The bigger they are
The harder they fall -- from the LA Times:
Christine Maggiore, vocal skeptic of AIDS research, dies at 52
Until the end, Christine Maggiore remained defiant.
On national television and in a blistering book, she denounced research showing that HIV causes AIDS. She refused to take medications to treat her own virus. She gave birth to two children and breast-fed them, denying any risk to their health. And when her 3-year-old child, Eliza Jane, died of what the coroner determined to be AIDS-related pneumonia, she protested the findings and sued the county.
On Saturday, Maggiore died at her Van Nuys home, leaving a husband, a son and many unanswered questions. She was 52.
According to officials at the Los Angeles County coroner's office, she had been treated for pneumonia in the last six months. Because she had recently been under a doctor's care, no autopsy will be performed unless requested by the family, they said. Her husband, Robin Scovill, could not be reached for comment.
Jay Gordon, a pediatrician whom the family consulted when Eliza Jane was sick, said Monday that Maggiore's death was an "unmitigated tragedy."
"In the event that she died of AIDS-related complications, there are medications to prevent this," said Gordon, who disagrees with Maggiore's views and believes HIV causes AIDS. "There are medications that enable people who are HIV-positive to lead healthy, normal, long lives."
Delusional, scared, stupid and now, dead at 52. Considering that she contracted AIDS sixteen years ago, you think that she would have come around and started treatment. She would still be alive and healthy today. Alternative medicine is a valid path but you must not ignore the decades of research that have gone into the pathologies of diseases like AIDS and the treatments that have resulted.
Activist -- yeahhh rigghhhttt...
Posted by DaveH at January 5, 2009 7:54 PM