Comments on: Study traces HIV/AIDS back 100 years

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:24:02 +0000

The question to ask the scientist’s is how do they know it originated in monkeys, as in could this be something that was discovered while monkeys were being used as caged rats for experiment’s, and/or unleashed from the same such experiments, whether intentionally or unintentionally ??? The bigger question is, if it’s a scientific fact that HIV originated from monkeys, which makes them genetic ‘carriers’ only, and it’s a scientific fact that monkeys have a natural genetic immune response that prevents their HIV from becoming AIDS, then how is it that those same scientist’s don’t seem to focus much on what that natural immune response is ? Scientists are NOT stupid, so I think it’s a pretty safe bet that we can all figure this one out… like everything else, follow the motives, money, and power. The answer is ugly, but simple.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:19:16 +0000

Ummm did you even graduate High School? Travis you are so ignorant.

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:26:05 +0000

alex: it probably was spread around in the 60s and 70s, but since it often takes up to twenty years to manifest, that would peg it perfectly for the 80s.

By: alex

alex — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:11:06 +0000

Interesting story. I’d still like to know what the “perfect combination” was that allowed this virus to mutate and spread like wildfire during the 80s.

You would think that something like this would have happened sooner, particularly in the 60s with free love and drugs running rampant among the counter-culture.

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:04:03 +0000

I think this is a bunch of bullshit!! It was thought that the virus came from a gay white man(flight attendant) who slepted with a monkey. Now it derives from Africans! I’m sorry but those scientists are so smart their dumb. If HIV been around for 100 yrs or so..Don’t you think it would’ve been discovered before 1981?

By: KZ

KZ — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:39:45 +0000

Shocking….

I’ve always been curious about the origins of HIV. I wondered how it originated in chimps?

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:29:31 +0000

I use Google Chrome, so with that all I have to do is hold Control and scroll with my mouse wheel. I don’t know if that helps anyone else, but there’s that info too.

By: Opinionator

Opinionator — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:58:55 +0000

Thank you, Tom. It works perfectly.

Even I, as a retired 30 year computer software engineer, am overwhelmed by all the many, many options available in the software. It is so difficult to find them all, and then to know exactly in which order to perform them. I feel sorry for those who are not trained in the use of this stuff.

Trace, you have my sympathy. I would think that the owners of a website should have a place to find these out, like in a FAQ section. Many do that. I have not seen one here.

And the IE help is next to useless.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:31:04 +0000

Trace,

If you are having trouble reading the font, you can (if you are using an Internet Explorer browser) click on ‘Tools’, then scroll down to ‘Internet Options’. Go to ‘Accessibility’, click on that and then check the third box, titled ‘Ignore Font Sizes specified on Web pages’. Then click ‘Okay’ on that page and then ‘Okay’ again.

Finally, go to ‘View’ and then scroll down to choose either ‘medium’, ‘larger’, or ‘largest’. That should increase font size on any web page. Hope that helps.

By: Trace

Trace — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:58:09 +0000

Just one question?

Could 365gay.com find a smaller font to print a story in?

I have pretty good eyes but even I had to be up against the screen to read this story!