Right Wing: "Birth control pills will give you AIDS"

[ck4829]

Conservative groups are making all sorts of scientific breakthroughs today; breakthroughs that nobody else seems to appreciate or take seriously ... like the one about how women who take birth control pills are at greater risk of getting AIDS:

According to Joan Robinson, a researcher at the Population Research Institute ... more than 50 medical studies to date have investigated a link between hormonal contraceptive use and HIV/AIDS infection. "The science is settled," Robinson says. "Hormonal contraceptives -- the oral pill and Depo-Provera -- increase almost all known risk factors for HIV, from upping a woman's risk of infection, to increasing the replication of the HIV virus, to speeding the debilitating and deadly progression of the disease."

This scientific consensus has received almost no publicity to date, Robinson continues, because of strong economic and ideological forces that push the pill.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/today-right-wing-science

Maybe because it's you're a crackpot? BTW, what kind of scientist says "The science is settled"? The science is over, no more discussion, I win.

[sakabatou]

1. ...

[ZombieHorde]

4. Great collage. nt

[Rex]

17. Ooooh! Hahahahahaha! +1 x infinity!

Wonderful and SPOT ON!

[hobbit709]

2. Based on the same "science" that says the earth is 6000 years old.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. If women use BC they are probably more likely to have partners NOT use a condom.

Therein lie those stats. NOW go do a study of prostitutes, whose partners ALL use condoms.

Science settles THAT.

[get the red out]

8. And those send you to hell just as fast!!!!

Demons be gone! :sarcasm:

[SocialistLez]

5. This one takes the cake!!

I've heard them say birth control pills ARE abortion or that they will prevent a woman from EVER becoming pregnant but this one takes the cake.

[sarge43]

6. There's no bottom to Teh Stupid. n/t

[Flipper999]

7. The science is settled? Hahahaha!

Well, I guess that's it! Time to pack up the lab guys, we've finished science!

[sinkingfeeling]

9. I might be able to see a connection between birth control and an increase in the replication of the

virus or something, but there's no way that by taking birth control pills a woman is going to catch AIDS!

[DaveJ]

10. I wouldn't totally dismiss this

The article they reference here seems legit:
http://www.iasociety.org/Article.aspx?elementId=11977

Haven't looked into any others, but the whole thing seems plausible. The pill has some side effects, I've heard. One reason my gf refuses to use it.

Of course these folks are still nutjobs speaking only to further their own agenda. They are the same ones who probably vote to reduce funding for AIDS clinics. But that doesn't mean the facts here are necessarily wrong.

[sinkingfeeling]

16. In that study all of the women were already HIV-postive. So BC doesn't cause HIV/AIDS.

http://www.iasociety.org/Article.aspx?elementId=11977

The original trial randomized 595 HIV-positive women not taking antiretrovirals to use an intrauterine device (IUD) or hormonal contraceptives.

[Stevenmarc]

11. what kind of scientist says "The science is settled"?, The kind that belives The Flintstones ....

was a documentary.

[ZeitgeistObserver]

12. Thabo Mbeki said poverty caused it.

Science is being used to further political ends.

[madmom]

13. So NOW they want to use science....!

[guitar man]

14. uhh...

[Ian David]

15. Contraceptives are MADE FROM the HIV Virus.

It uses the virus to kill the tiny little babies that live inside sperm.


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