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A combination of  and strangely uplifting for what he's accomplished.How a Son Survived Being Injected with HIV by His Father
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RC and Moon Pie posted:A combination of Fuckkkk the bits with the letters from the father's supporters and the dad being like "well HIV is a myth anyway  "ughhhhhh great article though, drat..
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May 1, 2016 05:39
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RC and Moon Pie posted:A combination of Lord, I remember when this happened. I grew up in St. Louis and it was so shocking. I'm so glad that kid.. young man now, is doing as well as he is. Good article.
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May 1, 2016 08:02
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It's not an article or anything but if there's interest I could tell you about my neighbor, the cannibal.
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May 1, 2016 11:10
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eightpole posted:It's not an article or anything but if there's interest I could tell you about my neighbor, the cannibal. There is always interest.
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May 1, 2016 11:13
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eightpole posted:It's not an article or anything but if there's interest I could tell you about my neighbor, the cannibal. Only if recipes are involved.
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May 1, 2016 11:16
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eightpole posted:It's not an article or anything but if there's interest I could tell you about my neighbor, the cannibal. Only when you just post will you reach the zen of posting and be enlightened
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May 1, 2016 12:56
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eightpole posted:It's not an article or anything but if there's interest I could tell you about my neighbor, the cannibal. 
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May 1, 2016 13:50
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eightpole posted:It's not an article or anything but if there's interest I could tell you about my neighbor, the cannibal. Like you had to ask.
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May 1, 2016 14:08
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RC and Moon Pie posted:A combination of One night at the 2009 Alicia Keys Black Ball in New York, Badger found himself at a table with Samuel L. Jackson. He decided to break the ice and said, “Mr. Jackson, nice to meet you. I'm Mr. Jackson.” The movie star laughed, and then when Badger told his story, Samuel L. Jackson put down his fancy fork and said, “Wow. Wow!” god bless samuel l jackson
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May 1, 2016 14:50
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RC and Moon Pie posted:A combination of quote:While preparing this article, I receive a packet in the mail on Stewart's behalf from a family friend. Inside is a cover letter. No one has tried to hear Brian's side, it begins. The letter makes a list of accusations about Badger's mom and the media and HIV. His son is alive and boasting of his exploits on Facebook. How dare he draw breath! 
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May 1, 2016 15:48
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Platystemon posted:How dare he draw breath! you left out the best part At length, Stewart writes to me himself. He is cordial—Please forgive my delay in writing back. He will consent to an interview, he says, only on several conditions, which include “that you absolutely agree in writing that you will print the following, unedited: My son's HIV test was falsely positive.” He also insists that GQ publish “the related scientific facts by experts at both the Perth Group and AliveandWell.org.” The former is an Australian organization that believes the existence of HIV to be unproven. The latter is a website that “raises questions about the accuracy of HIV tests.” It was founded by AIDS denialist Christine Maggiore, who died in 2008 of an AIDS-related illness, and whose daughter died at age 3, also of complications from AIDS. Our correspondence ends there. "he told me i had to print a bunch of idiot rear end bullshit. he can suck a fuckin dick"
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May 1, 2016 16:02
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Those may be facts, but are they scientific facts? Sic ’em, lawyer!
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May 1, 2016 16:29
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eightpole posted:It's not an article or anything but if there's interest I could tell you about my neighbor, the cannibal. Still waiting.  Literally The Worst posted:you left out the best part Welp, the fact that this is a thing is pretty unnerving. From wiki (emphasis mine): wiki posted:Christine Joy Maggiore (July 25, 1956 – December 27, 2008) was an HIV-positive activist and promoter of AIDS denialism (the belief that HIV is not the cause of AIDS). She was the founder of Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives, an organization which disputes the link between HIV and AIDS and urges HIV-positive pregnant women to avoid anti-HIV medication. Maggiore authored and self-published the book What If Everything You Thought You Knew about AIDS Was Wrong?
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May 1, 2016 16:31
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Karma Monkey posted:Still waiting. Wasn't this the same organisation that the Foo Fighters supported back in the day?
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May 1, 2016 18:34
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See also: Continuumquote:Continuum was a magazine published by an activist group of the same name who denied the existence of HIV/AIDS.
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May 1, 2016 21:35
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Sarcopenia posted:Wasn't this the same organisation that the Foo Fighters supported back in the day? Yeah, one of the members heard about her through some sort of quackery website and for some unknown reason took it at face value.
