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I’m beginning to get a reputation among my friends as a crank and a writer of strongly-worded letters to the editor. For example, this letter to the Weekly Dig over its recent AIDS coverage:

I know you’re an alt-weekly, and I guess that means you have to publish
conspiracy theories and faddish pseudo-science. But do you have to go
and deny the link between HIV and AIDS, joining intellectual
heavyweights such as Thabo Mbeki and Spin magazine?

I won’t address the factual errors in your science coverage, which you can find
yourselves by consulting a basic textbook or a high-school Biology
teacher. However, if you do plan on continuing to ignore basic science, I suggest you join Bush and the Kansas educational board and start rejecting evolution and the round earth. I look forward to your coverage of alien abductions, crop circles, the danger of the UN World Government, and the global financial conspiracy run by Jews and Masons. I expected rational debate from an independent voice, not this raving conspiracy nonsense.

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  2. Why not address the factual errors in their coverage?

    I didn’t find anything that was in error.

    The articles pointed out that the link between a presumed virus — that is, surrogate markers in an artificially stimulated lab culture — and the 29 different so-named AIDS diseases have yet to be proven by any ethical, reasonable scientific standard.

    Pointing to a high school text as providing explicit scientific answers only points to the problem. There are problems with the hypothesis, not the least of which is that it’s accepted as fact by non-scientists.

    This can’t be surprising to a skeptical mind — the human species is constantly stepping on its own brain – or, in other words, believing in belief, rather than evidence.

    Here are the URLS to the Weekly Dig series.

    Perhaps any readers at this site would be willing to look at the series, which was certainly well-researched and at the very least worth discussing openly — unless you just don’t like science to be an open debate.

    Perhaps you’d prefer all of us to cower when an authority, governmental and not, dicates a policy on the public.

    For the rest of us, let’s not forget to exercise our critical thinking.

    Here are the links, decide for yourself:

    part 1
    http://www.weeklydig.com/dig/content/3168.aspx

    part 2
    http://www.weeklydig.com/dig/content/3499.aspx

    part 3
    http://www.weeklydig.com/dig/content/3822.aspx

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