity” that keeps diseases like the measles in check and once a certain percentage of the population is no longer immune you have a real danger of an epidemic.
