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Condoms etc --
Letter to Irish Independent
March 28, 2007
 
 
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lies about condoms

 

In relation to the accusation that lies are being told about the ineffectiveness of condoms in preventing the spread of Aids (Letters, March 23), perhaps it is time we heard from the experts.

 

In a research paper presented at the Medical Institute of Sexual Health in Washington DC, Dr Edward C. Green of Harvard University’s Centre for Population and Development Studies stated that : “20 years into the pandemic there is no evidence that more condoms lead to less AIDS”. See a recent book by Dr Green entitled Rethinking AIDS Prevention – learning from successes in developing countries. Praetor Publishers, Connecticut, 2003.

 

Dr P. B. Marwood whose article ‘AIDS a Conspiracy of Misinformation’, was published in the British Journal of Hospital Medicine (Vol. 37, 1987), has stated: “Church leaders proclaim abstinence as the only real protection. I fear that they are correct. It would seem that virginity and faithfulness will again soon become fashionable”.

 

Given the unequivocal position of experts such as these—who have no particular religious axe to grind —why has there been so deafening an outcry when an attempt was made to bring important related findings to public attention?

 

Are we witnessing a new ‘Galileo crisis’ where facts have become an inconvenient challenge to the anti-scientific attitudes embodied in the PC Movement?