There is literally no anti-science conspiracy theory far-fetched enough for a dim bulb like Bryan Fischer to latch onto. So we are not surprised that the most hateful spokesperson for one of the country’s most ridiculous hate groups, the American Family Association, is now an AIDS denialist:
I recently came across several articles commemorating the 20th anniversary of Magic Johnson’s HIV diagnosis. I still remember the screaming headlines in 1991, the abrupt termination of his NBA career at the height of his powers, and his subsequent and short-lived come back.
One would have expected pictures of Magic, taken 20 years after this life-sentence diagnosis, to be a withered, shriveled version of his former self, his life force eaten away by this killer virus.
“One would have expected,” said the renowned scientist and medical researcher Bryan Fischer.
So why is Magic the picture of health 20 years after this supposedly terminal diagnosis? Easy: the HIV virus does NOT cause AIDS. Since, as one of the world’s leading virologists, Peter Duesberg of U.C. Berkeley, says, HIV is a “harmless passenger virus,” Magic is likely to carry HIV with him to the end of a long and healthy life.
Duesberg wrote a bombshell book in 1996, Inventing the AIDS Virus, which exposes the myth of the so-called AIDS virus.
Peter Duesberg’s theories have been widely disproven, and hundreds of thousands of people have died in Africa, in part because certain leaders over there took him seriously for a while. He’s a quack, pure and simple. Right up Bryan Fischer’s alley…
In fact, in this respect, the bogus HIV/AIDS link is just like the hysterical anthropogenic global warming scam.
And only true idiots or those who stand to profit from huge corporations for propagating the idea that anthropogenic global warming is a myth would lend credence to that statement. As I highly doubt that Bryan Fischer is making that much money from the AFA, I’m going to continue believing he’s simply hysterical, incredibly easily led and simply not that smart.
Anyway, there’s no reason to go through Bryan’s piece line by line — that would be giving him more attention than he’s worth — but he sums up by blaming the entire AIDS crisis on gay men and poppers. This, of course, discounts the lives of the untold numbers of AIDS victims around the globe who are heterosexual, women and children. But wingnuts are pretty casual about discounting other people’s lives when it comes to pushing their propaganda, I’ve found.
Eww. New levels of disgusting here.
One of my heroes is a man named Chuck Panozzo. He’s the original bass player for the rock band Styx. He too was diagnosed HIV+ in 1991, and with full-blown AIDS in late 1998. He came so close to dying at one point, but today, unless you knew that he has AIDS, you would never guess there’s a thing wrong with him. THAT’S HOW FAR TREATMENT FOR HIV/AIDS HAS COME IN THE PAST 20 YEARS. Anyone who says that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS and points to people like Chuck and Magic Johnson as proof is clearly talking out of their a*s.
I would think it’s difficult for people like Fischer to talk out of their a*s – after all, their head is stuck up there.
A commenter on JoeMyGod made a very good point that since it is claimed that HIV does not come from a virus, then both Fischer and Duesberg should have no qualms about injecting themselves with HIV-laden blood.
So how about it, Bryan – are you going to put your money where your mouth is?
Then what the f**k are they so worried about getting our blood for?
These AIDS Denialists are not as pervasive as they were a few years ago. After the death of AIDS Denialist leader Christine Maggiore they lost much of their momentum. Unfortunately, however, they can still reach some uneducated people and sway them to their ideals. This has caused the recent deaths of Karri Stokely, Kim Bannon and Emery Taylor.
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