An Inconceivable Truth

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Friday November 21, 2008 · 9:03 PM PST

2008/11/21 · 21:03

News broke recently about a German doctor who claims to have rid his patient of HIV with a bone marrow transplant.

The patient, who was also afflicted with leukemia, received the transplant from a donor with a genetic resistance to CCR5, a receptor the AIDS virus uses to infiltrate cells. Twenty months after the procedure, no trace of HIV could be found in the patient. Fine news indeed for researchers studying gene therapy as a treatment for AIDS.

Now follow this:

Reports are also circling about the resurgence of a new, vicious strain of tuberculosis called TB-XDR (extensively drug-resistant) which is essentially untreatable. Ironically, we could have eradicated TB years ago, at the cost of about $20 per person.

Sounds reasonable enough, right? Only in reality, that number was functionally prohibitive. 3rd-world countries didn't have it; 1st-world countries wouldn't give it. So we let tuberculosis incubate, until it mutated into the XDR strain that now threatens a global pandemic.

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Saturday November 01, 2008 · 3:21 PM PDT

2008/11/01 · 15:21

It's no longer funny. We need to see Governor Palin's medical records.

On October 22nd, Palin finally, reluctantly agreed. On October 26th, Palin spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt unequivocally stated the information would be released early that week.

It didn't happen. And it's not going to happen.

We're not going to learn anything until after the election, at which point the whole issue will be irrelevant.

How is she getting away with this?

Is Andrew Sullivan the only sane journalist left? Can anyone honestly explain why we haven't seen Trig Palin's birth records? Why are we letting ourselves be intimidated? The maternity of the infant is, at best, questionable. We have demonstrable evidence of numerous Palin lies. We know her daughter is sexually active. What about this story is unreasonable?

Sullivan writes:

Why not kill this rumor with Palin’s medical records? A 43 year old woman’s pregnancy with a Downs Syndrome child would have been intensely monitored, and the records must be a mile long.

He's absolutely right. The lack of evidence and bizarre, unkept promises of disclosure are becoming increasingly damning.

Why are we lying down??

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