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From: hnewstrom@x102c.harris-atd.com (Harvey Newstrom)
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Subject: Re: (2624) Not a high risk group?
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Date: 16 Oct 90 12:21:49 GMT
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In article <40185@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Hoffman.El_Segundo@xerox.com writes:
>In (2624), Harvey Newstrom tries to relate varying definitions of gay, varying
>estimates of the percentage of gay men in the population, and percentages of
>gay men among people with AIDS.
>
>"Gay men", however defined do NOT constitute a risk group.[....]

I have gotten quite a few mail messages like the above that seem to have
misunderstood my posting.  I am sorry that I was not clear enough.  I agree
that gay men are not a high risk group!  My posting listed the logical steps
that the CDC takes that makes them believe that gay men are a high risk group.
I then point out the flaw in their logic, and rewrite their logic in a way
that is more correct and shows that gay men are not a high risk group.

I wanted to hear comments about whether my explaination of the error in the
CDC's ways was correct.  I do not need to be told that gay men are not a high
risk group, because I already know this.  I am just trying to prove it with
the CDC's own statistics.

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