CDC finds thousands more HIV cases in U.S.
There are more new cases of Americans infected with HIV than previously known, the CDC said Saturday. According to the CDC, HIV continues to stalk the gay and bisexual community, and African-Americans especially. Blacks are seven times more likely to contract HIV than whites, the CDC report says. full story
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I found this statement on CNN's report by Tom interesting:
ReplyDelete"Why? Because Miriam Falco, the woman who wrote this article is a known uber-conservative borderline racist who is "just reporting the facts" but often manages to slant her articles to shed a bad light on blacks and homosexuals. Although the report is factual, there is blatant bias and unfounded claims right in her report for instance, "meaning, they [blacks] are seven times more likely to contract HIV than whites". HOLD ONNN. This is a racist twist on truth (fun fact) not directly said by the CDC. An individual human because he appears to be African-American is suddenly 7 times more at risk?? Unfounded, there is no deep genetic difference between races. And nothing so superficial could cause an innocent human to be suddenly 7 times more likely because of his apparent race. Miriam never cited anything about genes because there is nothing like this proven in African-Americans. Miriam is CAUGHT. She has also appeared in an article that refers to neocons. This article probably appeared on CNN for the sake of her own agenda because this is not new and was reported last week by CNN under a different headline. There are many other reports like this that will not appear on CNN.com."
Just beware how slanted information suddenly becomes mainstream.
Thank you. Just enforces the reason I usually check international news first and then settle on the news from right here. Our ranking for a free press has dropped because of opinions being passed off as news and tabloid style journalism taking over the major networks. Sometimes I wonder if some of the reporters think at all anymore.
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