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Apr 27Liked by Rebecca Culshaw Smith

Yes, I agree, this smacks of propaganda. What first made me do a scoobie-do double take was, why did they all get tested? What was the impetus for this to happen? How often do we hear about straight women just out for a walk and saying, 'hey, let's go get an HIV tests"? That's the part that stuck out at me, the oddity of this.

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And why is this story surfacing EVERYWHERE after SIX YEARS?

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Apr 27Liked by Rebecca Culshaw Smith

You're right about honing in on the timing--why resurrect this story after 6 years? It's a fear-tinged marketing ploy for useless HIV tests--- Then they can expand the PrEP pushing, and start normalizing the awful side effects that were so eloquently described on the Reddit group you told us about in your last post. Maybe we have an opportunity here to let the growing skepticism about covid tests bust the credibility of HIV tests!

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They REALLY want PrEP. REALLY. I still don’t fully understand the psychology behind this, but I’m honing in on it.

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Apr 26Liked by Rebecca Culshaw Smith

So.....the "virus" that is extremely hard to transmit, which is "found" through non-specific testing and has never been proven to exist can be acquired through a facial consisting of plasma that's been centrifuged? Wow! This "virus" does it all!

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I know, it’s actually kind of incredible what a superhero the elusive “HIV” turns out to be.

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Apr 27Liked by Rebecca Culshaw Smith

True beauty is a reflection of a beautiful spirit within. Lacking that, I suppose one might try to simulate true beauty by smearing blood on one's face.

Has anyone else wondered why so much of "science" is plagued by self-contradictory evidence and evidence that contradicts actual laws of science? Is it perhaps because most of the hypotheses of "science" are flat out wrong?

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Apr 26Liked by Rebecca Culshaw Smith

Could it be The NY Times is framing 💉immune 💉system💉failure 💉that’s been on the rise since the rollout of an experimental injection in 💉2021💉as something else, other than said 💉experimental 💉injection????

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You never know.

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Apr 26Liked by Rebecca Culshaw Smith

The largest study of clean needle exchange programs found an increase in the chance of testing positive in those who injected themselves with IV drugs using exclusively clean needles. At the risk of self promotion I include a link to a newsletter I wrote that discusses the study in some detail, although you have to scroll down to the end where the “research of the week“ section is.

https://drmattirwin.substack.com/p/dr-matts-newsletter-august-28-2023

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You can self promote all you want! Thank you for reminding me of this study. I think there were a few more studies in this vein, as well.

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Was this not a Satire, is it true story

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Great article!

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