The Lancet Politicizes Science
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, March 30, 2009 3:09 PM
The British medical journal The Lancet weighed in last week on condoms, criticizing Pope Benedict XVI’s recent assertion they have aggravated AIDS transmission in Africa.
In so doing, the journal was guilty of precisely what it accused the Pope of doing — politicizing science by misrepresenting as fact something that contradicts the known empirical evidence.
In an editorial dated March 28,... READ MORE
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The Case Against Condoms
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:01 AM
A cross with a red ribbon hangs on the chapel door of the African Jesuit AIDS Network in Nairobi, Kenya. (CNS)
This article, by Jesuit Father Michael Czerny, is a fantastic resource for defending what Pope Benedict XVI said last week about the ineffectiveness of condoms in combating AIDS.
Father Czerny knows the subject far more intimately than virtually all of the Pope’s noisy media critics. He deals every day with the issue of helping African AIDS victims and working to prevent AIDS transmission... READ MORE
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Condom Logic Mad Lib!
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Sunday, March 22, 2009 9:09 AM
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It’s wrong to make fun of people. But it’s good to make fun of stupid ideas. The idea that promoting condoms will prevent AIDS is not only stupid; it is killing people.
So I made this “mad lib” game you can play at home to ridicule the inanity of condoms promotion.
Tom Hoopes’s Condom Logic Mad Lib
I’ll provide my own ideas in italics, as an extra help.
1. “Oh no,” said... READ MORE
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The African View of Condoms
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:25 AM
Africans at today's papal Mass. (CNS/Reuters)
Western media are claiming the Pope committed a colossal public-relations gaffe Tuesday while flying to Cameroon by rejecting condoms as a means of fighting AIDS.
Africans — who must deal with the tragic reality that the “rubberization” of their societies with condoms has failed dismally in preventing AIDS — don’t agree.
“Pope Benedict XVI’s claim yesterday that condoms actually... READ MORE
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