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about HIV and AIDS, and about the HIV tests and the HIV drugs, and instead have simply jumped on the bandwagon and believed what they were told by Fauci and company.”
“You know, that’s one of the arguments I get a lot whenever I talk to people about this issue. ‘How can so many people be wrong?’ Of course, we thought the earth was flat for a long time, and that the sun revolved around the earth, and that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and that the Reverend Ted Haggard was straight. So maybe I’m just a contrarian, but I’m not sure that just because ‘everyone says so’ makes something true. After all, we were also told that cigarettes weren’t addictive by people we trusted for a long time.”
“Who can we trust these days, Gwen?”
“Well, I know one thing for sure, we can’t trust the pharmaceutical companies.”
“Or the people who work for them. Did you know there’s a website called www.shillfactor.net that lists a lot of the prominent AIDS Industry people and shows how many of them are either on the payroll of a drug company or receive major grants from Big Pharma? Talking about a conflict of interest!”
Gwen takes the last sip of her wine. “I’d love to continue this, but I’ve got to teach tomorrow and you’ve got court. What say we call it a night?”
“Agreed.” Sarah gets up off the sofa, but stops short. “Gwen… thanks for tonight. There’s not a lot of people I can talk to about this, and I’m just really grateful to have you as a friend.”
“Let’s hope that soon we don’t feel so all alone!”
Chapter Twenty-Eight
DATE: Saturday afternoon
TO: sam@arizonatribune.com
RE: this week’s column
Dear Sam,
Attached is the last HIV-Positive story for my column. The closing statements in the trial will be on Monday, and I assume we’ll have a jury verdict some time shortly after that. So either I’ll be home in time to write next week’s column there; or if not, I’ll send it to you from here and be home shortly after that. Whatever the case, I’ll be writing about this trial for the next few weeks, I can promise you.
Sarah
Attachment:
HEALTH MATTERS
By Sarah Meadows
This is the last in a series of true-life stories of those diagnosed HIV-Positive, and how it affected them, their families,