Relax, dude. It will either work or it won't.Svartalf wrote:The media people who collaborate in the hype and lead lots of sufferers to believe that relief is close at hand
Remember the 80s when they announced a cure for AIDS every other year? How long was it before tri therapies were really able to hold it at bay for 5 years or more?
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Get Terry Pratchett on the trial ASAP!
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At least in the US, if they don't keep the ratings up, they lose their jobs. So creating hype is a reaction/adjustment to the demands of the job (my sis was a TV news producer for the first decades of her career - she finds teaching to be a less stressful and more ethical way to do journalism in today's USA).Svartalf wrote:The media people who collaborate in the hype ...
Do I like the way the media market works in the US today? Hell no! And I'm none too sure about Europe, either. Our main Finnish-language newspaper sucks golf balls, if not larger ones, but it has done so since I started to read it in the late 1970s...
So I would not blame the individual journalist for the hype, at least not too quickly/easily.
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.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Get Terry Pratchett on the trial ASAP!
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Ronja wrote:.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Get Terry Pratchett on the trial ASAP!
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80s? IIRC, HIV was determined to cause AIDS in 1984. 90s maybe, or even early 21st century. And HAART is very effective. You have to remember that most diseases are never cured; treatments, effective treatments even, are found — but that's not a cure.
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I really mean the 80s... back then, one year it was a vaccine, next it was Chinese kale, some time later they even spoke of cyclosporin and/or some kind of interferon...
In the 90s, it quieted down, at least in France. and since 2000, I think that the only "AIDSs news" I heard of was about a vaccine that was admitted to have fizzed out a couple months later.
In the 90s, it quieted down, at least in France. and since 2000, I think that the only "AIDSs news" I heard of was about a vaccine that was admitted to have fizzed out a couple months later.
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