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The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS: How a Tragedy Has Been Distorted by the Media and Partisan Politics Paperback – January 1, 1993
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- Print length463 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGateway Books
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1993
- Dimensions6.25 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches
- ISBN-100895267292
- ISBN-13978-0895267290
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- Publisher : Gateway Books; First Edition (January 1, 1993)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 463 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0895267292
- ISBN-13 : 978-0895267290
- Item Weight : 1.6 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.25 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches
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Myth also confronts the tremendous personal and societal damage done by media misinformation about AIDS. The havoc caused by the distortion of information by a leftist, activist media is almost incalculable. Pilots rely on accurate, factual information in order to safely fly their planes. What's our altitude? What are the weather conditions? Fuel status? Speed? Flap positions, and so on. In order to make sound decisions about a myriad of important issues in our lives we rely upon sound, accurate information. As Myth points out, the suppression of factual information about AIDS by the media led millions of people to make unsound, wrong, damaging, and even fatal decisions about the disease. The media's distorting of the facts about AIDS in the interest of promoting their biased view of homosexuality is nothing short of criminal. As Myth documents, when false reporting is exposed and corrected, AIDS is very much a homosexual affliction but because the mainstream media is on a campaign to normalize and even promote homosexuality, a disease clearly linked directly to the practice had to be covered up. Information had to be suppressed. Unfortunately, the suppression of information comes at a very high price - something the media activists seemed to care little about.
In summary, Myth is a must read for anyone intending to do battle with the forces of darkness in western society. The book provides the facts, figures, and accurate information needed to expose the media's cover-up of the truth about AIDS. Remember, facts, have the same effect on liberals as garlic does to a vampire!
Considering that the CDC just released statistics that say deaths solely from COVID are only 6%, with the balance of 94% of cases having an average of 2.5 health and life-threatening conditions, this old book should end up on every concerned citizens' reading list.
The Author: Every now and then a person comes along who lives a passion for finding and sharing truth. He is not satisfied with merely being well-fed and lying as needed to optimize his professional stature. He takes the risks, endures the persecution and keeps on fighting. Such is Michael Fumento.
The Book: It would take no less than Fumento's 463 pages (with 47 pages of references and notes) to unravel over a decade of lies emanating from the practitioners of AIDS-transmitting behaviors, the media, and the most visible public health professionals. I can see that there is still a need for this message today when I talk with misled others, when I see misleading public transit AIDS ads and when I hear the news.
Values: If I went into this book looking for a gay-bashing tirade I would not find it. If I approached it with the attitude of (some) Christians that homosexuals deserve to die because of their behavior, I would not find any support from Fumento. If I went into this book feeling 100% not responsible for the spread of this disease I would encounter explanation that we are all responsible at least indirectly because of our ignorance, gullibility and tolerance of shabby news-reporting. What is this guy's agenda, anyway? Fumento could just as easily have chosen issues other than AIDS (and he has done this in other articles and books) to further his agenda, which seems to be to expose the misdeeds of alarmists, the media and health professionals who have abused perfectly good science as they furthered their own careers at the expense of victims of disease and ignorance.
Educational Value: I recommend this book for enhancing one's practical and logical understanding of: AIDS transmission physiology and psychology; AIDS-enabling co-morbidity; epidemiology; statistics; public health systems; the media; and news analysis. Also, one can learn numerous well-documented, less-promoted facts about AIDS. And by studying the behaviors of some public health officials one might identify morality conflicts for some of his own potential career choices.
Reading Level and Data: Sometimes I had to re-read paragraphs because some of the logic and statistical thinking was new to me. But, a thorough grasp of statistics in epidemiology is not essential. After all, how much sophistication does it take to understand Fumento's copiously explained statements (abbreviated here): that receptive anal intercourse (for men or women) is by far the most AIDS-risky sexual behavior; or that early homosexual AIDS victims each averaged almost 1100 lifetime partners (1 survey); or that among heterosexuals it is overwhelmingly the partners of intravenous drug abusers (IVDA) who are at highest risk; or that blood-transfusion-infected heterosexuals often required years, with regular intercourse, to infect their wives; or that female prostitutes in the United States do little to spread AIDS, but do sometimes acquire it from pimps or boyfriends; or that there is increased risk in vaginal intercourse if women are menstruating, have an infection or have another STD; or that in heterosexual lifestyles it is the character of, not the number of sexual partners that determines a woman's AIDS risk; or that about ten times as many native-born American males are diagnosed with breast cancer each year as are diagnosed with AIDS from heterosexual intercourse; or that there are also major differences in AIDS transmission rates depending on gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status and inner-city vs. suburban living, or that in 1993 AIDS was continuing to receive about 20 times as much per death as cancer in federal research and education dollars?
Why Read About AIDS? I believe that, there is a learning obligation for the lucky ones who do not get AIDS. For example, if everyone whose relative or loved one got AIDS were to broadly self-educate about AIDS, there would be a great reduction of suffering in the land - because victims would be better understood, because solutions could more likely be found, and because it would create "public supervision" of public health officials, activists, authors and the media. While Fumento does not dwell on the horrors of the AIDS illness, he does explain how those horrors have been imparted to (probably) thousands of excess persons in this country because funds had been diverted from categories of persons who were known to be at highest risk, and had been invested instead on those known to be at extremely low risk. But this was after huge waste in paying for professional salaries and media campaigns.
What about Africa? Anyone who doubts any significant heterosexual AIDS prevalence in the USA (aside from that of partners of IVDA) is asked why we hear of a large heterosexual AIDS prevalence in Africa. Fumento explains: 1) Part of the African AIDS prevalence actually is from lied-about male homosexual behaviors. 2) There are rampant malaria, STD's and other diseases which have already weakened immune systems, increasing AIDS vulnerability. 3) There is severe limitation on the availability of health care and medications. 4) During earlier phases of the epidemic there was no money to pay for the testing of donated blood or for eliminating re-use of needles in hospitals. 5) Prostitutes with STD's can't get medical treatment. 6) Africa has a few high-prevalence AIDS regions just as the USA does - but the media has tended to report a high prevalence over broad regions of Africa.
Hate crimes: At least in the 1980's and early 1990's, homosexual activists, some public health professionals and the media vigorously promoted exaggerations of AIDS prevalence and predictions, with some even "foreseeing" the demise of the civilization. Given that some of the public actually believed these exaggerations and also saw through the lies of the media which denied the predominance of homosexual behavior and intravenous drug abuse in AIDS causation, it is surprising there was not more violence.



