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Originally Posted by alphamale
She's a physician, and everyone who makes or administers AIDS policy and does it well doesn't have to be an AIDS researcher.
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Agreed, but that's why I asked you about peer-reviewed research--because there *are* people who study these exact questions for a living. I trust them more than I trust a simple policy-maker.
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(I like the "appointed by Bush" snippet - like that ipso facto makes her qualifications suspect  )
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*shrug* It does. He's appointed people who are not only unqualified, but who should never in a million years be doing the job they do--wolves guarding the henhouse. I don't know much about Peterson (and based on her CV, I ain't impressed), but other apointees do indeed make her appointment suspect.
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And it doesn't matter if the snippet came from the National Enquirer, only whether it's a true quote. Do you dispute the quote?
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That's the thing, buddy boy--it
does matter. Peer-reviewed research is certain to present the author's own views. Snippets from an interview with a journalist might, but they might not. Things can be left out, quotes may be out of context. I don't know about the veracity of the quote, but as I linked above, it seems to me there's little doubt that she believes condoms are indeed effective.
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AND whether she thinks condoms are important or not is distorting the issue here it is again - read carefully it's whether or not the international AIDS elite caused more deaths in africa by emphasizing condoms over other strategies that demonstrably work better.
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That last part is your problem. Read carefully--you've not given any
evidence to back your assertion that "other strategies demonstrably work better." That was why you brought the WT article into the mix--supposedly, to prove that assertion. So it IS indeed an issue, because you made it one. Get it?
...and with that, I think I've wasted more than enough time on you. Infectious disease policy is actually a topic I love to discuss, but I prefer to do it at a level of discourse higher than, apparently, you're able to provide. Adieu.