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The Nehor wrote:HIV is a myth. AIDS is simply a curse led down by God that causes gay men and a small number of promiscuous straight men to die horrible deaths for violating his laws.
Really? Can you back this up with credible data?

With that, may I ask what your feelings are on the tsunami in 2004 that killed over 250,000, well of over half of which were innocent children? Did God cause that?
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Boaz & Lidia wrote:
The Nehor wrote:HIV is a myth. AIDS is simply a curse led down by God that causes gay men and a small number of promiscuous straight men to die horrible deaths for violating his laws.
Really? Can you back this up with credible data?

With that, may I ask what your feelings are on the tsunami in 2004 that killed over 250,000, well of over half of which were innocent children? Did God cause that?


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The Nehor wrote:
Boaz & Lidia wrote:
The Nehor wrote:HIV is a myth. AIDS is simply a curse led down by God that causes gay men and a small number of promiscuous straight men to die horrible deaths for violating his laws.
Really? Can you back this up with credible data?

With that, may I ask what your feelings are on the tsunami in 2004 that killed over 250,000, well of over half of which were innocent children? Did God cause that?


Learn to recognize sarcasm. It's a valuable life skill.
Oh I see.

Sorry, but your statement about AIDS is what I was taught while a member of the LDS church.
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Wooo Doggies! I met some people that believed that the medical community was involved in a conspiracy to keep people ill and they believed in all these off the wall herbs, healings, and potions. I was about 15 years old and my "NUTBALL" alarm was dinging loudly and it's on a low boom at the moment.
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These "scientific" statements are taken from a book "Healing with Magnets," by Gary Null, Ph.D. Dr. Null is armed with lawyers and is fond of brandishing them. He endorses the use of magnets and laetrile for curing cancer, he opposes vaccination, recommends coffee enemas, and declares that "misaligned" bony plates of the skull cause a raft of medical problems - all notions that have been shown quite erroneous. The "Consumer's Guide to 'Alternative Medicine'" comments, "Gary Null is wrong so often that the average person who listens to him might be better off believing the opposite of what he says." He obtained his Ph.D. from Union Graduate School, a "non-traditional" organization in New Jersey which allows the student to decide his own title of the degree he earns as well as the content of the program he follows, which is largely self-administered. Null bills himself as, "America's #1 Health Crusader."


I watched about 20 minutes of the show, yet, didn't want to waste any more time on it.

Conspiracy theories are interesting and the people that believe them are quite interesting (in their own way) as well.
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Moniker wrote:Conspiracy theories are interesting and the people that believe them are quite interesting (in their own way) as well.


I can't get enough of conspiracy theory vids!

My favorites generally involve reptilian overlords.

Null's a quack, I'll admit. What I found fascinating in the video were comments of the interviewees, especially those of the maverick short-sleeved shirt guy filmed in a coffee diner or some-such.

I'd like to see the unedited versions of those interviews.

I wonder how much Null's editing team has shaped them.

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I really enjoy watching some of them too. When Clinton was president I had a pretty good collection of vids that I'd purchased off of ebay that showed that he was a drug smuggler and a murderer. Now there's the wonder of online videos!
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Boaz & Lidia wrote:Oh I see.

Sorry, but your statement about AIDS is what I was taught while a member of the LDS church.


Uh-huh....by taught I assume you mean I heard it once while in a Church building/while I was around Church members.
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Well, Magic Johnson isn't dead yet and he's had HIV for how long now???
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The Nehor wrote:
Boaz & Lidia wrote:Oh I see.

Sorry, but your statement about AIDS is what I was taught while a member of the LDS church.


Uh-huh....by taught I assume you mean I heard it once while in a Church building/while I was around Church members.


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Post by _Angus McAwesome »

Gary Null.. I will not call him a "doctor" as his PhD is from some worthless distance learning outfit and isn't worth the paper it's printed on (Worse yet, it's a humanities doctorate and not sciences). Besides, when James Randi says someone is full of crap I'm inclined to believe that they are indeed full of crap. So yeah, this "documentary" is just more pseudoscience woo-woo conspiracy BS about on par with the World Trade Center was a controlled demolition carried out by the US Government nonsense.
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