Victory for unsafe sex!!!
Victory for unsafe sex!!!
Not so fast.
A cure of HIV might have been found.
If it turns out that this is a viable method, then this absolutely is incredible news, but it needs to be re-tested and applied to more cases (lol sample size). It does appear to be a promising development nonetheless.
Also, one quick note about the abstract: http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrar...10-09-309591v1
Thank you stem cell research.We have previously reported the case of an HIV-infected patient in whom viral replication remained absent despite discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy after transplantation with CCR532/
Last edited by tereg; 12-15-2010 at 04:11 AM.
INFj
9w1 sp/sx
Right now there is someone using stem cells to make gay parents twice as good with children, to really irk off the fundamentalists.
Ni cures HIV!Originally Posted by tereg
We have previously reported the case of an HIV-infected patient in whom viral replication remained absent despite discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy after transplantation with CCR5
What teh hell is aids.
Super cool. I hope this method pans out--of course there could be something else unexpected in this guy's biochemistry that made it possible for him to be cured as he was. But the fact that there is a successful treatment is incredibly exciting. In fifteen years, this could be a semi-regular treatment. Of course it won't reduce condom sales: once you get infected you still have to go through chemotherapy that basically ruins your life for a long while, and you have to take hella drugs, and I imagine that it's no fun being on immunosuppressants (having to avoid catching a cold and such). But yeah, still really, really cool. And only, like 30 or 40 years since we discovered it was a big deal disease, we've found a potentially viable treatment that actually removes the disease altogether. Yay for modern medical science!
Not a rule, just a trend.
IEI. Probably Fe subtype. Pretty sure I'm E4, sexual instinctual type, fairly confident that I'm a 3 wing now, so: IEI-Fe E4w3 sx/so. Considering 3w4 now, but pretty sure that 4 fits the best.
Yes 'a ma'am that's pretty music...
I am grateful for the mystery of the soul, because without it, there could be no contemplation, except of the mysteries of divinity, which are far more dangerous to get wrong.
This assumption vastly underestimates human stupidity, imho.
What do these signs mean—,
Just one example: in MBTI, Se (extraverted sensing) is associated with life pleasures, excitement etc. By contrast, the socionic function(extraverted sensing) is first and foremost associated with control and expansion of personal space (which sometimes can manifest in excessive aagression, but often also manifests in a capability of managing lots of people and things).
For this reason, we consider comparison between MBTI types and socionic types by functions to be rather useless than useful.
-Victor Gulenko, Dmitri Lytov
First ask yourself the question 'does HIV cause AIDS'. It was linked to cancer at the beginning.
In niffweed's words a retrovirus is cytotoxic ?
The scientific consensus is a resounding 'yes'.
Views to the contrary typically fall into the camp of 'denialism'. Relevant links:
What is denialism
AIDSTruth.org - The scientific evidence for HIV/AIDS
AIDS/HIV at Aetiology
Correcting the AIDS Lies
AIDS.org
SLI/ISTp -- Te subtype
I have to learn to keep my big mouth shut someday.
Yup, that's right. It began with Dr. Robert Gallo but not much as a fact - a belief. As most(?) scientific breakthroughs go with discovering something, one also discovers that the idea was stolen, in this case a sample with the virus, from Dr. Luc Montagnier.
Thanks for the links - going to look at them later. Denialism. That's a nice label but don't think I am one
That's good to hear!Thanks for the links - going to look at them later. Denialism. That's a nice label but don't think I am one
I'm not in the business of public witch-hunts - so please don't take this as a personal attack - but given that denialists have found a voice on this forum in the past, I want to pass along the appropriate information if the opportunity presents itself.
SLI/ISTp -- Te subtype
Names.
By the way, do Lysenkoists fall under the Denialism category ?
So, does this mean the pool's back open?
What do these signs mean—
Just one example: in MBTI, Se (extraverted sensing) is associated with life pleasures, excitement etc. By contrast, the socionic function
For this reason, we consider comparison between MBTI types and socionic types by functions to be rather useless than useful.
-Victor Gulenko, Dmitri Lytov
I'm not going to list names, but forum searches on vaccines, global warming, big oil, conspiracy theories, etc. should net you the requisite culprits.
I'm unfamiliar with the term, but upon a cursory glance it's quite possible that Lysenkoists employ/employed any number of denialist techniques:By the way, do Lysenkoists fall under the Denialism category ?
-Conspiracy
-Selectivity (cherry-picking)
-Fake experts
-Impossible expectations (also known as moving goalposts)
-General fallacies of logic
(--http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/about.php)
SLI/ISTp -- Te subtype
Fair enough. I know the names already.
