[Calimus]

How messed up is it that the president of their country is the one saying this?

CNN

[design219]

Mind blowing. And very, very sad.

[analogue SPRINKLES]

Even worse most in africa think that if you have aids having unprotected sex with a virgin cures it.

[marden]

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh

At the only hospital in the capital of this tiny West African nation, a 3-year-old AIDS patient named Suleiman receives his daily dose of medication -- a murky brown concoction of seven herbs and spices served out of a bottle that once contained pancake syrup.

Let's think of him NOT as a dangerous lunatic spreading false hope among the sick and dying with his medical quackery.

Let's call him, UNCLE Jemmeh-Yahya.

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[Salty]

Well, as of right now we can't say that it doesn't work. Perhaps something in the herbs really could stop the progress of AIDS. Though I thought HIV didn't have any symptoms until it developed into AIDS. Anyway... I mean it sounds out landish but.

[Y3a]

Is it any wonder that man took so long to become a modern being, at least in the west.

[zro]

Might as well tell them all to pray.

[Saetre]

Originally Posted by Salty 

Well, as of right now we can't say that it doesn't work. Perhaps something in the herbs really could stop the progress of AIDS. Though I thought HIV didn't have any symptoms until it developed into AIDS. Anyway... I mean it sounds out landish but.

But what? He said it came to him in a dream. In other words, it's BS.

[SirCastor]

Originally Posted by Saetre 

But what? He said it came to him in a dream. In other words, it's BS.

Why does something that came from a dream make it BS? Dreams give people all kinds of insight and inspiration. It sounds crazy to a western philosophy which seems determined to crush anything that can't doesn't have a scientifically based origin. Yes it does sound a little odd, and unbeliveable, but just because it came to him in a dream doesn't invalidate it.

[nonhuman]

He could also be saying that it came to him in a dream to give him more prestige and influence among the superstitious and uneducated people in his country when in actuality it was developed by some scientist in his employ or something.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by SirCastor 

Why does something that came from a dream make it BS? Dreams give people all kinds of insight and inspiration.

Not into advanced science well outside of people's area of expertise, they don't.

Originally Posted by SirCastor 

It sounds crazy to a western philosophy which seems determined to crush anything that can't doesn't have a scientifically based origin. Yes it does sound a little odd, and unbeliveable, but just because it came to him in a dream doesn't invalidate it.

If it came to me in a dream that you're going to assassinate the President and I need to kill you first, would I be reasonable to act on that or would I be a psychopath?

This guy had a dream and because of it, he's telling his people not to take life-saving medications. Same difference.

[Zeeb]

I would actually see nothing wrong with this herbal remedy as long as the patients were also encouraged to continue their anti-retroviral treatments. The placebo effect of this "remedy" seems to be amazing and having hope is half the battle with a terrible disease. However, to take this instead of the traditional scientifically accepted medicine is sure to end in disaster.

[Angus_D]

Originally Posted by Zeeb 

I would actually see nothing wrong with this herbal remedy as long as the patients were also encouraged to continue their anti-retroviral treatments.

Continue? I doubt they can afford them in the first place. Herbs is about as good as they're going to get.