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May 1, 2016 23:18
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The creepiest part of the Christine Maggiore story is this image, right here: That baby underneath the "No AZT" sign is Eliza Jane, who died at age 3 from complications of AIDS. Her mother still denies this, having gotten a veterinarian (!) to independently determine the cause of death for her daughter so she could claim it was pneumonia and not AIDS. AIDS denialism is terrible. https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/christine-maggiore-and-eliza-jane-scovill-living-and-dying-with-hivaids-denialism/
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May 2, 2016 03:02
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pookel posted:That baby underneath the "No AZT" sign is Eliza Jane, who died at age 3 from complications of AIDS. Her mother still denies this, having gotten a veterinarian (!) to independently determine the cause of death for her daughter so she could claim it was pneumonia and not AIDS. But having AIDS causes you to die of pneumonia (on account of not having an immune system anymore). That's literally what the acronym means.
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May 2, 2016 03:11
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The Lone Badger posted:But having AIDS causes you to die of pneumonia (on account of not having an immune system anymore). That's literally what the acronym means. quote:Dr. Jay Gordon, a Santa Monica pediatrician who had treated Eliza Jane since she was a year old, said he should have demanded that she be tested for human immunodeficiency virus when, 11 days before she died, Maggiore brought her in with an apparent ear infection. When even Dr. Jay Gordon thinks you're a quack, you've got problems.
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May 2, 2016 03:35
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It's surprising there's no legal remedy for these people. At what point does the "right to parent how I want" not fly in the face of child endangerment as proven by established science?
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May 2, 2016 06:31
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TheFallenEvincar posted:It's surprising there's no legal remedy for these people. At what point does the "right to parent how I want" not fly in the face of child endangerment as proven by established science? There's no bright line on it, and it gets even worse when you toss religion into the blender as well. http://www.csicop.org/si/show/faith_healing_religious_freedom_vs._child_protection There were a few cases last decade with Christian Scientists being under fire because they don't believe in blood transfusions, among other things, which inevitably leads to some kid dying. There's been a gradual tightening on what you can get away with in the name of the lord. We may see similar stuff in the future, especially with regards to the anti-vax crowd, which doesn't have a religious bent to it. And anti-vax stuff can gently caress up other kids as well, causing outbreaks of diseases that were once nearly eliminated. The big problem there is convincing parents of autistic kids that autism isn't the doctor's fault.
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May 2, 2016 06:55
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I know the common response to claims of an autism epidemic is that we just diagnose more kids now, but I was wondering if it might be linked to the average age of first time parents in first world countries going up over time. We know that Down Syndrome is linked to increased parental age, and I've heard similar things about autism, but never anything conclusive. Has there been any study regarding this and/or is my speculation completely baseless?
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May 2, 2016 07:17
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Terrible Opinions posted:I know the common response to claims of an autism epidemic is that we just diagnose more kids now, but I was wondering if it might be linked to the average age of first time parents in first world countries going up over time. We know that Down Syndrome is linked to increased parental age, and I've heard similar things about autism, but never anything conclusive. Has there been any study regarding this and/or is my speculation completely baseless? I don't think it's entirely baseless, but the fact that it was possibly under diagnosed in the past would make measuring increases over time unreliable. And the current diagnostic system, where autism is treated as a spectrum, adds to the data unreliability, as you would likely get a statistically substantial amount of cases that wouldn't have been tagged as autism in the past but are classified that way now.
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May 2, 2016 14:49
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I think it's similar to death, back in the day you see a lot of deaths attributed to simply "old age" or natural causes, but today we have names and understanding of exactly what that means. In the past autistic people would either be capable of blending in or lumped in with more severe impairments, depending on where they are on the spectrum, but now we have a name and understanding of exactly what that means, and we can detect it earlier.
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May 2, 2016 15:16
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^ Exactly what I was thinking - look at something simple like the average life expectancy nowadays. Back even 100 years ago we didn't have as many vaccines or ways to treat illness or injury, so people could legit die young from something as simple as an untreated infection or common virus. Those same infections and viruses now have treatments so you don't see some 20 year old kid getting a cut on his hand and eventually losing it to gangrene, or a poor sap dying of blood loss because a doctor didn't tourniquet his leg properly before an at-home amputation.
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May 2, 2016 15:57
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Urgh, it's been years since I read about this AIDS denial poo poo, and I wish I would have never read about it again. I have had multiple family members die of complications from HIV and AIDS. Including a 2 year old niece. Most of these people were dirt poor and lived in the rural mountainsides of Tanzania with little access to proper healthcare (Thankfully, it's quickly getting a lot better up there). gently caress any well of poo poo head who causes the excruciating death of their own loving children because of "The Man and Big Pharma!". Seeething Did this make me feel a little better though. quote:"For example, the editors of the magazine Continuum consistently denied the existence of HIV/AIDS. The magazine shut down after both editors died of AIDS-related causes."
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May 2, 2016 16:12
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Karma Monkey posted:Still waiting. Yeah I forgot about making that post immediately after making it! I'll write something up for tonight though.
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May 2, 2016 16:48
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eightpole posted:Yeah I forgot about making that post immediately after making it!  Finally something to look forward to besides the end of the workday.