Well, as the 'time will tell' saying goes, and after reading some of that content you linked, I am not surprised one bit - Dr. Robert Gallo, the co-discoverer of HIV was himself a denialist.I'm unfamiliar with the term, but upon a cursory glance it's quite possible that Lysenkoists employ/employed any number of denialist techniques
EDIT #1
That's exactly what Dr. Robert Gallo has done.http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/about.php
Denialism is the employment of rhetorical tactics to give the appearance of argument or legitimate debate, when in actuality there is none. These false arguments are used when one has few or no facts to support one's viewpoint against a scientific consensus or against overwhelming evidence to the contrary. They are effective in distracting from actual useful debate using emotionally appealing, but ultimately empty and illogical assertions.
Last edited by Absurd; 12-15-2010 at 07:07 PM.
Long term, this might make blood transplants more common, put more research dollars into transplant effectiveness, and lower costs of drugs.
Goodness knows it's good news for Africa, Haiti, etc.
But it looks like Big Pharma is going to have to be beaten first. As it is, cocktails are giving the Big Pharma-bought media an opening for discouraging further research.
But isn't that funny, that it turns out to be this easy? Because we were taking the reductionist, experimental approach when all that was needed was to flush out the immune system with pure Se power.
I don't really consider the process of getting a bone marrow transplant (at least in my limited knowledge of the process) to be "this easy", especially for the patient who needs to have it done.
http://cumc.columbia.edu/dept/medici...w/bmtinfo.html
You tell me if this sounds "easy"
Edit: The research does seem to be heading in the right direction, and perhaps this method will improve as you've stated with more research. My point is is that this is not an open-and-shut case just yet. This is not a silver bullet. It needs to be re-tested for efficacy and predictability.In patients with leukemia, aplastic anemia, and some immune deficiency diseases, the stem cells in the bone marrow malfunction, producing an excessive number of defective or immature blood cells (in the case of leukemia) or low blood cell counts (in the case of aplastic anemia). The immature or defective blood cells interfere with the production of normal blood cells, accumulate in the bloodstream and may invade other tissues.
Large doses of chemotherapy and/or radiation are required to destroy the abnormal stem cells and abnormal blood cells. These therapies, however, not only kill the abnormal cells but can destroy normal cells found in the bone marrow as well. Similarly, aggressive chemotherapy used to treat some lymphomas and other cancers can destroy healthy bone marrow. A bone marrow transplant enables physicians to treat these diseases with aggressive chemotherapy and/or radiation by allowing replacement of the diseased or damaged bone marrow after the chemotherapy/radiation treatment.
While bone marrow transplants do not provide 100 percent assurance that the disease will not recur, a transplant can increase the likelihood of a cure or at least prolong the period of disease-free survival for many patients.
...
A bone marrow transplant is a physically, emotionally, and psychologically taxing procedure for both the patient and family. A patient needs and should seek as much help as possible to cope with the experience. "Toughing it out" on your own is not the smartest way to cope with the transplant experience.
The bone marrow transplant is a debilitating experience. Imagine the symptoms of a severe case of the flu - nausea, vomiting, fever, diarrhea, extreme weakness. Now imagine what it's like to cope with the symptoms not just for several days, but for several weeks. That approximates what a BMT patient experiences during hospitalization.
During this period the patient will feel very sick and weak. Walking, sitting up in bed for long periods of time, reading books, talking on the phone, visiting with friends or even watching TV may require more energy than the patient has to spare.
Complications can develop after a bone marrow transplant such as infection, bleeding, graft-versus-host disease, or liver disease, which can create additional discomfort. The pain, however, is usually controllable by medication. In addition, mouth sores can develop that make eating and swallowing uncomfortable. Temporary mental confusion sometimes occurs and can be quite frightening for the patient who may not realize it's only temporary. The medical staff will help the patient deal with these problems.
Also, finding a bone marrow transplant donor with the genetic mutation that was used here is very limited.
I remain cautiously, but skeptically optimistic.
Last edited by tereg; 12-16-2010 at 03:30 AM.
INFj
9w1 sp/sx
Okay, so the basic idea is... shut down the patient's immune system, and the virus starves to death.
Cool.
(Someone tell me whether my assumption after reading about a paragraph is actually correct.)
LII-Ne
"Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare!"
- Blair Houghton
Johari
^ Yeah, basically from what I understand. It seems they also threw in some stem cells that weren't fought off from the destroyed immune system that evolved into a new mutated, but acceptable, blood type for the patient that has become his new blood type.
