On 25 Sep 1998 20:43:29 GMT, carlton at walleye.ccbr.umn.edu (Carlton
Hogan) wrote:
>In article <360bf911.316608552 at netnews.worldnet.att.net>,
> <johnburgin at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>>On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:27:34 +1000, Leonard Pattenden
>><ddlpatte at mailbox.uq.edu.au> wrote:
>>>>>On 24 Sep 1998 johnburgin at worldnet.att.net wrote:
>>>>>>> That's right Carlton, I'm far too ignorant to waste time arguing with.
>>>> So why don't you pick on something really big and ugly. The facts.
>>>>>>We are still waiting for you to post the facts.
>>>>>>> You see, when I've been confronted with people(and I use the term
>>>> loosely to include you) who know everything because they have been in
>>>> some mind warp trying to epicycle themselves to death I get great
>>>> pleasure in the knowledge that one day, hopefully sooner than later,
>>>> what they believe is statistical knowledge will bury them.
>>>>>>Please post statistics showing AZT causes AIDS, especially uncorrelated to
>>>HIV infection.
>>http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/data/jsazt.htm>>http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/data/nhdashed.htm>>http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/data/nhdashed.htm>>>>>> I've been,
>>>> as I said, involved in discussions with pathologists, people who
>>>> should know better, who should be able to defend this b.s., and find
>>>> them unable to defend HIV specificity tests, clinicians who can't
>>>> understand why an HIV positive test shouldn't confer immunity like
>>>> every other disease, physicians who have no idea what Koch's
>>>> postulates are and physicians who say that the HIV retrovirus fulfills
>>>> Koch's postulates.
>>>>>>Which postulate of Koch's has not been fulfilled John?
>>none of them,
>>In a key paper on tuberculosis in 1884, Koch spelled out the three
>>criteria for proving a microbe guilty of causing a disease:
>>1)First, the germ must be found growing abundantly in every patient
>>and every diseased tissue.
>>2)Second, the germ must be isolated and grown in the laboratory
>>3)Third, the purified germ must cause the disease again in another
>>host.
>>>Interestingly enough, Koch himself was unable to apply his postulates
>to cholera, although he himself was sure of the organism. So koch's
>postulates (which never even acknowledged viruses) fell short of
>even meeting Koch's needs. It's worthwhile to do some background
>reading before regurgitating dissident lore intact.
>No one but you has refuted this. "Interestingly enough", you took the
bait. Every HIV=AIDS believer that I have ever spoken to or read
believes that Koch's postulates are outdated, useless. Try stating
that to a practicising doctor in care of a peson with a real
infectious disease, like tuberculosis or hepatitis b.jb
>>>impression you are a physician.
>>So, since I am a dentist, you are assuming what? Are you now going to
>>assume that a dentist is not "qualified" to investigate, question and
>>repudiate, if need be, the information that you proclaim to be beyond
>>reproach?
>>No, but somebody who speaks dismissively of "dumb as (sic)
>scientific journals", and who claims that science is not
>meaningful unless it's in the newspaper is CLEARLY not qualified.
>>Carlton
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