Special Report
An Epidemic of Falsehoods
Too late to restore its lost credibility, the UN has finally dropped its politically correct AIDS estimate.
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And guess what? Chin, who is also author of The AIDS Pandemic: The Collision of Epidemiology With Political Correctness, still thinks the numbers are too high. He estimates worldwide HIV infections to be 25 million, still about eight million less than the revised estimate.
So at some point the authorities will be forced to lower the figures again. But they’ll hold off as long as possible in order to continue to bring more attention to this problem at the expense of shortchanging attention and funding to other problems that are much more readily preventable, treatable, or both — such as tuberculosis and malaria.
The epidemic of falsehoods coming from official organizations, NGOs, politicians, and the media has yet to peak.
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