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Subject: Re: (2488)      Re: (2486)      Am I paranoid, or are they just
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     I had heard that and always thought the people who said things like
that were paranoid, but I'm changing my mind.  I know in the car industry
when a small company makes ground-breaking advances in say, gas milage, it
*has* been covered up in the past.  I *think* the same is true of power
companies (ie: buying the rights to revolutionary new technology and
putting everything in a locked cabinet forever...)  How can we expect
pharmecutical companies to behave any differently?  They aren't cranking
out gallons of NyQuil(r) because they hate to see us suffering with the
sniffles.  Why should we believe that they make any drug (chemotherapy even)
FOR US!!! It is clear the companies make these drugs to make money, and if
a cure for a disease (even one as cruel and inhuman as AIDS) were to surface
AND mean a possible cure for a number of different things (ie: herpes,colds etc
...) It would probably be financially more astute to supress it.

 I have heard the argument that the government would want to supress a cure
until alot of the homosexuals and IV drug users die (sure, we'll lose a few
hetero-voters along the way but that's the price you pay for a 'normal'
America)  My friend 'Dean' went to see Dr. Alonso two weeks before he went
to mexico to perform the 'hyperthermia' (at the oh so charitable price of
$50,000.000)  Dr. Alonso told him that the government was blocking the way
with the treatment on non-KS patients, but had also asked him to perform it
on a 'foregin dignitary' who has HIV, and that he refused.
Now, either:
1) my friend Dean is a liar -- unlikely, as he has no reason whatsoever to lie.

2) Dr. Alonso is a liar -- I can't comment on this

3) The gov't recognizes hyperthermia as a plausible cure for HIV and wants
   it for its own use and not for the general populace.

Paranoid?  You tell me.