Paranzee Update
For those of you that have forgotten, Paranzee is the twit in Adelaide who has been charged with intentionally infecting women with HIV. Disturbingly it seems to be an ongoing trend around the world with cases in both Italy and in Canada...In Canada it's a former CFL football star, my memory is failing me to remember about the Italian... The point of my post is that Paranzee's appeal is underway, and after 3 weeks of the denialist jumping up and down saying HIV doesn't exist and isn't sexually transmitted, it's the prosecutions turn to rebut the case...
For the full version go here...
Some snippets for your educational pleasure...
The Perth Group, led by medical physicist Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos has for more than three weeks given "expert" testimony claiming HIV has never been isolated in the laboratory and is not sexually transmitted.
The claims came in the appeal of Andre Chad Parenzee, 36, who is attempting to get a retrial on charges of endangering the lives of three former girlfriends by having sex with them knowing he was HIV-positive.
...Professor Moore's comments are part of his pursuit of AIDS denialists, on the internet and with opinion pieces in The New York Times and a letter to Harper's Magazine.
He said the Perth Group were "not in the mainstream of AIDS denialism", and were considered a "joke" by HIV and AIDS researchers.
Professor Moore, who has written and co-written more than 200 peer-reviewed articles on HIV and AIDS, said: "They are not experts except in their own minds. They have never worked on HIV, with HIV patients, or studied it first-hand. It is the equivalent of me saying I'm an expert in astrophysics because I've read some books on it."
...Perth Group member Val Turner said on Friday he was walking in the footsteps of scientific mavericks such as Galileo, who was imprisoned by the Catholic Church for his espousal of the sun-centred solar system. Professor Moore said this was "bullshit".
Bullshit indeed...
Labels: Denialists, HIV/AIDS, Paranzee, South Australia
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