AIDS & Conspiracy Stuff??

[jester]

At 10:15 AM 06/11/1997 -0400, Paul Mackin wrote:
>Jester, hopefully in jest, sez:
>
>
> I do
>think it is a stretch to suggest that HIV is a symptom of AIDS -- does that
>mean it is spontaneously generated by the body itself when the body develops
>this immuno-deficiency syndrome??  Is such a thing possible? I'm not sure.
>

Hmmm... Well, it wasn't really in jest, so I wonder if you're getting me
properly.  My intention was 1) to state my need for more information (valid
information) on the subject, 2) to illustrate my hesitation to blanketly
accept Jules' article -- that is, the part about HIV being not THE cause of
AIDS, but rather one symptom of it (are there cases of AIDS that do not have
HIV?  If so, are they just not called AIDS because of that, or what?), and
3) perhaps somewhat in jest, to equate the idea of HIV spontaneously
appearing in the body as a result of AIDS (which according to Jules' article
is a result of exposure to certain mutagens over a long period of time -- am
I getting this right, Jules?) with theories of early medicine and biology
where the theory of spontaneous generation were staus quo -- before Louis
Pasteur came along and discovered germs.

JJ "Jester"