20221114 Newsletter
Progress on HIV, Syphilis vaccines, cures. Neoliberal gatekeeping, want to suppress social media. Gay Art magazine downloads for free and other Gay art.
IF NEOLIBERALS CAN’T GATEKEEP SOCIAL MEDIA THEN THEY WANT TO SUPPRESS IT.
This article came out and compares social media to smoking tobacco. The intro discusses how the nation gave up smoking and that using the same methods it can give up social media
This is about suppressing free speech. Not surprisingly it came out after Elon Musk purchased twitter and trans extremists could no longer suppress dissent opinion.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074/
One of the key ideas in reading “A Brief History of Neoliberalism,” Oxford University Press, is that neoliberals are basically hostile to democracy regardless of what they might say. They remove decision making to organizations like the WTO, IMF, etc. so that unpopular decisions are removed from input by elected representatives.
Prior to social media, if you had a dissident opinion, you could express it perhaps in some small run newsletter or magazine at best and it would be largely ignored. Now it goes on social media and your potential audience is hundreds of millions, if not over a billion, and it spreads on its own merits. Like minded communities can and do form.
The neoliberals really miss their gatekeeping power. We should be very conscious, that though we might have a strong desire for some abhorrent opinion to be suppressed, we might be next in line for suppression. Further, who will be suppressed will likely depend on which way the wind blows.
This of course is the basic idea of free speech, which we are finding isn’t believed in by many liberals, leftists, and neoliberals.
HIV VACCINES AND CURES NEWS UPDATE
I watch out for junk websites. I share stuff from sites that are credible. There are a lot of content farms re-sharing things. The following are from credible websites.
Research Institution Opening up for HIV vaccine research
This grant and the launching of a multi-institute effort reflects the growing optimism about finding both vaccines and cures for HIV.
I follow the articles on molecular biology in the scientific press, but I think the average person isn’t really aware that the biotechnology has really vastly sped up in how fast it advances and how much the understanding and the technology for molecular biology is advancing.
There are new things like mRNA vaccines, but there are other developments in scientific instruments, molecular biology, biotechnology which suddenly make a lot of things possible that weren’t possible before.
For example, it use to take years to figure out the structure of a protein and it involved tedious work of trying to crystalize the protein and then x-ray diffraction and powerful computers to work on the diffraction images to get structures. Some proteins just wouldn’t crystalize. They even crystalized a protein in space to get a structure. Mathematicians, programmers and molecular biologists were working on the problem for decades with little success. They even had a conference about how they were totally failing to figure out what to do.
A lot the development of medicines for diseases and ailments depends on knowing the structure of proteins. Here a piece of software works out the structures of 660 million of them. Suddenly knowing the structure is trivial.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03539-1
What is the point of discussing protein folding? To show that molecular biology is moving really fast. The situation where progress was slow and achieved with really determined work is moving to a situation where things are moving much faster and solutions to problems come with lots less work and a lot faster.
This speeding up of progress will not only mean a vaccine for HIV, but it could mean vaccines for other STDs. We need to begin to expect more and demand more in terms of research on vaccines and cures for STDs.
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University of Oxford on a developing HIV therapeutic vaccine.
This is work towards a cure rather than prevention.
If you read it, it is 40% of the patients were able to stay off the HIV medicine for six-months. That is two out of five and may not seem all that great. Science doesn’t work like in the movies where there is a eureka moment and everything is solved.
It is instead, often by steps. There is the testing the first attempt, see if it works at all, then go back and do more work to make it better on the second attempt. Sometimes you have to do it and see if it works at all to see if it is worth working on, and then to find out what the other issues are.
https://www.aelixtherapeutics.com/
The idea that a HIV vaccine could be used to cure HIV is something entirely new.
This article also shows that the possibly ways to go after HIV and prevent it or cure it are increasing.
DECEPTION AND SEX
Trans lobbyists are trying to undermine laws about sex by deception since that is the way some of them operate. They are refusing to accept informed consent as a ethical principle.
VACCINE DEVELOPMENT FOR SYPHILIS
Gays would one of the major beneficiaries if there was a vaccine for syphilis. It is true that there are antibiotics to treat syphilis, but there is also the issue of antibiotic resistance.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.952284
Anti-Gay forces have used the issue of the incidence of syphilis and other diseases among Gays as a justification for anti-Gay sex laws in arguments that homosexual acts should be illegal as a public health measure.
Yet, it isn’t even an issue in the LGBTQXYZ press and certainly not an agenda item for the Stonewall Democrats and other LGBTQXYZ type organizations. They would be too embarrassed to make it a part of their agenda. All the Gays are supposed to be getting married and be monogamous, and in their minds, only the bad Gays need a vaccination for syphilis.
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