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It's a quiet day on the reference desk. Singing in the Rain, Damn Yankees, and a request for quotes to be used in a eulogy.
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The academic research literature is quite clear that condom distribution is very effective in reducing the spread of AIDS. That is a fact. I has nothing to do with being a leftist, a rightest, a Catholic, Protestant, Muslim or Jew.
# posted by Blogger ReferenceLibrarian : 11:54 PM
Dear Reference Librarian,
Perhaps you know better, but according to Edward Green, director of Harvard University' s AIDS Prevention Research Project, condom distribution does NOT work. Your "fact" is incorrect. More condoms lead to more AIDS, not less.
Here's the quote:
“The pope is correct,” Green told National Review Online Wednesday, “or put it a better way, the best evidence we have supports the pope’s comments. He stresses that “condoms have been proven to not be effective at the ‘level of population.’”
“There is,” Green adds, “a consistent association shown by our best studies, including the U.S.-funded ‘Demographic Health Surveys,’ between greater availability and use of condoms and higher (not lower) HIV-infection rates. This may be due in part to a phenomenon known as risk compensation, meaning that when one uses a risk-reduction ‘technology’ such as condoms, one often loses the benefit (reduction in risk) by ‘compensating’ or taking greater chances than one would take without the risk-reduction technology.”
The source was linked in Reliapundit's post. Go read it and learn something.
# posted by Blogger Punditarian : 5:57 AM
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