Homosexual Agenda Exposed!!!!!!

Safe sex is wonderful, and that is part of why AIDS is becoming less of a threat. But if I wanted to raise money for safe sex, that is what I would (and do) donate my money to.

Don't get me wrong, I want a cure for aids. But I also want more reasearch into cancer, which killes eleven times as many people, and heart disease (preventable through lifestyle, like aids) which kills 16 times as many people.

If people only wanted to keep other people from dying, they would not be giving more money to aids than to the other 14 higher causes of death. You don't see people jumping all over the other causes of death because they are not group-oriented problems.

I don't mind, I like that people give their money to charity, I just wanted to point out the discrepancy and what (I think) is the reason for it.

What we don't seem to see is that AIDS is a relatively new disease and takes years to kill.

Therefore, many may be infected but not yet dead...look at sub-Saharan Africa.

Measuring $/death is only valid if the death rate from a particular disease is static.

e.g. if the same cancer funding had been given in the 70s, when deaths were higher, it would have appeared to have a much lower $/death value than it does today, when more people survive cancer (to die of something else!).

Diseases such as diabetes can be controlled for years without causing death.

So, thought the stats. are useful, they don't really give a clear picture for comparable diseases.

I'd bet heart disease would come out lowest in comparison of $/sufferer (not yet dead), too.

We know some of the best ways to stop it and they don't need additional research:

don't smoke
don't eat too much saturated fat
don't be obese
exercise regularly

Now - if we were to spend more money encouraging people to behave in this way....?

Additionally, many advances in diagnosis and treatment of conditions like heart disease arise not from money targeted at the disease but from basic physiological research. Investigators studying a particular cell type note that it secretes such-and-such a thingamajig in response to such-and-such conditions, and find that this has implications for a host of pathologies. Infectious diseases, on the other hand, generally have to be taken head on.

The MacDonald's Agenda

Scary? Controllable?

We have come into the age of the Control Freaks -- everyone has an agenda.

Nobody's forcing a burger and fries down anyone's throat, and the health information is on the package.

People should stop whining and buy themselves a bag of frozen broccoli, for chrissakes.

Same basic story -- common sense information (as common sense isn't so common - Voltaire) will save those who listen and comprehend. Those who are in fear of "agendas" are lacking in their comprehension skills.

I find bags of frozen vegetables to be wonderful aids in the neverending fight to cure post-karate knee pain!