[Osx-nutters] Denial

[Chris Gehlker]

On Aug 16, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Stefano Mori wrote:

> "United Nations recently estimated that one-third of all infants with
> H.I.V. got the virus through their mothers' milk"
>
> <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
> sec=health&res=9C05E6DD153CF93BA35755C0A961958260>
>
> So the United Nations was taken in by them?
>
> Did nobody check this stuff??
>
> You make them sound like amateurs.

The  UN is bribable and unduly subject to the influence of  
corporations in the  developed countries. This is not news.
<http://www.asklenore.info/breastfeeding/hivinafrica.html>
"The issue soon pitted Western scientists against doctors in sub- 
Saharan Africa. From the West came pressure on the World Health  
Organization to adopt the policy that HIV-positive women should not  
breastfeed; from doctors in Africa and elsewhere in the Third World  
came the reply: So then what?

"It's a real dilemma, and I'm not pretending it's easy to solve, but  
what I resent is the old colonial attitude, 'Look, the U.S. does it  
and Canada does it, so why don't we do it?' " said Hoosen Coovadia,  
professor of HIV/AIDS research at the Nelson Mandela School of  
Medicine at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. "This is a huge cultural  
question."

"African researchers, including Prof. Coovadia, assessed the relative  
risks of transmitting HIV versus diarrhea, and decided the way  
forward might be better breastfeeding.

"The early results are surprising. They suggest the best thing a  
mother with HIV can do for her baby is to breastfeed, all the time.  
"Unicef didn't believe us when we told them the results [of the first  
studies]," Dr. Coovadia said. "Now, they've stopped subsidizing  
formula."

>
> Maybe we should trust the IPCC instead... oh, wait.

Well, if the  IPCC suddenly reverses itself, it probably means  
they've been bought.
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