When is aids not aids? When a dissident says it isn't

As I see the dialog of dissidents, there are a few vital flaws that prevent us from liberating ourselves from the dogma of hiv/aids lies. Perhaps the first problem are attempts to redefine aids. Some dissidents wish to eliminate hiv, but keep aids. In other words, some are trying to use the idea of immune suppression and divorce immune dysfunction from hiv as a cause, while still holding onto the word aids. There are several issues with this.

The first issue is that aids already has a meaning. In common usage, aids means "hiv disease." Aids means an std. Aids means certain death. Yet, some dissidents insist that aids can mean general immune dysfunction. Why they insist on using the term aids when they mean autoimmune, or general immune disease is a mystery to me. This needs an explanation, or the practice should be discontinued so as to avoid confusion.

Additionally, if aids means general immune dysfunction for these dissidents, then why don’t they include in their attempts to explain “aids," a.k.a. general immune dysfunction, asthma, allergies, Rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, Type 1 diabetes, Celiac disease, Multiple Sclerosis, etc. Instead, these dissidents focus solely on gay men with health issues. If what the dissident really means is a failing immune system, then why focus on a very small subset of people who suffer immune system failure?

It appears homophobic to hold onto a term that is already understood by most people as a horrible gay disease and then apply it only to gay men! At the very least, if they can suitably demonstrate that there is a specific brand of immune dysfunction that comes from gay sex (a big huge IF), then it MUST be named something that does not have connotations of gay hatred. Otherwise, there is no hope to change the dialog with doctors and the public. As long as people say aids, they are also saying, “Gay men are dirty, nasty sick individuals and nature is killing them for it.”

Furthermore, dissidents seem confused and fractured when they utilize "aids data." Even among those who seem to want to divide out people who actually have health problems from so-called, "false positives," they still confound data of those who are merely, "hiv positive" with those who have some symptom of immune dysfunction ("aids" in their view). The Perth Group does this relentlessly. In many of their articles, they co-mingle data and conclusions based on hiv positives with actually ill people. And these are the people that have done the best work on isolation and have shown how absurd hiv tests are in the first place! Their tendency is to place special emphasis on gay "hiv positives" and to dismiss those who are not gay.

The Perth Group, for instance, places special emphasis on receptive anal sex. By their definition, it is all but impossible for a straight man who doesn't use drugs to get "aids." However, the Padian Study, which they use to justify their view that a "positive antibody test and AIDS [are] sexually acquired but not sexually transmitted," mostly followed straight men who were "infected" and their female partners. Straight men with "aids!" So how does this study do anything at all to demonstrate that receptive anal sex among men causes aids? How did all those straight men get "the aids" in the first place? In reality, the Perth Group is attempting to redefine "aids" as a condition in which gay sex causes immune dysfunction so that "aids" becomes and remains an exclusively gay disease, yet, they are using data that has a completely different parameter. The Perth Group itself confuses their aids with orthodox aids.

Dissidents cannot have a discussion about aids at all, unless they are showing how it does not exist. If the point is to show that there may be a link between immune issues and receptive anal sex (for instance) then it will help to use a different term than aids. Whatever term they do use, even if they insist on using the term aids, the term needs definition. Explain the symptoms for instance. Show how your "aids" is not like the other "aids."