And the effects of all this gave him some brain damage/trauma. So not exactly what I would call a cure, but pretty cool. I still don't know why after all this time we still don't have a proper cure for HIV.
How hard is it to find parts of the HIV virus that don't mutate and exploit those parts by attacking them, damaging them, and making HIV attackable to the immune system? I hope it is more complex than I assume, but considering the amount of money that the drugs involved in keeping HIV at bay bring in for the drug companies, I have a feeling developing a cure isn't even a part of the focus.
aids is a good thing, so are stds. A natural consequences for people who want sex with no consequences. For people who just want to live 'do anything hedonistic lifestyles' aids and other stds are natural balances against that.
I have a close gay male friend who is hiv positive. and I'm like 'it sucks dude but what do you expect you let your college roommate, whom you hardly even know, cum inside you. That sort of intimacy should be sacred. Not 'I'm horny man can I cum in your ass?'
He's the sweetest boy but he really has to stop letting guys cum in his ass, well it's not like straight females are any better.
there's nothing wrong per se with wanting 'the real thing' (even the nasty gay way) and wanting a dude to cum up your hole. but that's not how aids is generally contracted: in a loving monogamous relationship where you really know the person and know that they wouldn't give you a disease. It's contracted by naive young adults and ghetto street trash who want the sexual pleasure without the hard work and the risk it comes from really knowing somebody and connecting on a deeper level.
(morality rant off)
also, before there was aids the gay community had other lesser stds and anytime anyone tried to get them to cool it and stop, they refused to listen and acted like cartman from southpark 'I don't care I do what I want!' Then it was like gays were almost wiped out and they were finally all 'aw man maybe I should cool it.' It's not worth my life. I don't care how good 3 seconds would feel from a big black ghetto street thug cumming inside me animalistically. that can't be worth my entire livelihood. =)
i mean come on what do people expect its like eating CHOCOLATE its the same thing. there will always be natural balances against stuff that is pleasurable and feels good. that's why it's a SIN hehe. god if there was no consequences for anything I did if it was just some 'free for all' hippie universe I'd just always be eating chocolate cake, playing wow all day with a huge cock in my ass cumming nonstop.
Even if you cure aids, if people lived sexually unhealthy lifestyles- then there would just be something new that was created out of the pure deviance.
if aids was cured and gay men were all 'OMG NOW I CAN DO BLOODY OGRE FISTING!' or something- then in 2 weeks we'd just get something else- and something worse. people are always looking for 'cures' and 'solutions' instead of hacking at the root.
before there was aids there was minor/lesser stds that built up to aids. It's not like the gay community woke up one day and was all 'aids'ed.'
I'd much rather get to know a guy, at least respect him and tolerate him- god I'm not asking for love but at least give me that much, and have umm vanilla sex that's exciting yet safe. Remember when a racy playboy/playgirl photo could turn us on!
my point: The cure for aids is nothing more than spraying perfume on shit. The solution: Teach boys not to play in shit in the first place. Men's assholes are a source of pleasure but they're also an asshole where shit comes out of. Respectable human beings never forget this, and have empathy with each other not to spread shit around by playing in the source of shit: the ass. Precious and fragile things , need special handling.
ashton: Or you could just you know, not be GAY. fag!
sam: fuck you ashton u like it just as much as we do ******.
For some reason, I read that in the voice of Wesley Willis.
Yeah, while this case isn't close to being a reliable treatment just the fact that someone with HIV was cured completely is a pretty indication that a complete cure and not just managing the virus using a cocktail of drugs isn't impossible.
Funny choice of names as my name is Sam. Also, although I'm straight, who's ashton? He sounds like a douche lol.
I've been watching development of this for a few years, not because I'm specifically interested in AIDS but because I'm of the belief that all biological diseases will be cured within 50 years.
This particular case shows that modern methods of treatment can cure aids, but don't be fooled. This is a pretender technology, it is exceptionally risky and difficult to perform as well as being expensive. This is not a cure for the majority of AIDS sufferers.
how bout curing pregnancy???
well, I don't!
There could be a more elegant solution to the problem.
Interesting.
Theres no such thing as sin. People should think of the consquences of their actions however, you are right about that, just that consequences happen more because of natural reasons than willed moral ones.
Yes, you can pay me in Parasite.
No. I want her back one piece, but she's too delicate for a brute like you. I'll look in my extended family for someone of 100+ Kg for your needs, though.
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