i exchange views, make judgments, hear and respond to opinions on this list.
if i wanted a medical judgment on what appears to be an absurd claim, i'd have to look into some accredited medical source.
now, why would i want to waste my time doing that?
perhaps you want different things from this list from what i do. i hear about events linked to africa, hear different points of view argued, learn enormously about opinions, the people who hold them, and how they have been shaped, often historically.
i don't go to doctors for opinions; but i do go to public lists for opinions because they tell me how people think and how ideologies are expressed.
those things are real, for me, and act on the world.
so, all the time we are assessing opinions. at times they appear credible; at times not
best
ken
--Chidi,
You, presumably not a medical man did nevertheless follow some of the HIV controversies, hunches, conspiracy theories and probably have some scientific opinions and premonitions of your own, about it's genesis. Where did all the conspiracy theories about HIV come from and where have they taken us?
This is from the LRB blog: Zika Virus, the Story So Far
The Global Research blog has been thoroughly discredited, its many hostile and anti-Western views and some of its bizarre conspiracy theories all maliciously, politically motivated and susceptible to uncritical mass consumption - all their "facts" swallowed, hook, line and sinker by what someone in this forum has described as "a gullible, morally weak and intellectually feeble society"
They say, "So here are some facts until we receive more information" and then proceed to tell us that a UK based and a US based company share the very exclusive monopoly of having originated Zika without presenting any proof of these their so called elemental facts: "This sexually-transmitted virus has been around for 69 years and is a product of two companies: LGC Group (headquartered in the UK) and ATTC (headquartered in the US)"
My reggae artist friend Pygment (Jamaican – lives here in Stockholm and I have a lot of respect for him, even introduced him to the ultra-orthodox rabbi just outside the synagogue once and they shook hands heartily) well, he has this song about the HIV virus in which, maybe solely persuaded or carried away by the efficacy of word play he claims that "they germinate it in Germany"
Jesus said that you must "test the spirits" if they be from God. The Quran requests that they produce their proofs if they are truthful or are we to believe in each and every fairy tale?
Only asking.
Cornelius
On Thursday, 4 February 2016 13:43:08 UTC+1, Chidi Anthony Opara wrote:In the article Gloria posted, specific points were made to support a position, but the responses which seem to propose a counter position were generalized.
I had expected specific counter points.
CAO.
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