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May 2, 2016 16:50
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Abugadu posted:The big problem there is convincing parents of autistic kids that autism isn't the doctor's fault. http://www.xojane.com/issues/yet-another-disabled-child-killed-by-family
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May 2, 2016 17:07
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pookel posted:It helps not to treat autism as a horrifying disease. To stay on-topic, here's an article about autistic and disabled kids murdered by their caregivers:  Goddamn, and that's not even all of them.
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May 2, 2016 17:27
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TheFallenEvincar posted:It's surprising there's no legal remedy for these people. At what point does the "right to parent how I want" not fly in the face of child endangerment as proven by established science? Well in Alberta right now there is a trial against parents whose child had died of meningitis. They tried to cure their son with herbal smoothies and vegetables. It didn't work out.
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May 2, 2016 18:42
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bootsy posted:
Norman Maclean's book "Young Men and Fire," about the Mann Gulch Fire which claimed 13 firefighters in Montana in 1949 and was the deadliest wilderness fire until the South Canyon Fire in 1994, is an amazing book and every should read it. High winds caused the fire to jump past the men, cutting off their escape route to the Missouri River and they had to drop their tools and packs and sprint for the top of the hill. The foreman, Wagner Dodge,set an escape fire and laid down in the burned area but the others either didn't understand what he was doing or didn't care and kept running. There's a staggeringly haunting and sad song by James Keelaghan, "Cold Missouri Waters," about that fire, told from Dodge's perspective years later as he's dying in bed of cancer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dztj4X3fQps The final verse is brutal: quote:And when I arose, like the phoenix And in 1994, when 14 firefighters were killed in the South Canyon fire, Norman Maclean's son John wrote the book about it. Phanatic has a new favorite as of 22:07 on May 2, 2016 |
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May 2, 2016 21:52
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Yes, excellent suggestion. The MacLeans are pretty much the seminal authors on wildland firefighting, and I highly suggest anyone check out any of their books on the topic. In Norman's book Young Men and Fire, he describes the following: quote:"Dying in a forest fire is actually like experiencing three deaths: first the failure of your legs as you run, then the scorching of your lungs, finally the burning of your body." Gee thanks, Norm. How succinct. But I think one of my favorite lines from any contemporary non-fiction piece is Sebastian Junger's parting words describing the blowup at the South Canyon Fire in 1994 which killed 14 firefighters: quote:"By the time the Prineville nine and the three smoke jumpers with them saw the horror coming—by the time great sheets of flame hit the dry Gambel oak and frantic voices over the radio screamed at them to run—they had only twenty seconds to live. They must have died in a state of bewilderment almost as great as their fear." Link to a pdf of Junger's write-up (it's a classroom activity, but the story is there): https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...3_CRQinSvnv-cwQ bootsy has a new favorite as of 02:44 on May 3, 2016 |
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May 3, 2016 02:42
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May 3, 2016 02:53
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RNG posted:Not the desert, and not really unnerving, but I used to fly from New England to Florida as a kid during the summers. You'd leave New England, it'd be nice and pleasant in the 70's, nice climate controlled plane ride, and then the second you step on to the tarmac it's like a loving blast furnace. Got a 1st degree burn from leaning on a car, once. I've also been to Florida. Cheers
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May 3, 2016 04:07
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poopy pee pee posted:I've also been to Florida. Cheers Neat!
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May 3, 2016 09:43
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pookel posted:It helps not to treat autism as a horrifying disease. To stay on-topic, here's an article about autistic and disabled kids murdered by their caregivers: This is one of the many reasons to boycott Autism Speaks, because they not only have been sympathetic to child-murderers but have printed parental stories that include "sometimes I think she would be better off dead." The only time people with actual autism were on the board, they were shut out. No, murdering your severely disabled child is not the forgivable solution. That narrative is bad.
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May 3, 2016 17:36
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Arsenic Lupin posted:This is one of the many reasons to boycott Autism Speaks, because they not only have been sympathetic to child-murderers but have printed parental stories that include "sometimes I think she would be better off dead." The only time people with actual autism were on the board, they were shut out. 
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May 3, 2016 18:01
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Arsenic Lupin posted:No, murdering your severely disabled child is not the forgivable solution. That narrative is bad. In either case, organizations like Autism Speaks are partly to blame, not only for showing them sympathy but for promoting the narrative that autism is a terrible tragedy. They talk about autism stealing children's souls; they call it a "darkness," they talk about children with dead eyes or who are locked away from the world. It's no surprise that awful consequences result when parents start believing their children are monsters, or would be better off dead. And now I'm reading through this list, which if you follow the links to individual articles, is absolutely horrifying: http://disability-memorial.org/category/main-list Hard reading as a parent of an autistic kid, or as a parent at all, or really as a human being.
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